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  1. Re:The gov is just trying to level the field on Activist Starts a Campaign To Buy and Publish Browsing Histories of Politicians Who Passed Anti-Privacy Law (searchinternethistory.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's what they say, but it's misguided..you can block data from Google or Facebook. You can't from your ISP.

  2. Re:So long on 'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    and thanks for all the fish and chips.

    But perhaps they could change place with Canada. Europe gets Canada and Northern America gets the UK.

    Works for me, I'm an anglophile, and hate seeing those UK cultures shrink or give way to others. Likewise, the French Canadians can be right across the Channel from France, and the rest of the canucks can go on smugly declaring how nice they are and compete with Germany and Sweden for immigrants and refugees.
    The UK has to bring their castles and henges with them though.

  3. Re:How much do they get paid? on 10 Million Insiders Test And Use Windows 10 Every Day, Says Microsoft (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm realizing just how crap 10 is. Homegroups and general sharing are broken. Homegroups (why isn't "Downloads" a share option?) will work okay until you change the windows name of one of your boxes, then it'll never pick up the new name right and keep displaying the old one, which also won't work right. Leave the homegroup (not as simple as they claim) and try to use standard old sharing, nope, no luck there either.
    I had to stand up a new homegroup, after a lot of hurdles such as blowing out idstore.sst.
    I'm also not fond of these WSD print port monitors, I could not install my HP D110 as a standard TCP/IP port no matter what, it would only use WSD, and now my print queue jams up frequently, on two boxes. The printer worked great in Win7 with a standard IP port.

  4. Re: No need for backdoors on London Terrorist Used WhatsApp, UK Calls For Backdoors (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Facts?
    1) There are thousands of people who profess open borders, and they're left wing.
    2) They also believe in sanctuary cities or counties, so there's your amnesty.
    The only debatable point is proper screening, and in the US, clearly the left is against further screening than there is now, so there's some contention over what's considered "proper".
    That's at least 2 out of 3 though.

  5. As a more-or less moderate, I've also noticed that when you express an opinion, neither side/wing takes much notice of when you agree with them, instead they focus heavily on the part that you disagree with them on, even if it's a side you to tend to lean towards more often. There's no compromise, no bridging the gap, instead of finding common ground with everyone, being an independent or moderate today just alienates you from everyone who isn't. Look at the crap Tomi Lahren is catching for saying she's for pro choice, for example, or the flak that Jim Webb has taken from his own party lately. Both parties have become a rigid, close-minded, inadaptable cult.

  6. Re:Powering on John Goodenough's Colleagues Are Skeptical of His New Battery Technology (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah, that kinda irked me. It's a goofy assumption to believe desktops are passe and nearly everyone is on a laptop or mobile/cell phone/tablet. They'll have to pry my desktops from my cold, dead hands.

  7. Re:Something stinks on Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Trends like that don't happen overnight nor are they accurately measured that way, so none of this is currently indicative of "Trump's America".
    What grinds down people's spirits? -increased violent crime, rioting, racial strife, an increased welfare state, a stagnate economy, etc.. most or all of which worsened over the past several years.
    Besides, this is from The Guardian. Might as well be posting something from Breitbart, if you wanted the opposite opinion. Not biased at all, nope... Now, if the trend continues, *then* they can point some fingers at trump.
    This country has been unhappy for quite some time, which explains why trump was elected in the first place. People are sick of the status quo, so much so that they were willing to roll the dice.

  8. Re:Why Doesn't the New Jersey AG do the same thing on NYC Sues Verizon For Breaking Promise To Make FiOS Available To All Residents (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I kind of wish they would sue, the bastards. I waited for FIOS for roughly 12 years all in all, poking along on DSL. A few years back I saw a Verizon tech working on a pole in my neighborhood. When he came down, I asked him about the FIOS rollout, and he told me point blank, but consolingly, "It's never going to be available here, you'll never have it". So, Comcast/Xfinity was my only choice for true broadband.

  9. Re:National DST Day on Proof Daylight Saving Time Is Dumb, Dangerous, and Costly (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's even weirder. Standard time timezones are set up so that at 12:00 noon, the sun is pretty much directly overhead at the zenith, the midpoint of daylight; at midnight, it's the mid point of night. DST throws all that off by an hour, so that the sun is really directly overhead at 1pm.

