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  1. Re:First page of Google less and less relevant... on Google and Microsoft To Crackdown On Piracy Sites In Search Results (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Nearly every day I have to put quotes around the words in my searches because Google just plain ignores them (they show up crossed out). If you search too quickly with specific terms they think you're a bot and get a captcha.

  2. Re:vGPU seems cool on Linux Kernel 4.10 Officially Released With Virtual GPU Support (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this like the pass through feature on ESXI? I always thought about running OS X and Windows together.

  3. Re:This is news...? on Serious Computer Glitches Can Be Caused By Cosmic Rays (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah do an upper decker instead.

  4. And yet somehow it never happens.

  5. Re:That's why I pay to recycle monitors on Some Recyclers Give Up On Recycling Old Monitors And TVs (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    What do you think the recycler does with them?

  6. The guy took a plea deal from the DA. The judge can only sentence for this lesser crime.

  7. Re:3 years probation on Krebs: 'Men Who Sent SWAT Team, Heroin to My Home Sentenced' (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    I knew it was going to be a plea bargain. District Attorneys are lazy anymore and would rather give someone a light sentence than risk a not guilty verdict. They bring up a dozen scary charges and then act like they are doing a favor with a deal. If people stopped doing plea deals the courts would grind to a halt with backlogged cases.

    All the outrage over the rapist Brock Turner getting six months? He agreed to a plea deal and so did the victim. The judge could only sentence for the lesser crime he agreed to.

  8. Re:Upgrade your archaic naming system on MAME Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary (mame.net) · · Score: 0

    You really are a cunt.

  9. Oh that's funny you think the USPS will cut you a check when they lose an insured package?

  10. Upgrade your archaic naming system on MAME Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary (mame.net) · · Score: 1

    Why can't the MAME people develop a way to name roms other than 8.3 file format? Good luck finding out what anything is without the help of a GUI front end. It has to extract every zip file and read the contents to figure out what the game is.

  11. Re:May be good or bad news... on YouTube Will Kill Unskippable 30-Second Ads Next Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    YouTube will start splicing ads right into the video and not allow fast forwarding at those points.

  12. The Carrera was a race car that was made street legal. Even on Top Gear Jeremy Clarkson admitted it wasn't fun to drive because it was so touchy. There are plenty of other high horsepower cars that handle much better from companies like McLaren or Koenigsegg. Hell Koenigsegg even has a video showing how you can swerve the wheel at speed and not spin out.

  13. Like everything else in this country it was built using sub par materials and cheapened up during construction. The ancient Romans built aqua ducts and roads that are still traveled on today. The USA can't pour concrete that lasts half a century.

  14. Re:Another breakthrough! News at 11! on Researchers Working on Liquid Battery That Could Last For Over 10 Years (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Those are all incremental advancements. We haven't had any real breakthroughs like the semiconductor in decades.

  15. Re:cost of housing on Bay Area Tech Job Growth Has Rapidly Decelerated (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    As others have said anywhere outside the big cities that would be a mortgage on a million dollar home.

  16. Re:Yawn... on US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Makes me think of this picture https://s-media-cache-ak0.pini...

  17. Re: Not use it? on PayPal's 'Policy Update' Includes Price Hikes (paypal.com) · · Score: 2

    Can you show me to how only take credit card payments on eBay? I remember when you were allowed to send money orders! When Google came out with their payment system eBay started cancelling auctions who used it and then they bought PayPal.

  18. Use vacuum tubes on Excessive Radiation Inside Fukushima Fries Clean-Up Robot (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You laugh, but tubes aren't affected by ionizing radiation.

  19. Obama wanted him prosecuted as well.

  20. Annoying as fuck on Most of the Web Really Sucks If You Have a Slow Connection (danluu.com) · · Score: 1

    I hate pages that look like they stopped loading and decide to do one last refresh AFTER I've started scrolling. That and images that don't load until you get near them. All that does is rearrange text while you're trying to read.

  21. Re:What is it with these guys? on Arby's Probes Possible Data Breach Affecting 355,000 Credit Cards (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    It probably depends on if the restaurant is a franchise or not. There is a Popeye's close by that is absolutely terrible and has had constant negative reviews for years. You'd think corporate would want to improve things? Nope. Same deal for Steak N Shake. Worst service I've ever had in restaurant and constant complaints. Drive 30 minutes away and the next one is the complete opposite

  22. Agreed on Scientists Successfully Decode the Genome of Quinoa (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No matter how its prepared the taste is always there under everything else and I find it quite unpleasant.

  23. In the USA people sell rooted Amazon Firesticks for double or triple the price and claim you can get every pirated channel.

  24. Are you talking about the analog days? Nothing was addressable back then. How would the cable company "zap" your box without damaging anything else connected? About the only way you could get caught is if an installer saw your illegal descrambler or actually had a tech out there with a spectrum analyzer looking for the dip in frequency for a channel they know you didn't pay for.

    I owned a descrambler for a while before they went digital and it was rendered useless. Then broadband took off along with Bittorrent and nobody bothered stealing cable.

    The only time what you describe happened was when DirecTV or Dish sent out a malicious packet that overwrote peoples' pirated smart cards.

  25. Re:Nobody read the article on US Visitors May Have to Hand Over Social Media Passwords: DHS (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    This is part of the more detailed vetting process. These countries were picked because of the lack of record keeping or because entire cities have been wiped off the map.