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  1. Don't bother. The article is clickbait. The submitter has a history of frequently submitting articles from the same website. I suspect 1sockchuck is affiliated and not disclosing that fact.

  2. Re:Sure Jan on Degradation of Lithium Batteries Shown In Real-time (ucl.ac.uk) · · Score: 1

    "Time lapse" doesn't mean what you think it means.

  3. Re:Windows Live Mail on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 1

    Try to do inline replies. Outlook makes it VERY difficult to compose emails without interference.

  4. Re: Sue em. on 12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School (salon.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
    There are limits to the immunity given to government employees when they deny civil rights, especially in federal court. 42 U.S.C. section 1983, provides:

    Every person who under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, Suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress...

    Unreasonable false arrest and detention I believe is covered by that.

  5. Re:Wow. on 12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School (salon.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is a child. What happened to "think of the children?"

    It's the anarchists, wait, communists, no, terrorists!

    (Here's hoping a bunch of people lose their homes in civil suits)

  6. Re:Windows Live Mail on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 1
    But does it force you to top post, like Outlook?

    Windows Live Mail is a surprisingly feature-rich and lightweight free mail client for Windows.

  7. Re:Uh, the same way it's always done? on Comcast Typo Penalizes Wrong Customer For Data Usage (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Come back when you understand statistical multiplexing and oversubscription. If everyone's use doubles, things break unless the network is upgraded.

  8. Re:Uh, the same way it's always done? on Comcast Typo Penalizes Wrong Customer For Data Usage (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "The bandwidth is already there though."

    Nope. It's just that you don't understand how networks are designed or how ISPs work.

  9. Re:Seems reasonable on Landlords Want a Share of Renters' Airbnb Revenue (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    "if the tenant is renting it out and able to make a profit it is only possible if the landlord is renting below market value."

    So, you think that the per diem for a one year lease should be the same as that for an overnight rental? Do you know what Airbnb is?

  10. Re:Uh, the same way it's always done? on Comcast Typo Penalizes Wrong Customer For Data Usage (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "It however costs Comcast $0 if you use 100 GB more data in a month."

    That's a red herring. It would cost them a lot more to build out a network where every customer could use 100GB more a month.

    Unless you know of a source for free backbone class routers, switches, and long haul dark fiber, that is.

  11. Re:Kick backs? on Why Won't T-Mobile Let Us Binge On All Of It? · · Score: 2

    "others are welcome to join"

    OK, I'm willing to set the encoder on my personal Subsonic server to 480p video. How do I get my server included?

  12. Thanks for that.

    The summary was as clueless as any I've ever seen. It didn't make sense for a Dallas Buyer's Club to be speculative invoicing in $AU for smuggled AIDS drugs (presumably smuggled by the mentioned pirates). WTF?

  13. But how will the seeds grow if you eat the nutrients in the fruit? Think of the children!

  14. Re:History? Really? on British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt To Block Wind Farm (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What's so hard about tearing down a coal plant? ... You are trying to imply the "global warming is man made"

    That wasn't the claim. The claim regarded the comparative ease (and therefore cost, since in business ease/cost are pretty much the same). I don't think he was commenting on the environmental impact of energy generation, at all.

    Coal plants have lots of bricks/mortar/concrete, built on site boilers/turbines/etc. so they're difficult to disassemble, and it's difficult to recover the investment by moving the equipment elsewhere. There's have a large footprint to restore, usually involving rail lines.

    Removing wind turbines isn't much more than a bit of unbolting (you ever see them put one up?), and moving them to somewhere else would be pretty simple. There's not a lot of infrastructure left to clean up, just some relatively compact footings (and for sea-based ones, those can probably be left in place without harm), and much of the original value can be retained.

  15. Re:Perhaps amend the definition of resonance on Galloping Gertie, Engineering's Most Misunderstood Failure (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    He's too busy laughing out loud, out loud. Perhaps he considers that resonance.

  16. Re:Perhaps amend the definition of resonance on Galloping Gertie, Engineering's Most Misunderstood Failure (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "which a vibrating system picks out from a complex excitation"

    Like a wind musical instrument or an organ pipe. Or like a wind which blows across a bridge.

  17. Re:Perhaps amend the definition of resonance on Galloping Gertie, Engineering's Most Misunderstood Failure (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You do realize that "resonance" doesn't mean what you think it means, right? There are lots of physics sites which disagree with you - "a resonant frequency is a natural frequency of vibration determined by the physical parameters of the vibrating object..."

  18. Re:Perhaps amend the definition of resonance on Galloping Gertie, Engineering's Most Misunderstood Failure (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Resonance of the bridge, not the wind.

    The authors seem the type who try to get out of a speeding fine by arguing the difference between speed and instantaneous velocity. GLWT. For the general public, "resonance" is a perfectly reasonable explanation.

  19. Just like GM, Michael Moore moved his contribution to Flint's tax base away from Flint long ago.

  20. Re:"DDOS" the justice system? on Supreme Court Upholds Arbitration In DirectTV Case · · Score: 1

    sb "Arbitration does NOT involve the justice system."

    Shoulda used preview, even for a short comment. My duh.

  21. Re:"DDOS" the justice system? on Supreme Court Upholds Arbitration In DirectTV Case · · Score: 1

    Arbitration does involve the justice system.

  22. Re:String Theorists Are Not Physicists on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    "let's be honest: if something isn't testable, it isn't science."

    There are a lot of climate "scientists" you need to convince.

  23. " It's like trying to pass legislation to make Pi equal to 3."

    Nothing wrong with that, it merely implies a requirement for non-Euclidean geometry.

  24. Re:De Beers is going to be pissed on A New Technique For Creating Diamonds Discovered · · Score: 1

    Excellent. Not till the end does one see the "cracked.com" link!

  25. Re:deBeers will buy them out. on A New Technique For Creating Diamonds Discovered · · Score: 2

    Where's the +zero Obvious to anyone paying attention moderation choice?