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  1. Re:The problem is the battery itself on Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Phone Catches Fire on Southwest Plane (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    never had a cheap chinese battery self-ignite

  2. Re:Ranting on Linus Torvalds Says 'Buggy Crap' Made It Into Linux 4.8 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The corporate fascists running this country don't care whether you vote for the buffoon or the crook, really doesn't matter

  3. Re:Poor tact but right reaction on Linus Torvalds Says 'Buggy Crap' Made It Into Linux 4.8 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    those kind of people that think they have to have the latest kernel are so amusing though, bleeding edge often means you'll bleed

  4. Re:Ranting on Linus Torvalds Says 'Buggy Crap' Made It Into Linux 4.8 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Hitler proved it was, got a whole nation to follow him

  5. Re:Good use for taxes on There's Even More Evidence That Fitness Trackers Don't Work (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    news for you, Russians were and are boozers, before and after communism. I wouldn't trust a teetotaler Russian (or Irishman) as far as I could throw him anyway. In fact you show me someone in former soviet regime country who goes 48 hours or more without alcohol and I'll show you a religious terrorist whackjob ready to blow shit up and kill people. It's that serious.

    we already pay people to not work and stuff themselves with twinkies and orange drink on the government dime. my idea has to be better than that. And usually I'm conservative and want government to be strictly limited, but we're already way past that to the point of stupidity, paying farmers not to grow, government employees not to do their job, people not to work, etc.

  6. Re:Define "work" on There's Even More Evidence That Fitness Trackers Don't Work (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    two of my friends did, they thought of it like game and kept trying to push score up higher and beat their friend. been going on for almost 3 years now.

    Some people, it motivates them.

  7. Good use for taxes on There's Even More Evidence That Fitness Trackers Don't Work (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    So you're saying if the government offered the populace a small cash incentive to exercise, people would do it (in USA resulting benefits for the current massive third obese and out of shape chunk of the populace would far outweigh the minuscule cost)

  8. Re:Where to now? on Verizon Workers Can Now Be Fired If They Fix Copper Phone Lines (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    no, the large corporations with governments in their pockets are in fact run by scum

  9. "Trump shill" no, guess again. Trump is a buffoon. No one should vote for him. Hillary is a crook, no one should vote for her. You give one example of something done in foreign country. The State department wanted to know of a bit more than that.

  10. My car has a driver when it's not operating autonomously. is it a driverless car?

  11. Re:GOV'T NEEDS MORE MONEY!!! Pay your fair share! on Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails For US Intelligence (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    trivial to fund those, right now only the first $118,500 of income is taxable for Social Security. Raise that limit and the problem goes away, and it only affects the upper middle class and upper class.

    Problem solved. There is no real problem.

  12. Re:Charity? on Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Clinton shill,

    You precious American Institute of Philanthropy, now called CharityWatch, also put the Clinton Foundation on its watch list because of concerns about donations by foreign governments. The State Department itself had these concerns too, until Hillary used her power conveniently.

    The 88% of money not spent on admin went where? The State Department wanted transparency for that at one time...

  13. Re: EM Drive -v ION drive = 1st space robot wars on Revolutionary Ion Thruster To Be Tested On International Space Station (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    No, he was accused of fraud and patent infringement and poor management.... not being nuts. He received awards for his invention.

    Some of his predictions are funny: "As a growing competitor to the tube amplifier comes now the Bell Laboratories’ transistor, a three-electrode germanium crystal of amazing amplification power, of wheat-grain size and low cost. Yet its frequency limitations, a few hundred kilocycles, and its strict power limitations will never permit its general replacement of the Audion amplifier."

  14. Re: The house always wins on Online Journalists Launch An Onslaught Against Donald Trump (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    there is no law or rule requiring release of tax returns, it's merely a tradition. I'd agree it should be a law.

  15. Re:The house always wins on Online Journalists Launch An Onslaught Against Donald Trump (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Finance isn't your thing, it's beyond you. Trump could have had a stellar decade and intentionally put those losses in one year.

  16. Re:The house always wins on Online Journalists Launch An Onslaught Against Donald Trump (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump is a buffoon and money grubbing opportunist but you are saying crooked? That would imply illegal. I think you are confused. Legal tax exemption and loopholes are not illegal. The Clintons do illegal things.

  17. Re:What's the threat model? on Pennsylvania's Voting Machines Are Running Windows XP (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    all that gets you nothing in an election polling machine. the OS is almost irrelevant for this use case.

    Any computer can be compromised with physical access regardless of OS

  18. nope, you want very light ion because the specific impulse/efficiency advantage is entirely due to high exhaust *velocity* not mass

  19. Re: EM Drive -v ION drive = 1st space robot wars on Revolutionary Ion Thruster To Be Tested On International Space Station (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Fleming wasn't considered crackpot at the time

  20. Re:EM Drive -v ION drive = 1st space robot wars on Revolutionary Ion Thruster To Be Tested On International Space Station (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    vulcanized rubber - Goodyear was a loon, read his story sometime. wore gooey smelling clothing articles made of rubber his was experimenting with, house had globs of rubber on wall, in kitchen, poisoned himself with his experiments

    AC motor, generation and transmission tech - many of Tesla's ideas just wrong, we use others daily. He was a weirdo

    science of genetics - Mendel was dismissed as crackpot during his life (you know of the monk's S&M cocaine orgies right?), value of his work realized almost two decades after death

    statistical thermodynamics - Boltzman, shamed as crazy guy in life, hung himself. value of work realized after death

  21. Re:what a waste of article on Are Flawed Languages Creating Bad Software? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    if a person or organization doesn't hit the conditions to trigger a bug that causes crash, the OS will appear "rock solid" even if it doesn't to you.

    So I admin hundreds of servers, I have my view of what has been "rock solid" though your experience or some study's claims might be different

    From my point of view, major linux distros not quite rock solid

    AIX, rock solid though a pain to admin

    Windows - shaky and unstable

    openbsd, rock solid, though you can read their errata list and find fixes for things that would crash it. we never met those conditions

    freebsd - rock solid in production, in though testing I could trigger SMP lockup pre-version 9.1

  22. Re:Yet more proof on Multiple Linux Distributions Affected By Crippling Bug In Systemd (agwa.name) · · Score: 1

    That's not nice at all, have some respect and don't use derogatory name-calling! We should have nothing but compassion for people like Poettering and the other systemd developers and indeed all with severe mental retardation.

  23. Re:First of many on Multiple Linux Distributions Affected By Crippling Bug In Systemd (agwa.name) · · Score: 1

    the first release of Unix was in the 70s

  24. Re:not primarily for SETI on China's Giant Radio Telescope Begins Searching For Signals From Space (ctvnews.ca) · · Score: 1

    if SETI never finds anything in a few decades, I'll agree with you.

    I believe optical SETI makes more sense than radio SETI

  25. in my world methane is based on carbon atom

    do tell about yours