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  1. Re:I'm on board on Devuan Jessie 1.0 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    wicd seems to do an acceptable job.

  2. Re:At it seems that she reads some good books on Congressional Candidate Brianna Wu Claims Moon-Colonizing Companies Could Destroy Cities By Dropping Rocks (washingtontimes.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Er... Wu was a creation of Larry Niven....

  3. That's nice that Kalanick apologized. Now when will he raise the rates to a sensible level that provides a decent return, yet still remains competitive with standard taxi services? Going way way lower than standard taxi fares is stupid.

  4. Re:so basically... on Google Removes Plugin Controls From Chrome, Reports Claim (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    Remember! Don't shoot food!

  5. Re:Good first step... on CVS Announces Super Cheap Generic Alternative To EpiPen (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Not everyone can afford cybernetic upgrades like that.

  6. Re:Good first step... on CVS Announces Super Cheap Generic Alternative To EpiPen (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    My my... you have strong opinions about other people's diseases...

  7. Good first step... on CVS Announces Super Cheap Generic Alternative To EpiPen (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is a good first step to reducing excessive prices on lifesaving / life-sustaining drugs. The next is to tackle the monopolies that exist for insulin, particularly the long-acting variety. There is only one "legal" manufacturer of Lantus in the US. A single vial costs on the open market is around $135.

  8. Except that people will get treated to the sound of dorks yelling at the tops of their lungs to be heard over the engine noise. I prefer listening to engine noise over the myriads of noises a human can make.

  9. Didn't we go through a bunch of no about this a couple years ago?

  10. Good thing to build a copy. Wrong motivation. on The Internet Archive Is Building a Canadian Copy To Protect Itself From Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This is just unfounded paranoia. Go ahead and build the copy, but build it because backups are a good idea in general.

  11. So, it means nothing to you that DNC operatives were caught on camera admitting to stirring up shit to make it look like Republicans are violent?
    I'll just leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  12. Wrong name for the car on The Flux Capacitor Becomes World's Fastest Street-Legal Electric Car (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    With a name like "Flux Capacitor", the car should have been one of those newly-manufactured electric DeLoreans.

  13. Coreboot has been trying to work around this stuff on Intel x86s Hide Another CPU That Can Take Over Your Machine -- You Can't Audit it (boingboing.net) · · Score: 2

    The Coreboot people have been trying to work out how to deal with this stuff for a long time. See https://www.coreboot.org/Intel.... They're trying to work out how to disable it, but progress is not that good.

  14. Oh, boy! Let's hop on the bandwagon! on Bill Nye: Climate Change Denial Is 'Running Out of Steam,' Thanks To Millennials (mic.com) · · Score: 1

    Can we at least get an argument from Nye that isn't a variation of argumentum ad numerum?

  15. Does this mean no more locked down hardware? on Samsung Plans To Give Up Authoritarian Ways, Act Like a Startup · · Score: 1

    So, if they're going to behave more like a startup, does that mean that they're no longer going to make it difficult to customize their Android phones? Last time I checked, they were still locked down such that you cannot write to the boot loader and that means no rolling your own Android or using Cyanogenmod.

  16. Re:Corn and other grains on Tiny Vermont Brings Food Industry To Its Knees On GMO Labels (ap.org) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Selective breeding is a lot more predictable than directly twiddling genes. There are a lot of unforeseen side-effects.

  17. Out of their league on Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com) · · Score: 1

    Would you talk to a criminologist when you need medical advice? Would you talk to a physician when you want advice on criminology? This study is only slightly removed from using movie stars as reliable authorities for $topic_of_the_day.

  18. FTA: "They deliberately use the argument of public freedoms to make money knowing full well that the encryption used to drug traffickers...". So, encryption is mood-altering and addictive? Sheesh!

  19. Sony sold them in the 80s on Terahertz Radiation To Enable Portable Particle Accelerators (www.desy.de) · · Score: 1

    Big deal. Sony sold pocket-sized particle accelerators in the 1980s.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  20. Re:Gun-free zone? on 10 Confirmed Dead In Shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College · · Score: 1

    Did you bother to read that article you referenced? It says that while it's legal, no campuses (as of 2013) permit it.

  21. BDSM convention on Lennart Poettering Announces the First Systemd Conference · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that a systemd conference wouldn't be much different from a BDSM convention.

  22. Left-eyed this time? on The New Google Glass Is All Business · · Score: 1

    I see no mention of whether or not a left-eyed version will be available or if it can be switched to serve whichever eye the user wants. How about that and provisions for using along with a normal set of eyeglasses. I'd rather not have to have to get another set of lenses just for a Glass.

    By the way, do any of you remember the 1992 compute and console game "Flashback"?

  23. Re:approves an anti on US House Committee Approves Anti-GMO Labeling Law · · Score: 4, Informative

    The big thing you have to remember about this is that traits are not one-to-one with genes. One gene can affect many different traits and one trait can be affected by many different genes. When you genetically engineer an organism, you run the risk of creating or altering traits you never intended. This can and has lead to problems like feed corn that's toxic to the cattle and pigs it was intended for.

  24. Kevin DeLeon is not particularly coherent on California Is Giving Away Free Solar Panels To Its Poorest Residents · · Score: 1

    Remember that DeLeon is the same idiot who spoke unintelligible gibberish in his "ghost gun" speech. He's not trustworthy enough for me to believe this isn't loaded with graft and assorted other corruption.

  25. Re:The two things that have led me to oppose the D on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Gets Death Penalty In Boston Marathon Bombing · · Score: 1

    That statement is vague and potentially backwards. The victim or potential victim having a gun is proven to be a very good deterrent of murder.