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  1. Re:Ad limiting on Google Testing Banner Ads On Select Search Results · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Please add a feature to let me change the background of all AD's on google so they are obvious to older people. I have some older clients that if I could get a plugin to make the google search ad background BRIGHT RED it will help them see they are not actual search results.

  2. Re:Go ahead. on Google Testing Banner Ads On Select Search Results · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is what happens at any company when the people that started it are no longer in charge. All companies will degenerate into a moneygrubbing greed machine only interested in the next quarter profits without the person that gave it birth at the wheel.

  3. Re:What if nobody bought stuff from those companie on Google Testing Banner Ads On Select Search Results · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Could we fix this? "

    Yes, start install adblock plus on every single computer within your reach. Only you can stop web advertising.

  4. Re:RIP Google, 2014? on Google Testing Banner Ads On Select Search Results · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I install it on every single computer I touch. Adblock also reduces virus infection vectors drastically as there are a lot of ad's that are virus or malware vectors.

    I know I can account for over 100 installs of adblock plus on people's computers.

  5. Re:Cycling not the Answer on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 1

    I drive to work in a Civic in that. 3 feet is a normal snow fall for the week, It get's harder when it's dropping 2 feet an hour and the plows cant keep up with it, Then I'll just take the jeep through the 6 feet of snow.

  6. Re:Cycling not the Answer on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 1

    "No one is going to bike to work in 3 feet of snow and/or 12 degrees.
    No one is going to bike to work in driving rain.
    No one is going to bike to work in 100+ degree temps. If they do, you won't want to be around them"

    I see this every single day here. WE had some 100+ days and people were biking to work. All winter long I see people biking to work in the snow and ice (easy to get studded tires) I also see them biking in the rain constantly.

    You must live in a small town because here weather does not stop the bicyclists. Hell a snowstorm doesnt stop most mopeds.

  7. Re:How Safe Is Cycling? on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 1

    "A bicycle will not trigger the sensors under the road." yes it will if the loop is properly tuned and set up, YOU need to complain to the city for every signal that is broken and not sensing bikes. They will not fix signals unless someone complains. Otherwise just stick a hard drive magnet on the bike frame low, you will show up as a semi truck to the embedded coils.

  8. Re:Helmets should be required! on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    we could save 10's of thousands of lives a year by actually having real driving skill requirements and every 3 years a required road test. Most drivers are barely capable of going i na straight line. Plus it should be a LOT easier to lose your drivers license. A lot of old people are highly dangerous to others yet still have a legal drivers license.

  9. Re:Please on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Want to avoid intersection problems a freaking flag and bight colors does this. the highly stupid bicyclists that refuse to have the flag because it slows them down are the problem. The flag increases your safety and visibility dramatically, many times I spot the flag way before the bike because he is passing by parked SUV's and invisible. Bicyclists without the flag are just plain old idiots.

  10. Re:An important distinction on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The answer is Car driver hit a bike? Car driver is 100% liable for all the bicyclists medical bills, lost wages, AND loses the right to drive or own a car for the rest of their life.

    Car drivers need to be scared shitless of hitting a bike before they will start paying attention. Because they are not scared of killing pedestrians or other motorists.

  11. Re:The Fine was $12 M, but, on Knight Capital Fined $12M For a Software Bug That Cost $460M · · Score: 1

    Why do you think corporations were created to begin with? It was rich criminals looking for a way to shield their assets from their criminal activities. It's the only reason Incorporation every came to exist. Rockefeller was a huge proponent of this and he was one of the biggest scumbags out there in the industrial age.

  12. Re: Help us Google Fiber! You're our only hope. on Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps · · Score: 1

    "There is maintenance, for starters,"

    Because 1 and 0's flowing wear out the inside of the fibers? the maintenance is there no matter what. If the gear is on and ready then Zero use and 100% use are 100% identical in costs of operation. Worked at a major Cable ISP costs did not change if people actually used the internet or if it was not used.

