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  1. Re:Dolphin deciphering on Dolphins Recorded Having a Conversation For The First Time (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Nope they have an evolutionary bias to speaking. That bias is driven by their sonar detection. Think of a group hunting together, not only can they hear their own sonar, they can hear the rest of the groups sonar, not just the orgin but reflected sound, so full 3D sonar shared by that whole group, with knowledge of the sources. You should be able to figure out how that would develop into speech ie simple reproduction of the echoes produced from default sonar patterns. So it would be quite a different language from one created from visual patterns, although those sonar patterns would represent vision in a way. Inherently they have to recognise each others sonar and the echos from it.

  2. Try this on instead, "We Came, We Saw, He Died" https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... Hillary Clinton.

  3. Re:Biggest effect will be on nearby Best Buys on Amazon Will Open 100 Retail Stores (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course there is the whole, shop online, wait for delivery to the store and pick up at your convenience, it's called the click and mortar option. Why have a shop at the pick up location, spur of the moment purchases and why order online and pick up at store, problematic delivery drivers and neighbourhood thieves and you can actually check the item at the store prior to accepting it. Also if the package remains within the Amazon transport system, it can all travel in readily reusable plastic crates and they remove it from the crate and give you the item sans extra over packaging, a substantive saving especially with cheaper items.

  4. Re:Title is incorrect on Video Shows How Bacteria Invade Antibiotics And Transform Into Superbugs (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bacteria do not evade antibiotics, they die and quite simply those that are not affected by the particular anti-biotic survive and reproduce. As the bacteria are relatively simple and they DNA is also relatively simply, they can only be resistant to a limited number of potential antibiotics, so new anti-biotics mixes can simply be many older ones mixed together, don't kill the bacteria with one, kill it with the other, they could also add in immune system supplements to power up the immune system in conjunction with the anti-biotic mix. As the anti-biotic mix could be quite a large dose, it would be better that side affects do not compound but impact the body in different ways, so many smaller side affects rather than compounding side affects.

  5. Re:backing Hillary? on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    You do know how the political system works in the US don't you. maybe at least just a little. The President is the administrator of government based upon the rules and regulations provided by the Congress and Senate. They can turn the President into an empty suit figure head in one sitting. The only reason US main stream media crap on so much about the president is because it is a magic trick for gumbies, you know look at this had doing nothing whilst the other hand reaches around for your wallet. In this case, pay attention to the Presidential election whilst ignoring the Congress and Senate where the real power resides.

    I still do not get why so many Americans swallow the crap and bullshit presidential candidates spread about what they will and will not do. When they have absolutely no control over those policies as they are all controlled by laws written and approved by the congress and senate. The only real power the president has is veto and that is it. All other powers are temporary and provided by the congress and senate until such time as they choose to repeal those powers.

    They are just playing you as fools. Want to see real power, look at the attack on Donald Trump by war industry owned main stream media when Trump threatened to cut funding from NATO, see him back down and promise to spend more on war and see the attack by main stream media slow right down. The US is being completed fucked by war for profit and the public seems incapable of bringing it to an end. Simply far to many resources wasted on war games (to many US politicians enjoy killing https://www.youtube.com/watch?... way too much, it is a real sickness) and not enough invested in infrastructure and services.

  6. Almost but not quite there. Just mark all your USB drives "DANGER! Do Not Use - Will kill Computers!" and just keep track of the one that will and don't use it.

  7. So if companies were smart they would replace the 3.5mm port with something smarter like a second micro-usb port. Two identical ports (One at the top and one at the bottom), so that you can charge the phone whilst using the other micro-usb port for something else, like headphones or even better a full virtual reality headset. Blue tooth whilst neat and all, simply to annoying to use. Battery powered device, hooked up to battery powered devices is really annoying to use, you get no function unless both batteries are charged and the reoccurring annoyance put many people off in the end.

