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  1. Kind of my thought. When you subvocalize words internally your voice box actually twiches to make the sounds you just don't move your lips and tongue to say them.

    This is different from picking your thoughts which uses a different mechanism.

  2. Re: Popular? on Slashdot Asks: Should Android OEMs Adopt the iPhone's Notch? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In reality the notch is a temporary design shift made by limits of current tech. In the not to distant future. Cameras that see through the displays will increase in resolution the infrared backlight will be from the whole screen etc.

    The tech exists now. It just isn't refined enough for a phone.

  3. Yep this is a base level tech needed for holgraphic displays.

    If your display doesn't have a physical surface then you need to be able to pick up finger movements in the air.
    The apple Hwatch in 2025 will combine iPhone and new holgraphic tech into a watch sized device. You can expand your fingers and watch YouTube at a 7-8" display resolution, but text messaging is done at smaller display sizes.

    The only issue so far is that the battery requires access to your blood stream to generate the power required to run siad display. You wouldn't mind a mini hydro generator in one of your arteries would you?

  4. Re: I guess we're in a trade war on US' Proposed China Tariffs Would Target Robotics, Satellites (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    That is called capitalism. Of you can't compete on price then you lose out to those that can.

    Guess what it is how we defeated the Soviets and as china grows it is how we will defeated them too.

    Lastly robotics is going to introduce a new concept in manufacturing. 20-30 years from now. Just in time manufacturing where you go to Best buy to buy a TV and as you pull one off the shelf to take home, they send an order to an automated factory in the next city over, to print and build another one. Using 3d printing, 3d cnc milling , some pre assembled parts, and you can build it quickly and save distribution costs. Bonus is that production equals demand so you can ramp up and down for seasonal shifts. Without firing or hiring workers.

  5. Re: Dead or just temporarily unusable? on Latest macOS Update Disables DisplayLink, Rendering Thousands of Monitors Dead (displaylink.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't confuse display port which works fine with display link which is a USB custom display and sometimes you monitor.

    Display link =/= display port.

    Different tech. Display link existed before display port was widespread. (While convient it uses wierd teh to make it barely work

  6. Re: Those are already banned. on US' Proposed China Tariffs Would Target Robotics, Satellites (engadget.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well regulated also meant that those who owned cannons took proper care of them and didn't fire cannon falls into the homes of those they disputed with.

    Lastly fully automatic weapons are banned in most places. The weapon of choice now is rapid fire semi auto where you fire as fast as you pull the trigger.

    Also prohibition doesn't work. Mental health expansion, and questioning(with police able to schedule one appointment would do far more for this country than banning gun models.

  7. Re: Trump on Large Crack in East African Rift is Evidence of Continent Splitting in Two (pbs.org) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Right now you can't get your news from news broadcasters as the Sinclair media group listed a bunch of must run topics and stories and that includes the anti media rants of conservatives

  8. Re: Suck it, useless middlemen! on EU's Long-Promised Digital Media Portability Rules Go Into Effect (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    How would Netflix work if state copyright laws trumped federal laws and each state could set their own.

    Would we have a uniform set of laws or would we have something like guns laws where crossing some State boarders with a gun is a felony ? Where some counties and towns have overrides on even owning let alone carrying a gun without permission?

    That is current eu copyright law. That is what this is addressing. Failure to understand the issue before mouthing off is basically the common trait among humans.

  9. The Brits are required by their own laws and Wu laws to transfer him to Sweden. There he will be brought before a judge an dprosecution who will state the full case and the fact the the prosecution wishes to drop the case. The judge will grant the motion and he will be on a street with no money, and no friends inside of an hour.

    Swedish law doesn't Look one to have charges pressed against you in absentia. They can't drop the inquiry until he shows up.

    Then assange alone on a street will get grabbed by someone proabblu Russians but who knows the CIA is cash strapped currently. and held hostage for all his bitcoins.

  10. Re: Um... shouldn't it be the EPA on FCC's New 5G Rules Favor Fast Setup Over Federal Reviews (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You should really look at the doending again then. Domestic spending is a fraction of military spending.

    THE ISSUE IS THE DEBT. That eats up 30% of our budget via interest alone. No payments to prinicpal.

    No the only solution is to raise taxes on the rich, cut all spending, and lose ,2-3 generations of econmonic growth to pay back what the baby boomers have spent.

    To start? We need to pass a balanced budget law. Keep it simple. This year's budget is equal to last year's tax revenue unless war has been declared by Congress. That will allow increase in spending as the economy grows and taxes cuts will force the decrease in spending they require.

    Republicans keep doing the tax cut increase spending to stimulate the economy. Except the two never pay for themselves

  11. The city probably buys in bulk based on historical forecasts and usages. It then is responsible for distribution in city limits.

    Lots of small towns and cities run their own electric company often at rates lower than normal market will do in that region.

    They then do the maintence on the local grid too.

    The business moved in due to the cheap electrical lied about it's usage(which probably required a waiver from the town) and proceeded to spend.

    Expect to see similar stories as Bitcoin Drops in price.

  12. Re: And 300-400 workers less on Levi Strauss Replaces Human Sanding With Automated Lasers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The jobs will come back in other forms the trick is you need a different skillset. As automation continues the cost of automation will drop, and with that comes something new. Just in time, localized manufacturing.why have massive plants, and distribution. Centers when you can have a local automated maufacturing site producing only parts that are going to sell. That shortens the supply chain and saves money.

