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  1. Re: What is going on? on Scientists Break Quantum Entanglement Record At 18 Qubits (zmescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Because they type on Apple keyboards and the artists who create those keyboards think that (some Unicode character) is prettier than a plain old apostrophe.

  2. Or you need to reduce the reactor's output.

  3. Re:I've been using Model Ms for 20 years on 'Why I Use the IBM Model M Keyboard That's Older Than I Am' (yeokhengmeng.com) · · Score: 1

    "The thing I most like? There are little plastic caps on the keys. When they get dirty I can pop them off and run them through the dishwasher."

    How about washing your hands after every pizza instead of just sucking your fingers and wiping them on your t-shirt?

  4. Re:Big liability issue and eula will not save them on Tesla Model 3 Now Offers 'Summon' Self-Parking Feature (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Using summon is just you driving our car remotely

    You use a phone app with buttons for forward and reverse to make the car slowly move forward or backward.

    Elon is lying when he says, "Note, no one is in the car or controlling remotely. Car is driving entirely by itself."...?

  5. Under normal circumstances perhaps, but you need a cooling system for times when you can't immediately use that energy.

    No, you need a storage system.

  6. Re:The problem with quantum computing on Scientists Break Quantum Entanglement Record At 18 Qubits (zmescience.com) · · Score: 0

    Saying "digital" is inaccurate. Both quantum computing and classic computing have digital components.

    "classical" is the term used in scientific Quantum Computing literature to refer to the current way we do computing.

    The people who write that literature have a hidden agenda*, yes. It's logical that they'll use language like that.

    (*) ie. Getting more funding.

  7. Re:The problem with quantum computing on Scientists Break Quantum Entanglement Record At 18 Qubits (zmescience.com) · · Score: 2

    Classical will never make QC irrelevant

    That's like saying that chisels will never make hammers irrelevant.

    "QC" will never make "classical" irrelevant either.

    Your use of the words "classical" and "traditional" when referring to existing computers is very loaded and highly questionable. Why not just call them "digital" computers? Do you have a hidden agenda?

  8. Re:What is going on? on Scientists Break Quantum Entanglement Record At 18 Qubits (zmescience.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    It means the writer believes that people who understand the phrase "simultaneous exploit of three different degrees of freedom-paths, polarization and orbital angular momentum" might not know what photons are.

  9. Re:Ah back to the old Mhz fight of the early 2000' on Samsung, Arm Team Up: Expect New Mobile Chipset Faster Than 3GHz (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Slashdot really needs a "-1 Retarded" option for moderation.

  10. Re:Stupid on MoviePass' New Business Plan Is To Charge You Whatever It Wants (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You joke but it's basically true in the movie theater business.

    Movie theaters already make basically zero money on the tickets because they have to pay the movie distributors a fortune every time they show a movie in their theater. Theaters make all their money on the popcorn and drinks (which is why they're so expensive - that's what's paying for the installation and the wages of the people who work there).

    It basically costs theaters nothing to fill up the empty seats with MoviePass subscribers, they might even sell more drinks/popcorn, which is good.

    What will hurt them is theaters being full of MoviePass customers on Friday/Saturday nights. This new pricing addresses that and makes sense.

  11. Is this still news? on How Smart TVs in Millions of US Homes Track More Than What's on Tonight (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How many times do we need to repeat this story?

    1) X is put into person's home/pocket.
    2) X asks for your email address and phone number then starts to track every movement and button press.
    3) People act all surprised!

    Film at 11.

  12. My only though when reading this headline was, "Really? The USA doesn't have Xiaomi yet?"

    "Here I am in second-world Europe enjoying my 128Gb Mi Mix 2 and they don't get them?"

    LOL!

    I guess they can blame their President's trade policies for that.

  13. Re: Finally, the Stasi can have their way! on UK Launches National Dashcam Database For Snitching On Bad Drivers (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You've already lost the argument as soon as you say "fast lane".

    You're not allowed to go any faster in the outside lane then in any other lanes. It's just a lane.

    There's laws forbidding people from overtaking other drivers on the inside. If you're going less than the speed limit you should probably move over to an appropriate lane to let past people who are doing the speed limit. That's common courtesy.

    Paying attention to the road and other drivers will help you achieve this.

  14. Re:Lock Him Up...with Trump's Campaign Manager! on NSA Purges Hundreds of Millions of Call and Text Records (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    I want to know how the "USA Freedom Act" is what allows them to record everybody's phone calls.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  15. Re: NO NUKES on Westinghouse AP1000 Nuclear Reactor Starts Generating Power (world-nuclear-news.org) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It is, actually. It's a huge problem.

    Space may be cold but that makes no difference because you can't use convection or conduction.

    OTOH if you're actively cooling your reactor then there's something wrong, you're throwing energy away.

  16. Re:Not Enough! on Westinghouse AP1000 Nuclear Reactor Starts Generating Power (world-nuclear-news.org) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Meanwhile the USA is betting on coal.

    The USA will soon be a footnote in history.

  17. Re:Sorry, but... on 'Why You Should Not Use Google Cloud' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why you also configure a failover at a secondary location.

    Isn't that exactly what the Google cloud is sold as - a huge 'cloud' of servers for massive redundancy?

    Here, read the sales blurb: https://cloud.google.com/solut...

  18. Re:Sorry, but... on 'Why You Should Not Use Google Cloud' (medium.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Google cloud isn't supposed to be enterprise grade? I bet that's news to google.

    If you read the fucking summary it doesn't say the servers went down, it says that some robot shut them down when it detected "suspicious activity". No review was done, nobody at google called the customer, nothing.

    This is clearly 100% Google's fault.

  19. Bad idea on Scientists Use Caffeine To Control Genes (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Does that mean you can only have one coffee per day?

    I don't think they've thought this idea all the way through.

  20. Re:Really? on Thousands of Uber Drivers Scammed Out of Millions of Dollars (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I wounder if Uber could do something simple like change the two-factor verification message to:

    "Do NOT repeat the following number to ANYBODY over the phone, they are SCAMMERS trying to steal money from you: 123456"

    Nah, that would require a braincell.

  21. Re:Nice try on We've Reached 'Peak Screen'. So What Comes Next? (wral.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep. This is just "visionary" wank.

    Making everybody walk around with headphones on and shouting at invisible people hidden in their lapels won't improve anything.

  22. Re: old news on Bitcoin Drops Below $6,000, An 8-Month Low (reuters.com) · · Score: 1
  23. Re:And today it's above $6,300... on Bitcoin Drops Below $6,000, An 8-Month Low (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...and up 5.36% (at 2pm EDT) for the week.

    Only because there was another mini-crash exactly 7 days ago.

    If you look at 8 or 6 days, it's down.

    If you look at 30 days, it's down... a LOT.

  24. Re: Going further down soon on Bitcoin Drops Below $6,000, An 8-Month Low (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Sell now and switch to Ethereum, that's a sure thing.

  25. Re:Going further down soon on Bitcoin Drops Below $6,000, An 8-Month Low (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Wasn't it supposed to be over a million by now? I haven't been paying much attention.