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  1. Re: No. on Has WikiLeaks Morphed Into A Malware Hub? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 2

    Can Cow Backpacks Reduce Global Methane Emissions?

    No.

    Oh, shit I thought you were making that up to be humorous. No, that is a real headline on Slashdot. What the fuck, why do I even visit this site anymore?

  2. Re:Meh on T-Mobile Brings Back Unlimited Data For All (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Same for Google Fi. I never use more than 3GB except when Verizon Fios had a week-long outage.

  3. Re: Does this mean... on Univision To Buy Gawker Media For $135 Million (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    No Dicks policy? So Trump is getting thrown out?

  4. Re:Rooted android phone? This helps (w/ ADB) on Malware That Fakes Bank Login Screens Found In Google Ads (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Every once in a while APK is actually relevant. But there is something to be said about horseshoes and hand grenades.

  5. Re:Fucked Company on Malware That Fakes Bank Login Screens Found In Google Ads (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Fast Company popped when the bubble popped. The zombie has been limping along for the last 15 years somehow.

    I do miss Fucked Company, though. Those were some wild days back in the early aught's.

  6. Re:16gb ssd on Intel's Joule is Its Most Powerful Dev Kit Yet (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah that is true, they come out with new generations of products too quickly. My guess is this thing is targeted at businesses, but I assume a big enough company developing with Atom already has their own tools and doesn't need this. I just don't know who the target audience for this thingis.

  7. Re:16gb ssd on Intel's Joule is Its Most Powerful Dev Kit Yet (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    No; he is saying, why the fuck is a device with the specs of a 2001 pc costing $369?

    Look at Raspberry, Atmel, Microchip, and other companies. They have much lower specs, but are also actually affordable.

    Who is going to buy this thing?

  8. Re:Free Speech Must Be Stopped!!! on Former Twitter Employees: 'Abuse Problem' Comes From Their Culture Of Free Speech (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Can I ask the people on the left, when did the left start to view free speech as being a bad thing?

    It started when they got so offended by opposing viewpoints that they started condemning them as hate speech, then adopted the mantra "hate speech isn't free speech"

    Then quickly added, "Hate speech is anything WE don't agree with."

  9. Re:Company that spends billions to acquire headpho on Cory Doctorow On What iPhone's Missing Headphone Jack Means For Music Industry (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    To make people rebuy those expensive headphones? You're goddamn right.

  10. Re:Joe Six-Pack Won't care on Cory Doctorow On What iPhone's Missing Headphone Jack Means For Music Industry (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    "Joe Six-Pack" would be fine with going back to cassettes if it came to that. What are the going to do make a DRM tape player?

  11. Implying... on Next Generation of Wireless -- 5G -- Is All Hype (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Are we saying that 4G isnt all hype? Are there any real 4G networks out there? Has WIMAX been deployed at all. LTE sure as hell isn't 4G.

  12. My Imagination on University Collects Medical Samples Via Drones In Madagascar (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    I was envisioning drones with needles and thermometers flying around chasing after people trying to collect samples.

  13. Re:What the hell on AT&T Is Paying $7.75 Million in Refunds and Fines Over Sham Calls (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Look at American history. Where does the term "snake-oil salesman" come from? We have been a culture of hucksters and scammers for 240 years.

    Look at products like our soda giants, Coke and Pepsi. Both were started as "health remedies".

    Maybe pharmacists and doctors actually thought these were some miracle health drug, but I am going to guess that took a back seat when they realized people enjoyed drinking these things.

  14. Re:Stealing pays on AT&T Is Paying $7.75 Million in Refunds and Fines Over Sham Calls (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually if the interest they made on having 6.8 million for x number of years outweighs the fine, they might of made a profit even after the fine.

  15. Re:Stealing pays on AT&T Is Paying $7.75 Million in Refunds and Fines Over Sham Calls (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    So the more they cheat, the more likely they will make money on this....

    Your Sig is on-topic here, as well.

  16. AT&T is a sham? Wow!

  17. Interview questions on The New F-35 Is So Stealthy, It's Harder To Train Pilots (airforcetimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "What is your greatest weakness."

    "I am just too honest."

  18. Re: any proxy sales soar on Pennsylvania To Apply 6% 'Netflix Tax' (allflicks.net) · · Score: 1

    For the most part, old people don't vape, and old people don't use Netflix. So it is a tax on younger people. Easy to get through in the increasingly geriatric Pennsylvania.

  19. Re:any proxy sales soar on Pennsylvania To Apply 6% 'Netflix Tax' (allflicks.net) · · Score: 1

    Verizon and Comcast will be more than happy to provide spyware to the state to make sure people pay.

  20. Re:Take it from someone who knows on Comcast Excited To Have Lost 4,000 TV Subscribers This Spring (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    It must be somewhat demoralizing knowing just how much of a % junk mail makes up of your routes.

  21. Re:I'd be excited too, if Comcast lost my address on Comcast Excited To Have Lost 4,000 TV Subscribers This Spring (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    I also got on some list that thinks I am over 65. (Sad story, was because my mom's last address was my house right before she died. Even though she wasn't retirement age either. We have the same last name, so...) So, I get AARP cards, hearing aid advertisements, medical scams, and pretty much every form of insurance scam junk mail constantly.

    You would not believe the number of people trying to scam old people. Especially ones they think have just become a widow/widower.

  22. Raido commercial on E-Cigarettes Emit Toxic Vapors, Says Study (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    Heard a commercial on the radio today asking to inform your politicians about local vaping legislation, calling it. "life saving technology".

    Yeah, I am pretty sure it is straight up illegal to make that claim.

  23. Re:It's a feature on E-Cigarettes Emit Toxic Vapors, Says Study (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    They emit harmful clouds of smug.

  24. Re:The Theater Experience on James Cameron: Theater Experience Key To Containing Piracy (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    One in three people is an asshole. Look to your left, then look to your right. If neither of them are assholes... I have some bad news for you.

  25. Re:Two words for you: on James Cameron: Theater Experience Key To Containing Piracy (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody ever forgets the Alamo Drafthouse when there is a article about movie theaters. However if their business model is so great why is there not one of these in every city in the US.

    There's a place similar to this my city, (craft beer, no kids) but it is tiny and they do not show new movies. I assume that the AMC/Cinemark/Regal oligarchy has priced them out. It is also sadly located in the hipster capital of the region, so I almost never go there.