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  1. Where does the poster get "hot air" from on Amazon Is Working On Hot Air Balloon Drone That Approaches Homes Silently (slashgear.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The patent says

    ... a compressed gas chamber configured to contain a gas that is lighter than air; an inflatable membrane configured to be inflated with gas from the compressed gas chamber; ...

    this is obviously not a hot air baloon

  2. Re:Pilots not trained, planes not maintained on Crashed Boeing Planes Lacked Safety Features That Company Sold Only As Extras (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    We don't want expert pilots. The people have had enough of experts

  3. Not just the rain forest on Insect Collapse: 'We Are Destroying Our Life Support Systems' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the UK nsect abundance has fallen by 75% over the last 27 years. I notice in woods where I used to constantly hear bird noise it is now mostly silent

  4. On Huawai phones you can set an app's power saving options and allow it to run in background, run at start-up etc. It's a bit hidden in the menus but it can be done.

  5. But you had to suck the green robot's cock.

    I for one welcome our green robot cock, sorry, uhm I mean overlords.

  6. Re: I think there could be a niche market on World's Longest Aircraft Gets Full-Production Go-Ahead (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Could be a viable alternative to trucking though.

    If the costs come down enough yes, especially in remote areas with bad roads

  7. I think there could be a niche market on World's Longest Aircraft Gets Full-Production Go-Ahead (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think there could be a niche market for this, a luxury cruise in the air. I'm not convinced anyone would want to use it for A to B transport though because it is so much slower than traditional aircraft.

  8. Re:What's with all the hyphens? on World's Longest Aircraft Gets Full-Production Go-Ahead (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Do people just pepper hyphens at random into their sentences?

    yes-it makes things more-interesting.

  9. There is nothing in the source that hints that Netflix are at all interested in using this, and there is nothing at all that links them with Netflix.

    My thoughts exactly. Looking for access at different geographical locations is so obvious that if they had wanted to do it they would have done so. My guess is that at some point they will do it but want to increase the number of users first - and allowing people to piggyback is a good way of doing this. when they finally do enforce this I expect a lot of piggybackers will be so used to Netflix that they will get their own accounts.

  10. They have a lot of muslims there on India To Intercept, Monitor, and Decrypt Citizens' Computers (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 0

    They have a lot of muslims there and of course, like everywhere there are muslims, that means crime and terrorism. It might be necessary to do this to control them. Why they just don't send the bastards to Pakistan and let in the Christian, Sikh and Hindu Pakistanis I don't know.

  11. Re:More orbital junk on India Launches Hefty Communications Satellite Into Orbit to Cap Busy 2018 (space.com) · · Score: 2
    Actualy the Indian launch is slightly cheaper:

    The GSLV MK-III costs approximately $60 million, which ISRO intends to further lower to garner the lucrative heavy satellite launch contracts. While a satellite launch on Arianespace's rocket costs about $100 million after subsidies, SpaceX charges approximately $62 million.

  12. Wouldn't Northern Australia be better on South Australia To Be Home To Australia's New Space Agency (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't Northern Australia be better, as it's closer to the equator?

  13. Re:Eureka, he's a friggen profit! on Decaf Tea Found In The Wild (asianscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    No other president has had caffeine free tea discovered in his presidency. Surely this prove's he's the gretestest president of all time.

  14. Re:"gig economy" == minimum wage on High Score, Low Pay: Why the Gig Economy Loves Gamification (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You doing "gig economy" means you can't do anything better. Period.

    According to the article many work for less than minimum wage

  15. Re:100 Tons and What Do You Get? on Elon Musk Renames Big Falcon Rocket To 'Starship' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    100 Tons and What Do You Get?

    Mighty frustrated and and covered with sweat?

  16. Re:Poor man's SQL on Facebook's GraphQL Gets Its Own Open-Source Foundation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Plus the things that SQL should have added decades ago, like easy syntax for things like Select invoice.customer.salesman.name from invoice...

    I want to be more insane than you when I grow up but that's likely impossible at this point.

    I can prove you wrong by proposing the API ESP version

    select The record I want FROM the right table;

  17. Re:And how would Australia possibly know? on Australian Intelligence Knows Huawei Was Used in Espionage, Report Says (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Re:And how would Australia possibly know?

    By the backdoors it has in Chinese services perhaps?

  18. Elon Musk Shakes Up SpaceX's Starlink Satellite Division By Firing a Bunch of Managers

    Into space?

  19. Re:Used Red Hat since the 90's, paid nothing on 'Open Source Creators: Red Hat Got $34 Billion and You Got $0. Here's Why.' (tidelift.com) · · Score: 2

    I have been using their software since the mid-90s with version 3. I have never paid them anything. I bought a third party book on it once, they may have gotten some revenue from that.

    Exactly the point of an open-source company. If you need all the corporate hand-holding, support, certifications, etc. then you pay. If you don't need it then its free, and you get access to the great documentation that the corporates paid for.

  20. Re:Discarding python 2 on Fedora 29 Released (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 2

    Fedora 29 is, effectively, discarding Python 2 in favor of Python 3. This means that the leading edge packages from Fedora will no longer include options to compile for the older, standard Python 2 built into every RHEL or CentOS release without extensive manual revision.

    Someone has to do it and a decade after release it's about time. This will trickle back to Centos/RHEL eventually but until then the easy thing is if you want to run on Centos/RHEL then build on Centos/RHEL

  21. (that's all) -- seriously removing like could jest result in lots of comments like "yes", "agree", or "ok"

  22. Personally I'd rather not exercise than smoke and have diabetes and heart disease whatever the doctors say.

  23. I believe the water cannot be drunk without adding some minerals.

    Of course it can, though you do need trace minerals somewhere in your diet!

  24. Re:Some quick sums on A Device That Can Pull Drinking Water From the Air Just Won the Latest XPrize (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    100 % humidity means 30 grams (0.03l) of water per cubic meter. Today in the UK we are at 70%, so lets say theres 20g on a bright autumn morning.

    You'd be lucky, 100% humidity is only 30 grams at 30 degrees C. At 10 degrees, more typical for a UK autumn morning it is less than 10g per litre. I Nairobi it is 20 degrees C now so your figure is closer there (17g/m^3 100% humidity).

  25. Re:All sensor data should be made public on Fully Self-Driving Cars May Hit US Roads in Pilot Program: NHTSA (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    After any accident all sensor data should be made public so that it can then be used to further train AI systems. If it's not a law then companies will keep it to themselves so that they can only improve their AI and not their competitors. The net result is that different companies' AI's will have to "learn the same lesson" multiple times instead of once.

    That seems like a good move and I think it's the way that air accidents and incidents are dealt with.