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  1. Nest sold a product....
    to be placed in private homes....
    that had a microphone...
    and they purposefully hid this fact...

    I don't even....anymore...I....ugh.

  2. The Time Machine on Europe Plans To Drill the Moon For Oxygen and Water by 2025 (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh no, have they heard the tale of "The Time Machine"
    Very much bad-ness has been predicted, yes?
    Moon cracks...smash becomes.

  3. Did I read this right.... on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No normal person would move to cloud based service - Oracle
    next sentence
    We will be working on a cloud based service - Oracle

  4. "America! ... F*** Yeah ! " on New App Lets You 'Sue Anyone By Pressing a Button' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    - Team America: World Police
    I couldn't help but hear this as soon as i read the title

  5. When I was your age..... on LG Announces V40 ThinQ With Five Cameras, 6.4-iInch OLED Screen (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    When I was your age weez had 1 camera on our phone and that was enough !


    -signed
    Grandpa

  6. oh...there's a saying about this....how does it go?

  7. Re:Lazy loading is what? on Built-in Lazy Loading Lands in Google Chrome Canary (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    *THIS*
    If I can take minimal time to write an concise & descriptive email with audience=1, surely a journalist can take the time to write a descriptive summary with an audience of 1,000's +

    I suspect there is copy/pasting going on here.
    I think we should name this "copy/.pasting"

  8. Hire the right person, not the right gender on California May Become First State To Require Companies To Have Women On Their Boards (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't a company be allowed to hire the right person for the job, not "the right gender"?

  9. ...That Headline Though! on US Invaded By Savage Tick That Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    click here
    must see
    you wont believe
    buy buy buy!

  10. We call it an Oligopoly on How AT&T and Verizon Rip Off DSL Customers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone in Canada pays $60 for 10Mbps.
    Even with.... "competition"
    :)


    ...but seriously, this isn't far from the truth.

  11. First Trump wants a Space Force, now we pay to link to web sites!

    I feel like my Vanilla Sky dream is going bad!

    "TECH SUPPORT.....TECH SUPPORT!"

  12. Durburger is an even better example!
    nice :)

  13. Well, if we throwing Capetonian into the mix...
    then someone from Durban would be a Durbonian!

  14. HamburgBurger.
    The rule does not discriminate!

  15. Listen, on a side note: if someone from Johannesburg is a Joburger then I think it just goes that someone from Capetown should be a Capeburger. It has a nice ring to it.

  16. HALLELUJAH ! on Apple Jams Facebook's Web-Tracking Tools (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ^ what the subject said

  17. Re:Nothing changes on Meet Norman, the Psychopathic AI (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Came here to say this.
    ....somebody got paid to do that study !

  18. I have no idea what you are talking about. on 'Increasingly, People in Silicon Valley Are Losing Touch With Reality' (500ish.com) · · Score: 1

    Quote: "I'd wager everyone reading this will have clear and obvious examples of what I'm talking about "

    I have no idea what you are talking about.

    You lost the bet MG Siegler.

  19. Re:Y2K on You Think Discovering a Computer Virus Is Hard? Try Naming One (wsj.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    yes thank you!
    I came here just to complain about that one quote: "...and Y2K, a turn-of-the-century programming scare that didn't live up to its hype"

    I was a consultant for that worked on Y2K compliance for a very large US firm with over 5k unique software applications/installs. We identified the risk and patched where appropriate....and there was risk!
    Y2K rolls past and everyone says, oh well....guess it wasn't really an issue.
    ARGH!
    OK, I admit there was alot of hype in 1999 about Y2K but there were alot of programmers working on it. We will just never know how bad it would have been if it was just left as is.

  20. So in other words.... on Sheryl Sandberg: Users Would Have To Pay To Opt Out of Facebook Ads (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    FACEBOOK: "We have collected a lot of private & personal data on you, PAY US or we will share it with others!"

  21. Re:Not obsolete on Apple Investigated By France For 'Planned Obsolescence' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You can download/install software for a 486 computer, use can use it.... but I would still call a 486 "obsolete"

  22. Reuse the existing boxes, drop off at Whole Foods? on Amazon Tries To Figure Out the Packaging Box Problem It Created (t.co) · · Score: 1

    How about Amazon customers drop off their good cardboard boxes at the nearest Whole Foods, maybe for a for a small refund?
    Good boxes can be reused, ones deemed not good enough can be recycled.

  23. S.A. Tushi on Did Elon Musk Create Bitcoin? (cryptocoinsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Satoshi
    SAToshi
    South African Toshi
    South African Tushi
    ....a person from South Africa Elon, we are onto you!

  24. Almost like Ikea but without the checkout.
    Thats a great idea.
    Sometimes when buying online I wish I could view it in person first. I guess I'm already doing that at brick and mortar stores but they just don't have everything I'm looking for.

  25. The Onion on CERN Scientists Conclude that the Universe Should Not Exist (ign.com) · · Score: 1

    For a moment...just a brief second.... I thought I was reading an article on 'The Onion'