    Better to just get rid of it and stick to standard time, at least it has an astronomical logic to it.

  10. Re:We've known this for years on Proof Daylight Saving Time Is Dumb, Dangerous, and Costly (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Huh... I heard it got stellar reviews.

  11. Re: No real information on NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield To Protect Mars' Atmosphere (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Well how is that going to reset the subroutines in your sub-neural positronic matrix?

  12. Re:you mean Musk's atmosphere on NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield To Protect Mars' Atmosphere (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    I, Musk

  13. Re: No real information on NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield To Protect Mars' Atmosphere (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Or rerouting power / reversing the phase of the tachyon emission.

  14. I wonder if he has a son named "Toby". Or daughters named "Ima" , "Emma", or "Shirley".

    And now in my head I'm hearing Van Halen's "Good Enough", 1st track on the 5150 CD

  15. Re:Is it good for a thousand cycles? on Li-Ion Battery Inventor Creates Breakthrough Solid-State Battery, Holds 3X Charge (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't exactly say dramatic, but improvements nonetheless. The best part here is, this guy was a co-inventor of the LI battery, so that lends a lot of weight to the credibility of the story and viability of the new battery.

  16. Louis Wu was, Brianna Wu is real. ...I think.

  17. There go on Twitter To Get Even Harsher On Trolls (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump's and JK Rowling's accounts.

  18. Re:So, then, don't listen to the pop stations on Radio Is the Worst Place To Listen To Music, Says Jay Z (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know what you're talking about, I've heard Cannibal Corpse followed by Death on the radio. Maybe the problem is the stations in your area suck.

    Well, true, that's no doubt part of it. They do suck, and hard. Philly area.

    When I go up to New England for a week in the summertime, radio is much better.

  19. Re:So, then, don't listen to the pop stations on Radio Is the Worst Place To Listen To Music, Says Jay Z (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but only barely. A tiny handful of stations compared to the larger, more powerful commercial ones barely supplies enough good music over the course of a week. I gave up on radio years ago, and got sick of the good songs they ran into the ground. Anymore I find bands I like by word of mouth or hearing them on soundtracks (like Killswitch Engage or Paramore).

    Be it Jean Luc Ponty, or Type O Negative, too many great musicians and bands of various genres just don't get fair airplay.

  20. Re:23,000 Die from Bacteria 250k Die from Malpract on WHO Issues a List of 12 Most Worrying Drug-Resistant Bacteria (medicalxpress.com) · · Score: 1

    And all Obamacare did was put a band-aid over it. Instead of addressing the real issues, like why medicines, surgeries, and hospitals are so damn expensive, and why malpractice is (ostensibly) rampant, it just shifted how the costs are paid. For some people, it was a boon, for others, it made their situation worse. It was rushed into law without proper debate and revision.

  21. Re:Just to be clear what that means on 94% of Microsoft Vulnerabilities Can Be Mitigated By Turning Off Admin Rights (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    But then you'd have no employees left. There really should be some level of basic training required/supplied, but most places just won't do it, even if took just an afternoon.

  22. There are some apps that don't respond properly with UAC; I had to use admin for my son's computer (he only had user status as he was 13 at the time); for some things, I had to switch logon and login as administrator. Couldn't even "run as administrator". Pain in the butt.

  23. I have a 6s as does my wife and son, and an iPhone 5 before that, and we've never had these issues. (Battery did die though, eventually). The phone that *does* often just randomly shut off on me is my Galaxy S4, which is my work phone. I've changed the battery on that twice already. Also, my Galaxy Tab A freezes, but to a much lesser extent than the S4. Overall I have more reliability issues with Samsung/Android than I do Apple. It's the pick of the draw, all these things have the potential for failure.

  24. Re:The star is named Trappist-1 on Thrilling Discovery of Seven Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting Nearby Star (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Chimay be right, chimay be crazy..

  25. Bleh.. UPS? I'll take Fedex any day over UPS (at least, in my neighborhood).