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  1. According to the NYT, the Google wasn't obligated to pay him that money.

    The NYT is retarded; nobody gives that kind of money away for free.

  2. As you can already figure out if you're not shilling, it obviously varies depending on the ROM.

    I've had success with LineageOS (I'll only run official builds) - its stability on my S5 improved greatly after transitioning from Cyanogenmod.

  3. you

    Who exactly were you under the impression you were speaking to?

  4. That was my understanding, as well: inadequate bulkheads that didn't extend all the way upwards allowed a domino-effect of compartment flooding...

  5. Re: maybe if they rammed it things would of been b on A Chinese-Built Replica of the Titanic Will Set Sail From Dubai in 2022 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    They weren't watertight - bulkheads didn't extend all the way upwards.

  6. Stallman is eminently logical; it should be clear to anyone with half a brain that the entire reason he embarked on his "moral quest" was because he could look ahead and see where we were headed.

    The position he's taken is based on logic and practicality rather than idealogy; it just might require deeper thinking [than most people are capable of] to realize that.

  7. Re:Well ... on Kids Think the Darndest Things About How Computers Work (acm.org) · · Score: 1

    Society isn't being repeatedly conditioned to believe that virtually every paying job is about to be replaced by Thomas the Train and if they don't want to get fed to the digester, they'd really better learn how to polish his knob...

  8. Re:what connects strong nano fibre & space ele on China Produces Nano Fibre That Can Lift 160 Elephants - and a Space Elevator? (nzherald.co.nz) · · Score: 4, Funny

    how was it that first use case imagined for this fibre become space elevator?

    It wasn't; the elevator is only for the elephants and they forgot to mention the turtle,

  9. Re: Really, is anyone surprised? on New SystemD Vulnerability Discovered (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Funny
    No, don't you see??

    New SystemD Vulnerability Discovered...

    The vulnerability they discovered... was SystemD. It's recursive or a paradox or something. Either way, very fascinating...

  10. Re: Anybody in their right country. on With Few US Students Taking CS Classes, Code.org 'Scales Back' Funding For CS Education (acm.org) · · Score: 1

    You have no idea what you're trying to argue, do you.

  11. Re: It seemed to me that programming became less f on With Few US Students Taking CS Classes, Code.org 'Scales Back' Funding For CS Education (acm.org) · · Score: 1

    And I wonder how good all those 80,000 primary and secondary school teachers actually are at teaching programming.

    They're as good at teaching programming as they are at programming.

  12. That's what I was going to say... just not so politely.

  13. Re: So similar risk to accidentially typing 'sudo' on Trivial Bug In X.Org Server Gives Root Permissions On Linux, BSD Systems (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    You will be asked for a password

    They accidentally entered that, too.

  14. Re: There are no air currents on Mars. on Mysterious White Cloud Hangs Over Martian Volcano (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Whoosh. Very faint though, in the thin... air.

  15. And since the beginning of Apple a lot of people has just utterly hated the company.

    Young, dumb and making up stupid shit?? Apple never gave anyone any reason to hate them until MacOS 9.

  16. Re: Largely, Canadians don't care much on Google's Smart City Dream Is Turning Into a Privacy Nightmare (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Mod up.

  17. Re: Maybe citizens will soon learn... on Tesla Faces FBI Probe Over Model 3 Production Numbers (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1, Funny
    Henceforth, you shall be known as "No Comma Faggot." Or possibly the "No Comma Faggot Faggot."

    I'll let you know when I decide.

  18. Re: For these reasons and more on Tech To Blame For Ever-Growing Car Repair Costs, AAA Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    With a big enough lift kit, it should also be suitable for running over self-driving Ubers.

  19. Re: As an Artist... on AI-Generated Portrait Sells For Nearly Half a Million In Auction (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Get on my level. It might not even have been a real art sale. The whole thing could be staged to hype some machine learning start-up.

    The odds of it being anything other than what you just described... are too low to count.

  20. Re: It ain't over until it's over... Show me the m on AI-Generated Portrait Sells For Nearly Half a Million In Auction (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
    Has anyone else ever bought ASCII porn? On 5.25" floppies??

    Computer shows in the 80's were pretty cool if you were in middle school...

  21. In this day and age you can't just add tits; there has to be a dick to complete the package.

  22. Re: You might wonder why or who would bid on AI-Generated Portrait Sells For Nearly Half a Million In Auction (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It shouldn't be too hard to figure out that this was nothing more than a bullshit stunt, hence the "anonymous" bid.

  23. Re:The Luxury phone (That everyone has) on China's Xiaomi Aims Its Priciest Phone at Huawei and Apple (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    But these companies put a lot of effort into trying to be something they will not become.

    As long as their buyers are too stupid to realize this, these companies have no reason to care.

  24. Re: Confusing headline on SpaceX Is Planning To Launch a Falcon 9 For the Third Time (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You can have intelligent headlines or you can have Msmash.

  25. Re: How do they know, cell tower drones flying aro on China, Russia Are Listening To Trump's Phone Calls, Says NYT Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    If we can pick up transmissions from probes in the outer reaches of the solar system we can presumably build satellites that hover over any place on earth we want them to...

    It's quicker and easier just to say "I've never studied physics." (However, by conserving energy - cha-ching - you've demonstrated a knowledge of thermodynamics...)