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  1. Thank God they still demand my "signature" on Credit Card Chips Have Failed to Halt Fraud (So Far) (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    on purchases at most stores! I'd hate to think that my financial security was entrusted solely to a chip in a credit card.

  2. My old phone doesn't have a notch. I want a notch! I need a new phone!

  3. here's an idea... on Tiny Books Fit in One Hand. Will They Change the Way We Read? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    how about an electronic version of a book that I can read on my phone screen? I'm going to make a million bucks!

  4. I live 2 miles from the Foxconn factory site. on Wisconsin's $4.1 Billion Foxconn Boondoggle (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's all sorts of prep work going on. They're condemning people's homes and land. They're tearing up all the roads and traffic is hell. Oh yeah, my property tax bill jumped up this year.

    At about the same time Walker was making his deal, Foxconn was laying off workers in Taiwan at an LCD plant because they were being replaced by robots. Taiwanese people earn far less than US people. Why would they hire expensive US workers when they're replacing cheaper Taiwanese workers with robots?

    Walker is running for reelection but doesn't talk about Foxconn. Hmmmm.

  5. Of course he was watching porn! He worked at the EROS center!

  6. I'll believe it when I see it. on FCC Leaders Say We Need a 'National Mission' To Fix Rural Broadband (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You have corporate welfare interests pitted against right wing political interests. If you give them internet access, rural voters may run into information counter to the disinformation they get from their preachers and AM radio.

    Maybe the internet providers can strike a compromise and only provide portion of the internet that the GOP, preachers, and NRA approve of.

  7. Re:The reason why higher wages doesn't put on Authors of Controversial 'Seattle Minimum Wage' Study Revise Their Conclusions (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    Because like hiring, raising wages is a trailing event. First the business gets more work to do, and pushes the existing people as hard as they can until they start to scream, then after a few of them leave for greener pastures, they raise wages to attract new employees and to keep the remaining workers.

    People have been overworked for decades, and productivity has been rising for decades. Businesses can afford to pay a little more. If margins are so thin that paying workers a few more $ makes the business unprofitable, it's a lousy business model or management and is unsustainable.

  8. The reason why higher wages doesn't put on Authors of Controversial 'Seattle Minimum Wage' Study Revise Their Conclusions (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    businesses into receivership should be obvious.

    Businesses hire people when there's profitable work that needs to be done. They don't hire people when there's no work for them to do.

  9. Re:It's chronological nationalism at its worst! on Morocco Decides To Scrap Seasonal Time Changes (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Think of how many legal decisions are based on knowing a sequence of events. If you can't be sure what time something occured, you can't make good decisions. It's just one more way the far right is trying to destroy history.

  10. It's chronological nationalism at its worst! on Morocco Decides To Scrap Seasonal Time Changes (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Think of the history that will be wiped out when people in the future can't be sure what time something happened in the past.

  11. Re:Is it political bias on President Trump Accuses Twitter of Political Bias (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd say the sheer amount of denial of reality from the GOP and their followers would be fascinating if it weren't so tragic.

  12. Russia, China, if you're listening... on Worried About Trump iPhone Eavesdroppers? China Recommends a Huawei (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    we could sure use some transcripts of Trump's phone calls...

    "I love wikileaks!"

    Lock him up! Lock him up!

    Morons...

  13. Is it political bias on President Trump Accuses Twitter of Political Bias (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    if you shut down lies, hate, and bullshit? There are probably plenty of others who get the boot, too, but the GOP is particularly enamored of spewing outright lies, hate, and bullshit, so it just looks like they are being targeted. If they don't like getting filtered or banned, maybe they should try not lying so much. Duh.

  14. 0.8 cents for each user. on Facebook Fined Maximum Legal Amount For Cambridge Analytica Scandal (deadline.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's sure to deter them from allowing it to happen again!

  15. I'll believe it when I see it. My Verizon so-called 4G LTE "speed" is almost always measured in kB/sec when I can get data at all in the urban area where I live and work.

  16. What's the big deal? on Microplastics Found In Human Stools For the First Time (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I bought a couple plastic stools at Ikea last week. My cats occasionally sit on them, but I bought them mostly for humans.

  17. You'll never have to deal with those scumbags again, and it only cost you $10k.

    If they had paid up, you'd never hear the end of them.

  18. The last I saw, ProjectM was pretty weak compared to MilkDrop.

  19. I wondered how long it was going to take the on US Announces Plans To Withdraw From 144-Year-Old Postal Treaty (thehill.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Great One to catch onto this. When he started complaining that Amazon.com was bankrupting the PO, I wondered why he wasn't complaining about the free delivery of goods from China. He's probably pissed off because he found out he could be shipping his neckties from the factories in China for free instead of packing them onto ships and paying whatever duties and delivery costs might be.

  20. Re:I be willing to bet on Scientists Discover Weird Sounds In Antarctic Ice Shelf (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably not nearly as pleasant as the sound of a suitcase full of $100 bills.

  21. The fact that people are on Facebook on Facebook Posts May Point To Depression, Study Finds (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    is a sure sign of depression. Just knowing there are so many people wasting so much time and giving up so much personal information in exchange for nothing of value depresses me.

  22. Great, that should make it easier on Apple Launches Portal For US Users To Download Their Data (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    for them to switch to Android, and provide a single point of effort for hackers/governments who want the data.

  23. I be willing to bet on Scientists Discover Weird Sounds In Antarctic Ice Shelf (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    that if you made recordings anywhere the wind was blowing, and sped them up to a "frequency that we could hear", you'd hear sounds like this. Speeding up the recordings raises the lowest frequency stuff to audible range and pushes the normally audible stuff beyond audible range.

  24. I don't want this for a "companion" on Palm Is Back With a Mini Companion Android Phone That's Exclusive To Verizon (droid-life.com) · · Score: 1

    I want it to be my only phone. Why can't I have it that way- is it missing the latest surveillance technology that's built into other smart phones? That just makes me want it more...