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  1. The previous scene had a car blow up in it, here's an insurance, car, and bank lending commercial. You will need to insure and finance that new car.

    There are a lot of explosions on my TV.

     

  2. In the 80s I had a key chain that would beep every time you whistled. I lost it some where in my bedroom and even though I could here it beep I could never find it I think it fell into a vent somehow. Every time Walk Like an Egyptian came on the radio and later Patience it would go crazy. I never did find it even with the room empty when I was moving out years later and the battery never died.

    It says the phone is on the couch it must have fallen down inside and now it lost forever along with the half dozen missing tv remotes.

  3. Re:People like the smell? on Ford Patents a Way To Remove 'New Car Smell' (freep.com) · · Score: 1

    My thought was why would they want to get rid of the new car scent apparently enough people like it that febreze makes it as an air freshener.

    https://www.febreze.com/en-us/...

  4. That also doesn't mention that it would only serve to strain relations and create a continuing rivalry that would cost the people and businesses. Rivalries like that don't serve anything but resentment and elevated hostility.

  5. Re:And here is a different idea on Retaliatory Cyber Attacks Are Only Way To Stop China, Says Former FBI Director (afr.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    This goes right a long with governments that want to have back doors to fight terror and crime but somehow magically it's only going to work for them and the bad guys will never be able to use it against us.

    In the end we have aloud the uninitiated to set policies for something they don't understand and the resulting mess is going to be hard to clean up.

  6. Using our talent to increase our security sounds a lot better than an ever escalating cyber feud, that will have more impact on our businesses, the people that work there, and the people that depend on services they provide than the governments that started the feud.

     

  7. Oklahoma would probably be a better place to retire to after you have money although not in Tulsa maybe in the surrounding areas with easy access to services.

  8. Oklahoma is one of the lowest cost of living states in the US if someone that is a full time remote worker came on with a company in a higher cost of living state with a higher wage then it could be a smart move even without the subsidized apartment, shared office space, and $10K. The problem is you need to be content with living in a place with little in the way of entertainment, culture, or opportunities for advancement.

  9. Re:More Rust propagnda on The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't really use rust but isn't llvm a core component of the rust toolchain?

  10. Re:More Rust propagnda on The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    llvm is written in c++ so rust has what ever feature the c++ developer wanted you to use.

  11. Re:There'a a very simple reason for the trend... on Childhood Obesity Linked To Air Pollution From Vehicles (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I would agree with you except I already know that after pregnancy women can experience varying side effects that cause issues with weight gain and loss out side of the expected results of diet and exercise. Although that has nothing to do with childhood obesity conditions like gastro intestinal hyperpermeability and hypothyroidism do exist.

  12. Laptops with Win 10 ARM run x86 applications about the same as a low end laptop but at mid-range price. Give it another 5 years and they might be in a position to compete.

  13. Re:$3 Billion for 13,000 Jobs? on Wisconsin's $4.1 Billion Foxconn Boondoggle (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Well what you are looking at is a five year pay off at an average of a little over $46k/year for 13,000 jobs. With such a large initial investment tied up in the factory it's likely to continue providing jobs for at least 10 additional years.
       

  14. I make it a policy to never sh** where I eat.

    You would think that anyone successful enough to have negotiated such a large pay out would know better. It doesn't matter who started what in the end it's he said she said and no one wins. Unless they where recording it and that's an entirely different problem if it ever reaches the public.

  15. Re:Usernames, not passwords on Your Brain Waves Could Soon Replace Passwords Entirely (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    That and i'm not sure that outside stimulus couldn't throw that off to begin with... like caffeine

     

  16. the link is in the top line right after the headline.

    https://theconversation.com/le...

  17. Re:No, Inexpensive on Tech To Blame For Ever-Growing Car Repair Costs, AAA Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Timing belt should be replaced every 60k - 100k depending but if you like your car do it before it goes out and save yourself some money.

    I didn't need AAA to tell me that it's more expensive to replace a bumper with a back up camera and sensors than one with out it's no brainer the more complex you make it the more it will cost to repair. I see a lot of expensive cars out there with all the trimming but that doesn't make them a quality vehicle.

  18. Kind of like the choose your own adventure books a niche market...

  19. Re:Black Electrical Tape on With 5G, You Won't Just Be Watching Video. It'll Be Watching You, Too (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    10 years ago...

  20. The question of will the Win 10 ARM pan out is going to be answered by ARM, can they deliver on the promise of a processor that can compete in the business model laptops and still retain the advantage in battery life.

    It's a little early to be jumping on board for the ARM revolution but it may be here soon. Cheap ARM laptops with great battery life could be just a few years around the corner.

  21. Re:Statistics... on Our Reliance on Cellphones Began 35 Years Ago This Week (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know about other places but I live in small town kansas and the gas and power meter are both connected.

  22. Re: Does this really need evidence? on Apple Rebukes Australia's 'Dangerously Ambiguous' Anti-Encryption Bill (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that online banking and shopping isn't encrypted?

    We don't need to fund a study to let us know that a lot of people bank online and shop on amazon and that if the encryption on all of that data was suddenly broken it would be a very bad thing. Laws that intend to weaken encryption make that a very scary possibility.

  23. Re:Does this really need evidence? on Apple Rebukes Australia's 'Dangerously Ambiguous' Anti-Encryption Bill (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is the problem criminals don't follow the laws so yes they could get a phone and install encryption on it that doesn't have a back door but even worse they will absolutely use any weakness in encryption to take advantage of the rest of us.

    Same with guns the bad guys don't go to a sporting goods store and buy and register a gun that can be traced they get illegal guns.

  24. If I remember correctly wasn't there a bunch of devs jumping ship to go to libreoffice at one point? Which would explain why libreoffice is more popular and has a faster release cycle.

  25. We have been purchasing Surface Pros for the last couple years for some of our executives at work of course there are a lot more HP Elitebooks so this isn't even a surprising turn of events, HP in the top spot and MS finally taking the last spot.