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  1. There's no such thing as a slipper slope fallacy. It's truth. Alternatively, if you give a mouse a cookie...

  2. Re:planned for AFTER hillary's election on Google Is Removing 'In the News' Section From Desktop Search After Criticism (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yes, she now leads by 2.7 million votes

    And yet she lost.

  3. Main Search Product on Google Is Removing 'In the News' Section From Desktop Search After Criticism (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    The removal of the word "news" will, hopefully, help draw a sharper line between Google's human-vetted Google News product, and its main search product.

    Google's main product is advertising and user info (to better target advertising), not search.

  4. Re:Black is the new Black on Panasonic Announces 1,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio LCD Panel To Rival OLED (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    You need to go look at actual sets and reviews.

    Rec 2020 coverage of high end sets right now is only around 60-65%. It can and will be much higher over the next few years. Most people expect the 2017 models to provide a significant jump in coverage.

    Further, Rec 2020 is only half the story - most of the sets out now don't support the HDR profiles properly (either Dolby Vision or whatever the other shit is, as far as I know there are only two relevant ones). Usually they'll see it and read the signal but not truly display it. Anytime a 4K set goes on sale people spaz out about whether or not the Xbox One S will show "all green checkmarks" in its 4K display test, and then you'll get more people yelling at them about how that doesn't mean anything with regards to what they're actually seeing. You need to dig into some deep reviews to find out how "HDR" content is actually displayed and what the panel and display controller is actually doing.

    Going to rtings.com is a good start because they have consistent tests for many of the latest models, with metrics for both Rec 2020 and UHD (really 10-bit gradient) support, but even then you'll likely need to hope someone at avsforum has probed the shit out of one if you want the hard truth on the finer details.

  5. Re: Confucius say... on Some Children's Headphones Raise Concerns of Hearing Loss, Report Says (go.com) · · Score: 0

    There is no such thing as 'too old' until you are dead.

    So, would you fuck the Queen of England? Or is she too old?

  6. Re:Confused about logarithmic? on Some Children's Headphones Raise Concerns of Hearing Loss, Report Says (go.com) · · Score: 2

    You just got wooshed. I'm surprised you didn't hear it.

  7. Re:cheap chinese crap on Some Children's Headphones Raise Concerns of Hearing Loss, Report Says (go.com) · · Score: 1

    The rule is "If it's too loud, you're too old.".

    Bottom line is headphones are bad for your hearing. Children's headphones shouldn't even be a thing.

  8. This strikes me as an attempt to create a BSA

    BSAA - Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance

    Also, Rebecca Chambers > Claire Redfield > Jill Valentine > Ada Wong

  9. Re:Fake Fake News on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    He doesn't need to be a member of a militia for the 2nd amendment to apply to him. The 2nd amendment simply states that a well regulated militia is necessary. That's not a condition for keeping or bearing arms, and nothing in the text states or even implies that. What IS stated in the text is that his right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

  10. Re:-1 Overrated on Engineers Explain Why the Galaxy Note 7 Caught Fire (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    They merely said there must be some inherent flaw with the phone they can't work around!!111.
    Yet they fail to state why they can't simply use a smaller battery, or a battery with higher tolerances, or more aggressive thermal throttling in the charging circuitry or even in the phone's SoC.

    The REAL reason Samsung didn't try to fix it again is because they had utterly lost all faith and good will after the first recall resulted in phones still bursting into flames. There's no salvaging that, even if you decide to put in a perfectly safe, but smaller, battery, and completely solve the issue. The Note 7 was dead. You can't take the thing on planes. It's tarnished. Scrapping it and waiting a few months for the next round is the best bet.

    If you spent 5 fucking seconds thinking about the issue after the "fixed" phones started Samsunging, you'd know this.

  11. Re:Theory without any empirical data to back it up on Engineers Explain Why the Galaxy Note 7 Caught Fire (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Professions are legally protected and regulated trades. Plumbers, electricians, lawyers, doctors, etc. have regulations, standards and codes their work has to adhere to. "Software engineers" are programmers who want a fancier sounding title. (I am a programmer.)

  12. Re: Fake Fake News on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's his right to do so everywhere in the United States of America, actually. You actually CAN walk around with an assault rifle! A few decades ago, nobody even gave a shit!

    Who said it was an assault rifle? Do you know what an assault rifle is?

  13. Re:Fake Fake News on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's clearly fake news.

    If he pointed it at an employee then discharged it, the employee would have been hurt.
    Either he didn't discharge it or didn't point it at an employee, or didn't do either.

  14. Re:Conspiracy theorists at work. on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I pay since September 2012 anyone [EURO SIGN THAT I'M SURE SLASHDOT WILL MANGLE]1.000.000:- that can describe a manned space trip but no one has managed my Challenge.

    Well, take him up if you're so confident! http://heiwaco.tripod.com/chal...

