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  1. BS, it's not. The only mileage based maintenance notification is when its time to change the oil, and that's not even from the CEL (Check Engine Light).

  2. So, when can we expect these in cars to detect failing hub bearing, waters bumps, idler pulley bearing, etc?

  3. If I went back to school, I'd get an MBA. I know it's a cliché, but an MBA is the most versatile at landing a high paying job in any industry. If not as a primary, as a secondary, but definitely worth getting!

  4. Re:Giving Bats a bad name, again on Deadly Ebola Virus Is Found in Liberian Bat, Researchers Say (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    On a whole, rabies is the larger issue. But damn, ebola spreads like wildfire once unleashed.

    Then again, if people would stop touching and sleeping next to the dead, that would go a long away at preventing the spread. Yes, I'm blaming culture normalities in that part of the world for amplifying the spread of it

  5. Re:This is like... on We May Finally Know What Causes Alzheimer's -- and How To Stop It (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it caused over a quarter TRILLION dollars in the US alone, for the year 2017. That's not a shit-load, that's a "fuck-load" of money! Money that would reduce everyone's taxes, provide better services, or a combination of both.

    Nationalized dental care? If cost effective, I'm open to the suggestion as public policy so long as it's in everyone's interests.

  6. Re:Giving Bats a bad name, again on Deadly Ebola Virus Is Found in Liberian Bat, Researchers Say (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What if a bat has both ebola AND rabies? It swoops down and bites a monkey. That monkey turns into bushmeat and now you got a human infected from processing it for consumption.

  7. Re:The indoctrination of the youth worked :( on Record Number of Americans See Climate Change As a Current Threat (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." -Joseph Stalin

    COMMUNISM!

  8. Are you talking about China, or in the rest of Western nations? See, in China, the state massively builds residential space (including entire ghost cities) that they artificially restrict what's on the market so as to not deflate prices. Artificial scarcity is exceedingly effective at generating maximum revenue, and still having enough inventory left to hold a large market share. But when the government calls the shots, no one else is available to blink.

  9. Cute. You think the rest of the world would actually learn from history, never doomed to repeat it?

  10. So what you're saying is that I can quickly identify who would be a quick cheap whore for the night, right?!

  11. Re:If you think that was hard... on 'I Tried to Block Amazon From My Life. It Was Impossible.' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm waiting to hear AOC want to nationalize Amazon. LOL

  12. Nope, never. The march is toward 'ambient computing', with the focus on the experience is hosted in the cloud. The "device" (hardware) is nothing more than a vehicle to get there, and not the primary focus.

    Hardware is a commodity with a limited shelf-life. Apple knows this, and is treating it as such. But hey, at least they're good at PR spinning it as being environmental friendly.

    Apple users are suckers!

  13. China can have Africa. If anything, it would only improve. At worst, it would be like tying two rocks together to see if they'll float in the water.

  14. Re:Black Lives Don't Matter on AI is Sending People To Jail -- and Getting it Wrong (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When "blacks" stop doing culturally stupid shit like committing acts of violence then they wont be in jail. Stop judging them on their skin color and judge them based on their actions. And most importantly, don't give anyone a pass/handycap based on race; for that in of itself is racism!

  15. Re:Quasi-religious nonsense on Why High-Fidelity Streaming is the Audio Revolution Your Ears Have Been Waiting For (forbes.com) · · Score: 2
  16. Re:Sounds awesome on Adding New DNA Letters Make Novel Proteins Possible (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, a lot of computing will have to occur that will process any and all permutations. If "evolution" must occur, do it in code, then pick the desirable result and put it to use. Again, assuming that's even doable.

  17. Re:Quasi-religious nonsense on Why High-Fidelity Streaming is the Audio Revolution Your Ears Have Been Waiting For (forbes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's called the loudness war for a reason. The best raw source for music will always been CDs prior to the year 2000. Every re-release after will have been compressed (audio, not digital/mathematical).

    I'm all for 24-bit audio so long as it doesn't suffer from compression, otherwise a giant waste of time and money.

  18. Re:The garden wall provides no safety. on Google Play Malware Used Phones' Motion Sensors To Conceal Itself (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    FYI, proofreading is not my strong suit.

  19. Re:The garden wall provides no safety. on Google Play Malware Used Phones' Motion Sensors To Conceal Itself (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    YUP! Bingo!

    Short of patents (which is another matter entirely, and I'm against them anyways..), you're free to start up your own game company to design hardware, software, games, and other services to compete.

    There's no right to others services as you wish. You play by their rules or you don't play at all. If you don't like the rules, then create an org where you craft your own. That's capitalism.

  20. Re:Errrr SIs only? on Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up To 5.0 GHz, Auction Only (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree. If anything, depending on total count, could be a collectors item that would serve no purpose than to make for a nice paper weight in some personal collection.

  21. Re:The garden wall provides no safety. on Google Play Malware Used Phones' Motion Sensors To Conceal Itself (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The terms and conditions for their service would (and does) make using their HW a requirement. Case closed.

    You agree, or you don't. The choice is yours. If you feel that choice sucks, then start your own company.

  22. Re:Why not go with a Xeon? on Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up To 5.0 GHz, Auction Only (anandtech.com) · · Score: 2

    Because we can't have high-end desktops using ECC, otherwise it's now a server. Intel segments that market intentionally!

  23. Re:Sounds awesome on Adding New DNA Letters Make Novel Proteins Possible (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    For a beneficial mutation to occur, a whole lot of people must die in the process before in the evolutionary process. Meaning there's a lot more bad mutations that occur than good.

  24. Re:The garden wall provides no safety. on Google Play Malware Used Phones' Motion Sensors To Conceal Itself (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At the end of a day, you're just not paying for a device, but a service. Part of that service might include many things, including someone else doing the vetting of what software is and isn't safe. I own an iPhone with the full understanding that it's locked down and inside a "walled garden". But you know what, I love that garden. Because at the end of the day, it's just a damned phone that's a tool more than anything else.

    Don't like walled gardens, then don't support a company that enforces them. It's that simple. Just don't right them off as useless especially when the agreement is mutual between the vendor and consumer.

  25. So Tim Cook is asking for a central repository of all data to be stored, with the understanding we can request to have it deleted. Awww, how cute. Completely oblivious to the fact the NSA would be mirroring all that data to a back-end archival storage silo only to later be used against you in a new Social Credit score.

    See, China is leading the world on advancements. They're just not the advancements that benefit you!