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  1. Destroy all but Mint for desktop use. on Is The Linux Desktop In Trouble? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Mint is actually good. Stop all this half assed duplication of effort and stand behind a superior distro to standardize desktop on.

  2. Except he didn't use a rocket. on Flat Earther Now Wants to Launch His Homemade Rocket Into Space (phillyvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    It was a water rocket.

  3. Re: You can't legislate software out of existence. on FBI Director Christopher Wray On Encryption: We Can't Have an 'Entirely Unfettered Space Beyond the Reach of Law Enforcement' (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can legislate the good guys, but the bad guys. The bad guys dont give a flying f about the legality of a piece of software. Hell, lots of good guys don't either for that matter lol

  4. You can't legislate software out of existence. on FBI Director Christopher Wray On Encryption: We Can't Have an 'Entirely Unfettered Space Beyond the Reach of Law Enforcement' (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Even if it becomes illegal in the US, there is still a whole world out there where it's not illegal. The software will still be there and still be accessible. You might as well let the good guys use it too. This man's argument is steeped in lazyness on the part of the FBI. They want to be able to issue a warrent to access the data and boom they have their case. The FBI don't want to do the leg work to get the information, they want a magic legal bullet. Sorry but that's pretty lame.

  5. I love it when a plan comes together.

  6. How to make cheap thing expensive. on New Technique Allows Scientists To Create Materials That Get Stronger With More Use (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    That's just about all this accomplishes.

  7. Google promised they would add APIs for NoScript, they never did. Google wants to take control of third party browsers and direct more hits at their advertising and spyware systems.

  8. Wow there are a lot of browsers that use Chrome, RIP them. This probably has something to do with the fact that Edge adopted Chrome. Google really wants to exploit those 3rd party browsers. These days Google is more of a marketing company than a tech company. RIP Chrome.

  9. China but not US on China Calls For Release of Arrested Huawei CFO Detained In Canada (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wish they would prosecute board members of US companies for financial crimes and monopolistic practices.

  10. Re:Only the rich retire... on When No One Retires (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    In the 1960s factory workers would have got $15/hr in today's money. Now factory workers get $2/hr in China etal.

  11. Only the rich retire... on When No One Retires (hbr.org) · · Score: 0

    Labor has been devalued ever since outsourcing.

  12. Off with his head!

  13. make em public on Patent Troll Values Its Entire Portfolio At $2, Goes Bankrupt (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sometimes patents should just be made available for everyone. This is one of those times.

  14. Bitcoin is little more than a laundering service.. on Chinese Court Rules Bitcoin Should Be Protected As Property (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    and get rich quick scheme.

  15. VLC hasn't been updated... on MPlayer, VLC Media Player Hit By Critical Vulnerability (hackread.com) · · Score: 2

    It's still 3.0.4 which I've had for a while now.

  16. Just another pile of BS brought to you by The United Corporations of America.

  17. People, stop wasting your time with rockets. They're dangerous, delicate, prone to failure, inefficient, obscenely expensive, and just waiting to explode.

  18. Another way to save memory on Mozilla Is Working On a Chrome-Like 'Site Isolation' Feature For Firefox (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Let users whitelist domains they trust and run those without this feature. Also run advertising domains for the same advertising companies in the same processes. Also kill advertising processes when they cause the browser to exceed a certain amount of performance. There are a lot of web sites out there that are slow because there are dozens upon dozens of advertising relating domains on them.

  19. Does this mean people can sue a company for their overseas employment practices too?

  20. Now that Chinese government pwns ARM... on HPE Announces World's Largest ARM-based Supercomputer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Game over for ARM designs from China. Super computers don't need need kind of risk. Adjust your investment portfolio as needed and lol at the crash that's due.

  21. AI or just a computer program that analyzes spy photos? AI has become too much of a hollow buzzword.

  22. Remember it exists, and makes rock so hot it melts. That's about the only way to explain it.

  23. YT only removes extreme right wing content on YouTube Is Full of Easy-To-Find Neo-Nazi Propaganda (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've reported a number of radical leftist videos and creators who promote violence, hate, and bullying, none have been taken down.

  24. Don't do it around me. on Distracted Driving: Everyone Hates It, But Most of Us Do It, Study Finds · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My dash cam has captured two car accidents where you can clearly see the driver is playing with their phone. One where a woman with a baby and a toddler in the car drove at 35mph directly into the back of a work van while wandering between lanes. Another where a guy simply drifted off the road and into a rain ditch at 45mph causing the car to go airborne and do a 360 spin in mid air. I gave the videos to police and the insurance companies. Everyone should be using a dash cam.

  25. They're a complete fabrication. They're high so the bank can get the most profit off the transaction. Prices are reached though unscientific and arbitrary methods. I live in a farm town full of poor Mexican migrant workers near Miami. I present to you a tiny beaten down house with no attic, no garage, no pool, a horrible school district, terrible public transportation, very little commerce, and a 3 hour traffic filled commute back and forth to Miami, for all that wonderfulness you will pay minimum $150,000 to get that beaten down house in dire need of maintenance. New houses are in the $250-750K range. Real estate prices are complete garbage, and the government will never do anything about it because those inflated prices give them their tax dollars. It's a system which places value on perceived value and ignores actual value.