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  1. Re:Welcome to 2013! on iPhones Will Reportedly Get the Power To Unlock Doors Using NFC (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmmm...My C1810W and my Galaxy Note 5 (and now Note 8) work great. But hey, maybe ONE DAY we'll see an iPhone with anything close to that functionality.

  2. Welcome to 2013! on iPhones Will Reportedly Get the Power To Unlock Doors Using NFC (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    NFC on Android has been around for 5 years. Apple is once again lagging Android, and going to try to spin it as "revolutionary" even though 75% of all smart phones have been doing this for half a decade.

    Courage?

  3. Re: Why no "Idiots" tag? on How WIRED lost $100,000 in Bitcoin (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I store mine on multiple DVDs at geographically distant locations, and I encrypt it with 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.

  4. Re:The need to realize the financial scale of SJWs on In China's Booming Tech Scene, Women Battle Sexism and Conservative Values (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's because politicians realized they may be able to secure the votes of the majority (women - who out-number men in the US) by pandering to them. So drop a few billion dollars and try to buy the votes of women by pulling at their emotional strings... Effectively using the very thing they are supposedly "fighting" to garner votes to keep themselves in power.

  5. Re:Why the comparison? on In China's Booming Tech Scene, Women Battle Sexism and Conservative Values (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Try to be a conservative on most of the Internet, or nearly any university. And male. And white. Strike out before even opening your mouth. It's perfectly OK to attack anyone today, provided they are not a perceived minority (regardless of actual demographic representation), and the more "minority" they are, the more they are to be protected from attacks - and the freer they are to attack others.

  6. Re:Why the comparison? on In China's Booming Tech Scene, Women Battle Sexism and Conservative Values (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So - guilty, even if not found guilty. And of course the ruined reputation and life because of it.

  7. Re:Free Tommy Robinson! on Increasing Similarity of Billboard Songs · · Score: 1

    If he's a bigot, what does that say about the prosecutors, judge and jury sitting in on the trial? Why is it illegal to cover an actual Court proceeding?

  8. Pre-requisites first on Code.org Is Crowdsourcing Database of US K-12 Schools That Teach, Or Don't Teach CS · · Score: 1

    First, ensure there is a solid foundation like basic logic, algebra (great for problem-solving), and basic English skills (so they can read/understand technical references). Until you've mastered those basic skills, any CS class is simply wasted...

  9. Re:BYO Shopping Bags ... BYO Flatware on Europe Plans Ban on Plastic Cutlery, Straws and More (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Where in CA do you shop that you don't pay for bags? Every grocery store around here (Ventura county) charges, and the few times I've forgotten my own bags, I get charged $0.10 per bag used.

  10. Re: Manufacturers bear brunt of responsible cleanu on Europe Plans Ban on Plastic Cutlery, Straws and More (cnn.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It used to be an adult could chastise any child, and the parents would at least be understanding, if not supportive. Today's helicopter, hands-off parents, though, will sue you as soon as you so much look cross-eyed at a misbehaving child.

  11. Re:Pakistan == Mud People on Coastal Megacity Karachi Is Running Out of Water (earther.com) · · Score: 1

    This is /.- it needs to be in the standard units of Olympic sized pools or Libraries of Congress. And there needs to be an automotive analogy as well...

  12. Re:Did you drive a car to get to court? on Ask Slashdot: Can a City Really Sue an Oil Company For Climate Change? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    ... On synthetic rubber tires, with massive amounts of petroleum-based plastics in the vehicle, and using petroleum-based fabrics, coverings on the wire, and the enclosures for most of that power system.

  13. Re:Silicon Valley is too big to fail . . . on Silicon Valley's Tech Bubble Is Now Larger Than In 2000. Will It Come To An End? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I look at the graph and see it was pretty flat from ~1990 until 2008, then dropped for 8 years and bottomed out. Now those still in the labor force are getting jobs, meaning there is now pressure to allow people to re-enter the work force. You see what you want through your liberal-colored glasses, the rest of us see facts inconvenient to you...

  14. Re:Interesting Explanations on Amazon Explains Why Alexa Recorded And Emailed A Private Conversation (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Download the source and check it yourself.

