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  1. "So how has this worked out for Windows so far?"

    At least Apple has sold more than 2 phones, so it might work.

  2. "So I'll bite, why would there be enough advantage to a space-based solar array to offset the problems that a space-based solar array would have over a terrestrial solar array?"

    Sure, since the power would have to be sent as microwaves down to earth, you could grill little rocket man or some other nuisance.

  3. Easy on 'Productivity Is Dangerous' (theoutline.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "So every morning, I get messages asking me to click through to articles like "How I Optimized My Morning Routine To Get More Done Than ever -"

    Well, just don't read these messages and you'll be amazed how much shit you can do during that time.

  4. "Just one more reason not to be on Facebook..."

    Actually you got that wrong.
    If you're not on FB, you'll never get a notice that people who _are_ on FB are posting pictures of you.

    It's a ploy to get all the paranoid people onto FB or at least 1 picture of them.

  5. I see on CDC Director Says No Words Are Actually Banned At the CDC (pbs.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    " the move was not meant as an outright ban, but rather, a technique to help secure Republican approval of the 2019 budget by eliminating certain words and phrases."

    IOW the move was not meant as an outright ban, but rather, a technique to help not getting fired by eliminating certain words and phrases.

  6. Sounds familiar on Two Major ISPs Are Suffering Outages, Making the Internet Really Slow Right Now (slate.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Making the Internet Really Slow Right Now "

    Nice internet you had here, but if you'd pay us just 10 bucks more, nothing bad would ever happen to it, capisce?

  7. " the same indestructible stuff that makes it impossible to drill through the earth."

    It's just elephants and a turtle down there anyway.

  8. Obviously.

  9. Small wonder on What's The Best TV Show About Working in Tech? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    "Unfortunately, "nobody watched it. "

    We, who would have been interested, lived it.

    Just while we are ironing our business shirts, we don't want to watch a show where somebody is ironing shirts.

  10. "Does anyone have advice on making elegance sound impressive?"

    Look around you, does it seem as if anybody would notice elegance if it bit them in the face?

  11. Somebody bought stock from a man-purse company on Don't Keep Cellphones Next To Your Body, California Health Department Warns (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    That must be it.

  12. "Passive use of social media -- reading information without interacting with others -- makes people feel worse."

    Thankfully hardly a billion people use FB that way.

  13. The word is stupidity.

  14. "If you want Trump to believe something, it's best to get Fox News to do a short and aggressive segment on it in which they flatter Trump a lot."

    Naw, just do it like John Oliver does it, paying for a commercial with a self-lubricating-catheder-cowboy actor explaining things to the 'fucking moron' on Faux-News.

  15. Wine bottles have 75 cl of content because a couple of hundred years ago people thought that was the right amount for 1 person to drink with their evening meal.

  16. The users will be thrilled! on Microsoft Unveils Improved AI-powered Search Features for Bing (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    Both of them.

  17. Stupidity is never a good investment.
    They should have done that when it was at 11 bucks, not 11.000.

  18. Re:Nothing but excuses on France To Ban Mobile Phones In Schools (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    * Children younger than driving age are in most locations by definition with an adult the entire time they are transiting to/from school.*

    You might be surprised, but there are many modern countries where kids walk to school alone for a mile or several.

  19. degraded battery degrades phone's performance on Apple's Alleged Throttling of Older iPhones With Degraded Batteries Causes Controversy (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    because it can't suck enough energy fast enough.
    News at 11.
    Conspiracy theories right now.

  20. Re:Good reasons to test with a coal bulker... on China Has Launched the World's First All-Electric Cargo Ship (futurism.com) · · Score: 0

    "The freight isn't particularly hazardous, coal dust explosions during loading and unloading aside"

    The word you're looknig for is Coalworker's pneumoconiosis, Black Lung.

  21. Re:BREAKING NEWS on China Has Launched the World's First All-Electric Cargo Ship (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    " Oh...and Ironically, the world's first all-electric cargo ship is being used to move coal."

    'Like an op-ed written by a self-righteous ninth grader.'

    Indeed. Luxembourg has the first solar electric ferry and it is used to transport gas-guzzling cars on the other side of a river.

    https://www.wort.lu/en/luxembo...

  22. Finally! on Emotion Recognition Systems Could Be Used In Job Interviews (techtarget.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    A real use for those Botox injections.

  23. Biogas on Toyota's New Power Plant Will Create Clean Energy From Manure (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From Wikipedia.

    Germany had 5905 Biogas plants in 2010 .
    The electricity supply was approximately 12.8 TWh, which was 12.6% of the total generated renewable electricity then.

    I don't see a real difference here, but since I'm not a newbie I can't possibly RTFA.

  24. Re:Man, I am old on Airlines Restrict 'Smart Luggage' Over Fire Hazards Posed By Batteries (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    "I personally don't see the need for it, as most people with the money to get Smart Luggage will already have their phone handy on them"

    Me neither. I send my luggage in a steel container to and from the hotel with UPS, no hassle at all.

  25. Re:So let me get this straight on The International Space Station is Super Germy (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    "If you rotate humans from five nation space agencies in and out of a bunch of sealed tubes over nearly 20 years, germs happen."

    Perhaps it's about time they rotate in a cleaning lady.