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  1. How did the ions get there? on Astronomers Have Spotted the Universe's First Molecule (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Where did the components of these molecules come from? How did they get there?

  2. People are still use Facebook? on Facebook is Working on a Voice Assistant To Rival Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri, Report Says (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you're still using Facebook, despite all the information and bad news that has already been released about them, then they deserve to be spied on. Seriously people need to be getting off their systems and blocking the embedded Facebook images (often hosted on Facebook's servers) and tracking scripts that are on third party sites. It's nothing more than a data mining tool that is also used by psychopaths to manipulate people.

  3. Re:Dead ? No, it just smells that way... on Windows XP Dies Final Death As Embedded POSReady 2009 Reaches End of Life (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 2

    Shitty IT guys and programmers always come up with wild reasons to try and excuse bad practices. It's usually because they don't have the intelligence to find a way to do things correctly. Your example of why you "need to" use bad practices is no different. This is furthered by the fact that you say "it's not like they've improved anything useful between XP and 10". The whole security model on 10 is improved, memory management has been improved so that it can handle larger amounts on memory during processing, the device driver system on 10 is automated. There are lots of improvements. You've clearly no idea what is going on under the hood and you're just looking for a way to excuse shoddy practices.

  4. Ubuntu won't even exist as a desktop OS in 2018. Shuttleworth has been pulling the plug piece by piece for a while now.

  5. Re:Totally Disagree on Viewers Who Stream More Also Go To Cinemas More (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So you've turned into hermits. Congratualtions... Don't go outside, the sun might burn you!!

  6. Re:Funny on Mars Had Big Rivers For Billions of Years, Study Suggests (space.com) · · Score: 2

    Those rovers just evolved over billions of years. They were orginally single cell organisms, and then dogs and then monkeys and then robots. A true product of natural selection and evolution. They were never designed by anyone, they just got there through mutations.

  7. This information is... on Mars Had Big Rivers For Billions of Years, Study Suggests (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, this information is COMPLETELY USELESS.

  8. I pay for my service on Would You Put Ads On Your Homescreens For Free Mobile Service? · · Score: 1

    I pay for my service and get the service i expect.

  9. Nobody reads the article you insensitive clod. You must be new here. Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/2127/

  10. Re: Skepticism is a Virtue on Once-Shrinking Greenland Glacier Is Now Growing, NASA Study Shows (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Scepticism is quite interesting too.

  11. Saturated and Fractured Market on Apple TV+, With Shows From Spielberg, Oprah and J.J. Abrams, is Coming This Fall (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems there are going to be a lot more streaming services by the end of the year, each with their own shows. While it's good that you can watch some great new shows online now, it's going to be annoying that each app has a different fee. Personally I think I'll wait and see which sort of shows each provider comes out with. It does seem like the Internet is going back to the days of Compuserve and AOL though. You will need to choose a subscription to get your web content.

  12. Re:Self checkout on Automation Threatens 1.5 Million Workers In Britain, Says ONS (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Thankfully we're not all thieving bastards. The point of the bag for life is that it can be re-used several times and doesn't go into holes easily. The numbers speak for themselves as we are now using a lot less bags. Of course there are still a few retards who don't understand basic mathematics and resort to bag stealing because they lack any intellect and the whole thought process behind all of this goes over their heads.

  13. So let's use spoons to dig holes instead of a JCB on Automation Threatens 1.5 Million Workers In Britain, Says ONS (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    We could hire 100 men with spoons to dig a hole, or we could use a digger.

  14. How much software is there out there? on HTC Debuts New 'Vive Focus Plus' VR Headset; Available To Developers April 15 For $799 (uploadvr.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would I pay $700 for something that isn't mainstream or might never be. They need to have a set of standards for VR so people will know what they are buying into. I don't want to risk buying a piece of hardware that has very little software/apps available.

  15. Why would you have any company so much access into your accounts anyway?

  16. Re:There won't be "Euotrash stealing from US corps on Google Fined Nearly $1.7 Billion For Ad Practices That Violated European Antitrust Laws (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not going to waste my mod points on this. You're clearly have no idea what the legislation regarding this really says.

  17. I've hired Indians and Americans for some jobs. I always found that the quality of the Indian code was better.

  18. This is incredibly stupid on Pentagon Wants To Test a Space-Based Weapon In 2023 (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    This will start a very dangerous arms race. Once again the US is obsessed with creating new ways to kill people. And you claim to be the good guys?

  19. Re:Did they turn off tracking? on Google Launches Android Q Beta 1 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    https://myacitivity.google.com... Wake up call for some people who think they aren't being tracked

  20. Re: Clickbait article on Google Launches Android Q Beta 1 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Everything on the World Wide Web is clickbait. That's kind of how it works.

  21. Re:A Third implies a First and Second on A Third Person May Have Been Cured of HIV (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    You're always seeing the bright side of things

  22. More plastic for the landfill

  23. Re:6 Wheels, Just Like NASA's Mars Rovers on FedEx Turns To Segway Inventor To Build Delivery Robot (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm glad I got that joke. Wish I had mod points to mod up.

  24. If people are putting their personal shit out there then it's their own fault.