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  1. Re: Not intererested in new processors for a while on Intel Debuts 9th-Gen Core Chips, Including Core i9 and X-Series Parts, With a Few Twists (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Happily until you try to do one of the major feature upgrades... Then there's not enough space to apply update and you have to install from scratch.

  2. I'm convinced more and more on New Yorkers Sue Trump and FEMA To Stop Presidential Alert (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That humans have run their course, time to give the dinosaurs another chance...

  3. Re:That's why wind is better than nuclear on Strong Wind Topples a Wind Turbine in Japan (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Best case scenario is hundreds of km^2 are uninhabitable for tens of thousands of years? Pretty sure stuff lives around Chernobyl and Fukushima at the moment. So not sure where you are seeing you 'best case' situation...

  4. I really hope this is a troll.

    A. If you can't talk to your social circle, probably nobody is gonna die.
    B. Electricity and gas are just examples of general things that make living possible, replacing electricity with solar panels or a generator is still having electricity.
    C. To be really specific, people can live without electricity just fine, just won't see the population levels we have today.
    D. Anyone who has a facebook or twitter account used an email address to sign up for it, so pretty sure you can talk to them that way worst case. Odds are (excluding some homeless folks) they even have a mailing address - gasp!

  5. How is this common sense stuff on Evidence is Piling Up That Facebook Can Incite Racial Violence (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Always presented as important news? None of this internet stuff is fundamentally new, it's just more efficient. If a pamphlet or a town crier can influence people's minds, facebook can too - because that's all it is.

    Same situation as sharing songs on the internet. Nothing different than recording something onto reel to reel from a radio 60 years ago, just more efficient.

  6. And if you had continued my quote, I added that nobody dies when they don't have facebook or twitter. Big difference between something that keeps you warm and something that keeps you memed up.

    And I don't have gas in my house either, so just power and water for me... Besides making my life more boring, I could do without internet at home too, but power is kinda needed since I can't have a campfire behind my townhouse, lol.

  7. Re:Both are dangerous on President Trump Says It is 'Very Dangerous' When Companies Like Twitter Regulate Own Content (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "These platforms are as critical as other utilities like Electricity or Gas"

    How is twitter or facebook as important as power or gas? Many people (myself included) don't use these sites and are probably better off for it. Power and water and gas and the like are important to staying alive - facebook, not so much.

  8. Re:I expect they'll be as successful as electric c on Rolls-Royce Launches New Battery System To Electrify Ships (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    I see this replacing the "clean" engines they have to run close to land. Then they will switch to the bunker fuel engines like normal at sea and recharge these batteries. This would make the most sense for such a system.

  9. Re:Insurance payout? on The Man Who Jailbreaks Teslas (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you buy a new street legal car (US) that doesn't spy on you in 2018?

  10. Re:Probably not on Slashdot Asks: Did You Have a Shared Family Computer Growing Up? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I spent many a late night hour playing Moria and Trade Wars 2002.

  11. Re:What the fuck has this place become... on A Material Found To Carry Current In a Way Never Before Observed (phys.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Water has oxygen and hydrogen in it also, but reacts a bit differently than either... Table salt has sodium in it, but doesn't blow up when it gets wet...

    So a cuprate and copper don't have much in common except that copper happens to be one of the constituent parts.

    facepalm
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  12. Re:Welcome to the future. on 20 States Take Aim At 3D Gun Company, Sue To Get Files Off the Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You can make a far more effective firearm from 30 bucks of random stuff from home depot than the liberator design is. And you could safely put more than one round through it.

    Now the thing that could get interesting here is if you can just sit back and print tons of these things and sell em to a gun buyback program for more money than it takes to make em. Hell, even at 20 bucks profit per gun, you could pay for your printer easy. Nice option to have the local government subsidize the cost of your 3d printer.

    The other problem overall with this is the fact that these designs have been on torrent sites since they came out. Just like anything else on the internet, can't make it go away with laws.

  13. You laugh, but at some point this monster will recurse back far enough that it time travels. Then it enslaves us all 500 years ago.

  14. I bet if they make a low end phone on Things Are Going From Bad To Worse For Apple In India (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They may have a bit better chance of penetrating a lower income market... Iphones are fairly expensive in a country like the US, completely stupid expensive for a country like India.

  15. If you want to bring attention back to RSS feeds on 'RSS Has Already Won' (brianschrader.com) · · Score: 1

    Get pornhub and the like to use em!

    (disclaimer, I haven't checked to see if they have one already, and wouldn't surprise me)

  16. I guess I need to crowdfund on The Funky Boat Circling the Planet on Renewable Energy and Hydrogen Gas (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    A boat that is just a giant solar panel. Then add a sail and a fan blowing the sail. Think how cool that would be!

  17. Re:Non-comprehension on Juggalos Figured Out How To Beat Facial Recognition (theoutline.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You could google, but probably better to just ignore the fact that juggalos exist...

  18. Who gets arrested when it sends out nude selfies from someone under 18? The coders? The CEO of Samsung?

    Lawyers love this kind of stuff, lol

  19. Re: Win10 1803 is ready for prime time? Nope on ComputerWorld Says Newest Windows 10 'Isn't Ready for Prime Time' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    None of the pirated win7 installs I come across have any issues... Most of the activation cracks that are out now are pretty solid from what I've seen, including on win10.

  20. Re:Should a U.S. president get credit for everythi on White House Issues Strategies To Combat Growing Orbital Debris Risks (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty much the same as any other CEO... He is the CEO of the country, so gets credit for the R&D.

  21. Re:I want Google to be very 'diverse' on Diversity At Google Hasn't Changed Much Over the Last Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well said. Wish i had mod points today.

    Diversity shouldn't be a metric that matters in 95% of occupations. The ability to do the job you are hired to do is all that matters.

  22. Re:Trump is going to Federal Prison shortly on Diversity At Google Hasn't Changed Much Over the Last Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You do understand that all (most) these Manafort things they are looking at are from before he was associated with Trump in any way? And more to the point, he was working for the Podesta Group at the time...

    Should Trump have done better homework before he hired him? Probably, but that's about all you can put on Trump in any way for that.

  23. Re:RAND isn't "perfectly" random, what about the l on Canada's 'Random' Immigration Lottery Uses Microsoft Excel, Which Isn't Actually Random (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    "Randomly" sort the list 10 times and everything will end up "randomer".

  24. The russians just need to give up on that expensive country thing and just become a marketing firm. They were able to completely change the outcome of our elections spending only a couple hundred thousand bucks on some internet ads. Hilary spent quite a bit more and lost. Sounds like the most efficient marketing firm ever to me.

  25. Re:Very interesting on Uber Facing Ban In Turkey After Erdogan Backs Taxis (sbs.com.au) · · Score: 2

    Ever driven up to a busy 4 way stop and watch how it doesn't work? People need stop lights - they need to be told what to do. That's just part of human nature, a large portion of the population would rather cede control over their lives as long as it's easier. The real problem lies in the rest of the population who don't want to cede control. They are in two camps generally, either a leave-me-the-fuck-alone camp, or the I-want-to-rule-over-the-flock camp.