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  1. Why vertically? on Elon Musk's Next Great Idea? Electric Air Travel (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    A plane takes off and lands horizontally because it's safer. They can glide to a landing if something goes wrong. Vertical takeoff and landing seems unnecessarily risky to me, unless Musk wants them to be able to take off from and land just about anywhere. Fine, make that an option, not the primary means of takeoff and landing.

  2. Re: Well, that's pretty much a textbook violation. on Verizon's Mobile Video Won't Count Against Data Caps -- but Netflix Will (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    That may be true if you are in an area where they offer a decent signal. Where I am, T-mobile customers, usually visitors, often can't even make a call. The other 4 top providers work well. T-Mobile needs to build out their cell towers more, in sparely populated areas, to earn new customers.

  3. Re:Streisand effect? on Anti-Malware Maker Files Lawsuit Over Bad Review (csoonline.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Spyware Hunter is a poor, if not terrible, program. Malwarebytes is superior, being more effective. It's too bad that Enigma can't handle the truth, chooses to sue bleepingcomputer.com instead of improving their product. Such assholes.

  4. Rubio is still young on Marco Rubio Wants To Permanently Extend NSA Mass Surveillance (nationaljournal.com) · · Score: 1

    Give Rubio some time to grow up and someday he may make a fine POTUS.

  5. Re:Wifi allergy on Researchers Uncover the Genetic Roots Behind Rare Vibration Allergy (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    It's logical to presume that our universe did not create a demon with horns that tortures "bad" people for all of eternity at the whim of a bearded white man sitting on a throne atop a cloud, with his spirit on one side and his son on the other side. The universe is far greater than that, whether it was created by the word of God that gave birth to the universe, or an initial vibration that set off a massive expansion and standing waves that led to the formation of matter when things cooled down.

  6. DNA is not eternal on DNA Makes Lifeless Materials Shapeshift (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What happens to the shapes when the DNA disintegrates? I presume that real organic DNA is being used here and that its removal leads to a return to chaos for the gold particles.

  7. Re:"Close laptop..." OMG!!! on Windows 10 Now a 'Recommended Update' For Windows 7 and 8.1 Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Windows 10 is terribly unpredictable. It'll sleep with your wife if you leave the room.

  8. Great points. Kids that get the coding bug will move on to learn more languages anyway.

  9. Why did Bush create Homeland Security? Was it to spy on us, to to stop terrorists? The first does not stop terrorists, it just takes away freedom of privacy. Go do your jobs, you lazy people at Homeland.

  10. Sponsored content, properly marked as such, with useful information about a product is far more effective than annoying ads.

  11. Re:Does it count as "evidence" on Caltech Astronomers Say a Ninth Planet Lurks Beyond Pluto (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Go to the military with the fart nerve gas idea. They'll fund lifelong research if you promise them all jobs when they retire. And, yes. A computer model is not evidence in any way.If it can predict the location and then the planet is discovered, we'll all be impressed. Not until then.

  12. Re:A malicious mobile app on Serious Linux Kernel Vulnerability Patched (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    One way to reign in apps is to not install any app that you aren't familiar with. Malicious apps can cause the issue. Fully vetted apps should be fine. Never side-load.

  13. One way this can be done on Trump Says He'd Make Apple Build Computers In the US (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    Our government should encourage Foxconn to build a plant in the US. That way Apple, Microsoft and other US company products can be built in the US. A tax break for all companies manufacturing in the US for North American, and other, distribution would go a long way.

  14. Re: This was _outlawed_ in the USA? on Federal Law Now Says Kids Can Walk To School Alone (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 1

    You should be modded up as Insightful. If I had points to award you'd get one.

  15. You're welcome. My muddy point was that OCZ still has a long way to go to remove the bad taste of 80% failure rate on the OCZ SSD"s that i purchased years ago.

  16. I continue to think of the name OCZ as the SSD equivalent to a Yugo auto, even though they have new owners. I will not buy one.

  17. An American Dream on Why Do Americans Work So Much? · · Score: 1

    Americans work so much, speaking as an American, to make our employers wealthier than they currently are. I retired from the rat race, a lot of it is busy work chasing your tail, and am now self employed. I don't work as much or earn as much, but I enjoy life far more.

  18. Please, no on Twitter To Extend 140-Character Limit For Tweets (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Anything worth saying, and things worthless, can be condensed into 140 characters.Tweets shouldn't bring you the evening news.

  19. Re: Just wait until they can deliver it on North Korea Claims It Detonated Its First Hydrogen Bomb (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree with your sentiment but will advise you to spell words correctly, not in Reddit-speak, to be taken seriously Kapish?

  20. Re:Sweet on Google Fixes Rooting Vulnerabilities In Android (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Turn off push MMS. Problem solved.

  21. Re:There's a couple of managers I know on Ant Behavior Significantly Altered By Injecting a Single Enzyme (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there a good way to inject managers with ant enzymes? Putting it in their coffee proably won't do anything other than make them even more nasty for a while.

  22. Re:Technical Features Rather Than Content on LG Announces "Super UHD" TV Lineup (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    My first HDTV was 1080i and only had DVI and component inputs as it was released pre-standards. It also weighed over 100 pounds and had a 36 inch cathode ray tube. What a waste of money. I now wait until standards are well established and a device is cheap. One advantage it had was that no pet could knock it over.

  23. Microsoft is envious on Kid Racks Up $5,900 Bill Playing Jurassic World On Dad's iPad (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the main reason that I believe Microsoft went to the tile/app Metro interface with Windows 8 and kept it in the Start menu in Windows 10. They really really want to make extra change with Store apps. While refunds occur when idiot kids charging excessively, it's still easy money and a shame for the big three to push freemium apps that can autocharge you.

  24. Re:I have a plan... on Emergency Room Visits From Distracted Walking Skyrocket (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    We in America proudly call it "stupidity insurance".

  25. Take a few deep breaths first on Publisher Is Pretty Sure Google Could End Piracy (techdirt.com) · · Score: 2

    I know that whenever I get angry and want to, or do, spout all sorts of nasty things verbally, that it never results in a better outcome than keeping a cool head would have. This guy hasn't yet learned to bite his tongue in cases where emotion has beaten the crap out of logic. If your subconscious whispers "I shouldn't say this", then don't. Just accept that copyright infringement, in this case, is not Google's problem as they're playing by the rules, or so it appears, in this case.