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  1. Re:Subsidizing Businesses.... on Massachusetts Will Tax Ride-Sharing Companies To Subsidize Taxis (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    > This is like taxing car owners to subsidize stage coaches.

    What? How?

    A more accurate simile would be,

    This is like taxing coal to subsidize wind.

  2. Will they remove all the malware and virus associated with Curse's "products"?

    I don't use their add-on managers for just that reason

  3. Re:what about this? on Canada's Police Chiefs Want New Law To Compel People To Reveal Passwords (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Rest assured, not all police dept are that smart.

  4. Care to share your findings?

  5. Re:Time is more vast than space on Maybe There's No Life in Space Because We're Too Early · · Score: 1

    "in our Galaxy (the only reachable life that realistically matters to us)"

    I disagree. Humanity has a knack for improving basic concepts.

    A hundred years ago it would take a week to fly across the US, now it takes an afternoon. There are supersonic jets that cross the Atlantic in even less time.

    Once we discover how to travel between stars in reasonable, commercial avenues, there won't be much time to the point where we cross galaxies.

  6. Re:Well done Britain on China Starts Developing Hybrid Hypersonic Spaceplane (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretend you're American and tell those "suit wearing prats with aristocratic titles who insist on being called 'sir' something, or 'your lordship' by anybody they perceive as being their inferiors" to go fuck themselves.

  7. Re:Almost... on How a 1967 Solar Storm Nearly Led To Nuclear War (space.com) · · Score: 1

    jokes on you, the sun has been at war with the Earth for billions of years.

    all reports say that it will win in time.

    'Merica will stop it.

  8. If it isn't broke... on More Airline Outages Seen As Carriers Grapple With Aging Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If it isn't broke, don't fix it. .... Wait. It is breaking, but you aren't fixing it?

    Anyway.... Why is it breaking to begin with? Age isn't a problem in IT, are they adding features that can't integrate with this system? Are there too many transactions? What gives?

  9. Does the creator(s) of the "infringed" content see any of this money or is it all hoarded by these "rights groups"?

    If they see any of it, then please, by all means, rape and pillage Comcast, etc (mostly Comcast, Fuck You Comcast) as much as possible, otherwise it's just money changing from one evil hand to another...

  10. Something cool posted on ./

  11. Re:MDWhat? on Hacker Selling Data For 200 Million Yahoo Users On The Dark Web (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was thinking the same thing... How is the world is a company the size and age of Yahoo still using MD5 to store passwords...

    It takes at most 2/3 hours to setup some type of blowfish hashing scheme.

    Rule #1 when dealing with encryption: someone else has done it before and has done it better. Never rewrite the wheel. (Unless you are an actual expert in the field)

  12. Re:So much for that flavor of the broken money mod on Gawker Founder Nick Denton Files For Bankruptcy (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Let the other guy get the money that comes from those eyeball baiting news stories?

    Yeah, let me sell that to Fox News and CNN, see how that goes....

  13. Re:How is it not 100%? on Google Says 97% Of Connections To YouTube Are Now Encrypted (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The summary links to a summary of the original post.

    In the original post:

    > 97% for YouTube is pretty good, but why isn't YouTube at 100%? In short, some devices do not fully support modern HTTPS. Over time, to keep YouTube users
    > as safe as possible, we will gradually phase out insecure connections.

    I suspect TV's are a big perpetrator

  14. Subjects in Comments are Dumb on Open Source Gardening Robot 'FarmBot' Raises $560,000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obvious question....

    Can it grow weed?

  15. > the average American pays $99.10 per month for cable TV

    Bullshit.

    That is 100% bullshit.

    First off, you don't get to order just cable TV. That doesn't exist (for a reasonable price). If you do opt for only cable TV, comcast offers me a 100$/month plan.

    Second, if you want internet, or heaven forbid a landline, the cost jumps to ~200/month. Sure you get those 6 or 12 months of a reduced rate, but then you're slapped with a bill that rivals your mortgage.

  16. They don't need ownership to do that, just access to the hardware, which they already have via manufacturing.

  17. Re:Breaking news: investors are idiots on Nintendo Shares Plummet After Investors Realize It Doesn't Actually Make Pokemon Go (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This. A lot of money was still made.

  18. Common Ground on Sony Is the Only Remaining Obstacle To PS4-Xbox Cross-Play (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    This destroys what consoles gave, common ground.

    No longer will everyone playing a single game be running the same hardware. With these cross-platform features, consumers will be looking at which platform provides more frag than lag.

    Sony has historically provided better hardware, but Microsoft has provided a better network.

    Decisions, decisions...

  19. Re:So just rename it then? on Consumer Reports Calls For Tesla To Disable Autopilot (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1

    Have you ever flown a plane with auto pilot?

  20. Re:Is this available to the US also? on Google To Train 2 Million Indian Android Developers (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    > picking up the pieces you left behind

    HA! Already doing that. These guys can't code for shit.

  21. #BernOrBust

    I am shamed that Bernie would endorse Clinton, as a NH resident, I feel even worse we have to host the event he is going to endorse her in - what CNN and NPR would at this point consider already done with a bow tied around it.

    Clinton is just as wrong as Trump.

    #BernOrBust

  22. Re:I doubt this will ever really end on Free Upgrade To Windows 10 Mobile Will Continue Past July 29 (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    To everyone saying this is off-topic.

    It is not, the topic is windows expanding the upgrade window. This article just focuses on mobile devices, but don't think too big now, your brains might blow.

  23. I doubt this will ever really end on Free Upgrade To Windows 10 Mobile Will Continue Past July 29 (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Microsoft's PR has been "Look! We've converted all these people to this awesome new OS!", however, the only reason half those numbers are legal (cough), is because it's free.

    If it wasn't, those would be pirated copies.

    This isn't really their wheelhouse anymore for revenue. This is the "gateway drug" of the their business model.

    Free upgrades to Windows 10 won't go away. They will issue a press release about extending desktop upgrades, then eventually let the news fizzle out until no one cares, then remove the "limited time" part of the deal.

  24. Re:Outrageous on Verizon To Hike Prices On Plans But Offer More Data (cnet.com) · · Score: 3

    Money, duh.

    There are various bills a typical household in America has, a mortgage, utilities, cable, and cell phones.

    Until recently, people would couple cable and cell phones with the broad brush of "utilities", but cable bills costing $200+/month as well as cell phones costing families another arm; It seems they also want that proverbial leg as well...

    > The move reflects a heightened competitive environment, one in which smaller rivals T-Mobile and Sprint have begun winning away customers through
    > aggressive offers. Many of these changes mimic offers already available at the other carriers.

    This is what saddens me... The process that would make things cheaper, are someone twisted into making it more expensive, but, but MOAR DATA!

    I don't think I've ever used more than 5 GB of data in a month. That was while I was living in my car for a couple months too, so I didn't have wifi most of the time.

    With WiFi usage, I can't possible see anyone using 24 GB of data... That's a shit load of data.

  25. Re:Wait just a minute! on NASA's Juno Space Probe Enters Orbit Around Jupiter (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Contamination.