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  1. Trump Gene on Scientists Argue the US Ban on Human Gene Editing Will Leave It Behind (vice.com) · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is there is some gene that we can get rid of that causes people to vote for stupid narcissistic politicians?

  2. Re:Netflix has a unique and obvious strategy. on Slashdot Asks: What's Next For Netflix? (500ish.com) · · Score: 1

    No, content creation is exactly where they need to go if they want to show that their method works. I think they have been doing a decent job of it. They need to become part of the evil oligarchy so they have leverage. Once you have content others want, then you have some kind of leverage on content. Although I'm surprised that they licensed Orange is the New Black to HBO with nothing in return.

  3. Re:Netflix has a unique and obvious strategy. on Slashdot Asks: What's Next For Netflix? (500ish.com) · · Score: 1

    In the end, the franchise owners lost too.

  4. Does it respond to the name Alexa? :D

  5. Re:headline is misleading on The NSA Would Be Eliminated Under President Gary Johnson (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Never mind that it completely stops the poor from moving upwards if they are paying a lot of taxes. You would effectively kill the American Dream. The OP doesn't seem to understand it isn't just a matter of rewarding success, it also means that those hwo are rich will consolidate their power and it will be the minority over the majority. I don't think we want that to happen.

  6. Re: Too Bad He's Shown His True Colors on The NSA Would Be Eliminated Under President Gary Johnson (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    He can get them from the local prison populations

  7. Re:The fringe elements will never become the POTUS on The NSA Would Be Eliminated Under President Gary Johnson (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Totally agree, we really need to do presidential year campaigns as a suite of politicians that have a comprehensive set of purposes. It isn't enough to change the President, you need to change Congress as well otherwise you'll get the situation with Republicans and Obama where nothing gets done. Of course, Republicans are doing it as a strategy, considering they have fought every appointment of anything in the Federal government. But I digress. If we align them altogether with a unified messaging then there might be more traction. We put too much focus on a President to fix things when that actually belongs to Congress.

  8. Re:Apple killed Finland. on Finnish Government Criticizes Microsoft For Job Cuts, 'Broken Promises' (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Google, Apple, and Microsoft didn't kill Nokia. I killed Nokia! I did it with this nerf gun. Bwahahahaa!

  9. Unless you are the flight simulator guys. :-)

  10. Re:I agree, MS could have still employed them. on Finnish Government Criticizes Microsoft For Job Cuts, 'Broken Promises' (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Hah, this is a great comment. Yes, man, there is a pent up demand to go back to the old init + microsoft. The opportunity that is being squandered is a crime against humanity.

  11. Re:Greedy Fucks on Comcast Users Must Now Pay $50 Per Month Extra To Avoid Caps (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps, we should smack down the Republican party who wants to maintain the old obsolete business model. Conservatism is just preserving the old way of doing things and ignoring business trends while talking on the other side of their mouths about competition and free market. THey have never been for free markets. FCC is constantly challenged by these guys. Perhaps, if we were to take back congress from these morons we might be in better shape. I don't think government oversight is always a good thing, but it is important that we put good people in charge who can make good decisions just like we do in corporations and businesses.

  12. Funny how all those people are conservatism. Yet they still vote for clowns that want to get rid of their money train. Now that marijuana is legal, they can actually find a new source of revenue and help supply countries like Canada with marijuana and replace the timber jobs that have gone.

  13. Re:Hate to ask the obvious, but... on Obama Is Forgiving the Student Loans of Nearly 400,000 Permanently Disabled People (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they signed up for Iraq in a fit of patriotism to defend our country and then got their ass bombed or some other thing and now are disabled. Maybe they were a fire fighter and then went and helped to save people from the world trade towers and then breathe the terrible air and then got disabled.

    People become disabled, not everyone was born disabled. It's people like you that cause people who do get disabled to feel ashamed because they no longer contribute to society.

  14. Re:Something Smells Fishy Here.. . on Obama Is Forgiving the Student Loans of Nearly 400,000 Permanently Disabled People (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed.. you clearly don't give a shit that our tax dollars are being wasted. Report them.

