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  1. Re:Many mail-in/absentee ballots not even counted on Senator Wants Nationwide, All-Mail Voting To Counter Election Hacks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if they are in your house

  2. Re: Twitter? on Judge: Lawsuits Now Can Be Served Using Twitter (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it means he was on twitter, or haven't you noticed that when there's a lot of garbage, you tend to ignore what's off-screen? Especially if you get a lot of it, or don't check often. It's not a viable means of communicating for any vital, critical, or legal stuff by any means unless you are a complete moron. Something I fear too many judges are these days, at least when it comes to anything vaguely modern. (ianal)

  3. I don't know about that, I'd think the ape would likely do a lot of damage to the shooter if they can reach them, after all, they are strong as an ape. ;)

  4. Re:Another BS maneuver by Comcast on Comcast Rolls Out Nationwide 1TB Data Cap (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I do believe you are correct sir or madam. (If you are an AI, please go jump in the bitbucket.)

  5. Re:It will keep happening on Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store (kapeli.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't forget that if you have an app, even an award winning top selling app, and suddenly apple decides to include all or even some of your apps functionality into anything apple makes, you get booted for duplication of function. So basically you're also an freebie product development and research group for apple that is liable to be terminated with prejudice at any time without warning. (Yes, it has happened multiple times.)

  6. If it is a simulation, the best way to get out of it without committing suicide is to learn everything about it so you can find out how to manipulate it such that you can leave while maintaining your own existence. Of course, since the reality we'd be going into is most likely another simulation of presumably greater complexity, we would then have to learn everything we could about that one so we could then leave that one safely and enter it's progenitor reality.
    In a situation like that, we'd likely have so many layers of reality/simulation to learn and overcome, and of increasing complexity, you can rest assured that the final universe will have gotten tired of playing sims and turned off their computer long before we reached them.
    Speaking of which, does anyone know how many times they've reloaded save game?

  7. Re:Drunken hunter is dark camo gear. on Bigfoot Spotted Sneaking Around Below Bald Eagle Nest, Multiple Outlets Report (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I saw it and the first thing that popped into my head was hiker. The second was that he was wearing dark clothes, and it was probably cold that morning.
    As to the blurry, way out of the focus range of that particular device as it was trained on the nest.

  8. Re:Do review manipulations really matter much anym on Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store (kapeli.com) · · Score: 2

    It's also pretty easy to spoof addresses and identities, as least so far as list monkeys and standard management scripts will be fooled every time.

  9. Re:Paranoia amongst the minority. on Lenovo Denies Claims It Plotted With Microsoft To Block Linux Installs (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    By the way, with Lenovos history of shenanigans, like loading unremovable crap on the system, why is anyone buying them in the first place?

  10. Re:Paranoia amongst the minority. on Lenovo Denies Claims It Plotted With Microsoft To Block Linux Installs (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Jumping to conspiracy concepts is a bit much.
    Does microsoft care if you put linux on that box?
    Probably not, you are probably a ms hater that wouldn't even pay them for office, and they already got paid by the company when they licensed the os, so they don't give a rodents donkey what you do with it.

    Does lenovo care that you want to put linux on it's laptop?
    Again, probably not. Most of their customers don't, and as lenovo won't support a box running a different os, they don't have to worry about you sucking up more support resources since you voluntarily want to step out of coverage to put linux on it. Reduce their workload and expenditure of resources, so why would they care?

    But linux won't load on it!!!!
    So you're saying that despite technology changing and different things being tried, two companies that don't care at all about linux didn't go out of their way to ensure compatibility with your essentially niche desire to install an unsupported os on their machines is somehow a conspiracy against you?
    Well I have more than a few things to say about that, and they aren't nice.

    I guess the short version is this. Linux may be great, but that's not what they're selling, so don't expect them to bend over backwards to make you happy.

    I'm sure some smart person that's not being paid will eventually design a way to install linux on those boxes, of course, that may be decades in the future, so it that's something important to you, return those units and get ones you can install linux on. After all it was an unadvertised and non-standard limitation that prevents it from fulfilling it's system requirements that it was purchased for, which makes it sold under false pretenses. (ianal, but there are consumer protection laws to cya in these types of situations.) But stop with the conspiracy theories. Devs have enough trying to deal with requirements and feature creep than to work on pointless no-profit conspiracy stuff.