  15. Re:"self investigate" == alt.right on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    If you believe owning guns is wrong or worthy of criticism (to the point that you need to specifically call out a semi-automatic rifle and several handguns), you're an idiot.
    If you believe that saying "self-investigate" in contrast to the non-existent "investigating" law enforcement and the media have done is somehow worthy of criticism, you're an idiot.
    If you believe that calling someone "Jethro" is an insult, you're an idiot.

  16. Re:"self investigate" == alt.right on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Fake News" is the rebranding of Hillary's failed "Correct the Record" campaign.

    Trump only won because of Fake News! Facebook needs to censor Fake News! <Bad Thing For Us> is just another example of Fake News! Voter fraud doesn't exist! Reports of dead people voting and people being bused in are MORE FAKE NEWS!

    Stay tuned to MSCNNNBC for REAL NEWS YOU CAN TRUST! How Vladimir Putin rigged the election for Donald Trump! 45 reasons the Electoral College is bad and needs to go away (#7 will shock you)! EXCLUSIVE - Voter fraud (it's real now, ignore that last report) helped Donald Trump win the election! BREAKING ALERT - Calls for a recount could put Hillary in the White House, where we desperately want her to be! Join the campaign to petition Electors to act faithlessly and give the Presidency to a losing candidate!

  17. Re:Fake News? on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    And at least the Daily Show is sometimes funny.

    You lost me there.

  18. Re:I wonder why on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder why every official/mainstream outlet is so unified in denouncing this as "fake news"

    They are obviously part of the conspiracy. Duh!

    This is correct.

  19. Re:The Internet and dumb people on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    As evidenced by this sad case (I hope the pizza shop owners sue this idiot and garnish his wages for the rest of his life), and the election,

    The election was 4 weeks ago. Get over it. Accept it. Love it. Shrek it.

  20. Fake Fake News on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Was he wielding a rifle as stated in TFS, or was he carrying it?
    Why would he be arrested for carrying a rifle? It's his right to do so.
    Why is investigating something on your own bad? In this era of Fake News, it's the only way to be sure.
    Further, why are we saying this is bogus conspiracy theory? Read the emails, something is definitely up. The media and powers-that-be are trying VERY hard to discredit this revelation. "Nobody is listening to your phone calls." and "You can keep your plan." hard.

    Fear not - in a few short weeks President Trump's justice department will drain the swamp that is Washington, D.C..

  21. Re:-1 Overrated on Engineers Explain Why the Galaxy Note 7 Caught Fire (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    It has everything to do with your response to Harlequin80's post. You accused Harlequin80 of not reading, yet you didn't read shit yourself (or if you did, you didn't do the follow-up exercises of understanding and thinking).

    If you had, you would have realized the engineers in question didn't do a damn thing, didn't draw any meaningful conclusion, looked at a grand total of 1 unit, and only did so to write a blog post to pimp their startup.

    It's all fluff and is absolutely unworthy of discussion, let alone serious consideration with regards to the actual issues behind the Note 7 catastrophe.

  22. It's almost as if you don't know what a nonce is.
    Hint - it's a value used only once.

  23. Re:Black is the new Black on Panasonic Announces 1,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio LCD Panel To Rival OLED (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Plenty of OLED models were deeply discounted (in the sense that there are plenty of OLED models at all, which there aren't). They weren't $300-$600 like a lot of the deals on crap people got excited for, but still, many were marked down 50% or more.

    Of course, a Black Friday or Cyber Monday price isn't really that good anymore. You can find deals as good as or better than those days throughout the year if you just wait and watch.

    OLED doesn't sell because it's expensive and LCD TVs are marketed deceptively. "LED" on a TV means "LCD with X zones of LED back lighting" and "Full LED" or "Full Array LED" means "LCD with full array local dimming", which really means "LCD with many zones of LED back lighting".

    Throughout all of 2016 we've seen a huge fire sale on 4K TVs for 3 reasons:

    1 - Sales needed a boost. 4K wasn't as enticing as HD was, just like BluRay wasn't as enticing as DVD.
    2 - The 4K sets out in 2016 don't fully support the new UHD spec with HDR profiles and Rec 2020.
    3 - The Vizio P series shat on Samsung, Sony, etc. The budget shit brand Vizio put out better 4K TVs than the big boys at less than half the price.

    I don't know what Samsung is going to do for 2017 when they truly support the new shit. They've already jumped the hark by calling their shit Super Ultra High Definition (SUHD). Maybe VSUHD or SUHD+ or XSUHD+ v2.0 PRO GOLD?

  24. I'd like a 12" smart phone. Just slap a handle or strap or some shit on the back.

    It would still fit in the pockets on my slacks, too.
    Not these pants, and not on my jeans, but my beige pair and my brown pair of slacks with full size pockets. I can hide a Christmas ham in there if I need to.

  25. Yeah, gonna need a model number on your 2010 "240 Hz" LCD. (Hint: It's actually 120 Hz or possibly even 60 Hz.)