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  1. 10 times longer-lasting batteries? Given every other promised battery advancement over the last 50 years that hasn't come to fruition, we're going to be at infinite capacity batters when they all finally hit!

  2. Actually, it's Tetris. By a landslide.

    For example: From 2005 through 2009, on cell phones alone, paid purchases exceeded 100,000,000 copies.

  3. Re:Ruined bike? on Chemical-Releasing Bike Lock Causes Vomiting To Deter Thieves (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, because it's a crowd funding project. It won't ever see the light of day in any working form.

  4. Re: I don't agree that these are "conservative" vi on Facebook Employees Tried To Remove Trump Posts As Hate Speech (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    It's ArtemaOne, don't bother.

  5. Re:... because people are cheap on Most 'Genuine' Apple Chargers and Cables Sold on Amazon Are Fake, Apple Says (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Because Amazon makes money every time something is sold, regardless of whether it's a knockoff or not.
    People go to Amazon because they want cheap and fast. If Amazon sell a knockoff and pretend they didn't know it was a knockoff, they will. (And let's be honest - Amazon is ultimately the seller from the customer's perspective, even when the order isn't "fulfilled by Amazon". Amazon is the one who takes your money.)

  6. Security is binary.
    You're either secure or you're not.
    There's no "less secure" or "more secure".

    The scope/impact of specific vulnerabilities may differ, but the fact that you have vulnerabilities means you're not secure.

    So no, finding a security bug in the linux kernel doesn't mean that linux is any less secure.

    Even if you believe security is a spectrum, you're wrong here. Discovering a previously unknown vulnerability means you know the system to be less secure than you thought it to be.

  7. Why aren't they:

    1) Running an internal DNS server for their internal shit.
    2) Pointing that DNS server to a public DNS server.
    3) Pointing the public DNS server point to the root DNS servers.

    1 shouldn't be hit by a DDoS as it should be entirely limited to access within your network (or VPN).
    2 can be as distributed as you need it to be.
    If 3 goes down, no one will blame you.

    If this is what they're doing then dyn is failing hard at step 2.

  8. Having a bad gene is not someone's fault

    It's quite literally their fault. A fault is a flaw, not culpability.

  9. 2) You cannot yell 'Fire!' in a crowded theater regardless of your 'rights'. This is the canonical example of limits on freedom of speech. You can't do that thing because it ENDANGERS OTHERS. This is the exact reason Australian nurses cannot tell patients to avoid vaccination -- the act endangers others.

    You're wrong.
    You absolutely can do this, though you can be held responsible for the direct result of your actions.
    The government can never legally prevent you from saying what you want.

    Read the fucking amendment. It's short and simple. There's no "interpretation" necessary unless you want to shit all over it.

  10. I'm all for freedom of expression and the right to an opinion but when people spread bad advice that isn't backed by science and it hurts other people thats where I draw the line.

    If you "draw the line" then you're not "all for freedom of expression".
    It doesn't matter where you "draw the line".

  11. The N64 was more powerful than its competition. It typically had lower res textures and no FMV because of the storage limitations compared to CDs. In terms of graphical power it was superior.

    The GC was superior to the PS2 and DC, and was fairly evenly matched with the Xbox. They had very different configurations, and each were better at certain things than the other. That's quite a feat considering the sheer size difference between the units. A big part of this was due to the GC's memory configuration. That 1T SRAM was a big deal when dealing with the lower clock speeds of the day.

    You can find good and bad looking games on all of the consoles. If you want to talk about the hardware talk about the hardware.

  12. The top selling game is World of Warcraft.

    No, it's Tetris.

  13. Easy is also usually the oppostie of CHEAP

    Counterpoint: Ur mom.

    OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

  14. If by "always" you mean "for the last two consoles", then sure.

  15. Re:Interesting controller layout choice on Nintendo Unveils 'Switch', Its New Gaming Console and Tablet Hybrid (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean asymmetrical sticks, the layout used by the GameCube?

  16. No not at all. Service contracts generally stipulate a percentage and a timespan. 99.99% per week is much cheaper than 99.99% per year. This is basic network engineering. What is your profession?

    WTF? I've never seen anything other than a percentage guarantee, a stipulation of whether or not that includes scheduled maintenance, and a table of what that amounts to in minutes per year.

  17. Re:She's not charged for being a journalist on Journalists Face Jail Time After Reporting on North Dakota Pipeline Protest (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    There was no trespassing. The charge was even dropped because they knew they couldn't make such a charge stick.

    Try again!

  18. Who was doing the trespassing? (Hint: Not the people being charged.)
    Who owns the land? (Hint: Not the fuckos claiming jurisdiction and charging people.)

  19. Re:She did nothing wrong on Journalists Face Jail Time After Reporting on North Dakota Pipeline Protest (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The government doesn't get to determine whether something is "documentation" or "marketing" here. It's speech and is protected.
    If we had it your way the government would just slap a label on anything it didn't like and declare it to not be protected speech. (HintL They're already doing this and people like you are letting them.)

  20. lgw being a dumbass yet again. Native tribes own that land. The US government doesn't get half a hershey squirt of a say about what goes on there unless the tribe agrees to it. They don't have the jurisdiction to press any fucking criminal charges.

    If you're a native american (full, half, quarter, eighth, etc. depending on the tribe) you can commit all manner of crimes and then run off to the reservation and be nearly untouchable. It's a stronger protection than any foreign diplomat enjoys.

  21. Executive Orders on President Obama Orders Government To Plan For 'Space Weather' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: -1

    Executive orders are horse shit. Every single one needs to be defecated upon by the supreme court.

  22. Do I need to put out dozens of examples proving you wrong? I'd wager most companies don't act anywhere near as responsibly as int he Tylenol case.

    Maybe I'll do it with just one recent example. Chipotle. Huge chain. Nationwide. Drummed up to be the next Subway. People kept getting sick and they didn't do shit until it was an old joke.

  23. Re:So how does this affect the Drake Equation? on The Universe Has 20 Times More Galaxies Than We Thought (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    I mean, it's literally only 120 years since people were saying things like "heavier than air flight is impossible, we know the physics, we know the materials, it's just not feasible"

    Who the fuck ever said that? Are birds lighter than air?
    You said "literally" so I expect a quote backing your bullshit up.

  24. Re:On screen death worse on Star Wars Production Company Fined Almost $2 Million For Harrison Ford's Injury (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Cry moar. It's not like they showed them the X-rated Robocop.

  25. They can't terminate you for any illegal reason, such as your race, marital status, etc., nor can they terminate you for not complying with an illegal order, such as training an illegal H1B visa holder. If there are US citizens available and able to do the job, the H1B visa is invalid and the holder is in the country / working illegally.

    The trick is getting the government to actually enforce and rule on its own laws as they are written.