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  1. What about the rest of the stuff? on Google Patents Self-Driving Car That Glues Pedestrians To The Hood In A Crash (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    What about the rest of the stuff that normally lands on cars? Like bugs, birds, leaves, squirrels, chipmunks, poop, dust...

  2. Re:How about Usernames and RT's? on Twitter To Stop Counting Photos And Links In 140-Character Limit (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the username should be a preface to the message. If somebody's username is @MrShinyBananaPants2005LolPoop, that's a substantial amount of wasted characters before you even get to your actual message.

  3. How about Usernames and RT's? on Twitter To Stop Counting Photos And Links In 140-Character Limit (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's been a while since I've been on twitter, but it used to drive me up the wall that username tags and retweets all counted against my character count. Also, what's stopping us from flooding the tweets with garbage long URL's?

  4. What would I do with them? on One Million Dormant Xbox Live Gamertags Can Be Yours Starting Wednesday (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "One Million Dormant Xbox Live Gamertags Can Be Yours Starting Wednesday"

    I guess it'd be cool having a million gamertags, but what would I do with them all? Oh wait, I think you mean that one million dormant Tags are being released on Wednesday, and I could grab one (or two) for myself.

  5. Re:This should have been expected on Microsoft Adding More Ads To Windows 10 Start Menu (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, you said one word.... ANewSuperiorRacePC?

  6. Good! on Jail Sentence For Popular YouTube Pranksters (bbc.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Those pranks are so bad they're criminal anyway. The jail should give them soap without a rope as a prank.

  7. Re:This should have been expected on Microsoft Adding More Ads To Windows 10 Start Menu (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    A... New Superior-race PC?

  8. Alqueda_Propaganda_KillBill_Collage.wmv *Made with Windows Movie Maker

  9. This should have been expected on Microsoft Adding More Ads To Windows 10 Start Menu (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why are people so up-in-arms over the ads in Windows 10, yet, they don't even blink an eye at the ads you get on the XBOX, even with a Gold subscription? It's the same shit - if you're paying for something, there should not be ads.

  10. Great report Cnet! on Amazon "Invades" College Campus With Media Center (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    In past news, large department store "Sears" has caused an uproar in the shopping market by actually allowing its shoppers to peruse aisles of goods, allowing them to pick out what they want and put it in a "cart" to bring to the cashier. As you know, we much like the current system of simply telling the clerk what we want, and have them grab the items from the back and then ringing them through.

    One analyst told us "They just want to hook you when you're 20!"


    On a serious note, why is this even an issue? How are they trying to hook anybody? This is fucking 2016. The goddamn 21st century. Is buying shit online at a good rate supposed to be some evil shit? Are we still stuck in this "CONVENIENCE IS BAD" mindset? Fuck off CNet. One analyst might go so far as to say CNet is a dinosaur stuck in dinosaur ways.

  11. Fake Currency as taxable income? on Ethical Hackers Donate 1,000,000 Air Miles To Charity (offensi.com) · · Score: 2

    Sooo, I can pay my taxes in coupons, Air Miles, and other loyalty points? Awesome!

  12. Simple solution: Offer up an IAP to stop unwanted tracking and selling of data!

  13. How long until we find out this guy has ties with a competing vehicle brand or has his hands in the pants of the Oil companies? This sounds like pure malice.

  14. As long as they rely on hacking the system, and not forcing the system provider to fork over security keys. Let's just hope that Apple keeps on top of their security and continually fixes the holes that the FBI finds.

  15. Re:It's how Open Data works on Software Security Suffers as Startups Lose Access To Google's Virus Data · · Score: 1

    PLS SEED

  16. MS Hospital Office Assistant. It's a pair of scissors named Snippy.

  17. What's the difference? on Half Of Teens Think They're Addicted To Their Smartphones (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    "If your teens would prefer gaming indoors, alone, as opposed to going out to the movies, meeting friends for burgers or any of the other ways that teens build camaraderie, you may have a problem."

    I'm not sure that there is much of a difference between going out to eat burgers with friends, or playing a game online with friends. They're both social events...

  18. Re:After this post... on In Internet Age, Pirate Radio Arises As Surprising Challenge (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    I think the "Reddit Hug" has become the new "Slashdot Effect"

  19. Re:"largely aimed at mobile users" on YouTube To Roll Out 6-Second Ads That You Can't Skip (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't even think phone insurance is a thing in Canada... in any case, it's a Samsung, so rooting it would trip Knox and there's no way to roll it back.

  20. Re:"largely aimed at mobile users" on YouTube To Roll Out 6-Second Ads That You Can't Skip (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I have 8 gigs a month, anything over that I get robbed $15/gig.

    I watch YouTube videos because I can afford it in my bandwidth budget. But I also have control over the quality of the video and don't stream HD. I have no idea what quality the ads are coming through at, but they should be forced to be streamed at the lowest quality when on mobile.

  21. Re:Impossible to lock down IAP on Federal Judge Rules Amazon Must Refund Parents Duped By In-App Purchases (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not 100% sure when this was added, but my event happened 2 or so years back. I asked the girl I was speaking to if there was any way to lock IAPs out and she said there wasn't. It's possible that maybe she didn't know at the time. Anyway, appreciate the info - another user pointed it out as well.

  22. Re: Impossible to lock down IAP on Federal Judge Rules Amazon Must Refund Parents Duped By In-App Purchases (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey thanks!

  23. Re:Sad truth: No Jail Time or RICO confiscation on There Will Be A Huge New 'Panama Papers' Data Dump (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Assuming some of these people are the same people making profit off of privatized jails... would they actually make more money by throwing themselves in jail?

  24. Impossible to lock down IAP on Federal Judge Rules Amazon Must Refund Parents Duped By In-App Purchases (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The worst part of the whole thing is that there is no way to lock down IAPs with Amazon. You can restrict purchases from the Amazon app store, but if you have a credit card saved to your account, kids have free reign over IAPs - and some app developers take full advantage of this by tossing catalogues of other apps (which you can purchase) right inside their other apps. My son spent about $10 on some of the shittiest apps I've ever seen because of this. I called Amazon at the time and their solution was simply for me to remove the card from my account.

  25. Why do people even give a shit anymore? It was an old phone running old firmware.