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  1. What about on How Science Fiction Imagines Data Storage (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    all the science fiction that thinks that every time someone copies a file it somehow magically disappears completely from the source computer and all backups. A lot of the time it seems like the people writing think that computer files are like paper files and things like backups don't exist.

  2. At least some of the workers who were alerted about layoffs will continue to work at PepsiCo until late April as they train their replacements in the coming weeks

    Are they training the robots?

  3. They also forget to mention... on FCC Says Gutting ISP Oversight Was Great For Broadband (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...that those net neutrality rules had never actually come into effect so claiming that killing them made things better wouldn't make any sense even if the rules were terrible.

  4. Re:199? on 'No, You Can't Ignore Email. It's Rude.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've got over 31,000 unread emails. I must have some kind of super power or something.

  5. I slept in a half hour today. At this rate I'll be sleeping for nearly 200 hours per day this time next year.

  6. Re:To many sports channels I don't want to subsidi on YouTube TV Opens To the Whole US (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    The crazy thing is those sports channels are probably responsible for at least 55% of the total monthly price due to the crazy agreements they require of anyone that wants to provide them to their customers.

  7. Re:NOT THE FIRST TIME, ALCATEL on Malware Found Preinstalled On Some Alcatel Smartphones (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    American Network Solutions phones (which are ironically made in China) are also pretty malware laden from the factory as well.

  8. Re:Supermoons are marketing hype on Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse Is Coming Later This Month (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    It's close enough. The only thing that's important about super moon eclipses is how awesome they look and there's no real perceptual difference between an eclipse 12 hours before apogee and the exact moment of perigee.

  9. Another flawed study on The First Basic Income Experiment in Germany Will Start in 2019 (basicincome.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can't tell how it actually works unless everyone gets it and the society is given enough time to adjust to it.

  10. It's for the company DEC, not for generic "digital" things.

  11. A beam seems like a really inefficient way of searching for something in 3D space. Also, if only one beam is sent out what happens to the second entangled beam? Photons aren't known for sitting still.

  12. I'm against DST and all but any programmer that relies on human friendly displayed time (eg 1:30) for storing data for mission critical applications like medical records messed up. The data should be stored with timestamps that are unaffected by things like DST and only convert to more human friendly formats when the data is displayed somewhere.

  13. Re:Wouldn't it be better on Colorado Prepares To Install 'Smart Road' Product By Integrated Roadways (ieee.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In the article the careening thing is mentioned in regards to Colorado's mountainous highways. So yeah, they are high. The roads are very high and very difficult to make careen-off proof.

  14. I got an idea on Mozilla Is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Feedback (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    They should call it Netscape Navigator.

  15. For the most part in my city it seems drivers from uber/lyft/whatever just park wherever the hell they want to to pick up/drop off riders, even if they're blocking whole lanes of traffic. That or they'll drive around really slowly and block traffic and/or run into other cars or pedestrians because they don't know what the hell they're doing. Trying to do anything downtown in the evening/night is a nightmare with all of them.

  16. I believe that at the very least in exchange for a patent the patent holder should be required to provide complete documentation and detailed schematics. That alone would go a very long way to help people repair their own devices and I believe it also fits perfectly with the spirit of patent law.

  17. I typed in the names of all the "shadow banned" people and they auto-populated into the drop down just fine and I don't follow any of them.

  18. Too quick to judge? on IBM Watson Reportedly Recommended Cancer Treatments That Were 'Unsafe and Incorrect' · · Score: 1

    The survival rate for lung cancer can sometimes be as low as 4% over five years. Even if the drug combination had a 90% chance to outright kill the patient it might raise their overall chances of survival enough to actually be worth the risk. Based on what I know about lung cancer dying from severe hemorrhaging could be preferable to the relatively slow agonizing death some experience otherwise, especially if your overall chances of survival are higher.

  19. Is this a paid promotion for WSJ? on Robocallers Win Even if You Don't Answer (wsj.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The article is apparently submitted by: "Sarah Krouse, reporting for WSJ:" and there's no link to a non-paywalled source. At least have the decency to mark this as a paid promotion if that's what it is.

  20. Spoilers on A Star Wars Boba Fett Movie Is In the Works (variety.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's a clone.

  21. I'm more interested in their claim that no one has been arrested due to a false positive. That's nearly impossible to completely avoid without the use of a facial recognition system. Has the UK found a new system that allows them to only arrest guilty people without the need for a costly legal system?

  22. If they purchase more energy than they consume then what are they doing with the extra energy?

  23. Re:Destroyed? on The US Has Destroyed A Critical Sea Ice-Measuring Satellite (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Still, it's a pretty inflammatory and misleading title. While dismantling the satellite may have been shortsighted the article title makes it sound like we blew it up or something like a bunch of drunken hillbillies. In reality its parts were probably just re purposed or put in storage or something.

  24. Re:Stargate on Colorado Taking Steps To Get Its Own Hyperloop (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Colorado Springs is one of the cities in the route, they already have a stargate. They need a hyperloop to get people to the stargate.

  25. Rounding Error on CERN Scientists Conclude that the Universe Should Not Exist (ign.com) · · Score: 1

    I like to think that there was originally a whole shitload more matter/antimatter and what we're seeing now is just a rounding error.