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  1. There's some grusome bias here on A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    "The machine loaded the hardware onto Holbrook's head."

    I'm not sure what the literary device is being used here, but that word choice really makes it the entire blurb leading up to this point makes it sound like the robot became sentient and was on a mission. The last line (the bit I quoted) was equal parts gruesome, horrific, and fantastic. I would read a book by whomever wrote the bit there.

  2. Early soft-mods? on Nintendo Switch Ships With Unpatched 6-Month-Old WebKit Vulnerabilities (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This sounds like good news to me... if it allows unauthorized code to be run, it could very well be the beginning of the homebrew scene!

  3. "soup pannedit"? Wha?

    And like I said, I was going on what I was told. If you can still use "on-tap" to grab a screenshot of text on your screen, and tap on words to get context related searches, then that's a-ok by my books.

  4. As I understand, Assistant strips away Google Now. I also understand that Assistant is all voice-driven. Hopefully I'm wrong, but if not my two biggest concerns are:

    - No more tapping on words to get translations/quick google searches
    - Now I have to look like an idiot talking to myself/my phone to do things I could have done silently in the past

  5. Assistant is all voice-controlled as far as I know. No more tap-on-the-words to translate/search for them.

  6. Google Now is far better in almost every way.

  7. Re:Wait... on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 1

    True, but his actions were basically to see how far somebody could go for $5.00. If he didn't post the proof, nobody would believe him. He further went on to make fun of the media by saying how they take shit out of context and fail to report on the proper story, which, ironically they did again - using that very video as one of their points trying to show that he's antisemitic.

    Am I a fan of PewDiePie? Hell no... but this smear campaign by the media is absolutely fucking nuts, and they need to be put in their place way more than a guy that just plays video games for YouTube, and heads to a site to see how far $5.00 will get him.

  8. They did a study over just one year? What? on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    Who the hell expects decent results over a 1 year scope? Most mortgages are what, 5 year minimum? They should have molded the data as such:

    Have you changed addresses in the past 5 years
    o YES
    o NO

    Do you plan on moving in the next 1-5 years?
    o YES
    o NO

  9. Re:They changed the title on Tesla Employee Calls For Unionization, Musk Says That's 'Morally Outrageous' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess I've just been fortunate enough to be part of a union that has had my back as a temp to get me into a permanent gig. They also do a lot to fight management against their bullshit and attempts to stiff the regular crew.

  10. As you can tell, I'm not 100% certain on how BT works on a technical level... can't you use TOR to download the .torrent file and then open that through your torrent client outside of the VPN?

  11. Re:They changed the title on Tesla Employee Calls For Unionization, Musk Says That's 'Morally Outrageous' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I seriously don't understand how people are so anti-union. I assume none of them have ever been part of a union... They're the reason why we have breaks, weekends, and 7 hour shifts (instead of unlimited-hour shifts). The only way I can see somebody being anti-union is if they are a slave-driving exec who will have to suddenly start treating their staff like humans.

  12. Pokemon Go all over again... on Overeager Investors Seeking Snap Buy Snap Interactive Instead (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I hate these "investors" with a passion, and stories like this and the deal last year with Pokemon Go further back up my point. We've got these companies that are run by "Shareholders" and yet, as we can see here, it seems like shareholders have no fucking clue what it is they're buying... they just nab shit up that sounds related to something that's gone popular. 0 research done. I'm pretty comfortable to likening investors to cancer.

  13. I don't even know my passwords on US Visitors May Have to Hand Over Social Media Passwords: DHS (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Sucks to be DHS. My FB password alone is like 255 random characters. What about 2FA systems? They can have the password, but they're not getting the token.

  14. So basically... on The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget, Scientists Say (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    A nightly (for most of us) redundancy check and defrag of the ol' noodle?

  15. Re:That wouldn't be good luck on Apple Sets a New Record For iPhone Sales (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never understood why people go from Android to Apple... Why would somebody willingly pay so much more for so much less?

  16. One you give away, the other you take with you.

  17. Re:Wow, Al Capone is now == Pirate Bay on Swedish Govt Mulls Tougher Punishments To Tackle Pirate Sites (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    My fave part of the whole DMCA Google thing is that now it's really easy to find what you wanted. Just click the DMCA note at the bottom of your search, and it shows all the sites removed c/o the DMCA. Those are probably the droids you're looking for.

  18. Can't pay my sales tax on these items on 'It's Tricky': Apple Misses the Deadline To Pay $13.9 Bn To Ireland in Illegal Tax Benefit (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's tricky, you see you already make me pay "Income Tax" on the money that I make, but then you also tax me a "sales tax" on the things that I buy... but I can't buy things without an income, so I messed up this double-taxing concept and didn't have enough money budgeted. I'm sure you understand.

  19. Enough with subscriptions! on Microsoft Reports New Subscribers For Office 365 Plunged 62% (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    No shit they plunged. Who wants to spend an infinite amount of money for a piece of software they will never fully own, when they can just drop a hundred bucks for a version that's a few years old and theirs forever. No wallet sapping. No bullshit.

  20. Availability? on LG Continues To Bleed Money, Thanks To Smartphones (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have an LG G5. The modules were near non-existent. I'm not even sure where you could go to buy them - were they carrier exclusives? The idea was solid, but the marketing behind it was a huge flop.

  21. Re: Stock ROMs are shit on Do Android Users Still Use Custom Roms? (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    Not the OP, but having an SD card allows me to keep the files I flash for a factory reset on the SD in case I have to wipe everything and start over. I can do it entirely on-the-go. No amount of cloud storage would allow me to do that.

    I also don't have 120gb of mobile data, either.

  22. Yes. on Do Android Users Still Use Custom Roms? (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 2

    Until phones start coming without bloat, and carriers/manufacturers provide constant updates to their phones even after they stop being sold, custom ROMs will continue to be used.

  23. Meitu thanks

  24. Should have just added a line to the EULA that he would be able to gain access to your account(s) if you register. Nobody reads the EULA, and there'd be no case against him because it would be in the EULA.

    This should also set the precedent that the government can be arrested if they put backdoors into things... of coursehttps://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/01/18/0527225/dutch-developer-added-backdoor-to-websites-he-built-phished-over-20000-users#, that will never happen. Nothing is illegal if the Government is doing it.

  25. Re:Can we stop adding GATE to every scandal? on FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive On Charges Related To Dieselgate (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What if Bill Gates got into a scandal regarding Watergate?

    Bill Gates Watergategate?