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  1. I prefer this one from 1939 on Dutch Scientist Proposes Circular Runways For Airport Efficiency (curbed.com) · · Score: 2

    It's not circular but equally out-of-the-box. Skyscraper Airport

  2. Re:Lack of originality did the deed. on Enemy Number One is Netflix: The Monster That's Eating Hollywood (business-standard.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Now check out Netflix's stuff.

    Daredevil? House of Cards? Fuller House? Arrested Development? All of them are reboots/sequels or remakes. What makes them good or bad is not whether they are remakes. Hollywood has been doing remakes from the beginning (The Wizard of Oz and The Maltese Falcon are both remakes of earlier, less successful attempts to adapt those books to the screen).

  3. No common countries on the two lists on UK Flight Ban On Devices To Be Announced (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It only applies to countries that are part of Trump's Muslim ban. The US government must have offered the UK something to follow suit and give their scheme legitimacy... We are kind of desperate with Brexit coming up and a desperate need for trade deals.

    Actually, there are NO countries on the new flight restriction list (Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Morocco) that were on the Travel ban (Iran, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, Sudan and sometimes Iraq). It's possible the new restrictions are based on actual intel this time.

  4. Re:Wait...new iPad? on Apple iPad is a Faster, Cheaper iPad Air 2 (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    But the iPhone 2 was called the iPhone 3G (and the iPhone 3 was the iPhone 3GS).

  5. I prefer Eckert IV which is an equal-area projection like Peters but with less of the coastline distortion. The trade-off is the border is not quite a rectangle, though it's less circular than Winkel (which wastes a lot of map real estate in the corners). Eckert is what National Geographic use on many of their wall maps. Virtually any of these options is preferable to Mercator though.

  6. Southern Whitehouse on FBI Director Comey Confirms Investigation Into Trump Campaign (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    He prefers the Southern White House because it's closer to his core supporters. The last president to spend so much time in the Southern White House was Jefferson Davis.

  7. Re: clearly the truckers are right on Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    SYNTAX ERROR: No closing parenthesis found.

  8. 9:16 (Vertical) on Netflix Will Explore Mobile-Specific Cuts of Its Original Series (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You misunderstand. They're cropping them to be viewed vertically so people don't have to rotate their phones.

  9. What if we stream using a protocol with a known vulnerability? What if we develop a new streaming protocol and deliberately include a vulnerability?

    All streaming protocols have this vulnerability. It's called the 'analog hole'.

  10. Alternative Facts on Uber's Silicon Valley Employees May Be Looking to Jump Ship (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Plus, at the end of the day Uber is already profitable in the US. They are bleeding money competing for market share in Europe and China. The whole "profitable in the US" thing escapes the headlines but the are making bank here and they will outside the US too once the market share fight is over.

    It escapes the headlines for the same reason the Bowling Green Massacre escapes the headlines; it just isn't true. Uber loses money in every major market they operate in. There are only two possible paths to profitability: 1) replace drivers (Uber's main cost) with self-driving cars (something which will not be as cheap or happen as fast as Uber imagines) or 2) continue losing money until its competitors are forced out of business and they can raise prices. At this point Uber (and more importantly its investors) are like gamblers at the blackjack table who double their bet every time they lose. They'll eventually either win big or run out of money, but my bet is on the house.

  11. Dealers were upset at being cut out of the loop by Telsa (to the point of getting state legislatures to draft laws blocking Telsa's stores), just imagine how insurance companies are going to react.

  12. Re:3 years probation on Krebs: 'Men Who Sent SWAT Team, Heroin to My Home Sentenced' (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    To be fair, it's not his fault that American police forces have become an over-armed, under-trained occupying army ready to rain down deadly violence with few checks and balances.

  13. Don't Worry on Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Even the high end stuff at Nordstroms today isn't made to the same spec as stuff was back then.

    Don't worry, Nordstroms just got rid of a line of low-quality imported goods they used to sell with some blonde bimbo's name on it, so the quality is definitely improving.

  14. Citation Required on Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Now we are trying protectionism. Consumer good are still relatively cheap but the jobs are gradually coming back. Salaries ticked up for the first time since 90s.

    Citation Required. Even if it were true, it defies all economic sense that 4 weeks of protectionist policy changes (most of which haven't even been implemented yet) were the cause of a salary rise. Unless you're talking about CEOs giving themselves a raise in preparation for the plundering that's about to commence.

  15. America beat you to it Sweden on No CEO: The Swedish Company Where Nobody Is In Charge (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since January, the USA is an entire country where no one is in charge.

  16. Presumably, the alerts could use a "store and forward" mode, so if one person gets the alert in one town and then travels to the next town, it would start spreading again. Of course, the alert would have to have some sort of a time limit, otherwise it would keep spreading and re-spreading indefinitely.

  17. How is data "at the border"? on US Visitors May Have to Hand Over Social Media Passwords: DHS (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How exactly is data sitting on a server in silicon valley "at the border" just because the person who created that data is at the border? By that logic, you can search their car, house, workplace and bank account without a warrant as long as they are standing at the border when you do it.

  18. No need for millions of them. This is clearly aimed at the 1% being taxied from the penthouse of one shining building to another while the plebs sit in traffic-snarled, crumbling infrastructure. Think Metropolis, not Jetsons.

  19. Re:Robots or software? on Are Robots Coming To Take Investor Jobs on Wall Street? (nypost.com) · · Score: 1
    ro-bot

    noun: robot; plural noun: robots

    a machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by a computer.

    Tell me why that doesn't describe this application?

  20. Not for long on 'The End Of The Level Playing Field' (avc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't that mostly a local problem in the single country where the FCC has authority?

    Not for long. The US is very adept at exporting its horrible laws to other countries by writing them into trade agreements.

  21. That seems like an inherent contradiction in terms. Unconstitutional, I can understand, or even calling it just plain wrong, but unlawful?

    President's can't make law, that's the job of the legislative branch (congress) not the executive branch. That's why they're called Executive Orders rather than laws, and yes, they can be both unlawful AND unconstitutional (and just plain wrong).

  22. Hurry up and do it. There's nothing special about Silicon Valley. Those talented people you want to keep out will find other places to go that are more friendly to building global businesses.

  23. Isn't it interesting that Republicans are opposed to government regulations or anything that stands in the way of companies making more money, except when it gets in the way of one of their racist agendas. Then the regulations can't come fast enough.

  24. Re:It IS hipsterism (if that's a word) on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Cassettes are reusable, CD-Rs are not. CD-RWs are reusable, but they don't work in many CD players (big quality/tolerance difference between a CD-audio player and a CD-ROM drive).

  25. Cue the trolls on Russia Demands LinkedIn App Takedown, Apple and Google Comply (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    Cue all the paid Russian/Trump trolls who will now post and tell us that this is somehow a good thing.