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  1. Re:It makes sense on Why Apple Just Invested in Wind Turbines In China (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Obama is still President.

  2. Translation on Uber Asks Everyone To Stop Making It The New Tinder (sfgate.com) · · Score: 2

    This week Uber updated their community guidelines to discourage passengers from using the ride-sharing app as a hook-up opportunity.

    Along with complete instructions on how it can be done. But you shouldn't follow those instructions. But if you do it will work quite well.

  3. Re:YES ! on Silly Putty Makes For Super-Sensitive Sensors (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been married to this material for three decades and didn't know it. Also, graphene (100x strong as steel, magnetic) interlaced by silly putty is a good description of the wife.

    That might not be a good thing. FTFA:

    "If you touch it even with the slightest pressure or deformation, the...resistance will change significantly,"

  4. Samsung may permanently disable Galaxy Note 7 Phones before the phones designed by Samsung permanently disable themselves.

  5. Re: More like "most bitched about" on US Presidential Election Was Most 'Talked About' Topic In 2016, Says Facebook (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    People didn't lie. The mistake was how the pollsters counted; they assumed turnout would be similar to 2012 - so districts that turned out well for Obama were weighted too heavily; when Democrats were given a choice they chose to stay home rather than vote for Hillary.

  6. Re:False alarm. on First Dinosaur Tail Found Preserved in Amber (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    That should be "False Amber Alert"

  7. Re:Clearly Global Slowing is a problem that must b on Earth's Day Lengthens By Two Milliseconds a Century, Astronomers Find (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Didn't Superman spin the Earth backwards by flying around it opposite to the rotation? That seems like it would work to speed it up if he flew the other way. Just need to contact Clark.

  8. Re:127 Mill Maintenance robot vs 4 Billion AF1 on NASA Awards $127 Million Contract For Refueling Mission Spacecraft (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    NASA won't get anything for $127M; that's just the starting point for cost overruns to build on. Plus it's unmanned so if it eventually does fail, no big loss.

  9. Re:Apple Watch - Tim Cook's legacy on Apple, Which Doesn't Reveal Watch Sales Data, Says Watch Sales Are Great (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Jobs wasn't afraid to disrupt his own business. Phone would disrupt iPod, tablet would disrupt laptop. Both were bigger than the lost market in the other products.

    Cook is afraid he might break something.

  10. The National Healthcare Safety Network (part of the Centers for Disease Control) tracks all kinds of things, including MDROs (Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms). The gentleman from California is just posturing. .

  11. Re:Annoying problem with that... on Embedding Isn't Copyright Infringement, Says Italian Court (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Wrong question - the right question is "how do you know they knew it was infringing?" followed by "prove it".

    Because they were sent a take down request and didn't comply.

  12. Re:TSA Prescreen is your friend on 70 Laptops Got Left Behind At An Airport Security Checkpoint In One Month (bravotv.com) · · Score: 1

    Hardly an invasive background check; if you have a passport you're pretty much there already. But if you prefer to stand in line and go through the regular screening at the gate it's your choice.

  13. TSA Prescreen is your friend on 70 Laptops Got Left Behind At An Airport Security Checkpoint In One Month (bravotv.com) · · Score: 1

    No need to remove your shoes or take the laptop out of the bag. Plus the lines are shorter.

  14. Re:Right criminal, wrong crime on Sysadmin Gets Two Years In Prison For Sabotaging ISP (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    If someone is burned to death you would be guilty of murder. So yea.

  15. Re:Elephant in the room on Why MakerBot Didn't Kickstart A 3D Printing Revolution (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    The elephant you're ignoring is that very few people need custom parts like that. And a very small percentage of those people would be able to design the part even if they wanted to.

  16. Re:Elephant in the room on Why MakerBot Didn't Kickstart A 3D Printing Revolution (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    i.e. It is a part for a $300 vacuum cleaner which costs $40, but is $5? worth of plastic.

    Maybe some day Amazon will offer a 3-D printing service for parts like that. They would need access to the engineering specs of of your particular vacuum cleaner (good luck getting that). The consumer will need the ability to replace the broken part (maybe easy if it's just a piece of trim). And the price will need to be lower than the $40 that the manufacturer can offer (parts from the original production run probably cost pennies to manufacture). Add it all up and you might get a sale, or the consumer might decide to buy a new vacuum that's a prettier color. .

  17. Hydrogen, in 2016, is a non-starter. First you can't just 'get' it.

    Which is why a point-to-point delivery system such as a large truck is the right vehicle to start with. You don't need thousands of refueling stations, just a few at the major truck terminals.

  18. Vice-versa cannot be done.

    It can certainly be done on a rotating engine:

    HP = Torque x RPM / 5252

    Torque = HP * 5252 / RPM

  19. Horsepower is a certain amount of torque per minute.

    To some extent that's true (horsepower is related to torque * RPM). But torque is more important because a low torque motor would have to spin unrealistically fast to generate sufficient horsepower; you need high torque to get the horsepower you need at a reasonable RPM.

  20. Re:Why is this guy still talking on Stephen Hawking: Automation and AI Is Going To Decimate Middle Class Jobs (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 0

    Generations were in grinding poverty long before the industrial revolution. For example, think about the collapse of the Roman Empire.

  21. Re:Why is this guy still talking on Stephen Hawking: Automation and AI Is Going To Decimate Middle Class Jobs (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    Historically, the population of any species is limited by it's reproduction rate. There;s no reason to think humans should or will continue to breed like rabbits.

  22. I suppose that depends on whether you want to know how much sugar is taken out or how much is left. But yea, I should've said 0.6 to be consistent with the summary,

  23. Re:Apple is bringing a knife to a gunfight on Apple Will Use Drones To Improve the Quality of Apple Maps (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    More like bringing a drone to a skeet shoot.

  24. People on slashdot would have a hard time multiplying a number by 0.4

  25. Re: It's Trumps Fault! on Bitcoin Exchange Ordered To Give IRS Years of Data On Millions of Users (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    It's NYT, those digs aren't random.