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  1. Re:Mozilla lies. on Mozilla CEO: Windows 10 Strips User Choice For Browsers and Other Software · · Score: 1

    When you run an express install of the Nvidia drivers, are you surprised that it installed PHYSX? When you choose the "I don't want to make any decisions" installation, don't be surprised when it makes some decisions you don't like.

  2. Re:Convenient on Ebola Vaccine 100% Successful In Guinea Trial · · Score: 1

    To be fair to the idiot you replied to, there is a cancer vaccine for one type of cancer, HPV.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/hpv/...

    However, trying to tie every cancer together as one cause is absurd. Implying someone is sitting on a cure for cancer is much worse.

  3. Re:Thanks to MERCK on Ebola Vaccine 100% Successful In Guinea Trial · · Score: -1

    Those greedy bastards. I'll bet they will dare to charge for the vaccine that only cost them millions (or billions) to develop. They should all be taken out and shot. /Democrat

  4. Re:Guinea? on Ebola Vaccine 100% Successful In Guinea Trial · · Score: 1

    I have to say, looking at this chart made me chuckle:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    They moved from almost 4 people to almost 12 people! Perhaps they need some kind of label on the vertical axis.

  5. Re:Just what I want... on Samsung Wants To Bring Back the Flip Phone With Bendable Screens · · Score: 1

    I always assumed they nag because they enjoy it. Is it only stress that causes it?

  6. Re:Mozilla lies. on Mozilla CEO: Windows 10 Strips User Choice For Browsers and Other Software · · Score: 1

    This was fixed from what I have read. MS changed the behavior of the default applications applet to prevent the application from doing the change to stop malware installers that change your defaults.

  7. Re:Mozilla lies. on Mozilla CEO: Windows 10 Strips User Choice For Browsers and Other Software · · Score: 2

    AC has your answer. The Express install changes the defaults, as it redefaults many settings. If you do Custom, it asks after the first login.

  8. Re:Mozilla lies. on Mozilla CEO: Windows 10 Strips User Choice For Browsers and Other Software · · Score: 1

    I upgraded.

    You have to select express install for the change to happen. If you choose custom install instead, it asks you which you would like to use. I upgraded a laptop from Windows 8.1 Pro to Windows 10 Pro.

  9. Re:If you think Windows is bad on Mozilla CEO: Windows 10 Strips User Choice For Browsers and Other Software · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Despite it being very easy, not every person who owns a car knows how to change the oil, change a tire, or replace brake pads. Not every computer user knows how computers work, and I would suspect that many people who drive cars consider internal combustion to be a black box process.

  10. Re:disappointing on Japanese Scientists Fire the Most Powerful Laser On the Planet · · Score: 1

    12/5 = 2.4 kJ, so it is still in the range, that would be a little less than 50% efficiency (as ShanghaiBill stated above).

  11. Mozilla lies. on Mozilla CEO: Windows 10 Strips User Choice For Browsers and Other Software · · Score: 4, Informative

    -5 troll article here.

    I just installed Windows 10 last night. After the install was complete and you log in the first time, it asks you which of the installed browsers you would like to use. It still had Chrome, I selected it and it has since used it.

    Does Mozilla want theirs to be at the top of the list? Do they expect that Windows 10 will carry over every setting from 7, 8, and 8.1?

    Did the Mozilla CEO even try to install Windows 10 before firing off a message complaining?

  12. Re:In 30 years, this is our next cell phone. on Obama's New Executive Order Says the US Must Build an Exascale Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    That does explain some things...I always wondered why people give me such odd looks when I walk around in public.

  13. Re:Right to Privacy in One's Backyard? on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1

    So that makes it ok to fly a drone over a pool area where people are sunbathing? Just because the fence isn't 40 feet tall, and the pool not completely covered, it is presumed ok to spy on these people in their back yard?

    You have to reach pretty damn far to justify that one.

  14. Re:If I could abort child, I can do ANYTHING on UK Campaign Wants 18-Year-Olds To Be Able To Delete Embarrassing Online Past · · Score: 1

    I agree, but it is what is required of the police and CPS. When they receive a report, they have to remove the kids while they investigate to determine if injury is being done to the children. This happened because of lawsuits where people were saying "you received reports of this abuse, but you didn't remove the kids", well now they are forced to remove them.

  15. Re:Does Coren22 = "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!"? Yes on Advertising Companies Accused of Deliberately Slowing Page-load Times For Profit · · Score: 1

    APK, seek help, you have this delusion, and it doesn't seem to be getting better.

    The FEATURE of which you speak is an optional item, not required. Who cares if ABP subsidises itself by allowing some advertisements through to those who have agreed to see them? Perhaps ABP will lead to more ad networks improving their behavior so they can make some money, who knows.

    Now, if only hosts file or ABP would block your crapflood of posts, life would be grand.

  16. Re:But But This is Anti Homeless! on San Francisco's Public Works Agency Tests Paint That Repels Urine · · Score: 1

    Piss on the door of the public restroom than.

  17. Re:Hurr durr on San Francisco's Public Works Agency Tests Paint That Repels Urine · · Score: 1

    Mythbusters tried that, unless you piss like an elephant, you don't have to worry about an electrified fence, or even third rail.

  18. Re:Classified Data on Obama's New Executive Order Says the US Must Build an Exascale Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Serial? Must be pretty fast to do operations of that kind in serial.

  19. Re:In 30 years, this is our next cell phone. on Obama's New Executive Order Says the US Must Build an Exascale Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    I can, why can't you?

  20. Re:Not really on Genetically Modified Rice Makes More Food, Less Greenhouse Gas · · Score: 1

    What foods do you consider natural? Give examples. You will find with some research that there is no such thing as natural foods. Calling him a typical fucking American, like that is some kind of insult actually shows your total lack of knowledge. The US is more diverse than the entirety of Europe, there is no such thing as a typical American.

  21. Re:Well, sure, but... on Genetically Modified Rice Makes More Food, Less Greenhouse Gas · · Score: 1

    FYI, gluten-free has a purpose, it just isn't what the health nuts think. I have a friend who will go into anaphylactic shock if she has gluten. There are people with sensitivities and even allergies to gluten.

  22. Re:No gallium nitrade in chips! on Replacing Silicon With Gallium Nitride In Chips Could Reduce Energy Use By 20% · · Score: 1

    Be careful of that Sodium Chloride, it sounds pretty scary. I have also heard, that if you reduce the amount you ingest, it reduces your blood pressure. This is scary stuff!

  23. Here are the numbers for my other post:

    http://www.smartinsights.com/i...

  24. Yeah, because Coke and Pepsi really need to advertise, and Budweiser always sells more beer because they advertise.

    Look, you can keep trying to say that because people spend money on it, it must still be working, however, smarter people than I have run scientific studies showing that advertising just doesn't work as well as was thought previously. Try it yourself if you like, buy an advertisement for something and see how much interest you get. Digital media has shown the advertisers that ads just don't work. The clickthrough on advertisements in digital media is abismal. It is widely considered now that the traditional media advertising response rates was wildly inflated and was likely nowhere near what it was claimed to be.

    But I'm the one without a valid function...have a GOOD day to you too.

  25. Re:Coren22 = "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!", lmao... apk on Advertising Companies Accused of Deliberately Slowing Page-load Times For Profit · · Score: 1

    Does your hosts file block your own advertisements? I'd pay for it if it did.