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  1. Re: Where now? on Firefox 69 Will Disable Adobe Flash Plugin by Default (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the last version that supports the addons I "can't" live without:
    deduplicate-tabs
    New Tab in Tab Context Menu
    Open Tabs Next to Current
    Sort Tabs

  2. Re:Where now? on Firefox 69 Will Disable Adobe Flash Plugin by Default (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Stick with FF 56 like us sane people.

  3. Balderdash. on Mapping the Spectral Landscape of IPv6 Networks (duo.com) · · Score: 1

    Like real estate, we're not making any more IPv4 addresses.

    New IP addresses are made every time an organization rolls out a VLAN in the 10/8 range.

  4. Re:The deceipt of big numbers over large time span on Climate Change Will Have Dire Consequences For US, Federal Report Concludes (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Where does it say that? (I'm not challenging you, just curious.)

  5. Re:The deceipt of big numbers over large time span on Climate Change Will Have Dire Consequences For US, Federal Report Concludes (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    I made a conversion error: it's 0.012 (aka 1.2%) of the work week = 0.48 hours per person per week per year, based on 81 years, 52 work weeks per year, and 10 million workers.

    If there are more than 10 million workers in the SE, that number obviously goes way down...

  6. The deceipt of big numbers over large time spans.. on Climate Change Will Have Dire Consequences For US, Federal Report Concludes (cnn.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Southeast alone will probably lose over a half a billion labor hours by 2100 due to extreme heat.

    500 * 10^6 hours / 81 years = 6.173 * 10^6 hours/year

    That's 6.173 * 10^6 / 52 = 1.187 * 10^5 hours/week.

    Given 10 * 10^6 working age adults in the Southeast, that's...
    0.012 hours per week per worker. Not a hell of a lot.

  7. Re:The "S" Word [Re:The DNC hack was a good thing. on Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Recognizing your own faults is fundamentally different from thinking that income equality makes a country successful.

  8. Re:The "S" Word [Re:The DNC hack was a good thing. on Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    For the same reason you call someone a capitalist even if they aren't a "pure" capitalist: because the world isn't cut and dry.

  9. Re:The "S" Word [Re:The DNC hack was a good thing. on Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Since I didn't claim that he's a "pure" socialist (though I bet he was a lot more socialist in 1988 than in 2016), your attempt at a straw man argument fails miserably.

  10. Re:Long and slender on New Experimental Lockheed Supersonic Jet Starts Production (wtop.com) · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what I thought. There would have to be some tilt up nose to allow it to carry an economical number of passengers.

  11. Re:NASA on New Experimental Lockheed Supersonic Jet Starts Production (wtop.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Furthering the bounds or aeronautics research is what the National Aeronautics and Space Administration does, and has been doing since it was the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, back in 1915.

    Or didn't you ever wonder what the "A" in NASA stands for?

  12. Re:The DNC hack was a good thing. on Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Ignoring the fact that Bernie The Socialist would have lost, too, politicians and backroom deals are as old as back rooms, so this should surprise you not at all.

  13. Re: It's not the language, you stupid jackwagons.. on The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Don't be jackass, jackass.

  14. Voter ID cards are designed by Republicans to prevent black people from voting.

  15. I never said it was cheap or cost-efficient. Just that we've had home-on-jammer HARMs for a long time.

  16. Re:Helpful on Russia Jammed GPS During Major NATO Military Exercise With US Troops (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We've had home-on-jam HARM missiles for a long time. And we have a lot of them.

  17. Emitting white noise at high power from directional antennae on a fixed set of frequencies isn't anything new or remarkable.

  18. While that's a definite possibility, Secret Operations do actually happen.

  19. Why is the fricking hell are... on Were Russian Hackers Deterred From Interfering In America's Election? (omaha.com) · · Score: 1

    "missile command-and-control systems on the public internet?

  20. You clearly overlooked the quote U.S. officials tell me much more is going on that remains classified.

  21. Re:In other news... on Sprint Is Throttling Microsoft's Skype Service, Study Finds (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a who lot of effort, to what benefit for Sprint? (They don't compete with Skype, after all.)

  22. In other news... on Sprint Is Throttling Microsoft's Skype Service, Study Finds (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    66% of Skype calls were not throttled.

    Why were only some calls throttled? Enquiring minds want to know!!!

  23. Re:Proof that China is sexist on China's Brightest Children Are Being Recruited To Develop AI 'Killer Bots' (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    You need to re-read my comment.

  24. "it is not publicly available in aggregate" on Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp Doxes Thousands of Absentee Voters · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ISTM that security expert Jake Williams is relying on security by obscurity.

  25. Re:Kemp on Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp Doxes Thousands of Absentee Voters · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And we know that NYC is a bastion of the Republican Party!