  8. Re:And sales of the iPhone 7 spike on CPSC: Stop Using The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, at least those phones were cheaper to make without user replaceable batteries. I'll bet there are a whole bunch of end users laughing at Samsungs misery, those users who demand end user replaceable batteries (just think, instead of a recall, they simply could have sent each user a new battery, a cost to Samsung of something like $20 a phone instead, youch, new phones returned, rebuilt, sold as refurbished phones in the second hand market, something like $400 lost per phone). So if the note & phones have shit batteries, where else did batteries off that production line end up?

  9. Re:Before the reboot on Today Marks The 50th Anniversary of 'Star Trek' (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    Those last Star Trek movies of the original era were definitely not good but they just sort of bruised the franchise rather than beating it to death with really stupid cheetos versions. People still were interested in Star Trek (hence the reboot sellout was possible), they just wanted better stories, the reboot crap, the last movie, simply zero interest, nobody cared, now that's dead. nepotism is really screwing up the industry, crap remakes seems to be all they are capable of, squeeze blood out of franchise dead weight stone and nothing but dust left, which they still try to squeeze just one more time to end up with nothing. Likely they will jump on game franchises and try to get money out of them with crappy stories and lots of advertising.

  10. Re:Anonymous Payment Equals Money Laudering on Ask Slashdot: What Are Anonymous Ways To Pay For Goods and Services? · · Score: 1

    How about when politicians steal billions and starve millions or corporations cheat on taxes crippling social services or organised crime or terrorist organisation or mass bribery in government. Privacy or mass death a tougher question to ask and answer.

  11. Re:So I have a purpose on It's Official: You're Lost In a Directionless Universe (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    The error is in the claim, their claim, the universe, the reality, the known universe. So the known universe as far as they can perceive based upon the limited exploration of our solar system and questionable extrapolations based upon that without any testing. It is really bad to drop that word 'known' when making claims about the understanding of the entirety of existence.

  12. Re:Goodbye, World Wide Web. on Linking Without Permission Violates Copyright, Rules EU Court (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So of the trillions of bits of copyright content on the internet (technically this comment itself), how the fuck are you meant to tell which bit is in contravention of copyright, seriously, what the fuck?!?.

  13. Let me guess, someone guaranteed not to report crimes being committed by the government, not just some but thousands of crimes, fraud, electoral abuses, bribery, murder, treason et al.

  14. Re:I'm sorry... on Alphabet Partners With Chipotle To Deliver Burritos Using Drones (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The have barred the drone from flying over people, so how does it actually deliver the burrito, fire it at them? Ahh, the pleasant time of lunch in the park at a univerity, the time to sit a relax, eat and listening to some tunes, ohh no, fuck that, listen instead to the sound of a thousand drones trying to deliver junk food at the same time. The insurance companies will love that university.

  15. Re:Before the reboot on Today Marks The 50th Anniversary of 'Star Trek' (ew.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Reality is 'Jar Jar A' pretty much killed Star Trek with the crap he produced (not dumbed down by the way, simply as smart as he is capable of producing, strictly second set work). As can be seen by the last entry that pretty much every just ignored, why bother, more of the same crap, Star Trek is dead, we need a new anniversary for it's funeral. Jar Jar is now killing off Star Wars, nepotism, pays for more PR=B$ in main stream media, than anything else, trying to make incompetent spawn look great. How many picked up on the change in box office revenue where package deals (junk food and even premium food in upmarket cinemas, sales) where included in the revenue claims, to hugely inflate them (basically tripling the numbers), typical main stream media PR=B$ nepotism.

  16. Anonymous Payment Equals Money Laudering on Ask Slashdot: What Are Anonymous Ways To Pay For Goods and Services? · · Score: 1, Troll

    The biggest problem with mass anonymous payment is that it will facilitate criminal transactions. The people most to watch would be the people receiving those payments ie electronically stealing that money and then anonymously paying themselves. Want true anonymous services, do it for free, do it voluntarily and no money need change hands.

