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  1. Re: Cheaper solar and wind on More Than 40 Percent of World Coal Plants Are Unprofitable, Says Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The highwalls and tailing piles look like Mars, and are a profit opportunity lost.

    Uh, does Elon know about this?

  2. Re:OnStar on GM Is Getting Into the Electric Bike Business (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It has automatic accident reporting. And automatic tracking of every place you stop and for how long. And automatic tracking of everywhere you go. And how fast you go. And how fast you stop.

    And you even pay for it!

    What's not to like?

  3. That didn't work out so very well in this noted documentary.

  4. Re:Give me a break. on It'll Cost $1 Billion To Dismantle America's Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Simply"

    You keep using that word.

    I do not think that word means what you think it means.

  5. Re:What if on Apple Announces $300 Million China Clean Energy Fund (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    What if -

    Apple made a mid sized tower. With slots. And ports.

    Come on Timmy, you can give the Chinese 300 million and you can't give us a god damned tower?

    You're one confused little dude.

  6. Re:VR is at a sad state on The First Real Boom in Virtual Reality? It's Pornography. (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is why porn is leading the pack. You don't necessarily want mind blistering detail. They're not moving *all* that fast. Content is, more or less by definition, 'immersive'.

    What's not to like?

    Well, not going there....

  7. How many people do you think you can get dressed in scales? It's not like there are a who lot of lizard people outside of DC.

  8. Re:Same here on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think that's a great idea.

    I mean, those damned spacecraft really mess up my Wifi. You'd think an advanced civilization would have things cleaned up a bit.

    Thanks for the tip.

  9. While that is certainly a reasonable option, I, for one, would lose the damn USB key in a minute. No, keeping the files on the computer is a security risk but, as we have said 10E23 times, security is a tradeoff.

    I like the idea that I can have my passwords on my MacBook Pro and my iPhone and my Windows boxes. I think I have something like 700 passwords, most of which are auto generated and so I have no earthly clue as to what they are.

    I am not worried that a three letter agency is going to swoop up and look at my emails. They already do that as part of work. I don't want Random Asshole from getting to my bank account or my mistresses phone number (well, it helps to have a good fantasy life....).

  10. Actually, one of 1P's strengths is cross platform. Although I don't think it has Linux support it works with iOS, Android and Windows as well.

  11. Nope. Don't trust nobody. Dropbox, Apple, Google. Anything remotely interesting is encrypted before it hits Dropbox.

    If Condoleezza really wants my scheduling matrices, draft reports and the other impedimenta of my life, they're welcome to it.

    I just want the same files on all my machines. Without hassles.

  12. I do use 1Password and I'm not terribly happy with this. 1P integrates well with OS X (and iOS and Windows). Agile bits is small, so far reasonably well behaved firm (not terribly happy with the attempt at subscription pricing but I think that ship sailed a while back).

    I don't use iCloud. I use Dropbox.

    I don't use Pages. I use Word.

    I don't want Apple to swallow up everything, thankyouverymuch.

  13. No he didn't, you dipshit.

  14. Re:Owning a luxury car (or jet/yatch) is even bett on Owning an iPhone is the Number-One Way To Guess if You're Rich or Not, Research Finds (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    With that UID I'm surprised that you're even allowed outside.

  15. Re:good luck on Apple is Rebuilding Maps From the Ground Up (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    You forgot the 'blockchain' bit.

  16. Re:Maybe one day. on Google Is Planning a Game Platform That Could Take On Xbox and PlayStation (kotaku.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Burma Shave

  17. I wonder what the FAA thinks about this. They're the ones who control the airspace. Not the State of Colorado.

    About the only thing they could do is make it a felony to *take off* (e.g. use space that the state has jurisdiction over) somewhere near a fire.

    And really, all fires of any import get a TFR (Temporary Flight Restriction) within hours. Certainly as soon as it escalates out of local control. If you fly a drone (technically a small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in the parlance) you are supposed to understand and follow TFRs and other flight restrictions and rules.

    You fly in a TFR, you get in trouble. From the feds.

  18. Re:Let's set aside our political differences on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    He said 'cue' not 'cook'.

  19. Or they just send a stern letter.

    Calm down.

  20. There are ways to solve the problem but the best ones involve Congress not being a bunch of asshats only concerned with political infighting.

    Whahahahaha. Gasp. SNORT. Cough. Wheeze.

    You must be new here.

  21. Yeah, sometimes it seems like you're on the Titanic....

    Rooting for the iceberg.

  22. Pretty much everyone else would. Complex eukaryotic organisms spend enormous amounts of time and energy controlling cell replication and forcing cells to die off. An full grown organism is mostly in cellular stasis. A growing organism has cell growth tightly controlled.

    When you mess with that, you are very likely to end up with uncontrolled cell growth, i.e., cancer.

  23. Re:No surprise on It's 2018 and USB Type-C Is Still a Mess (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    USB-C is a god send.

    Well, there is the problem.

    We're all athiests.

  24. Uh oh. on Google's Free Wifi is Becoming a Way of Life in India (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey guys, this IS Google. Don't get too attached to this service.

    And, for all that is holy, don't let it come out of beta.

  25. Re:I'm interested to see how this technology devel on How E-commerce With Drone Delivery is Taking Flight in China (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Even in 'developed' (or perhaps, 'formerly first world') countries like the US, bulk delivery is the norm - because it makes economic sense.

    The area in a Venn Diagram which corresponds to 'small but relatively light' and 'expensive enough to warrant special treatment and 'needs to get there real soon now' is pretty small.

    I can make a nice tech demonstration but as a business plan it seems rather lacking.