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  1. Unblocked on French ISPs Ordered To Block Sci-Hub, LibGen (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Cough, unblocked.krd, cough.

    @ThePirateProxy lists the latest domain.

  2. AKA legalized bribery.

  3. Yes but nature will stop us before we get anywhere close. And we won't like the way that'll go down.

  4. Re:Stream SD over DSL on It's the Beginning of the End of Satellite TV in the US (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    And for all your high def needs there's torrents.

  5. Re:Sounds interesting but... on Micron Kicks Off Mass Production of 12Gb DRAM Chips (anandtech.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm rather partial to the LPXDRWTFBBQ product family.

  6. Re:Summary says "101,325 pascals (Pa)" on Earth's Inner Core Is Solid, But Squishier Than Previously Thought (abc.net.au) · · Score: 2

    How much is that in football fields? Or, since we're talking pressure, olympic swimming pools per football field?

  7. Not what you think it is: https://www.dictionary.com/bro...

  8. 2-3x higher energy on Solid-State Battery Startup Claims Breakthrough For Electric Vehicles (electrek.co) · · Score: 0

    At 3x higher mass or volume that would be boring.
    Or did they possibly mean energy density?

  9. 14nm.

  10. Re:It's your own fault for paying attention. on 'It's Time to End the Yearly Smartphone Launch Event' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    My phone has a cup holder. It's just very small and rectangular. Where can I buy a cup that's about a half inch squared?

  11. Re:All news is propaganda... on Social Media Manipulation Rising Globally, New Oxford Report Warns (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    It's relatively easy. Just don't rely on US news.

  12. Re:All news is propaganda... on Social Media Manipulation Rising Globally, New Oxford Report Warns (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    You bought it hook, line and sinker. Now you're open to being told anything, no matter its relation to reality.

  13. Re:Lots of political articles on Social Media Manipulation Rising Globally, New Oxford Report Warns (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    What if, gasp, that position is objectively correct and the current administration is really abysmally bad?

  14. Re:The biggest issue IMHO on Is C++ a 'Really Terrible Language'? (gamesindustry.biz) · · Score: 1

    Even if you have official subset guidelines, it still comes down to individual programmers' preferences.

  15. The biggest issue IMHO on Is C++ a 'Really Terrible Language'? (gamesindustry.biz) · · Score: 1

    C++ is so big/complex/rich that different people or groups use different subsets, from 'better ANSI C' to 'Object hierarchies everywhere with lots of templates.' I've seen code that obviously started as "my first OO project" with classes including copy constructors and getters/setters for the most primitive structures that were later changed with basic C code and friend declarations so that this code could work around the class structure. And a bit of STL here and Boost there.

    Give me C any day of the week; I can handle memory management and pointers with KISS.

  16. Re:The only things in nature, that grow infinitely on Reddit Promises Post Sponsors a 'Walled Garden' of Conversation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget cancer.

    But of course mainstream economics assumes infinite growth. Mainstream politics is based on mainstream economics.

    Good luck with that.

  17. Re:Wasn't there a movie about that? on Happy Birthday Alan Turing! How Modern Technology Could Win WWII In 13 Minutes (digitalocean.com) · · Score: 2

    John Birmingham's "Axis Of Time" trilogy expands on the idea. A failed physics experiment creates a wormhole that transports a modern carrier battle group into the middle of Admiral Spruance's fleet on its way to Midway. Great story.

  18. Re:Cargo cost per distance traveled on Norway Tests Tiny Electric Plane, Sees Passenger Flights by 2025 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Power density won't improve much. It's not hard to check each combination of elements, caculate the energy stored per electron moved between them, and divide by the atomic or molecular weight of the substance. At best a small factor (2x? 3x?) improvement is possible over what we have now, like Li-Ion.

    https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/201...

  19. Re:Future failure... on Dell is Reportedly Working on a Dual-Screen Windows ARM Device (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    If it flops the HW will be available for cheap and somebody will port Linux to it. Win!
    Of course Dell could preclude the flop by offering it with Linux (I'd really like such a device) or Android, or at least supporting Linux development.

  20. Re:Off they come on Cops Will Soon ID You Via Your Roof Rack (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I never had roof racks on my bicycle. Checkmate, cops.

  21. Several people have said that the "acoustic weapons" can't be acoustic but are probably electromagnetic, whether deliberate or accidental. They could be a side effect of listening devices or just a radar gone wild.

  22. Re:Security in a complex system is hard on Microsoft's Windows 7 Meltdown Fixes From January and February Made PCs More Insecure (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Open source often manages to give you all three.

  23. Re:Fusion likely uneconomical vs. alternatives on MIT Plans To Build Nuclear Fusion Plant By 2033 · · Score: 1

    You can create your base load with renewables most of the time and only crank up your gas turbines when you have a shortage. That's somewhat expensive but uses little nat gas and creates little CO2 on average.

  24. Only 15 years now! on MIT Plans To Build Nuclear Fusion Plant By 2033 · · Score: 1

    It's been "in 20 years" for 40 years so the slope is 1 year every 8 years. That means we should take 120 years for the remaining "in 15 years".

    Now note that world total liquids will peak in the next decade and so will coal probably. In 15 years you won't even recognize the world economy.

  25. Re:Slashdot's Back? on EU Warns Tech Giants To Remove Terror Content in 1 Hour -- or Else (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Machine Learning.