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  1. Re:Exciting, but dumb... on Intel ChromeBooks Can Now Run Wine and Steam (codeweavers.com) · · Score: 1

    Because Apple products cost more.
    Cost more + do less = fail.

    Chromebooks usually cost less.
    Cost less + do less = de rigueur

  2. Re:Try it on Null Island: The Land of Lousy Directional Data (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Library of Congress is about 200 meters from the US Capitol building. /explainer of jokes

  3. Re:Black Lives Matter on Null Island: The Land of Lousy Directional Data (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Come to think of it, I haven't seen any GNAA posts today.

    They are probably working this lovely new angle.

  4. Re:Black Lives Matter on Null Island: The Land of Lousy Directional Data (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You realize that you've probably been trolled, right? The last sentence seems pretty much designed to raise negative sentiment about BLM.

  5. Re:Amazon cutting their own throat on Amazon's Chinese Counterfeit Problem Is Getting Worse (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I went safe and bought a $35 oem battery (vs the 6.97 obvious fakes). It arrived with a blurry photocopy-looking label and degraded quickly as described.

    Sam

  6. Re:Amazon cutting their own throat on Amazon's Chinese Counterfeit Problem Is Getting Worse (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously.

    Go on Amazon or newegg and search for your model cellphone + "battery."

    Now go enjoy the cesspool of "OEM batteries" with blurry, photocopied labels on them. I challenge you to find a real oem battery for say... a Nexus 5 or an HTC One missed in with all that crap. A battery that doesn't have an initial capacity less than 80% of what the label says and isn't worse in life than the one you were replacing after a month or two.

    Amazon + Newegg are now broken, IMO.

  7. Re:Returning a wet phone to functionality on Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Fails Consumer Reports Water-Resistance Test (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't recommend the vacuum pump...

    I dropped my phone in a 6' deep evaporative cooler tank and it took 15 minutes to fish it out. I ran up to the lab and took the rotor out of our vacuum concentrator and switched it on. Things looked fine for a couple minutes, but then the back of the phone started swelling and it was the battery bulging... I switched it off and it "deflated." The phone also worked (still using it now, in fact), but the battery life was halved.

    It wasn't in there long enough to evaporate all the water, but the back was already partially popped so I took it off and stuck in an incubator at 42C for a day.

  8. Re:Didn't we do this once? on Apple Patents a Way To Keep People From Filming At Concerts and Movie Theaters (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not just a sticker?

  9. Thank goodness we have dealership networks to protect us from those evil manufacturers.

    http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-...

  10. Exactly

  11. "You can roll back the driver and then, in the Windows update window block that driver update."

    Except that the FTDI brick-driver set the counterfeit chips USB ID to all zero, so after the ID is set, no OS could recognize them.

  12. Re:Alfred Hitchcock on Is The Future Of Television Watching on Fast-Forward? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    How about Hitchcock's Rope? The whole thing is shot in long scenes to the point they used movable walls that moved rolled out of the way while they panned the camera.

    The entire movie is almost 2 hours, but consists of only 10 takes. Shameless Wikipedia copypasta:

    ********SPOILER ALERT STOP READING IF YOU DON'T WANT ANY PLOT HINTS**********

    Segment Length Time-code Start Finish
    1 09:34 00:02:30 Close-up (CU), strangulation Blackout on Brandon's back
    2 07:51 00:11:59 Black, pan off Brandon's back CU Kenneth: "What do you mean?"
    3 07:18 00:19:45 Unmasked cut, men crossing to Janet Blackout on Kenneth's back
    4 07:08 00:27:15 Black, pan off Kenneth's back CU Phillip: "That's a lie."
    5 09:57 00:34:34 Unmasked cut, CU Rupert Blackout on Brandon's back
    6 07:33 00:44:21 Black, pan off Brandon's back Three shot
    7 07:46 00:51:56 Unmasked cut, Mrs. Wilson: "Excuse me, sir." Blackout on Brandon
    8 10:06 00:59:44 Black, pan off Brandon CU Brandon's hand in gun pocket
    9 04:37 01:09:51 Unmasked cut, CU Rupert Blackout on lid of chest
    10 05:38 01:14:35 Black, pan up from lid of chest End of film

  13. Re:Jay Leno's take on Tesla Model S Floats Well Enough To Act As a Boat, According To Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    Man, I don't know who you were talking to, but I never heard any electric car enthusiast say something like that.

    Ever.

    Sounds like you really talked to some losers. Most of the electric car/motorcycle converters I've talked to wanted to do it so they wouldn't have to buy gasoline, or wanted to do something different, or liked the idea of how smooth driving an electric is.

  14. Re: STEM on Mattel Sells Out Of 'Game Developer Barbie' (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Buddy, you have a pretty pathetic outlook on life.

  15. Re:What took them so long? Simple on Apple iPhones Found to Have Violated Chinese Rival's Patent (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Adblocking bullshit popover warning on that link.

    Recommend you just don't click it at all.

  16. And then when you go to get on the science committee, you find the first question on the scientific literacy test is "Do you believe that GOD did it?"

  17. Yes, but don't you understand? This time the people not in the labor force are MEN!!!

    OMGOMGOMGOMG

  18. Re:Other options on Facebook Will Track What Physical Stores You Go Into (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Or, a phone with Android 6.

    Just go to the app in Settings->Apps and turn off the location switch.

  19. Re:This is quite possibly... on Citigroup Sues AT&T For Saying 'Thanks' To Customers (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    What about when Intel tried to trademark the letter "i"?

    http://www.techeye.net/busines...

  20. Re:How are they a startup? on OnePlus 3 Featuring 5.5-inch FHD Display, Snapdragon 820 SoC, 6GB RAM Launched at $400 · · Score: 1

    Maybe the summary writers meant "upstart" and not "startup?"

    Sam

  21. Re: Somebody's getting a beating tonight on Tesla: Model X Accident Caused By Driver Error, Not Autopilot (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That sounds pretty unsafe, given the unreliability of variable resistors.

    IIRC, the Civic uses Hall-effect sensors for its TPS, with a pair of redundant ones on the gas pedal.

  22. I have a job I have to drive to during the day, you insensitive clod!

  23. Re:Old idea on Real-World Pong Created by Amateur Builders (geeky-gadgets.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't anyone remember pongmechanik?

    http://www.cyberniklas.de/pong...

    Pong implemented entirely mechanically, down to the "brain" controlling it being all relays.

  24. Re: Good? on Russian Online Trolls Resist The Light · · Score: 1

    Funny: There was a Kentucky Fried Chicken right next to my work. It just went out of business because 2 years ago, a pair of Greek guys opened a nice little chargrilled chicken place across the road.

    Nobody went to KFC anymore.

  25. Re:How about just building a feasible cleaning bot on ASUS Unveils $599 Home Robot 'Zenbo' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I want a robot vacuum that can do stairs.