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  1. Dukes up! Thems fightin’ words.

  2. Re:poison alters the mind! on Study Finds Different Types of Alcohol Can Determine Different Moods (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Then why do yeast make it? It’s a good solvent, but water is even better.

  3. Send them ipads on Digital Technology Can Help Reinvent Basic Education In Africa (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Send them the iPads my kids use in school. Damn things are horrible for anything but rote math drilling. Daughter was trying to show her work by zooming in and writing between questions with her finger. The rule in this house is to do it on paper. Don’t let Apple into your schools.

  4. Re:Queuing for food is for fools on Google To Add Restaurant Wait Times To Google Search, Maps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Supermarket queuing is a Soviet phenomenon. I’ll take American queuing.

  5. Re: "Not a good thing" on NYT Op-Ed Argues Amazon 'Took Seattle's Soul' (bendbulletin.com) · · Score: 1

    The taxes don’t have to be put in escrow, that’s just how most do it. What’s scary is the interest rate tied to federal. Are most non-USA mortgages adjustable rate?

  6. Re:Serious question on Missouri Considers Hyperloop Route Between St. Louis and Kansas City (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Papppy’s is good, but Jack Stack is better.

  7. Re: Globalization = Pure Capitalisim = Locustlike on IBM Now Has More Employees In India Than In the US (newsindiatimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting, not interstellar. Fucking iPhone.

  8. Re: Globalization = Pure Capitalisim = Locustlike on IBM Now Has More Employees In India Than In the US (newsindiatimes.com) · · Score: 0

    It’s interstellar that Foxconn is building a factory in the US, and hiring several thousand. I wonder how much automation will be used with that many people? Perhaps USA unskilled labor is now at equivalent cost of China.

  9. Why just recently on A Fourth Gravitational Wave Has Been Detected (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Why has LIGO on recently defected waves if it has been running for many years. Did they do some sort of upgrade?

  10. Well CS people write shitty embedded and DSP code and, and EE write shitty all-other code.

  11. Re: Poor thought process on More Millennials Would Give Up Voting Than Texting (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Since there is no collateral to repossess, they shouldn't allow bankruptcy.

  12. Re:Better use light over really short distances on Intel Cuts Cord On Its Current Cord-Cutting WiGig Products (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not going to be any more trivial using light than 60 GHz. You think mmWave is directional, try a laser beam.

  13. The OPM data breach lost all the shit anyway. It's a treasure trove for identity theft. Where did you go to high school, what was you mothers maiden name, what was you address 20 years ago? It's all in those SF171 forms.

  14. Re:North Korea is a bastion of peace . . . on Japan Activated Air Raid Sirens During North Korea's Missile Test Monday (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yep. Too bad we can't trade PDRK political prisoners for ANTIFA members. The latter could live in their utopia.

  15. Why, you read it for me? No, I skimmed it because I'm on a phone, and also 100x smaller pings the BS detector. There are simple wire antennas that are near the Chu limit. Also, don't publish this in fucking Nature. Publish it in IEEE APS. There are plenty of antenna schemes out there, like many, this is the last you'll here of it.

  16. There was a similar antenna developed a few years ago that used a very thin metal membrane who movement was excited by HF magnetic field. Then bounce a laser off for the detection. It did not have a lot of gain, but had near zero noise (just quantum fluctuations) so was very good for receiving.

  17. Does it break the Chu Harrington limit? How is the noise performance given it's a piezo material?

  18. Why do I envision the WoW guy from Southpark; cyber warrior.

  19. Re:Well, okay - but on Trump Adviser Steve Bannon is Leaving White House Post (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "This week has cost Trump dearly in terms of poll numbers, business support, conservative media support, party support, and even forced his hand on firing Bannon." Those same poll numbers said he would lose the election. He also never had party or business support to being with. The conservative media (non MSM) has increasing support. So I'd say it'a all irrelevant. Trump is a really, really shrewd. Whatever he says is calculated, fooling the liberal intellectuals into thinking is is wild and off-the-cuff. He is two steps ahead of them, and one step ahead of his advisers. Trump is the anti-intellectual. He is like The Mule, and the (Asimov) Foundation has no idea WTF to do with him. I'm enjoying the hell out of it.

  20. Re:I did print a lot; now, almost never on We Print 50 Trillion Pages a Year, and Xerox Is Betting That Continues (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    As an EE, I always print data sheets. It's a lot more convenient to have multiple in a desk, flipping between them and highlighting. Same for technical books. I always buy print. Ebooks are for casual reading where the page will never be revisited.

  21. Is there any color laser that does not cost an arm and a leg in consumables? Seems the technology has been stagnant for 20 years.

  22. Shatner is Jewish too.

  23. I'll wear a speedo to the beach. All 250, pasty pounds of me. What an asshole. I had $30k of Sun stock at one time; all worthless now.

  24. Re:10 PRINT "FIRST POST" on It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80 (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    No it's not pedantic. WTF is binary code? It may as well be octal or hex? The next step below machine code is microcode; the code interpreting the opcodes.

  25. Re:Scared the shit out of me on It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80 (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    May have been an optical card reader; don't recall. It did have the silver/black color scheme of the early Tandys, but don't recall if it was Tandy branded. In any case no adult could get it working so they challenged the students and some senior (textbook computer nerd); I was only in grade school at the time. Yeah, I remember setting all the PCs to "load" prior to class, and the instructor sending all the data. One of those boxes was on eBay recently. Fun times.