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  1. You must have never have had a colonoscopy. After the prep with a 15x dose of laxative is done, there's none left in there.

  2. Re:Good for "whom," exactly? on EFF: Accessing Publicly Available Information On the Internet Is Not a Crime (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Not my claim. OP's numbers. I did a duckduck search on "what portion of web traffic is search engine spiders" and the various articles were consistent with the OP's claim. "what portion of web traffic is robots" gives a WSJ article that says "over one third" in 2014, Another 2014 report ( https://www.incapsula.com/blog... ) claims over 60%, again in 2014. Who knows today?

  3. Re:Good for "whom," exactly? on EFF: Accessing Publicly Available Information On the Internet Is Not a Crime (eff.org) · · Score: 1, Informative

    How do you think search engines work? from: https://www.google.com/search/... "As we speak, Google is using web crawlers to organize information from webpages and other publicly available content in the Search index."

  4. I would like to see the life cycle calculations. on Adidas Creates Trainers Made From Plastic Ocean Debris in Bid To End Pollution (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    I wonder how much energy was consumed in each stage of the "environmentally friendly" production. Building the collectors, fuel to get them out to the plastic, collection energy, return energy, cleaning and recycling the plastic, etc. While getting the plastic out of the environment is a good thing, source reduction would be much more efficient.I always enjoyed the Fiji water example ( http://www.triplepundit.com/20... ).

  5. My G4 was repaired past the standard warranty on Class-Action Lawsuit Targets LG Over Legendary G4, V10 Bootloop Issues (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I had a G4 die from the bootloop problem. I went into the large red store for replacement, since there was an insurance plan on the 14 month old phone. They told me that the insurance did not cover manufacturer's defects. So I asked if I went outside and threw the phone against the wall and came back in, it would be covered by insurance? They replied it would cover the physical damage.

    My ethics would not let me do this, so I contacted LG. The first time, they said that there was nothing they would do. I tried again a day later, and they immediately sent me an email with a shipping label and offered a free repair. I sent the phone in and had it back in 2 weeks, repaired for free and free shipping both ways. I don't understand why the extended warranty isn't better publicized, or why the folks at the red store weren't aware of it..

    The interesting side effect of this is that I grabbed an ad-supported $99 Moto G4 Play phone from Amazon for coverage in the meantime, and have not gone back to the LG G4. While the specifications for the Moto are significantly lower, it runs a very vanilla android and the user experience is as good as the LG G4. It will run for two days under usage conditions that had the G4 going dark by the end of one day. The Amazon ads don't impact the use of the phone. And the FM radio works!! I will admit that the LG's camera is significantly better.

  6. For a Sad SAP Story, Check out Target Canada on SAP License Fees Also Due For Indirect Users, Court Rules (networkworld.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The company I worked at implemented SAP, and had an army of folks writing customizations to make it fit the business. I'm not sure what happened first, completion of the SAP implementation or bankruptcy. This link tells the story of Target Canada's experience: http://www.canadianbusiness.co...

  7. There are two design elements in the original Constitution that were included to support the concept of a federal representative republic, rather than a democracy. The will of the people was to be in the House of Representatives, and the will of the individual states was in the Senate, where the senators were appointed by the state legislatures. The electoral college put this same balance into the election of the president.

    The seventeenth amendment removed the direct state control of the senators. The electoral college still helps balance the needs of the states and the needs of the people while picking the President.

    Yes, I know there were other things going on with both these issues, but in terms of influence on current events, I believe these are the important concepts.

    Two quotes:

    “A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." Alexander Tytler 1787

    "The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do." - Joseph Stalin

  8. As Usual, GE screws the US on America's First Offshore Wind Farm In Pictures (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    From the linked article: [Turbine Nacelles- Factory in Spain], [Blades-Dennmark], [Nacelles- France], [Towers-Spain], [Shipping- I don't know, home port Willemstad], [Ratepayers-Ratepayers are expected to pay an above-market price of $440 million for the next 20 years],

  9. Frontier Doesn't Seem to Want to Be In The Busines on Cable Expands Broadband Domination as AT&T and Verizon Lose Customers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I had (past tense) Frontier DSL for over a decade. They did gradually increase speed from 2.1Mbps to 3.6Mbps, but this was still slow for video. The upload speed of 420K was also crippling with cloud backup and photo sharing(my first Backblaze backup took 6 weeks). I have two phone lines coming into my house, so I repeatedly asked them about bonded DSL to get a more usable speed. They were clueless. They'd said they'd provide me 2 un-bonded services at the price of 2 separate services, but had no plans whatsoever to improve their speeds. I switched to Time Warner, and generally have good service and speed, although in the early evening their Youtube connection saturates.

  10. Three times the efficiency?? Not likely on Gov't Researchers Develop Wireless Car Chargers That Are Faster Than Plug-ins (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    The actual quote from the article is " achieved 90 percent efficiency at three times the rate of the plug-in systems commonly used for electric vehicles today.", not three times the efficiency. They're comparing the charger to a typical home charger. Which is meaningless since the system isn't limited by the connection to the car. And think about it. 10% loss of charging energy so you don't have to go to all the trouble of plugging it in? What a waste of our tax dollars.

  11. Re:Make a law saying that independent repair shops on Before I Can Fix This Tractor, We Have To Fix Copyright Law (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, like Volkswagen...

  12. Re:We did this in 1975 on a Burroughs B5500 Timesh on LastPass Vulnerable To Extremely Simple Phishing Attack (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    This was entirely software-based. We didn't need physical access to the terminals. There was a pre-processor unit that multiplexed the terminals to a machine that was basically designed to be a batch-processing machine. This is where we were able to intercept the session.

  13. We did this in 1975 on a Burroughs B5500 Timeshare on LastPass Vulnerable To Extremely Simple Phishing Attack (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    I laughed when I went to his page and saw the description of the attack. We were timesharing on a B5500 at a major university and found the way to find active but un-logged in terminals and take control. When the login sequence was keyed in, we'd pop up a page identical to the proper login screen and ask for credentials. We'd write to a file, post the proper user ID but a wrong password to the system, and disconnect. The system would reply with the standard wrong password prompt, and the user would figure they just fat fingered the password and was none the wiser. We collected user IDs and passwords of nearly 90% of the people on the system, before we chickened out and deleted the application and the database. I don't think the system folks ever knew it happened.

  14. Re:Ten seconds? on Oklahoma Says It Will Now Use Nitrogen Gas As Its Backup Method of Execution · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have had two friends overcome by nitrogen on two different occasions in industrial situations. Fortunately there were people to pull them out of the atmosphere and get them breathing again. In both cases there first words were along the lines of "What am I doing on the floor?"

  15. Sounds like Tron Lightcycles to me on Audi Gives Silent Electric Car Synthetic Sound · · Score: 2

    All I could think of when I heard it is the Tron Lightcycle sound. A little high frequency filter and it's the same thing.