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  1. Re:Never heard of it on Gigaom Closes Shop · · Score: 2

    most likely they wrote the truth instead of the click bait crap of BGR, Ars and The Verge

  2. a whole 130 years of data on California's Hot, Dry Winters Tied To Climate Change · · Score: 0

    show me some real data going back a few thousand years and i'll believe you

  3. Re:Good Luck on Major Museums Start Banning Selfie Sticks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    same with the statue of David. they should just make fake art for some of these museums that can be damaged by photos and save the real thing

  4. Re:Thought these were jokes on Major Museums Start Banning Selfie Sticks · · Score: 2

    back in the day you would have to ask strangers to take a photo of your entire family or group and thieves would steal cameras. worse in the smartphone age when someone can steal your $700 phone and all the personal data on it.

    well worth it to buy a $40 stick with bluetooth on it for personal photos

  5. Re:"Dreaded"? on Major Museums Start Banning Selfie Sticks · · Score: 2

    people don't pay attention and swing these things around thinking they are the only ones who matter

  6. Re:Plans to 3D print a selfie stick? on Major Museums Start Banning Selfie Sticks · · Score: 1

    you can buy cheap ones for like $10

  7. what problem is your product trying to solve? on In the Age of Free AAA Game Engines, Where Does Our Open Source Engine Stand? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the Pro products have support departments and support for assets and other additions to their products. when a game has a 2-3 year dev time your product stands out by making it easy for devs to cut their time to market and save money

    no one cares if it's open source or hobbyist made, they care about having their devs who cost $200,000 or more per year EACH spend less time making games

  8. Re:Those without a timeline will be at an advantag on In 10 Years, Every Human Connected To the Internet Will Have a Timeline · · Score: 1

    being that some of these services are used by a tiny minority of people and even facebook's user base a small minority do the regular posting, i wouldn't worry about it

    this is for the phone zombies who need google maps to walk the same route every day because they are too stupid to remember. in fact i bet a higher timeline score will be bad because it means all you do is stare into the phone

  9. so who uses all these service? on In 10 Years, Every Human Connected To the Internet Will Have a Timeline · · Score: 1

    i use google and facebook, but sparingly

    i don't have a fitbit and don't keep track of my biometrics because it's fucking stupid to count the number of steps i take daily or record my pulse all day long

    i don't use waze or Maps that often because i have a brain and can figure things out on my own if there is traffic or some train is running slow. or it's fucking useless to use Maps if you have one route to work and taking shortcuts takes just as long. i only use it as a quick traffic check or if i'm driving somewhere i have never been to before. NYC is fairly easy to figure out to navigate without staring into your phone all day

    leapfrogs are a waste of money

  10. Re:More than curious, on Software Freedom Conservancy Funds GPL Suit Against VMWare · · Score: 1

    we are wiping it tomorrow and rerolling all of our vm's with hyper-v or xen

  11. Re:What I find unbelievable... on New Zealand Spied On Nearly Two Dozen Pacific Countries · · Score: 1

    ISIS somehow got a hold of a lot of Iphone 6 phones and reports were that during the post launch shortage last year there were a lot of muslims buying a lot of iphone's at apple stores all over the USA. ISIS even used an LA company to edit all of their execution videos

  12. Re:Ten comments in and the shills are here on New Zealand Spied On Nearly Two Dozen Pacific Countries · · Score: 1

    we did
    the NSA had tapped ocean fiber cables in the 1990's, there was even a book about it. and back when long distance calls were transmitted by satellite and microwave, the NSA would suck those out of the air as well. only thing changed in the last 20 years is there is more data and it's almost all on fiber rather than wireless backbones

  13. a spy agency is spying, WOW on New Zealand Spied On Nearly Two Dozen Pacific Countries · · Score: 2

    it's what they do. find stuff out about other countries that they don't want anyone else to know

  14. Re:What I find unbelievable... on New Zealand Spied On Nearly Two Dozen Pacific Countries · · Score: -1, Troll

    because no one is tracking you. it's impossible to do it with the amount of people we have. i'm in the USA, but why would anyone in the NSA care if i buy coffee at starbucks or some snobby place or who i text? how would anyone track tens of millions of people daily going about their daily business?

    so there is data in the NSA computers that i text a few people every day, and one person who just went to russia i haven't texted her since she left. do you think anyone cares? multiply this by 300 million people in the USA. do you think there are people sitting around doing nothing but reading who texts who?

  15. that was on season 1 of ancient aliens on Physicists May Be One Step Closer To Explaining High-Temp Superconductivity · · Score: -1

    they mentioned the book of Ezekiel and that was Ezekiel's description of talking to God. How he had a bunch of crystals in the metallic craft that he came to him in

  16. didn't the romans figure this out long ago? on Research Suggests That Saunas Help You Live Longer · · Score: 2

    they had hot baths thousands of years ago

  17. Re:Interesing... on Lawmakers Seek Information On Funding For Climate Change Critics · · Score: 4, Informative

    and the wall street banks were salivating at the thought of trading carbon credits
    your point being?

    a lot of money to be made on "green" crap

  18. meanwhile at Fort Meade on Gemalto: NSA and GCHQ Probably Hacked Us, But Didn't Get SIM Encryption Keys · · Score: 2

    a bunch of NSA geeks are high fiving each other and can't seem to stop hooting and hollering with awesomeness

  19. the evil central business district on Ancient and Modern People Followed Same Mathematical Rule To Build Cities · · Score: 2

    for NYC that means that ten million people commute into the same few square miles and all the subways run through manhattan. it results in daily delays and the need for a car for weekend driving unless you want to spend over an hour riding through manhattan for no reason

    and the real estate barons kill any attempt to create smaller business districts outside of manhattan and to build a train route that does not touch manhattan

  20. Re:Boring on An Evidence-Based Approach To Online Dating · · Score: 4, Insightful

    yep, women makes lists of features they want in a mate. 70%- 80% is about not only what they settle for but what they want since they want a lifelong project to change a man into their image. 100% perfect is too boring

  21. Re:it started with smartphones on Gadgets That Spy On Us: Way More Than TVs · · Score: 1

    it was in star trek and all the geeks were going crazy about Siri, google now and whatever

  22. it started with smartphones on Gadgets That Spy On Us: Way More Than TVs · · Score: 2

    people wanted voice control and they got it

  23. didn't comcast want to share out people's wifi on Cellphone Start-Ups Handle Calls With Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    and everyone said they were evil? but when google does the same it's awesome?

  24. Re: Huh? on The Revolution Wasn't Televised: the Early Days of YouTube · · Score: 1

    A lot of businesses like strategy guides killed off by youtube

  25. Re:They have nothing else more important to do? on NYPD Creates Fake Social Media Profiles To Track Loud Parties, Underage Drinking · · Score: 0

    some of us don't want concerts next door to us. if you want a legit show, go rent a legit venue and sell tickets