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  1. Re:One worldwisw time zone on Are The Alternatives Even Worse Than Daylight Saving Time? (chron.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Accurate data from China is never easily available.

  2. Re:Climate Change is real. on Sea Level Rise in the SF Bay Area Just Got a Lot More Dire (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    It isn't that sea levels are rising, but rather why sea levels are rising. CO2 dissolved in the water is dissolving the shells of shellfish. The warm water is also driving schools of fish north and south where it is cooler. Once you whack the bottom of the food chain, you are next.

  3. Re:Fake news is more interesting on Fake News Spreads Faster Than True News On Twitter -- Thanks To People, Not Bots (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Or put another way, there are more putzes than intelligent people and Twitter is representative of the proportions.

  4. Re:Hardcoded passwords on Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    It's Cisco, I don't really think the term "enterprise" applies to them...certainly not if they are capable of this level of obtuseness.

  5. ...said the person with no installed base of Winders only programs.

  6. Re:sheesh, the paranoia is strong with this one on Ask Slashdot: Should We Worry Microsoft Will 'Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish' Linux? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Err...die and give the remains to the employees and shareholders?

  7. Re:Well, let's look at it: on Flippy the Robot Takes Over Burger Duties At California Restaurant (ktla.com) · · Score: 1

    All it does is FLIP BURGERS. It requires a human to slap on the cheese, lettuce, etc. Then there is that nice white dinner jacket the robot arm is covered in that needs to be cleaned every day or the health inspector will get heart palpitations. And machines do not run forever without maintenance.

    Put quickly, the robot arm is overkill for what its doing. It would be more efficient to have a moving line of top and bottom griddles, put the burger in between on the bottom, lower the top, and out the other end comes a grilled burger, and faster than only grilling one side at a time. Plus, you can probably automate the cheese food addition, and lettuce, and bun application. That would be overkill as you'd have to be selling a lot of burgers to make it cost efficient. Problem is, burger joints are everywhere, and cleaning that machine is going to be a lot harder than a griddle. Plus, you cannot ask it to take out the garbage.

  8. Well, if you are laughing, you are in Penrose territory.

  9. Re:Should be considered treason. on Mysterious $15,000 'GrayKey' Promises To Unlock iPhone X For The Feds (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless he starts a nuclear war. Care to place any bets on his ability to handle a crisis beyond a bimbo explosion?

  10. China has presidential elections? So, like, anyone could run for president there, right?

  11. Re:US sanctions on Venezuela Launches Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Obama I can understand, but that argument is a bit rich coming from Trump.

  12. Re:WRONG on Venezuela Launches Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Really? So where are the fair and open elections now that most of the opposition has been "disqualified"?

    And pulling out the straw man of "Well, your buddies in Saudi Arabia". They too ought to be first of up against the wall when the Revolution comes. Unfortunately, when it came for Russia, China, Cuba, etc., it wasn't only the guilty ones that got machine gunned, it was anyone the new dictators didn't like.

  13. Re: Venezuela is an interesting country... on Venezuela Launches Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Afghanistan and Somalia have plenty of guns for government overthrow...how zat working?

  14. Re:No problem on Vietnam's Internet is in Trouble (wapo.st) · · Score: 1

    Well, the current Administration doesn't need to cover its ears, it cannot hear totalitarian victims very well.

  15. Re:The trouble with "hate speech" on Vietnam's Internet is in Trouble (wapo.st) · · Score: 1

    Given the Chinese government companies and intervention in companies, China government+economy is better described as being Fascist.

  16. I always thought they wanted something short that people would associate to search like they do Google. Google has 2 syllables, Bing has one. One has to think like a marketdroid.

  17. Mmmmmmm... on Would You Fear Alien Life or Welcome It? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Green alien women!!! Oh the forbidden pleasure! I welcome them.

  18. Re:Papers please, comrade ... on Two Years After FBI vs Apple, Encryption Debate Remains (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not fascism. Fascism is like China with government controlled companies.

  19. Re:Encryption only seems to be a problem... on Two Years After FBI vs Apple, Encryption Debate Remains (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The head of the FBI is not technically a politician. He's a career civil servant, maybe not a particularly bright one, but there we are.

    In any case, to yer average Joe, technology is indistinguishable from magic. There are frequent announcements of new whizzies, frequent enough that people just come to assume that anything is possible, just not quite yet done. In a way, that is understandable, they aren't being paid to learn tech or science, they have other priorities, e.g., kids, health insurance, etc.

  20. Re:Look to the constitution for answers on Two Years After FBI vs Apple, Encryption Debate Remains (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    As usual, the Devil is in the details: essential liberty? Who gets to define that? Let's try that out on abortion. A woman should have the essential liberty to chose. A fetus should have the essential liberty to choose. Oh, gee, it gets complicated.

  21. The short answer is they do not for the same reasons other organizations cannot be rid of MS...too much computing infrastructure and organizational processes rely upon MS software. Throwing Linux in there does not solve those problems. And no organization can halt operations while ripping out MS Malware and replacing it with software, especially not the U.S. Military.

  22. Re:Story of King Canute needs up update on Trump Administration Wants To Fire 248 Forecasters At the National Weather Service (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't you be helping the Cato Institute to be harassing its female employees rather than posing here?

  23. Re:Fastest transition to 3rd world nation? on Trump Administration Wants To Fire 248 Forecasters At the National Weather Service (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    How long will it take for the cuts in research, the thrashing around of White Christian America losing their status, American companies willing to expose their laundry to foreign dictatorships before America isn't such a wonderful place? The race consciousness alone is causing fault lines that will take generations to heal. The lack of immigrants and the low fertility of Americans means Grandma will be coming to live with you as Social Security and Medicare become unaffordable. America could tax the wealth a bit more to shore those programs up but the Republicans have made it clear that they feel Americans are not worth it.

  24. Re:Private ownership of public infrastructure on Trump's New Infrastructure Plan Calls For Selling Off Two Airports (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Jesus, get a sense of proportion. The total U.S. foreign aid budget is roughly $50 Billion, out of a close to $4 Trillion budget. Even were you to remove the entire defense budget, you have only saved roughly $650 Billion. And cutting alliances will only cause defense go to up not down. Right now, the main drives of deficits will be the aging pop., the stupid immigrant policies of the alleged administration, and the recent tax payoff to Republican donors (gee, no talk NOW of how that payoff will pay for itself, is there?).

    The latest Einsteinian moment from el Presidente Tweetie's new budget it to x out the $120 million spent on setting up advance warning capabilities outside the U.S. so the U.S. doesn't get blind-sided by a new epidemic. Apparently, preventing a new epidemic is deemed more expensive than actually dealing with one you never saw coming.

    Budget figures matter, you should get some.

  25. Re:Heh... on Anti-China Bill Being Softened After US Companies Complain (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There was no swamp, that was merely el Presidente Tweetie ginning up yet another fake antagonist for himself. He did a bank shot off the Republican view that the Federal government exists for itself. The Federal government looks the way it does because the American people want it that way. ePT cannot exist without straw men to get his followers excited about...it is just typical despot behavior done over the centuries the world over. No imagination, no class.