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  1. Re:In the age of Trump Tweets. . . on SEC Sends Subpoena To Tesla In Probe Over Musk's Take-Private Tweets (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You do realize that the entire basis for Wall Street (and capitalism) is that new, high growth wealth creation ideas initially require more funding than they can initially generate from their own operations, right? Ever heard the phrase, "it takes money to make money?" The vast majority of new forms of wealth creation require some form of initial "investment." Larger and longer periods of investment are correlated with higher expectations of growth and wealth creation.

    You do realise that Wall Street now only exists to separate suckers from their money...

  2. Re:Why is this stuff "secret" in the first place? on Leaked Videos Reveal Apple's Internal iPhone Repair Procedures (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Because Apple...

  3. prefer to 'relic' them myself... on Levi Strauss Replaces Human Sanding With Automated Lasers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    just like I do my Guitars...

  4. misread title on Scientists Create a New Form of Matter: Superionic Water Ice (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 5, Informative
    I took it to be 'supersonic' water ice...

    anyway, here's a link to the real article which OP neglected to use

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

  5. Re:Not new on Amazon: Heat From Data Centers Will Be Used as a Furnace (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't have to care about the conservation of resources, and yet, they do.

    nope, it's 'green washing' to make themselves look good and distract from the awful treatment they deal to their workforce...

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

  6. payload has already been dropped off on Study of Recent Interstellar Asteroid Reveals Bizarre Shape (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    the invasion is coming...

  7. They missed a chance to innovate here... on Razer Unveils Gaming Smartphone With 120Hz UltraMotion Display, 8GB RAM and No Headphone Jack (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    the stereo speakers are at the bottom of the display... they could have had a pair of speakers at the top as well and when playing in landscape, switch the speakers so that they still give stereophonic effect in landscape.

  8. 1984: Winston comments to himself, "There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug into your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized"(Orwell 3).

    from here

    https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/engl-246-fall2011/tag/panopticon/

  9. Sorry for offtopic on Bell Canada Wants Pirate Websites Blocked For Canadians (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    but there appears to be no information at all as to why Slashdot was completely borked this week...

  10. What hurts legal revenue more

    rubbish blockbusters? Formulaic re-boots/re-hashes? Copycat me too genre films...

  11. Original and best? on KDE Plasma 5.11 Beta Released (kde.org) · · Score: 1

    "The original and best linux desktop"

    that's a matter of opinion...

  12. look for that condition and take action to get the bearing changing by reducing speed...

    It's not rocket science...

  13. I suppose the arguably fake ones might be passing UV that the real ones don't.

    Infra-red light is the real danger here...

  14. Re:This Is Both Good and Bad News on Neo-Nazi Site The Daily Stormer Moves To Dark Web After Shutdown (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The Bad: The real Nazis will embrace this, and will gladly slither into the depths.

    The depths they've already been slithering about in?

  15. because the opposition rightly surmised that telling outright lies and promising untold riches stolen from "the rich" via tax, borrowing and printing more money would increase their vote share by persuading the younger and stupider voters to vote for them.

    Bollocks...

  16. Why am I not surprised? on Automakers Are Asking China To Slow Down Electric Car Quotas (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    n/t

  17. Re: Toss Both on PayPal Sues Pandora Over 'Patently Unlawful' Logo (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    arghhhh!!! my eyes... my eyes...

    that was terrifying...

  18. Moral: don't click on things you get randomly from the Internet. Also, don't click on things you get unexpectedly from colleagues in the same organization.

    more importantly, don't run software that can still be infected by opening an email or document?

  19. Re:You reader, please show support on FSF Supports Today's Boston March Against DRM In HTML5 (defectivebydesign.org) · · Score: 1

    since you will be able to use your browser more often to watch video instead of a proprietary App

    not on my OS of choice...

  20. Re:Trump fear on Apple Pledges $1 Billion Toward Creating Manufacturing Jobs In US (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    a billion dollars is peanuts compared to their offshore stashed cash mountain...

  21. Re:Hate to State the obvious but... on No More IP Addresses For Countries That Shut Down Internet Access (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    what about things like the Great Firewall of Britain where there is a super secret list of blocked sites and we don't know for sure if they're blocking access to web articles critical of our 'glorious' Tory party or revealing embarrassing information on what they are really doing to us and the rest of the world... they put it up under the guise of protecting us from porn and kiddie porn...

  22. Re: What about the delivery of insulin? on Apple Has a Secret Team Working On Non-Invasive Diabetes Sensors (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    there is, I believe, some research being done to detect sugar in your tears. A device to scan your eyes and analyse the light bouncing off them

  23. Re:I'd really like to see this work out... on Apple Has a Secret Team Working On Non-Invasive Diabetes Sensors (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    strips have a short shelf life

    nope... got another year left on the strips I bought last summer (big job lot, got a nice discount)...

    machines eat batteries

    Nope, have only had to change the CR2032 battery annually in the four years I've been using my meter... I use at least six strips a day as well

    I use the SD Codefree meter... simple and cheap to run as well.

  24. Re:Uber need to get a clue. on Uber Says Thousands of London Drivers Threatened By English Language Test (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    strangely enough though, Black Cab drivers are exempt from this test...

  25. they'll up his sentence...