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  1. Re:Yes Apple cares... sort of on Sorry, Apple, the Headphone Jack Isn't Going Anywhere (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Declining sales seem to indicate otherwise. Unless you mean "right" in the same vein as our chocolate rations were increased from 30 grams to 24 grams...

  2. For tourism? Potentially yes. For business? Nope. Best you can do is "overnight expedited" in Hong Kong.

  3. Re:Interesting story on Software Engineer Detained At JFK, Given Test To Prove He's An Engineer (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Good practice would be:

    If (true == story) {story = interesting;}

    Avoid that potential assignment up front when someone else mucks in your code!

  4. And others do not... China, for example. Most EU countries if staying more than 90 days. Much of the Middle East. And some countries, like Thailand, have different rules; if you're entering as a US citizen for tourism, no visa for up to 30 days. For business? You need a visa. Peru was the same way. When I went to visit as a tourist, no problem. When I went to do business, I had to have a visa.

  5. Re:$10 for placebo quality on Spotify Is Testing a Lossless Subscription Tier For $15 to $20 Per Month (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, most modern audio compression schemes will affect the frequency response - and range thereof - as they selectively drop (or highly attenuate) bands based upon overall volume levels and levels of sub-bands which may lead to masking. Take an uncompressed CD of music, capture a 30 second section and run an FFT on it. Then run it through a 128 kbps MP3 compression and do the same again - the FFT is decidely different.

  6. Well, as long as they can read the road signs. I guess communicating with the passenger or reading road names isn't important...

  7. This is not the PopeRatzo you are looking for...

  8. Re:Apples for apples on Tesla Posts Earnings Loss But Claims Model 3 Production Will Start In July (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Hi there, I've founded and run - and sold! - several businesses in the US, just did another one. I know how tax deductions work. And I know, too, that if you lose money at the end of the day you don't have to pay income taxes. But you still LOST MONEY. Paying tax means you made a profit; not paying tax means you didn't make a profit. Currently Tesla is spending more than it's bringing in, so it loses money. You don't make "profit" tha way...

  9. Re:Apples for apples on Tesla Posts Earnings Loss But Claims Model 3 Production Will Start In July (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Previous quarter was $130 million in loss. One cannot extrapolate a single quarter to an entire year, especially when there is data for those previous quarters.

  10. Re:Something doesn't add up on Boeing and Airbus Can't Make Enough Airplanes To Keep Up With Demand (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Passenger miles are increasing. And planes are getting hard to buy. Prices go up and they put more people on a plane. Not really unexpected!

  11. Re:I worked in IT for about twenty years before... on Boeing and Airbus Can't Make Enough Airplanes To Keep Up With Demand (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    many of them don't even have high school diplomas

    Right in the GP post...

  12. Re:Something doesn't add up on Boeing and Airbus Can't Make Enough Airplanes To Keep Up With Demand (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait, so the price goes up (extra fees) and they put more passengers on each plane (less leg room) and you think that is NOT a sign that flight demand is NOT increasing?

  13. Re:First Ammendment on Judge Blocks California Law Limiting Publication of Actor's Ages (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    ...but only if you're the person who doesn't ask others to check their privilege. Of course...

  14. Re:First Ammendment on Judge Blocks California Law Limiting Publication of Actor's Ages (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    C'mon, this is California. You have no rights, only privileges!

  15. Re:Apples for apples on Tesla Posts Earnings Loss But Claims Model 3 Production Will Start In July (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    $0.69 per share, about 140 million shares, so it was another $100 million loss. Still burning nearly half a billion per year.

  16. Re: I got a probe for ya.... on Congressman Calls For Probe Into Trump's Unsecured Android Phone (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    I think the GP was implying that the President probably has a secure phone as well, for actual secure communications. Having a private, unsecured phone for non-Governmental business is perfectly legal. Having a private, unsecured phone (or e-mail server) for Government business is not.

  17. Re:Dams, too on Nearly 56,000 Bridges Called Structurally Deficient (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that the Governor gets great emergency powers when there is a drought, especially with regards to land use and areas around lakes/rivers/streams... There is a strong political reason to keep the drought - power.

  18. No, it's what happens when your State government decides it's more important to build a high speed rail that no one wants (and they have no plan how to get it to the largest city in the State - the mountains prevent it from getting there) rather than maintaining existing infrastructure. We don't need to worry about dams, or roads, or sewer systems we need to focus on trains from Bakersfield to Modesto!

  19. Re:Square of the distance... on Apple Joins Wireless Power Consortium Amid Rumors of iPhone With Wireless Charging (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe magnets, being dipoles, fall off with the cube of distance - not square of distance.

  20. You can probably find that on a porn site somewhere...

  21. Re: lets look to the past on Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again) (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Must be why the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People gave Jeff Sessions a Governmental Award for Excellence, what with his apparent latent racism and all...

  22. Re: lets look to the past on Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again) (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    And to ensure we're respectful, we must demand EVERYONE to select one of several boxes to define their color. Refusing to identify yourself as one of a selected list of races - and to, as a result, hyphenate your nationality - is itself a racist act.

  23. Re: Left and further left on Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again) (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Your question was answered a little over 200 years ago:

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

  24. Re:Isn't this illegal? on Republicans Are Reportedly Using a Self-Destructing Message App To Avoid Leaks (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Aren't they required to conduct all government business on government systems?

    Yes, if it is Government business. If is GOP/politcal party business, then no.

    Didn't Hilary got a whole lot of crap (and lose an election) over this?

    Yes, because she did Government communications over non-Governmental systems.

  25. Re:I thought not all US carriers use LTE on Verizon and T-Mobile Are In a Virtual Tie For the Best Network In the US (androidcentral.com) · · Score: 1

    Not just rural... This last weekend, i was at a trade show in a NYC hotel where we had our own 4G based connection for streaming audio (the hotel only had WIFI available, and it was swamped/dead - 50 kbps if you were lucky). The little T-mobile hot spot we bought was terrible - we were lucky to get 1 bar, and maybe 100 kbps. Out came my Verizon Note 5, on went the hot spot, and we had 4 full bars and 2 Mbps available. Rock-solid. And this was at the Marriott Marquis right at Times Square - heart of Manhattan!

    People complain about the cost of Verizon, but you know - at least it works. Yes, it's expensive compared to the others but when your options are expensive and works and cheap and doesn't work - I'll take the former thankyouverymuch...