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  1. Re:8-Track Tape is next on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, 8track has features I've not seen since.
    In the old caddy, with quadrophonic sound, once those 8tracks hit an age..you could have different songs out of different speakers.. something for everyone!

  2. Re:Hmm... familiar on Jack Dorsey Says Twitter Needs An Edit Function (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Or the comment is moderated. Here's to the +5 insightful "Frist Piss" comment (originally something smart).

    Just grant the user a 5 minute grace within which to edit - I've plenty of occasions I'd spy my error right as I hit save. An immediate edit would fix that, without allowing trolling posts to switch out content.

    Twitter would need to extend that to retweets though, and probably a few other conditions (I don't use twitter, so no clue)

  3. ESA Mars range. Arrows go 300~400, A .22 bullet does 370ish. See? Comparative.

    Except the arrow value is feet per second and the 22 is in meters per second, but shh. I suppose with (in)sufficient gunpowder you could make a slow enough bullet, range might suffer (drastically).

  4. Re:"Lightly customized" on North Korea's Android Tablet Takes a Screenshot Every Time You Open an App (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, but when done with government approval., it's merely privateering. Considering the Koreas only had a ceasefire, and the US is its ally, it rather works.

  5. Re:Missing in summary... on Steam Fined $3 Million For Refusing Refunds (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Huh? It was original Kraft Dinner, they just renamed it for american audience. Cheese is on the ingredients.
    Spoiler: they have on the box advertising 'more cheese' 'extra cheese', and 'three cheeses'. Be a bit hard to have that if there weren't any cheese by some legal metric.

    Sauce: have a box beside me

  6. Re:Rare earths aren't all rare, and not necessary on Solar Is Top Source of New Capacity On the US Grid In 2016 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The point is if the largest majority of RE is coming from China, and China is horrid for polluting while extracting them, then how can anyone claim green tech that uses such is 'very cost effective including externalities'. Start getting RE from non-China sources with better standards - 'rare earth' elements are not actually rare, we just currently find it cheaper to look the other way and buy from China. After that, revisit costs.

    Never bought a smart phone. Never plan to either. Entirely separate issue :P

  7. Re:I wonder if this will change on Solar Is Top Source of New Capacity On the US Grid In 2016 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    That include getting rare earth from China where environmental regulation makes America look utopian eco-hippie?

    Every time I hear solar (and I favour Solar over Coal, regardless my stance on global warming), I picture those lakes of sludge in China

  8. Re:So this must be how the Chinese feel on YouTube Bans North Korea's State-Owned TV Channel (asiancorrespondent.com) · · Score: 1

    Sad. Now I'll never know how Squirrel and Hedgehog ends. The wolves are awesome.

  9. Re:Am I in a goddamn cyberpunk novel? on Twitter Cut Out of Trump Tech Meeting Over Failed Emoji Deal, Says Report (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Could be worse, could be Shadowrun

  10. Re:Having fun yet? on Windows 10 Update Broke DHCP, Knocked Users Off the Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We could use the Steam naming convention and call it an EA. Those (apparently) don't actually need to reach release, and come with a built in army of rabid fans that disclaim any bug of any severity as 'perfectly fine, it's an EA', even if it persists for years.

  11. Re:We're so screwed on Rapid Rise In Methane Emissions In 10 Years Surprises Scientists (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Coffee vs Tea isn't an opinion, it's settled facts. There is a solid consensus amongst caffeine experts that have been coffee-house reviewed. Take your soda shilling elsewhere.

  12. ..and to an activist, everything is 'problematic'?

  13. Re:Flappy birds clone on Nintendo Legend Miyamoto: Mario Needs To Evolve To Survive (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That's only fair...looking at the Steam catalog, the majority of new games are ports of smartphone games, with a good amount of RPG Maker and visual novelettes.

