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  1. Hit ebay too on Amazon Is Banning People For Making Too Many Returns (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish they'd do the same to half the dumbass customers I sell to on ebay. They have had some of the stupidest reasons I've ever heard in my entire life to return something. You can't even imagine, trust me.

  2. Because THEY'RE NOT UNDER THEIR JURISDICTION!!! THEY'RE AN AMERICAN...oh wait, didn't they move to Ireland as a tax dodge? Ooh, that one really came back to burn then didn't it?

  3. you know what's funny? on US Treasury Secretary Calls For Google Monopoly Probe (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You know what's funny? Both Apple and Microsoft greatly abuse their monopolies in their respective OSes, which actually seems impossible if you think about it.

  4. let me translate on New Toronto Declaration Calls On Algorithms To Respect Human Rights · · Score: 1

    We need to teach computers to lie to themselves about reality to cover for shortcomings of certain age groups, backgrounds, genders, and races. What a great idea!

  5. It doesn't run on a hydrogen-burning turbine (or butane) like some phone chargers. You're welcome.

  6. Re: we already have a cure on Can This New Treatment Stop the Common Cold? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    That's for fda reasons.

  7. Re: we already have a cure on Can This New Treatment Stop the Common Cold? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    You know those idiots had bacterial sinus infections right

  8. we already have a cure on Can This New Treatment Stop the Common Cold? (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    About 18 or so years ago they discovered that zinc prevents viruses from being able to attach to the cells along your mucous membranes and thus stops their ability to replicate. Immediately after, entire cities sold out of it and Zicam got rich. It actually does work.

  9. idiots on Fed Up With Apple's Policies, App Developers Form a 'Union' (wired.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Around 85% of smartphones worldwide are Android. THAT is why you're not making any more. Maybe follow the lead of most PC software manufacterer's and ignore Apple and their tiny market share. They're not worth the time and hassle.

  10. You know that whole "Americans are 14th in reading" thing and all those other allegedly comparable international test score stats? Yeah, because arrogant countries all about self image, especially in Asia, never lie and cheat to inflate those numbers. That tooootally doesn't have any precedent. Other countries lie about everything to make themselves look better. Everyone knows this.

  11. So now it will say "we think this is malware but we don't want to cause any problems or use such offensive, inflammatory terms" and then the only button is "stay neutral."

  12. The real story on Google Will Make Its Paid Storage Plans Cheaper (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Just in case anyone was wondering, this is in direct response to getting absolutely destroyed by the Siacoin network. They'll never admit it though.

  13. DEATH PENALTY! on Florida Man Behind 100 Million Robocalls Hit With $120 Million FCC Fine (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oh good, he owes money he doesn't have and thus doesn't have to pay. So what? Give him life in prison or the death penalty and see if anyone still wants to make robocalls?

  14. Linus Tech Tips and if I recall, Slashdot

  15. are you serious? on Nvidia Shuts Down Its GeForce Partner Program, Citing Misinformation (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I heard the entire document was leaked absolutely word for word verbatim. But no, guys, it's misinformation and misinterpretations. I am not misinformed about bullying your competition out of top product line names. That is what that was, the end.

  16. We're 50 years away from this level of AI on Self-Driving Cars' Shortcomings Revealed in DMV Reports (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Driving into the sun, any kind of snow, hydroplaning, hard to identify objects in the road, road construction, pedestrians doing stupid stuff, other drivers not following predictable actions or laws, driving in the rain, sensors failing due to age and wear, and about 100 other items are unsolvable problems that our level of technology, especially AI, is nowhere near yet. This is like all those "before their time" inventions in the 50's. The technology just wasn't there to make it real no matter how convincingly they presented it. AI would have to be at human 3D and visual processing level or better and the best AI in the world is around cockroach level intelligence currently, with the best measurement estimate.

  17. conspiracy theory time on 'Next Generation' Flaws Found on Computer Processors (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I bet this is why the new line of Intel processors was delayed significantly. Anyone else suspect that?

  18. Chinese people will walk up to a black person on the street and say "why are you so black, get out of our country, criminal," and not think twice about it. Ask anyone who lives there.

  19. I have an idea on SmugMug Buys Flickr, Vows To Revitalize the Photo Service (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    How to compete with Tumblr: Step 1: don't be a liberal SJW paradise shithole of a site that bans anything remotely conservative and praises mental illness

  20. They're REALLY going to have to rip off customers now to pay that $1 billion. I'm sure they won't take the money away from the managements' salaries, which btw is who deserves it.

  21. Ever since Works was a useless pile of crap, I haven't touched One Note. I legitimately have no idea what it even does. Is it some kind of keyword tagging organization/project thing that tries to sell you more products like Works did?

  22. I think I speak for everyone when I say he needs to be executed for wasting billions of hours of Americans' time. Crime on that level is unforgivable.

  23. The real two sides on Europe Divided Over Robot 'Personhood' (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    There are 2 groups for this: people who realize it's fake, it's manufactured, and giving AI rights would be disastrous and idiotic. The other group is people who are too stupid to recognize a facade, a fake, a convincing set of falsehoods that trigger emotional responses in their brain. Can we please stop catering to stupid people constantly in every sector of society?

  24. The real problem here is morons on facebook taking quizzes to see what type of pizza or what species of cat they are and they grant some Cambridge sub-brand has access to their entire life's history. I blame the people first.

  25. Everyone in the bitcoin community knows this on Hacker Uses Exploit To Generate Verge Cryptocurrency Out of Thin Air (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    There are well-known not peer reviewed or peer reviewed and vulnerable altcoins out there. This is one of them. There's another popular one written in trinary instead of binary and then down-converted because its owners thought it would be cool. That's the level of stupid we're dealing with here but 99% of the community knows to stay away from sketchy side garbage like this.