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  1. Re: don't mess with URLs on Google Temporarily Brings Back the www In Chrome URLs -- But Should They? (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 2

    I may just quit using Chrome. They make a bad call, back pedal because the people that matter hated it, and then rub shit in thier face by saying it's coming back. Fuck them and the horse they rode in on.

  2. Re: They're lying (They're politicians) on US Lawmakers Say AI Deepfakes 'Have the Potential To Disrupt Every Facet of Our Society' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    See how the turkeys jump when it's something that affects them (in an election). Oh the outrage when somone other than a politician injects themselves into an election or creates hit piece videos.

  3. Re: I delayed having kid because of islamic take o on 58% of Silicon Valley Tech Workers Delayed Having Kids Because of Housing Costs (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    Typical flawed reasoning of someone who doesn't have kids. Delaying having children is a major fuck up. The last thing you want to be doing at 50 is dealing with serious family issues. If you are going to have kids just kick em out and get it started. Dragging ass because of the world shows the flawed reasoning of someone who feels they can control the world and thier child's fate. Lmao. Nurture can be good but nature always wins. Your kids are going to be who they are going to be regardless of anything you do. Keep them alive and set a good example...the only thing that works.

  4. Don't forget the Natti. Tech is super hot here and the only chance of it letting up is if the fed gets let out of its cage again and starts fucking with interest rates in the name of "cooling off wage inflation."

    Accumulation of data is creating a new industry that is spread evenly across every sector and company. For once every company needs people with real skills: a combination of software dev, data analysis, and the ability to learn a business. Good times.

  5. People die in the US from preventable diseases. Chronic disease. From stuffing twinkies in thier neck and loading up on a pound of beef when they are in the mood for a "healthy" meal.

  6. Re: Ban cigs on FDA Chief Considers Ban of All Flavored E-Cigarettes (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I should have specified banning adulteration of tobacco to make it more addictive.

  7. Re: Ban cigs on FDA Chief Considers Ban of All Flavored E-Cigarettes (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    You're...shut up

  8. Ban cigs on FDA Chief Considers Ban of All Flavored E-Cigarettes (wsj.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ban cigarettes while your at it dipshit.

  9. Re: Well it was nice while it lasted on European Parliament Votes in Favor of Controversial Copyright Laws (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    At this point I am longing for the AOL days.

  10. It is likely that most content owners will just grant a blanket license. That will be difficult to automate unless Google works it into thier bot somehow. Perhaps it would search for a license file with standard language or a guild that links to a standard license that you opt in to on thier site for your domain.

  11. Merger plan on FCC Says It Needs More Time To Review T-Mobile, Sprint Merger (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone competent needs to start reviewing the merger plans of these companies...any company. It is, by default, anti-competitive behavior and suspect in a free market. Harvard has studied this to death and they can rarely find value, let alone a benefit to consumers. The board and management seem to make out but no one else does.

    I have been through an acquisition and the only value was to post the revenue of the acquired company in the quarterly results so the CEO could keep the board off his back. The acquired company immediately started a sliding in revenue once the synergies were realized (good people who knew the business were let go or had to leave to preserve thier career status).

  12. They could hang tin foil on fish hooks and make billions selling them.

  13. Re: It seems like Apple wants us to ditch adapters on Someone With an iMac, iPhone, and iPad Might Soon Need Three Different Headphone Adapters (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not include lightning and USB-c on this device and only include a USB-c charger?

  14. Re: “Wanting to be an astronaut” on NASA May Sell Corporate Naming Rights For Rockets, Spacecraft (al.com) · · Score: 0

    That's literally thier job...to crush childhood dreams. It's a parents job to teach thier kids that teachers don't know shit.

  15. Re: Commercials on NASA May Sell Corporate Naming Rights For Rockets, Spacecraft (al.com) · · Score: 2

    It is much more profitable to explore more than 3000 feet deep in the ocean. Instead were are fucking around in space where we are in way over our heads. The current consciousness of humanity fails to see the folly.

  16. Re: Commercials on NASA May Sell Corporate Naming Rights For Rockets, Spacecraft (al.com) · · Score: 1

    It wasn't just NASA marketing. It was Buck Rogers science fiction romance that was the primary drivel soaked up by young kids at the time. Once that was over and the realities of difficult, deadly, unglamorous work became apparent the romance waned. On top of that the image of a NASA astronaut is one of elitism that signals it is a waste of time to pursue. It is not a fulfilling role., it is one of leaving humanity behind to behold the cosmos is solitude. Fuck that.

  17. Re: bad idea.. very, very bad. on NASA May Sell Corporate Naming Rights For Rockets, Spacecraft (al.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and thier shit kept blowing up because thier culture sucks.

  18. Re: Possible Fix - LEO satellite internet on About a Quarter of Rural Americans Say Access To High-Speed Internet Is a Major Problem (pewresearch.org) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Fuck satellite internet. Everyone in the sticks has it and it is pretty damn good but the latency and upload capability blows. It's amazing if you are in the jungle...not so much if you are living in civilization daily. It is also capped. Seems adequate until you have to live with it.

  19. It was exactly as you describe here in Cincinnati until a fire got lit under Spectrum's ass. Formerly Time Warner, they saw the need to upgrade their speeds significantly and their prices are good as well. It probably stated when the local Bell rolled out "Fioptics" which delivered crazy speed to some limited areas. Unfortunately they never rolled it out aggressively and they charged $100 a month for 300mbps. Spectrum has pretty much matched the speed at half the price and it is available everywhere cable is delivered. Their service has been at least 4 nines since I started using it--perhaps even 5 nines but I haven't tracked it scientifically.

  20. It's called Cincinnati. All the big city advantages with none of the big city drawbacks. Traffic at rush hour is as bad as it gets and that is barely an inconvenience in only a few places. Our two internet suppliers are constantly duking it out on price, speed, and terms.

  21. Re: Facebook is not at fault for malfunctioning h on How Facebook's WhatsApp Destroyed A Village (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    The mob violence tends to happen in India without tech involved. Dice has an episode that details people being killed because they were purported to have consumed beef among other minor infractions. In the cases they covered no one actually consumed beef.

  22. Re: Facebook is not at fault for malfunctioning h on How Facebook's WhatsApp Destroyed A Village (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    Big difference, the pizza thing was proven to be true. Wow.

  23. Re: Facebook is not at fault for malfunctioning h on How Facebook's WhatsApp Destroyed A Village (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 2

    E. B. White wrote a story about this called Charlotte's Web. The premise was that if it is in print, people will believe it. In the story the people were regular farm community towns folk of course. Most people are under educated to some degree.

  24. The first requirement is recording every sound, squawk, and squeek possible and sending it back to the server for analysis. Everything else is later in the user story.

  25. Re: Latest models have red/yellow/green lights on Nearly Half of American Households Will Own a Smart Speaker by 2019, Study Says (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Good job but there is only red and green.