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  1. (Holding match to torn off piece of screen) Sure they do!

  2. TOR doesn't exist in the UK? on Online Pornography Age Checks To Be Mandatory in UK From 15 July (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Soon, all the kids will use TOR browsers to show that they're anywhere but in the UK. It shouldn't take long for them to beat the system designed by people that don't understand technology beyond using a power button.

  3. Watch customers leave if they raise prices on Jeff Bezos Confirms Amazon's Growth Is Slowing (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple, Intel and other large firms have raised prices to compensate for slower sales. While Amazon is still growing, they seem to be slowly raising prices on some items. When they get the bright idea to do that on most items, their appeal will go away and their growth will stop. I like Amazon. But, I fully expect them to jack up prices in the name of short term gains. The competition will come back to life when that happens.

  4. Re:Here we go again on Magnetic Field Reversals Unlikely To Be a Problem For Life, Says Astronomer (arxiv.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obviously, your personality will flip also. Your nice side will act like a dick now. Your evil side will be confused. Science, man.

  5. Stop visiting Baltimore, Detroit, and other shithole cities. Travel through the beautiful rural countryside where mainstream America lives.

  6. Without blocking of robocalls it's not very useful on Chat App Viber Now Lets You Buy Local Numbers That Anyone Can Call You On (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Google Voice gives you free numbers, and blocks robocalls. I'm gonna stay with what works.

  7. One third of cable TV is commercials. on Cord-Cutting in America May Have Already Peaked (fool.com) · · Score: 1

    We cut the cord and saved $155 per month by leaving Mediacom. We switched to 24-Mbps DSL with commercial-free Hulu and Netflix. Any local shows are watched with a digital antenna, which gives a superior picture over cables compressed crappy image. Cable has turned into a huge con game.

  8. Re:So? We need more people to die! on The World's Leading Cause of Death? A Bad Diet (nbc12.com) · · Score: 1

    America wasn't one of the countries in the "bad" zones. Proper health care and moderate consumption of all foods is needed. Obese people die a few years earlier than normal, or slightly overweight ones. They commit suicide by food.

  9. Their still blaming the pot smoker. on LA County Is Using An Algorithm To Clear 50,000 Pot Convictions Faster (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "This collaboration will improve people's lives by erasing the mistakes of their past and hopefully lead them on a path to a better future." Huh? Since it's now legal, doesn't that mean that the state made the mistake when the convictions were made, and not the pot user?

  10. It's not really traveling to the past on Physicists Reverse Time Using Quantum Computer (phys.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The electron is not moving back in time. It is recreating a past state, but in the present time frame. It is not possible to actually measure backwards time travel without the observer also moving back in time. These are my thoughts on the subject.

  11. Slashdot is part of the 30% that track you on How Facebook Could Profit From Zuckerberg's So-Called 'Privacy' Push (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Note the Facebook icon on the bottom of Slashdot's pages. This site is part of the Zuckerborg collective that degrades your privacy. I'm a little surprised to see that on Slashdot.

  12. Re:You know, at some point soon... on Netflix is Testing Even More Expensive Subscription Prices (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Whatchu talking bout Willis?

  13. This needs over ten years of Android updates on The Volvo Polestar 2 Is the First Google-Powered, All-Electric Car (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Without ten years or more of Android updates this is a complete waste of time. Unless it can be flashed to a different, newer system, the resale value will be low. I can see buying a car that I'll send to e-waste in three years.

  14. Go to Rotten Tomatoes to see what it actually is. The movie hasn't been released. So, these are "Want to see" votes, that all upcoming movies show. Once released actual audience scores will be shown. It should do okay, if well written and produced.

  15. I have no idea why you're being called a Troll. Your comment is 100% factual. The figure represents "Want to see" comments. There is not audience score yet as the movie hasn't been released. I believe it will do okay, like The Last Jedi,. but probably not as well as other Marvel movies unless the story is far more awesome than the previews make it look.

  16. echecks work online just fine, on sites that accept them, without paying a tribute to the monopolistic credit card industry.

  17. This will remain the best option for local payments. Card companies will only increase fees more and more when cards are the primary payment method. Corporations will keep increasing prices to continue their never ending drive for higher stock prices, forever.

  18. I have no idea why anyone that genuinely wanted to do damage would advertise it, unless they really wanted to be stopped first. This seems like a made for TV movie.

  19. If it created my face, that would be horrifying. on 'This Person Does Not Exist' Website Uses AI To Create Realistic Yet Horrifying Faces (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    As it is, the created faces just look like random people to me. There is nothing "horrifying" about it.

  20. I don't see how Apple is going to pull off getting the valuable news sites onto their "Netflix for news' service. Since the WSJ now charges $39 per month, and Apple wants to charge only $10 for a blanket service, I don't see the WSJ going for it, unless Apple pays them a fortune up front.

  21. The existence of VOIP implies tha the FCC is lying on FCC Struggles To Convince Judge That Broadband Isn't 'Telecommunications' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    VOIP services use the Internet to make phone calls. This should be the only argument that is needed to shoot down Pai's FCC lies. However, there is too much money being fed into the government bodies, via lobby money to "campaigns". by ISP's that direct their puppets to only help the ISP's. It's a shame that the US is so damn corrupt. There was a time when regulators actually worked to help Americans improve their lives and the nation to better itself. Thanks to corporations being "people", and lobbying (buying support) to work against the public instead of for it, we're sliding downhill as a nation. Make America Free From Excessive Corporate Greed Again.

  22. How far along into death by 1000 cuts is Win10? on Many Windows 10 Users Unable To Connect To Windows Update Service (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Windows 10 must be more than halfway through driving consumers onto a much faster student-oriented platform (ChromeOS), a superior OS (Linux Mint, etc), or a competitor (Mac)S). I can't believe how shitty the OS service has been, and how often the cloud "breaks", under Satya's "leadership".

  23. Re:"By U.S. Suppliers", not "in the U.S." on Apple Spent $60B on 9,000 American Suppliers in 2018, Supporting 450,000 Jobs (macrumors.com) · · Score: 0

    Apple chooses not to support US manufacturing. It started when they outsourced nickle plating the inside of McIntosh cases around 1990. Until then all the work was done in the US. These days, they don't want to damage their stock value by directly supporting American workers. Their PR machine is not to be believed.

  24. China and third world pollution needs to be cut on Worrying Rise in Global CO2 Forecast for 2019 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The West can put pressure on China, India and third world countries by building energy efficient, non-polluting mega-factories in the West that are open to any company that currently outsources manufacturing. There are ways we can reduce CO2. This is one of them. Yes, it will take long term planning. That's something that lazy corporate boards and CEO's don't like doing.

  25. The issue is that Chinese firms directly are owned and micro managed by the Chinese government. The US chooses to avoid electronics that are shown to have been part of China's spy efforts. China will, naturally, downplay this difference as if there is no difference at all. There is. Chinese companies directly assist China in spying on the West. US firms do not directly do so.