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  1. Re:Uh... on Google Uses Search To Push Its Products: WSJ (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    hmmm thought I'd try it so searched for "Mobile Phone" no ads or search results for Pixel Phones were returned so I suspect the article is bull!

  2. I have altered the deal pray I do not alter it any further

  3. Re:love the subtle anti-brexit push on Apple Increases App Store Prices By 25% Following Brexit Vote (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    But first she needs to make sure Boris Johnson's reputation is ruined.

    Easy just let him speak in public he'll do it all by himself

  4. Re:Not sure what to think.... on President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure it's more analogous to the clitoris

    Hmmm actually the male equivalent of the clitoris is the prostate gland

  5. Re:Synesthesia on One in Five of Us May 'Hear' Flashes of Light (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What's new is how widespread it is RTFS

  6. And Still on Worldwide App Downloads Grew 15% and Revenue Soared 40% in 2016 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Apple are raising prices in the UK, India & Turkey

  7. Re:Sounds about right on Apple App Store Prices Rise in UK, India and Turkey (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Now if only they'd pay what they owe in Taxes in the UK we could afford a second NHS just to wear on Sunday's!

  8. Re:The two seem very related... on Study Finds Link Between Profanity and Honesty (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 2

    Is there a link between use of Emojis and desperately sad individuals? :D

  9. Re:Look to history on 'Superbug' Resistant To 26 Antibiotics Kills A Patient In Nevada (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    "One of the most well-known side effects of colloidal silver is that it turns a person's skin a greyish shade of blue," says Epperly.

    So this will only work in Kentucky then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  10. Re:Making America great again on SpaceX Returns To Flight, And Nails Another Drone Landing (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    They are just being crabby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  11. What version of Linux were those cards running?

  12. No Courage? You are talking about the company that recently bravely trialed a device with a built in self destruct? No courage indeed

  13. Re:...without sacrificing photo quality on Google's New Compression Tool Uses 75% Less Bandwidth Without Sacrificing Image Quality (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    it reduces image quality just in a way you cannot see visually

    If all you want to do is look at the image this is fine, but anything else that needs it full quality will be sacrificed

    I'd love to see the Steg implementation

  14. How well does it do if you replace the lower quality picture with a doodle? Of course this will be no good to the internet unless they open source it.

  15. Re:In this economy? on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Hipsters

  16. Re:Lifespan? on New Research Suggests the Appendix Has a Purpose After All (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the Scientific American so it's sciency rather than pure science but https://blogs.scientificameric... maybe what you're looking for

  17. Re:"News" on New Research Suggests the Appendix Has a Purpose After All (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep it's also part of the body Endocrine System

  18. Re:One bit doesn't make sense on SpaceX Details Its Plans For Landing Three Falcon Heavy Boosters At Once (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    How about 1 central F9 with 3 external F9's which land back at the cape whilst the central F9 is either discarded or lands on a drone ship located conveniently for where it detached.

  19. $1.4B Doh!

  20. That's almost as much money as it took Nick Leason to bankrupt Bearings Bank ($1.4M) back in the ninety's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  21. Re:Overrated comment incoming on Amazon Now Gives Away 5,000 Bananas a Day (fortune.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's nuts.

    Surely being pedantic it's bananas

  22. When Microsoft first launched Windows 10, it was generally well-received

    This must be some new definition of "Well-received" I wasn't previously aware of

  23. Re:Why "I" shouldn't trust Geek Squad? on Why You Shouldn't Trust Geek Squad (networkworld.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you think that's bad don't even think of having your PC repaired in Texas http://www.techrepublic.com/bl...

  24. Re:Aren't there real problems in Europe to focus o on WhatsApp, Gmail Roped Into Tougher EU Privacy Proposal (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If their handling of privacy is of a concern to a (potential) user, then the user can choose not to use such services any longer

    Which service are they supposed to use? If there's no legally binding requirement for privacy which service can you trust?

    As for the EU having better things to do yes they do but this is just BAU for a legislature to legislate

  25. Re:that cant be right on Scientists Predict Star Collision Visible To The Naked Eye In 2022 (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    If you want to anal about it they should have said "The light from the stellar collision that happened {Insert distance to collision in Light-years} years ago".