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  1. Re:Shame on LG Continues To Bleed Money, Thanks To Smartphones (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think thats strange at all. For me, if a lithium battery is showing less than 50% its gone and needs to be charged.

  2. Re:But does X now work with it? on Wine 2.0 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    But can Cygwin run wine?

  3. Re: I will vacation elsewhere. on Australia Plans Biometric Border Control (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    We have passports with chips and automated gates at airports but the change being proposed now it to not require the passport. The gates would work entirely off biometric data.

  4. Maybe it should be limited to Computer! shouted in a Scottish accent.

  5. This bug on The 32-Bit Dog Ate 16 Million Kids' CS Homework (code.org) · · Score: 1

    Glad to see it would never happen to slashdot.

  6. Re:Electrons on New Wyoming Bill Penalizes Utilities Using Renewable Energy (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah in fact the electrons in the low voltage AC circuit can't have passed through a generator, so breaking the law seems impossible.

  7. So how does this work? Is a domestic consumer is given an electron which has passed through a wind generator, there is going to be hell to pay, but a different pool of electrons must be used to export power from the state.

    And sure, with a mix of energy sources, local consumption can be less than generation from coal.

  8. Re:They took the worst part of Python on New Release Of Nim Borrows From Python, Rust, Go, and Lisp (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 1

    Having tried to code in coffeescript, which has indentation without the colon, I much prefer python.

  9. Re:They took the worst part of Python on New Release Of Nim Borrows From Python, Rust, Go, and Lisp (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 1

    Working in C years back I had to fix some code from a guy who pasted 1500 lines from a different application into the middle of an if statement block. He didn't even have the decency to wrap a function definition around it. It was just splurged into the code. It seemed to work fine but even with the parenthesis matching function in nedit it was hard to work out what block I was in.

    In that case python would break, because the compiler reads the nesting level the way humans read it.

  10. Re:Myh language 'Anal' on New Release Of Nim Borrows From Python, Rust, Go, and Lisp (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 1

    Which should be solved with an editor which shows the programmer what they want to see, not what others have typed.

  11. Re:Whitespace takes the most space on New Release Of Nim Borrows From Python, Rust, Go, and Lisp (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 1

    So its pascal without begin and end?

  12. Re:Hey look! on New Release Of Nim Borrows From Python, Rust, Go, and Lisp (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 2

    Ada was huge in aerospace but the last time I was there they were using this abominable ada to java source code translator.

  13. Re:How He Could Have Done It on Amateur Scientists Find New Clue In D.B. Cooper Case, Crowdsource Their Investigation (kare11.com) · · Score: 1

    But he jumped blind in bad weather. He should have called it off if he wasn't going to be able to see the strobes.

  14. worst. joke. evar.

  15. Software issues right now can make my android phone run hot and exhaust its battery in an hour or so.

  16. Re:Wouldn't they have said something? on Faulty Phone Battery May Have Caused Fire That Brought Down EgyptAir Flight MS80 (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    On the radio, yes. But for casual conversation they would use their preferred language.

  17. Re:Simplification or sensationalism? on Faulty Phone Battery May Have Caused Fire That Brought Down EgyptAir Flight MS80 (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't leave them on a dashboard. Loose objects have to be secured on the flight deck. Most likely they got stuffed into a pocket along with paper documentation.

  18. Re:Specific to English? on Open Source Codec Encodes Voice Into Only 700 Bits Per Second (rowetel.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this project a response to the earlier controversy about proprietary codecs?

  19. Re:"clear" is an exaggeration on Open Source Codec Encodes Voice Into Only 700 Bits Per Second (rowetel.com) · · Score: 1

    Though thats often true of amateur radio generally.

  20. Re:The math seems off on Open Source Codec Encodes Voice Into Only 700 Bits Per Second (rowetel.com) · · Score: 1

    MicroSD capacity should increase faster than the rate data is added to the device.

  21. Specific to English? on Open Source Codec Encodes Voice Into Only 700 Bits Per Second (rowetel.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder how it performs on tonal languages like Cantonese.

  22. Re:Why doesn't Alexa ask for a password? on TV News Broadcast Accidentally Activates Alexa, Initiates Orders (cw6sandiego.com) · · Score: 1

    The password is Alexa. Its not a common word.

  23. Re:Still no tip and only 2 stars rating on Eavesdropping Uber Driver Helps Rescue 16-Year-Old From Her Pimps (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    He will be replaced by johnnycab soon then it won't be an issue.

  24. Re:"if you have been looking for a new Chromebook" on Unannounced ASUS C302CA-DHM4 Chromebook Hits Newegg, and It Looks Great (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    So why not put ubuntu on a cheap windows laptop and retain the ability to go back?

  25. Re:Python: better than JS, except for JSON on Python 3.6 Released (python.org) · · Score: 1

    Then in python you want a namespace object. Yes, python makes you declare a class for that, maybe not as convenient but you can do a lot more with a class than just put data in it.