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  1. Re:Think about the coal miners... on World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe he's ethical

    Yeah, that must be it.

    http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/1...

  2. Re:Time for war on Pentagon: Chinese Ship Captures US Underwater Drone Fom Sea (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    They also have tens of millions of young men with no hope of finding a wife and starting a family.

    In America, we call those, "gamers".

  3. Re:Time for war on Pentagon: Chinese Ship Captures US Underwater Drone Fom Sea (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    We need to team up with Russia and attack China.

    It won't work. China built a Wall.

  4. Apple is exploring the idea of having two SIM card slots in its iPhones.

    One sim is for your cellular carrier and the other is a direct line to the surveillance agencies and AppleCare.

  5. Re:Think about the coal miners... on World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Trump is a businessman.

    He couldn't make money running casinos.

    Think about that.

  6. Re:Cheaper than wind? on World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    put a couple of ~100 Watt Panels, (~$300 including Controller and Stuff.), on my Yacht recently

    Big deal, showoff. I put solar panels on my sedan chair recently.

  7. Re:basically doing the same as china? on Facebook Is Clamping Down On Fake News, Partners With Fact Checkers To Flag Stories (slate.com) · · Score: 2

    Given the fact that Facebook exists today is because it has been protected by government

    Every corporation exists today because it is protected by the government. Without the protection from personal liability granted by the government, they wouldn't exist.

  8. Re:Why won't they just show their proof? on White House Supports Claim Putin Directed US Election Hack (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    From your citations:

    "However, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said that "senior administration officials have regularly provided extensive, detailed classified and unclassified briefings to members and staff from both parties on Capitol Hill since this past summer and have continued to do so after Election Day."

    "Last week, the President ordered a full Intelligence Community review of foreign efforts to influence recent presidential elections — from 2008 to present," the director's office said in a statement Wednesday. "Once the review is complete in the coming weeks, the Intelligence Community stands ready to brief Congress — and will make those findings available to the public consistent with protecting intelligence sources and methods. We will not offer any comment until the review is complete."

  9. Re:Why won't they just show their proof? on White House Supports Claim Putin Directed US Election Hack (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    CIA and NSA brass has refused to testify in front of congress

    Do you have a citation to that effect? (watch this, everybody).

  10. Re:Testify Under Oath about it on White House Supports Claim Putin Directed US Election Hack (bbc.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    The intelligence agencies are REFUSING to testify to Congress about this "leaked" information.

    Testifying to Congress requires a) that Congress be in session, which it's not, and b) Congress has to hold hearings.

    No intelligence agency has "refused to testify to Congress". You're reading the Breitbart fake news again.

  11. Re:basically doing the same as china? on Facebook Is Clamping Down On Fake News, Partners With Fact Checkers To Flag Stories (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    the Framers clearly intended the 2nd Amendment to cover artillery and full-scale warships as well as small arms.

    It's funny that Supreme Courts of all political stripes didn't see it that way for over 200 years of our history, but I'm sure you know best.

  12. Re:basically doing the same as china? on Facebook Is Clamping Down On Fake News, Partners With Fact Checkers To Flag Stories (slate.com) · · Score: 2

    The founders never imagined the Internet Either, doesn't mean freedoms die with new technology. OR are you suggesting the government has a duty to restrict people from speaking their minds on the internet, because of how much more dangerous it is?

    But the founders made it very clear that the unalienable rights were protected from violation by the government. Facebook is not the government, can not be construed to be the government and their business is their property.

    You can post whatever you want on the Internet. You can go to Gab, you can go to Breitbart, you can go to Stormfront or 4chan or voat or any of the other outlets where your opinions will be heard and respected.

    You have no right to post on Facebook.

  13. I suspect it will just become another 4chan, a place where the bottom dwellers come for the right wing circle jerk.

    It's already turned into exactly that.

    Even alt-Right spokesperson and porn star Tila Tequila has quit gab because it was too much of a sewer. Think about that a second.

  14. Re:basically doing the same as china? on Facebook Is Clamping Down On Fake News, Partners With Fact Checkers To Flag Stories (slate.com) · · Score: 2

    Companies like Facebook today have a degree of power over communication never imagined by the founders who prevented only the government (in most cases) from infringing upon free speech.

