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  1. Re: So funny on Tesla's 'Master Plan, Part Deux' Includes Trucks, Buses and Ride-Sharing (latimes.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Uh, he's using MY money, not his. This guy gets a mountain of government handouts and builds a bunch hype, then he gets fat off of idiot investors who buy all the hype.

    He literally has a project called "Hyperloop". The "hyper" part is how he's drumming up a fucking train as if it cured aging, gave everyone a puppy, and was made of oral sex. The "loop" part is the never-ending cycle of hype, investment round, hype, investment round, ... that he runs without ever producing anything.

  2. What on Japan Will Make Its Last-Ever VCR This Month (mentalfloss.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Japan Will Make Its Last-Ever VCR This Month"
    "Funai Electric, the last remaining Japanese company to make the units, has announced that the company will cease production on its VCR units, due to declining sales and difficulty acquiring parts."
    "Their VCRs are made in China and sold in many territories, including North America, under brand names like Sanyo, but last year's figures reported just 750,000 sales worldwide."

    So China will make its last VCR under contract for a Japanese rebrander.

  3. Re:It may be as fast as Chrome . . . on Safari Browser May Soon Be Just As Fast As Chrome With WebP Integration (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless this was done in a security (and not "optional" or "recommended") update in the last few months, that's not it. There's a marked change in initial start times compared to a few months ago and I've only installed the actual security updates on these 2 machines.

  4. Re:It may be as fast as Chrome . . . on Safari Browser May Soon Be Just As Fast As Chrome With WebP Integration (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't have that Windows 10 trash, but in terms of initial startup, IE 11 on Windows 7 wins by a mile on my machines (SSD, 2xSSD in RAID 0). I noticed this recently, and I'm not sure what caused it. IE 11 used to take forever to start up, just a few months ago. It's even faster than opening a new window when FF or Chrome are running.

    For actually rendering sites, they're all a shitshow until you block ads and third party cookies, and only allow whitelisted javascript.

  5. Streaming Straight to You on Microsoft Stream Is a New Video Service For Businesses (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    And the NSA.

    Stream is built on Skype's core. It's going to suck, and it's going to have built in back doors.

  6. Re:Do the math on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 2

    Not only are such returns long gone, the best and most reliable investments today are inaccessible to the common citizen. They're gamed to hell by the investment firms and if you want some skin in the game you have to pony up fees on top of fees to tag along and get the scraps they drop off the table.

  7. Re:Their equipment; their rules on Starbucks and McDonald's Announce Porn Blocks On Their Wi-Fi Networks (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Freedom of speech means the government can't stop you from saying something (fire in a crowded theater, incitement to riot, etc. stipulated).

    Show me the stipulations against yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater. I can't seem to find them in the constitution or its amendments.

  8. Re:I hate it when companies decide what's good for on Starbucks and McDonald's Announce Porn Blocks On Their Wi-Fi Networks (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    What customer complaints? (Hint: There were none.)

  9. Re:YES! on Slashdot Asks: Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat? (dmarge.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's kosher, hell no. Most places should be slaughtering animals humanely and nearly instantaneously. You'll find plenty of reports of workers that enjoy abusing the animals, of course, but they're not the norm.

  10. Re:YES! on Slashdot Asks: Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat? (dmarge.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can buy real meat today that comes from animals treated humanely, if not downright well. Yes, they're still slaughtered at some point. If you're willing to pay a premium, you can do it now.

  11. Re:Pokemon GO should cease on Fake Pokemon Go App On Google Play Infects Phones With Screenlocker (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You just want to catch them ll for yourself. I bet you're a salty Mystic player!

  12. Re:Eat it up, apologists! on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Blocked In Turkey During Reported Coup Attempt (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Marshall Law etc...

    Marshall Law? Sounds like a HIMYM spinoff.

  13. Bye bye Erdogan

    Gone, gone the form of man. Rise, the Demon, Etrigan^W Erdogan!

  14. Re:Except it probably saves on data usage on T-Mobile Gives Customers Free Pokemon Go Data (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone care about data per battery when the battery usage dictates the amount of time you can play (or use your phone for anything else)?

    I thought the : was just some shitty typo, especially since you said "you're coming out way ahead".

  15. Re:This from a country? on Emirati Man Gets 3-Month Prison Sentence Over Instagram Insult (go.com) · · Score: 0

    The Hot Coffee lawsuit was in fact ridiculous. And it has nothing to do with freedom of the press.

  16. Re:I called up the NSA on Google Deletes Artist's Blog and a Decade Of His Work Along With It (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    You don't know how to read past one line.

  17. Re:The Vive is super amazing... on NVIDIA's Releases Its First VR Game, Along With An Interactive Screenshot Tool 'Ansel' (techgage.com) · · Score: 1

    Can confirm - friend had a hell of a time getting a faulty Vive controller replaced.

  18. Re:But gender is a social construct on Google's New Emoji Aimed At Promoting Gender Equality Are Coming (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Red is manly, all other colors suck.

  19. The only real way to solve this is to either hard fork unicode based off either filtered specifications minus emoji, or start over with a new characterset and deal once again with type conversion and assumptions in code. Neither is a good option, but with the increasing bloat and visual confusion thanks to emojis, it may soon be worth doing.

    Option 3, best option: ASCII for life.

  20. Re: yay more emojis on Google's New Emoji Aimed At Promoting Gender Equality Are Coming (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact that these things don't display the same across platforms means they're useless trash.

  21. Re:Except it probably saves on data usage on T-Mobile Gives Customers Free Pokemon Go Data (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    From a Data:BatteryLife standpoint, you're coming out way ahead.

    I found him! I found the one guy not playing Pokemon GO!!!

    Pokemon GO chews through batteries like a Sega Game Gear.

  22. Re:I called up the NSA on Google Deletes Artist's Blog and a Decade Of His Work Along With It (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    The page I linked isn't my source. My source is watching the show (every single episode thus far) and hating when clowns get it wrong. I've posted about this matter before.

    I found it humorous that the page I found said "googles" so I copied it, hoping someone would notice.

  23. Re:I called up the NSA on Google Deletes Artist's Blog and a Decade Of His Work Along With It (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    MY EYES! THE GOGGLES, THEY DO NOTHING!

    The quote is "My eyes! The googles do nothing!".

    Further reading: http://www.urbandictionary.com...

  24. Re:Solution on Google Hit By New Round Of Antitrust Charges In Europe (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    They could block all banks from processing transactions destined to Google, Alphabet, or whatever shells they set up.

  25. Re:Webster on Google Hit By New Round Of Antitrust Charges In Europe (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    CTRL+F monopoly
    Phrase not found.

    Why are you linking to the definition of "monopoly"? TFS doesn't mention "monopoly". None of the linked articles mention it. No one posting here mentioned it until you linked to it.