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  1. "Genocide everything that shits."

    So, all humans then. You must be a Green.

  2. Re:Queue the headphone jack comments on Apple Sets a New Record For iPhone Sales (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    According to slashdot, the iPhone 7 should have failed, just like the iPod.

    Meanwhile in the real world, losing an obsolete port was considered a small tradeoff for the water resistance everyone wanted.

  3. Re:Did it 'cheat'? on AI Decisively Defeats Four Pro Poker Players In 'Brains Vs AI' Tournament (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it belches cigar smoke at chosen times.

  4. That's exactly my point. Binocular vision only works out to about thirty feet. Most of what you see when you drive is beyond that distance.Your "unnerving experience" was probably not having the peripheral vision that the masked eye provides.

  5. "The big bitch session about H1B's is that it isn't capitalism, it's cronyism. It's using government to interfere with the market by letting business use effectively indentured servants."

    We should have one kind of immigrant, those who intend to live here permanently. H-1B is peonage for cronies.

  6. "I probably vote AFD next time, as the GEZ bullshit pisses me off so big time."

    Here in the US, public television is funded by a somewhat scammy river cruising company called Viking.

  7. Re:stupid yank on Oxygen From Earth's Atmosphere May Be Traveling To the Moon's Surface (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    go look up what plants do

    What plants do does not include creating oxygen from other elements with nuclear processes. That's why you're an AC troll and we're not.

  8. You don't need autofocusing glasses for driving anyway, because everything you see on the road is optically 'in the distance'. One-eyed drivers see exactly what the rest of us see, stereo vision not adding any useful information to objects you see while driving.

    In fact, such glasses would probably lock onto the crud on the inside of your windshield.

  9. Re:We dodged that bullet on Sony Warns It Will Take $1 Billion Writedown, Blames Slowing DVD Sales (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "One fun thing Trump could do to get back at the screeching entertainment industry going after him; halve the current copyright expiration period."

    If he were to cut back on IP legal weirdness (ludicrous copyright terms, the anti-circumvention clause, geoblocking) and eliminate special IP rights that pharma enjoys over the IP rights of electronics manufacturers, he could glass down the whole Middle East and still be assured of a second term.

  10. Re:Must have upgraded to Windows 10 on This Week 'IT Issues' Ground Delta Airlines' Flights (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Somewhere, there's a computer that's "Preparing to configure Windows" after it rebooted in the middle of a flight scheduling run." ...And stuck in a reboot loop of "Windows Update Failed" and "Preparing Windows update."

  11. One reason for piracy on ISPs Finally Abandon The Copyright Alert System (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe in making a good-faith effort to buy what I want fair and square. But occasionally, I run into silly geographical restrictions on purchasing digital content, generally movies and books. I want to see a given movie that is available online but not in the US, am willing to pay a rental on standard sources, but they won't let me make this purchase.

    I then take the easy way out and download it from a pirate site. Sorry, asshole middlemen.

  12. Re:Would be a shame if this happened to the IRS on Police Department Loses Years Worth of Evidence In Ransomware Incident (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Elliott, is that you?

  13. Re: the lengths people will go to... on Scientist Investigate A Brand New Form of Matter: Time Crystals (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Will this mean fewer of those entertaining police chases that are a staple of our Arizona evening news? Cops see a van riding low on its springs and give chase. When it crashes in the desert after being pursued through city streets, twenty people pile out and run in different direction no, like roaches when you lift a rock.

  14. Re:I'll believe it when I see it on New York Approves Largest US Offshore Wind Farm Off Long Island (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Although we might point out that there if every single piece of natural ice on the planet were to melt, the oceans would rise 261 feet. Not enough for the whales to even reach the blades of today's turbines.

  15. Re:I'll believe it when I see it on New York Approves Largest US Offshore Wind Farm Off Long Island (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "A rational NIMBY argument would be a bit difficult to come by."

    Unfortunately, NIMBYs are just as good at fabricating irrational arguments. Just you watch: the continental shelf 30 miles offshore will turn out to be sacred ground to someone.

  16. This is in no way News for Nerds. It's like commenting about what coffeemaker Tesla installls in its break rooms.

  17. This is according to the study.

  18. Re:Junk Science on DragonflEye Project Wants To Turn Insects Into Cyborg Drones · · Score: 1

    "This is junk science at it's peak."

    And that was junk grammar at its peak.

  19. Re:and structure linked to time of year of birth ! on Personality Traits Are Linked To Differences In Brain Structure, Says Researchers (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 1

    "Yes, depending where the sun appeared to be when you were born affects the structure of your brain."

    As interpreted by a coding scheme which is two thousand years of earthly precession (that's one whole constellation) out of date, and which for no particular reason omits two of the constellations through which the sun appears to pass.

  20. "So what this study actually does indicate is the areas of the brain that you exercise the most grow the biggest, whilst other areas shrink."

    The study doesn't mention 'exercise' as a factor in changing your personality after birth: the brain you are born with affects the personality you exhibit in life, and that's it.

  21. "So it would be nice if the summary linked to the actual study [oup.com] "

    'This page can't be reached'

  22. Re:Mac is dead on Mac Sales Declined Nearly 10 Percent Last Year (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    except In the ghetto.

    And it's because of the Find My Mac feature that you can find out where in the ghetto your computer is.

  23. Re:Well, no shit! on Mac Sales Declined Nearly 10 Percent Last Year (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Although Adobe relentlessly pushes its infernal subscription model, Lightroom is their one good application that is still available as an install. And it doesn't even cost a fortune.

  24. Re:Well, no shit! on Mac Sales Declined Nearly 10 Percent Last Year (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 2

    "Sure, it's great, if you want a CLI that's 10 years out of date."

    That's the sacred Unix command line you're talking about. If you think Apple fans are the world's most hopeless cultists, you haven't met a Unix fan.

  25. Re:Well, no shit! on Mac Sales Declined Nearly 10 Percent Last Year (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 0

    It's not simply inertia. There's no better OS to move to from Mac OS.

    How true. Windows is a joke by comparison to macOS, and though the Linux world is full of promise, the fragmentation problem keeps that world in perpetual promise mode. If you specify high on the build-to-order options when you buy Apple hardware, you won't need to upgrade it for two or even three PC lifetimes.