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  1. That's a hefty pricetag. Even solar would be significantly cheaper, why not offshoring some solar panels?

  2. Re:Republicans on Samsung Billionaire Gets Off Easy (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    The DOJ is ran by Democrats, that's why Clinton got off scott-free while there is a huge Trump investigation going nowhere to try diverting attention from the facts.

  3. $1000 on electric is more than twice my entire yearly budget and I live in a cold climate and heat house and water with electric.

  4. Clueless photographers on Camera Makers Resist Encryption, Despite Warnings From Photographers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Canon offers a kit that includes an encrypted SD and flash drive. There are also a bunch of hackers around that do anything from running Arkanoid to implementing zlib on their dSLR camera. There are options, a bit of research and/or a knowledgeable it staff would help them more than bitching at the manufacturers.

  5. Re: safety on Elon Musk Sells $10 Million in Flamethrowers in Four Days (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    He's selling a blowtorch with some plastic molding. I can go get a bigger one at Home Depot and nobody would bat an eyelash.

  6. The only reason it got so noisy is media attention. There were plenty of hijackings and hostage situations in that era with much more money involved and even the Cooper case didn't initially raise an eyebrow until someone wrote a sensationalist story about it with a few creative liberties (eg. the name was Dan Cooper, the D.B. was added later)

  7. Re: We need examples of the elleged Russian action on Twitter Notifies 1.4 Million Users of Interaction With Russian Accounts (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I don't see any examples there, it just seems to trigger on hashtags Democrats don't like. The top right now is Trump, FISA, memo etc which seems rather newsworthy, not factually incorrect.

  8. Re: Why is this modded funny? on Why Alexa Won't Light Up During Amazon's Super Bowl Ad (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Most broadcast is either done over the air or cable (or converted to a similar signal) using rather old encoding techniques. I'd have to look it up but I think the high end is 15kHz. The "HD" channels are generally 720p or 1080i, I have not yet seen a 1080p30/60 cable/sat provider when they require use of a set top box.

    If you still have grandparents, they often still have cable and you can hear how muffled and low quality a tv show sounds/looks if you're used to seeing it mastered for digital in places like Netflix or on IPTV.

  9. Re: Waahh you caught me committing TREASON on GOP Memo Criticizing FBI Surveillance is Released (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    A) Time is money
    B) if you found something, you have to indict and do your investigation. Until you file with the courts you have no legal obligation to witness for any investigation and you run the risk of influencing the witness or losing credibility of witnesses.

    When the cops suspect you of murder they arrest you and you appear in front of a judge to set bail or let you go on your own recognizance during the investigation and set a court date, then they or the DA will investigate the facts and you prepare your defense, you get to interview witnesses in court.

  10. Re: partisan politics on GOP Memo Criticizing FBI Surveillance is Released (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Corporations vote by proxy through the representatives.

  11. Re: This isn't at all how it's supposed to work on GOP Memo Criticizing FBI Surveillance is Released (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    Which that investigation is covering up for Hillary botched investigation. And round and round we go, wake me up when someone indict someone. Mueller has been at it more than a year and over a billion spent without anything to show and after the next elections you probably won't even find enough people in congress to even get an impeachment.

  12. Re: partisan politics on GOP Memo Criticizing FBI Surveillance is Released (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the US, when Obama was president the FBI, FCC, FDA, FEMA, CIA etc was stacked with people that he chose, now it's Trumps choice, before that it was Bush's people. It is so rare that you have a director of anything from the Bush era that media reports usually include the fact they were appointed one or two administrations ago. Trump has left more people in place from previous administrations than his predecessor did, only for them to shoot themselves in the foot.

  13. Re: partisan politics on GOP Memo Criticizing FBI Surveillance is Released (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Only applies to laws, not executive orders which is what they're trying to argue right now that Obama's orders are more valid in regards other orders that Trump countered with his orders.

