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  1. Re:As well they should be on Are Communications Records of Americans Retained Forever? (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The corporates want all that data deleted so they know there are no potential skeletons in the closet older than X months that they need to be scared of. And if you keep evidence yourself longer than they can sue you for theft of corporate property and breach of trust....

  2. Re:skills on Why Learning To Code Won't Save Your Job (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Coding is not just about programming. I simply don't care what language you use c++#,java(script),lua,vb, sql....... or whatever. it doesn't matter to me. These are all effectively the same - ways of getting ideas from human minds into bits.
    but can you sort, find, retrieve, loop, branch, recurse, encapsulate, isolate, simplify? And i am stunned that many programmers today are horrible at this - they know how to use libraries and write bloatware. I am so glad I learned algorithms in the 80's with 64k of RAM and no internet. I solve problems today that kiddies have no clue about - people come to me begging for help in solving their data problems - and the answer is also an idea or algorithm , not the code.

  3. Re:Doesn't anybody double check? on Wrecking Crew Demolishes Wrong Housing Duplex Following Google Maps Error (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Have a look at Cortez Street here. It has a CANYON in the middle of it!! Typical for this area.
    Cortez Street

  4. Re:timestamps on Radio Attack Lets Hackers Steal 24 Different Car Models (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Light travels 1 meter in 3 nanoseconds. At 1GHz light travels 30 centimeters per clock cycle. You'd need a very fast response in everything. Even the Large Hadron Collider and the Italians had problems resolving nanosecond level timing problems.

  5. not over land as you'll create sonic booms for the people living underneath. You'dd only be able to do West Coast USA to Pacific coast. That is why Concorde only flew to New York.

  6. Re:I shoveled a fuckton of snow. on This Was America's Warmest Winter On Record (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    You get snow when cold dry air meets warm moist air and makes snow. Warm moist air in Eastern US comes up from the Caribbean and the cold air comes down from Canada - they meet near DC and travel north bathing DC and New York to Boston in white. Global warming means there is more ENERGY in the system meaning that MORE warm moist air can be driven FURTHER north and more cold air comes FURTHER south. So LOTS of snow more often is an indicator or more energy in the system and is an indirect indicator of global warming. More direct evidence of global warming is sea level rise and temperature (warmer water expands).
    In the European Alps it is when warm moist Atlantic air meets frigid dry air from Russia and dumps snow in the Alps. More energy means that more extreme events happen more often.
    Snow is not a good indicator of temperature.

  7. Re:How does Uber lose money? on Uber Losing $1 Billion a Year In China (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    Uber is far more than the two apps. People who work for Uber have to customize their data for each airport and important location - e.g. which entrance to a hotel are uber drivers allowed to wait at, which exit door from the airport are you waiting at. Where are the toll roads and what are their costs. What receipt processing cloud services do business customers use so that uber can directly send receipts to those solutions. They have to customize per city/region which services are available. There is a huge amount of data-cleaning work. They are also lobbying and paying lawyers and advertising.

  8. Google is shutting down Picasa .. on Google Is Shutting Down Picasa In Favor of Photos (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    ...for the very reason we love it. My photos are mine and offline and Google couldn't touch them.
    Why should my family life be on their servers?

  9. Re:The technical problems with this are immense. on Elon Musk's Next Great Idea? Electric Air Travel (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    hohum. You've just outed yourself as part of the status quo. stop with your self-congratulatory praise on how well you know it is impossible. put down your pen and put on your thinking cap and come up with a great new step into the future. You will be forgotton for your description of the status quo - you will be immortalized if you find an answer. Elon Musk is not interested in the status quo - he is interesting in solving the big problems and provoking others to solve the big problems You are part of the noise that gets in the way.
    Maybe the answer is way simpler than you think. e.g. Massive solar furnaces producing aviation fuel for zero net carbon. or Aviation batteries made of Iron. Imagine a fuel made of pure iron (quick to load and not likely to explode) that burnt to Fe2O3 in a fuel cell which was just expelled nanoparticles of rust exhaust - it has 42 MJ/kg of energy.
    What if there was an electric way to rocket to space in 7 minutes and then you needed ZERO fuel for the remainder of the 10 hour flight...

