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  1. 95% delivery efficiency, my ass. on Disney Develops Room With 'Ubiquitous Wireless' Charging (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Obviously this "delivery efficiency" number is the efficiency after converting the power to RF and before it's converted back into electricity. So basically, 95% is the maximum amount of RF that is intended to hit your phone's charging coil actually will.

  2. Re:Not a Spaceship on Apple's New Spaceship Campus Gets a Name, Lifts Off In April (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I have said it before: the ring is a massive Reality Distortion Field Generator.

    Apple needs it more than ever, now that Jobs has been dead for five years.

    Actually, you're wrong... on both counts. You see, it's actually a giant Stargate so that Jobs can return from his last super secret project, to build the iShip which is in fact a spaceship. Word is the controls are flat panels and there are zero buttons. There have been some issues with the controls exploding if the ship is damaged but that's the users fault for flying it wrong.

  3. Re:This is how AI is supposed to work! on Tinder Wants AI To Set You Up On a Date (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Sounds like someone's result was "no matches, you're repulsive to everyone!" ;)

  4. This is how AI is supposed to work! on Tinder Wants AI To Set You Up On a Date (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    We know all the scenarios where AI fucks us over, it's about time we heard about the scenarios where AI gets us fucked. ;)

  5. That's how expired certificates are supposed to work!

  6. Ruby may not be the hot thing anymore, but it's still a usable language, and there are still people using it.

    The same can be said about COBOL and Fortran.

  7. You grossly underestimate the ability of decent programmers to switch from language to language.

    I don't question the ability of programmers to pick up a languages, I question their will to do so. Unless they are paid to do so or interested in the language, they will have little reason to bother with a new project that's not written in their language of choice. I'm a programmer myself which is why I mentioned it.

  8. It seems interesting but admittedly I stopped looking into it when I learned that it is written in Go. The problem is less with the language and more about the fact that it will radically reduce the number of people that will work on it, especially long term. I don't know what the future is but I think Go will go the way of Ruby: a language du jour.

  9. .. it'll be a fire sale! ;)

  10. What could possibly go wrong? on TransferWise Launches International Money Transfers Via Facebook (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    1) Hack TransferWise chatbot.
    2) Redirect funds.
    3) PROFIT!

  11. Re:The USA hasn't recovered from prohibition. on Why Astronauts Are Banned From Getting Drunk in Space (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Your troop transport aircraft was supposed to be dry. I have heard that your naval vessels are dry.

    It only takes one drunk jackass to cause a billion dollars of damage. Reducing risk is a good thing.

  12. Re:Got tired of that shit, went back to Win 7. on EU Privacy Watchdogs Say Windows 10 Settings Still Raise Concerns (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And ReactOS will NEVER reach API parity with Windows 7/10+.

    Sure it will! Just give it 20 or 30 more years. ;)

  13. Re:Mass Protect time: GIGO Microsoft. on EU Privacy Watchdogs Say Windows 10 Settings Still Raise Concerns (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    We need to create an app called "GIGO".

    A better idea: STOP USING WINDOWS

  14. Nobody should have to suffer the terrible fate of using Microsoft products, not even software pirates or even literal pirates! #OnlyReadTheTitle ;)

  15. Re:Does this mean... on Linux Kernel 4.10 Officially Released With Virtual GPU Support (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does this mean that we'll finally get a Nouveau driver that isn't a crash-prone piece of crap?

    Sure, it's virtually yours! ;)

  16. Re:preposterous! on Serious Computer Glitches Can Be Caused By Cosmic Rays (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    People discount the complexity that we face when attempting to fully debug anything.

    As a programmer, I recognize that getting rid of every bug in a large piece of software is a pipedream. I just want them to get the superficial bugs out of the way (which plague every release they make) so that they can actually focus on fixing the deeper bugs in a days, not months.

    However, with a large corporate entity like Microsoft, it is not unreasonable to insist on responsible programming practices though Microsoft is slow to adopt these. One of these practices is the reuse of existing code. With every release, it seems like they have rewritten the whole OS because it's always full of bugs at every layer. Like you mentioned, keeping the software small is a way to make software securable and despite their name, Microsoft has no interest in doing that.

  17. preposterous! on Serious Computer Glitches Can Be Caused By Cosmic Rays (computerworld.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    When your computer crashes or phone freezes, don't be so quick to blame the manufacturer.

    If my computer crashes or phone freezes, it's almost certainly the fault of the person who released the software without properly debugging it. Cosmic rays are very low on the list of reasons why your device has malfunctioned.

  18. It seems most conspiracy theories of this sort involve a lack of understanding of basic physics.

    Since when did electromagnetic waves fall under "basic physics"? Certainly there is an area somewhere between basic and advanced physics.

  19. Re:Disappointing? on Google Discloses An Unpatched Windows Bug (Again) (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    I would describe Microsoft's pattern of constantly distributing deeply flawed software as "inexcusable".

  20. Re:That has to be a record, too on MAME Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary (mame.net) · · Score: 2

    20 years of dev, and they're at version 0.182.

    Nope, Microsoft has them beat. It's actually Windows v0.07, v0.081 and most recently v0.10, marketing just moved the decimal point. Did you really think they would be past v1.0 and still get kernel panics? ;)

  21. Goes great with the other article. on Thousands Of Disabled People Are Living In 'Virtual Utopias' In Second Life (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    I saw this in my RSS feed and accidently opened the previous article and read, "a fan has finally completed a MAME version of Atari's unreleased game Primal Rage II this week" and thought, "now, that's a utopia I can appreciate!" ;)

  22. Then hack it. on Congressman Calls For Probe Into Trump's Unsecured Android Phone (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Look, if you want to show a buffoon that something is true, you have to actually do it. So, please, somebody brick his phone, to spite him.

  23. This is going to do wonders to prevent the extinction of the chocobos! I can't wait to up the population and finally breed a black chocobo! ;)

  24. Re:'Schizophrenia' is a normal reaction... on B Vitamins Reduce Schizophrenia Symptoms, Study Finds (newsmax.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. It's rare but it's how your brain copes with extreme trauma. You are correct that you are likely to remember traumatic events but that just means that's your brain hasn't reacted to the trauma, it's treating them as normal events. The more intense the experience, the more neural connections, so the more you remember it.

  25. Massive loss of capability. on Mozilla Will Deprecate XUL Add-ons Before the End of 2017 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The new WebExtensions API is capable of many things but there is going to be a lot of lost capabilities. There are some pages comparing the capabilities and you'll find WebExtensions is lacking in many areas.

    WebExtensions versus XUL/XPCOM extensions - see "Services.jsm API" table.
    WebExtensions versus Add-on SDK - see "Low-level APIs" table

    I don't know if Firefox will recover from this kind of seismic shift in APIs. Let's just hope they were rarely utilized parts of the API or that they are currently developing new replacements for the parts that people loved.