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

    Don't they have to be dead at least 10 years or something like that before they can be put on money?

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

    Pretty much, since there's about a million things that can cause that, and since it's intermittent, it's even harder to diagnose. Save yourself a lot of hassle, and take it in to be looked at. Anyone trying to give you a definite or even probably diagnosis with that trivial amount of information is a crackpot.

  3. Re:SHUTUP PUTIN! on AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course, this has nothing to do with medical records, it's just the statements from a political organization with questionable ethics.
    Do a bit of research on them. If nothing else, check their Wikipedia entry.

    For your convenience, though I do suggest you research the various other sources about them and their very questionable statements and activities:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physicians_and_Surgeons

  4. Re:Can't have happened ... on North Korea Conducts Fifth Nuclear Test -- The Largest One Yet (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Their claims for what the test showed is false. Successfully detonating a weak nuke doesn't indicate that it's been standardized, or it will function on a ballistic missile. (Rockets have no guidance, so only a total F'ing moron would put one on a rocket.)

  5. Re:Good. We are all N. Koreans today on North Korea Conducts Fifth Nuclear Test -- The Largest One Yet (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, the NKs are probably still using chicken wire and chinese duct tape.
    North Korea isn't that technologically adept, their regime certainly doesn't foster the kind of environment where the required talent can exist readily.

  6. Re:Does it work? on Meet URL, the USB Porn-Sniffing Dog (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Dogs can be trained to alert to all kinds of things, but you still have to be careful since they are still dogs. At one of my bases, one of the dogs they had on the front gate kept giving alerts on people, but nothing inappropriate was found. They eventually figured it out. Whenever the dog was hungry, and he was a regular chowhound, he'd alert on any car that had food in it, and he'd scarf that while nosing around the inside of the vehicle. The dog outsmarted the handle, for a few weeks.

  7. Re:Does it work? on Meet URL, the USB Porn-Sniffing Dog (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I know in my place a dog like that would have a nervous breakdown from sensory overload! They'd have an easier time finding a square meter without electronics by going next door to my neighbors. I occasionally find lost flash drives in the drawers of my dresser, in my daughters doll house (what do you mean you don't know how daddys usb drive got in your dollhouse...), and pretty much everywhere else as well. In the couch cushions, under the pillow, behind the books, on top of the fridge, etc. We have those things all over. (lots of little ones, they were cheap and convenient to share files with friends) Of course there are also the DVDs and the CDs, and the hard drives, and stack of scraptops, and so many other 'detectable items'.
    That dog would be more worked up than an explosive sniffing dog in the bomb dump!

  8. Re:Spaceflight is risky on Satellite Owner Says SpaceX Owes $50 Million Or Free Flight (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you forgotten the multiple Ariane Rocket failures?
    It happens to everyone in the space industry.

  9. Re:Spaceflight is risky on Satellite Owner Says SpaceX Owes $50 Million Or Free Flight (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Lloyds of London. They'll insure virtually anything, even someones breasts. (They've done it.)

  10. Re:Spaceflight is risky on Satellite Owner Says SpaceX Owes $50 Million Or Free Flight (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Definitely risky. That's why all the launch agreements have some kind of sh## happens clause in case it blows up or whatever. That's also why people insure their asset launches. Sounds like that company wants to ignore it's contracts and double dip, unless of course it was too stupid to buy the insurance in the first place.
    (Obviously I haven't seen the actual contract, but as those clauses are standard for everybody else in the space industry, I see no reason why SpaceX wouldn't have them as well, they aren't idiots.)

  11. Wish to alleviate customer confusion on Intel Confuses, Rebrands Some Core M Processors As Core I (laptopmag.com) · · Score: 2

    And push it completely into total apathy.

  12. Re:"could not recall" on FBI Releases Hillary Clinton Email Report (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The way the government does things, I can see someone gaining that kind of lofty position not getting a briefing on it. It's very common for them to assume that their new boss already knows it, despite them not having come up through the ranks and subsequently having had the briefings, training, and general experience that everyone else already had.
    (I've seen a similar thing happen with the officers in the military at every base I was ever at, except there you sometimes had the additional difficulty that they always assumed they knew more than everyone else of a lower rank, even if their knowledge of that sites operations were less than a slicksleeve in that had been there less than 2 weeks.)

  13. "...mediocre competition to Steam..." ?
    Do you mean like Arc, GoG-Galaxy, Origin, or any of the many others I've heard of but haven't tried?

