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  1. Good old BB's on The Government Wants Your Fingerprint To Unlock Phones (dailygazette.com) · · Score: 1

    don't remember password, type wrong 3 times (adjustable) - oh, sorry, device wipes... have to be quick though with typing...
    No finger print sensing BS.

  2. Re:Anything wrong? on Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn Sells Entire Stake In Apple (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's say what you have suggested happens, that Carl Icahn makes another trillion dollars shorting Apple stock and then buy back at super low price

    Well, if he makes another trillion for his to use, have you ever thought, where this money is coming from, like who is creating it? Is it just getting printed and it's there for somebody to get picked up or is there some other end where that green stuff gets less or how does this work?

    There is this thought about how many "normal" people have to work to make money in a Company/Organisation to pay a CEO?
    Haven't found an answer to this yet.

    Let me ask you this --- is there anything wrong with what he does?

    After all, this is the FREE MARKET --- If you get to do whatever you want with your own money, Mr. Icahn should have the same right and use his money the way he sees fit

    Yeah, this FM-Religion/Believe-System... Is that "Freedom" really working? The bribing of politicians who need it to get elected and then owe to their contributors in giving back favors - that's democracy in action, by the people for the people, right!. But that's politics.

    Let's look at market - constant achieved growth, let's say GDP is actually exponential, like the investors doing it, but looking at the repeating bubbles, stock market crashes, recessions and bail-outs happening, does it really work? Maybe it's just a symptom of achieved exponential growth in a limited environment an then bang, fallout because a ceiling is hit. All good for the general population.

    Now, don't tell me about that bullshi 1% thing

    They get to be 1% because they use their brain, and if you can't be amongst the 1%, hey, don't blame them, blame yourself for being too lazy to use YOUR brain

    That's an interesting thought, indeed.99 % are stupid. One has to justify things, right? Great foundation for racism if it sticks in people's brains.

    Perhaps you are just an Astroturfer getting paid to post here, doing great!

  3. feed the big one's again... Go to your local Credit Union and leave your $$'s near where you live!

  4. The underlying reasons for terrorism and whatever other perverted activities initiated by humans are not addressed, not even is the ability to look at those and recognize what is going on is remotely present!

    If one group says "A", the next group says no, it is "B", where the eliminating causes actions are "C".

    This Mr. Clapper is right in the middle of the blame/manipulate/denial/stroking his own butt game.

    And yeah, the idea that black holes could be gateways to other universes helps a lot...

  5. Hah! Can't lift a foot for this demo - look at any human doing this kind of move, they clearly lift their feet alternately off the ground and their system keeps balance, they don't fall over (most of the time, unless they are drunk or stoned).

    Now, what about the size of this thing - what kind of message are they trying to send with this? Beats me.

  6. The only way on Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used To Be (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    to avoid this nonsense is to drop the object like a hot potato, write off the loss and try to avoid this BS in the future.
    In a way, any use of toys makes you dependent for the sole purpose to transfer $$'s into different pockets, once it's there, you are at other's whim and open for frustration having your expectations killed.
    Does one really need all this hype? Good question, seems to stimulate something in people's nervous systems.

    Same goes for those popup intrusions - open in a new window/tab and if it acts up, close it. Some jerk-programmers still come up with this "wait, do you really want..." idiocy.
    Takes all the fun out of it.

    Maybe I need some more coffee..

  7. Would be a good starting point for a gone berserk educational system!

  8. A Peeping John lures on a vehicle "away from other members of the public", gets off what happens in there, that happening becomes public and the guy is not charged with intrusion of privacy?

    Twisted world for sure...
     

  9. because we CAN!

    Even on 04/01....

  10. How are they fed? Probably non-organic liquid mineral fertilizer...
    All nice and sterile, no earth worms, other critters visiting - anyone wants to be a plant THERE?

  11. Oh yeah! on iPhone 7s May Sport Curved Glass and AMOLED Display (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    How exciting...

    for for Iphone/Apple hypers/addicts..

    at least some substance to life obtainable here.

  12. Ever heard the phrase "There is no hope!" ?

    Seriously - have you made ever a count, how many time your hope was working out or it failed...

    Hoping creates contemplacy, delays action and hinders rationality - just look at the actual odds of winning Powerball. Doing it consoles, gives hope despite the fact that the odds are something like 1 : 11 Million. That's how human mind functions and gets fooled.

    Our planet is not a powerball lottery to use hope for future human and environmental decent existence.

