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  1. You do not have the privilege or right to have the internet clean up your mistake that you yourself made. If you don't want something recorded on video, don't record it on video. If you do, don't send it to anyone. That's beyond common sense.

  2. A central place for creators that are pissed off, confused, and losing money to vent their frustrations? OHHHH NO! This is going to be Reddit on steroids. They better coat the servers in fireproof gel for this one because the flame wars are going to be starting.

  3. I can't believe they ordered some cheap Chinese crap battery that explodes like something you'd get on ebay and stuck it in one of the premiere, top quality phones. They will now forever be associated with cheap Chinese parts. I'm sure that's totally worth all the money they saved on battery production.

  4. well that's simple on Elon Musk Asks Twitter For Help In Finding Cause of SpaceX Explosion (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    Facebook's karma blew it up.
    What should I put in the other 100 or so characters left in the tweet?

  5. or does it seem like Apple just doesn't give a crap in general anymore? All their designs are lazy and their product launches have been unpopular. Then their services get hacked every other day their "new" macbooks are 4 years old, and I've heard reports that their customer service on the phone isn't as helpful as it used to be.

  6. "Lenovo's 'Yoga Book' Laptop Is So Fragile It Needs A Crazy Person to Buy It"
    Am I the only one that doesn't care if my laptop weighs 5 pounds instead of 4?

  7. If ISIS members are talking to each other, we better sue the air for carrying the air waves! But seriously, can't Twitter take basic steps to not allow ISIS propaganda on Twitter and also try and block them from using DMs?

  8. A shotgun fires "shot" as in plural. 2 3/4" #4 buckshot typically has 27 shots in it. So she quite literally did not shoot it down with "1 shot" and I don't mean that as a play on words. It's just headline bait garbage. A chimpanzee could have shot down that drone if you have him a wide-spread shotgun.

  9. Apple is the devil on European Commission To Issue Apple An Irish Tax Bill of $1.1 Billion, Says Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So Ireland is ordered to take over a 1 billion Euros in free money from one of the worst companies on the planet, not to mention one of the richest, and they said no? That's logical. I'll take the money if they don't want it. I'm 1/8 Irish.
    Btw, Apple is sitting on something like 40 billion USD liquid cash and they REFUSE to use it to improve screen shatter chance or work conditions at their factories. Releasing a known defective product and lying about labor, basically having slave labor, etc is unbelievable considering the money they make. They should be brought up on something equivalent to international war crimes for the treatment of their labor force and the constant lies to cover it up.

  10. I did this on Amazon Is Testing a 30-Hour, 75% Salary Workweek (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I was the head IT manager at a 200 person company and for budget and workload reasons I worked salary 25 hours for 50% pay. I also own a computer repair store that's open for 26 hours so that worked nicely but if I was married with kids or had a side job like ebay resale, it'd be great. I'd say it worked perfectly and if I had to go in when I wasn't scheduled to work, it wasn't midnight, it was more like 3:00 PM.

  11. logical fallacy on Alphabet's Nest Wants to Build a 'Citizen-Fueled' Power Plant (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    I love the stupid pro-eco hipster logic on saving energy. Should 50 million people drastically change how they live to save every little bit of energy and have their lifestyles affected on a daily basis
    OR
    Should someone build a solar/wind/wave/whatever power plant and then 50 million people can do whatever the hell they want. Which one is easier and more reasonable to implement?

  12. Fix it? lol on Steve Wozniak Says Apple Must Fix iPhone 7 Bluetooth Or Revive Its Headphone Jack (afr.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh, they're going to "fix" it? What do users love more than 1 battery to worry about and having it run dry at just the right time? TWO BATTERIES! Yay, wireless headphones! Good luck "fixing" that, lol.

  13. my proposed financial plan on Bill Gates's Net Worth Hits $90 Billion (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If I'm not mistaken Apple is worth around $8X billion so I have an idea. First, cash it all in an buy Apple. Second, destroy the company. Just sell it all off and clos everything. Next, die happy as the biggest hero in the entire history of the world.

  14. And what is AMD doing? on Intel Demos Kaby Lake 7th Gen Core Series Running Overwatch At IDF (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe I missed something but the fx8300 says Copyright 2011 on it and besides the 220W joke they played on everyone, they haven't come out with anything since. What exactly are they doing over there at AMD? SOMEONE needs to put some pressure on intel to make them lower their utterly ridiculous prices.

