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  1. Re:Bias? on NASA Successfully Launches Parker Solar Probe (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    So I guess, like Buzz Lightyear, it is falling....with style.

  2. Re:Threw Them Away :-( on 'Why I Use the IBM Model M Keyboard That's Older Than I Am' (yeokhengmeng.com) · · Score: 1

    Would that be the (Jeremy) Clarkson University? I know what he would say. "The Model M is the best keyboard.........IN THE WORLD!"

  3. I find that the unicomp keyboards feel "good enough" compared to the model M keyboards. The only problem is having it in the bedroom when the significant other is trying to take a nap.

  4. Re:Here's hoping for success! on Kenya To Use Alphabet's Balloons For Rural Internet (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    I am living in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. Windstream is the sole provider and we get DSL that delivers 140kbps max.

  5. Re:This could pay for desalination on Researchers Fish Yellowcake Uranium From the Sea With a Piece of Yarn (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Actually mining most iron deposits are just the same thing as pulling the stuff from the sea. They come from a time when oxygen was released into the atmosphere, the world rusted and the rust settled onto the bottom of the sea.

  6. This makes sense to me. It seems that communities (cities or states or whatever) seem to think they have the ability to determine whether self-driving vehicles are allowed on their streets. (This is not something I had thought about until the last couple of years.) Given that, the same governments should be allowed to determine if the sale of a device that turns a vehicle into a self-driving vehicle is allowed.

  7. Except for the fact that a higher fraction of intercity cargo in the US is carried on trains than in Europe. Our freight trains are very competitive with trucking without government subsidies. In the case of Amtrak this makes it worse in that they will buy time on the freight tracks, but lack to priority on the tracks to keep to schedules at times.

  8. So what is better, recycling as e-waste or just throwing into the landfill? There are a variety of things for which I am no longer certain. For example, what to do with old smoke detectors.

  9. How do you know if your echo has been patched? on Researchers Hacked Amazon's Alexa To Spy On Users, Again (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if I can say "Alexa, are you up to date on your patches?" It turns out "she" didn't know what I was talking about.

  10. Re:Wise up on Roku Now Licensing Its Media Player Design · · Score: 1

    I bought the Roku XD|S because it has a toslink connector on the back.

  11. Re:Hmmm... on California To Drop State Rock Over Asbestos Concerns · · Score: 1

    At work I learned of simple and chemical asphyxiants. I presume that most rocks (along with concrete) would represent simple asphyxiants. I think it will become a bigger deal once transporter technology is ubiquitous.

  12. re:It had a collision if NOMAD. on Voyager 2 Speaking In Tongues · · Score: 1

    www.sorehands.com (142825) writes: Alter Relationship After the collision they repaired each other. That is where the confusion came from. ------------------- Our Roomba at home is called Tan-Ru (sp?) because it too was a robotic probe whose mission was to sterilize.

  13. Re:More like a flaw in statistics on Flaw In Emergency Response System May Have Killed Hundreds · · Score: 1

    Having responded as a volunteer firefighter/emergency medical provider (you have volunteered, right?), I can say that in the USA, it is a 911 caller working with an EMS dispatcher that determines the alacrity of an ambulance response. Presumably the dispatcher uses a tool such as the one described in TFA, but the caller is the one describing the situation. Insurance has absolutely nothing to do with the situation. If your condition is immediately life threatening you will be treated (even without your consent if you are unconscious). I know that everyone wants to say that the US system of emergency medicine is broken, but it isn't. I imagine that you will be billed an unknowable quantity at some time in the future, but that is after you have survived what might have been a deadly situation.

  14. Complex life... on Complex Life Found Under 600 Feet of Antarctic Ice · · Score: 1

    You mean there is an imaginary component?

  15. I loved the ad. on Google Airs Super Bowl Ad · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It was well done. It described what many people use Google for.

  16. A bit of poetry on Sony Prototype Sends Electricity Through the Air · · Score: 1

    "But I killed the galoot when he started to shoot electricity into my walls." Robert Service (The Ballad of Pious Pete is an excellent poem)

  17. Re:Antithetical to "education". on Professor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Sharing Drone Plans With Students · · Score: 1

    I am glad that the academics who worked on the Manhattan Project did not feel this way. Although it is difficult to keep secrets for forever, some need to be kept (to at the very least make "the other side" spend a lot of money to discover them).