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  1. All your base pairs is belong to miRNA on George Lucas's Terrible Idea for Star Wars Episodes 7-9 (indiewire.com) · · Score: 1

    All your base pairs is belong to miRNA
    Except those which belong to siRNA
    Your genes are spliced
    You're really mice
    With circDNA modifications that let you play

  2. But I remember when slashdottirs used to scoff that there were more than 3.

    Keep up, this is only one of the TLAs.

  3. Mistakenly .... it's a feature, not a bug on Facebook Mistakenly Leaked Developer Analytics Reports To Testers (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's get real, FB wants to monetize all of your metadeta and your data, and will do it any way it can.

    So they may claim it was a bug, but they planned to include it in a Premium add-on for the people they sell your data and metadata to, is my extrapolation, based on their prior behavior.

  4. Now the West can truly be free on Supreme Court Rules States Can Require Online Retailers To Collect Sales Tax (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Finally, we'll stop subsidizing the do nothing states, and our revenues will finally enable us to go 200 percent renewable energy!

    Someone has to build the bike lanes!

  5. If we just expired copyright after 17 years on EU Takes First Step in Passing Controversial Copyright Law That Could 'Censor the Internet' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If we just reverted to the original copyright system, which had copyright for only 17 years, ascribed to a human person, not a corporation, and not renewed, all of this would go away.

  6. All your public is belong to private on San Francisco's City-Wide Fiber Internet Plan is Delayed, Future in Doubt (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't have competition in a Mercantalist society.

    Capitalism requires full informed competition, and protection of the Public Good.

  7. All your corporate ethics are belong to stuff we fought against during WW II.

    Freedom, Equality, Privacy.

    This is what America stands for, and Amazon needs to do the same.

  8. Depends on where you live on Self-Driving Cars Likely Won't Steal Your Job (Until 2040) (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    If you drive a truck on long hauls over the desert, or in flat areas with decent areas, it's going to be sooner than you realize.

    If you drive a truck in regions with marginal roads, bad weather (snow, ice, avalanches, floods, etc), it will be a while.

    For examples take a look at the current lineup of trucks sold by PACCAR. More than half are now hybrids or fuel cell/electric, with some degree of self-driving automation.

  9. But how will I get to the Ivars in Puget Sound? on Apple Maps Was Down For All Users Earlier Today (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It's underwater.

  10. In Seattle nobody is drunk on Uber Seeks Patent For AI That Determines Whether Passengers Are Drunk (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    We're just high on life.

  11. The impact of this tech is always exaggerated.

    Basically, they are just saying they can automate check out at 7-11 and other convenience stores and delis.

    Meanwhile, people like me will continue to pay with cash and if you automate my checkout, you lose me as a customer.

  12. Re:More water, less plastic in the ocean? on Antarctica Is Melting Three Times As Fast As a Decade Ago (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Um, think about what you posted.

    Take a bathtub. Put 500 rubber duckies in it while it's half full.

    Now fill it up.

    You still have 500 rubber duckies.

    Plastic doesn't disappear, it just stays.

  13. Or they can not on 'Netflix and Alphabet Will Need To Become ISPs, Fast' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Look, Net Neutrality is the Law of the Land in CA, OR, WA, and a few other states.

    They can just walk away from the unprofitable other states and let you freeze in the net dark.

    All the profit is in the West.

  14. We will never need more than 640 GB of RAM on Laptops With 128GB of RAM Are Here (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously.

    By the way, we use laptops with lots of TB of data storage and our blade servers have a lot more RAM than that, so some of our datasets can't be loaded and processed on laptops.

    We would love better laptops.

    One of my colleagues is starting a lab soon, and one of the conditions of his startup package was a top of the line laptop suite and blade servers.

  15. That's a reasonable fine for my data on UK Watchdog Issues $334K Fine For Yahoo's 2014 Data Breach (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    But what about all the other users?

  16. Re:Usages Zero on Calm Nights? on To Hit Climate Goals, Bill Gates and His Billionaire Friends Are Betting on Energy Storage (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Think of a regional grid. Think of when people use electricity. The combination of work (commercial, industrial) and residential (mostly evenings and weekends) tends to closely match the combined W S curves. We use shaping and load balancing, but when you have multiple inputs, it's fairly easy to maintain the loads over a full region.