  13. The system as we know it currently ("American Dream Failure") will fail.

    Wasn't there a company holding back total automation because of fear of social unrest?
    Won't happen in the long run since the human robots on top need to make positive numbers or get replaced by silicon colleagues.

    Looks like the calamities seen from "ideas in peoples heads with weapons" right now causing streams of refugees going north in larger numbers on an area way eastern of the US mainland with abuses and great suffering may be continuing in another flavor closer:

    Can't pay your mortgage, please vacate this property! Unluckily as things are, there are weapons on this property....

    Interesting times, for sure...

  14. - would I feel OK sitting in one of those and everything around me moves and I cannot act at all, sitting there passively?

    It's like you're sitting in a bus like a pauper.

    Hardly - you look in driving direction, there is no software steering and in most buses you are elevated and there is lots of space around, not two seats behind a wind-shield to your left or right side.

  15. - would I feel OK sitting in one of those and everything around me moves and I cannot act at all, sitting there passively?

    I think I would worry myself to death.

    Cruse Control fine, maybe automatic steering but steering wheel disappearing, seats swerving 90 degree away from driving direction towards each other, as it was written about the BMW "experiment" and semis overtaken by software passing by right before my eyes - no mf. way ...

  16. Comparing riding a bicycle with associations and related memories is like comparing apples to oranges.

    Cerebellum (old and small brain part close to brain stem at the back) is managing balance, movement coordination etc. required to use a bicycle, walk, run, reach, grasp.

    This sure is not information stored and related to hippocampus, association and forgettable stuff there.

    PS.: That's why neck shots in humans and bolts in necks of slaughter animals totally take down an organism immediately for good - brain stem and cerebellum.

  17. It's all clear on Microsoft Denies Rogue Windows 10 Upgrades, Says Users Remain Fully In Control (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The jerks at M$oft are drunk with corporate cool-aid and follow other objectives abusing their customers.
    Happens a lot, just look at any larger corporation, where the only goal it to increase bottom-line - take them to the cleaner!

  18. they still are too big and therefore they suck!

  19. The Heat Is On (1997) - book by Ross Gelbspan outlined in detail what will happen - not that it just gets warmer, hardly much of that, but that the dynamic of weather will increase by the addes input of energy (warmth) put into the system.
    This was 20 years ago and still there are deniers, interest groups, individuals bribed by ... and propaganda against it happening.

    What are those guys/gals on the strings to change anything smoking or drinking?

    Oh, I forgot the god's people - anything goes, it's gods will, no problem, just pray enough.

  20. You get caught on New Smartwatches Allow Students To Cheat On Exams · · Score: 1

    kicked out and called to the principle/director whoever is sitting on top, maybe penalized just for possession of such a watch because it implies intended fraud.
    Good luck!

  21. And nobody on Hubble Shatters the Cosmic Distance Record · · Score: 2

    absolutely nobody knows what happened before this last Big Bang which supposedly started this universe..

    Another apparent joke seems to be a recent computer simulation stating, that the chance that the only earth-like inhabitable planet is this earth, is high.
    And this out of how many super-clusters consisting of spiral galaxies, with a total number of stars going into what - trillions...

    And the gods exhaled... well, from where, what and when did they inhale to be able to exhale?

  22. And what are the effects? on Two Astronauts Return To Earth After Record 340 Days In ISS (technews.mobi) · · Score: 2

    Short term - loss of bone density, joint malfunction due to lack of use
    Can they now even walk without being carried?

    How many hours does someone have to exercise daily to make up for lost bone mass?

    Long term, who knows...

    Is it worth it? ABSOLUTELY

    Boah!

  23. here is the famous shoot in the foot again :-))

    Nice to see...

  24. Better headlines please on Ebay Shop Scrapes Thingiverse, Sells Designs In Violation of Creative Commons (all3dp.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actual: Ebay Shop Scrapes Thingiverse, Sells Designs In Violation of Creative Commons
    Q? who sells in violation? Ebay or Thingiverse...
    Correct: Ebay Shop Scrapes Thingiverse, Who Sells Designs In Violation of Creative Commons

    The other one yesterday:
    Actual: Mercedes-Benz Swaps Robots For People On Assembly Lines
    Q? Which way is it going people out or robots out
    Correct: Mercedes-Benz Removes Robots For People On Assembly Lines

    Or is this a new strategy Huffinghtonpost style - creating questions in headlines to make people look at content - new in the beginning but now sucks overall.

  25. or eliminated?