  15. Re:Something Smells Fishy Here.. . on Obama Is Forgiving the Student Loans of Nearly 400,000 Permanently Disabled People (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 2

    Of course, it is shaming.. our society doesn't really like disabled people. Just look at these comments about 'my money' and what not.. no wonder, these people don't want to admit anything..

  16. At least we'll get something out of it, unlike the last adventure in Iraq. Several trillion dollars with nothing to show for it. At least these guys will at least be able to participate in the economy without being debt ridden.

  17. Re:trying to steal Bernie's thunder on Obama Is Forgiving the Student Loans of Nearly 400,000 Permanently Disabled People (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    1) you can thank congress, Obama has tried and he's still trying to close Gitmo, but apparently, senators think muslims who have been tortured are some kind of super villain and will lay waste if they end up in a normal prison. Conservative senators are the biggest fraidy cats.. they are all bluster.

    2) We only assisted with non-military aid on a number of conflicts, and we put no troops on the ground. I think the only significant event that we bombed was Libya. Even with ISIS we've reacted with restraint. Compare that to the last guy in office.

    3) Obama has never ran on a campaign of taking guns away from people. In fact, he allowed guns in federal parks so you got a little more freedom. What he is incensed about is school shooting, and you should be too. A middle school filled with young children was shot up with many young children killed and the nation has done nothing about it. If we can't even take action when our children die, don't expect anything on guns to happen soon. Luckily, video games are removing the need for the upcoming generations to have guns. Over time, nobody is going to give two shits about guns except old codgers and hunters.

    4) Moves or made. Perhaps you've forgotten that there is a very hostile conservative congress who do nothing but put obstacles up. Even balancing the fucking budget is political football.

  18. Re:FCC, DO SOMETHING!! on AT&T Caps Are A Giant Con And An Attack On Cord-Cutters (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    This shows a fundamental misunderstanding.. yeah, you damn right they are going to purchase those things. Because their life SUCKS. All of those are all ways to escape, just for a little bit a life of poverty. Is it unwise? Yes. Is it completely asinine thing to do? Yeah. But there you have it. They didn't have the privileges that you and I had and it takes an enormous amount of discipline to get out of something like that.

    So can the judgement and at least try to understand these people's lives are extremely stressful.

  19. Re:Awesome!!! on GNOME 3.20 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    GNOME came out with their UI before Windows 10.

  20. Re: Does any window manager do this? : on GNOME 3.20 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Um, no. GNOME shell was created because GNOME 2 was too limited in how one could change the UI. When designers came on board, they wanted a way to easily change the visual aspects of the UI without having to change the platform underneath to suit. GNOME 3 was really about the separation of the UI from the platform and putting all the UI elements in shell. GNOME designers have their own ideas of what constitutes their own UI, and the visual look of GNOME does not look like windows or OSX and has its own image.

    You might consider that desktop linux might be going out given Steam and others who are using Linux as a platform for gaming.

  21. Re:Burn me at the stake, but... on GNOME 3.20 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    In Debian? That would be strange and would require code changes, also a fundamenta change to GNOME. I doubt that is the case. Check to see if it came with some extensions or something that is doing that.

  22. Re:Burn me at the stake, but... on GNOME 3.20 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Use launchpad to do the expose and set it to the hot corner. That's what I do. But you can't search. You can bet the Apple guys are probably thinking "shit why didn't we think of that?" It's very clumsy to use spotlight. (and also GNOME demo'd a spotlight type search before Apple :P

  23. Re:Gnome 3 pushed me to OS X on GNOME 3.20 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, so you move to OSX which has the same design philosophy as GNOME 3. :-) Way to show the rest us of us up, yo.

  24. Re:Based on the video, it's still total shit. on GNOME 3.20 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, GNOME has real designers and developers work with those designers. You might consider their mettle when Apple's redesign of Safari was quite close to Epiphany (Web), GNOME's web browser.

  25. Re:Based on the video, it's still total shit. on GNOME 3.20 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Uh.. it is now since chrome is used on the majority of desktops, followed by Firefox. So, I would say most people probably know now what the hamburger menu means.