    Not all items will work for this. But most consumer goods will.

  13. Re: Chia Bas Letter From Iteret ? on China Bans Letter N From Internet as Xi Jinping Extends Grip on Power (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    China has a lot of people and bueracary.

    Also communist China did things smart for many many years the true start of the downhill slide is breaking tradition and changing the term limit.

  14. Re: Obligitory Trump Bashing on After Rising For 100 Years, Electricity Demand is Flat (vox.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The only reason Trump won is because Democrats underestimated the raw hatred people have of Hillary. I am a liberal and I can't stand her. She stands for nothing but power for herself.

    Democratic leadership is just as corrupt and incompetent as Republican.

  15. Renewables are always cheaper. The price of fuel for fossil fuels will go up. The price of decomishing a nuclear site will double again in the next 10 years.

    What makes renewables bad is that we don't have reliable storage.

    Long term is every home can cover 75% of their bas usage with solar and batteries then the need for large grid scale systems shrinks. The large grid is fragile and a mistake in Ohio, can wipe out new York City for 12 hours. (2003 blackout)

    More distributed renewables and smaller but numerous storage. Would strengthen the grid with excess.

  16. Re: Insert MICROS~1 advert on the Microsoft slashd on Office 365 Growth Opportunity 'a Lot Bigger Than Anything We've Achieved', Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You never paid once for Ms office. Not since it went to windows

    You paid $350 every 3-6 years or you got lucky and got a three year with your $1500 new computer that was also replaced every 3-6 years.

    You always paid for office. Now you pay byonth or year for it. It works. It also allows rivals to slip in as you start charging enough that instead of a once every thing 3-6 year write off able expense it is a recurring expense. And reoccurring expenses are the first to get trimmed.

  17. During the libre open office kerfuffle I just stopped using an to be ok f them. I didn't use them at home often enough to deal with in the the updates.

    Switched to Google docs and sheets. Covers all of my needs and best yet I can work on stuff like bill paying during lunch at work.

    MS office does have some useful features I use at work (index match in arrays) but for home that just isn't needed.

  18. Re: this is a laughably easy conversion to make on Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Because He Couldn't Figure Out How to Convert PDFs to Word Files (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Load pdf in Adobe. Convert to or save as doc. If your version of Adobe doesn't have that bust out the credit card and upgrade it.

    Edit resulting word doc. Save as PDF.

    It would be laughable except I do it every friggin day. One of our vendors sends his invoices as jpg's snapped from His phone.

    I convert to PDF save as word, clean up the data, as as shiny PDF before forwarding to idiots I mean AP

  19. Name one law he broke before though? We don't arrest crazy people or fox personalities would all be in jail.
    Crazy, gun toting, angry, is perfect lay acceptable. Even threatening isn't illegal.

    Our laws wait until a crime has been committed. Then you go after the guilty. Arresting people for crimes if which they are innocent is the Hallmark of fasciats dictators like Castro, and trump.

    I prefer to live in a land of law, than blind obedenice to a dictators whims.

  20. AI right now is nothing more than a new type of index search. Where instead of building a tree first the system customizes the tree before searching. It is very limited and often fails in illogical ways as it correlates data that doesn't correlate often.

    Show me true AI that is self learning. Either you give it a topic and let it learn what it can.

    Even ai in video games is often nothing more than branch predictors based on local information. In both cases it is often trivial to feed the system garbage until it is useless.

    A basic feedback loop would at least help point it correctly.

  21. Re: That's nothing... on Scientists Grow Sheep Embryos Containing Human Cells (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The joke is that combination was so loved that England made them Kinga and queens.

    Hence the Welsh got the last lyygh.

  22. Re: Probably the sanest use of soldiers on China Reassigns 60,000 Soldiers To Plant Trees In Bid To Fight Pollution · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The USA used to be that bad. Then we made the EPA, and spent the next 40 years cleaning Stopping at pollution at the various sources, gave us a chance to clean up.

    China knows this, they just don't realize the best way is to clean up your act, not patch symptons.

  23. That sounds great but of the 4 trillion budget and the 3.5 trillion in tax income and of that budget .9 trillion is interest only payments on debt. That leaves us in the hole by 1.4 trillion before the year starts.

    Also of the 4 trillion 25% is on military, 30% on social security owed secondary debt, 30% on Medicare.

    So to start with 85% of the government spending is untouchable.

    That leaves 15% for everything else including foriegn aid,infrastructure, etc.

    Of all that the .007 trillion spent on food stamps at only at government levels of lean management of 7% (93% of food stamp dollars goes to food). Trump wants to cut by 30% and increase management overhead to 30% so that $70 billion becomes $50 billion with 30% overhead meaning less than half the current funding goes to people who need it.

    Trump thinks manually shipping people boxes is cheaper than just electronically depositing funds in a debit account that's locked to certain vendors and items.

  24. Re: They won't listen... on Bill Gates: Tech Companies Inviting Government Intervention (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    There is a flip side to that.

    The government wants backdoors in all encryption achemea and a dedicated password for "just" the government to unlock all encryption.

    Just because a company does it doesn't mean it is right and just because the government wants it doesn't make it right.

    You need oversight without blindness. Regulations encourage and help businesses to flourish, and regulations binds government hands when they overstep too.

  25. Re: Which is it? Mulling or Moving? on The Trump Administration is Moving To Privatize the International Space Station: Report (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Trump space station is the biggest space station in orbit