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  1. These same people think making guns illegal will remove them from criminals hands.

  2. The year of stupid people, really really REALLY stupid people call these hoverboards.

  3. Re:answer: old phone with new battery. on Cellphones Really Are Not As Good As They Were 10 Years Ago At Making Calls (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Informative

    No it wont. most carriers are shutting down the 2G and earlier phone compatibility. by next summer it will not be useable in any way.

  4. Only news to youngsters. on Cellphones Really Are Not As Good As They Were 10 Years Ago At Making Calls (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Cellphones were dramatically better at calls back in the analog days. I have an audiovox phone that the audio was 900X better than the most expensive cellphone today and even in fringe areas you could still make that call through the static as human brains are good at filtering signals and pulling speech out.

    Granted I dont miss the 2 hour talk time and having to charge the damn thing 3 times a day, nor that it made even a Galaxy Tablet look small. Oh and YES I did have a smartphone before all of you as well, I also carried a Nokia 9000. That was back in 1996. that damn thing had to be on a charger constantly.

  5. Re:No not really.... on SSDs Approaching Price Parity With HDDs (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    3+ years now on an SSD without problems. I simply back up weekly.
    BluRay is a lot bigger than DVD so look there.

    Whoever told you that SSD drives lose data over time is someone you should stop listening to.

  6. Re:more guns needed on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    the Herp Derp is strong in this one.

  7. Re:Not a mass shooting, that is a terrorist attack on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if it was verified, they will not tell anyone. Even the gun hating far left liberals will run out to buy as many guns as they can if the terrorist shooting up shit starts becoming common on US soil.

  8. Re:more guns needed on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Here is someone that does not understand that owning a gun and carrying it loaded on you are different things.

  9. Re:I have to come down on the non-gun side here... on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually someone tried to legally read that list and kept pushing. and got put on the list.

    that list is no different than the Communist list they had going back in the 50's and 60's.

  10. Re: Another reason to ban rifles on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes it is! more laws will stop them! Just like how speed laws stopped speeding, Drug laws stopped drugs, and there is zero prostitution cince they passed those laws against paying money for sex.

  11. Re:Another reason to ban rifles on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    It takes ZERO effort to make a legal AK47 semi auto into an auto. anyone with a drill and a file can do it in an afternoon.

  12. Re:SMR Drives are fine for archival use on Western Digital Announces World's First 10TB Helium-Filled Hard Drive (techgage.com) · · Score: 2

    They will last as long as the warranty, and if not, here's a refurb for you!

  13. Longevity on these will suck, Helium seeps out of everything eventually. so these drives will not just fail for normal reasons but instead fail due to helium leaking out and drawing in standard atmosphere.

  14. No not really.... on SSDs Approaching Price Parity With HDDs (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    1TB SSD $400.00
    1TB HDD $89.00

    Call me when a 1TB SSD is $98.00 a REAL one from a reputable brand not the remarked B stock crap from ADATA or Happy-Fun SSD

  15. Cops have solved all crime... on Los Angeles Flirts With Pre-Crime (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    So now they are working on the easy stuff. So glad robberies and murders are over with...

    Oh wait....

  16. Re:HTTP/2.0 support. on HTTP/2.0 Opens Every New Connection It Makes With the Word 'PRISM' (jgc.org) · · Score: 0

    No tacos? FAIL!

  17. Even cheaper.... on Hardware For a Cheap Linux Desktop (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Used Core2Duo machine for $50.00 off of craigslist with monitor.

    Sorry, but if you want a cheap linux machine, go used first.

  18. Re:I'm not surprised on IoT Home Alarm System Can Be Easily Hacked and Spoofed (cybergibbons.com) · · Score: 2

    90% of all ADT alarms installed use the zipcode as the installer/backdoor access code.
    95% of all alarms installed by companies use the house address as the default code for the customer at install time and NEVER have the code changed.

    Alarm systems typically are only used for notification to the homeowner that they need to call the insurance company for a claim.

  19. If you have an IOT alarm.... on IoT Home Alarm System Can Be Easily Hacked and Spoofed (cybergibbons.com) · · Score: 2

    Then you are a moron. Relying on the cloud for anything important and time sensitive is 100% foolish and borderline stupid.

    It's great for toys like Smartthings and Hue lights. but only a complete moron will rely on their internet and the cloud service for something like an alarm system.

  20. Re:Avoidance on Ethics: A Good Reason To Sit Further Away From Your Boss (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Sadly giving people raises is no longer taught at admin 101.

  21. Not even close. on MST3K Kickstarter Poised To Break Kickstarter Record (kickstarter.com) · · Score: 0

    Exploding kittens, a card game raised more than $8,000,000 so unless they more than triple their current backers in 11 days they dont have a chance.

  22. Re:Avoidance on Ethics: A Good Reason To Sit Further Away From Your Boss (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Define "unethically" because that is a huge enigma that means something different to every single person you talk to.

  23. Re:Avoidance on Ethics: A Good Reason To Sit Further Away From Your Boss (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Those that did the most real work and were good at it were passed over."

    It seems they were not good at observation. If you are really good at your job, you WILL NOT BE PROMOTED. you need to be medicore at your job and good at ass kissing to get promoted. It has been this way from the beginning of time.

    Too many people buy into the lie that if you are really good at what you do you will be rewarded. you are never rewarded, you are kept right where you are to do your job really well and make others look good.

  24. What about self discharge rate? on New Type of 'Flow Battery' Can Store 10 Times the Energy of the Next Best Device (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    The biggest problem with these higher storage attempts is they all fall on their face because they self discharge at a rate that makes them not very useful.

  25. This pursuit is utterly stupid... on Pursuit of Slenderness May Mean No More Headphone Jack In iPhone 7 (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    All it does is make phones suck more. 99% of the buying public if you ask them... "do you want a thinner phone or a phone that will last 2 days on a charge?"
      all of them will say, "give me the longer lasting charge."

    We don't want thinner, we want more battery capacity. The number 1 flaw with the One Plus X is that it's battery life utterly sucks. Well number 2.. Number 1 is that it's a 3G only phone in most of the United states as they were complete retards at OnePlus and did not set it up for the 700mhz LTE band.

    Everyone I show mine to says, "Ohh that is a very nice phone it's so thin!" until I tell them about battery life.. then they say they would rather have a phone that is thicker so that it lasts longer.