Comment Re:Tough to feel sorry for fools. (Score 3, Insightful) 79
Simple advice that people who need it don't want to hear: for years now it's been possible to get a really, really usable phone for $30 (used to be $20). I'm not talking about a flip phone, I mean somehting running a reasinable enough android version with reasonable enough specs to run whatever bullshit apps you think you need and be a functional part of society with for as much as a phone with internet access and a camera to read QR codes seems to be increasingly required.
There is zero reason to spend more without 1.) the means to do so and 2.) a good reason why that basic phone won't do what you need it to. If 1.) is big enough you get to just buy shit you don't need because you want to. That's how this has always worked. But increasingly it's people without enough money buying much too expensive phones that have capabilities they will never use and financing them to boot.
Comment Ask Sarge would be better (Score 5, Funny) 86
Like ask Jeeves but with get 'er done attitude
Comment Re:Not sure why they don't do what Google does (Score 1) 54
Comment Re:Praise be (Score 1) 47
Comment Re:Well (Score -1, Troll) 60
Comment Re:Disabling connectivity in hardware (Score 1) 54
What is being suggest is not a novel idea. It's trivial to find the information for just about any modern vehicle simp[ly by searching for it.
Comment Re:cool story (Score 1) 40
17 more years? I can't wait to see people in their 70's through 90's adventuring through the universe. Are stargates handicap-accessible?
Seriously though dude this is actually interesting science news vastly more important than some cheesy show.
Comment Underground lines FTW (Score 1) 226
My neighborhood (suburb of Washington DC, near NASA Goddard) has underground utilities.
We have lost power for maybe 12 hours total over the past 30 YEARS.
When there's a lot of wind and rain, we sometimes lose power for seconds, maybe tens of seconds. Outages of more than a minute are extremely rare.
That's why the FIOS box, the routers, and the most important desktop are on small UPS units - primarily to avoid losing work.
Nearby neighborhoods with above ground lines lose power approximately annually, sometimes for days.
Comment 14 Million? (Score 2) 54
Comment Re:DST is Dumb (Score 1) 263
Ideally we should adjust clocks/schedules so that peak electricity demand lines up with peak solar output.
That's not a thing in the modern age of both industry and air conditioning.
Comment Re:Broadcast TV is dying (Score 1) 82
Comment Re:Praise be (Score 1) 47
Now answer that same one for your orange hero trump and remind me which one has implemented more communism.
Comment Re: Cops were actually well behaved, shockingly. (Score 1) 132
Comment Re:oh for fuck's sake. not this again. (Score 1) 251
"The notion that there is a shortage of physicians is preposterous - the residency programs will continue to be filled every single year."
How on earth are those two things contradictory? The problem is there are too few residencies for how many physicians we need.