  14. Re:Here's an idea on YouTube's $1 Billion Royalties Are Not Enough, Says Music Industry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Heard all mine from independent artist events, events that have been happening for the last twenty years. Maybe RIAA was of extreme importance in the 70s? (Dunno, underground tape exchanges were how I got mine then), but sure, 99% of music people got from the radio were got from the riaa putting it on the radio. Inertia and laziness on the listener keeps that going, but eventually as it gets easier for an indie to get found and STAY indie... rather explains how frantic music industry has gotten.

  15. Re:Here's an idea on YouTube's $1 Billion Royalties Are Not Enough, Says Music Industry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There's plenty of bands that produce/write/perform/edit their own stuff. Personally I'm waiting on the next comiket (this new years) for its lineup of independent releases. There are even full orchestras of 'amateurs' that aren't signed to some recording company. Now they might not be world touring bands, but they do end up with their stuff purchasable online, performing at various concert halls and clubs, etc.

    The biannual 'ket and M3 [music media-mix market] events are the highlights for my year for music acquisition. Has to be more events like that in other places, or at least the opportunity for such.

  16. User Error on Engineers Explain Why the Galaxy Note 7 Caught Fire (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 2

    So it's not a design flaw, merely people have been handling them wrong. Well, all's forgiven then, we have precedent that bad gripping by users is user fault, not company. Time to dismiss this as non-news.

  17. Re:between 3 and 10 Mb/s is slow? on Millions In US Still Living Life In Internet Slow Lane (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Translation: the internet is great as long as no one uses it. Now please go outside and talk to people, you're eating up valuable slashdot bandwidth that should be going to me.

  18. Re:Ok with porn or not, that was genuinely stupid on Drupal Event Apologizes For Giving Out Copies Of Playboy (drupalcamp.de) · · Score: 1

    They should. It'd be amusing to see the reaction to it: would the same umbrage be there, or would it be lauded as a 'progressive act' an 'ironic statement against the objectification women endured for millenia'? Or would it be offensive to asexuals?

    Personally think it was a dumb move to include porn, regardless of it being porn (it's still everyone's first though on seeing Playboy), but am curious were it Playgirl that had been an 'original website' would the furor been the same?

  19. Re:Seems fair to me on Dutch Science Academy Plans A Women-Only Election (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    So is 'decimate' is back to being only 10% an 'literally' an antonym to 'figuratively', or will you acknowledge that the original intent behind words and their common use can differ over time?

  20. Re:Poor Nick Denton on Hulk Hogan Settles With Gawker For $31 Million (go.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey now, Nick had standards! He went on record to state he would 'definitely not publish a sex tape of a four year old. Probably.'

    A pillar of the journalistic community has fallen. Now if only the rest of the rags in that collective of cybertrash would.

  21. Re: Pretty cool on Plex Cloud Means Saying Goodbye To the Always-On PC (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    About 1 billion ISK

  22. Re:Cut the bullshit, facebook. on Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg On 'Napalm Girl' Photo: 'We Don't Always Get it Right' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Not just that. Some games and products use Facebook as their contact/login system. If you want to report a bug, get support, even post on their forums? You best have a facebook account, even if faked details and never used but for this purpose. Granted that's a statement more on the companies involved than any malfeasance on Facebook's part, but still a point towards having to use it.

  23. Wait... lens flare??

    Damn you, Micheal Bay!

  24. Parent post is a perfect example of a post that would be ignored by anyone educated, especially if educated in the realm of fallacious arguments.

  25. Re:Culture on Stanford's New Alcohol Policy Isn't Based On Much Research (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    'other factors' like the improvements in car safety in the last 30 years. Or regular targeted checkpoints to remove drunk drivers from the road. Or the aging population bringing a shift in driver mentality. Constant campaigning commercials to raise awareness of the risks of driving under the influence. Bar tenders being forced to cut off and/or take the keys from drunks. Homeowners being liable for their drunken guests' actions, etc. I mean hell, that same website states "The rate of drunk driving is highest among 26 to 29 year olds (20.7 percent)" - and even if the drinking age is 21, it isn't like kids as young as middle school have trouble getting access to alcohol, must less late teens.

    Personally found this to be an interesting read on various factors. Brought up a few things I hadn't thought of before reading it.