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  1. Re:I can see it now... on Judge Tells Apple To Help FBI Access San Bernardino Shooters' iPhone (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Bring them in alive? You think I'm John Ruth?

  2. False positives on How To Defeat VPN Location-Spoofing By Mapping Network Delays (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    False positives are a pretty major issue when you look at Netflix's user base, 97% effective isn't very good if you're going to refuse to serve content to over a million paying customers every day.

  3. Re:From personal experience... on Why Winners Become Cheaters (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course, that's why you're scared of the dark you big old apex predator you.

  4. Re:Bernie Madoff on Why Winners Become Cheaters (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter what he claimed after the fact as he's clearly a pathological liar. It was more than a billion dollar Ponzi as well,

  5. Re:Bernie Madoff on Why Winners Become Cheaters (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I mean he just committed the largest fraud in history, what's 65 billion dollars really?

  6. Re:Let's get real on North Korea's Satellite Tumbling In Orbit · · Score: 1

    Maybe you want to look into the history of Korea, you seem to miss a few cogent points.

  7. Re:More nation-wrecking idiocy on Are Roads Safer With No Central White Lines? · · Score: 1

    The biggest danger isn't wildlife and kids walking onto the road though is it? It's drivers assuming they are safe and not paying attention, then crashing into each other. Make drivers pay attention beyond "I am in between the right lines" and the road becomes safer.

  8. Re:More nation-wrecking idiocy on Are Roads Safer With No Central White Lines? · · Score: 1

    Thank goodness drivers are immune to groupthink. I bet they are all radical free thinkers with the same opinion as you.

  9. Re:More nation-wrecking idiocy on Are Roads Safer With No Central White Lines? · · Score: 1

    Of course, logically I'm going to drive two cars somewhere if the traffic is moving more slowly.

  10. Re:Predictions, so far, have been accurate on Australia Cuts 110 Climate Scientist Jobs: "The Science is Settled." · · Score: 1

    You are so far beyond deluded that is is actually amusing if you expect it to be possible for us to build a model accurate over the next billion years. You may have noticed these strange multi celled creatures walking around since the last billion year forecast was made. Or maybe you don't believe in evolution so you think it's OK to assume everything will be the same then?

  11. Re:Uber drivers are NOT taxi drivers on How Uber Profits Even When Its Drivers Aren't Earning Money (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    How about you explain what these differences you perceive are so the rest of us can correct you?

  12. Re:New York Taxi Workers' Alliance on How Uber Profits Even When Its Drivers Aren't Earning Money (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey Einstein, Uber drivers are taxi drivers and Uber are a monopolistic taxi company, arguably the worst ever.

  13. Re:The only device manufacturer that makes money o on Google To Take 'Apple-Like' Control Over Nexus Phones (droid-life.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you trying to say every other manufacturer is losing money? Why do you think there are a million different android devices on the market, they're all just playing the long game hoping it will pay off one day?

  14. Re:Nexus aren't satisfactory on Google To Take 'Apple-Like' Control Over Nexus Phones (droid-life.com) · · Score: 1

    I think Google sold Motorola manufacturing pretty quickly after buying it, they just wanted a patent bundle. I was pretty annoyed because my wife got a Motorola phone at that time and I assumed they would start providing Nexus level updates for Motorola products.

  15. Re:Nexus aren't satisfactory on Google To Take 'Apple-Like' Control Over Nexus Phones (droid-life.com) · · Score: 1

    IDK... its not that hard to root and install a custom rom on them these days.Maybe 2 minutes work.... even on Sammys its dead simple nowadays. So much so that 'guaranteed' updates is meh... and not worth the trade-offs that have to be made if I purchase a Nexus model.

    Then all you have to do is hope the community maintains a ROM for your device... I'd rather look on a custom ROM as being a last resort, while I've really enjoyed using CyanogenMod I'd rather my device was maintained properly in the first place by the people who sold it to me.

    Having been through the process I'd also dispute your "2 minutes work" even for a fairly experienced user the time taken to read the guides and find all the appropriate tools is easily going to be half an hour, plus an outside chance of bricking of your phone if you make any idiot mistakes.

  16. Re:Taking cues from NASCAR? on Drone Racing League Wants To Be the Next NASCAR (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope they make it even more exciting than NASCAR, maybe by offering up the challenge of turning both left and right.

  17. Re:Accusation through misunderstanding on YouTube and the Modern Mad Scientist (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Does that $600 include a ice pack? on Oculus Rift Pre-orders Begin At $600 (oculus.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe his life isn't playing a crappy Doom recode in 3D.

  19. Re: Safety Device? on Obama Orders Feds To Study Smart Gun Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd be safer if all the guns didn't work.

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

    I see a lot of adverts in papers saying I could be a proof reader after a couple of weekends training. I personally think that's more likely than ending up a successful vigilante peacekeeper after a few hours training.

  21. Re:How does space elevator save energy? on Diamond Nanothreads Could Support Space Elevator (space.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess a see saw must be one as well then, I'd better patent that.

  22. Re:The treaty says no such thing. on Canadian, UK Law Professors Condemn Space Mining Provisions of Commercial Space Act (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    Your maths amuses me, how many kg are you throwing into the atmosphere over that 20 year period and is there any risk associated with that at all?

  23. Re:Fun uber fact on Contractors or Not, Seattle Uber Drivers Might Get Collective Bargaining · · Score: 1

    Very very few people will tell a stranger while on the job that they hate their job.

  24. Re:Extension cable Return - did not reach my toile on Finnish IT Retailer Reveals Most Returned Products · · Score: 1

    I've bought three of the past two years to run my htpc in the loft. They are really unreliable, I'm not even sure I'm going to replace the one that broke in the last power outage we had. The repeaters seem to be the problem, it still passes power.