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  1. Was Orchard trademarked? on Apple's New Spaceship Campus Gets a Name, Lifts Off In April (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Or iOrchard?

  2. And it's not going anywhere on Some Recyclers Give Up On Recycling Old Monitors And TVs (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The lead isn't going to leak out of these things. It's essentially inert.
    The demand just isn't there. Same with scrap metal. My local scrap metal place doesn't pay anything for scrap steel anymore.
    The Iraq war created a lot of demand for scrap steel.
    You'd think that lead recycling would be in demand given that the last US lead smelter closed in 2013 but perhaps manufactured products using lead are all made overseas.

  3. Adapt or die on Bill Gates: The Robot That Takes Your Job Should Pay Taxes (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Should we subsidize the people who used to make bogus weight-loss machines? How about the people who used to make now-banned products? Bill Gates has become an ivory-tower moron.

  4. What about the Coffee Machine? on MAME Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary (mame.net) · · Score: 0

    Can it emulate the Philips Coffee Machine voice synthesizer? Coffee? COFFEE!

  5. Can't transcribe a Boston accent on YouTube Has 1 Billion Videos With Closed-Captioning (But Not All of Them Are Accurate) (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly, these algorithms don't know what a bubblah or a blinkah or a clickah is.

  6. Re:Make Siri more useful on Apple's iPhone 8 To Replace Touch ID Home Button With 'Function Area' (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I heard that and tried saying "Lumos Maximus" but all Siri wanted to do is search for limousine services in the area. She does know what the fox says even though that's a pretty dated joke.

  7. Make Siri more useful on Apple's iPhone 8 To Replace Touch ID Home Button With 'Function Area' (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yesterday, I needed to turn on the iPhone's flashlight and for some bizarre reason, it wouldn't let me swipe up from the bottom of the screen to turn it on. So I asked Siri to do turn it on and she said, "I can't do that." Siriously? A while back, the speedometer cable in my truck broke so I couldn't tell how fast I was going. I asked Siri thinking that she would be able to use the GPS to figure it out. "Hey, Siri, how fast am I going?" She said, "I've been wondering that for a while." Yeah, um, hey Siri, quit being a smartass millenial and do some work.

  8. Benefits used to be...benefits on Brazil Judge Rules Uber Drivers Are Employees, Deserve Benefits (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a time when benefits were optional or rare. Then price and wage controls were introduced and the only way employers could attract good talent was to offer them "benefits". Now they are mandatory. Things might be better if people got more money and chose their own health plan outside of work just like car insurance. (Along with being able to buy across state lines and tort reform but that's a story for another time.)

  9. Down from 73,000 ten years ago on Nearly 56,000 Bridges Called Structurally Deficient (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2
  10. Screw the Kyoto Protocol on Iron Age Potters Accidentally Recorded the Strength of Earth's Magnetic Field (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    We need a new protocol that redistributes money from wealthy countries to poor ones who will be most affected by the loss of the magnetic field because the wealthy ones have a lot more electric motors and refrigerator magnets so they're ruining the Earth's field.

  11. *points and laughs* on BlackBerry Files Patent-Infringement Suit Against Nokia (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    That's like a zombie wanting to eat the brains of another zombie.

  12. Still doesn't measure productivity on New Office Sensors Know When You Leave Your Desk (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    When I worked at a Fortune 500 company, I actually witnessed some woman spend an entire day updating her stupid Franklin planner. A whole damn day. Showing up for work is not a valid method of determining compensation. One should get rewarded for results not for the amount of hours they're at their place of employment.

  13. Everything is a reason to learn C (and C++) on Is IoT a Reason To Learn C? (cio.com) · · Score: 1
  14. You can't have nuclear winter induced by a volcano. There's no nuke involved. (also, read "Comrade J")
    I recently saw someone post that the most recent winter storm in the U.S. was caused by Mother Earth being pissed off at us because of the drilling related to the Dakota Access pipeline. Good grief.

  15. Ivory Tower syndrome on Most of the Web Really Sucks If You Have a Slow Connection (danluu.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the disconnect (no pun intended) between internet application developers, most of whom live in a big city with huge data pipes, and the rest of the country that doesn't (and doesn't always have cellular internet either).

  16. *raises hand* on Apple CEO Tim Cook Tackles Truth in the Digital Age (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Umm...does anyone else think he's really not focused on running Apple like Steve did?

  17. It doesn't matter if law enforcement thinks it can solve crimes. What matters is if lawyers think juries will believe the results. Juries think that CSI is real and forensics can all be accomplished in less than an hour.

  18. Meh. State uses antiquated tech too. on FBI Will Revert To Using Fax Machines, Snail Mail For FOIA Requests (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    The US State Department STILL requires applications for ITAR export licenses to be submitted using a form system that's a dinosaur from Lotus Notes and uploaded using only Internet Explorer only on Windows.

  19. Read up on the McCarran–Walter Act. POTUS has the authority to do this.

  20. The Golden Rule on 'The End Of The Level Playing Field' (avc.com) · · Score: 2

    He who has the gold makes the rules. You should be far more concerned about cash-rich companies that can afford to hire lobbyists who will effectively tilt the playing field in their direction through regulations that only they can afford to deal with. Deregulation is the playing field leveler.

  21. Of course, because they want to own it on Are Gates, Musk Being 'Too Aggressive' With AI Concerns? (xconomy.com) · · Score: 1

    There's only one reason to bork disruptive DIYers who want to work in new fields of technology. They want to be sure that only people with a crap-ton of money can afford to deal with regulations so only they will be able to make money in new markets.

  22. Coding IS a foreign language on Disney Thinks High Schools Should Let Kids Take Coding In Place of Foreign Languages · · Score: 1

    At least you wouldn't be wasting years conjugating verbs in ways only used in old literature.

  23. There's a bug in your code on Scientists Marvel At 'Increasingly Non-Natural' Arctic Warmth (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    It's still a friggin' simulation. Occam's Razor says it's a bug in your code.

  24. Based on the description alone, it would seem that the only way to detect this is by majority vote. Things could get past the filter and still be wrong or misleading if enough people were misled.

  25. I'd like to see this adapted to take the place of magnifying head gear so I can scrutinize tiny components on PCBs.