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  1. Re:Non-networked and paper ballots on Voting Machine Used in Half of US Is Vulnerable to Attack, Report Finds (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Next thing you know, you'll tell me you automatically register everyone to vote by knocking on their doors and when they vote, in person, you let them register on the spot and even give them a pencil to vote with ...

  2. Re:Or we could just use sea shells on Spheres Can Make Concrete Leaner, Greener (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Heat is a waste byproduct of many green energy methods - biofuel, nuclear fission, ethanol conversion, industrial and commercial manufacturing - in fact, one of the reasons we're "upset" at China is they converted their highly polluting inefficient coal plants to modern (circa 1980s) coal plants with water scrubbers and heat cogeneration.

    Recapture of the water and CO2 is an important thing to do, however.

  3. Re:Non-networked and paper ballots on Voting Machine Used in Half of US Is Vulnerable to Attack, Report Finds (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    none of those are measurable in any significant way, as has been demonstrated by countless studies.

  4. Non-networked and paper ballots on Voting Machine Used in Half of US Is Vulnerable to Attack, Report Finds (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Look, we all know how to deal with the continual Russian hacking, the EU has demonstrated the only thing that works are paper ballots and non-networked vote counting machines with an audit trail.

    And, yes, it's Russia.

    Luckily for those of us on the West Coast, Oregon, California, and Washington State all vote by mail using paper ballots.

  5. Or we could just use sea shells on Spheres Can Make Concrete Leaner, Greener (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    For millennia, we made concrete using the shells of creatures, and since those shells are literally carbon negative, storing carbon from the sea, they resulted in a far greener concrete.

    Especially when grown amongst sea beds of kelp or sea grass or seaweed.

    You can see it everywhere in ancient ruins that lasted thousands of years.

  6. But not on Faraday cages on Using Wi-Fi To Count People Through Walls (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    For some reason, that doesn't work.

  7. Um, millenials are old people on Millennials More Likely To Fall For Scams Than Baby Boomers (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, they're like 26 to 36 now.

    College?

  8. Re:This is why we have to stop using fossil fuels on Across The Arctic, Lakes Are Leaking Dangerous Greenhouse Gases (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    It's 2018 not 1968.

  9. Re:This is why we have to stop using fossil fuels on Across The Arctic, Lakes Are Leaking Dangerous Greenhouse Gases (ndtv.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, renewables are much much much cheaper. People prefer more expensive than cheaper. I hate to break it to you, but the "West Coast" is one of the largest users of fossil fuels on the entire planet. You are just another snotty West Coast person who thinks driving around in a Tesla makes you "green".

    I don't have a car, grandpa. Also, that watch fob you wear makes you look old.

  10. This is why we have to stop using fossil fuels on Across The Arctic, Lakes Are Leaking Dangerous Greenhouse Gases (ndtv.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's one thing to capture emissions that are already being released, but we have to rapidly stop extracting new fossil fuel reserves while we still have time.

    They're also way too expensive, usually requiring oil prices around $70 or more to economically extract, while renewables like solar and wind and energy efficiency are much much much cheaper.

    End all fossil fuel tax exemptions. All tax depreciation (including vehicles and equipment that uses it as a fuel). And all tax subsidies, other than those to replace fossil fuel equipment with better cheaper alternatives that don't use that.

    It's all we on the West Coast (CA/OR/WA/ID/BC) can do to become efficient, but we need to stop subsidizing you slackers in other states (although TX does have some good wind and solar power).

  11. Re:It all goes back to Ghost in the Machine on Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    The anime and manga were based on a book that preceded it, which gave rise to a song.

  12. "We are compiling your braking system updates" on Mitsubishi Recalls 68,000 SUVs Over Bad Software (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1

    "Attention, user!

    We are compiling your braking system updates.

    They should be operational in approximately 3 minutes.

    Please enjoy this music while the steering disables and we drive off a cliff."

  13. The software's not bad on Mitsubishi Recalls 68,000 SUVs Over Bad Software (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1

    The software isn't bad, it's just compiled that way.

  14. This sounds like a special form of H377 on Google Revamps Search Engine To Include New Cards and Tags As It Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but showing continuous snippets that are deemed "relevant" to your search sounds to me like a special version of Hades.

    And not the funny cartoony kind.

  15. It all goes back to Ghost in the Machine on Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 0

    When you can't realize the Laughing Man is a hack, you can't realize reality, or your perception of it, is being hacked.

  16. But let's ignore cars on Alcohol Causes One In 20 Deaths Worldwide, Says WHO (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Cars kill more people.

    Most deaths from alcohol are caused by cars.

    It's like blaming alcohol for all the deaths caused by tanks. The tank fired the weapons, the amount of alcohol imbibed is only a contributing factor. Or like blaming the need to use lungs to breathe when it's the smoke that's killing you.

  17. Look, there are other internets.

    Faster ones.

    Able to leap tall Gigabytes in a flash.

    Just saying.

  18. Note to self: tell drones to steal fake packages on Amazon Plants Fake Packages In Delivery Trucks As Part of Undercover Ploy To 'Trap' Drivers Stealing (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    1. Amazon puts fake label packages in truck.
    2. Driver delivers package.
    3. When delivery permiter tripped, drone flies into truck during delivery, while fake dogs engage delivery person.
    4. Package with fake label searched for by drone.
    5. Package located.
    6. Drone "borrows" fake label package.
    7. Profit!

  19. Proof UK serious about Russia and NK on Time To Regulate Bitcoin, Says UK Treasury Committee Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The action to regulate bitcoin will make it more difficult for both North Korea and Russia to launder dirty money, other than at "golf courses" run by their cronies.

  20. I for one welcome our Romulan overlords on Scientists Find 'Super-Earth' In Star System From 'Star Trek' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    What, you didn't realize they were still warlike?

  21. And I want a pony on Cloudflare Wants Internet Route Leaks To Be a Thing of the Past (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Only one of us will be happy, and I'm shopping on ponies dot com right now.

    Route that.

  22. The cat is both in the box and not on Reimagining of Schrodinger's Cat Breaks Quantum Mechanics -- and Stumps Physicists (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    It is a cat.

    When the cat wants to be in the box, it is in the box.

    When it wants to be out of the box, it is out of the box.

    Death of cats is expressly prohibited under the Rules of War.

    Now, parrots or songbirds, those are ok.

  23. Don't put your labels on me, dad! on People Tend To Cluster Into Four Distinct Personality 'Types,' Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm going to read the underlying scientific paper where you describe, in detail, how this is all mostly meaningless.

    And then label you a Self-Centered ...

  24. Nobody cares on Which Company Makes the Best Camera Phone in 2018? Not Apple · · Score: 1

    If you want a digital camera, or a film camera, or even a motion picture camera ...

    Buy one.

    This is a smartphone. If you're using it for other things, you probably shouldn't.

    I'll be honest, I've actually used a lot of the features of smartphones, but it wasn't why I bought that phone.

  25. But why?

    No, seriously, the majority of cameras are not online.

    It's like asking "why are your curtains open". It's a choice.