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  1. Similar but not exactly.

    This guy was a cop, not a football player. Funny how they don't mention his status as an oinker.

  2. Anibody who ownly nos won wey two spel a word hase know emagenation.

  3. How many beams? Most cheap LIDAR, is cheap because it's _much_ less capable.

  4. Re:Rats fleeing a sinking ship on Tesla Autopilot Crisis Deepens With Loss of Third Autopilot Boss In 18 Months (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The maintenance costs of Tesla model S/Xs that are being tracked are completely out of line. Unless the ones tracked are atypical, Teslas will be put in museums or junked shortly after going out of warranty.

    If the ones being tracked were atypical, Tesla would likely release fleet wide data. They don't.

  5. Sure they have. Chinese Rolexes have never been cheaper.

  6. Until it finds a collapsed crash barrier to 'follow'.

  7. Re:Can you say monopoly? on NASA To Pay More For Less Cargo Delivery To the Space Station (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That puts them one up on you!

  8. Re:Unexpected Costs on NASA To Pay More For Less Cargo Delivery To the Space Station (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Two orders of magnitude? 1/100th the cost? Citation needed?

  9. IIRC Old musky's degree is Aerospace engineering.

    He was working outside his field when he did the payment processing thing.

  10. Re:Opposite argument on NASA To Pay More For Less Cargo Delivery To the Space Station (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    You should work for the idealized ones that exist only in Opportunists head!

  11. America. The rural electrification program still exists. It sucks almost a billion/year to do nothing but funnel money to rent seekers and pay non-working staff.

    That's just the tip of the iceberg.

  12. Re:Higher height is just terrible on Ford To Stop Selling Every Car In North America But the Mustang, Focus Active (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry about your neighborhood/roads.

  13. Re:Meh. on 8K TVs Are Coming, But Don't Buy the Hype (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    When I looked, the remaining 1080s were refurbs and cost as much at the same size. But I didn't look at everything, I filtered out all smart sets. YMMV

  14. Re:Higher height is just terrible on Ford To Stop Selling Every Car In North America But the Mustang, Focus Active (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't get a new one. You've got some of the last good Hondas.

  15. Re:Some modest proposals on Genealogy Websites Were Key To Big Break In Golden State Killer Case (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Better question: Who is Chelsea's dad? My money is on Web.

  16. I confess, I read (part of) the fucking article. They really should ban me for that.

    They are burying the lead, deep. This scumbag was a COP.

  17. 'The FISA courts issued a warrant for a Trump associate during the election, based largely on an unconfirmed report paid for by the Clinton campaign.'

    That's just a fact on the record. The only thing they can claim is 'they had other allegations' on the record. Duh, everybody commits 3 felonies per day, that's old news.

    We also have incomplete chat logs between corrupt feds conspiring on a setup, obviously angling for Justice Department Appointments in the inevitable Clinton admin.

    Take off you partisan hat and consider how you would react if the roles were reversed. Because expect it, next presidential election cycle. D candidate better invest in real crypto, hire ex NSA and Mossad to run IT and campaign comms. Constantly 'test fish' the necessary idiots, have real consequences. Reimage devices 4 times daily.

  18. And if N Korea is finally coming around, it's because Beijing is pulling him around. They're the only ones that can. If Trump did anything, it was when he was in China.

  19. Which is an obvious improvement, much as you don't want to admit it.

    You should worry about what happens after Trump's staff has had time to get their ducks in a row. It took the Clintons time, expect the quality of Trump's team's warrant apps to improve with time.

    Also recognize the FISA judges themselves will have skeletons in their closets. With time they will be compromised. Some are no doubt currently compromised by each side, some by both, and maybe a few 'not yet'.

    The whole thing was a bad idea.

  20. I can, it's an energy thing. I can spot 6 inches of a cop car sticking past the end of a cinder block wall.

    Perhaps you should drive faster?

  21. Re:A high ride is a good thing? on Ford To Stop Selling Every Car In North America But the Mustang, Focus Active (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Your on crack now. An inch or two or three adds up fast. Also 'cars they're based on'? You mean the tall slow cars they're based on, in the few cases that's true. Most are based on light truck chassis.

