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Young Jupiter was smacked head-on by newborn planet
Re:Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data withou...
on Friday May 31, 2019 @05:59PM (#20065390)
The configuration should be yes/no and always-ask/never-ask with the default being no and always ask.
Re:An incredibly simple solution to plastic packaging waste
on Friday May 31, 2019 @05:33PM (#20065190)
Most of these products are vanity items that we should not even bother producing. For my part, I still purchase Gatorade in powder form. 8 gallons for $10 save both money and plastic.
Re:Uber will ban riders with low rating, same as was predicted in Blac...
on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @05:42PM (#20045852)
Gratuity Shaming
Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel-winning physicist who developed quark idea, dies at 89
San Francisco is first US city to ban facial recognition
Re:Don Norman on how design fails older consumers
on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @04:40PM (#19862687)
Case in point. This article does not display when cookies are disabled.
Re:Reddit Is Down?
on Thursday April 25, 2019 @02:01AM (#19745438)
Nope.
Re:The Fight to Save Coral (2017)
on Monday April 22, 2019 @04:17PM (#19722487)
Forum had a segment, "Bay Area Scientists Work to Grow Coral, Restore Imperiled Reefs", today.
https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101870644/bay-area-scientists...
CU-SeeMe
Re:How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
on Friday April 12, 2019 @03:18PM (#19648116)
I provided context for this, WW2. The Allies were cut off from the natural rubber supply of Southeast Asia at the beginning of the war. You can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_rubber
Re:How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
on Friday April 12, 2019 @12:23AM (#19641962)
Nasa Kelly twins study shows harsh effects of space flight and a brutal return
Re:How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
on Thursday April 11, 2019 @03:12AM (#19631839)
I heard something related to this recently. The development of synthetic rubber meant we did not need to control regions with rubber plantation. This was mentioned in association with World War II. Another interesting point discussed was that in order to send secure communication by wire you had to control the land the wire traversed to prevent disruption of the communication. The invention of wireless communication meant that you only had to control the terminals of the communication.
Re:New paper quantifies how quickly Southern planters recovered from t...
on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @05:41PM (#19619231)
This reminds me part 1 of the 2 part "Reconstruction: America After The Civil War," airs tonight (April 9 and 16).
Re:2.7M Americans Still Get Netflix DVDs in the Mail
on Saturday April 06, 2019 @12:07AM (#19589159)
The licensing of DVDs versus Streams seems to be out of wack. How is it that Netflix can license so many more movies to distribute through their DVD service than they are able to license to distribute through their Stream service?
Re:China Airport Facial Recognition Automatically Checks You in for Yo...
on Monday March 25, 2019 @02:02AM (#19480597)
Or not at all.
Rare super worm moon will loom large as it coincides with equinox
Re:Lyft’s imminent IPO could value the company at $23B
on Monday March 18, 2019 @01:17AM (#19418837)
How much of the wealth will make it's way to drivers?
Re:U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says
on Thursday March 07, 2019 @01:27AM (#19325969)
Where are they going? Instagram? This is not leaving Facebook.
edit: How do you down-vote the fact that Facebook owns Instagram?
Re:China introduces ‘social’ punishments for scientific misconduct
on Saturday December 15, 2018 @04:25PM (#18690419)
I'm confused. China is not America.
Re:China introduces ‘social’ punishments for scientific misconduct
on Saturday December 15, 2018 @04:11PM (#18690358)
China is not a democracy. You have the rights the government says you have.
Re:Drunk driver slept while Tesla appeared to drive Hwy 101 on autopilot
on Sunday December 02, 2018 @02:42AM (#18581292)
If this guy is guilty of DUI, what does this say about the future of autonomous vehicles? While I expect autopilot is less sophisticated than autonomous vehicles, he wasn't given the opportunity to violate the "sophistication" of autopilot. I expect his vehicle would have remained under control of the autopilot on the freeway until he woke and disabled autopilot. He may then have been legally DUI, but if we trust autopilot, then he wasn't DUI at the time the police disrupted the autopilot.
Re:US Navy’s top 5th Fleet commander found dead in his home
on Saturday December 01, 2018 @07:39PM (#18580021)
“at this time, no foul play is expected", but is it suspected?
Re:Half of All Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock
on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @02:18PM (#18554689)
Your data is being sold by the 1st party.
Re:Prisons Want Cell Phone Jammers to Stop Criminal Activity
on Monday November 26, 2018 @12:20PM (#18534955)
Prisoners want cell phones so they aren't being gouged by a profiteering prison system charging exuberant fees for phone use.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/13/17113712/prison-phone-cal...
Re:The world's most popular programming language – and it iswait, er, ...
on Monday November 19, 2018 @05:05PM (#18490143)
Source: Yoshitaka Sakurada
Re:‘Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat’ Is a Love Letter to Amateur Cooks
on Sunday November 18, 2018 @06:02PM (#18482967)
Haven't read the book, but there was definitely something off about the Netflix series. It was good and worth watching. While Samin is a wonderful, jolly personality and a large brained chef, she is not interesting enough to carry the series.