  11. All things considered... sortof... on Microsoft and Sony Are Debating Over Whose Console Really Offers 'True 4K' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe what ms is saying is correct, but can the end user tell the difference?
    If he can't, it doesn't matter.

    More powerful hardware is really only useful to the devs, and then, only if they make use of the increased capabilities, since it's only by the software that such things are made apparent. Otherwise it's just a big black box of pixie dust and unicorn horns.

    Of course, even if all that they're saying is true, if it doesn't have the games you want to play, it's not worth jack!

  12. Flaws in the battery from manufacturing, often a contaminant is the cause according the papers on it I've read.
    There's a lot of scientific papers on lithium batteries and their risks & flaws if you look for it. You don't have to rely on clickbait sensationalist 'journalism' written by someone that doesn't know the difference between an alloy case and a violation of the conservation of momentum and is likely to call both of them an airborn computer virus. (The standards for journalism have fallen so low that demons in the ninth layer of hell drop care packages for them down the well.)

  13. No worse than saying a buck when you mean a dollar.
    Remember, the US isn't the only country whos primary language is English.

  14. Improved application of robotics on Robot Snatches Rifle From Barricaded Suspect, Ends Standoff (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure beats all to hell those cowardly idiots that strapped a bomb to a robot and blew up an armed suspect.

  15. Re: New legal defense? on NYPD Says Talking About Its IMSI Catchers Would Make Them Vulnerable To Hacking (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually they have, but when it's provenance has been questioned, they've withdrawn it so they don't have to admit they used a stingray to get the info in an illegal and unconstitutional invasion of privacy.

  16. I have some pretty good ideas on a few ways to figure that out, and I'm not even a phreak!

  17. Re:Can't be that great a tool on NYPD Says Talking About Its IMSI Catchers Would Make Them Vulnerable To Hacking (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    What they said is BS, they've been watching too many hollywood movies and tv shows, and are hoping the judge is too stupid to understand the difference between that and reality.

  18. So, does anybody want to run the numbers on 569 gigabytes on a cell phone over "just a few days" ?
    How does that even compare to the max rate of download those things are even capable of?
    Is it based on around the clock downloading which we know isn't reasonable either, especially if there are periods when she wasn't at home or where she could be charging the phone as we know downloading eats up battery at a pretty decent clip.
    This looks extremely questionable to me, and potentially impossible to achieve. (Of course somebody with more specific information could do the calculations I can't, and am probably too lazy to do today anyway.)

  19. Re:Not anymore! on A Teenage Hacker Figured Out How To Get Free Data On His Phone (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    A long time ago when dialup and AOL were viable options, you could use their free software they gave out to get an account with to get online. You'd run it and wait for it to connect to their server, but instead of filling it out and getting an account, you'd tab to your own browser without closing the AOL one, and you were on the internet without any restrictions.

  20. Re:DNA analysis? on Video Shows How Bacteria Invade Antibiotics And Transform Into Superbugs (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    That has been done before and they are different. Also, there's not just one mutation that can occur to create antibiotic resistance, they've cataloged a large number of them that can each result in resistance.

  21. Re:Title is incorrect on Video Shows How Bacteria Invade Antibiotics And Transform Into Superbugs (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    It wasn't just slashdot, that's the title of the article slashdot linked to.

  22. Re:Title is incorrect on Video Shows How Bacteria Invade Antibiotics And Transform Into Superbugs (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    The didn't invade or evade the antibiotic, they just became resistant to it. But yes, I agree, the article has a poorly written title.

  23. Re:Heathens! Pagans! This is the devil's work! on Video Shows How Bacteria Invade Antibiotics And Transform Into Superbugs (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    So was your post a sarcastic joke, or are you actually one of those anti-science fools?
    I can't tell as you write the exact same things they do.

  24. Re:What a waste! on Video Shows How Bacteria Invade Antibiotics And Transform Into Superbugs (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Among other things, to analyse the resultant resistant strains and how they developed their resistance. Doing such things they have found that there's no one method to develop resistance. That kind of data and testing has also been used to develop new methods to help fight the resistant strains, though of course, they eventually adapt to those as well since none of our methods are 100% effective at wiping them out, thus there is always the possibility to develop resistance.

  25. Re:Clickbait troll much? on AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 1

    To not proceed with recommending prosecution basically means that they can't find anything substantive enough to give a reasonable probably of getting a conviction of any kind. (ianal)