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  1. Alexa, release the hounds on Amazon Buys Smart Doorbell Maker Ring For a Reported $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Now I can kill annoying neighbors no matter where I am

  2. Re:So why the massive datacenters? on Apple Confirms It Uses Google's Cloud For iCloud Services (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    probably accessing gracenote to match song names to files

    apple was also looking at building out its own CDN for itunes data distribution. movies and music and app store

  3. Re:So much for Apple security on Apple Confirms It Uses Google's Cloud For iCloud Services (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    original icloud ran on AWS and Azure

    apple doesn't know cloud

  4. we use them at work for development. some of the crazy OCD devs hate them because the GUI is not exactly how they expect it to be

  5. Re:Back to Front on Airlines Won't Dare Use the Fastest Way to Board Planes (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    people carry on to avoid the baggage pickup wait. $2 wouldn't stop them

  6. No dollars for oil? on Venezuela Launches Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Freedom via the USA coming next month. 82nd Airborne a carrier air group and the air force along with a Marine Brigade

  7. Re:B&N went from best-middle of the road on The Slow Demise of Barnes & Noble (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    weird, cause amazon is full of third party sellers to the point it's impossible to buy something from amazon itself. they are the best thing to happen to small business in decades

  8. Re:The implication is scary on Amazon Is Designing Custom AI Chips For Alexa (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Imagine the terror of receiving a coupon for some bar or lounge before you make plans to go there. Or knowing the crappy russian restaurants my in-laws always like to go to.

  9. Re:Who Owns You on Reddit Bans 'Deepfakes' AI Porn Communities (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    SCOTUS ruled on the porn parody thing years ago. There is even a movie about it called The People vs Larry Flynt. There are conditions that have to be met for it to be a parody.

  10. Re:You tube video shows how to sharpen knives on YouTube Kids App Still Showing Disturbing Videos (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    my kids are in elementary school and they've had cooking classes for a few years now with knives

  11. go ahead, sue

    it's their money, stupid

  12. we would just ride over the idiot on the bike and at the minimum his cones. we already broke a lot of the bike lane dividers the city put up cause they are in our way

  13. Re:Disappointment ... on Pentagon Reviews GPS Policies After Fitness Trackers Reveal Locations (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    like invading italy and picking landing zones outside of air support range?

  14. Because it creates a larger pie for everyone and makes everyone better off

  15. Re:Trucking recognition on Tesla Model S Plows Into a Fire Truck While Using Autopilot (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If it was like the idiot in kansas or oklahoma more likely the driver was driving and texting or doing something else you're not supposed to do while driving

  16. Should have said the brakes failed on Tesla Model S Plows Into a Fire Truck While Using Autopilot (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    so as not to look as stupid as he/she is

    Now the idiot driver wrecked their Tesla and they have to pay for damages to the fire truck

  17. Are people still this stupid? on EFF: Thousands of People Have Secure Messaging Clients Infected By Spyware (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    downloading apps from non-official sources to be cool or whatever?

  18. Re:Apple is dying on Apple Might Discontinue the iPhone X This Summer (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Jobs took a bunch of ideas that had been floating around for decades and finally made products out of them. The ipod was like another mp3 player at the time. itunes the software they bought the company that developed it and it was one of a dozen MP3 apps out there at the time. The value wasn't in Jobs, but in the NEXT OS which became OS X and then IOS and still lives on.

    If Jobs was still running apple it would be a shadow and a minor player compared to Android and probably losing money again. First thing Tim Cook did was fire the guy who ran IOS and didn't improve it.

    If jobs was still around IOS would be some simple toy like he always liked and people would be laughing about it. Right after he gave up apple was when they were losing market share to android and it was tim cook who got it back in the big markets like the USA

  19. Re:Won't someone please think of the children on Nintendo's Newest Switch Accessories Are DIY Cardboard Toys (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    christmas season they were $189 and $199. AAA games were like $10 to $15.

    and I didn't buy them on amazon cause it's a rip off. gamestop, target or digital copies

  20. Re:it's a money pit on Nintendo's Newest Switch Accessories Are DIY Cardboard Toys (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    still a money pit

  21. Re:Won't someone please think of the children on Nintendo's Newest Switch Accessories Are DIY Cardboard Toys (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    i have two kids. one plays forza another one minecraft and rocket league. they also play tekken with a friend and some other games.

    for the price of one switch and two games i have a xbox one s, ps4 and at least a dozen games

  22. it's a money pit on Nintendo's Newest Switch Accessories Are DIY Cardboard Toys (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    $300 for the console, $60 for the games, $50 or whatever for the SD card because Nintendo is cheap on space, $80 or so for extra controller, taxes and now $70 each for CARDBOARD toys that cost $1 or so to make.

    They can be #3 in the console game and still make out from all the suckers willing to shell out all this money

    meanwhile one of my kids can't get enough for a $27 copy of Minecraft on the PC and the other one plays Forza on a $189 xbox one s

  23. Re:What? on Pedestrian Attacks Self-driving Car in the Mission (curbed.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    most likely they lied to the cops about being hit by the car to sue for a big insurance payout

  24. Re:I don't understand why cities compete on Amazon Picks 20 Finalists For 'HQ2' Second Headquarters Location (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    how are taxes going to go up when it's going to increase the tax base? it's not like cities pay cash to amazon. they give them tax breaks and it's not like the taxes would have been collected without amazon

  25. Re:I've Seen This at my Worksite on Lyft Says Nearly 250K of Its Passengers Ditched a Personal Car In 2017 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    sounds like parts of NYC where people take the train instead of driving or uber to work