    The founders also never imagined cheap semi-automatic rifles or .50 caliber sniper rifles being in the hands of civilians.

    But I agree with you that the Constitution needs to be a living document that takes into consideration changing times.

  15. That link is staying un-clicked, my friend.

    Your loss.

  16. Wait a minute. There's no penis bone? Then how do you explain THIS?

    https://keimiller.files.wordpr...

  17. Re:"I want to help you do well" on Twitter Cut Out of Trump Tech Meeting Over Failed Emoji Deal, Says Report (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, you're actually dumb enough to believe that badly shopped photo is real? The original is Kenny G.

    It's funny that of all the things I listed, the one that bothers you is the GG Allin photo.

    As if Kenny G is any better than GG Allin.

  18. "I want to help you do well" on Twitter Cut Out of Trump Tech Meeting Over Failed Emoji Deal, Says Report (politico.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I love everything about this story of the "tech summit" at Trump Tower.

    1). Trump actually wanted Twitter to give him a "Crooked Hillary" emoji. Think about that. He wanted a special emoji.
    2) He called Clinton "Crooked Hillary" while paying $25 million to settle a court case for bilking money from his customers.
    3) Because Twitter wouldn't make his "Crooked Hillary" emoji, he punished them by not inviting him to his "tech summit"
    4) He tells the assembled billionaires at the "tech summit" that he "wants to help them do well". THEY'RE ALREADY FUCKING BILLIONAIRES.
    5) In the photos of the "tech summit" Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Tim Cook and Elon Musk look like they're ready to jump out of a window because of whatever Trump is saying.
    6) Just yesterday, Donald Trump had a summit with Kanye West, who is only days out of a psychiatric hold.

    And because I love you all, here's an actual (really not fake) photo of Donald Trump with GG Allin, with a pull quote from Trump:

    https://i.redditmedia.com/9D2K...

    (note: If you don't know who GG Allin was, you really need to look it up, because it puts the photo in context.)

    This is going to be fun.

  19. Oops on India Just Flew Past Us In the Race To E-Cash (backchannel.com) · · Score: 2

    Here's an article from earlier today that would seem to disagree with a basic assumption of this story:

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

  20. Re:Bad choice of title? on Uber Self-Driving Cars Hit the Streets of San Francisco (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Karl Malden and Leslie Nielson and early 70s cars bouncing down the Frisco hills. What's not to like?

  21. Until Amazon can do something about the awful user interface for their video streaming service, they're not really going to challenge Netflix.

  22. This is not something new with Trump.

    Trump's innovation is that he meets with a celebrity who's only days out of being in a psychiatric hold. But whatever.

  23. Re:I can think of bigger central problems on Snowden: 'The Central Problem of the Future' Is Control of User Data (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not everyone would agree with that. Some would prefer to die free to live a slave.

    People like to say that right up until they're actually faced with the choice.

    Also, it depends on your definition of "slavery". If you mean, "be put in chains and whipped and forced to pick cotton", then the number of people who would rather die is not zero. If your definition of slavery is, "I have to pay taxes, the government knows my Social Security number and I have to sell cakes to anyone who comes into my store, even the gays" then anyone who tells you they'd rather die is bullshitting.

  24. First Carrier and now IBM are treating Trump like a prostitute treats a john. Appeal to his ego while giving him absolutely nothing, just so Trump can tell his followers that he knocked off a piece and she was begging for it.

    Meanwhile, he's doing photo ops with Kanye West at Trump Tower. 2017 is gonna be fun.

  25. Re:But is it accurate? on Apple Removes the 'Time Remaining' Battery Indicator In New macOS Update (loopinsight.com) · · Score: 2

    But that calculation is not as accurate as it used to be, partly because even if you "use the computer the same way" the computer may or may not decide to put some of the cores out of low power mode, or possible something the app is doing may suddenly activate the discrete GPU.

    Even with all that, calculating an approximate battery-time remaining shouldn't be an NP problem. I don't do this kind of system work, so I don't know how difficult it really is, but it seems like even with the variables you describe it should be something MacOS can do (considering other OS's do it).