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  1. Re:"such an Orwellian model" on DJI Proposes New Electronic 'License Plate' For Drones (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Where do you buy this magical "unlicensed" car from?

  2. Re:"Green" technologies aren't sufficient. on Westinghouse Files For Bankruptcy, In Blow To Nuclear Power (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. Nuclear power is economically unsustainable without direct government intervention and subsidy.

    That's mostly because of all the NIMBYs who manage to add 20 years of delay to any nuclear power construction job.

    There's nothing inherently wrong with the economics of nuclear.

    https://encrypted.google.com/s...

    This is why nuclear power stations should be built by governments - because they don't have to use the profits to pay back venture capitalists who invested billions 25 years ago on the promise of a 10000% return on their money (and that's conservative - 25 years at 20% interest - they probably ask for more than that).

  3. Re:"such an Orwellian model" on DJI Proposes New Electronic 'License Plate' For Drones (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    If my kid wants to fly his $59 quadcopter in his own backyard, he should not have to register with the government to do so.

    I assume your car has a license plate so your argument is silly.

  4. Ummm.... truthful != good.

  5. Yep, everybody is saying this is a "defeat" but is it? They're assuming he wanted to win this one.

    Another way to look at it is that this was a pawn sacrifice, that he's just pivoting his public image.

  6. Re:It's the economy, etc. on 18 To 24-Year-Olds Are Hitting the Big Screen at Lower Rates (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    False.

    You don't have to be a Hillary fan to hate Trump. I hate them both (there's not really much point in hating on Hillary though).

  7. Re:Not in this case on W3C Erects DRM As Web Standard (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    In this case, because of the method of application, this DRM is bad.

    It hijacks YOUR computer because THEY want to control what you do with "their" data.

    You're free to not transmit their data to your PC.

    The only time DRM is bad is when it prevents you from doing things like listen to one of your CDs in your car, from making backup copies of delicate media for your kids to use, etc.

    These days it's all electronic and modern cars have interfaces for mobile phones so these arguments are disappearing. If you choose to steal, that's your choice. Be a grown-up and admit that that's what you're doing though. Don't try to justify it because of the ev1L DRMs.

  8. No. Nothing can be a planet unless it is larger than Neil deGrasse Glactus's ego. A dwarf planet is no more a planet than a dwarf person is a person.

    By that definition we live on a 'moon'.

  9. Re: Microwave popcorn is cutting edge on Movie Theaters Haven't Innovated Beyond Popcorn, Says Netflix CEO (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep. That'd be why I said "no more...".

  10. Re:Microwave popcorn is cutting edge on Movie Theaters Haven't Innovated Beyond Popcorn, Says Netflix CEO (variety.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    World-wide distribution on day #1. No more scratched, third-hand, celluloid reels. Better screens, better projectors, better sound. 3D projection on applicable movies.

    At the end of the day it's just a dark room full of chairs with a screen at the front. What else is there to innovate Mr. Hastings?

    Oh, yeah, one thing: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/m...

    Not widely implemented yet.

  11. Re:No on Will WebAssembly Replace JavaScript? (medium.com) · · Score: 0
  12. Re:we know what vs is - did anything change? on Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2017 (visualstudio.com) · · Score: 1

    a) yes, it always has.

    After a days testing I can report:

    No, it still doesn't.

    And it still has other bugs I've been reporting since Visual C++ 6.0. Bugs which have been marked as 'fixed', but aren't.

  13. I don't think you need to get so complicated as saying 'most'.

    If approximately 50% of businesses and 50% of the population ere on some sort of power trip right now then that adequately explains it. It should probably be higher in fact.

    Praise Jesus.

  14. Re:Risk? on Indiegogo Halted Retro Computer Campaign (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    IIRC Sir Clive sold the ZX Spectrum rights to Amstrad. Alan Sugar is probably the one to blame.

  15. Re:Risk? on Indiegogo Halted Retro Computer Campaign (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    It's certainly not because of "delivery delays and a lack of communication to backers".

    Delivery delays and lack of communication is completely normal for IGG projects, as are complete scams.

  16. Re:Good for them on China Developing Manned Space Mission To the Moon · · Score: 2

    Yep. I really hope they do it. Just to show up the USA for what it's become since the 1960s.

  17. Re:Mass of information on IBM Researchers Prove It Is Possible To Store Data In a Single Atom (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If information has mass, how much did the atom's mass increase once it was imbued with a 0 or 1?

    Did you mean how much did it decrease when its entropy was changed?

  18. Re:Parachute, please on Airbus Reveals a Modular, Self-Piloting Flying Car Concept (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a short, but demanding, jump from there to autonomous mass-flying with human supervision on-board and/or on the ground.

    No it isn't. Simple math on energy costs means it will never happen.

    ie. It takes orders of magnitude more fuel to keep something in the air than it does to roll it along the ground.

  19. Re:we know what vs is - did anything change? on Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2017 (visualstudio.com) · · Score: 1

    a) yes, it always has.

    I can tell you don't write real programs.

    Intellisense has never worked on any of my C++ projects. I've been using Visual Studio/Visual C++ since version 5.0 (mid 1990s, I believe).

    At best it just means the code is full of red squiggles. At worst you'll be restarting Visual Studio several times per day to try and clear the intellisense cache.

  20. Re:Theory number one: on Americans Are Having Less Sex Than 20 Years Ago, Study Finds (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I can save the "reserachers" a lot of time: People are having less sex because they're not as bored as before.

  21. Re:we know what vs is - did anything change? on Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2017 (visualstudio.com) · · Score: 1

    I only need to know two things:

    a) Does Intellisense work yet?

    b) How long until SP1?

  22. Re:No real information on NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield To Protect Mars' Atmosphere (phys.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    They don't mention much about how this magical magnetic barrier is going to be generated or powered.

    If only there was an easy way to make working superconductors in near-zero ambient temperature environments.

    (or even an easy way to read articles from the comfort of home)

  23. Re: Javascript on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If All Software Ran On All Platforms? · · Score: 1

    Such as? Mono/.NET doesn't even work well on Linux. JavaScript and other scripting languages do not have nearly as broad platform support as Java.

    Spot the script kiddie.

  24. Re: Java on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If All Software Ran On All Platforms? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I misspelled "can't be bothered".

  25. Yep, this is just the same old story of damage control. We've seen it a thousand times before.

    Some self-important boss thinks he can bullshit his way out of it. The total product recall follows a week later (after the Streisand Effect kicks in).