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  1. "There are a lot of egg savings to be had by using just one basket."

    I am also reminded of the Pontiac Vibe, which was basically a Toyota Matrix, but - naturally - far uglier. What doe Firefox want to be when in grows up? Indistinguishable from Chrome.

  2. Dead Cat Bounce on New iPhone 7 Case Brings Back the Headphone Jack (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple and the MAFIAA will make absolutely sure this added analog hole remains firmly plugged; that was the whole raison d'etre of the 'courageous' decision in the first place.

  3. Paid my cable bill last night: the broadband chunk of the bill is now ~$20 higher than the (now sports / entertainment tier-free) TV bill.

    Over the last few years, the rate of increase of the broadband part has out-paced the TV rate increases for... reasons?

    Bottom line: Big Cable will get their monthly three-figure pound of flesh even after everything is TCP/IP-based.

    Plus, they need the cash to pay their right-wing prostitutes for banning community-owned broadband systems.

  4. The key was banks figuring out how to prop-up the chains in the shape of a pyramid, with the FDIC suck^H^H^H^H insured small accounts at the bottom.

  5. "By installing this firmware, the user waives all rights to make warranty claims on the machine in perpetuity."

  6. But just like the Mylan CEO and Martin Shkreli; nothing, nothing, NOTHING of any import will happen to Marissa Myer.

    Just as morality doesn't apply to the 1%, neither does laws of the 99%.

  7. The most most seriously needed LEO database on Across US, Police Officers Abuse Confidential Databases (ap.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A nation-wide one that permanently keeps track of the psycho bullies that do all that the TFA mentions, along with the more generally-accepted assaults and murders they conduct that are rarely punished. Most of the time, these a-holes are told if they resign, they won't be prosecuted. Then, they just move across the country, or even just one desperate little burg over and they setup up their sadistic snuff career all over again.

    We talk about serial killers and offenders, but the ones we need to talk about AND TRACK are the serial abusers in LEO.

  8. As the one thing we're running out of is people (adoptable trash need not apply).

    One thing that needs excised from DNA is the lizard-brained drive to spread our bloodline above all else, damned be the cost or consequence.

  9. More to the point on Yahoo's Delay in Reporting Hack 'Unacceptable', Say Senators (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    With respect to the proposed sale of the company, it was out-and-out fraud.

    But, in the good old U S of Kleptocracy, crooked CEOs don't get prosecuted, let alone convicted.

  10. In 2012, the telescope detected evidence of water vapor above Europa's south polar region, suggesting the existence of plumes that shoot out into space. The agency's Juno spacecraft is currently in orbit around Jupiter, but it isn't slated to take any observations of Europa.

    WTH?

  11. Another montly nibble on Plex Cloud Means Saying Goodbye To the Always-On PC (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    ...and the aforementioned Plex Pass ($4.99 per month

    Adding yet another duck to the ISP / Netflix /Hulu flock doesn't seem very compelling to a rapidly-shrinking middle class.

  12. This news feels like a Demotivational Teamwork poster come to life.

  13. The report, however, adds that it is likely that Google might revise the specifications by the time of its launch, which is slated to happen sometime in Q3 2017.

    The report, however, failed to add that it is likely that Google will grow bored of the project and abandon it and its' customers, which is slated to happen sometime in Q3 2018.

  14. Where do you draw the line?

    Ever see the movie Cherry 2000?

  15. You must have a Microsoft-signed UEFI tab running at boot time.

  16. Dead Horse Beating.flv on Moving Beyond Flash: the Yahoo HTML5 Video Player (streamingmedia.com) · · Score: 1

    ...and last year Google started automatically converting Flash ads to HTML5.

    Spiffy. Now Google needs to build a plug-in that works with NWS radar loops as they still require Flash.

  17. An advertising agency wants to sell me a router? And a set of voice-activated assistants? I can't see any possible downside at all. Especially since the EULA will be in microprint.

  18. What happens when Brian comes across some nefarious shenanigans that Google has pulled? A moment of hesitation - even subconsciously?

  19. If you steal food, they no longer have the food. If you "steal" content, they still have the content.

    But what it *does* do is enable / justify the creeping surveillance state. Thanks.

  20. Toughest part on UPS Is Starting To Test Drone Deliveries In the US (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    The toughest part has been programming the drone to both run over and then drop-kick the packages in the hedge.

  21. Got an email from a comic I like saying he had a TV special coming up... on Seeso (NBCUniversal / Comcast).

    Sorry pal, but nope. Not even worth a trial / cancel trick as those effers can't even be trusted with my CC info (I don't have Comcast, thank FSM).

  22. If you hate women, vote Trump. If you love Citizens' United, vote Trump.

    It really is that stark a choice.

  23. "It says 'D-r-I-n-k...M-o-r-e...O-v-a-l-t'. aw, man!"

  24. Gloat past the graveyard on Yahoo Confirms Massive Data Breach, 500 Million Users Impacted [Updated] (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Oh, absolutely; this will NEVER happen to gmail!

  25. Bezos: "Look how huge my rocket is!!"