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  1. Tomorrow's News... on Intel Replaces its Buggy Fix for Skylake PCs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Intel urges customers not to install its newest fix for Skylake PCs because it too is buggy.

  2. Re:It's really a low IQ thing on Fake News Sharing In US Is a Rightwing Thing, Says Oxford Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This means the right tends to believe their authorities without question, while the left tends to question everything

    This is the dumbest thing I've heard in a long time. If you actually believe this, just spend 30 minutes at a college campus. You'll change your tune real quick.

    Every liberal millennial I've met. Every. Single. One. was completely incapable of thinking for themselves. They did exactly as their professors indoctrinated them to do and think, without question. Talking to a group of liberal millennials about social issues really is like trying to talk to a flock of sheep.

  3. Re:Yeah... on Trump Signs Surveillance Extension Into Law (thehill.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, because the other options were sooooo amazing. This is what happens when the presidential candidates are so bad that people really are voting for a giant douche or a turd sandwich. The "Trump voters are stupid" thing is played out, tired and unoriginal.

  4. Re:however on The Tech Failings of Hawaii's Missile Alert · · Score: 1

    But we can't ignore the fact that the President, who tweets about anything that upsets him, couldn't be bothered to interrupt his golf game to say that this was a false alarm.

    Regardless of how much you don't like him, it's not the president's job to correct false emergency alerts. There was a chain of command about 20 people long who should've done something about this but they were all asleep at the wheel. Yeesh, I'm really starting to think that Trump derangement syndrome is a real thing.

  5. Ummm, 10Mbps internet service isn't exactly slow. That's faster than my crappy AT&T DSL and I can still stream Netflix, etc. just fine even with another user in the home on the internet.

  6. Manufacturers are expected to unveil even more on What's On Center Stage at the CES Tech Show? Your Voice (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I REALLY don't want an always-on microphone in my bathroom or bedroom. If a product that goes in either of those rooms has this "feature" I will not be buying that product.

  7. Sure is a nice Nest thermostat you got there... on Piracy Notices Can Mess With Your Thermostat, ISP Warns (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...it would be a real shame if something were to *happen* to it.

  8. New investment opportunity on Ice Tea Company Rebrands as 'Long Blockchain' and Stock Price Triples (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hi all, I'm starting a new company called Super-awesome-blockchain-bitcoin-make-you-money-LLC. I'm still in the "preliminary stages" of setting up said company but it's gonna be awesome. You can send all your money to me at my P.O. Box. ~SMH

  9. Re:FAKE NEWS!!! on CDC Director Says No Words Are Actually Banned At the CDC (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    Soooo, this is modded as troll? But it actually IS FAKE F*CKING NEWS!!!! Holy crap, the stupidity of some people on this site amazes me.

  10. FAKE NEWS!!! on CDC Director Says No Words Are Actually Banned At the CDC (pbs.org) · · Score: -1, Troll

    WOOOOOO!!!! What a fun country we live in :)

  11. I Blame Connectivity on 'The Year That Software Bugs Ate the World' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 3

    I think a major contributor to all these bugs is that every. single. thing. has to be connected to every. other. thing. My computer has to talk to my phone which has to talk to my watch which has to talk to my refrigerator which has to talk to my toaster. All that connectivity makes software waaay more complicated that it needs to be. Now throw in some corporate greed where software design goes to the lowest bidder and you get what we have today.

  12. Re:Good! Let the trolls leave on Twitter Rolls Out Stricter Rules On Abusive Content (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    In all seriousness twitter has never really been a place where any even slightly valuable dialogue takes place.

    Tell that to HuffPo. All they ever put out is long lists of random tweets attached to a clickbait headline. Unfortunately twitter probably won't go away until rags like HuffPo stop turning tweets from random people into "news."

  13. Re: Register drones, but guns? on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Generally if one's position doesn't affect you, you don't use multiple put-downs when explaining said position.

  14. Re: Register drones, but guns? on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    I personally don't care if you have as many guns it takes to make yourself feel like a man

    Based on the rest of your post it kinda seems like you actually do care quite a bit.

  15. Didn't believe until I saw one myself on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On UFO Sightings? · · Score: 2

    I was taking my dog out to go to the bathroom around 2am. I was looking up at the night sky because it happened to be a particularly clear night and you could see a lot. What happened next baffles me to this day. Two green lights went silently from one side of the horizon to the other in about 10 seconds time. It seemed like they were attached to something; however, you could see clear space between the two lights. They were roughly as high as a jetliner, but definitely weren't a plane. I live near an airport and Lake Michigan (where the military routinely runs drills) so I'm very familiar with all that...it wasn't a plane, helicopter, drone, etc. Since then I've done my own research (satellite tracks and whatnot) and talked to amateur skygazers, but haven't gotten an answer. So yeah, I believe in UFO's because I saw one.

  16. Re:In terms of destroying society on We've Toned Down the 'Destroying Society' Shtick, Facebook Insists (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I couldn't agree with you more. Sites like HuffPost don't even write stories anymore. They just re-post a bunch of tweets from random people, create a click-bait headline and move on to the next bit of twitter "wisdom."

  17. Re:I was sexual assaulted by a female coworker on Cryptocurrency Miners Are Using Old Tires to Power Their Rigs (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the middle portion was actually mansplaining.

  18. Re:I get to censor people! WHEE!!! on Facebook Tops List of Best Places To Work -- Again (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Ergo anyone happy is in a cult.

    Um, no. That is the most ridiculous logic I've heard in a very long time and I am now dumber for having read that. It terrifies me that people like you are allowed to vote.

  19. If I'm forced to watch celebrity videos when doing searches on Google, I will no longer do searches on Google. Plenty of other search engines out there. Problem solved.

  20. Re:I get to censor people! WHEE!!! on Facebook Tops List of Best Places To Work -- Again (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    "Nuts" is a good way of putting it. I had some friends move down that way for a couple years, then they moved back up to the Midwest. When they came back they had completely changed and talked as if they were in a cult. They weren't actually in a cult...they'd just been drinking all the far-left koolaid, but the similarities were scary.

  21. Re:I get to censor people! WHEE!!! on Facebook Tops List of Best Places To Work -- Again (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, what kind of leftist hell hole must it be where people are happy and content at work...

    Lots of cult members are happy where they are too. The only thing it really means is that the brainwashing is working.

  22. Looks like it's time to explore... on Two Stars Collided And Solved Half of Astronomy's Problems. Now What? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    ...URANUS!!!!

  23. Japan has better things to do on Nations Agree To Ban Fishing in Arctic Ocean For At Least 16 Years (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    When asked for comment, a Japanese spokesperson said they were too busy stabbing whales and dolphins to death with sharp sticks to concern themselves with the Arctic Ocean.

  24. How the hell is this modded insightful? Did you read the last sentence of the summary. He says, "The truth is, there is a lot of crap you don't need." He's trying to teach a lesson like the avocado toast guy. Sure, $850 isn't going to break the bank, but if you're willing to get raked over the coals for coffee, then you're probably the guy or gal carrying the newest $800 phone when the $800 phone you bought last year is still working just fine, etc. Or maybe you spend $30 a week on avocado toast when you can't really afford it.

    The point is this - don't constantly waste your money on stuff you don't need and you'll have more of said money.

  25. So... you'd pay for a place to go and wait for someone while using the WiFi?

    I think I just had an idea for a business.

    Perhaps you could serve them coffee too.

    Or you could follow the Starbucks model and serve them scalding piss flavoured with syrup to reduce the cost.

    I wish I had mod points right now. This made me laugh so hard I almost spit out my mouthful of K-cup coffee!