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  1. I have a feeling they'll hire some armed guards. You know, the ones with guns. You know, because that's how presidents, armored cars, the military, and everyone everywhere all the time protects important things from someone else with a gun. I hope they learned a lesson here. Maybe some of their employees should have had guns on them.

  2. Who didn't already assume this? Btw the one watching mine is like "yep, that's another cat meme"

  3. For the last 7 years I've used a fake name, uploaded 0 pics of me, disabled tagging, and marked all my posts as private by default. Oh look, it's the best and brightest here to tell us they want to delete Facebook!

  4. You ever notice that really crappy companies that make garbage quality products always merge and buy each other? Atheros, Marvel, AOL, Foxconn, Belkin, Linksys, etc.

  5. The smartest AI we have right now, not counting IBM's watson, is about as intelligent as a brain-damaged cockroach and that actually is a real scientific assessment from real scientists. I think Time posted that article actually. So they're supposed to know a truck from a building in full context. Really? Does anyone expect a computer to be on par with a human brain on this one? That's ridiculous. We're decades away from a working self-driving car.

  6. Why would anyone do this? on Dropbox IPOs. Its Founders Are Now Billionaires (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have a real question for y'all. Why would anyone with plenty of income and no immediate expense to expand basically turn control of all major decisions over to random Wall Street assholes and rich, stuck up individuals that only care about money? Then every single corporate decision has to go through them and they end up ruining your company like for example EA. Just get a damn private or bank loan if you need funds. Having "investors" scrutinize everything I do would be the worst nightmare and the last option I'd ever consider if I started a company.

  7. I'm 30 but still, all my posts are marked as non-public, friends-only. Any teenager who's too dumb to do the same to their account deserves to get "scanned" or whatever and basically have their privacy massively invaded. By the way, a lot of teenagers are smart enough to also not use their real names.

  8. I'm very familiar with the types of sensors used in these cars. They have trouble with rain, snow, sunlight, scratches, dirt, basically anything. Try sticking your head out the window while driving and pretend your eyeballs are the sensors. It's a pretty comparable comparison. We're 50 years out from a working self-driving car. The AI isn't there, the sensors aren't there, and every amaaaaazing show-off event being held is on a perfect road with perfect weather or some conditions they know the car can handle.

  9. Let's expand this on Amazon Alexa's 'Brief Mode' Makes the Digital Assistant Way Less Chatty (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Can we get this for the Windows 10 1709 installer? Cortana is so time-wasting and cringey it makes me embarrassed to even listen to it. She literally says "A touch of wifi here, and you'll be back to watching cat videos" or something virtually identical to that. Could they be any less professional?

  10. I have an idea on Ubuntu Community Considers a Crowd-Sourced Promo Video (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Light your hair on fire, jump off a roof, and somehow involve cute cats in the video. BOOM, 10 million views easy.

  11. How are people supposed to quietly reflect without cat memes? They contain more wisdom than some entire religions.

  12. He would have come back as a damn orangutan. Oh, wait, actually I think dolphin would be 7% DNA difference. Yeah, you think that was maybe false? I heard it and immediately knew it was bullshit.

  13. I have a suggestion on US Utilities Have Finally Realized Electric Cars May Save Them (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Instead of paying for coal/oil/nuclear fuel that costs money constantly, they should put in these maaaagical devices that spit out free money for 10+ years called solar panels. You've got install cost, wiring, maintenance, monitoring, etc and the equipment wears out but so does a coal turbine. The difference is YOU DON'T BUY THE DAMN SUNLIGHT.

  14. same at Bing on Yet Again, Google Tricked Into Serving Scam Amazon Ads (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Briefly yesterday, on a fresh install of Windows 10, Bing was sending people to the wrong avast website if you typed "avast" into the search. They fixed it pretty quickly.

  15. More than that! on Tumblr Has a Massive Creepshots Problem (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    They also have an absolutely loonie far leftist nut job problem but they aren't doing anything about that either because that's who runs the company.

  16. One less preinstall bullshit app on the Windows 10 start menu. Yay! Now if only King would go out of business.

  17. are you kidding me? on Facebook Has Turned Into a Beast in Myanmar, UN Says (bbc.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    700,000 people show up unannounced in your country and Facebook is the problem? The 700,000 people are the problem! It doesn't help that a lot of their cultural practices are EXTREMELY disapproved of by the rest of the world.

  18. I have an idea on YouTube Will Add Information From Wikipedia To Videos About Conspiracies (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I want to see a huuuuge disclaimer on these looney SJWs' videos stating there are only 2 genders and thinking otherwise is a mental illness.

  19. At my shop somehow the update permanently destroyed the boot loading EFI sector thingy on about 20 computers. So boot loader repair utility, MS or otherwise, could fix it.

  20. That makes sense on Apple Seems OK With Currency Miners In the Mac App Store · · Score: -1

    Apple has never, ever in the history of their entire company made a product that can properly cool itself. Also take into account that they want more than anything else for your mobile device to break as quickly as possible so you have a reason to buy a new one. Oh look, they approve of currency miners!

  21. Hehehehehehehe. But seriously, why the hell would they keep their stolen coins in accounts on the same site they're stealing from?! THAT'S INSANE!

  22. Is this finally the fix? on Intel Launches Mainstream Optane SSD 800P Series Based On 3D Xpoint Memory (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    Here's the short version of SSD history for the last 2 years. Micron bought Elpida or whatever and now there are 2 manufacturers of flash chips instead of 3. Suddenly there's a giant shortage on DDR4, GDDR5, and all flash products that store data. WHAT A COINCIDENCE. I'm sure it's not price fixing and artificial shortages caused by the almost monopoly that some asshole Asian regulators allowed the be made by the merger. So Intel's kinda big. Do they have their own flash chip manufacturing plant so there's FINALLY a third competitor back in the market or are they just having one of those two crooked rackets make Optane chips?

  23. wait a minute on Florida Lawmakers Approve Year-Round Daylight Saving Time (tampabay.com) · · Score: 1

    Did they just pass a law saying agreeing to send the entire state of Florida into the future by one hour? I don't think the technology exists to do that. Just kidding. But seriously, how about make the time be what time it actually is?

  24. I would legit sue for mental anguish after sweeping my house 5 times with my shotgun and calling the police.

  25. what shocking news...in 2011 on Bitcoin Dives After SEC Says Crypto Platforms Must Be Registered (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Tradehill was shut down after it reached the volume of trade that required it to register as an exchange or whatever. This happened around 2011. This is not news to ANYONE. Once again, clueless people who don't do their research are overreacting. This is why we didn't want Wall Street traders with very high opinions of themselves entering the bitcoin world.