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  1. Haikus of video ads? on YouTube To Roll Out 6-Second Ads That You Can't Skip (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've got a Haiku for you.

    greedy company
    intrusive advertisements
    I'll watch somewhere else

  2. Re:If you're reading this on Spy Chief Complains That Edward Snowden Sped Up Spread of Encryption By 7 Years (theintercept.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Tell that to the families of the women and children who are murdered in the net terrorist attack that could have been prevented had the NSA been able to monitor the terrorists communications as they are supposed to.

  3. wife doesn't seem to know that the switch can be put in the off position...

    I dunno, sounds like that might be a lot of wear and tear on the switch...

  4. A good point ... however many of us will have access through work to a commercial 3D printer or CNC machine, or know someone who does.

  5. Re:I wouldn't want to row on Rio Has Given Up On Clean Water For Olympics (go.com) · · Score: 1

    The rowers can certainly make their own decisions. I suspect if they have the determination and drive to train for years to become the top athletes in the sport, they'll get their shots and go.

  6. Re:Too bad on Magnitude of glibc Vulnerability Coming To Light (threatpost.com) · · Score: 0

    It's ridiculous to blame it on programmers who had no idea that the tools they were using had problems.

  7. Stuff that they got over wifi?

  8. Re:What happens next... on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe that's the way it was pre-Bork (did I really just type that?), or maybe that's just the way you remember it. Regardless, rubber stamping whomever the President nominates is not the way it should ever have been done. Why even bother in that case. The process is there for a reason, it's a part of our checks and balances. Because the appointment is to a very powerful, and lifetime, position it should be part of the checks and balances as much or even more than anything else in our system of government.

  9. Re:LOL 5MB HP Disk on OCZ Toshiba Breaks 30 Cents Per GB Barrier With New Trion 150 SSD (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is around $30,000 in today's dollars.

  10. Re: The new rulers of this site... on There's a Wind Turbine On the Horizon With Blades the Size of Trump Tower · · Score: 1

    My gut feeling is that he gives money to whomever he thinks can do him the most good, and in New York, by and large, that's Democrats.

  11. Re:The Bake Sale Model on A Crowdfunding Site To Help Pay Patients' Medical Bills · · Score: 1

    Include monetary incentives for timely treatment. This would cause providers to keep wait times short, and shorter wait times would likely lead to fewer expensive complications due to people's untreated conditions worsening.

  12. Re:The earth is flat? on Flat-Earth Argument Results in Rap Battle (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    GPS actually works much better on a flat earth because you can use cartesian coordinates rather than those complicated spherical ones.

  13. Re:Post your awesome and crazy theories here!!! on Discrepancy Detected In GPS Time · · Score: 1

    Sounds kind of familiar...

  14. I think you need to read up a little more on how the Skytran concept works.

  15. As Mr. Franklin said... on US Military Will Soon Begin Testing NSA's New, Post-Snowden Security Measures (dailydot.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Three people can keep a secret... if two of them are dead.

  16. Re:(Local laws, however, could still come into pla on Feds: Your Employer Can't Stop You From Recording Conversations At Work (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Since I'm in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and it is shaded neither red nor green, I guess that means I can do whatever the hell I want...

  17. Great opportunity on North Korea's Operating System Analyzed (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Someone should strip out all the big brother BS, leave everything else alone, and put it back where DPRK citizens can get it.

  18. First step towards... on Disease-Resistant Pigs Latest Win For Gene Editing Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    This probably is the first step down the road that leads to this.

  19. Where I live, the government prints a page in the newspaper every year listing everyone who is late on their property taxes. Nobody has ever complained about it.
    As far as this company losing customers, I suspect the only "customers" they will lose are the ones who make the list - the ones who were not paying. I doubt they will care.
    My guess is the only reason this even made it onto the front page of /. is because it involved a cable company.

  20. Re:Thank you, Hedy. on How Hollywood's Hedy Helped Heighten Handhelds (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    +1 Blazing Saddles reference!

  21. I'm curious, on Microsoft To Provide New Encryption Algorithm For the Healthcare Sector · · Score: 1

    What types of mathematical operations are done on genomic data? I know nothing about it, but it doesn't seem like that's the kind of data you'd be performing mathematical operations on.

  22. Call it out as a separate line item too.

  23. Weasel words on Viewing Data Harvested From Smart TVs Used To Push Ads To Other Screens? (securityledger.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wow, who wouldn't want to leave "Smart Interactivity" on? I don't know what it is or does, but if it's smart, and interactive, I had better leave it on, right? I want to get my money's worth out of this smart TV. I sure don't want to start disabling the smart features on my new smart TV.

    Some marketing drone really earned their salary when they came up with that name.

  24. Re:A better idea, just needs better implemenation on How Outsourcing Companies Are Gaming the H-1B Visa System (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    New tax, especially on business = dead in the House.

  25. Re:Laws of physics on VW Engineers Have Admitted Manipulating CO2 Emissions Data (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention some of the newer technologies that are used these days such as shutting down unneeded cylinders while at cruising speed.