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  1. Re:And the price is? on Corning Brings Gorilla Glass To The Automotive Industry (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It turns out that putting out a press release like this is considerably cheaper than buying ads.
    Or do you mean the cost of the glass?

  2. Re:Why are fonts still a thing these days? on Firefox 52 Borrows One More Privacy Feature From the Tor Browser (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Great then the whole page will look as shitty as the UI.

    Font design is an art. Not something that can be slapped together in a few algorithms.
    Donald Knuth's Metafont package is great and all, but it is no match for the combined brilliance over 400 years of human type designers.

  3. Time to unplug on Microsoft Foresees AR Tracking Your Keys, Milk, Entire Life (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It will be the next hip thing, like vinyl, Moleskin notebooks and analog film.
    Safer too.

  4. I know mining is a tough life but reducing your employees sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
    At least they aren't being oxidised.

  5. Do you smell something burning?

  6. Re:Someone sell these on ebay or etsy on Flickering Lights May Illuminate A Path To Alzheimer's Treatment (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You could always get a mind machine and tune it to 40Hz.

  7. Robo-waiter recommends water and a salad on China 'Smart Restaurant' Uses Facial Recognition To Make Meal Suggestions (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Based on the roundness of your face.

  8. Electrocuting pedestrians is considered bad form.

  9. Re:It is not T-Mobiel deciding on Dutch Market Regulator Bans T-Mobile's 'Free' Streaming Music Service (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Any company can sign up

    So only companies get to play, and it has to be a company that is aware of the local loophole.
    Also why should customers who aren't interested in streaming music on their phones subsidise those who do?

    Which incidentally means you're indirectly subsidising the music industry.

  10. Re:Insurmountable problems, indeed on World's First 'Solar Panel Road' Opens In France (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The useful idiots are out early.
    Why single out western governments? This is a worldwide problem. Totalitarian governments tend to produce even greater boondoggles.

  11. Yeah stay away.
    We have far too many of you fucking retards visiting the place. (Over 17million every year on a population of less than a million, it's starting to look like Venice here)

  12. Re:Send it all to Wikileaks on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Wikileaks would be the worst place to send it, given their recent actions.

  13. Re:Only if they aren't aimed on The UN Will Consider Banning Killer Robots (hrw.org) · · Score: 5, Informative

    As for banning landmines.
    There is a landmine treaty which isn't signed by a handful of nations that don't take human rights too seriously. Not surprisingly, the US is on that list, rubbing shoulders with the likes of North Korea, Uzbekistan and Syria.

    After all, maiming civilians is what it's all about for these brave warrior nations.

  14. Re:Company Discovers Data Harvesting Unprofitable on Dropbox Kills Public Folders, Users Rebel (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    If a five year grace period isn't enough for them, then they are bottom feeders. despite their overpriced suits and shiny uniforms.

  15. Re:You get what you pay for on Dropbox Kills Public Folders, Users Rebel (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    What is this "sky" you speak of?

  16. Re:Will that actually help? Also, Wi-Fi on 150 Filmmakers and Photojournalists Call On Nikon, Sony, and Canon To Build in Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think governments in warzones/dictatorships really care about that.

    As I post this the confirmed current count for journalists killed in 2016 is 46. Cases of imprisonment and beatings are a multiple of this.

  17. Re:Pizza is indeed a pie on Robots Are Already Replacing Fast-Food Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Small change?

  18. Re:Pizza is indeed a pie on Robots Are Already Replacing Fast-Food Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Australia is terrible at naming baked goods.
    That's the country where they bake a fruitcake and call it a Bananabread.

  19. Lithium charge controllers are simple and cheap analog electronic devices. Leaving this functionality to a processor would make it needlessly complicated and invites problems when the thing inevitably crashes.

    Even with a processor based system you'd still need current sensing hardware, which would be nearly as expensive as a dedicated charge controller.

  20. "Or need to get there faster. "
    Get there faster in a car? Not in any European city.

  21. Re:Dear David on Canonical Sues Cloud Provider Over 'Unofficial' Ubuntu Images (ostatic.com) · · Score: 1

    ..and then of course you've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down your left hand side..

  22. Doesn't work on my AppleTV 2.

  23. Re: Stop using cars at all. on Paris, Madrid, Athens, Mexico City Will Ban Diesel Vehicles By 2025 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Please get off your high horse. Or whatever you yokels drive these days.

  24. Re: Are we there yet? on Bitcoin Exchange Ordered To Give IRS Years of Data On Millions of Users (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh I know about the US acting across borders.
    I had to sign a form from my bank saying that I'm not a US citizen, and have no financial ties to the US just to keep my account. Complying with US financial law on top of local laws is simply too much of a hassle for most non-US banks.

    This is a new thing so it stands to reason that they try it out locally before making the rest of the world miserable. Besides, after the Snowden leaks and a successful challenge to the Safe Harbor agreement, the EU for one is a lot less keen on sharing financial information of their citizens.

  25. Don't worry. Not all calories in chocolate are from sugar.
    The fat content hasn't changed.