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Comment Re:Interstellar probe? (Score 1) 583

It's entirely possible that "aging" doesn't exist for species outside our solar system (if such aliens exist).

Immensely improbable, I would think. Without replacing the old with potentially better adaptations, there is no evolution, and it's hard to see how a "species" stage can be reached in the first place.

Comment Re: Interstellar probe? (Score 1) 583

C is a fancy, unamerican way to measure temperature. Speed of light is c.

You must be American.

1: C is Coloumb, the SI unit for electric charge. (Degrees Celsius always needs the degree sign.)
2: It's not c, it's c.
3: It's not the speed of light, it's the speed of light in vacuum. The "in vacuum" part is very significant.

Comment Re:router reset (Score 1) 141

Router logs differ depending on the router, and what it's configured to do. There's no set format for what a router logs or how; it depends on the router OS, model and configuration.
Changes in routing information would normally go in router logs, along with information on packets that cannot or would not be routed, and interfaces that go up or down.

"A station associated" seems to me to be an access point log, not a router log. (Granted, these days some call everything a "router", much like they called every computer a "cpu" or "hard drive" in the past.)

Comment Re: All sides of the argument. (Score 2) 227

No, that's truths, not facts. "This court finds it to be true that ..."
A truth, as far as a court is concerned, is what is likely, either "upon preponderance of evidence" or "beyond reasonable doubt". It does not require or establish fact, only truth.
If they were facts, we would not need courts.

Comment Re:Wait a damn sec (Score 1) 141

Well, maybe they have considered it. But maybe the bomber isn't very tech savvy and doe not know how to do that or got sloppy. The MAC address seems like a reasonable lead to follow.

In that case, the reasonable cause of action would be to ask Motorola which device model had this particular MAC address, and where it was sold, and then follow it through the serial number to the buyer.
I can only presume that they have tried and failed this, and that's why they're asking.

Comment Re:don't need AI for that (Score 1) 151

Except that without some intelligence, artificial or human (if it still exists), it won't work.
I have two internet connections, load balanced, and which one is used depends on which one currently has the least traffic. They show up as two different states.
Others may share a VPN, and get the same location for two different users.

Comment Re:More Amazing than Any Other PC Aspect (Score 2) 81

You must have a very large pinky (these are SD cards, not micro-SD), mr Hulk.

Anyhow, to put it in perspective, in my first job, we used punch cards. Up to 80 7-bit characters per card. A big box of 2000 cards could hold a little over 136 kB.

My first personal computer, I bought a 20 MB Winchester hard drive for, and didn't know what to do with all that space. I ran a BBS on it, but there was plenty of unused space.

Comment Re:Or they do not care about their jobs... (Score 2, Insightful) 403

The other alternative is that they truly do not care about job security.

I think there are many factors, including simply having more time and not as much to spend it on - hanging out with the remaining friends and family on Facebook and sharing fairly indiscriminately as a way of "keeping in touch" might be more prevalent.
And probably growing up at a time when news came from newspapers which had actual journalists that verified the news, and a desk with editors that approved publishing. Post-Murdoch, news just isn't what it was.

The other tidbit, that republicans are far more likely to share fake news than democrats, I don't think is entirely due to fake news being Trump-friendly. i have a feeling that if adjusting for that, republicans would still be ahead. If nothing else because of a correlation between political affinity and accepting outrageous claims and long-living memes like the Jewish carpenter story. I.e. a propensity for believing over questioning.

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