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  1. investment out of window on Aston Martin Will Make Old Cars Electric So They Don't Get Banned From Cities (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    great way to ruin your investment by making the car near worthless.
    it will only be worth its money if it is in its original state.

    nobody is driving these classic cars anyway, except maybe once or twice a year to go to a meeting or somesuch. even then, it might be they're just transported with a trailer. and these meetings typically don't take place in a city (not enough space to display so many cars anyway). so no cause for banning-fear.

  2. I've NOT accepted it, and i will resist, but i also think it will be a fight that will not be won.

  3. their gasoline engines have been complete rubbish lately, with massive oil consumption problems and other issues. so much so, that i don't want to deal with any VAG brand ever again (enough is enough).
    let's hope their electrical drive trains will be much mor reliable.

  4. who cares, encryption will be broken by the time viable quantum computers are a reality anyway.
    australia is just the first domino to fall, soon other nations will follow and all encryption must be breakable by law.

  5. was i the only one who misread?

  6. Re:THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT on Sci-Hub 'Pirate Bay of Science' Blocked In Russia Over Medical Studies · · Score: 1

    can't comment on how the publications are controlled, it might well be there is a clause that prevents you from submitting to an open access service.

  7. i'm sure we'll see an episode about this topic in SE5 of Dark Mirror.

  8. Re:Talk about opportunity! on Tumblr Will Ban All Adult Content On December 17th (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    can't find it, but Mewe invited all tumblr users to go to their social network, explicitly mentioning nudity and being your sexual self.

  9. Re:Of all the times on Sci-Hub 'Pirate Bay of Science' Blocked In Russia Over Medical Studies · · Score: 2

    it might not be the authors choice, my wife also does medical studies/trials, sometimes she needs access to research papers that are not available to her (even though the university has several subscriptions, you still miss out). what she does and what works most of the time is contact the authors directly, they will almost always send the research papers for free.

  10. mission accomplished on Marriott's Breach Response Is So Bad, Security Experts Are Filling In the Gaps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    everybody is talking about how bad the email was instead of the breach itself.

  11. don't know much about the risc-v ecosystem, but lets hope it doesn't turn into the same clusterfuck as ARM.

  12. wow on Is Linux Taking Over The World? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    such insight! i'd say linux world domination moment was years ago.

  13. Re:Also a problem for closed source software on Node.js Event-Stream Hack Reveals Open Source 'Developer Infrastructure' Exploit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    indeed, in every argument against open source software, the same argument can always be used against proprietary software too.

  14. and how much of that massive amount of data is actually useful for the user?
    i imagine most of this data will be spy/trackware.

  15. it's for people who don't like the idea of not having meat on their plate every day. now they can still eat 'meat', and hope they will open up to the idea since the vega-meat isn't that bad at all.

  16. obvious on Why It's Easier To Make Decisions For Someone Else (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    it's easy to say to others what to do it there is no personal risk involved.

  17. sure on China Halts Work by Team on Gene-Edited Babies (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    they may say one thing, and do another.
    as if china isn't massivly interested in developing this (well, probably not only china).

  18. Re:It would not be hard on Mass Router Hack Exposes Millions of Devices To Potent NSA Exploit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    i doubt it would be the norm.
    it's still cheaper to ignore security, and in the end money wins.

  19. that is why i download all my pron first before going to starbucks!

  20. is this a spin-off for person of interest UK?

  21. your mission on China Expands Research Funding, Luring US Scientists and Students (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    your mission if you decide to accept it is to
    if you, or any of your team, is caught we will deny any acknowledgement.

    say you want to gene-doctor babies before they are born, go for it, but remember that we will not support you (publicly).

  22. we need to put a stop to all those sci-fi writers, clearly they have good intentions, but people reading the stuff all think those are great ideas we need to have in our lives and go out and invent a working model of it.

  23. 2019 will be the year of the linux desktop!

  24. turning the tide on Amazon Will Be Off All Oracle Databases By End of 2019, Says AWS Chief · · Score: 1

    Ofcourse a lot of companies are not on oracle, or have migrated away, however none of them are as big as Amazon.
    And that is important, because if they can move away from Oracle so can anybody.
    This might be the start of a real exodus towards other db's in many big enterprises.

  25. cloud computing is so last year, space computing man, that's where it's at!