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  1. ir scheduling on Raspberry Pi Passes 10M Sales Mark (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm still looking for a way $15 or less (for each tv) to automate about 25-30 tv's just to switch them on in the morning and off in the evening.

    A outlet timer can handle most tv's but a bit less than half won't switch back on when connected to power and need to be manually switched on.

  2. Re:Ancient single use port on Apple Cites 'Courage' As Reason To Remove 3.5mm Headphone Jack (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    What I want to see from apple is a propriatry wireless keyboard setup that has no standby delay so you can actually get a wireless keyboard as good as the android wired keyboards or any of the millions of 2.4ghz keyboards made in the last several years.

    bluetooth sucks for quality audio and it sucks for keyboards too.

  3. Like bluetooth? on Apple To Unveil 'AirPods' That Use Custom Bluetooth Chip (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    So its like bluetooth but incompatible and doesn't make audio sound like crap like bluetooth does?

  4. Re:Make sure they are only have limited ammo on-bo on Pentagon Chiefs Fear Advanced Robot Weapons Wiping Out Humanity (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    IIRC Colossus Couldn't automatically reload it just so happened that it had more than one nuke.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  5. Why? Self driving cars seem like a pretty good idea unless they are set to Maximum Overdrive anyway.

    IIRC they (south korea) has had a pretty nice looking automated gun turret (aka sentry gun) since 2006
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    The US has bunches of drones that they let just fly around all by their lonesome unattended (NASA) and the military has ones that they fly from bases in us all the way around the world to afghanistan to shoot at people who they are pretty sure are terrorists.

    And we think that's ok because it reduces the level of casualties on our side even though it causes a abnormally high level of friendly fire deaths on their side.

    Why would it be more morally wrong to use fully automated systems aside from the likely insanely higher friendly fire rates?

  6. What?! How did I miss that? Sorry I don't know what happened that week but I was unaware that a plane had been hijacked since flight 93. Thank you for pointing that out.

  7. Re:How frequently... on US Beekeepers Fear For Livelihoods As Anti-Zika Toxin Kills 2.5M Bees (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No this is to reduce the likelihood of encountering a infected mosquitos it does nothing at all to address the underlying problem mosquitos that bite humans and the fact that there are now several diseases carried by those mosquitos a few years ago it was west nile now its zika that everyone is worrying about.

  8. Re:Night vs Day on US Beekeepers Fear For Livelihoods As Anti-Zika Toxin Kills 2.5M Bees (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because that's when normal people work? I would assume most pilots wouldn't want to fly that low at night and those that would wouldn't be the lowest bidder.

  9. Sounds like a good option to have for diagnostics but its not an option I would want to put in front of he average user.

    I don't have anything running the latest IOS but none of the versions I used allowed apps to talk to each other in the background. Thats another thing I don't like about android no one seems to know how to keep apps from chatting with each other something they never should have been allowed to do in the first place at the very least not without permission.

  10. Re:I"m safe! on NSO Has Been Selling a Smartphone-Surveilling Malware For Six Years (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why can't I deny individual permissions like I can with an Iphone? Solitaire needs access to your location information..Like hell it does deny!...And then somehow the app continues on just fine without access to the camera.

    Unlike android calculator needs access your contact list, photos, location information and bank account.

    And then i'm given an ultimatum I either let it do whatever it likes or I can't use the app at all.

  11. Re:I might be mistaken but... on Long TSA Delays Force Airports To Hire Private Security Contractors (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey it worked fine for Venezuela... Well until their infinite money cheat (Boat loads of oil) quit working and then their rampant corruption caught up to them.

  12. Re:learn to fly... on Long TSA Delays Force Airports To Hire Private Security Contractors (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    If only we all had that kind of money...

  13. But if its anything like the US privatized prison system it will cost more while claiming to save money.

  14. Re:Scarecrow on Long TSA Delays Force Airports To Hire Private Security Contractors (popsci.com) · · Score: 3, Informative
  15. Re:Here's an idea... on Long TSA Delays Force Airports To Hire Private Security Contractors (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    What service do you use that maps bus routes? Google transit won't give me any routes. I know that the local bus line makes runs to the major bus lines like greyhound but google can't find it.

  16. Re:Two caveats on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    I still don't understand why I can get things shipped here from china cheaper than from the business down the street or a state away.

    Some things don't even seem to be available in the US so I can't buy it locally even if I want to pay the 25%+ markup for yo its in the US now pay us more or yo we stuck a made in the USA sticker on this junk we bought from china pay us more.

  17. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you ever heard of the CCCs and the WPA? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    A lot of the bridges nearby me are old WPA works.

    I think it would be a good idea for the gov't to be a employer of last resort. (!!Other than the military!!) Although they would probably have to fight with the current employer of last resort McDonalds.

  18. Re:Still waiting.... on Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd be happy to pay twice that if it also killed flies.

  19. Re:Not really on Walmart Is Cutting 7,000 Jobs Due To Automation (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on the local crime rate.
    In some areas you can leave packages on your front porch for months and no one will take them.
    In others you will return home to find someone has stolen the screen doors off of your home.

  20. Re:All according to plan on Walmart Is Cutting 7,000 Jobs Due To Automation (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it not priced like that where you live?

  21. 500k for a gov't agency is an agency that isn't even trying I mean come on 500k is only enough to run the keurig in the break room for a year.

  22. Re:In other news on Verizon Now Offers 'Unlimited' Data On All Plans, Without $5 Fee (dslreports.com) · · Score: 2

    What!? They just went up $20 a few months ago!

  23. Re:10 years?? on Florida Man Arrested For Hacking Linux Kernel Organization In 2011 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because they have lobbyists.

  24. Re:Update frenzy on Apple To Remove Abandoned Apps From The App Store (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I like torx (not the tamper resistant kind those are a PITA and strip often)

    Clutch bits are also rather interesting.

  25. Re:Update frenzy on Apple To Remove Abandoned Apps From The App Store (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Change the database format just enough to be incompatible with the old version fail to convert the old database and delete the old database for good measure. At least IME.