  17. Re:Was going to order a note 7 on Apple Hikes Order Volume For iPhone 7 Parts In Wake of Samsung Recall (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    I just priced some for my four year old phone, damn $8, still happy?

  18. What they are really bitching about is that corporate controlled main stream media has lost it's propaganda ability, nobody except the extremely gullible are listening to it any more, they might hear it and be offended by it but they certainly are not listening any more and that includes foreign media assets owned and controlled by US corporations.

    That whole Russian thing is just a sign of the return of McCarthyism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., so a real warning in that. The corrupt corporate controlled US government will likely start defining forbidden subjects (protected propaganda lies), comment on them and suffer retribution, targeted as a foreign agent. Contest war industry propaganda or election lies and suffer. Like the typical empty promises of presidential candidates who can not deliver on the promises they make, factually impossible because only the US Congress and Senate combined can achieve them but they make the bullshit promises so people will ignore the Congress and Senate, so that all those positions can get flooded with corporate stooges, all part of the scam.

    They are pretty much declaring their intent to attack people with disingenuous and abusive, law enforcement attacks, possibly lethal law enforcement attacks. Say the wrong thing be declared a foreign agent, then comes the raid, the midnight assault, family members assaulted and abused including and especially children (your fault that your child was kicked in the face or shot at close range or tased to death), house trashed, all electronics stolen and a stay in prison where further enhanced interrogation can be applied, huge bail to ensure abuse can continue for as long as possible. Than a bullshit extended trial to ensure job loss and probable home loss due to inability to pay mortgage, this publicised as to others as a warning. They are already doing it, they have just declared their intent to significantly ramp up attacks.

    Shit dudes and dudettes, you (I am not American nor do i live in America and although I do live in a country with extradition, they are pretty much required to prove their case prior to extradition and not just launch into a persecution via false prosecution case) are in serious trouble and it will get worse unless you act. You had better start screaming McCarthy, McCarthy, McCarthy (especially poignant at this time because it is the corporate controlled Democrats who are doing it, those who once opposed McCarthyism) and tell them to go fuck themselves, loud, long and clear. Otherwise many of you will find yourself either accepting silence or having your lives destroyed in a witch in a country famous for corrupt witch hunts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

  19. Re:Different from the Social Security benefits? on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    I do not get what youy ass hats are going on about automation. On noes we need people to sweat blood we can not have automation, seriously WTF. If it can be automated, automate it and make adjustments in the rest of society to allow it. Ever dug footings by hand, ever mixed concrete by hand, ever moved all that concrete about manually and do that under a hot sun, you'll know exactly what it is to sweat blood. Shitty jobs will be be preserved to grind the life out of people, to feed the ego of the people doing the grinding. Where the fuck is the great promise of reduced working hours. So four hours of work, four hours of study, eight hours of leisure and eight hours of sleep. Nope, every gain in productivity has gone into the pockets of the 1% psychopathic capitalists, so they can burn up as many of the planets resources as insanely possible, consume more, waste more and fuck future generations.

  20. Re:Edge IS/WAS better on Chrome For Windows To Get Battery Performance Boost (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The only reason edge is more efficient than chrome on windows and only chrome on windows is because elements of edge are embedded in the operating system and still run, sucking up power when chrome runs. Typical M$ marketing scam, not done for any reasons of efficiency and those elements do not need to run unless you need to use the browser but it ensures any competing browsers use more power because of those unused modules running in the background, likely spying into network connections and transferring it back M$ servers. Want a true comparison on which is the more energy efficient browser, strip away the corrupt operating system first and then compare them. No different to M$'s bullshit with faster booting OS, with delayed start elements, so you got to your desktop faster but could still do fuck all because until those now delayed start services start you application will not start and those delayed start services now take even longer to start because the desktop is up and running, doing nothing fucking useful, so just a marketing tool to claim faster starting OS. Tiny Limpers can be real marketing douche bags.

