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  1. Re:Begging the question... on 'Technology Will Replace the Need For Big Government' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Because limiting government to those things gets in the way of your memeplex power grabs, cog.

  2. Re:Ghostbusters is the most disliked on 'Battlefield 1' Trailer Most Liked In YouTube History, 'Infinite Warfare' Trailer Most Disliked (gamespot.com) · · Score: 0

    http://www.technobuffalo.com/2...

    Ghostbusters 656k dislikes on 30M views. IW is at 1.3M dislikes, according to TFS.

    No, I'm not going to pull up the trailers themselves and crunch the numbers. Too much time, and it doesn't matter.

    In the time it took you to write you weren't gonna go check the actual YouTube channels, you could have gone to a porn site and started fapping.

  3. CNN had an article a few years back hyperventilating about GW and a small island nation sinking and slowly evacuating over the years. In the fine print they admitted it was the land sinking, not oceans rising, but seas rising our future!

    In another after the terrible tsunami, they hyperventilate again with the headline "sea rise from GW will be like the tsunami zomgggg!" In the fine print they meant 30 feet not over seconds but 300 years.

    Also New Orleans is sinking because the river delta is bottled up instead of meandering back and forth over centuries and no longer deposits fresh silt everywhere to boost the slowly compressing silt. This was figured out long ago.

  4. And if he does, it should be similar to the Internet boom of the mid-late 1990s.

    We are talking at least $2 trillion.

    Government is covetous to spend it directly, though, rather than have business invest it.

  5. Re:Righties now oppose corporate censorship on Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1
  6. The problem with fingerprints is they can force you to unlock it (with a warrant).

    Forcing you to say your password has 5th Amendment implications.

  7. Sean Penn AND Alec Baldwin? on After ISIS, Americans Fear Cyberattacks Most (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    But in the intervening years, Americans turned their attention to nuclear threats.

    "Don't forget about me!! I'm...so...ronery..."

  8. Net effect on FDA To Regulate E-Cigarettes Like Tobacco (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Thus does the FDA demonstrate with the occasional bad rule the ability to cost more lives than it saves.

    Go after charlatans, sure. But this needing permission to move slows thing down, which means more deaths as alternatives are delayed.

  9. Re:Not funneled into on Cupertino's Mayor: Apple 'Abuses Us' By Not Paying Taxes (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They pay in each country according to the transactions in that country. What you say is pure rhetoric any politician can use anywhere in any country.

    Now every fucking country is taxing all income or profits because They Are So Damned Special to the global success.

  10. "I'm not strong enough for this"...for dealing with accusations of fraud. So he decides not to offer incontrovertible proof then stride around with a 10 foot cock of titanium.

    Riiiiiiiight.

  11. Re:Vector graphics... on Star Wars Buttons And Lights You May Have Missed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Vector, as opposed to raster.

    Raster is normal x, y pixels. Vector are...vectors in the video buffer, literally hardware scans the buffer for line segment definitions and redraws them every cycle. The electron gun draws line segments at any angle on the phosphor screen, rather than line by line working down the screen. This can slow down with more segments, which is why the Death Star exploding in the old Star Wars arcade game was kinda flashy. Otber arcade games based on vector hardware are Tempest and Battlezone, the game with a tank periscope.

    Modern video cards do vector stuff, but they also do fills. It is just ultra-specialized raster graphics hardware.

  12. Re:And on Star Wars Buttons And Lights You May Have Missed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    200: A Space Odyssee had flat panel LCD-like TV and computer screens. In the initial Discovery scene where Dave is jogging around in a circle, there are some tablet computers/screens lying on one of the tables. They are at uneven placement and angle, so are not built into the table.

    No tubes in that prediction.

  13. Fifth of podkra on Star Wars Buttons And Lights You May Have Missed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I have to give the back of my 6 year old Samsung HDTV several whonks a day because there's a loose solder joint in there somewhere and the screen gets vertical lines and the colors go whacky.

