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  1. Re:It's the encryption backdoor. on Apple Tests 3-D Face Scanning To Unlock Next iPhone: Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I would only use this if it was FACE + FINGER + PASSWORD, where the digits on the screen randomly move around. If anyone forces me to use face or finger, I type the lock password, which requires a key to unlock that I have buried in a hole in my garden, or someone deep in a file.

  2. The Juno space probe is the first solar powered mission to Jupiter. it gets 4% of the sunlight at Jupiter compared to Earth and so has three panels 2.7 x 8.9 m^2.

  3. Re:Love the idea, practice may be difficult on EU Prepares 'Right To Repair' Legislation To Fight Short Product Lifespans (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    They can make the plans for the SMDs available and/or make them available as spare parts.

  4. Re:Probably not on World's Cheapest Energy Source Will Be Renewables Within Three Years (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Or, we could finally see the end of the energy wars that have plagued the Middle East since then 19th century. If "we" don't need the middle East anymore because "we" can produce our own energy then "they" will be able to produce cheap energy too, and democratizing energy production disempowers those who control the energy, and that may lead to peace in the middle East faster than anything, when there is nothing left to fight over - if everyone has energy and food and water, then they can get on with their lives.

  5. Re:Working link to ARKit examples on A Year After 'Pokemon Go', Where Are the Augmented-Reality Hits? (theaustralian.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Most of those demos seemed to be only away of a single plane in the environment, I saw nothing using edges in the environment. That drone flying in the house seemed to bump off a wall and avoid a door, though.

  6. Re:I wonder what's going to happen to the mid east on France Set To Ban Sale of Petrol and Diesel Vehicles By 2040 (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Saudi Arabia has long recognized this and started massively into solar. Watch electrek.co and "Fully Charged" by Red Dwarf's Kryton to follow these developments.

  7. Re:So Make Hydrogen on California Has So Much Solar Power That Other States Are Paid To Take It (mic.com) · · Score: 1

    Put the excess energy into desalination.

  8. Re:So Make Hydrogen on California Has So Much Solar Power That Other States Are Paid To Take It (mic.com) · · Score: 1

    It might be better to make formic acid directly 2CO2+2H20 + Solar + clever catalyst -> 2HCOOH + O2, much more managable.

  9. Re:But... FREE ENTERPRISE on Tom Wheeler Defends Title II Rules, Accuses Pai of Helping Monopolists (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe it will be SpaceX launching 3000 mini satellites with a latency of 20ms.

  10. Re:What scares me about this on There Is a Point At Which It Will Make Economical Sense To Defect From the Electrical Grid (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    no, they will be able to by power from their neighbours in a glut, but they may have times of the day without power

  11. New Zealand has been doing this for years on Dubai Airport Will Use Biometric Scanning By 2020 To Replace Entry With Passport (gulfnews.com) · · Score: 1

    nt.

  12. Re:Killing of the messenger on Pirate Bay Is Infringing Copyright, European Court of Justice Rules (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    No, they are not just a messenger - A messenger does not look at the message, they pass it on unknowing of content.
    Piratebay is categorizing, filtering, promoting and checking links, which means they know exactly what they are passing on.

  13. Re:This is not AI on Robots Are Coming For Our Ms. Pac-Man High Scores (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    And how is your brain's intelligence more than "a pattern matching algorithm"? Maybe your intelligence is not much more than neurons reacting to each other based on inputs.

  14. Re:Whats experimental and secretive about it? on SpaceX Will Launch Secretive X-37B Spaceplane's Next Mission (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    we know where mission OTV-4 travelled quite precisely. it's orbit did not change much over it's time in space. https://www.calsky.com/observe...

  15. Re:Whats experimental and secretive about it? on SpaceX Will Launch Secretive X-37B Spaceplane's Next Mission (latimes.com) · · Score: 2

    I really cannot imagine this. Whatever secret things this does in orbit, it cannot really hide it's orbit (see http://scalsky.com/ and it cannot change it's orbit by much, so any satellite owner can easily tell if their satellite is at any risk of being approached.
    Plus a ground based station is probably MUCH closer to a LEO satellite than the X-37B can reach, and would have far more power to interfere.
    I don't think it is interfering with space objects, but rather observing the ground.

  16. Hyperloop is all Hype and nothing else on Hyperloop One Reveals Its Plans For Connecting Europe (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Go and look at their youtube channel. There is no content from engineering or production, it is all marketing and sales hype.

  17. I never watched sport in my life.. on New Threat To Traditional Sports Leagues: Millennials Prefer Watching eSports (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I am 50 and have never been interested in spectator sport - to me it is a pointless exercise. Why should I watch some team play another team? I care nothing for it.

    BUT I love e-SPORT. Watching Starcraft was great and then I switched to League of Legends. I still have zero interest in spectator sport.

  18. Re:Which is all fine (mostly) on The Trump Administration Wants To Be Able To Track and Hack Your Drone (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see what is stopping me buying any drone I like and replacing the CPU with a raspberry pi.

  19. Watch this guy build his own iphone https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    If Apple really cared about the environment, as they say they do, they would make it easy to reuse and repair.

  20. Re:You would think... on Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago (alternet.org) · · Score: 2

    It's not about building a VPN back to your secure network. it is about someone sitting outside Mar a Lago and controlling a computer near a table that Trump is talking to the Japanese Prime Minister at and listening/watching in on the conversation, or knowing who is a guest there.

  21. They cannot go to Texas or Florida if they want to do polar launches to the south - that's why they launch from California.
    I think they should charge the rockets for milage of damage they do to the road network. [hint =0]

  22. Dear America,
    You may have missed this, but in a Democracy, laws are made for the People by the People's representatives. In a Corpocracy laws are made for corporations by corporations' representatives.
    Signed, Most of the Rest of the World.

  23. Re:That won't prove commercially viable power on UK's Newest Tokamak Fusion Reactor Has Created Its First Plasma (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Solar has reached parity in different parts of the world - e.g. California, Arizona, Saudi, South Australia. You will see many countries join this list like dominoes over 2017 to 2018. South Australia has a return for Solar + Tesla Battery under 10 years. A quarter of Australian houses have solar. Just because you are in the UK, doesn't mean it's not happening. India wants all cars to be electric by 2030 to combat air pollution. You can bet it will be a lot of solar. Subscribe to https://electrek.co/ to read what is going on. Or watch the UK channel https://www.youtube.com/user/f.... There are numerous sources of good information.

  24. Welcome to the rest of the world which has been enjoying this for 20 years already.

  25. Re:Good short term, bad long term on Canadian Town Picks Uber For Public Transit (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    my village of 2000 has an electric car. users pay 100€ per year, drivers also pay, but the drivers get to use the car on the weekend.