  21. Re:Out of his depth on President Obama Wants To Prevent a Cyber Weapon 'Arms Race' (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The US is at a major disadvantage and their cyber security forces know it and hate it and that disadvantage will cripple them. It's not a technical one either, it's a political one and that disadvantage is lobbyists. Corrupt lobbyists paid by corrupt corporations to pay off corrupt politicians to force the purchase and installation of poor security closed source proprietary software relying on nothing more than security by obscurity. Other countries will jump ahead with more secure FOSS, basically because their cyber security forces can than directly monitor and audit that software and not just alone but in indirect association with all other governments cyber security forces. The US government will be blocked by 'no no zones' which they are not allowed to touch because profits first, those 'no no zones' will of course be touched by other countries cyber security forces, whilst those countries will be blocking the entry of closed source proprietary software, especially back doored US proprietary software and hardware. The NSA played and now the US economy pays.

  22. Re:Was going to order a note 7 on Apple Hikes Order Volume For iPhone 7 Parts In Wake of Samsung Recall (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    I have learned a valuable lesson from Samsung, until the make Note's with user replaceable batteries, I will never buy another one. See how useless they are, Samsung will now lose millions of phone value because of it. I wonder if the next note will have a user replaceable battery, consider no recall, product could be still on sale, just supply buyers with a replacement battery. Samsung just went through losses they expected customers to go through to force them to buy another phone or spend a huge amount upon a battery repair.

  23. Why even do a tablet with a keyboard, that's nuts. Want a tablet with a keyboard, buy a bigger thicker notepad, get a hard disk drive, get an optical drive, get keyboard that is far more usable and get a removable bigger, much bigger battery. So is a 25mm thick notebook more or less usable that even A 5mm thick notebook. Thinner means weaker side and bracing walls and physically failing hardware, thin is a trap when it defeats usability. Want a touch screen keyboard that preserves screen real estate of your tablet, easy, link your phone to your tablet and use the phone as a touch screen keyboard. Want a notebook to do real work, don't fool yourself, think beyond say 20mm does nothing for no one except the marketing department and gullible customers.

  24. Re:Logical Progression on Brain-Zapping Gadgets Need Regulation, Say Scientists (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Lets not forget to be equal to say cigarettes, where people smoke one or two packets at day, that's something like thirty or forty joints. Wait, what most people do not smoke that much MJ and are more likely to smoke the equivalent of say a quarter of a cigarette a day, perhaps the equivalent of a packet of cigarettes, over one third of a year. Doesn't of course stop arse holes from bullshitting. The alcohol industries and pharmaceuticals are freaking out at the thought of lost profits, to MJ industries or even worse, home grown, the shock the horror, the loss of profits. This regardless how many tens of thousands, globally hundreds of thousands, they kill each and every year, to feed their insatiable greed.

  25. Re:Hooray! on Climate Deal: US and China Join Paris Climate Accords (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't get caught in the trap of discussing other natural carbon emission sources, it is a stupid argument because of course they are in addition and not a bloody alternate. So volcanoes release green house gases (as well as gases that block sunlight and cool the planet) in bloody addition to man made sources and of course methane from man made sources as well as currently frozen methane to be released. So not a crazy crap either or but in addition to. Not matter how many fossil fuellers we sacrifice to those volcanoes they will not stop releasing greenhouse gases.

    So who should do the most to combat green house gases, the morons with the most to lose. The most high density, high capital cost, properties and infrastructure, that will be destroyed. So small island countries might lose everything but their losses will be tiny compared to the total losses the United States will face. Trillions gone and trillions spent on protective infrastructure and trillions more to keep in up for a millennia (or more imaginative solutions like irrigating deserts and turning existing farmland into forests, unlike walls keeping the sea back, if the irrigation fails you have lots of time to fix it and no panicked evacuations as cities flood and people drown as they will inevitably fail during major storms).