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  1. Re: Lets not stand on ceremony on MIT Says We're Overlooking a Near-Term Solution To Diesel Trucking Emissions (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Why not focus on transcontinental hyper-loop shipping lanes.

    High costs to build out the infrastructure, maybe? This is a proposal that can be adopted now as opposed to 10-15 years from now. Why should we let the perfect be the enemy of the good?

  2. Re:Third-world country on Are America's Big Telecom Companies Suppressing Fiber? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    @Shaitan: Ever heard of a little thing called malicious prosecution?

  3. Re:Third-world country on Are America's Big Telecom Companies Suppressing Fiber? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and unlike the ID law those are old legacy laws that nobody would bother trying to enforce and if they did they'd finally be stricken from the books in response.

    'Old legacy laws' are used all the time by politically ambitious DA's in order to keep marginalised members of society incarcerated. Don't be so fucking naïve...

  4. Powell != inept on Are America's Big Telecom Companies Suppressing Fiber? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Michael Powell wasn't inept. He was a greedy sycophant who knew that if he took care of his corporate overlords, he'd get a portion of the spoils as well as a cushy gig once he walked through the revolving lobbyist/regulator door.

    Powell knew the outcome of his blanket deregulation, even if he feigned ignorance and claimed that it was all in the name of 'consumer choice'.

  5. Re:ISS pays for itself in these ways on The ISS Is a Cesspool of Bacteria and Fungi, Study Finds (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    What's interesting is to see if we can sequence the genomes of these organisms and find out how their evolution and gene expression are influenced by a microgravity environment.

  6. Re:It isn't High School on Hoping To Fix College Teaching, CMU Open-Sources Trove of Software (edsurge.com) · · Score: 1

    While the people having the College experience are busy partying and abusing their livers, and having a grand old time

    Also, don't discount the value of networking in college. This is the chief value of the Ivy Leagues. By and large, the intellectual environment at Harvard is not any more elevated than it is at the best state schools, or small institutions like Smith or Reed. The Ivies mostly provide a sandbox for the cream of society to rub elbows with each other.

  7. Found this on the Vivaldi blog. Sync was in beta as of November of 2017. Don't know if it's an official feature yet... https://vivaldi.com/blog/snapshots/help-test-sync/

  8. Re:Apple Knows This on As 'Subscription Fatigue' Sets In, the OTT Reckoning May Be Upon Us (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Telecoms in the US depreciate their outdoor plant over 15-25 years, and a lot of the cable companies laid their HFC infrastructures out in the late 1990's or early 2000's, so in another 5-10 years they should be able to simplify their networks without incurring too much additional cost.

  9. Re:If only W10 Pro was more like W10 Enterprise... on Microsoft Will Now Pester Windows 7 Users To Upgrade To Windows 10 With Pop-ups (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    It has been forked as Open Shell.

  10. Re:Progressively worse rules; change packaging on Encouragement Without Education Backfires On Recycling Efforts (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Completely agreed on changing the packaging paradigm. It's completely unreasonable for people to clean food packaging so that it's lickably clean before being acceptable for recycling. Plastic food/beverage packaging needs to be compostable/biodegradable (or even edible). Full stop. Given certain applications, the fact that certain plastics can last for centuries is a blessing. For other applications, it's an absolute curse. Packaging is one of the latter.

  11. Re:That's a contradiction on San Francisco's Rent Hits a New Peak of $3,690, Highest in the US (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    How long is your commute?

  12. Re:And In Other News... on Senate Confirms Former Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler To Lead EPA (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Don Blankenship, is that you?

  13. Re:Deleted Posts WTF??? on Google Is Expected To Reveal Game Streaming Service At GDC In March (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    I noticed the same thing...a bunch of legit posts, but there was no 'Reply to This' link on any of them. I hit the back button and reloaded the page, and now it's nothing but a bunch of anti-Semitic troll posts.

  14. Re:Jail is too good for this guy on Hoaxer Behind 2,400 Fake Bomb Threats Caught After Gaming Site Breach (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Mandatory supervised work at a 911 center for life with no chance at advancement.

    I'll do you one better. Mandatory supervised work-release at a meat processing plant for life. If he gets an appendage chopped off, that's par for the course.

  15. Re:How about SIP service? on Google Voice VoIP Calls Will Be Live For Everyone by Next Week (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Google's current protocol actually IS SIP, but with funky headers and flags.

    Funny how Google is now doing the same 'Embrace, Extend, Extinguish' shit that MS did twenty years ago, whilst MS is actually open-sourcing a lot of their technology. What's old is new again, I guess...

  16. Re:Produces CO2? on California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Paper Receipts, Require Digital Ones (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The water use required to manufacture the paper is one problem. Another is that any trees cut down that were still growing would've been able to suck in even more CO2 until they mature.

  17. Re:Green tea is great for you on Decaf Tea Found In The Wild (asianscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    lay off the green tea

    Or just eat some organ meats.

  18. Re:Windows shouldn't be a service! on Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks Windows Media Player, Win32 Apps In General (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I think MS is using the customer channel of Win10 to QA the enterprise channel.

    There's no mere 'I think' about it. They've openly admitted as much. First it gets dog-fooded by MS employees, then Insiders, then home consumers generally, and finally Enterprise customers.

  19. most of today's military spending doesn't create many blue collar jobs.

    Indeed. The lion's share of military spending these days goes not to service members, but to the CEO's and shareholders of General Dynamics and other large defence contractors.

  20. Is this some 'Highlight from our archives'... on That Virus Alert on Your Computer? Scammers in India May Be Behind It (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    ...posting? This was old news 10 or 15 years ago.

  21. What else to expect from a bean-counter? on Apple Used To Be an Inventor. Now It's Mainly a Landlord. (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Even though he was a royal arsehole, few would dispute that Steve Jobs was a visionary. Tim Cook, by contrast, is a by-the-book numbers guy. He is as exciting and inspiring as a smelly gym sock. Even a village idiot could've foreseen the path Apple would take with such a figure at the helm. Is anyone really surprised?

  22. Re:MS: what about Server OSes? And why so slow? on Windows 10 Will Banish Spectre Slowdowns With Google's Retpoline Patch (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    My guess is that it will be prioritised for inclusion in Server 2019, then back-ported to 2016.

  23. Glad it wasn't included in 1809 on Windows 10 Will Banish Spectre Slowdowns With Google's Retpoline Patch (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    [from TFS] "The bad news is that Microsoft didn't include the Retpoline fix in the latest Windows 10 October 2018 Update Redstone 5, or RS5, release, even though, according to CrowdStrike researcher Alex Ionescu, it could have," reports ZDNet.

    Not such bad news in light of 1809's data-losing file system bugs. I'd like to see something like this much more thoroughly tested, given the grave security implications.

  24. Re:Local electronics recycling says on Printer Makers Are Crippling Cheap Ink Cartridges Via Bogus 'Security Updates' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Why weren't these unwanted printers physically recycled? Seems like there's not a lot of actual recycling going on, but an attempt at reuse (which is also noble, but in this instance it backfired).

  25. Exactly, plus once they slap the 'manager' label on you, good-bye overtime. They make you salaried-exempt and work you 100 hours a week for fixed pay.