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  1. Here is a nknown fact.. even the big places hire untrained idiots and do this. Best buy "geek squad" are some of the most inept people out there.

  2. Honestly ANYONE foolish enough to take their computer to an office supply is pretty touched. Do you take your car to get fixed at the Sandwich shop?

    Daves auto repair and hair salon! Get your oil changes and a new hairdoo!

  3. They can solve it by banning all SJW idiots. on US Internet Firms Ask Trump To Support Encryption, Ease Regulations (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    80% of the hate I see on Twitter is from the SJW idiots... They all act like a brainless mob.

  4. GM will claim they have to raise the price by $4500.

  5. Will it require a Buick to do the same? how about Honda Goldwings? the tires make more noise than the motorcycle does.

    Only one way I will support it. force the electric car makers to have them all sound like the cars from the jetsons.

  6. Car Tech? on Samsung To Acquire Connected Car Firm Harman For $8 Billion (thestack.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    It seems the article writer has no clue who Harmon is.

    Harmon of Harmon Kardon, has been an audio company for decades, they have been buying up pro and commercial audio companies for a decade and last year acquired the AMX automation company.

    Car stuff is one of the smallest parts of their business.

  7. Re:Xcode is superior, go away on Microsoft is Bringing Visual Studio To Mac (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Ignore him, it's the new trend of trolls to try and use big words why saying absolutely nothing.

  8. Re:That's ok on German Police Mock 'Not Very Clever' ATM Robbers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    people running around with explosives surprise you? I can drive 10 minutes to any fireworks store and buy several explosives and even mortar shells. I can go to home depot and buy what I need to make freaking ANFO.

    There is zero problem with people having explosives. I lived on a farm and granddad actually had a case of dynamite. Back in the 70's dynamite was purchasable at ACE hardware. and some how we did not go on murder sprees....

    I am far far more concerned about mentally unstable people than explosives.

  9. Good start... on 'Flash Crash' Trader Pleads Guilty, Facing Up To 30 Years In Prison (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    now when do they put all the bank executives that caused the crash from before that in prison? Or is this the patsy that we are all supposed to point at and ignore that the same scumbag bankers are doing the same shit today at Wells Fargo and other places?

  10. available free all over the frigging internet... on UK Bookstores Found Selling Banned US Bomb-Making Handbooks (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Non story, non issue. Anyone with an IQ above 80 can find a copy for free on the internet as a PDF.

  11. Re:The reason being that on GoPro Recalls Karma Drone (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    only because you cant get them, I tried to purchase 2 of them and they have been out of stock everywhere from day 1 release. Glad I was unable to get them now.
        It's a bummer because its' the most stable video drone available right now.

  12. Microsoft made them a deal they could not pass up. Betting it was gobs of free licenses for all microsoft products and possibly even hardware.

  13. Re:One party rule on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    hoping for the repeal of all gun laws. I have had my eye on a 1986 GE M134 Minigun for some time now.

    yes I DO need 6000 rounds per minute, the squirrel problem I am facing is a lot bigger than anyone can realize.

  14. Moron designed systems fail on DDoS Attack Halts Heating in Finland Amidst Winter (metropolitan.fi) · · Score: 2

    Sorry but if your heating system is 100% cloud based so that a DDOS attack or internet outage will stop heat control, then it was designed by the worlds biggest morons.

    Cloud based is great for toys, for anything important it's 100% shit.

  15. Anyone that has ever used a database knows how easy this is. Sadly team Trump is all about spouting words from the mouth at random, and learning how things are done after the fact.

  16. Re:wake up, Ballmer on Steve Ballmer Says Smartphones Came Between Him and Bill Gates (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    What? sorry but the Blackberry and Palm Treo was the defacto standard in the smartphone world before apple. Windows CE phones were an utter mess and purchased by very few. Business communications was OWNED by blackberry back then.

  17. Proof of Ballmer's incompetence... on Steve Ballmer Says Smartphones Came Between Him and Bill Gates (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Honestly Gates knew how to run a business and he knew that cell phone hardware was a stupid idea. And the world did prove gates right. The first mess starting with the BlackJack phones running WinCE and then the reboot attempt with the windows OS phones, every single attempt was a complete failure.

  18. Or just use MythTV on Mythbuntu Linux Has Been Discontinued (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Honestly, I still dont know why Mythbuntu existed the past few years. MythTV now is brain dead install on a standard Ubuntu install, and the only cards that actually work worth a damn are the HDHomerun network devices that are trivial to set up and require no drivers at all.

    Last MythTV setup I built I used Ubuntu server as a GUI is 100% useless for a backend server,

  19. And this is why I exited IT... on IT Workers Facing Layoffs Jolted By CEO's Message (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Why dont you fuckers form Unions? This shit is exactly why other trades formed unions. Follow the Electrician Union model and all of it will be fixed almost overnight.

  20. They did not do it, the panicky idiot republicans and democrats that have been waiting for a reason to gut the constitution and it's pesky rights did it.

    The fuckers in Washington have been WAITING to fuck up the constitution for decades. The terrorists are not at fault, it's the shitbag leaders we have empowered by panicky idiot citizens.

  21. Stupid. on Judge Refuses To Block New York 'Ballot Selfie' Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's all about not letting people sell their vote. letting you take a photo of your ballot so you can prove you voted the way you were paid to vote is illegal.

  22. good luck... on Microsoft Teams Launches To Take on Slack in the Workplace (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Considering that Lync/Skype Pro is an utter shitshow mess and that is why we switched to Slack for comms..... I have very little hope that microsoft can come up with anything

  23. Dear Apple.... on Phil Schiller Says the MacBook Pro Doesn't Need an SD Card Slot (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm a guy that is full in the Apple ecosystem and I make money programming for apple devices. But the latest macbook pros are NOT pro.

    Wireless from the camera? Is this guy that much of a dipshit? Go ahead and see how fast you can transfer these 36 Megapixel RAW images from my D810 camera. Yes I use the XDHC slot and I dont want to wait a week for these to transfer over wifi. slapping the card in the macbook was super fast and worked great.

    Macbook pros are not for pros anymore. It sounds like they really want to eliminate any professional use of their products by removing features that pro photographers use heavily.

    It is pretty sad when the last version of the product is significantly better than the latest version.

  24. Lobby your state to change laws. on Cable TV Price Increases Have Beaten Inflation Every Single Year For 20 Years (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Pass laws that force cable companies to sell internet separate at capped pricing where they can not punish you for not getting cable packages.
    recently moved to florida from the midwest and I get 4X the bandwidth for 1/2 the price and they cant charge me extra for not getting cable tv. a cheap antenna gets me about 18 channels if I really think I need to watch some stupid live sports event. or live news.

    $39 a month for 100mbps/10mbps Comcast was raping me at $70 for 15Mbps/1.5mbps in Michigan

  25. Re:Yield problems? on Foxconn Testing Wireless Charging For iPhone 8 (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    250ma/500ma from inductive charging is easy. it's when you ramp up to 1Amp where things get dangerous for consumers. you cant have some idiot user throw their keys on the thing and let it start a fire, so I am betting they are working with some NFC tech to make the phone talk to the charging plats so that it only starts charging if an iphone is on it, plus look at the load and turn off charging if some idiot threw teir phone and the keys on it.

    Everyone else's inductive charging is very low amperage, no way in hell I would want to charge a modern high battery capacity phone at 250ma, I dont have 12 hours for it to charge completely.