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  1. Re:Basic Engineering! on The Missile Impasse In the Iran Negotiations · · Score: 1

    Don't pretend you don't see the issue. That's 44 deads in over 60 years of conflict. In Gaza 44 deads under enemy fire is called "a good weekend".

  2. Re:sigh... on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 1

    And how many people go homeless while we wait for the Invisible Hand?

  3. Re:Guess who's not getting an account with Santand on Santander To Track Customer Location Via Mobiles and Tablets · · Score: 1

    Nobody says this can't be used as an anti-fraud measure, it's just that this kind of sensible data should be collected with clear privacy statements that claim:
    1- nobody but us can access this data
    2- this data will never be sold to 3rd parties
    3- this data can be accessed by authorities only after a warrant (well, this really depend on local legislation, I admit)
    4- this data will be stored for this reasonably short amount of time
    5- you can opt out from this service any time, here's how

  4. A more honest title on Siri, Cortana and Google Have Nothing On SoundHound's Speech Recognition · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Please buy us out!"

  5. Re:They're bums, why keep them around on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    Germany got the debt out of reunification condoned, even by Greece.

  6. Re:Typo: Digital Rights Management on Firefox 38 Arrives With DRM Required To Watch Netflix · · Score: 1

    Let's also add: DRM support is 32bit Windows only, because HTML5 was supposed to be a multi-platform standard that would free us from browser plugins, exept when it didn't.

  7. Re:Make me an offer on Want 30 Job Offers a Month? It's Not As Great As You Think · · Score: 1

    It's also a question of too low salaries: outsourcing to China allows businesses to pay very small salaries to local employees (they would be anyway able to buy Chinese products) and pocket the difference. Wonder why you won't get hired without a H1B? Look at the CEO income.

  8. Re:And this is news... on NVIDIA's New GPUs Are Very Open-Source Unfriendly · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The open-source radeon driver has hardware media coding/decoding working since a long time, with both VDPAU and OpenMAX interfaces. The codecs actually reside on the card and you already pay for their license when you buy it, what is missing is just an API to use them.

  9. Yeah, "evolution" on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 1

    Pot makes you high.

  10. Re:Jumping the Shark on Coup in Arrakis Capitol Leaves Region in Flux · · Score: 1

    I'd say it rode the worm...

  11. Re:This is great! on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Near Launching Presidential Bid · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nitpicking, or complete lack of imagination?

  12. Re:Adobe on YouTube Ditches Flash For HTML5 Video By Default · · Score: 1

    xhamster
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  13. Re:Adobe on YouTube Ditches Flash For HTML5 Video By Default · · Score: 0

    I'm married. You fail.

  14. Re:Honestly... on Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure exactly what your test proves here, are you really that surprised that you got offered sex for money in Amsterdam?
    I also travel quite some myself and the only time I got approached by a pimp was in Lloret de Mar, but that's basically an open-air brothel.

    On a side note, being from Milan myself, could you elaborate on the "hard to tell"? Just curious.

  15. Re: Honestly... on Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister · · Score: 1

    Inflation devalues already issued loans, and that's why your bank hates it.

  16. Re:Adobe on YouTube Ditches Flash For HTML5 Video By Default · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's still one: porn.

  17. Re:Flawed by design . . . on Micromax Remotely Installing Unwanted Apps and Showing Ads · · Score: 1

    I'm not entirely sure they can cherry-pick and replace single Google apps, they can of course use the Android stack without Google apps and services (that's what Amazon does).

  18. Re:If this gathers more press than the science... on NASA's New Horizons To Arrive At Pluto With Clyde Tombaugh's Ashes · · Score: 1

    First we would have to select and incinerate 7 of them...

  19. Nothing wrong. on What's Wrong With the Manhattan Project National Park · · Score: 2

    It's going to be a blast.

  20. Re:Uber's in a completely different market on Uber Must Submit CEO Emails · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, you kinda expect to be ripped off in Vegas...

  21. Re:"New Features" on Linux 3.19 Kernel To Start 2015 With Many New Features · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Surrender to SpaceX, France on Airbus Attacked By French Lawmaker For Talking To SpaceX · · Score: 1

    Uh, I might not recall well,but didn't the US declare that war?

  23. Re:Surrender to SpaceX, France on Airbus Attacked By French Lawmaker For Talking To SpaceX · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Uh, give another go at history. The British army was the homeland army in the US and the actual resident armed force. Yours was a secession war that effectively created your national identity (or officialized it, depends on the point of view). The only real foreign attack you had on your soil was Pearl Harbor, and that wasn't an invasion.

  24. Re:Understandable given the nature of the EU on EU May Not Unify Its Data Protection Rules After All · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Fine, but give me a democratic EU. I want a say in what the European Commission decides, I want to finally understand whatever the Council of European Union is (seriously, nobody seems to know), I want a democratic European Parliament with the power of legislative initiative. Anything else is a nice-looking dictatorship.

  25. Re:So What on Hawking Warns Strong AI Could Threaten Humanity · · Score: 2

    An AI smarter than us can definitely learn to repair itself, the same way we invented medicine.