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  1. Re: Verified boot by who? on Google Makes Full-Disk Encryption Mandatory For Some Android 6.0 Devices (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You clearly should not use a cell phone. Your plans to ... well, whatever ... are clearly too sensitive to risk it.

    Call the Mossad.

  2. Re:Remove casing from a Wallmart clock - get invit on 'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar · · Score: 1

    There were a few really, small parts left over after putting it back together, but that was also a great lesson to pay attention when taking something apart and be organized when laying things out.

    In motorcycle racing, this is called 'adding lightness'.

  3. Re:Remove casing from a Wallmart clock - get invit on 'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar · · Score: 1

    Didn't Tesla say that? Or am I getting it confused with someone else?

  4. Re:That, Detective, is not the right question on Apple Tells US Judge It's 'Impossible' To Break Through Locks On New iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    you sucker. Do you have any evidence to support your position? Apple moves only to make money. The "apple ecosystem" and the efforts they make to prevent jailbreaking are proof positive that their only ethic is more profit. You've been trolled by dirty capitalists.

    you idiot. Do you have any evidence to support your position? Apple likes to make money. One way of doing that is to give it's customers things they want.

  5. Re:That, Detective, is not the right question on Apple Tells US Judge It's 'Impossible' To Break Through Locks On New iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You act like this is new - it's not. Law enforcement has always worked like this.

    We have checks and balances (Police balanced by courts balanced by legislatures) for this problem.

  6. Re:Awesome! on How Scientists Are Circumventing Journal Paywalls (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "Seeding". Sounds ultimately sexual in nature. Sounds rather morally repugnant. I think you're going to go blind.

  7. Re:Better, legal way on How Scientists Are Circumventing Journal Paywalls (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "High value" journals in biology aren't all that common. So the actual situation is likely to be different depending on the field. Some more obscure corners of the science room are entirely covered by for-profit journals.

    And then there is the Nature / Science / Cell issue. If you want to be famous....

    But this all sounds very retro. In the Days Before Computers, you called (or wrote or faxed) a quick note to the lead author. They would mail out a re-print and you would shortly receive a shiny copy of the paper, neatly bound. If you were close to the author, you might even get a series of pre prints. This really sounds like the 21st Century version of the same concept.

  8. Re:alternately: on The Google Employee Who Opted For a Truck Over Bay Area Rents (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    You're insane. I worked in a ?12 - 15 story building in SF (UCSF) and looked out on dozens of other airy structures (like the BankAmerica building). Yes, it has to be engineered correctly but that's been done for decades now.

    This is established tech and has been so for a long time. Too lazy to look it up but according the engineering calcs only 10% of the appropriately constructed buildings would have significant damage in a magnitude 8 quake and there would be few to no casualties. The freeways will be more dangerous. Like always.

  9. Re: 'Wireless charging' is for fools on Ultrasonic Power Transfer Investigated Using Data From uBeam Patent Filings (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    You can use beam forming to change the virtual distance used for the calculation of the power transmission efficiency. Examples if you use an ideal parabolic reflector behind a point source the distance used for that computation should be measured from the focal point

    This. At Starbucks (who apparently is investing in this thing), you can do two things at once - keep your coffee hot and charge your laptop. Three things - keep your coffee hot, charge laptops and fry the brain of everyone in the establishment.

    Sounds like a winner to me.

  10. Because of Daylight Savings Time. Twice a year you manually have to correct the clock.

    Life is hard.

  11. Oh great. I get up in the middle of the night to pee and then the stupid thing wanders off and makes tea.

    Meanwhile, six hours later.....

  12. News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters.

    I wonder when Taco started this site if he ever envisioned discussing such seriously domestic endeavors as the instructions for proper tea production.

  13. Re:Easy, make them less rich on Wealth Therapy Tackles Woes of the Rich · · Score: 1

    Earning more than 200k a year puts you in the 90th percentile. More then 400k is the top 1%.

    The problem is the people who earn more than a million a year pay less in total tax dollars than someone earning 400k a year.

    People who earn more than a million a year do not pay less in total tax dollars than someone earning 400K per year. It seems you have an agenda to push...

    They very well might. If you are getting your money from investments, they are taxed very differently than income. Only rich people tend to get a lot of money from investments.

