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  1. Re:Don't agree on Sorry, There's Nothing Magical About Breakfast (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Easy to estimate, impossible to calculate.

  2. Re: Clean record on FBI Wants Biometric Database Hidden From Privacy Act (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    False. An arrest by the FBI will not show up in your local court system. Nor would an arrest by another jurisdiction, if you have moved.

  3. Re: For those of that don't have fast access avail on September: Netflix Will 'Become Exclusive US Pay TV Home of Films From Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar' (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Centurylink Prism 1Gbps is available in downtown Seattle. You are a cheap bastard who only knows cheap bastards. That doesn't change the fact that really good connections are on your street, you are just unwilling to pay for it.

  4. People are upset because they didn't use the Zahn books as the basis of 7-9. They were good books, but there were plenty more stories to tell. Part of the point of 1-3, 4-6, and 7-9 is each trilogy is about a generation apart, with all the changes that can happen. So they are almost reboots of each other, rather than a single 9-part story, which is where the Zahn books (and some other EU) covered.

  5. With Netflix DVD, I'd get a 100+ deep queue, and never keep a movie more than 1 day. If I didn't watch it the day it came, I'd rip it that night, and return it, then watch it at my leisure. Getting the next in line on its way ASAP. The DVD replacement services don't seem to ever actually replace a DVD with an equivalent, where I can trivially save a copy.

  6. Clean record on FBI Wants Biometric Database Hidden From Privacy Act (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Almost good. If you have a background check, and the FBI classifies everything, then your background check will come back clean, when in the past, it would reveal the presence (and some content) of your FBI file. More criminals will be able to get sensitive jobs. How is this a bad thing?

  7. The previous and the current are the same generation. More like a dot rev. Wii U is Wii (plus a little). PS4 is PS3 with better graphics and worse media management. XBoxOne is a 360 running Win10. The "features" between them aren't greatly changed. Not like Xbox and Xbox 360, or Gamecube and Wii.

  8. Games are of interest. It's no more or less "important" then an article about Occulus. What "tough questions" need to be answered, and can you link to the submissions you've made about those topics?

  9. Re: This isn't even an article on Pac-Man 256 Coming To PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC With Multiplayer (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    So you are saying that most of the articles are about Hillary?

  10. Re:So, Amazon was counting on only a few customers on Amazon Stops Giving Refunds When an Item's Price Drops After You Purchase It (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Because pretty much every other company in the world does it?

    So if you went to the gas station the day after you bought a tank, and they lowered their price by $0.02, you show them your receipt from the day before, and they give you cash back? No? Almost nobody does a self-price-match after the sale.

  11. Re:Don't agree on Sorry, There's Nothing Magical About Breakfast (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's been working for me for years.

    Thus, it's 100% perfect.

    My BMR is 1800 calories.

    So you spend a week living in a controlled environment where it was measured?

    No, you are making up numbers that fit your personal experience, and asserting they apply to everyone, when they apply to nobody, including you. Your delusion doesn't become reality, even if you really really believe it.

  12. Re: TRUMP IS OUR LAST DEFENSE on Netflix and Amazon Could Face Content Quotas In Europe (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Probably were free from another school or library. Educational material was so bad, the teachers spent more time correcting errors than teaching. "Oh, and if you see 'Königsberg' on your map, that's been called "Kaliningrad for about 100 years" Maybe because so many of the world maps were wrong, they didn't bother posting them.

  13. Re:Don't agree on Sorry, There's Nothing Magical About Breakfast (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Ignore everything but calorie in and calorie out.
    At 5'10" and 200 pounds your BSR is in the 1900 calorie / day range. (Look it up).
    Figure out how much you exercise (walk, stairs, gym, bike, etc..) and work with that.

    But none of that works. Calorie out is a guess that's immeasurable. Calories in is also not measurable (unless you make 10 of every meal, and measure the calories in 9, eat 1, and measure the calories in your poop). So the theory is correct, but the measures are useless.

  14. Re:Oh, sure on Sorry, There's Nothing Magical About Breakfast (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    There are almost equal numbers (of studies and people) on each side. Anyone who claims one or the other is in a religion, not thinking rationally. The only logical conclusion is "it's complicated".

