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  1. No different than what we have here on Manufacturer's Backdoor Found On Popular Chinese Android Smartphone · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Pretty sure that both the iOS and Android systems can do this out of the box, they just have chosen not to. There's also the old Kindle deleting 1984 incident.

  2. Re:Not a cargo ship on New Cargo Ship Is 488 Meters Long · · Score: 1

    Exactly. This thing isn't navigating cramped harbors on a regular basis.

  3. Vaporware on NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities For Venus Exploration · · Score: 1

    This won't happen in my lifetime.

  4. Book are for grownups. A slate and a piece of chalk is all you need before your 18th birthday.

  5. Re:So if I've got this right... on Federal Court Nixes Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's a good thing. You can't simultaneously use the evidence collected againts this guy but not allow the police to collect evidence this way in the future. The police knew it was illegal.

  6. Re:undocumented immigrant on Federal Court Nixes Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hear it's open season on tourists. I'm going to Vegas to hunt me some Brits.

  7. Re:this is ridiculous on Federal Court Nixes Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Well, we know there simply aren't enough cops to sit in front of every house. Video monitoring needs to be restricted because there are enough cameras to watch every house, and the police will do it. They'll give you a surveillance state that would rival a Las Vegas casino.

  8. Re:Quoted from TFA on NASA's $349 Million Empty Tower · · Score: 1

    It's not that money is more important than reason, it's that there's no reasoning at all. Reason is out, and has been for years. The people with the least sense of reason on earth are in congress.

  9. Apparently it's very easy to get around on Keurig 2.0 Genuine K-Cup Spoofing Vulnerability · · Score: 3, Funny

    I know someone who keeps a genuine k-cup lid around and just sets it on top of the off-brand cup every time he uses his machine.

  10. Re:View angles on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    Add the word 'most' in front of my post then. The author of the article claims that 'most' monitors are fine when rotated and we're disputing that.

  11. Re:View angles on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 0

    Your monitor works fine in portrait mode. That's nice. Mine doesn't. What's your point anyway?

  12. Re:Help! on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 4, Funny

    JB Weld.

  13. Re:View angles on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And here's the comment I was looking for. Monitors aren't designed to be placed into portrait mode. They completely suck. Each eye sees different brightnesses and colours. It's truly awful unless you're one of those people that doesn't mind a distorted image. You probably have your widescreen TV in 4:3 to 16:9 stretch mode at home too.

  14. Re: What did you expect from California ? on California Sues Uber Over Practices · · Score: 2

    Exactly. Taxis are so heavily regulated for two reasons. First of course is taxes. Second, and more important in my opinion, is because they have a long long history of screwing their customers. They deserve every bit of regulation that's thrown their way, from licensing, vehicle standards, pay guidelines, etc. They're a very common and important service and they NEED to be heavily regulated or every tourist that visits your city gets screwed. It's not how cities want to present themselves to the world. Now, how this affects Uber is that they're a taxi service that thinks the rules don't apply to them. I expect every city in the country will eventually sue them for not following the taxi regulations.

  15. Re:Not sure who to cheer for on Fraud Bots Cost Advertisers $6 Billion · · Score: 5, Funny

    The only ads I get that are truly targeted come AFTER I've bought something. I bought a freezer a few days ago. Now I get ads for fridges and freezers everywhere because I had looked up some reviews. Do these idiots really think I'm in the market for two freezers? Same thing happened with an engagement ring. I'm STILL getting targeted ads for jewelry even though they're almost a year late. I have made a point to visit a few high profile lingerie sites just so that my targeted ads for the next few months will feature scantily clad models. Just have to go to their homepage then close the tab.

  16. Re:Why ? on Royal Mail Pilots 3D Printing Service · · Score: 2

    But someone's going to make a fortune shipping printing medium.

  17. Re:Why ? on Royal Mail Pilots 3D Printing Service · · Score: 1

    Why don't they start selling groceries? Or getting into the adult webcam business? Or, hell, why not ANYTHING? 3D printing has nothing to do with the postal service and makes as much sense as any of my suggestions.

  18. Re:Can someone explain to me on High Temperature Superconductivity Record Smashed By Sulfur Hydride · · Score: 4, Funny

    That is not so. Changing the pressure will cause a change in temperature in a closed system only. If you also have a cooling apparatus that allows the energy to dissipate then you can have it be any temperature you want, provided your wife doesn't walk by and turn it up again.

  19. Re:from TFA on Just-Announced X.Org Security Flaws Affect Code Dating Back To 1987 · · Score: 0

    Configure the X server to prohibit X connections from the network by passing the -nolisten tcp command line option to the X server.

    Well duh!

  20. Re:Rick-Roll on Gangnam Style Surpasses YouTube's 32-bit View Counter · · Score: 4, Informative

    YouTube doesn't count a hit the instant a video starts playing. They have further criteria that depend on how much of the video was played, whether or not parts were skipped, etc. Well, at least I remember reading about it sometime. It had to do with their efforts to combat click fraud and only count legitimate views.

  21. Re:Lord, save me from buzzwords on IoT Is the Third Big Technology 'Wave' In the Last 50 Years, Says Harvard · · Score: 1

    My favourite thing with Bluetooth connections is when you connect all you get are codewords. Holding a phone and a speaker. Go to pair them and suddenly the speaker is actually a 947842v.2. WTF?

  22. Re:Fark on Is a "Wikipedia For News" Feasible? · · Score: 1

    Hostile? Every now and then I see a petty argument between a couple of people but I would never characterize TF as hostile.

  23. Re:US Centric? on Is a "Wikipedia For News" Feasible? · · Score: 1

    Britain and France are prime examples of a countries that finally did away with the crap tabloids and their phony reporting.

  24. Re:Online news on Is a "Wikipedia For News" Feasible? · · Score: 1

    Of course. There are no humans involved in Google News. LOL.

  25. Re:(Mg,Fe)SiO3 on Scientists Have Finally Sampled the Most Abundant Material On Earth · · Score: 1

    Space travel is hard, and so is digging a very deep hole. Hard things to do must all be equally hard, therefore it's weird that we haven't dug a hole to sample this stuff. 100% bomb proof logic you've got there.