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  1. Re:Who did you sell to? on Time Warner Cable Warns 320,000 Customers of Possible Compromise (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Anything you sign into using your TWC account to access online.

    So any of the channels on Roku as one example, there are many many others.

  2. Re:Aaaaand.. on IBM Union Calls It Quits (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Wait, Disney's IT workers had a collective bargaining agreement in place?

    Oh right, guess not...

  3. Re:They couldn't do it on North Korea Claims It Detonated Its First Hydrogen Bomb (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Honestly I don't think China has any fucks to give about NK or SK on their borders. Neither of them are serious threats to anything they do.

  4. Re: Just wait until they can deliver it on North Korea Claims It Detonated Its First Hydrogen Bomb (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah that's working out great against ISIS right?

    Do you people even bother to watch current events? NK has over 8 million available troops, they aren't just going to hang out in their own neighborhood and get bombed.

  5. It's not just the media itself, but the experts they hire and even people in high level positions of our own government don't seem to realize their government has the same computer technology and are in fact connected to the same internet we are.

    There's this belief that because the vast majority of their people are peasant farmers that somehow people in their government and science administration are completely inept.

  6. Re: Just wait until they can deliver it on North Korea Claims It Detonated Its First Hydrogen Bomb (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe you're new, but those two things alone have never won ANY wars.

  7. Re:America Doesn't Have a Gun Problem... on Obama Orders Feds To Study Smart Gun Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They also have massive inner city poverty, and massive inner city drug gangs in common.

    But yes, let's all pretend politics is the cause of all this, and having complete unfettered access to all the 2nd amendment offers will somehow solve those two things above.

    Dipshit.

  8. Re:RF? on Obama Orders Feds To Study Smart Gun Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what the prohibitionists said.

    Failure to compromise is what screwed them, it'll screw you too.

  9. Re: RF? on Obama Orders Feds To Study Smart Gun Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    We don't have the military power to force it back down the drain, hate to break it to ya.

  10. Re:Safety is about training on Obama Orders Feds To Study Smart Gun Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    My high school does archery, so does the one my wife teaches at. They also will pay for Hunters Safety.

    Drop the hyperbole, it doesn't help anybody.

  11. Re:Classic! on How an IRS Agent Stole $1M From Taxpayers (onthewire.io) · · Score: 2

    Yeah I mean you never hear about private enterprise swindling their customers, that's just unheard of.

  12. The money seems a bit over the top... on Apple Faces $5 Million Lawsuit Over Allegedly Slowing the iPhone 4S With iOS 9 (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    $50,000 per class member because they feel like they were forced to make a what, $200 upgrade at this point to a 5 series?

  13. Is this just an apple user thing or something?

    Can't tell you how many OS upgrades I've done on the PC when I'm at the bare minimum of 'compatibility' and can't do everything I used to do simultaneously, didn't even think I should sue somebody because of it.

  14. Do you even law bro?

    This isn't creating a law or regulation. It's saying Whole Foods doesn't have the ability to create such regulations/laws on their own.

  15. Re:Can Disney "remaster" the prequels? on George Lucas Criticizes the Force Awakens (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They've already stated the prequels are canon.

    So unless they're going to retcon the entire thing probably not.

    Nor is there any reason to, removing jar-jar and a few lines of bad dialog doesn't change the nature of the story in any real tangible way.

  16. Re:God I hate to say this, but on George Lucas Criticizes the Force Awakens (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you even know what the term 'fan-service' means?

    Something cutsey like Ewoks hadn't been in any of the previous movies, same goes for Jar-Jar...

  17. Twitter is not a Government on Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They can censor anything they want to, or not censor anything they want to.

    This isn't a 'Free Speech' issue, so all the anti-SJW's can go back to their homes, nothing more to see here.

  18. Re:Tell me about the self-harm dpt. on Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes because there have been no advancements in machine learning since Clippy. None at all.

  19. Re:what's wrong with real mules? on Robot Mule Put Out To Pasture By Marine Corps (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Apparently not thinking hard, considering you still want the thing to actually be able to respond to voice based commands.

  20. Re:what's wrong with real mules? on Robot Mule Put Out To Pasture By Marine Corps (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    www.google.com

    "In general, a mule can be packed with "dead weight" of up to 20% of its body weight, or approximately 90 kg (198 lb). The average equine in general can carry up to approximately 30% of its body weight in "live" weight, such as a rider."

    On top of that considering a mule can be frightened by explosions and other combat conditions, and you need to potentially worry about food/water/shelter versus cramming a robo-mule into a crate at a warehouse when you're done with it.

  21. Re:Can a corporate security officer comment on Microsoft Has Your Encryption Key If You Use Windows 10 (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    I think I'd be more concerned with the corporate security officer that's pushing signon with your microsoft.com account rather than say, your active directory...

  22. Re:Better quality video on Giant Squid Filmed At Japanese Marina (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the Japanese consider our news source video to be just as abjectly terrible.

  23. Re:"A language of their choice" on College Board Mainstreams AP Computer Science (collegeboard.org) · · Score: 1

    "So they are not going to learn about explicit memory management, layout of data in memory, pointers, and a bunch of other things" Which for the vast majority of fields that require some exposure to CSC are completely unnecessary to even know about. If you want to go further and get more into engineering or full on Computer Science majors, that's what college is for. You know, those courses you'll take after the AP exam.

  24. Sure they will, and so will we, when the time is right. They aren't going to hand you a little note at boarding saying 'hey one of your kids has terrorist connections, just FYI."

  25. And of course you wouldn't even think that possibly one of my 9 kids did something to cause this. Nope, not a chance right?