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  1. Re:Drive Down on Google Drive Faces Outage, Users Report [Update] (google.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey, the product is only in Beta. Go easy on him.

  2. There's a big difference between "forgot" and "intentionally ignored"

  3. Re:dealer only service with oil changes each 3000 on House Passes Bill To Speed Deployment of Self-driving Cars (go.com) · · Score: 1

    No Virginia. There is no motor oil in an electric motor. Maybe some grease in sealed bearings, but motor oil in an internal combustion engine needs to be changed because it gets contaminated with byproducts of combustion.

  4. Re:Researchers find new way to build quantum compu on Researchers Find New Way To Build Quantum Computers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no way of knowing if one's been left on the floor until you stand on it.

    Kind of like having a dog...

  5. Someone from the commissioner's office should squeeze the Red pitcher's balls to see if they're too soft.

  6. Re:Rich still getting richer on Workers: Fear Not the Robot Apocalypse (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    And capitalism does NOT guarantee reasonable equality.

    Of course it doesn't, nor does socialism or anarchy. The strong, smart, and ambitious will collect resources and live comfortably under any system you can name.

  7. Nonsense on Workers: Fear Not the Robot Apocalypse (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    You're saying that things were just rosy during the Dark Ages when there were no productivity gains for hundreds of years? I don't think so.

    The Great Depression wasn't caused by productivity gains, and the Soviet Union collapsed because productivity was too low, not too high.

  8. Re:But it says the patent applies to laptops too.. on Jury Finds Nintendo Wii Infringes Dallas Inventor's Patent, Awards $10 Million (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2
    The patent essentially reinvents Inertial Navigation

    An inertial navigation system (INS) is a navigation aid that uses a computer, motion sensors (accelerometers) and rotation sensors (gyroscopes) to continuously calculate via dead reckoning the position, orientation, and velocity (direction and speed of movement) of a moving object without the need for external references.

    Using that in the context of detecting someone falling is hardly innovative; but even if it is that wouldn't matter because that's not what the Wii does.

  9. Re:Leave it for dead on Why Oracle Should Cede Control of Java SE (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    New projects continue use it if they're outsourced to big contractors like the ones I already mentioned (IBM, Accenture, Oracle, etc.) because they have legions of programmers who don't know anything else and massive investments in server side tools they charge absurd license fees on.

  10. Re:Leave it for dead on Why Oracle Should Cede Control of Java SE (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Other than the part about .Net I agree with what you said. But Java has a lot of momentum with companies like Oracle and IBM behind it, so it'll be around for a while as it becomes less and less relevant.

  11. Re:it was a scam on Juicero, Maker of the Infamous $400 Juicer, Is Shutting Down (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    He spent other people's money, and (I assume) kept some of it for himself in return for his visionary ideas and management skills.

  12. Re:Pay More Money on US Employers Struggle To Match Workers With Open Jobs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Paying more will motivate some people to change employers, but it won't solve the shortage of people with the right skills.

    If the Yankees would only pay more for a good shortstop I'd even apply for that job.

  13. Re:As the child of people who couldn't afford kids on Stanford Study Finds New Dads In US Are Older Than Ever (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 2

    Nobody said deaths "need to happen". What does need to happen is for people to stop breeding like rabbits.

  14. Lawyers will always sue the company that has the most money.

  15. Re:I actually solved this problem. on Mathematicians Race To Debunk German Man Who Claimed To Solve The 'P Versus NP' Problem (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah? Prove it.

  16. Re:There is good reason for that... on Coders In Wealthy and Developing Countries Lean on Different Programming Languages (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason is that students in India and China are being taught Java. That was a great language for offshoring and H2-Bs a few years ago.

  17. Don't exaggerate the real impact on Large-Scale Dietary Study: Fats Good, Carbs Bad (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    People with a high fat intake -- about 35 percent of their daily diet -- had a 23 percent lower risk of early death and 18 percent lower risk of stroke compared to people who ate less fat

    This is good to know. But keep in mind that your chance of dying from one of those is still quite small in the context of all the other things that kill people (cancer, accidents, etc). So the actual increase in your risk of death is pretty small.

  18. Re:Why do you presume status quo? on On Internet Privacy, Be Very Afraid (harvard.edu) · · Score: 1

    Lacking that "treasure trove", totalitarians like Stalin and Mao went after entire ethnic/cultural groups or depended on informants. Do you think that's better?

  19. You're saying that once a bitcoin is obtained illegally there's no way for the rightful owner to ever recover it? (because that's why all the donations were returned - stolen credit cards).

    Thanks, but I'll pass on that system.

  20. Re:(Human) Nature on East Africa Leads The World In Drone Delivery (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The drones have a chance of staying in service because they aren't worth much to a thief. On the other hand, the chance of something like medical supplies sent by courier being stolen is very high.

  21. Re:More reviews mean more data points on People Are Complete Suckers For Online Reviews (nypost.com) · · Score: 1
    FTFA:

    “Around 20 [and running up to 50] is the optimal number of reviews for a product to have to give consumers the confidence that this product has been tried enough by enough people,” he told Moneyish.

    If there are 1000 reviews and the product is rated low, people will tend to avoid it. But if there are a handful of reviews it's reasonable to assume two things: 1) several people have tried the product, and 2) some had issues and left low reviews. People tend to complain in reviews far more often than they compliment, so a few negative reviews don't scare me. Especially if the complaints are from people who bought a lower priced product and then whined because it wasn't as good as a higher priced alternative.

  22. Re:Obvious on People Are Complete Suckers For Online Reviews (nypost.com) · · Score: 3, Informative
    TFA noted the same thing:

    The exception to that rule is if every one of the reviews is giving this place or product five stars. “If the rating is unusually high, that actually can have a negative impact,” said Moog, as shoppers suspect this is too good to be true. “What we have from our data is that the optimal rating is about 4.4 stars.”

  23. Re: Java is like corruption on JavaScript Is Eating The World (dev.to) · · Score: 2

    You do know that Java was mentioned twice in the summary, right?

    Trying to use Java for front-end development is absurd.

  24. Re:And... on Microsoft Will Never Again Sneakily Force Windows Downloads on Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Hillary lost. Get over it.

  25. No. The next step will be to change the description from "new operating system" to "monthly update of your existing operating system, including user experience optimizations".