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  1. How about... on Every PlayStation 4 Gets HDR This Week With System Update 4.00 (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    ...giving the users FLAC support like they've been begging for for years? I'm sure the three people who asked for HDR are thrilled, though. Thanks, Sony.

  2. Re:Don't know but Facebook and Twitter sure are on Are Governments Denying Internet Access To Their Political Opponents? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
  3. Re:aggression inevitable? on North Korea Conducts Fifth Nuclear Test -- The Largest One Yet (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought it was 72-year-old virgins

  4. Re: barter works for me on Ask Slashdot: What Are Anonymous Ways To Pay For Goods and Services? · · Score: 0

    Please tell me that you are aware that the AR platform is available in at least half a dozen different calibers, of which .22LR is one. Please tell me you knew that.

  5. Re:We had electorial fraud during the DNC primarie on US Investigating Potential Covert Russian Plan To Disrupt November Elections (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    They can cheat better, but when officials can do it with impunity, there's no longer any incentive to bother hiding it.

  6. Re:3rd party candidate time! on The Unsettling Relationship Between Russia and Wikileaks (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Really? That is by no means certain. Had the GOP candidate been Jeb! or Rubio, maybe, but there's every reason to think that Ryan, et al would install Clinton as a "known quantity."

  7. Re:Outed at age 63? on HP Hit With Age-Discrimination Suit Claiming Old Workers Purged (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    That's okay. We'll just keep raising your taxes to pay for us. Please keep working those 15 hour days!

  8. Old age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill.

  9. Re: Soooo on The NSA Leak Is Real, Snowden Documents Confirm (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter, TSA nabbed it when he was flying out of DC.

  10. Those Shadow Brokers... on How The US Will Likely Respond To Shadow Brokers Leak (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    ...better be some smokin' hot Asaris.

  11. I didn't know that, thanks! Is that a part of reassignment therapy, though? I can't imagine that doctors would risk the immunological consequences for that.

  12. Re: Does this surprise anyone??? on Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Secretly Censored Abusive Responses To President Obama, Says Report (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Even then, there is no surgery or therapy that can change one's base XX or XY designation.

  13. It sure as heck tastes better...the stuff out of my tap is undrinkable. I think the blind adherence to "standards" is slightly overblown anyway, driven by lawyers who make millions by suing the government.

  14. I've discovered that it's actually cheaper for me to buy bottled water. A five-gallon jug runs about $7 (delivered; an empty will run about $25 with $1.75 refills; about half the cost after 15 fills) while one of those zero-water filters (here in Monterey, the water is so hard that the filter is only good for about five gallons) is $10-12.

  15. Re:So the tax returns aren't public? on Assange Says Wikileaks is 'Working On' Hacking Donald Trump's Tax Return (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    He emailed them to Hillary.

  16. Re:Fuck Security on 1,000+ US Spies Are Protecting Rio Olympics, Says Report (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Pfft. That would require that the illuminati and/or clinton foundation actually do something besides install monarchs.

  17. Funny how the same folks who have been claiming that Hillary's emails couldn't possibly have been hacked by the Russians are suddenly blaming the Russians for hacking the DNC's emails. But you're right; if any of this were on the right side, there would be howls for prosecution. If the Democrats didn't have double-standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all. The fact that Snowden committed his crimes in 2013 while a Democrat was in the White House and an authoritarian in the State Department only illustrates the utter incompetence of Democrats and illustrates the fact that liberals are incomparably weak on foreign policy,

  18. Re: Except he wasn't on Conservative Site Argues Profiting from Snowden 'Treason' May Violate Law (judicialwatch.org) · · Score: -1, Troll

    We can't have whistle-blowers running rampant in our Democratic candidate selection.

    FTFY.

  19. he would have been covered by the Federal Whistleblower law

    He would most certainly not have been protected, as has been covered ad nauseam elsewhere. One of the critical factors in civil disobedience/whistleblowing is procedual adherance (i.e. going through authorized channels). If you think Snowden is some sort of latter-day Ellsburg, you might want to be aware of the fact that Ellsburg not only attempted Congressional channels but also turned himself in after leaking the information. Civil disobedience means holding yourself accountable to the system. It is most assuredly not an excuse to hoover gigabytes of random data and post it to the 'net (which Snowden did).

  20. Re:He didn't "build" anything on Online Fame Distracts 9th-Grader Who Built That Clock Mistaken For A Bomb (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    And you still haven't cited your sources for claiming that it's "almost never the case."

  21. Re:Lots of flack for being called an "inventor"... on Online Fame Distracts 9th-Grader Who Built That Clock Mistaken For A Bomb (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I actually feel sorry for little Clockmed, who was likely acting at the behest of his father. I mean, my friends and I were little terrorists too, back in the late 80's, but we didn't have legal coaching before blowing up gopher holes with misused rocket engines. Ahem.

  22. Re:He didn't "build" anything on Online Fame Distracts 9th-Grader Who Built That Clock Mistaken For A Bomb (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    despite mounting video evidence that is almost never the case.

    Citation needed. I'd be willing to bet that the GP was alluding to that Gentle Giant (TM) in Ferguson, where the evidence supported the officer. But hey, let's perpetuate the lie that was "Hands Up, Don't Shoot!"

  23. So I understand... on Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...Hillary's staff has insisted for months that Russia never hacked her accounts. Yet for some reason the same staff is blaming the Russians for leaking these details. Must be more of that Smart Diplomacy we've been hearing about, what with that Russian Reset and all.

  24. Re: Probably Trump on U.S. Curtails Federal Election Observers (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    A photo ID is used for much more than simply voting (e.g. banking) so it's not quite accurate to make "per election" charges.

  25. Re:Can't let the money fall into the wrong hands! on Cities Struggling To Crack Down On Airbnb Renters (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Except for the part where Portland is going after a guy for renting out a room, yes.