    It may be calm where you are, but over a region, there tends to be enough generation. When we know the output is dropping, we spin other power sources up (which is where storage is involved). If we use compressed air, we release the air; if we use batteries, we drain the battery; if we use hydro (pumped water), we spin the water through the generation turbines. Over a total region, this imbalance tends to flatten out, except for long periods of drought, or volcanic eruptions, or massive floods that mean that you have to drop the lines anyway.

  17. Re:Renewable more than Fossil Efficiency on To Hit Climate Goals, Bill Gates and His Billionaire Friends Are Betting on Energy Storage (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Technically, consumer residential electric power demand is flatlining. It's only commercial and industrial electric demand that's growing.

    Think of all our old fridges and TVs and computers that used to use power. Modern fridges and TVs use a lot less, and many people use laptops and smartphones for computing needs, with a much lower draw.

  18. Re:Renewable more than Fossil Efficiency on To Hit Climate Goals, Bill Gates and His Billionaire Friends Are Betting on Energy Storage (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really. If you plot the curves of solar and wind, it closely matches the actual power consumption of end users. Using interim storage is a small percentage, and the projected shortfalls tend to wash out of regional grids, which allow for the fact that wind and solar exist across the entirety of the grid area, usually a multi-state or multi-nation area.

    That electricity you use in the NorthEast comes from Canada for the most part, and part of that generation involves hydro dams. We can spin the turbines up and down and adjust loads when the power demands spike.

    It's a form of energy storage. Not a big deal. I used to do that myself back in the 70s.

  19. Storage can achieve 70-80 percent efficiency with compressed air, which is fairly tech driven, but modern tech patents can achieve 60-80 percent themselves.

    Even pumped water up an incline, which works both with dams (and has the lowest impact for mini-hydro) and solar water distillation, is fairly efficient. If coupled with renewables, which tend to overproduce at certain periods, this allows you to achieve 120 percent renewables, allowing for variation, and export of the stored energy.

    Large trains and trucks are optimized for large-scale fuel cells, but if you want to reduce GHG emissions, you shouldn't be using methane, other than as a capture technology to remove it from escaped gasses, such as with landfills, algae, and, yes, diapers on cows (it's more of a building capture method, really).

    The major missing part, as it was with renewables before, is the lack of capitol. So Gates is spot on by leveraging capital here.

  20. Maybe for you peons, but not in the West on Net Neutrality Repeal Is Official (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Fairly certain Net Neutrality is the Law of the land in the West (CA,OR,WA) and Canada.

    So, maybe you're slow, but we aren't.

  21. How can you steal Tulips? on Hackers Stole Over $20 Million From Misconfigured Ethereum Clients (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean, you say they're worth $200 million, but I say they make a fine bread for cookies.

    All of this is due to certain nations permitting Russia and North Korea to hack to their hearts' content.

  22. All your Brazil is belong to Russia on In a Blow To E-Voting Critics, Brazil Suspends Use of All Paper Ballots (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Sad.

    Talk about fixed elections ...

  23. I own most of the memes on Copyright Law Could Put End To Net Memes (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    All your hashtags are belong to me

    But I agree that we should restore copyright to 17 years max, with one renewal while the person, not corporation, is alive.

  24. EU believes in Actions, not Words on Google Facing Billions in EU Antitrust Fines (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The EU actually will enforce fines, split up firms, and take actions, and Google knows this.

    They should move all their activities to Scotland, and make not getting fines part of the repatriation of Scotland into the EU after Brexit.

    There will be a legal grey area for a few years as Lesser Britain falls apart, and they can easily get most of their Irish employees to move there for a few years.

  25. Oh, you mean THAT peer review on Judge Orders EPA To Produce Science Behind Pruitt's Climate Claims (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    See, Pruitt thought you meant reviewed by the Peer-in-Chief.

    That's the only peer-reviewed science he "believes" in.

    That and the Little Red Handbook of Russian Operatives Destroying America ...