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  1. Re:I Wouldn't. on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Explain Einstein's Theories To a Nine-Year-Old? · · Score: 1

    Einstein had no idea how gravity works like the article suggests. Theoretical physicists have some ideas, but no consensus yet.

    Also, the article neglects to mention that Newtonian physics explains gravity as a force that pulls you towards the earth. That particular contribution predates Einstein by quite a bit.

  2. My vacuum was hacked and it caught fire.

  3. Re:QA sucks and developers do pass the buck on Should Developers Do All Their Own QA? (itnews.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Good QA teams are what crappy Engineers lean on to explain why their shitty code is taking so long to release.

  4. Re: Trading one problem for another on Timber Towers Are On the Rise in France (citylab.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Also there is a fair amount of carbon sequestered in the building itself. That's assuming the building doesn't burn, which is why I won't get into a tall wooden structure.

  5. Re: Hijacks the CPU, huh? on Over 500 Million PCs Are Secretly Mining Cryptocurrency, Researchers Reveal (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    If a CPU is a brain then what is RAM?
    That's rhetorically.
    This is why no one calls the CPU a brain.

  6. Pharma will just pay apple for the privilege to continue advertising like they have been.

  7. Re: Lazy Westerners on Colombian Airline Wants To Make Passengers Stand (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    Just use standing roller coaster seats. They are now more comfortable than modern airplane seats and you are more likely to withstand the G forces better in the event of a crash.

  8. Re: The New Formula on The White House Now Has Zero Science Advisors (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The government is there to serve the people. It's progressively become more about leading the people.

    There are plenty generous scientists in public and private institutions that can do the proper research, so that the government can be accurately informed.

    If DT had science advisors they would simply serve his agenda anyway. The same stuff happens with Democrats.

    Let the thinking happen outside of government. Pubic universities are a exception because they have some amount of autonomy from the government political bull shit. Professors don't have to worry about reelection. There are plenty of private institutions that don't have political agendas as well. Keep the government serving the people. Not leading it.

    That means limiting the power of the President. Democrats and Republicans in all branches of government don't have to represent anyone when you let loose the reins.

  9. Retail is dying. Get over it. That has nothing to do with the article. If you don't want an electric coffee machine then use a French press.

  10. Alarmist bullshit from the TSA and the University of Maryland prevails. How many airliners have blown up this year? Your chance of dying on an airplane from a bomb can go up several orders of magnitude and air travel still wouldn't hit the list of shit you should worry about.

  11. When doing illegal shit online always use protection. Remember, its important turn off the protection and portray yourself as an outstanding citizen when you aren't communicating with other terrorists.

  12. Re: Bye Bye fiber, we loved you so on Verizon Outbids AT&T For Nationwide 5G Wireless Spectrum (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    You're assuming that current bandwidth demands are adequate for future technology. At one point it 56kbps was considered fast. I'd argue that we've yet to invent the next bandwidth hogging media. It's going to make Netflix look like a joke. FIOS is still necessary to offload the wireless spectrum.

  13. Re: You don't have to pay per unit royalties sure. on Startup Offers A Chip Based On The Open Source RISC-V Architecture (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    That MUST be a good solution. You know that spending a lot of money on an FPGA makes the best products.

  14. Re: He's right? on EU Leader Says English Is Losing Importance (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    England leaving the EU makes the EU less important.

  15. Re:But Google will get a free pass on Google To Auto-Migrate Some Users To 64-bit Chrome · · Score: 2

    While it's not necessarily good

    No change in user experience. That's good.

  16. Supply and demand wasn't a problem when slavery was legal. Humans own the AI.

  17. Re: Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are GAY WITH EACH OTH on Why Elon Musk Doesn't Like Flying Cars (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Flying cars aren't going to become more practical. Cars, with all those amenities cannot fly. You want an air conditioner? Too bad. It will make the flying car too heavy. A flying car isn't really a flying car at all. It doesn't make sense because your optimizing the vehicle for two different things. Honestly the noise and wind issue is the least of my concerns.

  18. Re:How deleted are the data? on How To Delete Your Data From Google's 'My Activity' (vortex.com) · · Score: 2

    The aggregated data google uses to tell stories about trends will always contain your data. Also anonymized data is easy to deanonymize. By deleting your location data you are only preventing yourself and presumably any lawyer that might subpoena your personal records from accessing the data.

  19. Re: The problem is the definition of 'mesh'. on Ask Slashdot: Could We Build A Global Wireless Mesh Network? · · Score: 1

    100-300 buoys would be extrordinarily uneconomical. I think this is the dumbest things I've read today.

  20. Re:Duh! on Chinese, European Space Agencies In Talks To Build a Moon Base (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Obviously!!! They need to kill the Nazis that have been there since 1945 first.

  21. Re:Yes but on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Right. You are NOT a lawyer, but you are free to represent yourself. It is only practicing law if you do things for a client.

    You can be an engineer without practicing engineering. You can be a Doctor without practicing medicine. A title doesn't mean anything when it comes to practicing a trade.

  22. Re: A few ideas on America's Most-Hated ISP Is Now Hated By Fewer People (oregonlive.com) · · Score: 1

    Years ago comcast introduced some speed boost thing. I forget what they called it. It was basically a docsis command they used to temporarily uncapped the modem. Every time it would kick in my modem would take a dive. I finally just purchased my own. They weren't getting any more of my rental fees and trying to convince them to send a new modem didn't work.

    Next they were having problems with a particular router. Traceroute proved it. They didn't listen and it took weeks to fix.

    Comcast isn't better because they have better support. Comcast is better because the technology now tells them when they have problems and the lemmings go and fix it.

  23. Re:Where is Rust? Where is Nim? on Stack Overflow Reveals Which Programming Languages Are Most Used At Night (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same thing. Haskell has an interesting peak a little later in the day. I imagine rust would be the same.

  24. Re: No. on Steve Wozniak Predicts The Future (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Google and Facebook are oranges. Apple as a tech company has to constantly innovate. Google and Facebook will be able to sell ads based off the same technology for to next 100 years. Apple could easily become the next IBM.

  25. I don't feel the need to use snapchat or any clone thereof. I find the whole concept bullshit.