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  1. Re:Bye bye on Dropbox Now Limits Free Users To 3 Devices (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    That was the exact same point I stopped using Evernote. Time to find an alternative cloud storage.

    I'm sure they will be devastated to lose your ... er ... uh ... use of their resources without paying them anything?

    Was there something else they were supposed to be devastated about?

  2. ... 29% of the internet is porn, news at 11?

  3. Although the photos in question were shared under a Creative Commons license, many users say they never imagined their images would be used in this way.

    Since when is licensing about what you "imagine"?

  4. "Toxic comments" will be whatever Google doesn't like.

  5. In Soviet Russia ... on You May Have Forgotten Foursquare, But It Didn't Forget You (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    ... FourSquare looks up YOU!

  6. Re:Apps aren’t good enough on Amazon's Alexa has 80,000 Apps -- and No Runaway Hit (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Where’s the interactive, conversational app that teaches me Chinese by talking about current events and correcting my pronunciation?

    Wait, I've got this one ... it's on your phone!

    Oh, wait ...

  7. Re:Hasn't anyone ever heard of a "Legacy"? on Actresses, Business Leaders, and Other Wealthy Parents Charged in Massive College Admissions Scandal (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Without a strong economy backed by college educated kids you're not gonna get the return on investment you need.

    Yeah, the economy is really going to suffer if Muffy can't afford her gender studies degree.

    I don't think the ROI on this is quite as clear cut as you might think.

  8. Re:Oh, I thought he could be above this... on Tim Berners-Lee Says World Wide Web Must Emerge From 'Adolescence' (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Politics is politics. There are no solutions that turn it into something else.

    Yes, exactly.

    Politics is the solution, at least in the sense that it sure beats tribes under warlords just hacking each other up.

  9. Re:The US and UK on Tim Berners-Lee Says World Wide Web Must Emerge From 'Adolescence' (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yet clearly the guy is somehow at the same time both Hitler and incapable of walking and chewing bubble gum at the same time.

    Yep, just like Reagan somehow "was" both an evil mastermind and an imbecile, all at the same time.

    I've lived through all this before.

  10. Um, what? on Tim Berners-Lee Says World Wide Web Must Emerge From 'Adolescence' (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We need a new internet because there were some election results he didn't like? Seriously?

  11. "Oops, looks like we missed something, there's a highly useful feature there we haven't removed or screwed with yet!"

  12. As primarily a linux/mac user, i find the alt+tab (and its equivalents) quite crude and ineffective when you're running a large number of applications (having to cycle through a large number of applications one by one)... I generally have multiple virtual workspaces which are each setup for a specific purpose (usually multiple apps laid out in each) and then switch directly to the numbered workspace that i require.

    When i've seen people heavily using alt+tab it's usually on systems where a very small number of applications are in use (maybe 3-4), they are running maximized and the user is switching between them. From my desk right now i can see another user doing this with a browser, a mail client and a spreadsheet.

    I have about 35 windows open right now. Most of them maximized (why not? After all, I have ALT+TAB ...). Use ALT+TAB incessantly.

    It's not crude when you are experienced at it. It's second nature.

  13. Re:Just pick a damned time on Trump Endorses Permanent Daylight Savings Time (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would farmers care what time the clock showed?

    Yeah, "but farmers" always struck me as a bizarre argument.

    What, the cows won't be ready to be milked unless their clock matches yours? It never made any sense.

    It's hard to think of another profession except maybe "hermit author" that is less affected by other people's clocks.

  14. (and any product *will* be shut down if it doesn't produce the required number of Shekels).

    And this is as opposed to ... what other business?

    In other news, I will stop going to work if they don't pay me enough.

  15. "Links break on the internet ... some dude shocked!"

  16. Perhaps it is time to take a fresh look at Tether...

    No, perhaps it's time to take a fresh look at not using fake "currency" slung by carnival hucksters who make Donald Trump look like Mother Theresa by comparison.

  17. Re:The invisible hand of capitalism on How Badly Are We Being Ripped Off On Eyewear? Former Industry Execs Tell All (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the invisible hand of unregulated capitalism.

    I got yer invisible hand right here ...

    And here ...

  18. Re:more than that on Russia Blocks Encrypted Email Provider ProtonMail (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Thank God we aren't falling for that "need to regulate fake news" stuff here in the West!

  19. Re:Invisible hand of the market hard at work... on How Badly Are We Being Ripped Off On Eyewear? Former Industry Execs Tell All (latimes.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's a joke about that in there somewhere... just can't put my finger on it right now.

    Might be I finally need glasses...

    Here you go!

    A place to get cheap glasses

    coupons to make them even cheaper

    Oops, looks like the invisible hand is working after all!

  20. First of all, you can get glasses from (say) EyeBuyDirect for around $15-$20 on a good day, for normal single vision lenses. (Search for coupons first.)

    Secondly, it's like any other product. There will be a range of prices, depending on all sorts of factors from designer names, to service, to whatever. ALL of which will above the cost of manufacture, since these are businesses and not charities.

  21. pfft on CSS To Get Support For Trigonometry Functions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can it do statistics? That's what I want to know ...

  22. Re:Police will have an easy job on USA Today Tech Columnist: Millennials Will Live To See a Cashless World (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    As soon as "cashless" becomes a reality, police won't have to lift a finger to arrest anyone accused of a crime. They'll just turn off his phone. The suspect will turn himself in to avoid starvation.

    Yes because "cashless" is an all encompassing word that not only hands police powers they don't have,

    They don't? They already freeze bank accounts.

    but also implies the specific solution to replace cash is to use a phone,

    The pocket computer than approximately everyone carries, and that people are already using for digital cash? Yeah, that's just crazy talk (and also not super relevant to his point, but whatever)

    and naturally why would you stop there when you could just add a slippery slope fallacy to properly round out your post.

    The slope we are already tobogganing down ... hitting the odd "deplatforming" tree on the way ...

  23. Re:Police will have an easy job on USA Today Tech Columnist: Millennials Will Live To See a Cashless World (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    We're already seeing people being denied financial services like Paypal, Patreon, and even bank accounts simply because they speak their opinions in public.

    Meaning specific companies have decided not to do business with a specific customer, or the government has decided that a person is not allowed to have a bank account? Because those are very different things.

    "Citizen committees" with baseball bats and armed government agents are very different things too, in theory ... just not always in practice.

  24. Until there's something impossible, like, you know, a thunderstorm.

  25. You won't stop Fox News repeating the Russian Memes, you cannot tell the difference between RT and Fox, and haven't been able to since Obama era. Whatever token thing Facebook does won't change a thing when it comes to the National Enquirer and Fox repeating those fake stories.

    Try this, when they're both running commentary shows, flip between Fox and RT. Same talking points, same lies, interchangeable.

    Putin never takes over a country by external force, he leverages the traitors inside. That's you Fox and Friends, Hannity, Pirro....

    Hillary was (thankfully) not elected due to her very real deficiencies. No fake news required.

    She was worse than a clown. Let that sink in.

    You all were so gobsmacked though that you had to come up with some crazy theory as to how she could have possibly lost.