  14. Re: Carter Page is a known Russian Agent on GOP Memo Criticizing FBI Surveillance is Released (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Which the memo (which was approved for release by a bipartisan committee) proves that the FISA courts and rules are completely ignored by the "judges". I wouldn't be surprised if the judge is an "administrative judge" a pencil pusher that rubber stamps everything that comes through from the government. You can't defend against those, some cities have them for traffic violations.

  15. Re: How was this question graded? on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Read a real scientific paper, there are plenty of papers that, especially in math that gloss over A LOT of the rote "show work" you are required to do in schools.

    Eg if you have a matrix operation or trigonometric function, they won't or rarely include a step that shows eg the multiplication of each number or deriving the cos/sin/tan rules; they expect at least a modicum of "you should know the results of this operation or plug them in a calculator to verify".

  16. Re: Complete BS on Hoping That Sucking CO2 From the Air Will Fix the Climate? Good Luck (easac.eu) · · Score: 1

    The neighboring countries have enough money. The main problems with that project are using salt water which is obviously the salt being corrosive and the fact that now you're removing the Sahara as a natural barrier for many of those relatively prosperous north-Saharan countries from the very unstable south-Saharan ones.

    When you dream up projects, many people think of the obvious technical and direct financial effects which are not insurmountable at scale but the economic and military results are less obvious and the main driver these projects get done or more often not done.

  17. Re: We need examples of the elleged Russian action on Twitter Notifies 1.4 Million Users of Interaction With Russian Accounts (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    I'm not on either Facebook or Twitter, I have an IQ greater than 70 after all, but I would love to see some hard evidence and messages that these trolls send out. I'm sure there is much ads and bots going around Twitter/Facebook but it reminds me more of IRC in the late 90s.

  18. Re: Real question is .... on Twitter Notifies 1.4 Million Users of Interaction With Russian Accounts (recode.net) · · Score: 4, Funny

    How many followers does CNN have?

  19. The reason is in the summary on White House Seeks 72 Percent Cut To Clean Energy Research (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    "we've made no inroads in terms of convincing the administration of our value" is exactly the reason for being cut. Burning money for 4 decades without progress means something is wrong, we still don't have "clean energy" and most "clean(er) energy" innovation hasn't happened in the US.

  20. So Mrs. Burns destroyed the company after all on Xerox Cedes Control To Fujifilm, Ending Its Independence (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... Excellent ... seriously though, the writing was on the wall when they hired that woman and started shedding the R&D while refusing to lower prices on their wax based printers because "we are the only ones on the market and people will pay for our patents".

    I know some people working at Xerox, the company became all about following process (6-sigma) and profit and anything innovative that didn't make a profit right away was spun off and then those spinoffs got VC funding and made incredible profits.

  21. Or perhaps people have been burned too many times by NBC/CNN and other classic propaganda trolls. Not sure what these Russian troll sites say, I'm not on Facebook but it's sad when Breitbart has more truth than CNN.

  22. Most people are sick of politicians, it's the reason both Obama and Trump got elected, Obama had some political experience and that turned out a mistake since he was already in the pockets of big pharma. At least Trump was honest about his goals.

  23. Re:Defied? Wasn't this the point? on California Senate Defies FCC, Approves Net Neutrality Law (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Citation?

  24. Re:Are these guys serious? on Lawyers Faced With Emojis and Emoticons Are All \_("/)_/ (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh really, what does the "face with tongue out" mean? I can't find a definite meaning other than "it's a face with it's tongue out". What it actually means depends highly on culture and context, it could be a sign of respect in Tibet or a war cry in New Zealand or anywhere from "I'm kidding" to "I'm treating you like a child" in Westerner cultures, it connotation changes with age, even Einstein used it as a political statement and then there is that guy from KISS.

  25. Re:ORDERS TO TROOPS: on Pentagon Reviews GPS Policies After Fitness Trackers Reveal Locations (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The question is what does private really mean. Does it mean "we'll share it, it just doesn't have your personal details attached" or does it mean "it's completely shredded from our servers forever"