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  1. Most folks are still in love with Tesla, but I have to wonder if they're going to be any different than John Deere and Case - New Holland:
    "You are only given the privilege to pay the massive price tag, but you are FORBIDDEN to work on it. Bring it to us, along with your nose to pay thru."

  2. Re:Lenovo dev team working on it on Microsoft Signature PC Requirements Now Blocks Linux Installation: Reports · · Score: 1
    That old phrase comes to mind:

    Better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

  3. 'Google decided.'

    They don't have any canaries at the Chocolate Factory, do they?

  4. Amazon is becoming more and more like a sketchy third-world bazaar. Last month, I bought some hair product my GF liked thru Amazon. What we received were two jars, unsealed and only partially filled with... something other than the actual product. It finally occurred to me that the weird smell of it was akin to linseed oil.

    Amazon quickly refunded the purchase, but even after posting a blistering review of this counterfeit and possibly dangerous product, I do believe that vendor is still a valued partner to Bezos and company.

    If they yet again raise the cost of Prime, just like the higher packages on my cable service, I'll be dropping it as well.

  5. Unbunch thy pantaloons, Ayn Rand on Hackers Offer a DIY Alternative To The $600 EpiPen (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    And these are the people you want to put in charge of the entire USA healthcare system? Fuck "socialized medicine" and fuck the U.S. federal government. They're the problem, not the solution.

    All your supposed problems with 'socialized medicine' is still allowing corporations to make money off the suffering and pain of human beings' health problems. THAT is truly sick.

  6. Could someone dub John Belushi's Skylab sketch in Mandarin?

  7. One ticket to Hell, please on When Blind People Do Algebra, the Brain's Visual Areas Light Up (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That really suggests that yes, blind individuals appear to be doing math with their visual cortex

    Well, it doesn't have anything else better to do.

  8. I also hear a whining sound from my wireless router, I can often hear noise on LCD Displays, especially on a full screen refresh.

    Soon enough, you'll hear a vague whine *all* the time. :/

  9. "When Fascism Came To Town, aka President Trump"

  10. The real shame on Uber Accused of Cashing In On Bomb Explosion By Jacking Rates (thesun.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "Mortgage broker Nick Lalli"

    was unharmed.

  11. Nationalism on China's Atomic Clock in Space Will Stay Accurate For a Billion Years (rt.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    In the coming decades, the Chinese will easily eclipse the US in being insufferable, jingoistic dicks.

  12. The power of un-documented API calls! I assume Microsoft has a patent on this process.

  13. ...though both phones might have a curved display this time around.

    Before or after ignition?

  14. Anthrax on Colin Powell's Private Email Account Has Been Hacked (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The summary totally ignores Powell's extremely critical remarks about Hillary, her lies, manipulation, and the public exploitation of his name against his wishes.

    A lie of omission is still a lie, and that you choose to ignore these facts makes them all the more critical to examine.

    I guess she should have waved around a bottle of 'anthrax' to justify all that bullshit.

  15. PHB Syndrome on World Anti-Doping Agency Says It Was Hacked By Russia (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "Everything sensitive must be online and remotely accessible by me so I don't have to leave the golf course (or my mistresses' bed)."

    This would be the only reason not to have stuff like this physically walled-off from the net. What, do they dump their results directly onto Twitter?

  16. I installed Google Keep to try location-based notes with a reminder (a shopping list in other words). It only notified me twice: AFTER I had already returned home from said store.

    So silver lining: they do want to track you, but they're still rather shit at it.

  17. "Now with 40% less fire!!"

  18. Probably white as well.

    This tool will allow them to create their own little universe without having to eject or muzzle the meanies who insist on saying things they don't like.

    But more importantly, I'm betting John has never been threatened with and felt the very real fear of rape and murder for the crime of being a woman on the Internet.

  19. In related news on Twitter Will Extend Its 140 Character Limit On September 19th (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    The gigantism trend of phones accelerates.
    Maybe that's one silver lining of prevalent obesity; it will make our phones look smaller.

  20. This is why the next appointments to the Supreme Court are so important. They will either save or destroy the US and most of the free world (Citizens' United), depending on who is the next POTUS.

  21. Their dive into the old, sour affair highlights...

    Are you a twelve year-old?

  22. Hoping on MIT Invented A Camera That Can Read Closed Books (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm hoping they made sure all that energy can't do long-term damage to the book they scan.
    Still, it does remind me of what they did in Inherit The Stars.

  23. Listen carefully, and you can hear faint, Austrian-tinged laughter.

    Two A-Types, boasting about how their 'missle' is bigger. Not that the US and USSR didn't do it first.

  24. Re:So what was the prior feature? on Elon Musk Says Tesla New Autopilot Features Would Have Prevented Recent Death (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I know there is a desire to bow down and really kiss up to Tesla, but they need to be held to the same standards as their competitors.

    Such as the sky-high moral standards of GM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_ignition_switch_recalls/?

  25. Simple on Microsoft Fixes Bugs in Skype for Linux (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok, what's the catch? Why would MS spend even one man-hour working on this thing?

    Because of the reports filed by their most important customer: the NSA. The bugs were interfering with their warrantless surveillance work.