  15. I can add something fun to this story on Malware Infected All Eddie Bauer Stores In US, Canada (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    I personally know some of the IT workers at Eddie Bauer and they're incompetent morons that have no business working in IT. They have impressive resumes and absolutely no practical, real-world IT skills whatsoever. I was going to pursue a job there but after looking into it, I didn't even bother applying.

  16. They didn't change anything on Microsoft Extends Again Support For Windows 7, 8.1 Skylake-based Devices (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This is utterly ridiculous. About 3 years ago I looked at the end date of 7 and it was universally stated as Jan 2020. Now they claim they're "moving" it to 2020? I've been telling my customers every single day for the last few years that the cutoff was Jan, 2020 so obviously they, at some point, moved it backwards then forwards again to pretend they're doing something.

  17. The actual cause of ALL of this on Online Drug Sales Triple After Silk Road Closure, Says Report (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently, from what I heard, they just drop the illegal drugs in the mail. You know, like the US postal service. What the hell. When I asked someone why they don't have drug-sniffing dogs, they said it's an unreasonable search and seizure amendment thing. BULLSHIT IT IS. They're at airports. They're at ports. They're everywhere! Neither are considered completely US soil sort of but still. Looking at the outside of a car during a traffic stop is legal. A dog sniffing the outside of a package for cocaine powder is completely legal. This is utterly ridiculous. People shouldn't be able to just drop illegal items into the mail. In fact, I'm 99.9999999% sure they scan USPS mail for radiation and bust it open if it has radiation coming out of it. Why the hell are they not doing this for drugs?!

  18. dark matter, huh? on The World's Most Powerful Telescope Just Discovered 1,230 New Galaxies (yahoo.com) · · Score: -1

    So they thought there were 70 galaxies in a given location and there were actually 1300 galaxies but they're very confident they counted the total amount of visible, normal matter in the entire universe, some of which is not actually observable. Yes, I am SO SURE that dark matter isn't a calculation mistake.

  19. Avast is a respectable, capable antivirus and AVG is a malware toolbar-making, slow, ineffective, spammy piece of shit. Wow, what a great merger.

  20. also add this on More Than 500,000 Hoverboards Recalled Because of Fire Hazards (go.com) · · Score: 0

    How about they recall every single off-brand garbage battery ever made in China? I've had replacement laptop batteries fail after a week. I've heard quite a few light on fire or melt too. The same goes for the garbage quality set of 2 batteries I got from 2 different vendors for my digital camera. Basically every non-OEM battery ever is a sketchy, dangerous, fire hazard piece of crap and the vendors are lying about their reliability.

  21. Re:we're pissed on How China Took Control of Bitcoin (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    $5 actually because I needed the money to open a computer repair shop.

  22. Re:we're pissed on How China Took Control of Bitcoin (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I lost out on over a million by selling about 6 months after a major crash when it finally recovered to around $5.25.

  23. First of all, they're stating that it drew more power when overclocked. Yes, that's how overclocking works. Second, since when do graphics cards draw anything other than fan power from the PCI-E slot when they have external power hooked up? I've been told by many people that it draws nothing from the motherboard in that case. You can't even run a GPU on 2 separate power circuits from a PSU safely anyway.

  24. we're pissed on How China Took Control of Bitcoin (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you're wondering how OG bitcoin enthusiasts that have been with bitcoins from late 2009 feel about it (aka me) we're PISSED! Every last person thinks China can go straight to hell. People threw parties when one of the major bitcoin mining facilities in China burned to the ground. I hope they all burn down in fact. Fuck those greedy, lying, ASIC-hoarding, patent-stealing, rip-off artist assholes and their control of the bitcoin network and manipulation of its price on a daily basis.

  25. They cut it off on Is the 'Secret' Chip In Intel CPUs Really That Dangerous? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    "An Intel spokesperson told the publication: While the Intel Management Engine is proprietary and Intel does not share the source code, it is very secure. Intel has a defined set of policies and procedures, managed by a dedicated team, to actively monitor and respond to vulnerabilities identified in released products. In the case of the Intel Management Engine, there are mechanisms in place to address vulnerabilities should the need arise. But WE'RE using it as a back door. I mean come on."