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  1. Re:"who has Asperger's syndrome" on Alleged Hacker Lauri Love To Be Extradited To US (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A mental health issue is automatically a disease?

  2. Not just skin on iPhone 7 Home Button Now Requires Skin Contact To Work (todaysiphone.com) · · Score: 1

    Also works with new Apple iGlove, yours for only $79.99.

  3. Re:Smeg on 28 Years A Smeghead: Red Dwarf Is Coming Back (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    One of the writers left after VI - just at the point where it seemed the Beeb were prepared to up the budget. So decent writing gave way to CGI dinosaurs and other such nonsense.

    Apparently there was a direct-to-DVD Season X in 2012.

    It was on TV, and it was actually pretty good. It benefitted from having a much smaller budget, I suspect.

  4. Re:Smeg on 28 Years A Smeghead: Red Dwarf Is Coming Back (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It went downhill when one of the writers left, is what happened.

  5. Re:that's why they are called service providers on Woman Faces $9,100 Verizon Bill For Data She Says She Didn't Use (dslreports.com) · · Score: 2

    They hunt you in the er2 every time?

  6. This "study" only applies to the very short term future, as do all autonomous car naysayers' arguments.

    Also, it's not a study. It's a survey. It doesn't "debunk" anything, as the article claims. Typical Daily Fail, err, fail.

    a new study claims that they will have little impact

    Yes, that's the best thing about autonomous cars :)

  7. Re:Motion Sickness on Autonomous Vehicles Won't Give Us Any More Free Time, Says Study (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's more often the other way around. The dissonance is between what you see (which, when not looking out of the window, is your relatively still surroundings) and what you feel (the car bumping around on the road, turning corners, accelerating and decelerating).

  8. That's similar to Musk's email? on Tesla Is Suing An Oil-Company Executive For Impersonating Elon Musk (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Todd Katz [...] emailed Tesla's chief financial officer using a similar email address as Musk's [...]. According to the lawsuit, Katz used "elontesla@yahoo.com"

    Why would Elon Musk be using an email address that is in any way even remotely similar to "elontesla@yahoo.com"?

  9. Summary needs correcting on 28 Years A Smeghead: Red Dwarf Is Coming Back (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Unless you're a smeghead, you'll be excited to know that (after 28 years after the smash cult sitcom began) Red Dwarf seasons 11 and 12 are now in production.

    You should also know, unless you're a smeghead, that Red Dwarf series (not seasons) are numbered with Roman numerals.

    As it was with Llewellyn's (Kryton)

    Kryten.

    John-Jules (Kat).

    Cat. Jesus. I mean, he's actually a bloody cat. That's how he got the name.

    Also you make it sound like this is the first time it's coming back since going off air, which isn't so. It has been four years since series X, though.

  10. Re:I haven't seen this app on Samsung.. on Xiaomi Can Silently Install Any App On Your Android Phone Using A Backdoor (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 1

    In the first sentence of the first linked article it mentions Samsung phones are infected with this backdoor

    No it doesn't.

  11. Xiaomi Can Silently Install Any App On Your Android Phone Using A Backdoor

    Oh really? On my Android phone, you say?

    Please stop blindly copying headlines. Stuff like this makes it look like you think us readers are dumb and can't be interested in a story unless it somehow personally affects us.

  12. Re:Paranoid much on FBI Director James Comey: Cover Up Your Webcam (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Hah. Boogers.

  13. But today's Thursday on FBI Director James Comey: Cover Up Your Webcam (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    The head of the FBI on Wednesday

    That guy's old news. What does Thursday's head of the FBI say?

    FBI Director James Comey: Cover Up Your Webcam

    Don't tell me what to do, chief. Maybe being perved on by hackers is my thing! You can't judge me!

  14. It was the police who deswirled the photographs.

  15. Oh no, DNS based you say? on GCHQ Planning UK-Wide DNS Firewall (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Manager: I'm sorry, but if you don't come up with that money by tomorrow, the bank is going to take your house.
    Homer: Well, good luck finding it, because I'm going to take the numbers off tonight!
    Manager: Well, we'll look for the house with no numbers.
    Homer: Then I'll take off the numbers on my neighbor's house.
    Manager: Then we'll look for the house next to the house with no numbers.
    Homer: [...] All right, you'll get your money...

  16. Re:and then block porn / 3rd party candidates / fr on GCHQ Planning UK-Wide DNS Firewall (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    It's England.

    Well, the UK. For now.

  17. By 2021, robots will have eliminated 6% of all jobs in the U.S.

    No, you've got it wrong. They're going to eliminate 6% of all job seekers.

  18. Re:Phones shouldn't be able to auto dial a number on US 911 Emergency System Can Be Crippled By a Mobile Botnet (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    How can the phone, ultimately, be certain that a call was or was not user-initiated? If it's compromised, any number of methods could be used to fake it out and cause it to dial a number.

    It seems to me the phone OS shouldn't allow itself to be compromised. There, solved it!

  19. Tell the different on MIT Invented A Camera That Can Read Closed Books (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    it allows the researchers to tell the different between ink and blank paper.

    But it can't tell the different between "different" and "difference."

  20. Facebook Is Collaborating With The Israeli Government To Determine What It Might Need to Censor in Order to Keep Operating in Israel

  21. I have no problem with them asking for donations, or charging for physical CDs, or support, or anything else. But in my opinion they are being disingenuous by actively concealing the fact that the download is freely available.

  22. And??

    And I find it disingenuous. Deliberately fostering the impression that you have to pay for something (and they do call it "Pay," not even "Donate") which you are explicitly required to make available for free.

    Reminds me of certain online flight booking sites that will automatically pre-select a seat for you (and charge you for it) and go out of their way to hide both the fact that you don't have to accept and the way to opt out.

  23. Re:"the system will temporarily shut off" on Elon Musk Says Tesla New Autopilot Features Would Have Prevented Recent Death (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing it gives the warning, and if you don't take heed, it won't work the next time you try to engage it (but will continue to work until you do retake control this time).

    So you'll just need to find a convenient roundabout so you can dive out and leave the car running until you're ready to hop back in again the next day.

  24. Re:Slow news day? on Why Sys-Admins Are Disabling The Lights on WiFi Access Points (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh yah, the old two-strippers.

    I bought a sheet of ND8 filter to tame some of the brighter, but more useful displays on DVD players, TV boxes, etc. The latest one was brighter than the TV itself.

  25. The point is that the interface goes out of its way to conceal the fact that a free download is possible.