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  1. Re:Nope, not a crime on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    What world do you live in where the mueller investigation led to no charges?

  2. Re:News Plus is available in Canada now on Apple Unveils $9.99 News Subscription Service Dubbed Apple News+ (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Are there any options for local journalism?

  3. Re:Apple everything on Apple Unveils $9.99 News Subscription Service Dubbed Apple News+ (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Even Apple bananas?

  4. Re:Manufacturing Is Hard on Consumer Reports No Longer Recommends the Tesla Model 3 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Ya nobody else likes profits

  5. Re:Good grief on YouTube Videos Could Get Demonetized If They Have 'Inappropriate Comments' · · Score: 1

    Which is it, coddling or screwing content creators?

  6. Re:Another Fantastic Article! on How Streaming Music Could Be Harming the Planet (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes but you can listen to a vinyl or CD multiple times. Try doing that on your phone! Oh wait the song is cached on your phone. And it requires no motors on my phone to replay a song... So not only is the delivery cheaper and more environmentally friendly, so is the repeat playback.

  7. Re:Wrong. on How Streaming Music Could Be Harming the Planet (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Its also wrong because don't most streaming services "cache" music you listen to that frequently? A good chunk of my listening time is offline anyway since I don't always have access to wifi. Surely playing a track on your phone is using much less energy than a CD player

  8. Re:yeah, right on Logitech is Relaunching the MX518 Gaming Mouse (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    But no pets is no maintenance

  9. I know more android users that upgrade every year than iphone users.

  10. Apple phones stay in circulation longer than other phones. Its a matter of preference that you don't like apple phones but many people do because they work well for quite a long time.

  11. Re:Least Valuable out of These Five Companies on Reddit Users Are the Least Valuable of Any Social Network (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    weird flex but ok

  12. Re:reality vs stock value on Reddit Users Are the Least Valuable of Any Social Network (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I've only been purged from the donald sub and the bernie sanders sub. The site has its safe spaces sure but that is the nature of the beast. The ability to ban can be abused. There are "watchdog" type subs though that call out their hypocrisy

  13. Re: Least susceptible to advertising? on Reddit Users Are the Least Valuable of Any Social Network (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Then why is it so much harder to make money off them?

  14. Its more like slash dot

  15. Re:Firmware as a Service (FaaS) on Microsoft Announces Project Mu, an Open-Source Release of the UEFI Core (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd prefer my firmware updates to be as soulless as possible thank you

  16. Re:Firmware as a service? on Microsoft Announces Project Mu, an Open-Source Release of the UEFI Core (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have an ecosystem with a wide variety of hardware it might be simpler to manage. Not sure, I only just heard of this so i can't come to a conclusion if its a good product or not

  17. Re:ALL OF THE SERVICES on Microsoft Announces Project Mu, an Open-Source Release of the UEFI Core (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    Why would anyone want to monetize their work!?

  18. Re:But they're not so cautious on Twitter Warns of Suspicious Traffic Coming From China and Russia (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Youtube tracks theirs though right? Couldn't twitter do the same?

  19. Re:Why? on Tesla's Household Battery: Costs, Prices, and Tradeoffs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    People want to get off fossil fuels. Its not a matter of which is more cost effective. Its a matter of how affordable solar and battery is. Its clear the technology has nearly arrived such that if a middle class household wanted to get off the grid, off coal, off gasoline for their car... they can do it and afford it. Even if its still more expensive, its within their reach where it wasn't before.

  20. Re:Well on Mozilla Is Investigating Why Dell Is Charging To Install Firefox · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes. I ordered a bunch of PCs from Dell for work and they had an Ubuntu option which saved us some $$$ since we have volume Windows licensing anyway.

  21. Re:First?? on Mozilla Is Investigating Why Dell Is Charging To Install Firefox · · Score: 4, Informative

    Is this really on the consumer side of dells sales? I've definitely seen it on the corporate side of their "premier" website. They also charge 6$ for a bunch of individual bios changes. If you're a big company getting a fleet of PCs and IT labour is at a premium then yeah it might be worth having Dell configure them instead.

  22. Selling the labour on Mozilla Is Investigating Why Dell Is Charging To Install Firefox · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dell also charges to set up bios parameters. Big woop

  23. Re:there's lots of them on Kentucky: Programming Language = Foreign Language · · Score: 1

    Grade 13 was not optional if you wanted to go to university. Grade 13 was eliminated by the Mike Harris government to save on education spending. It had nothing to do with giving Ontarians an unfair advantage (lol). In fact it was a disadvantage to be a year behind everyone else in the country. They didn't just scrap grade 13. They planned way ahead. They changed the curriculum at grade 6 (I was in grade 7 when the new curriculum hit the grade 6ers). When I graduated 13, my grade 12 cohorts were just as educated.

  24. Re:headline fix on Kentucky: Programming Language = Foreign Language · · Score: 1

    Can you really study another culture without knowing some of their language? You're argument isn't incorrect but it works the same way for programming language. You won't get anything valuable from it if you take the class just to get the credit. The point of high school is to get your toe wet in a variety of fields. You don't know you have an aptitude for something until you try it. Take a foreign language, and take programming. I grew up in english Canadian and it always baffles me how English speakers (especially in Canada) are so phobic about foreign languages. "Two languages in one head!? No one can think at that speed!" ~ Eddie Izzard

  25. Re:The crux of the problem: Science is compression on Kentucky: Programming Language = Foreign Language · · Score: 1

    At what age do we decide who takes what route in specialized education? At what age should general education turn into specialized education? I think grade 12 is a good end point for general education, what about you? If the previous generation could get both a foreign language credit and a mathematics/logic credit why can't todays generation? They managed to become engineers in a specific field. Yes there are more specialized fields to chose from but why does it matter? Its scalable. Or are you suggesting too much general knowledge is being crammed into the k-12 curriculum?