  13. Re:The Fine was $12 M, but, on Knight Capital Fined $12M For a Software Bug That Cost $460M · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Exactly, the $12M should have been a direct fine to the CEO or the board members. You have to punch in the face the people responsible.

  14. Re: Help us Google Fiber! You're our only hope. on Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps · · Score: 1

    Says the retard that never touched any network gear in his life.

  15. Re:Because Corps are Distusting! on The Cybersecurity Industry Is Hiring, But Young People Aren't Interested · · Score: 1

    Most companies their CSO is the virus software disk.

  16. Re:Bulls**t: 24% is a _lot_! on The Cybersecurity Industry Is Hiring, But Young People Aren't Interested · · Score: 1

    "Try to get competent at it without breaking U.S. law. I believe the criminal trespass laws when into effect in 1984, and Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested under the DMCA when he went to DefCon after being granted a Visa for the purpose of attending the conference."

    Not hard at all, you can EASILY set up a Cybersecurity lab in your basement with useless garbage class computers. Even Windows Server software and OS is free for you to use for 30 days, wipe the drive rand reinstall every 30.

    If you cant figure out how to set up your own lab, then you have no business even thinking about Cyber Security or computers in general. I can get old Cisco gear for near nothing all over the place, same as computers, etc... so there is not excuse unless you are living under a dumpster.

  17. Re:hire me on The Cybersecurity Industry Is Hiring, But Young People Aren't Interested · · Score: 1

    Exactly, if they want to get people raise it to $36 an hour to START.

  18. Re:Help us Google Fiber! You're our only hope. on Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps · · Score: 2

    Dude you can do a citizen based network with good old consumer routers and gear, we did it a decade ago before the telcos lobbied to make it illegal.

    I had 10mbps links all over town with our community Wifi project before Comcast found out and had the city make it illegal due to the Franchise Agreement calling it "competition" and we would have to pay $25,000 a year in fees. to the city.

  19. Re: Help us Google Fiber! You're our only hope. on Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Does it cost less when 0 bytes per second are flowing or if it's at capacity?

    I can tell you, the Same $10.000 a month is charged if it's running at full capacitiy or if it's sitting there unused. Therefore the amount of data transferred HAS NO COST, it is essentially free, the cost is for instantaneous bandwidth availability.

  20. Re:Hydrogen is indeed quite dangerous... on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1

    "Has anyone ever died by inhaling water vapor? "

    Yes, yes they can and have.. want a demonstration? inhale this steam at 300 degrees F.
    Lots of people died in steamworks by inhaling water vapor.

  21. Re:Hydrogen is indeed quite dangerous... on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 0

    Hydrogen can not explode or burn, that is a proven fact.

    Hydrogen mixed with oxygen CAN, but hydrogen on it's own is 100% impossible to light on fire or to cause to explode.

  22. Re:Hydrogen is indeed quite dangerous... on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1

    Thank god that cant happen with gasoline.... oh wait, it can and does.

  23. Re:Hydrogen is indeed quite dangerous... on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1

    So put the Hydrogen in a Glass Dewar bottle DUH!. Dont get embrittlement with those...... oh wait...

  24. Re:2 things that can mitigate the risk on The Cloud: Convenient Until a Stranger Nukes Your Files · · Score: 1

    Except I delete files on computer A they get deleted on computer B,C,D,E and F. I suggest you read up on how these work. you need to add a service that replicated the folders to another one that does not have any syncing other than a copy function to the backup folder.

  25. Re:A Tragedy of errors indeed on The Cloud: Convenient Until a Stranger Nukes Your Files · · Score: 1

    Most users are that stupid, even when you talk backups to them they are busy listening to the wind whistle through their heads.
    Those of us that know better need to make them pay dearly for any recovery efforts. Yes I will try to recover your files, I need $500 in cast to start looking and that does not guarantee anything another $500 to $7500 upon recovery depending on the difficulty and time involved paid before the delivery of the data. Sorry grandma, you dont have cash, you dont get your recipies back...