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  1. What are you smoking! That thing was the bomb. I wasn't going to spend a dime on a 3d pinball game.

  2. What we really need on Microsoft Solitaire Collection From Windows 10 Now Available For Android and iOS (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    1) Pinball
    2) Minesweeper

    Done

  3. Access is an abomination to databases. Yeah it has an easy configuration for those who create simple databases, but even MySQL will be hundreds of times better than anything that Access creates.

  4. Yes and no.

    I believe most of the time something like LibreOffice or G-Suite as they call it now is adequate. Nevertheless, Office still has a couple of things over the competition for the power users. But there's rarely ever a need for those added advantages.

    If you're looking for a lot of integrations and capabilities, Open sourced LibreOffice is your go to. If you're looking for Ease-Of-Use, familiarity, and a handful of unduplicated as of yet solutions (negligible), then Office is the choice. All in all I'd agree that LibreOffice is better, especially for the price difference. But most businesses and the layperson like the familiarity and beauty of the UI of Office over LibreOffice.

  5. Office 365 should be called Office 363 since it's down an average of almost 2 days per year. Just sayin'...

  6. Re:All it will take . . . on New York's District Attorney: Roll Back Apple's iPhone Encryption (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I'm ready to argue that they associated themselves with the Republican Party as it was at that time.

  7. Re:NO LUDDITE FIREWALLS! ONLY APPS! on Ask Slashdot: Could A 'Smart Firewall' Protect IoT Devices? · · Score: 1

    Can someone please explain to me where these comments come from and what they mean? Are they simply just to piss everyone off? The overuse of the word apps, cows, and Luddites are simply obnoxious to me.

  8. Re:All it will take . . . on New York's District Attorney: Roll Back Apple's iPhone Encryption (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    He's technically correct. They were Republicans. You can't arbitrarily decide a Republican is not a Republican and expect everyone to buy into such a lackadaisical and ambiguous definition.

  9. Extra points to those who detect that I did the exact same thing.

  10. This was hilarious. Except, not a complete sentence. My Engrish radar is going off. Ba...humbug.

  11. I was following Google on Google Surfaces Fake News About Election Results (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but I don't know when or how they got these results. I was following the election results the day of the election and several days after. Every time it showed accurate results. This was probably a potential momentary blip, but far from what I'd seen.

  12. Difficult situation on Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users By Race (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    There are business's that are intentionally divided by ethnic lines that aren't inherently racist. For instance, there are black barber shops that sell products specifically black people. Why? Because their hair is entirely different from most other ethnicity's. Most white barbers are not that familiar with black hair. So if I had a black barber shop, I'd only want to advertise to the black population.

    I can see how this can be abused, but I understand why it exists.

  13. Re:First AI Post on Google's AI Created Its Own Form of Encryption (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    See: UTF-8.

    When was the last time someone used UTF-7?

  14. Re:First AI Post on Google's AI Created Its Own Form of Encryption (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    IE, although the documentation uses 7 bits, no one uses 7-bits for ASCII anymore. They always use 8 bits, and the last one must be a 0.

  15. Re:First AI Post on Google's AI Created Its Own Form of Encryption (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is exactly why I wrote "Technically 8, even thought the last bit doesn't get used."

  16. Re:First AI Post on Google's AI Created Its Own Form of Encryption (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Well played, well played.

  17. Re:First AI Post on Google's AI Created Its Own Form of Encryption (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what I thought!

  18. Re:First AI Post on Google's AI Created Its Own Form of Encryption (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Technically 8, even thought the last bit doesn't get used.

  19. I don't see what the big deal is. CEO's and higher ups of businesses have political opinions. How is this news?

    To insinuate that, as a result of said opinions, Facebook and other corporations have this hidden agenda to brainwash United States citizens to vote for Hillary seems to be unverifiable and short-sighted.

    Both Google and Facebook have come under allegations that they are purposefully slanting the news. But perhaps another argument can be made that statistically, articles and/or sites that are favorable toward Hillary and unfavorable toward Trump seem to have more click traffic. Regardless, I highly doubt that Zuckerberg's opinions are going to make a difference to mine.

  20. Re:EULA's and auto driver cars will face some hard on Tesla Bans Customers From Using Autonomous Cars To Earn Money Ride-Sharing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected.

  21. Re:EULA's and auto driver cars will face some hard on Tesla Bans Customers From Using Autonomous Cars To Earn Money Ride-Sharing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    For the record: Traffic violations, even if death occurs, are not considered criminal cases, unless reckless endangerment, involuntary manslaughter, or driving under the influence can be attributed to the accident.

    Also, BSOD specifically refers to a kernel crash in Windows. I highly doubt Tesla or any car manufacturer is using a Windows derivative OS. I'd venture to bet that it's either a custom assembly language OS, or a form of a *nix system. In which case it'd be called Kernel panic.

  22. Re:Great way to kill the competition by making it. on Tesla Bans Customers From Using Autonomous Cars To Earn Money Ride-Sharing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Except the owners of Snopes were registered Republicans in 2008.

    It's convenient to use Snopes as long as it doesn't show that you're incorrect. In which case, claim bias.

  23. Re: Indians are immoral on Fake Call Centers in India Scam Americans Of Millions (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    The point about that the comment was that black people are the victims because they're idiots.

  24. Re: Indians are immoral on Fake Call Centers in India Scam Americans Of Millions (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Wow, that was extremely racist. Where does the distinction between blacks and whites EVER show up in this article? Furthermore, your statistic is both wrong and short-sighted.

  25. Isn't sharing information to the masses the point of social networking? Not disagreeing with the article, just merely pointing out that this isn't news. I'd expect Facebook to be the worst in regards to privacy.