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  1. Proof for human idiocy on Strange New Social Media Trend: Licking Nintendo Switch Cartridges (macon.com) · · Score: 0

    That's another one.
    And it tastes awful!

  2. So why is e2email by e2email-org and not by Google?

  3. Re: And any other CLI masking, please! on FCC Chair Wants Carriers To Block Robocalls From Spoofed Numbers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    YOUR phone operator knows who you are and whether your advertised number is licit or not. NO EXCUSE!

  4. And any other CLI masking, please! on FCC Chair Wants Carriers To Block Robocalls From Spoofed Numbers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's no reason for companies to mask or spoof their phone numbers. Yes, please, stop all that!

  5. Next time they'll use their own data centers on Amazon Outage Cost S&P 500 Companies $150M (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    And not someone else's. The so called "could". It vanishes as a cloud of smoke!

  6. Who are those 8+M extra people? on Anthem's Historic Data Breach: What We Still Don't Know 2 Years Later (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I would like to know who are those 8+M people ("persons") that are neither current not former customers and employees!
    I suspect they also have collected and retained data about prospect-customers, wanna-be employees.
    And I wonder how legal it is!

  7. Too little? on Mobile Search Engine Baidu Goes Dark For Nearly 20 Minutes (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe staying dark for longer could help the world!

  8. Real Science! on Scientists Discover a Way To Get Every Last Drop of Ketchup Out of the Bottle (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's really nice to see all this Science and Technology used to get a better world!
    And a /. article for it!

  9. Trump Rules! on Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited, Rules A New Zealand Court (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    That's it!

  10. How do they know on US Visitors May Have to Hand Over Social Media Passwords: DHS (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    How many social network identities, if any, I have? This is just plain FUD!

  11. Re:"... distances of ~20,000kms1 or more" ??? on Milky Way Is Being Pushed Across the Universe (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I've got the point, mates. Thanks.
    The problem is still the same: don't change the name of the things and don't assign new and different meanings to names!
    If it's a speed, then it can be m*s-1, if it's a distance, then it's m.
    If you need a different concept, then use its name and its definition.
    A distance is a distance is a distance is a distance!

  12. "... distances of ~20,000kms1 or more" ??? on Milky Way Is Being Pushed Across the Universe (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    This is what I read from the original article. To my very limited ability to understand, it seems that "Km s-1" is a speed, not a distance. As stated, by the way, a few words earlier in "V CMB = 631±20kms1". Surely I am wrong. Or maybe they are.

  13. By the way? 50 Mbps? 100 Mbps? 1 Gbps? Was it that difficult to say that?

  14. Also pin and voice pattern on Android Device's Pattern Lock Can Be Cracked Within Five Attempts, Researchers Show (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    If you can record someone unlocking the phone, then you can unlock it as well. And it seems that it could work with hires photos of finger prints. So, no news!

  15. Then back to the moon? on Scientists Enter Hawaii Dome In Eight-Month Mars Space Mission Study (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Provided that these tests will succeed, I hope NASA will do the next step to the moon first, instead of Mars itself. This would also help in case anything goes wrong. I think, if we cannot make it again to the moon, we won't make it any farther!

  16. Why not firewalling that out? One could install a local firewall app (root likely required) to block all that traffic!

  17. Not to oust the 3ds? You make me laugh, Nintendo!

  18. Re: Wireless headphones are idiotic on Headphone Users Rejoice: Samsung Reportedly Not Killing the Galaxy S8's Headphone Jack (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, as long as music will be stored/streamed with lossy codecs, top quality headphones/earbuddies will be just a waste.
    But having good/decent quality headphones/earbuddies will be a good move.

  19. Re:Wireless headphones are idiotic on Headphone Users Rejoice: Samsung Reportedly Not Killing the Galaxy S8's Headphone Jack (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact beats are popular shows people don't give a shit about audio quality.

    Right!

    The only thing idiotic is to not give the users choice.

    Everyone seems to be going to follow airdiotic by ditching the wired earbuddies socket.

  20. Wireless headphones are idiotic on Headphone Users Rejoice: Samsung Reportedly Not Killing the Galaxy S8's Headphone Jack (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    While being meant to be fancy.
    Wired headphones can be a very little uncomfortable. But they have superior audio quality, they don't need recharging, they are cheap.
    Wireless earbuddies are a nightmare are you can loose them while in use, audio quality can depend upon distance and em noise, aren't cheap at all.

  21. Sure it is on Is The C Programming Language Declining In Popularity? (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Just like real programming!

  22. Re: In the beginning.... on Linux.com Announces The Best Linux Distros for 2017 (linux.com) · · Score: 2

    God created SLS!

  23. Interesting: a distro a year? on Linux.com Announces The Best Linux Distros for 2017 (linux.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfeasible. I chose a desktop distro some years ago and still stick to it. Same for servers. Same for embedded boxes. This ranking makes no sense to me.

  24. Do us afavor, MS! on Rumors of Cmd's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Port bash to windows and ditch that cmd.exe (aka command.com).
    You are already missing an opportunity with 4dos since 1989...

  25. With a program!