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  1. Re:What I love on Wikipedia Announces the Most Edited Articles of 2016 (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    If you think reality is "the left" when it's really "the center," you might need to get out of your conservative safe space and return to reality.

  2. I'd rather trust the highway engineers who actually know what they're doing when setting these limits and dropping down if conditions necessitate. So, yeah, still applies to freeways.

  3. Re:Except they didn't. on Disney IT Workers, In Lawsuit, Claim Discrimination Against Americans (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    No, because (somewhat ironically) its illegal to pay Americans that little.

    The lawsuits says that workers were "brought-in", and were mostly H1-B holders. H1-B holders need to be paid market salary.

    If it's anything like the way Intel does things in Hillsboro, yeah, that's not happening. They just lied to INS to get H1B visas and are paying 'em less than a Taco Bell manager makes.

  4. Re:More advertising data on New Google Trusted Contacts Service Shares User Location In Real Time (onthewire.io) · · Score: 0

    No idea. I use OpenStreetMap instead.

  5. Re:My first thought... on BMW Traps A Car Thief By Remotely Locking His Doors (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Like the Will Smith version of I, Robot

  6. I haven't seen an update to Slashcode in recent history...

  7. Re:Let me pick my channel choices on AT&T Unveils DirecTV Now Streaming TV Service With Over 100 Channels (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    How about American cricket fans? Cricket Ticket costs more, by itself, than I pay for gas, car insurance, electricity and water combined. And required an insane tv subscription as a prerequisite.

  8. Re:Not what customers want on AT&T Unveils DirecTV Now Streaming TV Service With Over 100 Channels (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Hulu wasn't bad when it was possible to adblock that for 3 minutes of silence and didn't charge. Or you can pitch 'em $10/mo and get it commercial free. Their current model's the worst of both worlds.

  9. You do realize that places like Tulsa, Oklahoma already get like, 35 channels over the air, even if you have a relatively shitty antenna setup and are stuck using an indoor antenna in a basement apartment at the bottom of a hill, right? And that's like, basically, the big three and the rest are specialty channels that are easily on par in terms of watchability with early to mid 1990s basic cable. Go to my dad's place in Los Angeles with the same antenna setup and you're looking at 70 channels. Get the antenna up on the chimney and it's more like 135. For free.

  10. Re:Streaming is shit. on AT&T Unveils DirecTV Now Streaming TV Service With Over 100 Channels (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, this should be interesting. TiVo's who ended up taking over TV Guide, Dish and Rovio, ultimately replacing TV Guide as the company with it's name at the top of the building at what was formerly known as TV Guide Plaza in Tulsa's San Souci neighborhood.

  11. Re:Streaming is shit. on AT&T Unveils DirecTV Now Streaming TV Service With Over 100 Channels (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Hell, I'll go so far as to say it's not worth it compared to fucking with the antenna or watching what hits Youtube Red (which I already have as part of Google Play Music subscription I use the hell out of at work) unless I can TiVo it. I don't want timeshifting to be at their mercy.

  12. has a liberal bias.

  13. OK, that's funny on it's own, but... on Microsoft Says Windows 10 Version 1607 is The Most Secure Windows Ever (thurrott.com) · · Score: 2

    ...now say it in Donald Trump's voice.

  14. I think that kind of thing is precisely the opposite of what we need. People who say that it's your civic duty or that it is patriotic to vote are wrong. I think that if you don't take the time to educate yourself about the candidates and the issues, then the responsible thing to do is to not vote at all.

    Sounds like there's some common ground. But I think that if you don't take the time to educate yourself about the candidates and the issues and don't vote, or don't take the time to educate yourself about the candidates and the issues and do vote, then you're actively working against your own country.

  15. Zuckerberg and Murdoch's common ground on Mark Zuckerberg Says Fake News on Facebook Affecting the Election Is a 'Crazy Idea' (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    A business model!

  16. Re:Kaspersky unfair bundling advantage on Kaspersky Lab Files Complaint Against Microsoft for Giving Unfair Advantage To Windows Defender (myce.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps if you'd do a better deal, it wouldn't have been cheaper for Microsoft to start from scratch than to work with you or some other AV manufacture.

    The funny thing is if security in Windows wasn't designed to be shit from the start, Kaspersky wouldn't even have a market segment.

  17. Re:no thanks on Chrome Now Accounts For 55% of All Web Browsing (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Closed source and closed development? Did we forget about Chromium, which is in Debian?

  18. Re:Am I the Only One Not Okay With This? on Chrome Now Accounts For 55% of All Web Browsing (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Joke's on them. I adblock the shit out of everything (want to feed me ads? Pay for my and my employer's internet connections), and thanks to being the victim of student loan fraud dropping my credit from 800 to an unrecoverable (short of paying for some other asshole's college) 450, I pay cash on the spot for everything, lowest cost, and generally grey-market.

  19. Re:Windows browser? on Chrome Now Accounts For 55% of All Web Browsing (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    If you don't want Microsoft spying on you and you're a Windows user, you've already lost the game.

  20. 2016: Year of the Linux Desktop on Nearly 9 Out of 10 Smartphones Shipped Run On Android (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Or not, but it doesn't matter, since the desktop really isn't as relevant as it used to be.

  21. It is official; Netcraft now confirms... on Delta Now Lets You Track Your Baggage In Real-Time (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Windows Mobile community when IDC confirmed that Windows Mobile market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Windows Mobile has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Windows Mobile is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Windows Mobile's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Windows Mobile faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Windows Mobile because Windows Mobile is dying. Things are looking very bad for Windows Mobile. As many of us are already aware, Windows Mobile continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    WinCE is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: WinCE is dying.

    All major surveys show that Windows Mobile has steadily declined in market share. Windows Mobile is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Windows Mobile is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Windows Mobile continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save Windows Mobile from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Windows Mobile is dead.

    Fact: Windows Mobile is dying

  22. ...the fastest way to provide the same level of security is to just get rid of the checkpoint.

  23. Re:The Usual Suspects on Who Should We Blame For Friday's DDOS Attack? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    They would have owned up to it by now then.

  24. Introspection on Who Should We Blame For Friday's DDOS Attack? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    We have nobody to blame except ourselves.

  25. Re:Let me watch fewer channels on Viewers Only Watch 10% of Pay-TV Channels: Nielsen (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Get a TiVo. TiVo lets you filter out those channels using the same feature you use to let TiVo know whether or not you get certain channels.