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  1. "Only" is a misnomer. They were sold period. on Crashed Boeing Planes Lacked Safety Features That Company Sold Only As Extras (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The market wanted to cut corners and they got it, now you blame the provider?

  2. Re:Clever fun hacks don't have to be useless on A Guy Made a Computer Mouse That is Also a Functional Laptop (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes you don't get to work on "real" problems because you don't have the resources (money, education, tools, etc).

  3. Re:Perfect timing with the demise of Sears on In a First, Amazon Begins Mailing 70-page Printed Holiday Toy Catalog To US Homes (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    They do have Amazon Prime Services - where an "Amazon Turk Rabbit" (Amazon's take on Task Rabbit) comes to your house for a fixed fee to install or fix small things in your house. They may even in the future have the infrastructure to open up their warehouse to consumers and take on Sam's Club or Costco.

  4. Perfect timing with the demise of Sears on In a First, Amazon Begins Mailing 70-page Printed Holiday Toy Catalog To US Homes (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Perfect timing with the demise of Sears!! Amazon will take over the world!

  5. blinders not blinkers on Panasonic Designed Human Blinders To Block Out Open-Plan Office Distraction (curbed.com) · · Score: 1

    Cool concept. Add in BlueTooth headphones and Boss detection on the outer collar and I'll be sold!

  6. Re:How hard is it to make a static archive? on GeoCities Japan Is Finally Shutting Down (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Apparently that already happened https://gizmodo.com/5676641/al...

  7. Re:more pc stupidity on Python Joins Movement To Dump 'Offensive' Master, Slave Terms (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's actually the Apple idiots (consumers) that are probably complaining about the 'master' and 'slave' terms. We're going to need to come up with gender neutral serial port terminology too - male, female, gender-benders, dongles, bit-banging

  8. Re:Port to iOS please on Microsoft Open-Sources Original File Manager From the 1990s So It Can Run On Windows 10 (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    In a universe where the 99% ruin it for the 1%. Hide file extensions for 99% of people that don't need them, let the 1% un-check the box.

  9. Does everyone really want to buy a home? on Duolingo To Silicon Valley Workers: Move To Pittsburgh, Where You Can Actually Afford a Home (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I feel like home ownership is a major life goal. It's certainly in the best interests of the people at the top as you are enslaved to a 15 or 30 year mortgage and can be counted on to pay into the many avenues of maintenance that comes with home ownership: not only house maintenance, but community maintenance in the form of taxes and bonds.

  10. Totally agree. Ask me to name famous actors and I can only come up with a few. I don't really watch movies and average people don't really follow tech.

  11. exactly!

  12. What about Slashdotting protection? on DDoS Attacks Will Now Be 'Something You Only Read About In The History Books', Says Cloudflare CEO (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will a site be protected from being slashdotted? It's kind of a DDoS

  13. what's old is new again on Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    this is hilarious! what is old is new again. Now think back to something that's fallen out of favor and capitalize on it!

  14. This sounds like IT / System administration on HackerOne CEO: Every Computer System is Subject To Vulnerabilities (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How is this any different from locking down systems, ensuring security updates are installed. Setting up firewalls, port forwarding, NAT, VPN, etc?

  15. Re:GE is not the enemy on GE Considers Scrapping The Annual Raise (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You're not accounting for the fact that work these days at the bottom level can be done by Recent College Grads at the entry level pay, with guidance from an employee that has been around for a while. These young employees come in with much more enthusiasm than people that have been around for a while. Presumably the 20% of employees that are getting laid off are older workers that are highly compensated, and for that high compensation they may be able to hire on 2 or 3 RCGs. The RCG Mill of corporations is alive and well.

  16. Re:Binary before arithmetic in preschools... on San Francisco Public Schools To Require Computer Science For Preschoolers · · Score: 1

    I agree. Just another way to put a larger circle through a square hole.

  17. Re:One Must Fall: 2097 on Robot SmackDowns Wants To Bring Robot Death Matches To an Arena Near You · · Score: 1

    Loved this game and I was just about to make your exact post :)

  18. Re:Vizio on The XBMC Project Will Now Be Called Kodi · · Score: 1

    You do also realize that Microsoft bought the company that made Visio and made it into an Office product.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...

  19. Re:Ancient history on Geeks.com Online Shop Has Closed · · Score: 1

    I used to go to Compgeeks.com for Cobweb Corner, but they kind of removed that section about 10 years ago, and I stopped visiting the site. As many have mentioned the deals to be had were mediocre, and usually refurb equipment. This was fine in the days that the difference between a refurb and a new computer was significant, but now, they haven't adapted, so therefore they become Ancient History.

  20. Must go round trip!? on Tesla To Build Its Own Battery-Swap Stations · · Score: 1

    It is a start at building an battery/gas station infrastructure between SF and LA. The deal breaker for me is having to come back the same route to pick up your original battery. What if i'm not actually coming back on I-5 between SF and LA?

  21. Re:Nothing about refunds? on EA Responds To Its Appearance In the 'Worst Company In America' Poll · · Score: 1

    I thought they did offer refunds for people that were unable to connect to the servers during launch?

  22. Delta has the Glass Bottom Jet already on Virgin Launches Glass-Bottomed Plane · · Score: 1

    What's funny about this April Fools Joke is Delta recently announced a Glass Bottom Jet feature where you can see what mountains, and cities are underneath you while flying. If you log onto Gogo In-Flight Internet while on board a Delta flight and use the Flight tracker on the iPhone/iPad you can see the attractions and terrain on your iPhone/iPad as you near them during the flight http://delta.thedigitalcenter.com/projects/8517-deltas-glass-bottom-jet

  23. Ridiculous on Student Expelled From Montreal College For Finding "Sloppy Coding" · · Score: -1

    Just because he had an Islamic name they thought he was more than a college student trying to make things easier for students in general. He did the right thing, reporting the flaw, an this is what happens? The administration are idiots

  24. Re:Kick ass. on Sensor Networks In San Francisco Finds Parking Spots · · Score: 1

    This was a senior design project of mine. Didn't have the resources to implement it, with only a $500 budget, we decided to change it to telling how many parking spaces are in a garage depending on how many spaces were initially available and how many cars had entered.

  25. Lots of legacy software prevents upgrading on What's Keeping You On XP? · · Score: 1

    A lot of software I used still has not been updated for Vista/Win 7. I figure in about 5 years I won't need that software anymore. After that, I'll switch to whatever the latest is, which will probably just be Win 8!