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  1. Re:Going to be a problem either way on Nevada Lawmakers Want Police To Scan Cellphones After Car Crashes (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Until this is common enough for Log-Massagers to be common apps.

  2. There's probably a market for sending the TVs out of the factory pre-loaded with some ads. Lower-valued, because there'd be no feedback on how often they were watched and all that jazz, but I wouldn't put it past them to want to get a few bucks out of the people that never bother connecting.

  3. Re:Extra per month on Verizon Says 5G Network Will Cost Extra $10 a Month (go.com) · · Score: 1

    For reference to anybody unfamiliar:

    https://www.google.com/search?...

    8 USD.

  4. Re:I don't know what to say... on Microsoft Now Lets You Stream PC Games To an Xbox One and Use a Controller (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You can already install Kodi on the Xbox.

  5. Re:Designed to Break? on Microsoft Brings DirectX 12 To Windows 7 (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    "Word Binary Format 6" is hard-blocked from opening in all recent versions of office.

    Can't recall how those got created, but it comes up from time to time.

  6. Less important, but alt-enter "used to" be the command for games to full screen.

    Now with UWP, it's Winkey+shift+enter. ....Why?

  7. Re:7$ vs 300$ sunglasses on How Badly Are We Being Ripped Off On Eyewear? Former Industry Execs Tell All (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Since you've outlined the important pieces that would go into such a test, then yes, I'm pretty sure you could run the exact test that you've theorized.

  8. Re:Considering the fact that on How Badly Are We Being Ripped Off On Eyewear? Former Industry Execs Tell All (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never had, or investigated, Lasik, but I've heard this place mentioned often:

    https://www.lasikmd.com/price-...

    I have no clue what "Starting at $490/eye" means though, and how quickly the cost jumps.

    CAD pricing, so still above $200 per eye as mentioned above, but not a ridiculous amount, I guess, when you're discussing eye surgery.

  9. I thought it was since around 10-20,000 BC.

  10. Re:Spreading division is profitable I guess on 'Captain Marvel' Smashes Box Office Record, Laughs Off Review-Bombing Trolls (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    It was a remake of a movie that originally starred men.

    Remakes invite comparison to the original.

    "This is Ghostbusters, but now they're all women" is going to make people focus on their genders.

  11. Re:There's your problem ... on Firefox To Add Tor Browser Anti-Fingerprinting Technique Called Letterboxing (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm all for case C.

    If it can't fund itself, does it really need to exist?

    If it's something that needs to exist, can't it fund itself?

    People get things goings at the "individual's hobby" level. Shouldn't anything grander than that be even easier to get and keep going?

  12. I think I was vaccinated for the missles once.

  13. "If ads were banned, far more sites would have a paywall."

    If ads were banned, far fewer sites would exist.

    How you interpret that statement depends on whether you're an optimist or a pessimist.

  14. Re:Nuclear power = clean power on Pacific Northwest Relying On Nuclear Energy During Cold Snap (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    The only reason nuclear is so expensive is due to massive, outdated regulation. These are damn ancient machines that are difficult to get new versions of approved.

    Regions don't become uninhabitable from any reactor design in the past quarter+-century or so.

  15. Re:Not sure about Canada on Police In Canada Are Tracking People's 'Negative' Behavior In a 'Risk' Database (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, you could get into a car accident. But nobody has the power to guarantee you get into a car accident without repercussions.

    Humans are humans, and they'll do humany things.

    By giving cops these powers, we are guaranteeing they will be abused. Not in every situation, not by every cop, but if a power exists, it's only a matter of time until it IS abused.

    I'm glad you've only run into nice cops. You know what? So have I.

    But there mere fact that these powers exist means that everybody's ok with the most sociopathic human being we can imagine getting employed by the police and using these powers against somebody innocent.

  16. Re:Nothing on trading on Netflix May Be Losing $192 Million Per Month From Piracy, Study Claims (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I never signed a contract with any of those services.

  17. Re:Faulty assumption on Netflix May Be Losing $192 Million Per Month From Piracy, Study Claims (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    He made no comment on whether it was ok, he was saying that you can't count everybody getting a new account as pure profit because all of these old "shared" accounts would downgrade if they were no longer sharing.

  18. Re:Again this rubish? on Netflix May Be Losing $192 Million Per Month From Piracy, Study Claims (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I lost $56 million by not buying a lottery ticket.

  19. Re:Not sure about Canada on Police In Canada Are Tracking People's 'Negative' Behavior In a 'Risk' Database (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    But losing one freedom never gets you the other freedom, you've simply lost multiple freedoms.

  20. Re:Not sure about Canada on Police In Canada Are Tracking People's 'Negative' Behavior In a 'Risk' Database (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It is literally depriving them of their liberty to leave.

    What if you're running late for an important appointment, and the cop's having a bad day? Maybe he decides to stretch it out because you didn't show him the proper respect.

    Sorry, we're gonna need the drug dogs to come due to your suspicious behaviour. That'll be 30 minutes. Maybe an hour.

    Oh geez, the dogs signaled. I'm gonna need to perform a cavity search.

    Are you resisting me?

    Hands behind your back.

  21. Re:Not sure about Canada on Police In Canada Are Tracking People's 'Negative' Behavior In a 'Risk' Database (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "even before we start to look at the circumstances, and find that most people shot by police were in the process of attacking them"

    I'm pretty sure the first words following every police shooting were "He was coming right for me", whether justified or not.

  22. Re: Should be easy to defend on Oracle Systematically Underpaid Thousands of Women, Lawsuit Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Do women pay more for used cars?

    If so, is this discrimination?

  23. Maybe I just haven't had my caffeine yet, but have there been any naval battles between equal-ish powers since WW2?

  24. Re:nuclear will never top the ZERO deaths for wind on As China Option Fades, Bill Gates Urges US To Take the Lead in Nuclear Power, For the Good of the Planet (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    If wind power needs 1000x more service calls than solar, wouldn't you say solar is safer than wind?

    If nuclear needed people to walk a tightrope across a windy chasm full of razor blades, wouldn't you say that nuclear was dangerous?

  25. How about "space" and "consistent output"?