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  1. Re:curling needs a lot of arm power! on Video Games Won't Be Part of the Paris Olympics (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    > curling needs a lot of arm power!

    ARM is designed primarily (so far) for low power applications. Which is why it has an advantage over Intel in those types of applications. So Curling might need a lot of Intel power maybe.

  2. Re:Is the State going to pay ... on California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The Federal government has money. Our money.

  3. Re:If I were running for president on California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    In 2020 I would go to the coal miners and tell them how the RNC wants to have a giant coal bonfire in its national convention to celebrate the usefulness of coal and demonstrate how clean it is.

    Afterwards, the bonfire will be used for a huge book burning party. In the meantime, book publishers will be required to only produce books with a minimum rating of 4 on the Trump Book Flammability scale.

  4. Re:As if CA homes weren't expensive enough on California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Let's mandate cars to have air quality standards, emission control systems and fuel efficiency standards. OMG!! This could increase the cost of automobiles! The US would never do such a thing!

  5. Re:Is the State going to pay ... on California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be better for the Federal government to pay since states have limited resources but the Federal government appears to have literally unlimited resources?

    Just askin'

    It's like a giant magical rainbow pile of money in Washington DC!

  6. Re:I always hated solar panels. on California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    > Imagine what it would be like with nothing *but* solar panels everywhere! Disgusting.

    Imagine what it would look like with electric utility poles and telephone poles and cell phone towers everywhere! DIsgusting.

    We must BAN ALL Electric Utilities, Telephone Companies, and Cell Phone Towers! The more quickfully this happens the more gooder it twill bee.

  7. Re:Perfect democrats on California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses (npr.org) · · Score: 0

    > you just don't want it on your rooftop.

    I think he doesn't want it on anyone's rooftop.

  8. Re:Close. Your. Facebook. Account. Period. on Facebook Used Its VPN App To Track Competitors, Documents Reveal (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    > Stop feeding these faggots.

    Maybe the problem is the size of what you are feeding with.

  9. Not just advertisers.

    I think Facebook would sell your personal info to anyone willing to pay for it.

  10. Don't tell people to leave facebook. In a democracy, Facebook plays an absolutely important role in manipulating elections, dividing people into echo chambers, or polar opposites violently fighting each other which escalates into real life fights.

    Facebook also protects your private information from ever being lost by securely backing it up with redundant copies being sent to many unknown third parties who pay to have backups of your personal info.

  11. Re:It is called FaceID on An Eye-Scanning Lie Detector Is Forging a Dystopian Future (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Always scanning the face would be a good way to know that you've looked away and the screen can now be dimmed.

    I would prefer the lie detectors to work like on Star Trek (the original 1960s series). You put your hand on the white light, and the machine speaks up if you're telling a lie. Or in Mudd's Women, where it detects a lie without putting a hand on the white light.

  12. Re:Great! on An Eye-Scanning Lie Detector Is Forging a Dystopian Future (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Your idea has merit. But to improve the tv ratings of presidential debates the polygraph electrodes should be able to deliver a taser charge each time a lie is detected.

  13. Re:No correlation between biometrics and honesty on An Eye-Scanning Lie Detector Is Forging a Dystopian Future (wired.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    > history of efficacy.

    Really? I thought that people tortured will tell you whatever you want to hear.

  14. There must be some way for Microsoft to create a browser equivalent of 'systemd' for Chromium.

  15. Re: local search services on Does Google Harm Local Search Rivals? EU Antitrust Regulators Ask (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Europeans DO "get" the Internet. But they need to be disconnected from it so that they no longer get it. Preserve their local networks.

  16. Re: How dare software companies make good products on Gmail Smart Replies and the Ever-Growing Pressure to Email Like a Machine (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Lord Refa: Ink on a page!

  17. I have to disagree.

    Increasingly the population becomes less well edumacated. Less literate and articulate. Less well red. And less able to form coherent thoughts that exceed 140 characters.

    You may not need autocomplete. I may not need it. But I bet there are people who find it a way to compose thoughts they didn't know they had until a machine told them.

  18. Re:Otherwise known as non-responses on Gmail Smart Replies and the Ever-Growing Pressure to Email Like a Machine (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    > The dreaded "k."

    You need two additional K's for it to be dreaded.

  19. Re:OK Google, autocomplete this on Gmail Smart Replies and the Ever-Growing Pressure to Email Like a Machine (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Try these:
    Suck my water flooded basement using your wet vac.
    Blow it out your port 8080 in the form of UDP.
    Fuck you and the other persons invited to this event for that specific purpose.
    Make America get educated again.
    Trump is a illiterate jacka55 who cares only about himself.
    Hillary is a irrelevant person no longer running for political office.

  20. Re:If google is so smart... on Gmail Smart Replies and the Ever-Growing Pressure to Email Like a Machine (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't feel any pressure to make my emails seem as if they were written by a machine. At least not according to my current configuration parameters.

    Sent from my Commodore 64

  21. Was your post a Gmail smart reply?

  22. Re:Denialists will not be convinced by science on CO2 Emissions Rose for the First Time in 4 Years (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    You have clearly demonstrated that you cannot see the evidence. Or if you see it you simply refuse to believe it. You believe it is somehow a political issue.

  23. Re:Fake News on Dictionary.com Picks 'Misinformation' As Word of the Year (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    What about thesaurus?

    I was chased by a large thesaurus that had big teeth and a ferocious roar!

    (species of dinosaur)

  24. Re:Looks like they tried it on Microsoft's Multi-Factor Authentication Service Goes Down For Second Week in a Row (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The Windows support guy said I really should power cycle twice a day, or at least once per day.

    But I told him I don't even own a bike.

  25. Microsoft Failure Architecture.