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  1. It's not illegal to walk and text. Only to cross the street while texting. You can walk and text on the sidewalk and disrupt pedestrian traffic all you want.

  2. So guns aren't a problem because not enough people die? Seatbelts are a waste of time because not everyone who gets in an accident dies?

    Exactly. Obviously, everyone has to die from gunfire or car accidents for these things to be considered problems. </sarcasm>

  3. Re:It's closer now than during Cuban Missile Crisi on The Doomsday Clock Just Ticked Closer To Midnight (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    breathe**

  4. Re:It's closer now than during Cuban Missile Crisi on The Doomsday Clock Just Ticked Closer To Midnight (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    And yes, I'd happen to agree that we're possibly closer than we've ever been. The situation with NK is quite bad, and the US relationship with Russia isn't so great either. We have the ruskies meddling in Elections across the world, and a Russia that seems to want to grab land wherever they can.

    I guarantee you we are closer than we've ever been. Also, every time you breath, you are one breath closer to death, so I would probably stop doing that. /s

  5. Re:It's closer now than during Cuban Missile Crisi on The Doomsday Clock Just Ticked Closer To Midnight (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we had this growing up: https://www.rayzist.com/Assets...

  6. Re:Doomsday Clocks are Stupid on The Doomsday Clock Just Ticked Closer To Midnight (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1
    Miss.

    C-4

  7. Re:Damn! on The Doomsday Clock Just Ticked Closer To Midnight (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    WTF, mates?!

  8. Re:I hate this commercial on Apple's 'What's a Computer?' Ad is Annoying People: Business Insider (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Binary allows this. That's a "10"

  9. Re:Every ad-writing person, ever: on Apple's 'What's a Computer?' Ad is Annoying People: Business Insider (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, it was. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/1... Your point would be more valid if mainframe computers weren't used anymore.

  10. Oh, and this one too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  11. I hadn't seen that one, but it reminded me of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  12. *barely tolerate* can also be when one sits naked while people poke fun at them.

  13. If you're lucky the delivery vehicle will be drone equipped and it will just fly up and drop the pizza off.

    You mean, like this? Still waiting.

  14. Re:WD did nothing! on Western Digital 'My Cloud' Devices Have a Hardcoded Backdoor (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Just read TFA... the summary cut off a critical piece of information. TFA states:

    ... the company apparently did nothing until November 2017.

  15. Re:WD did nothing! on Western Digital 'My Cloud' Devices Have a Hardcoded Backdoor (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    That was what I came here to point out. Their release notes even state that it resolves "critical security vulnerabilities" - https://community.wd.com/t/2-3...

  16. Re:"Hardcoded"? on Western Digital 'My Cloud' Devices Have a Hardcoded Backdoor (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Their release notes even state that it resolves "critical security vulnerabilities" - https://community.wd.com/t/2-3...

  17. Re:"Hardcoded"? on Western Digital 'My Cloud' Devices Have a Hardcoded Backdoor (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...it was disclosed to Western Digital six months ago and the company did nothing.

    Firmware 2.30.172 reportedly fixes the bug...

    Also, I don't think releasing a firmware update is doing nothing.

  18. Plus, according to the site I linked below, 29,394 out of 31,799 US zip codes have 50% or more white population. That comes out to 92.4% of all zip codes. And they are surprised that 94% of apple stores are in majority white zip codes? It's simple statistics (and a bit of sampling error)!

  19. Re:Trump doesn't even apologize for treason! on Apology After Japanese Train Departs 20 Seconds Early (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    1. Shielding a Nazi Officer Wanted for War Crimes

    2. The Internment of Japanese Citizens During World War II

    3. The Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii

    4. The Tuskegee Experiment

    5. An Apology for Slavery and the Jim Crow laws

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/five-times-united-states-officially-apologized-180959254/

  20. Re:What's the answers?? on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    "I really think it's Space Dust. I read an article on NASA's website about it. It's a growing problem."

  21. Re:Alan Nourse, Man of Mystery? on Why Is 'Blade Runner' the Title of 'Blade Runner'? (vulture.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a 1,000 word minimum high school english paper, and "Our story begins with author Alan E. Nourse" wasn't verbose enough.

  22. Re:Terrible headline on Security Researcher Finds a Fundamental Flaw in iOS (krausefx.com) · · Score: 1

    What Apple (and others) could POSSIBLY do, is to make a "Credentials" Dialog appear COMPLETELY different from any-other-Dialog, using baked-in UI elements that are simply not accessible to Apps. Kind of like building holograms and micro-printed ribbons into Currency.

    That wouldn't actually solve the problem, it would just make it slightly more difficult to mock. App developers have full control over the appearance of their apps. Sure, they wouldn't be able to use stock UI components to mimic the dialog, but they could still create custom dialogs that look identical to anything that Apple implements. Apple just needs to move away from prompting in a dialog, and tell the user that they need to go to settings to log in. Do away with a little bit of convenience to eliminate the security flaw.

  23. Re:The loss of touch ID is a fatal flaw on Apple Recommends Children Under 13, Twins and Siblings Do Not Use Face ID On iPhone X (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Really? You think it's easier to copy the contours and depths of a face than a fingerprint that you can collect with a piece of tape?

  24. Re:The loss of touch ID is a fatal flaw on Apple Recommends Children Under 13, Twins and Siblings Do Not Use Face ID On iPhone X (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This is one of the few times I have seen "incredible" used to mean what it actually means. Well done, sir.