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  1. Re:I block ads (giving folks more than tickets) on Valve Reveals High-End VR Headset Called the Valve Index (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of us skip over your crapflooding.

    If you didn't format your spam in such an easily identifiable way, you might suck more people into reading your crapflood.

    In any case, carry on if it amuses you.

  2. Re:impossible to google. on Valve Reveals High-End VR Headset Called the Valve Index (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I used to play an MMO called 'Glitch' made by a company called Tiny Speck.

    If you want to name a game so that it is impossible to google for pages and reviews about it, name it 'Glitch.'

  3. pushing the planet's environment to be inhospitable to our way of life. Things must change - change is inevitable. To cling to the past and the status quo is always a losing position.

    I assume you were aiming for irony in the above. Mandatory and major change because something is inhospitable to our way of life. We cannot cling to the past! Our way of life is at stake!

  4. Re: Follow The Money on Huawei Tops $100 Billion Revenue For First Time Despite Political Headwinds (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The main thing to recognize is that Apple has grown to be a big mediocre company, like General Motors or Emerson Electric. Their place in the market is the plodding middle. At this point iPhones are boring shit, like Corvettes.

  5. Re: "Shanghai" Bill is a liar hundreds of times o on Huawei Tops $100 Billion Revenue For First Time Despite Political Headwinds (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but they just dump that block of text after every post that Shankhi makes. It's a near zero effort action. Like the barking of a neighbor's dog it is something you just ignore. Unless you're feeling like being trolled.

  6. You can't get an app to protect you from Apple's walled garden.

  7. Re: Better solution is NOT purely technical on Google: Play Protect Cut Harmful Android App Installs by 20% in 2018 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple blocks whole categories of apps for reasons that have nothing to do with malware or privacy.

  8. Re: How many did f-droid protect against? on Google: Play Protect Cut Harmful Android App Installs by 20% in 2018 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    They can flag it all they want. I deleted my google account on my phone. So I am wandering around blind and helpless. No, actually my phone still works great and I get updates from aptoide.

  9. Re: Unexpected cancellation on Apple Cancels Long-delayed AirPower Charging Mat (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    They will throw the towel in and just port Android to the Apple Phone. It wouldn't be hard, they use the same hardware as all the other mobile device makers.

  10. Re: Apple is on a downhill trajectory on Apple Cancels Long-delayed AirPower Charging Mat (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Having a job where you are on call is career limiting.

  11. The red/blue mapping the media uses in US politics used to be switched regularly, because the colors themselves are meaningless.

    Whoops, the colors are meaningless either way. It's Goldman Sachs versus Free Market capitalism.

  12. Show some sensitivity. Maybe his dad is dead and he inherited the UID.

  13. Re: What about those CVS coupons? on California Law Banning Paper Receipts Clears First Hurdle In State Legislature (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Just say you're a steampunk and you're cool.

  14. Re: Paper or contact info? on California Law Banning Paper Receipts Clears First Hurdle In State Legislature (latimes.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nobody is using 1500 year old redwood for pulpwood.

    In fact, promoting the growth of pulpwood would be a good way of sequestering a bunch of carbon.

  15. Re:No man, like on California Law Banning Paper Receipts Clears First Hurdle In State Legislature (latimes.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Until retailers, because no-paper is pushed so hard, stop keeping the facility to print receipts. I would like it better if this was a double-edged-sword kind of law. One that says:

    1. Retailers can only print a receipt if the buyer requests.

    2. Retailers MUST maintain the capability and print a receipt if a buyer requests.

  16. but you also can't realistically keep paper receipts for 10+ years either

    That's sort of a false issue. Most people who make use of paper receipts to return something do it within 30 days or so. Brushing the issue off by tossing out 'Ten years' sounds like a rationalization.

  17. Re:Of COURSE Trump wants to overturn it... on Trump Administration Dims Rule On Energy Efficient Lightbulbs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    A partial Texxit, Californexit, New Yorkexit would be fine. Those places could just fuck off and stop trying to boss the rest of us around. We could do without their money, believe me. We could get more money from food we sell them to compensate.

  18. Re:More pollution? How's that possible? on Trump Administration Dims Rule On Energy Efficient Lightbulbs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Here it is. It has a 117L7GT tube in the base, that runs the oscillator to produce the high voltage needed.

  19. Re:More pollution? How's that possible? on Trump Administration Dims Rule On Energy Efficient Lightbulbs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I have a 'Cold Quartz Ultraviolet and Ozone Apparatus.' It's from the 1950s and was a quack medical device. It emits a lot of UV light and reeks of ozone after it's been powered for a little while. Don't use it to read books at night.

  20. Re:Solution looking for a problem? on Trump Administration Dims Rule On Energy Efficient Lightbulbs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That would mean that all electrical devices would need to be made with solid gold contacts. Since they could last for almost forever if the right materials are used, that isn't practical.

  21. Re:Solution looking for a problem? on Trump Administration Dims Rule On Energy Efficient Lightbulbs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Here where I live, the Power Utility 'dumps' LED bulbs at the local Goodwill Store. Meaning, every few months a ton of new LED bulbs show up for $1 each, and $2 for the higher brightness ones. With a limit of 8 bulbs per purchase. I have too many LED bulbs at this point, but it's not really a problem.

  22. Re:Intel Celeron = doomed now what did they pay am on It Sure Looks Like Google's $599 Celeron Pixel Slate is Dead (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    First AMD post on a 'celeron' topic.

    Drink!

  23. Re: ProTip: Have a male identify as female on First All-Female Spacewalk Canceled Because NASA Doesn't Have Two Suits That Fit (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Two Girls. One Spacesuit.

  24. Re:Not the programming language on Which Programming Language Has The Most Security Vulnerabilities? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    You can 'escape' out of the MS-DOS environment by typing 'call command call' at the command prompt. It dumps you out into a completely empty environment, where you can set things up however you wish. Then if you wish to get back, you can simply 'exit' at the command prompt and you're back to the original environment.

    The correct answer, btw, is that a file path ALWAYS needs quotes, because you're dealing with an unsafe kludge.

  25. Re: Welp, looks like a big old nothing burger on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Joe Kennedy was a rum runner during prohibition. That's how he got his money to start with.