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  1. Error in TFS on Self-Driving Tesla Owners Share Videos of Reckless Driving (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In April, a Volvo driver had criticized Tesla for releasing a dangerous "wannabe" Autopilot system.

    No, a Volvo engineer as the linked article (and its URL) says.

  2. Re:Still call the 440Hz "A" note? on Remember When You Could Call the Time? · · Score: 1

    As the one posting the number I love it that you actually called!

  3. Re:Still call the 440Hz "A" note? on Remember When You Could Call the Time? · · Score: 1

    True, not on the en page, it is on the de one, and actually it says that 461 was used until the 60ies generally, but now only by the Original Hoch- und Deutschmeister:
    https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  4. Re:Still call the 440Hz "A" note? on Remember When You Could Call the Time? · · Score: 1

    Read wiki

  5. Re:Still call the 440Hz "A" note? on Remember When You Could Call the Time? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Musicians do, and those listening to music also do even if they are not aware of it. If you read the wiki article you will also see that it's more complex than Germans making a useless standard.

  6. Re:Still call the 440Hz "A" note? on Remember When You Could Call the Time? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Can you still call for a proper "A" note in Austria?

    Apparently yes: +43 1 21110 1507

    A service by the Federal Office for Calibration and Measurement, they also offer time and a 1000 Hz tone. According to their official journal from 2010, page 5, "Verbreitung von Normalsignalen"
    http://www.metrologie.at/index...

    Well, at least you get an a' note at 440 Hz. However, Austrian (and German) orchestras use 443 Hz for a', and military and brass music uses 461 Hz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  7. Threema is missing on Battle of the Secure Messaging Apps: Signal Triumphs Over WhatsApp, Allo (theintercept.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    n/t

  8. Tidal, vinyl + flac/mp3, Google Music sync on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Music Streaming Service? · · Score: 1

    Tidal Hifi for most streaming needs, when I find that I listen a lot to an album I usually buy the vinyl (which these days gets you the flac or mp3 files as well).

    Because Tidal is great in may ways but its offline mode SUCKS (it needs at least a slow data connection for DRM verification at all times even if you downloaded the data in advance, and therefore fails on planes and in areas w/o coverage) I also use the free Google Music to sync my mp3 files for emergencies.

  9. Re:Well that solves one problem on Volkswagen Bets Big On Electric Cars, Plans 30 Models By 2025 (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Plug-in hybrids are called plug-in hybrids. Hybrids that can't be plugged in are not called that. This much I know.

  10. Re:Well that solves one problem on Volkswagen Bets Big On Electric Cars, Plans 30 Models By 2025 (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you

  11. Re:Well that solves one problem on Volkswagen Bets Big On Electric Cars, Plans 30 Models By 2025 (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    So do they call them "plug-in hybrid" or "plug-in" vehicles? If the former then ok, but it's not what you first said.

  12. Re:Well that solves one problem on Volkswagen Bets Big On Electric Cars, Plans 30 Models By 2025 (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Except they specifically refer to them as "plug in" electric vehicles. Which shows they have no intention to ditch their engines. They may even create travesties like the plug in prius (w/ 11mi range; not even worth plugging in).

    What?`Where would the electric energy come from except from "plugging in". You plug in a Tesla as well.
    And ditching IC engines completely will come when an electric drive over a distance of a few hundred kilometers does not require a day of advance planning even for a 80,000 EUR car like the Model S.

  13. >> Kurzweil claims that he spends "a few thousand dollars per day" (or roughly a million dollar a year) on diet pills and eating right. Kurzweil takes 100 pills a day (down from 250 a few years ago...

    Typical American "Money is the answer to everything" mindset. The obvious proof that it doesn't work is that he still actually looks his age.
    It seems to me that the best thing you can do for yourself is eat simply and regularly exercise, avoid drugs, live a happy stress-free life (which includes not worrying about things you can't change, such as aging/death and the insane belief that there's a pill for everything).

    This. Chances are I will outlive Kurzweil and have a good laugh.

  14. The prop stays on the bottom of the ocean and doesn't move around. Unless you're specifically searching the bottom of the ocean, you wouldn't have any reason to find it when looking for living monsters.

    It's not an ocean.

  15. Re:Will it work better than my Thinkpad X? on Ubuntu Tablet Now Available For Pre-Order · · Score: 1

    Your desktop Ubuntu is not the same as phone/tablet Ubuntu, the unification is yet to happen, maybe with 16.10

  16. I cannot believe this has been a feature. Unable to arrange my desktop how I want?...

      Why do people tolerate been told what to do?

    Because they are not. If you like Unity the way it is, use it. If not, use Ubuntu with a different DE. Not rocket science.

    From a UI design POV there certainly are advantages to lock down some things. Whether it is worth the trade-off must be carefully considered of course.

  17. n/t

  18. Re:Duh. Because God made it on Swedish Scientist Suggests That There Is Only One Earth (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Would they make universes that have mice?

  19. Re:This is were we should be going on Editing Genes In Human Embryos Doesn't Mean Designer Babies · · Score: 1

    And developing such a craft will take how many years?

  20. Re:This is were we should be going on Editing Genes In Human Embryos Doesn't Mean Designer Babies · · Score: 1

    We can reach it within the next 10 if we really wanted to.

    It's more than 4 light years away and we can reach it within the next 10? Right.

  21. Faithfully? on Scientists Have Discovered How To 'Delete' Unwanted Memories (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Informative

    "For much of human history, memory has been seen as a tape recorder that faithfully registers information and replays it intact,"

    Um, no. It has been well known that memory is unreliable.

  22. Re:Its always been like this on Would You Bet Against Sex Robots? AI 'Could Leave Half Of World Unemployed' · · Score: 1

    I suggest you read the rest of the text.

  23. Re:Its always been like this on Would You Bet Against Sex Robots? AI 'Could Leave Half Of World Unemployed' · · Score: 3, Informative

    Citation please? beyond a few islanders that lived with abundant food surrounding them in regions with warm climates all year around I don't know of any that this is true for. In fact it used to be more common to work 365 days a year.

    Here is a citation that contradicts your "common to work 365 days":

    During one period of unusually high wages (the late fourteenth century), many laborers refused to work "by the year or the half year or by any of the usual terms but only by the day." And they worked only as many days as were necessary to earn their customary income -- which in this case amounted to about 120 days a year, for a probable total of only 1,440 hours annually (this estimate assumes a 12-hour day because the days worked were probably during spring, summer and fall). A thirteenth-century estime finds that whole peasant families did not put in more than 150 days per year on their land. Manorial records from fourteenth-century England indicate an extremely short working year -- 175 days -- for servile laborers. Later evidence for farmer-miners, a group with control over their worktime, indicates they worked only 180 days a year.

    http://groups.csail.mit.edu/ma...

  24. Re:Uh... let me think about it on Drivers Need To Forget Their GPS · · Score: 1

    Ardennes? She drove from Belgium to Croatia, she must have passed the frickin' Alps unless she was really inventive.

  25. Re:Could still use improvement on Google Will Soon Let You Know By Default When Websites Are Unencrypted (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    local files are file:///