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  1. Re:PARENTING ISSUE, not Government control issue. on UK ISP Sky Is About To Start Censoring the Web For All of Its Customers (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    No wonder post world war parents are bad. They expect government to do their parenting for them, in schools, the police etc.

    And we're the generation which, when we were your age, prided ourselves on Questioning Authority.

  2. Re:Too bad it won't run on my iPad. on Apple To Release Public Betas of iOS 10 and macOS Sierra Today · · Score: 1

    Apple once again provides forced obsolence to their devices, including the device known as the "New iPad".

    You call it forced obsolescence, we call it a software upgrade. And unlike MS, Apple doesn't have to vainly nag us to install it and users don't feel motivated to do whatever they can to avoid installing it.

  3. Re:Score: +99 Leeeeeeeenux! on Apple To Release Public Betas of iOS 10 and macOS Sierra Today · · Score: 1

    Where Linux shines is in making old PCs come to life again after having been saddled by Windows.

  4. I do have Linux Mint on my iMac, as a virtual machine image. I fire it up occasionally to see how the Lunux world is faring. Every time, it slips a little farther behind macOS.

  5. Does it run macOS? on Microsoft Targets The iMac With New All-In-One Surface PCs, Reports Say (networkworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If not, it doesn't compete wit the iMac.

  6. Re: Usage is consent on Walmart Now Lets You Pay With Phone At All 4,600 US Stores Via Walmart Pay (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Secured NFC schemes, which use one-time tokens rather than Walmart's messy kludge, reduce card fraud. This means lower fees in the long run.

  7. Re:This should be interesting. on Historic Route 66 To Feature Solar Road Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Until Los Angeles suddenly loses power twice every day at rush hour.

    Kroger Marketplace in Phoenix uses this tech the right way, paving its parking lot with them but OVER the cars. Shaded parking in Arizona is a perk usually reserved for Doctors' Row.

  8. I've had my brain MRIed once... on MRI Software Bugs Could Upend Years Of Research (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    But sure enough, they found nothing.

  9. No indictment was expected and doesn't matter on The FBI Recommends Not To Indict Hillary Clinton For Email Misconduct (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Every working voter knows that this pattern of negligent dealing with company confidential matter, let alone national security information, would mean a quick show trial before the HR dragon, followed by the Walk Of Shame out the door with your pathetic little carton of personal effects.

  10. Re:Easily destroyed or disabled on Uber Hires a Robot To Patrol Its Parking Lot and It's Way Cheaper Than a Security Guard (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    But under US rules, a security guard doesn't have to cringe in a corner and hope the real police will take pity on him. They can shoot back, and so, if need be, could such a device. Mugger unions in our big cities ar already bitching about having to sign up with Uber to be customers rather than just hailing one and paying cash, which is why the medallion cabdrives are the ones you keep seeing riddled with bullets in dark alleys.

  11. Rolling while watching Harry Potter? on Rolling Drone Delivery Robots Have Arrived (starship.xyz) · · Score: 1

    Will the postal union require a Random Wrong Apartment delivery mode and the UPS union require a Ring And Run mode?

  12. Re:Quit it already! on Stop Bashing GMO Food, Say 109 Nobel Laureates (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Facts can be cherry-picked, or, as in this case, lumped into one basket when you need to look for differences.

    GMO in general are not harmful. Certain modifications by Monsanto, and nearly 100% of their tactics, are massively harmful.

    This would only be true if you could show that Monsanto was mixing its lawyers into the food.

  13. Re:Quit it already! on Stop Bashing GMO Food, Say 109 Nobel Laureates (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    GMO food, the denialism of the left. May cancer be cured with some compound they're afraid to take.

  14. Food labels are especially important to me on Stop Bashing GMO Food, Say 109 Nobel Laureates (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife has to follow an intricate renal diet, so we have to squint at all the tiny type on every food label to make sure that none of the ingredients, normal dietary components for everybody else, might be serious problems for her.

    So hippie moms, please do not clutter up our nutrition labels with your irrelevant Luddite crap. Your baseless GMO hysteria could literally kill.

  15. Re:Why are we still talking about this guy? on Aaron Swartz Ebook's DRM Has Been Cracked (hackaday.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We're still talking about Swartz not because he was in any way heroic, but because the prosecution was so purely evil. The wronged party, JSTOR, quickly lost interest in pressing charges, but the federosairus persisted in being douches anyway, because that's how they are trained to behave.

    States' rights are the American equivalent of Brexit.

  16. Without state troll programs, the safety of our public infrastructure would be totally dependent on a dismayongly small number of professional bridge inspectors.

  17. Re:DOESN'T ADDRESS THE REAL ISSUE on Clinton Tech Plan Reads Like Silicon Valley Wish List (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    Our universities put lots of women through STEM majors. But when they graduate they go back to China, where they can build big things.

  18. Re:A shortage of the second most common element... on Researchers Find Game-Changing Helium Reserve In Tanzania (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems kind of dumb.

    'In the universe' is not the same as 'on Earth'.

  19. Re:The race to loot Africa is on on Researchers Find Game-Changing Helium Reserve In Tanzania (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    At $1/cu foot, this could turn Tanzania into a developed country.

    BUT - I'm sure that the press conference was hilarious.

  20. No company is going to implement this on Apple Patents a Way To Keep People From Filming At Concerts and Movie Theaters (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Companies patent features that will encourage use of their products. Implementing this would cause users to avoid upgrading their iPhones, or to go Android, so no.

  21. Re:Why not find and execute the hacker? on US Healthcare Records Offered For Sale Online · · Score: 2

    Can anyone give me one reason why the authorities shouldn't find the hacker and promptly execute him?

    Yeah, didn't think so...

    Our FBI can do that only if it can be shown that the hacker annoyed Hollywood in some way. To protect yourself in the future, see your doctor and ask if there isn't some way you can work a copyrighted song lyric into your medical file.

  22. See your own health record while you. An on US Healthcare Records Offered For Sale Online · · Score: 2

    Since HIPAA allows virtually everyone other than yourself to access your medical records, you might want to go to this site and buy access to your own records while the opportunity exists.

  23. Re: CryptXXX only runs on Microsoft Windows .. on New and Improved CryptXXX Ransomware Rakes In $45,000 In 3 Weeks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I recently switched to Linux Mint; could you perhaps recommend some good Linux-compatible ransomware that I can run on my machine?

    My favorite ransomware, available on both Windows and macOS, is Adobe Creative Suite.

  24. Re: Huh. on Religious Hacker Defaces 111 Escort Sites (softpedia.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Ha! That reminds me... I seem to recall bestiality being legal in two U.S. States: New Mexico and Oregon"

    Don't these guys understand that neigh means neigh?

  25. Re:Sex on Is The Future Of Television Watching on Fast-Forward? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    My fellow chrono-Americans may remember the "William Tell Overture" scene in A Clockwork Orange. The est if you can ask Gramps to play it on his VHS.