    Do you realize the work that's done to get a chassis down 1 inch on a fast car?

    The modern car will not only have a higher CG, it will weigh much more. Congress passed rollover protection, perhaps they had never met the car industry and expected them to use better material, in any case modern cars are heavy pigs by 90s standards.

    The tires are better, but the old car will have modern tires.

    Suspension is dramatically more advanced? The only breakthrough in suspension to hit the roads since 94 is electronically adjustable damping (that works), which you will only find on high end sports/GT cars, not your average mall utility vehicle. Don't buy the bullshit. Macpherson struts are _not_ new. Even with the adjustable shocks, you don't go faster, you can just dial in a little comfort. Suck it up, you should be able to drive over a coin and call heads or tails, just by feel.

  22. Re:Higher height is just terrible on Ford To Stop Selling Every Car In North America But the Mustang, Focus Active (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    Raises hand: I don't care about safety, not if it means I have to drive some econobox.

    Do you mean the new F-type? The new Vettes? Just don't walk in front of them. Of course the hoods shouldn't be stupidly extended, like some 70s mustang. But you have to have room for a V8. Should anyhow...English sewing machine motors.

  23. Re: Crimes against humanity on Doctors Tried To Lower $148K Cancer Drug Cost; Makers Tripled Its Price (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The Germans would have faced an entirely different calculus if the Russians weren't marshalling to invade _with_them_. They would have eventually attacked, but it would have been more directly at the Soviets. Russian land gains weren't much good to them. Just made the people there hate the Ruskys. Remember the Germans were greeted as liberators in the Ukraine.

    The Brits and Frogs declared 'phony war', then sat on their asses in their incomplete defensive lines. Lots of good that did the poles.

    'Joined the invasion later'...I call bullshit. Just because they had to drive over Latvia to get to Poland does not qualify as 'joining later'.

  24. Re:Meh. on 8K TVs Are Coming, But Don't Buy the Hype (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Meh, it's pretty basic. Has one little cluster of bad pixels, but I can't see them at couch distance. At a month, it's past infant mortality, but I'm not really expecting durability. Not like I got much durability from the previous LG. They wire the backlight LEDs in series, like cheap christmas tree lights, first one that blows to open and the TV is 'uneconomical to fix'. I will say on that point, the Sceptre remembers your settings and defaults to brightness 50. The LG constantly reset itself to brightness 100, like someone was trying to make it die ASAP.

    The remote and menus are more or less equivalent to the previous LG dumb TV. I did need to find the remote trick to enable the tech menu to tune the picture position when displaying off the PC.

    Haven't messed with the bios update. It's apparently USB thumbdrive based.

    I was a little concerned because my amp doesn't do HDMI 2, but it supports audio return, as does the TV, so everything works together well.

    The online reviews concerned me, but I figured worst comes to worst, I take it up the road to WalMart and have them ship another. The first was 'good enough', I let the bad pixels pass.

    The one bitch: It's display is apparently slightly more than 4k. When upscaling 1080p, the picture is right to the edges (tuneable from above mentioned hidden menu), in 4k, there is a black border around the edge, maybe 2-3% of the screen.

    $300 was a special, but the same TV was $200 last black friday. You can't find a cheap 1080 anymore.

    All the specials are 4k, the only dumb 4ks are basically this same set, with different badging. So I said: 'fuck it, it's loose change.'

  25. Re:Don't Get Played on EPA Proposes Limits To Science Used In Rulemaking (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't need to validate your cite. 1000 scientists is a tiny %, even if they were all capable and practicing rigorous sciences

    Anybody who says closed datasets are OK, is shit for a scientist. Look into it, start your search with 'scientific method', pay particular attention to 'reproducing experimental results'.

    The correct procedure is 'publish with complete raw, intermediate and final data on a supplied link'. If they're not doing that in the first place, they are not doing science. I can accept that they will hold the raw data back until they have published all their papers on it, but after that, no excuses.