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  1. Really? on Spam Calls Jumped Over 300% Globally in 2018 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    One in every 10 American adults lost money from a phone scam

    Now imagine walking down a sidewalk, and every 10th adult you pass being that stupid... :(

  2. Re:British words are funny on Hyped AR Tech Firm Blippar Collapses Into Administration (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yea the British words annoy me, specifically always calling things a 'row', but it is a less sensational headline to just say a company we never heard of went 'bankrupt', less clicky click baits by confused non-british-persons.

  3. Re:That's like all I buy from Amazon on Amazon Wants To Curb Selling 'CRaP' Items it Can't Profit On, Like Bottled Water and Snacks: Report (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Find a grocery store, value the newfound savings. Perhaps you are homebound, at least around here in the suburbs the major grocery stores will also deliver the same day to your door or kitchen.

  4. The soda companies pretty much market all the bottled water, they simply switched to something cheaper to manufacture. They had existing distribution channels and an advertising department very familiar with selling useless products.

    They used their leverage as a soda company to create a market for bottled water.

    I remember in the 80s every grocery store used to have an entire aisle of soda, one side was two liters and the other 6 packs of cans. Now you go into a store and it's maybe 1/4 soda and 3/4 bottled water in that same aisle. Did they adapt to changing times, or are they just that good at selling a blind man glasses?

  5. Re:Civil war where? on How YouTube's Year-In-Review 'Rewind' Video Set Off a Civil War (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, you pretty much covered all there is to this 'news story'. Just join the rest of us in rolling our eyes.

  6. Re:It's the SJWs stupid on How YouTube's Year-In-Review 'Rewind' Video Set Off a Civil War (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I disagree, at least the summary here makes it sound more like downvotes from people because their 'superstar' wasn't mentioned, and this is how they throw a tantrum. (yep I'm going to make a political reference so stop reading if this might offend you) This is sort of like how the democrats started acting when their presidential candidate lost.

  7. Yes it does, it discriminates against those with weak minds and low self esteem.

  8. Re:It's human nature on People Are Harassing Waymo's Self-Driving Vehicles (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Sort of like deer hunting, or hunting in general.

  9. Re:It will be hacked... on Louisiana Adopts Digital Driver's Licenses (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding, this is the internet age. It was hacked or fake-apped before you typed the first dot of your ellipsis in the title.

  10. 'Bitcoin investor' looks like. Deep down we all knew it.

    It is also the kind of fear mongering spam that is mostly avoided because it draws way too much attention towards the fraudster.

  11. Re:lol blockchain developers on 'Blockchain Developer' is the Fastest-Growing US Job (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey at least 'HTML programmers' were sort of useful. Now it's all CSS and scripted junk with 100 third party scripts thrown into a sprawling copy-and-pasted tracking-what-you-do mess. Talk about bloat, we need 4 cores just to render a web page with any speed...

  12. Re:"through" Amazon, not "from" Amazon on The Painful, Costly Journey of Returned Goods -- and How You End Up Purchasing Some of Them Again (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And this is why Amazon marketplace is stupid. It both floods their own website with junk AND waters down their own brand. I guess all that matters is that they make more money, until they don't.

  13. Haha, I bought a refurbished HTIB (home theater in a box) years back direct from the manufacturer. The speakers looked unused but the receiver was DOA, would fail it's own startup check - That was my first and last time I bought anything 'refurbished'. Yea they fixed it under warranty, but the surround channels still had unusual static, gee thanks Onkyo for such a deal.

    It's weird though, it is like the used car business has spread into phones - there are so many available, even from the network providers, yea no thanks.

  14. That's one way to kill text messaging. on California Considers Text Messaging Tax To Fund Cell Service For Low-Income Residents (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    How bout taxing things like multiple lines, or those $1000 phones or something? Oops that would tax those that are well off, best to tax something the poor have to use to reduce their voice and data costs.

  15. Re:Local governments must not have this power on Comcast Rejected by Small Town -- Residents Vote For Municipal Fiber Instead (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess this was sarcasm?

    a) Internet should be classified as a public utility by now, life is possible, but very difficult without it.
    b) Comcast can build their service, I bet if comcast paid for the property rights and infrastructure the town would not stop them. The problem is they want to be treated like a public utility with regard to costs, but a corporate private business in all other matters like responsibility to provide service to all; and to set their own rates and profits.

  16. Good journalism on What it's Like To Work in the Biggest Building in the World (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Uses metrics the layman can easily relate to.

    Listing 72 million cubic feet without some other big famous building to compare it to - I can't visualize 72 million cubic feet...

    Also it looks like the author just googled city populations around 25000 and picked the nearest one, I had never heard of April Springs...

    Ok, maybe I am just dumb - but good journalism uses comparisons even us dummies can understand. The art of good journalism writing is dead.

  17. These were my thoughts too, a shame really, some things are best left undiscovered.

  18. Re:In the spirit of capitalism on California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    If this causes new development to keep existing trees instead of clear-cutting for a new lot, it can only be win-win :D

  19. Great first step. on California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Now require California to make and use it's own water...

  20. People don't talk face to face anymore? on Facebook Employees Are So Paranoid They're Using Burner Phones To Talk To Each Other (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    Summary makes it sound like they only talk to each other on phones...

  21. I am sure your Amazon or Google based internet home security system will be able to protect it.

  22. New way to skin a DEAD cat! on Researchers Discover SplitSpectre, a New Spectre-like CPU Attack (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    News at 11:00.

    Seriously - so they found another way to abuse spectre that still doesn't work with existing mitigation - what is exactly the important news here?

  23. Congratulations, lawyers. on Apple Hit With Class Action Suit Over Lack of Dust Filters In Macbook, iMac (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    If you win, Apple will design out the problem of dust.. No ports, memory card slots, or ventilation. Everything will throttle to sub GHz speeds, and all wireless connections and battery charging. Sounds great until you see the resulting product also does not have a physical keyboard.

  24. Blockchain may be a Rube Goldberg of programming on Blockchain Study Finds 0% Success Rate and Vendors Don't Call Back When Asked For Evidence (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Feels like a Rube Goldberg machine with the way it is turning out, or worse, like a perpetual motion machine, or snake oil, etc.

  25. Just in time for the bitcoin mining boom! on Intel Discloses Its Forthcoming Discrete GPU Strategy and Design Efforts (hothardware.com) (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, wait.