  10. Make baitclicking obvious on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    I shouldn't have a click a link to see it is a paid(?) baitclick from Forbes. Be honest and tell me it is Forbes. If i post a link in the comments you clarify the link to users - do it in your main articles as well.

  11. Are they recycling/reusing the polystyrene? Is that included in the energy equation?

  12. Re:Good thing about landing on far side of Moon on China Targets 2018 For Landing Probe On Far Side of Moon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    We can see 100% moon at all times
    L1 satellites
    L2 satellites

  13. Re: This was _outlawed_ in the USA? on Federal Law Now Says Kids Can Walk To School Alone (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 1

    My kids, 10,12,14 work 2 miles to school in Southern California through a coyote infested canyon every day.

  14. Re:Can the autonomous vehicle pass a drivers test? on CA DMV Releases Draft Requirements For Autonomous Vehicles On Public Streets · · Score: 1

    you mentioned "There was a problem near the exit". I am sure that was a human problem. If the cars were autonomous I am sure that the problem wouldn't have been there nor would there have been a flow problem.
    This was a human fix for a human problem. And while human cops can interfere with normal driving behaviour, you can be sure that the drivers can still control their cars.

  15. bread and circuses on What Is the Future of the Television? (ben-evans.com) · · Score: 1

    TV=they decide when & what I WATCH.
    Internet=I decide when & what I DO.
    Television as a concept is not even the slightest bit interesting to me. Let it die, or are the masses so dull, moronic ans stupid they are pleading with "Them" to drip-feed them the bread and circuses on "their" timetable and "their" content.

  16. Why do you think the US doesn't have notes larger than 100$. It is certainly not for your convenience.

  17. Re:Like RF Limits In Wireless Firmware?? on Drone Makers Add Geofencing To Keep Drones Out of Restricted Airspace (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you thought before acting because your hobby was expensive and you felt responsible for the RCs you built. Now that they cost nothing and there is no threshold to anything, the idiots are involved. I don't think this has anything to do with "Back when we were young".

  18. Re:That's a first on Google Car Pulled Over For Driving Too Slow, Doesn't Get a Ticket (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Or the policeman was looking for an excuse to pull over the obviously marked Google car, perhaps so he could boast about giving it a ticket.

  19. Re:I have a new law too on Bill Confirming Property Rights For Asteroid Miners Passes the Senate (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    You fool. it is not a sheet of canvas, it is a bronze firmament.

  20. Re:Geoscientists? on Deep Magma Chambers Seen Beneath Mount St. Helens (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    i imagine a geologist looks at rocks, a geoscientist thinks about how rocks change and their chemistry, and a geophysicist thinks about how rocks move and transfer heat.

  21. Re:Gravity leak from other dimensions? on New Hubble Release Puts Another Nail In the Coffin of Dark Matter's Competitors (spacetelescope.org) · · Score: 1

    I like "dark matter" because it doesn't interact electromagnetically, i.e. shine light on it and you won't see it, but it does react to gravity. Glass or water is "transparent matter".

  22. 3600 cubic miles is 3.4 inches deep. on 'Geospeedometer' Confirms Super-eruptions Have Surprisingly Short Fuses (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 1

    nt

  23. Re:Lebanon on Doomsday Vault Opens To Give Seeds To Syria (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    These people destroy monuments, critically endangered birds northern Bald ibis, and anything that stands in their apocalyptic way, except of course Toyota pickups, infidel weapons and young girls. They don't need no scientists helping them - ridding the world of the infidel will give them Allah's blessing, and presumably feed them.

  24. Re:DRM Thwarted by Printscreen on DRM In JPEGs? (eff.org) · · Score: 2

    That's not so funny. Microsoft doesn't let you record from sound devices anymore..

  25. Re:Experience? on Firefox Support For NPAPI Plugins Ends Next Year (mozilla.org) · · Score: 2

    Too much use of the word "features" leads to bloat and forgetting what people are using the software for.