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  1. Re:This guy over here.... on FBI Should Try To Unlock iPhone Without Apple's Help, Lawmaker Says (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Now the feds have a signed image they can load onto any iPhone and crack it without even talking to a judge.

  2. Re:There is always a single point of failure on New P2P Torrent Site 'Play' Has No Single Point of Failure (thestack.com) · · Score: 0

    Unregulated market economies will always converge to monopolies.

    Getting you economics from Marx?

    Nobody else believes that.

  3. Re:If your product has adverts... on UK Gov't Launches Anti-Adblocking Initiative, Compares It To Piracy (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yep, dirtbag marketers want my bandwidth for free. Fuck them right in the ear with an elephant dick.

  4. Re:Such a big site on Researchers Discover Major Jurassic Fossil Site In Argentina (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    60,000 square kilometers divided by how many 'qualified' researchers?

    At _any_ erosion rate the % of surface that can be examined by the qualified will by tiny.

  5. Re:and they will lockout steam / uplay and others on Microsoft To Unify PC and Xbox One Platforms (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They will get zero traction with XBOX live in the PC world. DOA.

    Console people are trained to pay for the privilege of on line gaming, PC people just laugh and run their own servers (excepting the WOW people, which is at least a little different).

  6. Re:Then why get a console? on Microsoft To Unify PC and Xbox One Platforms (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If they did that every single console on-line game (especially professional games) would be owned by keyboard and mouse people.

    The butthurt from the console people would be epic.

    There are already places where game controller gamers can compete with keyboard and mouse, the PC gaming world. Show up with a game controller and you will get your ass handed to you. Nobody does.

  7. Re:Then why get a console? on Microsoft To Unify PC and Xbox One Platforms (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You never have a remotely current machine. Your console is an obsolete snail when you buy it.

  8. Re:Such a big site on Researchers Discover Major Jurassic Fossil Site In Argentina (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    What? The rocks they are in are certainly eroding, same as all rocks.

    The choice remains: fossils of dust.

  9. Re:thought the bus would yield on Google Self-Driving Car Might Have Caused First Crash In Autonomous Mode (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    For front drive: You'll never get you inside rear wheel off the ground driving like that.

    For rear drive: No mention of opposite lock or throttle steer?

    Weight transfer. Look it up. It's not so simple as you say.

  10. Re:Such a big site on Researchers Discover Major Jurassic Fossil Site In Argentina (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    The choices aren't: 'leave it alone' or 'real scientists can find it'.

    The choices are 'find it' or 'let it erode away'. Keeping amateurs out is senseless. Even if 99% are just taking home, the 1% are finds that would have been wasted otherwise.

  11. An unsafe lane change would make it the Google cars fault.

    The fault is on the vehicle that was changing lanes. Unless they were both changing lanes, it's not a shared fault.

  12. Funny because it's true!

  13. Re:Slippery Slope on Mark Zuckerberg Confronts 'Hate Speech' In Germany And At Facebook (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    Just remember, Fort Hood was workplace violence and any non white male _minority_ getting jumped is terrorism.

  14. Socialists are reactionaries wanting to return to the politics of the 1930s.

  15. Re:Economics is more complicated than you believe on Mercedes-Benz Swaps Robots For People On Assembly Lines (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Live in any conceptual fantasy world you choose.

    Just don't expect to make social policy from there.

  16. Re:Why does that bother you? on Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Not a division 1 team. Also Boulder, so no telling what kind of insanity went along for the ride.

  17. Re:Why does that bother you? on Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Football showed a profit before title 9 forced all the major universities to create all the minor sports programs you mention.

    It's going to be real hard to convince me that football doesn't turn a profit at any school with more than a 10,000 seat stadium. Which is all the Division 1 schools.

  18. Re:Do they work with the curtains shut on 'Moth Eye' Graphene Breakthrough Could Create Indoor Solar Cells (newsweek.com) · · Score: 2

    Simple solution, just put in some lights.

  19. Re:Will EVs be popular in 10 years? on Bloomberg Predicts EVs Cheaper than IC Engine Cars Within 10 Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Brushless motors have little in common with AC or DC motors.

    They both use electromagnetic fields and windings. That's about as far as the similarities go.

    No (very little anyhow) modern industrial equipment uses old school motors. They are pretty much all variable speed multi-pole brushless motors and controllers.

    The day of just generating tons of hydraulic flow and pressure and wasting the part you don't need is over. There days many machines use brushless motors directly, where 20 years ago it would have been hydraulic.

    In Industry motors and controllers are both maintenance items. But not all that frequent. You can get an idea of how many are sold by searching ebay for 'frequency drives' 'spindle controller' or any of a dozen other jargon terms for the motor controller.

  20. Re:Low-end MIPS processor on Released: First PC Based On Russia's Homegrown "Baikal" Processor (t-platforms.ru) · · Score: 1

    Peking duck?

  21. If your ICE isn't twitching to run, you've tuned it wrong. No strain, just roaring joy.

    Look at the numbers, any decent ICE blows you away while short shifting. You can't make 'half as fast' into anything else. You run with minivans.

  22. Re:They already are. In Norway. on Bloomberg Predicts EVs Cheaper than IC Engine Cars Within 10 Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    So you'll lose $20k the first year?

    I'm from a part of the states where cars go to rust. I now live in CA where cars don't rust. The old cars here are great. $3k on the car, another $3k on race parts (maybe a little more, but not much more for a street driver) and you're golden. Much better than new. Better suspension, brakes and engine.

    The ugly pealing clear paint makes the new car drivers get out of your way even faster. Fixing that would be cheap, rent the paint booth, $150/day.

  23. Re:Will EVs be popular in 10 years? on Bloomberg Predicts EVs Cheaper than IC Engine Cars Within 10 Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You have not had modern electric motors or motor controllers for a century.

    The controllers and motors in industrial machines last a long time. Between 'a few' and 'many' thousand hours of operation, with the usual caveats. 10,000 hours is about 2 years continuous operation.

    The controllers run at fairly high internal voltages, caps are stressed in routine operation, cooling is critical.

  24. Re:Will EVs be popular in 10 years? on Bloomberg Predicts EVs Cheaper than IC Engine Cars Within 10 Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Above post is better if read out loud in the pregnant cop from the movie Fargo's voice.

    dontyouknow.

  25. Re:"Even if the price of oil goes back up"??? on Bloomberg Predicts EVs Cheaper than IC Engine Cars Within 10 Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Saudi government is oil funded. That government has sunk costs and commitments that it must keep. Neither blowjobs in DC or plastique in Gaza are cheap.

    Add that to the actual annual cost of oil production. Maintaining the Saudi state and royal family might as well be considered a 'fixed'* cost of the the Saudi national oil company.

    * not actually fixed as largely unaccounted. Take a WAG at the #