    Then one dah I gave it a really good whonk and it got better and no problems for weeks now. My 1970s training served me well. Back then the remote control wasying on the floor on a sofa cusbion in front of the TV to watch and flip around during commercials. And actually using the TV guide.

  14. Theory on John Kasich To Drop Out, Leaving Trump as GOP Nominee (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    This just supports the theory Kasich was in it only to suck off some points from the other candidates like Cruz, in exchange for a vp position from Trump. All the Rubio-Kasich deal was BS all along.

  15. Ya get a song written about you! on A Small Group of Journalists Control and Decide What Should Trend On Facebook (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    An Indian outlet extensively wrote about flaws in Facebook's Free Basics. Few days later, "Ban [that outlet's name]" was trending on Facebook. Clicking on it, for the first few hours, literally didn't return any relevant result, as nobody was talking about it, and no media outlet had written about it. It was after more than a day or so after this fabricated item kept trending that some other outlets started to write about it.

    Emily Kane: Really, Charles. People will think...

    Drunk Charles Zuckerberg Kane: ...what I tell them to think!

  16. Re:That's one way to convince the deniers on Climate-Exodus Expected In The Middle East And North Africa (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm betting there won't even be mass exodus but rather a mass increase in air conditioners. The only thing stopping it is corruption and warlordism.

  17. Re:That's useful on LG's New Fingerprint Sensor Doesn't Need A Button (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    They make the difference null and void. They are like the giant secret Swiss bank account numbers where you only need the number to transact business.

  18. Stop with the lab grown meat already. on Lab-Grown Meat Is In Your Future, and It May Be Healthier Than the Real Stuff (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Meat flavor is about the fat. Go make a burger witb steak tartar if you don't believe me. Cook it without oil in a teflon pan, and no mayo or cheese.

    This "perfect burger" is completely gross.

    I even had a perfect, fatless, medium rare filet mignon from a snooty but clueless restaurant, no bacon wrap, no blue cheese crumbles, no cream sauce.

    Completely gross.

    These lab guys even said they had to add fat to the lab grown meat the first time this came up last year.

    Lose the meat and come up with some other much tastier and healthier and no-calorie substrate to pour fat on.

  19. Re:Typical conservative machinations on Government Could Ban BBC From Showing Top Shows at Peak Times (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You have people paying subscriptions for BBC-America. Doctor Who is fine, but I don't care for Top Gear and wtf is BBC-America doing showing Star Trek Next Generation to Americans?

    It is a valid complaint against gubbernment though -- using taxes to create competition to private interests...that pay taxes.

  20. Beginning of the wrong kinda beautiful friendship on US Calls Switzerland An Internet Piracy Haven (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Swiss and Slashdotters: We are shocked. Shocked!

    Bittorrent: Your files, sir.

  21. Re:Needs to be said on Supreme Court Gives FBI More Hacking Power (theintercept.com) · · Score: 2

    Not any organization can use armed police to force you to buy it product, or force its competitors out of business. Or force you to pay to pick up the pieces for its bad, corrupt decisions.

  22. I would argue billions of people in ever more-open markets living higher quality lives is a far bigger story than any of that.

    Advancing medical tech (which Google is pursuing in this story) is far larger, too.

    But lives not lost in a gutter starving, or due to conquered disease, don't do so well in front of the camera.

  23. North Korea is not a communist state - it is a dictatorship. Just like Russia under Stalin.

    Not that I advocate Communism - I think it would actually be nice if it worked, but any system that relies on everyone being 'perfect' and working toward the common good is clearly doomed to fail horribly.

    [communism] would actually be nice if it worked

    How is the same "pigs" you hate in capitalism fighting for control to dictate your place and job in society something nice, even if it "worked"?

    What makes the West great is freedom, not democracy, which is a point lost on most people.

  24. Y'all need to "push back"...at the next election.

  25. Until Euro antitrust gets it on Microsoft Limits Cortana Search Box In Windows 10 To Bing and Edge Only (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 0

    Fucking liar.

    Pardon my C#.