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Comment Re:Easier fix... (Score 1) 54

by Mononymous (#66173680) Attached to: Android Gets Fake Call Detection That Uses RCS

I virtually never get spam calls (maybe 2 in the last decade), but it sure is annoying when I'm trying to call someone with the same policy you have.
If I need to call them from work, I don't have any way to send them a text.
If I'm trying to call someone personally, it's obviously because I need an answer now, not when they get around to looking at their texts.

Comment Re:Lithium isn't rare, and it is important (Score 3, Informative) 52

Isaac Asimov explained it this way:

Using modern terminology, we would define an earth as a stable oxide with a high melting point. The four most common of these were silica, alumina, lime and magnesia, in that order....
In 1812, a Scottish chemist, Thomas Thomson (1773-1852), visited the [Ytterby] quarry and marveled over the mineral [ytterbite]. He was still under the spell of the word “earth.”
If an object was called an earth, surely it would have to be a major component of the earth....
Now Thomson was staring at an earth, yttria, that could only be found in one or two favored spots and was unknown elsewhere....
Yttria, in other words, was a “rare earth” which, to Thomson, was almost a contradiction in terms, and that very contradiction helped make the phrase notable to chemists, generally.

Comment Re:The real killer for Visio (Score 1) 66

Yesterday I told my daughter, "I just hooked up that old laptop to the TV". She said, "Does that mean we can watch Netflix without ads?" When I said yes, she just about screamed.
It means using a trackpad while standing up instead of a remote from the couch, but it's definitely worth it to her.

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