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  1. Re:So-called Smart TV on Android Ransomware Infects LG Smart TV, Company 'Refuses' To Help (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    After the cutlery scratched it up, who can blame them for not taking it back?

  2. Re:A Tale of Two Cities on What's the Best Book You Read This Year? · · Score: 1

    How do you know a book is "good" before you read it?

    Ask your librarian what is most requested to be banned.

  3. Ugh, people, pay up front instead of paying more on Nintendo's Mobile Mario Game Sets Download Record But Pricing Proves Sticking Point (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I for one can add and I'd rather pay $10 up front for a good game than a dollar here and there for a larger total. Pay per play and pay per feature end up much more expensive for the consumer than a flat price!

  4. Re:Translation on Uber: We Don't Need a Permit For Self-Driving Cars (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Their entire business model is based around an asset light setup. They don't own or insure the cars that Uber drivers use.

    This WAS their model until drivers started getting uppity about being sucked into it not really understanding what this meant for their cars, car related expenses, and "self employment" expenses, NOW the model is to move to fleets of autonomous vehicles and eliminate the contract drivers asap.

  5. Re:fire Fire FIRE! on Apple Warns Of Counterfeit Power Adapters and Batteries Following Lawsuit (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Also, watch out for Amazon. Are there currently problems with counterfeits getting into the stream when fulfilled by Amazon? Or is it just their affiliates?

    They've fooled you with the "fulfilled by Amazon". That just means the seller shipped a pallet or whatever of stuff to Amazon's warehouse so their picker robot stuffed it in a box when you ordered it. Other than that, Amazon doesn't give a hoot what the item is. What you need to watch for is "Sold by Amazon, fulfilled by Amazon" if you want them to have any liability for the quality.

  6. Avoid banana republic thinking on Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: I Screwed Up and I Want Reddit To Trust Me Again (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People who disagree with your political position are not "bullies" that you need to do something like this just because you have the capability. This thinking leads to single party police states.

  7. DHS bot on DHS Tried To Breach Our Firewall, Says Georgia's Secretary of State (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    detected an IP address from the agency's Southwest D.C. office trying to penetrate the state's firewall... "We are looking into the matter"

    Probably the DHS servers are all overrun with botnets trying to probe around for more servers to take over.

  8. Re:You know who else we are paying? Nazis. on Every US Taxpayer Has Effectively Paid Apple At Least $6 in Recent Years (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    or Nazis belonging to the Illinois tribe?

    Are you referring to that politically motivated twist of logic known as the "Red Aryans"?

  9. Re:1 BILLION! on YouTube Pays Music Industry $1 Billion From Ads (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    If you're a music company exec, the tune is "where's the rest?"

  10. Re:These wackos are cows with guns on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Comical, in a sad "I know nothing about firearms therefore I make fun of people who do" way, but you lost it with the huge error in the third paragraph.

  11. Re:The survey between the commercials. on Most DVR Owners Are Recording Live Sports, Survey Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Once the final score is known is there much point to watching? Isn't it like watching a murder mystery after someone tells you whodunnit?

  12. Re:Billing address? on Crooks Need Just Six Seconds To Guess A Credit Card Number (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    On top of which, comparing addresses can be non-trivial. Is "37-3 St Simeon Ln, L.A., CA" the same address as "37 Saint Simeon Lane, Los Angeles, Calif, Apt 3?"

    There are commercially available data validation software packages for which that is indeed quite trivial to match up.

  13. Except for service employees international most of the people represented by those unions make over 100K/yr and are solidly in the 10%ers.

  14. Re:Tomorrow will be interesting... on You Can Now Rent A Mirai Botnet Of 400,000 Bots (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    does anything get accomplished with a DDoS that it provides some kind of value?

    Rent the botnet and instruct all the clients to download and install all their missing OS patches, install some AV software, and finally to uninstall the botnet client.

  15. Most of my friends are die-hard Republicans, but I don't know a single person who (admitted) voting for Trump

    You're asking the wrong question. Ask them if they voted against Hillary, not if they voted for Trump. That they will likely admit to.

  16. Re:A la carte please on Amazon Wants To Include Live Sports as Part of Prime Membership (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    That's effectively what he's asking for. A ticket to watch a given game via streaming.

  17. Re:I want a robot that makes clothes. on Panasonic Invests $60 Million In World's First Laundry-Folding Robot (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I want to go stand a platform and get scanned by a 3D scanner, chose my options on a touch screen, come back in 30 minutes and have clothes that fit made by a robot.

    Substitute "tailor" for "robot" and there's an entire district of Hong Kong where you can get this done.

  18. not free markets by any stretch on Samsung and Panasonic Accused Over Supply Chain Labour Abuses in Malaysia (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Before anyone rants about how this is an example of how free markets stink, let us be reminded that a key ingredient to free markets, whether they are the sales of the good or the hiring of the labor, is accurate information. Neither the laborers selling their labor nor the customers making the final purchases were much aware of what was going on here until it was too late. In a free (labor) market these people wouldn't be conned into slavery working there in the first place

  19. Re:Elon Musk on Feeding Seaweed To Cows Eliminates Methane Emissions (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    No individual rich person could personally fund basic income for all Americans; it just doesn't add up. Three hundred million people in the USA. So giving each of them just one Franklin would take three billion. No rich person can handle that kind of outlay for long; when you see Mr Rich has $XX billion, that's not annual income but total accumulated.

  20. Re:Falling from roof... on Elon Musk: Tesla's Solar Roof Will Cost Less Than a Traditional Roof (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe he has a rock garden.

  21. The Nazis, I mean "HOA" in my nieghborhood require garden sheds have exactly the same shingles as the homes. Not sure how practical it would be to wire up a standalone shed with solar panel shingles.

  22. Re:Another Day, Another Android Exploit on Secret Backdoor in Some US Phones Sent Data To China (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It may be tedious but you can uninstall bloatware from your big-brand Windows PC. The *^&%$ preinstalled Android stuff can't because they compile it into the ROM.

  23. Can't go by the pictures that's for sure on IMDb Sues California To Overturn Law Forcing Them To Remove Actors' Ages (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Check out the profile head shot for any aging actor. They've got a studio portrait left over from about 40 years ago. Actors are the most shallow, appearance-obsessed people you will ever meet.

  24. Anyone whose vote would have been influenced by a robocall the day before the election 1) hasn't been paying attention or 2) has a severe multiple personality disorder

  25. Re:Cost of the target. on Long-Range Projectiles For Navy's Newest Ship Too Expensive To Shoot (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's WWI accuracy from GPS-guided bullets that cost nearly $1 million each.

    In all fairness, no, nothing in WWI was able to fire 100 miles in the first place, never mind 50% within 50 meters from 100 miles. The German "Paris Gun" could fire about 80 miles and the accuracy was, well, Paris.