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  1. The actual fix on Researchers Find 25,000 Domains Used In Tech Support Scams (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Why the actual hell haven't the major news outlets paraded around this malady like it's ebola? It scares people, it's relevant to everyone, and it has "send this story to everyone on Facebook" written all over it. It's the perfect storm and they can even take the angle of blaming the telecom companies for not doing enough to block the calls. Then you get outrage culture going. If this story was ran for a few days, EVERYONE in America would hear about it and not fall for it and the scam would fail. Everyone wins. I just don't get it.

  2. I suspect this is the same system they use on Youtube which is horrifically bad! The result is some warpy, nausea-inducing disaster.

  3. let's step back for a second on Neuroscientists Weigh In On Elon Musk's Mysterious 'Neural Lace' Company (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Clean energy is so important and so impossible to compete in and succeed in, 100% of the company's resources should be dedicated to it. Instead they want to go to space which is one giant money sink. Now there's this nonsense. There's only so much investor money available. This is dangerously stupid. Don't even get my started on the Hyperloop or as I like to call it, Dook Nukem Forever-loop.

  4. misleading nonsense about fantasy matter on Scientists Capture First Image of Dark Matter Web (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Here, let me correct that:
    Scientists Manufacture First Visual Representation of Gravitational Anomalies Inconsistent With Observed Matter
    There has never been what I would consider "evidence" of dark matter, just evidence of a lack of understanding of matter, gravity, or space.

  5. Income variance is good because it encourages people to live in a smaller house, have less recurring expenses, and then it sometimes feels like "yay, I have more money." Well, that is, if they're not an idiot. Then they'd probably just overspend based on the high number and go into debt.

  6. You won't be upgrading, huh? Isn't it an unstoppable mandatory update?

  7. The real problem on Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination By US Labor Department (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You offer a man $70k and he says no, that's not enough. You offer a woman $70k and she agrees. That's not discrimination, that's women being unwise.

  8. I have an idea on Uber Contract 'Gibberish', Says MP Investigating Gig Economy (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    If you don't understand a contract, find a way to understand it or don't sigh it. Sounds like they're just being lazy and greedy instead of doing things the proper way.

  9. Re:More US warmongering on US Strikes Syrian Base With Over 50 Tomahawk Missiles (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They also hit Kim Jong Un's unicorn petting zoo. Shaaaaame.

  10. Re:$93.8M of my tax dollars on US Strikes Syrian Base With Over 50 Tomahawk Missiles (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Oh no, how dare they spend money to stop civilians getting murdered by chemicals instead of buy another statue or bridge.

  11. 1. prices (tickets)
    2. annoying assholes
    3. prices (food)
    4. no pause button to hit the bathroom
    5. prices (gas to drive there)
    6. no reachability on your cell
    Sorry but that overrides their pathetic list

  12. Totally not a physicist but 11 billion light years? Maybe the wave pattern doesn't look familiar because it had to travel through so much expanding space to get here.

  13. I can identify a dangerous situation, like for example being in a road, and look away from my phone for 5 seconds while I cross it. People who cannot do that are pathetically weak, unwise, poor-impulse control, marshmallow test failures and I'm glad their genes are gone.

  14. I've found that the perfect solution is to pepper spray their kids
    (this is not a serious post, it's called a joke)

  15. Then tell the annoying teenagers behind me to shut the hell up if you want me to go to a theater.

  16. Ask anyone in the industry who isn't a liar. Self driving cars are 10 years off. They can't drive into the sun, are full of logical flaws for obscure situations, can't deal with basically any bad weather of any kind, get traffic lights incorrect, lose GPS signal often, etc. They just don't work and they're horribly unsafe.

  17. If you install a completely not blocked at all malware add on to Chrome as an extension, it will not only remain unblocked because Google doesn't give a shit but it will also automatically propogate itself or at least its settings to all your other devices that run Chrome. Isn't that convenient!

  18. What I'm waiting for is a dual core that absolutely crushes even an overclocked Pentium anniversary edition. I got mine to 4GHz off of 3.2GHz and its single thread rating beats the $1000+ i7 extreme edition from the 2011 v3 socket. Considering tabs in firefox, probably the javascript engine, most programs, and most windows tasks are single threaded, a really "snappy" and responsive PC for just facebook and web surfing would benefit greatly from a chip like that. Like a 3000+ passmark rated single thread rating on an under 75 watt dual would be veeeery impressive and very useful. As for a $169 processor for a basic use PC, no thanks. Unfortunately $400-500 PCs is about 75% of our custom orders at my shop so they're missing a huge portion of the market.

  19. The real reason on Questions Linger After ISP Blocks TeamViewer Over Fraud Fears (sophos.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ...because they're too lazy to investigate and block the phone numbers that the scammers are using.

  20. A fun fact on Will Montana Become America's Third State To Ditch Daylight Savings Time? (missoulian.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Did you know that daylight savings time single handedly kills more people from cardiac problems than terrorism per year.

  21. Wait a minute on U.S. Jobs, Pay Show Solid Gains in Trump's First Full Month (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Now I haven't followed a damn thing he did but I don't recall hearing anything about specific job improvement strategies. Plus it's been ONE month. So is it safe to say this is just something that sort of happened?

  22. "OneDrive is baked into Windows 10 and can't easily be uninstalled"
    Actually it's under programs and features now and can be uninstalled in seconds.

  23. Are you sure these people didn't accidentally write into Apple? Remember the death grip? And the touch of death (screen) and the bending and the flaming adapters and the...you get the idea.

  24. Just block all iphone based called from the 911 system permanently. In fact, block all AT&T customers too. They're not worth the resources.
    (This post is a joke btw, just in case you're an idiot)

  25. the simple answer on Ask Slashdot: Why Are There No Huge Leaps Forward In CPU/GPU Power? · · Score: 1

    They could have to change completely how the processor is made and use new materials and that's too expensive to experiment with when slight increases are a sure thing aka the safe bet.