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  1. their tap water is for all practical purposes just as good if not better than whats in the bottle.

    Our tap water is clean and potable, but tastes nasty. Too much chlorine.

  2. Re:In other words, its a good business. on Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Without fear of the (yes, yes, I know: mythical) Eye In The Sky punishing you, who decides wrong from right?

    Government, that's who.

  3. I'll repeat again: when you stop browsing, any partial work disappears.

    The world never stops browsing, but people do.

  4. The performance all comes down to volume.

    And ratios: how many JS miners do you need to equal a current (affordable) GPU card, combined with -- as AniMoJo first mentioned -- the fact that when you stop browsing, any partial work disappears. That's really a killer.

  5. And Javascript isn't exactly known for its high performance when it comes to maths.

    That was my first thought. People spend so much on top-tier GPUs for mining, and these guys go for JS.

    I bet the malware guys are using this as a proof-of-concept for something else.

  6. The alleged "spending spree" was two years long. on Facebook Sold Ads To Russian-Linked Accounts During Election (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't think BeauHD (or CNet, or both) know what a "spree" is.

  7. Re:The problem with mass transit on India Just Might Be Getting a Hyperloop (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    How are current HSTs scheduled? (I'm betting it's not like how the hyperloop proponents promise how things will be.)

  8. Re:The problem with mass transit on India Just Might Be Getting a Hyperloop (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    And people need to get into the city at the destination, not just end the hyperloop (what's the loop part?) at the outskirts of the city.

  9. Re:No Hardware Audit Too? on Lenovo Won't Pay a Fine For Preinstalling Superfish Adware (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Pfft.

    You seem to have the crazy idea that audit finding (whether hardware or software) are made public. Or that exceptions aren't regularly granted by the auditors. Or that auditors aren't almost mechanistic in only looking for the boxes they must check off.

  10. Re:What, me worry? on Near Earth Asteroid 'Florence' Makes a Close Pass (space.com) · · Score: 1

    0.05 au sounds close, and -- astronomically -- it is. But then, Alpha Centauri is relatively close to Earth, compared to the Andromeda galaxy.

    Also, why an absolute magnitude of 22.0 or greater? What about the big, dark iron asteroid with an H of 23 who's MOID is 10^-5 au?

  11. Re:Potentially hazardous, on a future encounter on Near Earth Asteroid 'Florence' Makes a Close Pass (space.com) · · Score: 1

    the asteroid hasn't been this close to Earth since 1890, and it won't be this close again until 2500.

    How much closer will it be 483 years from now? We've got a lot more shit to worry about than this...

  12. Re:Congratulations to /. on Near Earth Asteroid 'Florence' Makes a Close Pass (space.com) · · Score: 1

    While "550 Earth diameters" is nerdy, it's 550 Earth diameters away!!!!

    Only a ninny bureaucrat with too much time on her hands would classify that as "potentially hazardous".

  13. What's the liabilitylaw for after a recall? on Amazon Sold Eclipse Glasses That Cause 'Permanent Blindness,' Alleges Lawsuit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Can you win a lawsuit with a car company over a fault if they've already sent recall notices?

  14. Shade 14 electric arc welding goggle are safe for viewing solar eclipses.

  15. Re:"a much-hated component of Intel CPUs" on Researchers Find a Way To Disable Intel ME Component Courtesy of the NSA (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you get "You make it sound like this is unique to Intel" from "Not much-hated by the people who buy Intel CPUs by the train-load?

    Maybe you replied to the wrong comment?

  16. Re:This is not progress. on Domino's Market Tests A Self-Driving Pizza Delivery Car (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can just imagine the chaos caused by sub-100 IQ people (and hung-over higher IQ ones) opening a hot pizza oven.

  17. "a much-hated component of Intel CPUs" on Researchers Find a Way To Disable Intel ME Component Courtesy of the NSA (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Not much-hated by the people who buy Intel CPUs by the train-load.

  18. My non-OCed FX-6100 has been rock-stable for 4.5 years.

  19. Re:So He Could Sue... on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    For that suit to even have a ghost of a chance of being successful, there would have to be a law stating that the US can't spy on foreigners (especially if they're on foreign soil).

  20. Re:So He Could Sue... on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Is Satoshi Nakamoto known to be an American citizen?

  21. Re:Officially Freaked Out on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    It took them a month for the NSA to ferret out one person, and God knows how many man-hours of work in that time.

    Since the NSA doesn't share much with the FBI, I'm not too worried.

  22. Re:Geolocation hyperlink missing on Wading Through AccuWeather's Response (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    I put the LAN Port MAC addr into http://find-wifi.mylnikov.org/ and according to Google Maps, it was 500m from my house.

    Still in the neighborhood...

  23. Re:Geolocation hyperlink missing on Wading Through AccuWeather's Response (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    Is BSSID MAC address the same as the MAC addr of your wifi's Internet port?

  24. Re:Nazi Germany has control of the newspapers and on Meeting and Hotel Booking Provider's Data Found in Public Amazon S3 Bucket (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You need a license in order to travel on specific roads despite the freedom to wander (You need a proper vehicular license and vehicle to go on highways) so why not need a license to get on the information superhighway?

    Exactly. Of course, the reactions after Charlottesville makes pretty clear that revoking such licenses would be a pretty powerful way to silence people you disagree with.

    Whatever happened to "Fight Hate Speech with More Speech"?

  25. Internet usage needs to be licensed. on Meeting and Hotel Booking Provider's Data Found in Public Amazon S3 Bucket (threatpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Not just that, but a license to manage every server you manage and/or create. It sure would cut down on stuff like this and IoT issues.

    (Except that I'm certain that MSFT would use that as a technique for not licensing OSX and Linux users.)