  15. Re:News for nerds... on Rovio's Desperate Push For 'Angry Birds' Movie (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    What the fuck could "independent" even possibly mean

    "Not produced by an existing movie studio." You should stick to your native language, English is obviously too hard for you.

  16. Re:Giant problem on Declaring Code Is Not Code, Says Larry Page (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The phonebook is compiling facts. That the facts were creative doesn't make the facts copyrightable.

    APIs document programming interactions. That the programming interactions were creative doesn't mean the documentation of them is.

  17. Re:News for nerds... on Rovio's Desperate Push For 'Angry Birds' Movie (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Distributed by Sony, so not sure that's breaking the distribution network, but didn't use Columbia for production (at least according to TFS).

  18. Re: TRUMP IS OUR LAST DEFENSE on Netflix and Amazon Could Face Content Quotas In Europe (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What fucking map have you seen with north and s America and not the rest of the world ?

    Every wall-map up in public school. Maybe they couldn't afford the world map, but those are left to tiny representation in textbooks, where you can't read any of the country names.

    America only maps make sense.

    I wasn't talking about America-only maps. I was talking about international maps where "international" doesn't include the whole world. Outside the US, I see actual world maps much more often than I did inside the US.

  19. Re: Who will watch the watchers? on How the Pentagon Punished NSA Whistleblowers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Doesn't matter. And better a clear example that using, say the police. They are largely self-policed, and see no problems with anything they do. the initial finding on Walter Scott was that it was justified, though that's effectively been redacted, once the 3rd party video was found, they "always" thought it was a bad shooting. Had there not been video, even with witnesses, it would have been a justified shooting. They all are. Except when there's video. Then, they are unjustified. But only then.

    But bringing up the police gets people with all sorts of unrelated opinions to latch onto unrelated items. So to avoid problems with that, you might as well use robbers, or the mob as an example of self-policing.

  20. Re:A simple solution to part of the problem on How Militarized Cops Are Zapping Rights With Stingray (alternet.org) · · Score: 1

    Causing pain for pleasure is sadism, not torture. Pain (or threat thereof) for a confession (true or false) is torture, and was invented in the inquisition. Not all inflicted pain is torture, and not all torture requires inflicted pain.

  21. Re:Chinese will take over on Netflix and Amazon Could Face Content Quotas In Europe (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And Trump will punish the whole USA if Trump wins, as he *is* the devil. So do you want to vote for the devil himself, or a servant of the devil? Damned if you do...

  22. Re:TRUMP IS OUR LAST DEFENSE on Netflix and Amazon Could Face Content Quotas In Europe (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The standard US map centers on the US, and to save space, fitting onto a letter (What's A4? Isn't that a car?) sized piece of paper, often shows North and South America, with nothing else, or you just get the USA only maps. Only rarely do you see a world map in the US, and those don't depict the world very well. Last one I saw was in a tourist area, and still listed the USSR, many years after the fall.

    I moved out of the US, for the reason that I saw in the election cycle 8 years ago that Trump was an inevitability, not an aberration. The campaigning around Obama was very hateful, and the number of people who worshiped the hate indicated it was quite popular.

  23. Re:TRUMP IS OUR LAST DEFENSE on Netflix and Amazon Could Face Content Quotas In Europe (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    US maps don't like islands. That's why Hawaii is always in Mexico. So where are you? Seychelles? Fiji? NZ? Africa?

    Better be on the southern hemisphere. My calculations are that the southern hemisphere will mostly survive a nuclear war. The fallout will be mostly gone by the time it passes the equator, and most of the nukes are aimed at Russia or the US, leaving few direct strikes on the southern hemisphere.

  24. Re:News for nerds... on Rovio's Desperate Push For 'Angry Birds' Movie (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nerds don't care about video games or movies? Or records like "largest independent movie ever made"? From what I can tell, it's the biggest budget independent movie ever made, and if it does as well as they hope, will be the largest in the box office as well.

    Though they'll never make a sequel. Based on history, either Microsoft or Disney will buy them for $10B if the movie doesn't flop, and doesn't look to be flopping so far.

  25. Re: Giant problem on Declaring Code Is Not Code, Says Larry Page (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If every implementation I rely on is removed, then it's about use. You can't use it if nobody implements it.