  15. Re:Golden State on Companies Are Using California Homes As Batteries To Power the Grid (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I loved zipping from Shanghai to Nanjing in a little over an hour, or Brussels to Cologne in under 2 hours, riding trains rolling at 240 KPH or faster. Here in Southern California, I often find myself on my motorcycle, cruising down the 101 at 110 KPH, and watch as I pass the Amtrak train - itself "speeding" along at a brisk 90 KPH!

    Yeah, we don't have High Speed Rail - but then again, we still don't know how we're going to get it to Los Angeles, and it's only going to cost $100 billion and not be ready until 2033. But hey, High Speed Rail! :(

  16. Re:This time it's different.. on Silicon Valley's Tech Bubble Is Now Larger Than In 2000. Will It Come To An End? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Until you're turning a profit, you're pretty much INFINITE% overvalued. Companies with billions of spend, millions of consumers, and massive annual losses are pretty much never going to make a profit. They ended up buying those consumers with the billions given to them by VCs, and as soon as they change their model to start pushing towards profitability, someone else will come along and buy their consumers.

    It's easy to get consumers - just buy them. Turns out people will take free money - or highly subsidized services/products - when they can get them. And when a cheaper option comes along, those consumers will jump just about instantly.

  17. Heck yes - they own the market! Too bad they spent billions to buy the market and lose billions more each year to maintain the market...

  18. Re:Silicon Valley is too big to fail . . . on Silicon Valley's Tech Bubble Is Now Larger Than In 2000. Will It Come To An End? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I did a quick set of calcs a few years ago. Turns out, if we just held the US Federal Budget to an annual increase of no more than the official rate of inflation plus population growth, we would grow our way out of a deficit in about 8 years, and out of the debt in about 45 years. Growth and subsequent tax receipts (Laffer Curve and Hauser's law combined) outpace inflation plus population growth. But the Federal Budget grows faster. It should be held to the cost of delivery (inflation) plus the number of consumers (population growth).

  19. Re:Silicon Valley is too big to fail . . . on Silicon Valley's Tech Bubble Is Now Larger Than In 2000. Will It Come To An End? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Easy to "cut" the unemployment numbers when tens of millions of people exit the work force, unvoluntarily. When the labor force participation rate starts to swing back up, then we'll know we're starting to achieve real full employment.

  20. Re:Bubble or not, we are DUE for a correction on Silicon Valley's Tech Bubble Is Now Larger Than In 2000. Will It Come To An End? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you forgot about the early 2000s recession. Pretty much every 8 to 10 years, we have a recession. The question becomes how deep and how long.

  21. Those picky companies and long lists of qualifications and people jumping to better/different jobs? Same as I saw back in the late 80s, late 90s, mid 2000s... Pretty common, especially before a recession.

  22. Re:Whole lotta money going on... on Silicon Valley's Tech Bubble Is Now Larger Than In 2000. Will It Come To An End? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You know that thing that you use to run the Uber app? It has another app called "phone" that allows you to call a company that will send a cab to you!

  23. Re:Golden State on Companies Are Using California Homes As Batteries To Power the Grid (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, I wish I didn't have to pay property taxes in CA. Or high sales taxes. Or toll roads (which there are several in the LA area - not to mention bridge tolls in the Bay). And our roads are pretty trashed, but it's OK we'll soon have High Speed Rail (at 100 MPH!) between Bakersfield and Fresno, so we have that going for us...

  24. Re:Golden State on Companies Are Using California Homes As Batteries To Power the Grid (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmmm... You can get a 1300W UPS for $330, and other than the heavy appliances (stove, refrigerator/freezer, clothes washer/dryer) it will supply 1300W for 6-7 minutes; that would run the typical US household (sans heavy appliances which are not disrupted by a few second blackout) for about 10 minutes. For a one to ten second blackout, this would be, potentially, overkill. Seems like a lower cost solution is available to you right now!

  25. Re:We're closing a nuclear plant nearby on Massachusetts Gains Foothold in Offshore Wind Power, Long Ignored in US (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And those plants are?