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  1. Re:Global economy on Tesla's New Factory Project Imported Foreign Laborers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    You clearly don't know what ether fascism or corporatism mean.

  2. Re:wireless power- scamming rich guys since 1891 on Former Employee Accuses Wireless Charging Startup uBeam of Being a Sham (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    They fit into the cradle backwards (and have glass fronts and backs). If you do that (or put the cable on upside down), they overcurrent your USB and shut the phone down hard.

    Knowing what I know about charging a modern battery, that doesn't make a lot of sense. They might have fixed it with newer models, rectifiers being inexpensive and LiPos needing charge controllers anyhow.

    Also the cases for them are all brain dead. They mostly cover the magnetic terminals and leave access for the memory card/usb ports, which have water proof covers. The only open ports are the audio jack and the magnetic charge connectors.

  3. Re:Idiots... on Jail Sentence For Popular YouTube Pranksters (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I've run my radio controlled gator up besides the rangers boat.

    He would have been embarrassed as hell if he had fallen for it. Especially if he had shot it. Imagine the paperwork.

    Of course it's in a snow melt fed lake with clear water, so if you look once you see 90% of the gator is missing and the water is 30 degrees F too cold. Only a true moron would fall for it.

    I should take it to 'clearlake'. That's so murky and warm and the people are so blazed, they will run for sure. If I knew where a lot of black folks went swimming that would be likely be good too.

  4. Re:At least the got a trial... on Jail Sentence For Popular YouTube Pranksters (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You don't prank do you?

    What you want is something that will only fool 1 in 100, who will see him/her self as a dummy when they finish panicking.

    When 99 people are laughing, or at least smiling, and the 'victim' is just mildly embarrassed for having pissed herself, you have a good prank.

    Good pranks: Radio controlled alligator head at snow melt fed lake (mine). Running out the door of a museum with a replica masterpiece.

    Not good prank: Fake kidnapping.

  5. Re:Same could be said for lots of ambitious produc on Former Employee Accuses Wireless Charging Startup uBeam of Being a Sham (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    He's a somewhat skilled propagandist.

    But only true believers pay him any attention. Being a holocaust (Cambodian) denier does that to a person's reputation. It's kind of hard to recover from saying things that stupid.

  6. Re:I want as person there on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    Taco bell 'beef' is the same as 'beef' dog food. Very little actual beef in there.

  7. Re: False on Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? (go.com) · · Score: 1

    You shouldn't base your worldview on fairy tales.

  8. Re:No downside on Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? (go.com) · · Score: 1

    The physics of trains isn't obvious.

    Train cars need to be _heavy_, even when empty. Or they pull off the tracks accelerating/climbing around corners while moving slowly. Less of an issue with a shorter train or with drive motors in every car.

  9. Re:may might predicts on Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? (go.com) · · Score: 1

    An algorithm to predict demand?

    You realize that shoppers moving through a mall is a chaotic system? Sit by a mall entrance and watch the traffic. It's more like weather than a steady flow. Single stores are less chaotic.

    You need a 'taxi line' for that situation. Even then, it will occasionally get depleted. It's an easy problem to solve, so long as you don't expect to get 100% car utilization.

  10. Re:may might predicts on Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Some hick town not having an airport != You had no access to air travel.

    Most people get to the airport by some other mode of transport. You could have gotten on the donkey, rode to the nearest train station then took the train the the big city.

  11. Re: How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    You think adding government power is a good thing.

  12. Re:I want as person there on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    I used to eat at TB.

    One day I fed my dogs a can of Ol Roy brand beef dog food, got the smell in my nose, good and strong, then went to TB. As I walked in the door I got hit in the face by the smell of Ol Roy brand beef dog food. Haven't been able to eat there sense.

  13. Re:Just another CEO mouthing off... on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    What you miss it he didn't just raise his employees pay.

    He raised the pay and became very selective about who he hired while continuing to cycle the losers out.

    I'm sure it wasn't different than today, half the 'workers', aren't.

  14. Re: How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    In America the average recipient of SS (social security) is richer than the average person paying in (who will not see a penny back). It's a transfer payment from the relatively poor working people to the relatively rich retired people.

    Wouldn't it be better to let the young invest their money so they don't need handouts when they get old? The answer to that depends on if you think adding government power is a good thing.

  15. Re: How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    You are agreeing with him. You don't think you are because you bought the post WWII propaganda about the Nazis being of the right.

  16. Re:Degree inflation in action on Google Paying Arizona Residents $20/Hr To Test Self-Driving Cars (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Communications degree != all degrees.

  17. Re:Same could be said for lots of ambitious produc on Former Employee Accuses Wireless Charging Startup uBeam of Being a Sham (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    180dB speakers would have to be water cooled, perhaps something with a higher heat capacity (melted metal or salt?) or a boiling water cooling system.

  18. CD audio sampling rate is exactly the same as vinyl quadraphonic encoding rate. They selected it in an attempt to make it possible to put an old school analog quad signal on the CD. They never did though, good choice, just use 4 digital tracks.

    Must have seemed like a good idea at the time.

  19. Maybe she recognized that it would never be economical and went full scam? You don't need competent engineers to run a scam, they only get in the way and are expensive.

  20. Re:Same could be said for lots of ambitious produc on Former Employee Accuses Wireless Charging Startup uBeam of Being a Sham (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Pulling a Shockley/Chomsky: Being good at one thing, then talking out your ass about unrelated things you know nothing about.

  21. Re:122GB music collection? on Apple Says It Doesn't Know Why iTunes Users Are Losing Their Music Files (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Offtopic?

    Perhaps.

    Finding a good music player is exactly 'On topic' when discussing iTunes IMHO.

  22. No. 'Library of Congress' remains the standard unit for book collections.

  23. Re:wireless power- scamming rich guys since 1891 on Former Employee Accuses Wireless Charging Startup uBeam of Being a Sham (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Semantics, solar is practical AND economic in a number of situations. Another big old set of situations where it already saves money is where you can skip the wire for small loads (highway side emergency phones, for example).

  24. Re:wireless power- scamming rich guys since 1891 on Former Employee Accuses Wireless Charging Startup uBeam of Being a Sham (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    No charge port is a big advantage for water resistant phones.

    The current solution, contacts and magnets isn't great, but better than USB.

  25. Re:Same could be said for lots of ambitious produc on Former Employee Accuses Wireless Charging Startup uBeam of Being a Sham (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Don't you know the truism? If they laugh at you, you will inevitably win.