    Hate to disagree with you, but "... anything that brings even mediocre competition to Steam is a good thing" isn't actually true, just look at Origin or Arc for that example.

  14. Re:The technology is not ready yet on Tesla To Further Restrict Its Autopilot Software To Prevent Accidents (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it's rather a huge step back if the system determines you aren't paying attention to the road, so it stops paying attention to the road!
    Someone or something needs to be paying attention to the road, even if one of them is an incompetent waste of space, and the other a machine!

  15. Re: Autopilot will disengage on Tesla To Further Restrict Its Autopilot Software To Prevent Accidents (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    They probably named it autopilot because it's basically the same thing some planes have that is called autopilot, and is significantly more advanced than those previous things that planes had, and many still do, that was called autopilot.

  16. Re:Not possible? on BitTorrent Cases Filed By Malibu Media Will Proceed, Rules Judge · · Score: 1

    To do so would be illegal, but hilarious!

  17. Re:More political redirection on Hillary Clinton Used BleachBit To Wipe Emails (neowin.net) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I know a rather large number of people that use secure delete or wipe tools.
    It may be considered strange by computer neophytes and people that don't work with government computer systems, but it's pretty common for techies and government computer people with security clearance required jobs to employ that kind of software.
    I guess the people that are making accusations over that are either ignorant, or disingenuous.

  18. I suspect that the lack of proper maintenance and repair of the anti-flood infrastructure is also a definite part of it.

  19. Everyone predicted this outcome.
    Especially due to the limitations and bias against new players and non-whales.

  20. Re:I don't get it on NanoRacks Plans To Turn Used Rocket Fuel Tanks Into Space Habitats (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's not exactly new, but even so, nobody has bothered to try and actually do it yet.

  21. I sure hope people recognize the sarcasm in your post and don't think it was real.
    Err, that was sarcasm, right?

  22. Not the bleeding edge... on Microsoft Wants To Pay You To Use Its Windows 10 Browser Edge (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    When edge first came out, I tried it, and it worked pretty good, but it didn't have the extensions and other things for blocking ads and that kind of stuff I've grown to love. So I went back to my usual browser.
    Some stuff happened, and I had to use edge for a few things. They've done updates to it since I'd used it before, and now the thing is so freaking SLOW!
    Microsoft also made it the default with one of the updates without telling me it would or had changed it. :(
    So I'd click on something in a program, and it would launch the browser, and suddenly edge would start to come up...
    I said "start to come up" because after about half a minute, I'd get tired of waiting for that piece of #### to load and would fire up chrome. Chrome would start up, and have the page fully loaded before edge that had at least half a minutes head start had anything. Often I was done reading the page and had already closed chrome before edge would finally get anything.
    It went from ok but not what I want to absolute and utter trash in less than a year.
    If microsoft wants anyone to actually use that ####, they're going to be paying through the nose!

  23. Re:Splitting Musk's Pubic Hairs Pretty Fine There on Tesla Owner in Autopilot Crash Won't Sue, But Car Insurer May (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If people want to be so nitpicky about the exact words in the name, it also says "pilot", but the operator of a car is a "driver", so I guess tesla can blame the issues on your car not having ailerons and flaps. ;)

  24. Re: It seems pretty clear who to blame on Tesla Owner in Autopilot Crash Won't Sue, But Car Insurer May (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's ok, people used to do the same thing with cruise control for about a decade after it started being installed in cars.

  25. When you consider that facebook has taken steps to force more ads on their users despite knowing that users don't want them and will actively go out of their way to reduce them, I wouldn't trust them.

    Facebook also changes users settings very often. Just one small example, I have to reset my feed back to newest first on average 3 times a day, and that's not the only setting they screw with, though the others are either less frequently, or I don't notice it as often. Because of that, I wouldn't trust them.

    Their platform isn't as stable or concise as it might appear to a single use as they 'test' different components on different uses, and don't tell anyone what version of which component they have. This would be horrible in a store platform, so I wouldn't trust them.

    Facebook has done social/psych experiments on the users without their knowledge or permission. Though it may have been useful to some segments of science, it still was inappropriate and is a further violation of trust, so obviously, I wouldn't trust them.

    The long and the short of it is that Facebook can't be trusted.
    A store platform by a company that has ethics as low as Facebook should be trusted even less as that deals with your money.
    This is likely to be a disaster in the making.