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  1. Re:Ok, this isn't funny anymore on Trump Ups Ante on China, Threatens Duties on Nearly All its Imports (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I assume you're referring to the $1 trillion per year that Trump is borrowing from the US citizens to 'boost' the economy.

    https://eu.usatoday.com/story/...

    (or did you think it's his genius policies that's doing that?)

  2. Re:Yeah it's real annoying on Icelanders Seek To Keep Remote Nordic Peninsula Digital-Free (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering that there are people who just can't stop oogling their social media at every opportunity it might be very beneficial to have a place for them to go where they are forced off it for a while.

    You're missing the point.

    The only point of going to places like that is so that you can take selfies and say "Look at me! Look at me! Look at me!" on social media.

    (I guess you'll need to oogle everybody's reactions, I'll give you that)

  3. Re:Yeah it's real annoying on Icelanders Seek To Keep Remote Nordic Peninsula Digital-Free (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The future of vacations in the 21st century are going to center around off-grind spots

    Off-grinder won't be a problem on cruise ships (they don't call them "cruise" ships for no reason!)

  4. Re:Because people no longer have self discipline? on Icelanders Seek To Keep Remote Nordic Peninsula Digital-Free (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    "I don't see anything romantic about lying on the ground with a broken thigh bone and no cellphone signal," Kristjansdottir said in an interview.

    So.... they could enable emergency services and nothing more?

    Would that be too much like common sense?

  5. Re:And that should be really expensive for them on 380,000 Card Payments Compromised In British Airways Breach (sky.com) · · Score: 2

    Sure, you rack up a couple of million in penalties... ...then you divide that number by 380,000 and it only cost you $6 per customer.

    No biggie.

  6. I don't use it on my phone.

  7. Yep, default theme now lets you see where the active tab is. It's amazing.

    They had to break something though: The little button to add a new tab is now invisible until you mouse over it. [facepalm.gif]

    How people are supposed to know where the invisible thing is so that they can move the mouse over it? Only the Firefox designers know the answer to that one.

  8. It's IDC.

  9. Re:Must we read it on Twitter? on This is the Story of the 1970s Great Calculator Race (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no chance of that.

    Twitter could probably ask for a $1 billion bailout tomorrow and Trump would pay it.

  10. Re:Good Tools will always be around on This is the Story of the 1970s Great Calculator Race (twitter.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Concise (Japan) sill makes them:

    eg. https://www.sliderule.tokyo/pr...

    You could buy new Faber-Castells online until last year.

  11. Whatsapp.

  12. Um, yes, that what the headline said.

    Youtube is a threat to the music industry, not to the musicians.

  13. Re:Here's why...Not invented here syndrome on How Linux's Kernel Developers 'Make C Less Dangerous' (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    C programmers are used to old imperative style programming, not things like pattern matching.

    Surely C programmers can learn to use things like C++ compilers and std::vector / std::string.

    Just using those three things would eliminate most of the problems highlighted in the article. The article is mostly about adding more layers of things to the code to avoid problems. The problem is that humans still have to remember to add those things every single time.

    They should be trying to automate them away instead of adding more things to remember.

  14. Re:Tax cuts for billionaires! on 30% of America's Student Loan Borrowers Can't Keep Up After Six Years (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Go Betsy Devos!

  15. Re:Eisenhower's Farewell Address on Boeing Wins Bid To Build the Navy's Carrier-Launched Tanker Drone (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Sure, but that's only ONE item on the military budget.

  16. $13 billion on Boeing Wins Bid To Build the Navy's Carrier-Launched Tanker Drone (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How much good could be done with $13 billion dollars?

  17. Re:Working on a more comprehensive repair on Small Leak Discovered on Russian Side of International Space Station, NASA Says (go.com) · · Score: 1

    How does that tell you which end the leak is at? Or how big it is?

  18. Re:This is good and all ... on NASA Releases Thousands of Hours of Apollo 11 Mission Audio (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Headwinds and tailwinds make a huge difference to flight times.

    Down at ground level: Any sailor knows that a trip around the south pole is a very long and difficult journey.

  19. Re:This is good and all ... on NASA Releases Thousands of Hours of Apollo 11 Mission Audio (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    The answer to that question (and many others) is in the FAQ:

    https://wiki.tfes.org/Frequent...

    Please read it before wasting any more of people's valuable time.

  20. Re: To limit RFI? on Tourism is Compromising the World's Largest Telescope (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    It's unlikely that "the CH bond in molecular clouds" will be a particular event.

    Particular events are things like gamma bursts, which aren't at 3.5MHz.

  21. Re:Telescope mode on Tourism is Compromising the World's Largest Telescope (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Museums let anybody in, no explaining is done.

    On a bus full of people it's easy to walk down the isle and look for the airplane symbol on screen.

    Yes, there'll be one complete idiot on every bus but you've just reduced the problem by 95%.

  22. Re:To limit RFI? on Tourism is Compromising the World's Largest Telescope (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Did you know that the in-flight regulations governing cellphones are FCC rules, not FAA rules?

    (fast-moving cellphones at high altitude cause havoc in the cell-tower system)

    The rules also help prevent air-rage so the airlines don't fight them too hard. The last thing people want is some loud-mouth yakking next to them the whole time.

  23. Re:To limit RFI? on Tourism is Compromising the World's Largest Telescope (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure why you specify "daytime".

    Because that's when the tourists are active.

    You know radio telescopes work in the day, right?

    You know they work much better at night, right? ie. Pointing away from the big yellow ball thing.

    And that if the object being observed in the sky is only above the horizon in daytime, that they have no choice but to observe it then, right?

    Sure, apart from the other choice, ie. wait six months (which is something that happens all the time in Astronomy because of the big yellow ball being in the way for half the year).

  24. Re:To limit RFI? on Tourism is Compromising the World's Largest Telescope (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Plus: You'd think the siftware largest telescope in the world could filter out 3.5GHz during the daytime.

  25. Re:Telescope mode on Tourism is Compromising the World's Largest Telescope (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    AKA "Airplane mode"? Apparently not.

    (And the tour guide seem unaware of it)

    I'm sure even the tourists could understand the concept if it was properly explained to them.