  14. Re:This is all about the crazy USA health system on Disruptive Bloodwork Startup May Offer Mostly Vaporware · · Score: 1

    American exceptionalism. Exceptionally expensive.

  15. Re:Argle Bargle Morble Whoosh? on Disruptive Bloodwork Startup May Offer Mostly Vaporware · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ten billion dollars based on a system that has been purposely obfuscated?
    I am definitely in the wrong business.

    Most of the commercial analyzers only need a couple of hundred microliters. They get 5 cc or so out of the patient because it's easy, rarely is problematic (except in tiny infants when the only draw a cc or so) and allows for repeats and storage (the Illuminati needs to get its samples from somewhere. And they really only take a few minutes to run. The big time waster is paperwork, spinning the sample to get rid of red and white blood cells and batching the samples to lower cost.

    Fingerstick samples (Capillary blood) are somewhat problematic in that the normal values aren't necessarily the same as in serum samples. But that can be controlled for.

    Ten billion dollars?

    I quit....

  16. Argle Bargle Morble Whoosh? on Disruptive Bloodwork Startup May Offer Mostly Vaporware · · Score: 4, Insightful

    that all but one of Theranos' analyzers currently in use is off the shelf,

    What. Wait.... Is it supposed to be on the shelf? Is there something missing?

    TFA in Business Insider just complained about the membership of the Board of Directors (which is weird).

    And finally, ** 10 billion dollars ** for a startup that does essentially the same thing as everybody else but maybe undercuts price and probably violates the law in 45 states?

    I'm in the wrong business.

  17. Re:get a load of that profile? on Amazon Lawsuit Aims To Kill Fake Reviews (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Based in: United States
    Speaks: English

    profile picture: blonde haired blue eyed white girl

    Profile text:

    "Hi
    This is Abigail tess. I am very much kin to work with you about and related with any amazon work. I'm very professional and permanent worker.I can do amazon product ranking anywhere you want, I can give you 50+ reviews on a same product.

    I am waiting for serving best service."

    Fiverr is a cesspool of corrupt third world trash.

    Not sure what your beef is. Sounds like a typical American high school graduate.

  18. Re:Parallet to hiking w/ map and compass on Naval Academy Reinstates Teaching of Celestial Navigation · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sure, your GPS on your iPhone and hiking app are great, IF you have power, and if it's accurate. But if you lose it, break it, battery dies, then what?

    You keep walking along the trail until you hit the next Starbucks.

  19. Re:Selling Cell Numbers to Advertisers? on Yahoo Mail Moves From Passwords To Push Notification Sign-Ins (tumblr.com) · · Score: 1

    And although Japanese isn't my strong suit - I think you mean seppuku rather than soduki (the puzzle game).

  20. Re:Selling Cell Numbers to Advertisers? on Yahoo Mail Moves From Passwords To Push Notification Sign-Ins (tumblr.com) · · Score: 0

    Well you need a computer more modern than a PDP-11, so it's going to limit the number of potential users.

    Seriously, you pay for texting by the message? Is that even legal these days?

  21. Re:Cut to the chase on An Experiment Could Determine Whether Gravity Is Quantized (forbes.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does Time come in quanta?

    Nope. Cubes.

  22. Re:FUD on Point-And-Shoot Weapon Stops Drones Without Destroying Them · · Score: 1

    So you get 90% of the drones out there. Not a bad first pass,

    I'd like to see it's FCC approval certificate. Even police cannot just jam radio waves. You have to be more important than that.

  23. Re:Lawsuits? on Windows 10 Upgrades Are Being Forced On Some Users (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Many employers require staff to run earlier versions of Windows to maintain compatibility with certain software. I could see how this could severely interrupt workflow if pushed too aggressively.

    I don't think this happens on corporate networks that use WSUS. Doesn't happen on ours, we don't even get a chance to upgrade to 10. Which is decidedly a good thing. Microsoft may be crazy, but they're not stupid.

  24. Re:Not quite the same. on How Is the NSA Breaking So Much Crypto? (freedom-to-tinker.com) · · Score: 2

    What they are really saying is that rubber-on-the-road crypto (see, a car analogy) is very hard. So you're likely to be doing it wrong, whatever it is that you're doing.

  25. Re:The real reason people block ads on Why Paywalls Need To Be So Fragile (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Here is your perfect website.

    Sometimes you get what you pay for.