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  1. Disney on Should The US Government Break Up Google, Twitter, and Facebook? (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Disney needs breaking up.

  2. Obviously they mean 7 different accounts, but using the same Switch, not 7 accounts on 7 different Switchs*, because otherwise that's one hell of a deal.

    * Switches? Switchs? Switchi?

  3. Re:Guess what, there's an effective way around thi on Gmail Now Lets You Send Self-Destructing 'Confidential Mode' Emails From Your Phone (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's to prevent me from taking a snapshot of the entire email and later doing whatever I want anyway?

    Google have already thought of this. If you take a snapshot, a hatch will open in your device and a boxing glove will strike you between the legs. Contrary to popular belief, this also hurts ladies.

  4. "Responding to emails while on vacation is not cool."

    Sent from my sun lounger in Cancun.

  5. Just play all your music / phone conversations out loud. I'm sure everyone around you won't mind listening to the latest pop hit or whether you'll have time to pick up the dog's worming tablets after work tonight.

  6. Solution on The SIM Hijackers (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If the victim has an email address associated with the mobile phone account (almost everyone does), the phone service should send a code to the email address and ask the "customer" to read it out when they receive it.

    No code, no phone redirect. We'll stick a new SIM card in the post to put in your new phone.

  7. They're on the card, you just need PhotoRec.

  8. Never forget on The EU's Controversial Copyright Law Has Been Rejected -- For Now (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The good guys need to be lucky every time. The bad guy only needs to be lucky once.

  9. Fucking immigrants on One of the Milky Way's Fastest Stars Is an Invader From Another Galaxy (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Go back to your own galaxy.

  10. Don't answer it? on Robocalls, and Their Scams, Are Surging (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless I'm expecting a call, I never answer unknown numbers. If it is a legitimate call, they'll leave you a message.

    That said, I do feel sorry for people who still, for some reason, have a landline.

  11. Late passengers should really be fined, but not until they arrive at their destination.

  12. "And Another Thing..." is awful. There are no original ideas in it at all, it's just a rehash characters from the previous books.

    You should never allow another author to play in your universe, Dune and Harry Potter alone are proof of that.

  13. What's a computer? on Apple Might Discontinue the MacBook Air (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    They need to get rid of all their desktops and laptops, just to prove that they're serious about the death of non-tablet devices.

    Oh wait, some of us actually need to do work, rather than just dicking around looking at pictures of food and duck-faced girls.

  14. Claim : "Enjoy up to 50% off"
    Reality : You'll get 7% off

    Claim : "Download speeds of up to 150Mb"
    Reality : You'll rarely get above 17Mb

    Claim : "Up to 40,000 of our customers details may have been breached"
    Reality : All 40,000 details were leaked.

  15. Re:There is no "health secretary" in the US on Health Secretary Hits Out at Facebook's New App, Says 'Stay Away From My Kids' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The editing here is The Trousers. (Did I do that right?)

    FTFY

  16. UNBGBBIIVCHIDCTIICBG on New Study Finds That Most Redditors Don't Actually Read the Articles They Vote On (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Upvoted Not Because Girl, But Because It Is Very Cool; However, I Do Concede That I Initially Clicked Because Girl.

  17. Wiping after x failures on Recent Blu Update Locks Users out of Their Phones (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Why does anyone think this is a good idea?

  18. We want the 4 hour version! on DC Fans Angry Over Rotten Tomatoes 'Justice League' Ratings (wired.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Meanwhile, the film's director has endorsed a Change.org petition calling for the release of his original edit of the film.

    Oh here we go again. The simple fact is that Snyder is not a good director. If you can't tell a story in 2 hours, you're not a good story teller. Stop trying to cram 4 movies into a single one.

    I do believe that Joss Whedon's reshoots did more harm than good, but if the film had been watchable to start with, then WB wouldn't have requested Whedon to do so.

  19. Finally! on 64-bit Firefox is the New Default on 64-bit Windows (mozilla.org) · · Score: 2

    Great news for the 5% of us that still use Firefox. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

    (Am a Firefox user, but am thinking about moving over to Chrome in the next few weeks).

  20. Interest for the game has completely waned. I suspect the people that wanted to player game have long since moved onto others, and are now too bitter to come back to it.

    Like Street Fighter 5, these updates have come too late to entice players back.

  21. Fucking hell, Russia, keep up. No one plays with Fidget Spinners anymore, those were last term's toy, and now it's the Summer holidays.

    By the time you publish your report, it'll be September and the kids will be back at school obsessing over the thing that starting trending during the break.

    Personally my money's on the app that lets you link loads of phones together do you can all play a massive game of Simon Says.

  22. Code on After Go, Developers Are Now Building AI To Beat Us at Soccer (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Here's the code:

    if (in_posession_of_ball && opposition_near) {
          take_a_dive_but_pretend_you_were_fouled();
    }

  23. It's a great article on Researchers Build American Eels an 'Eelevator' (upi.com) · · Score: 2

    Containing some uplifting news.

  24. This is just one step up from the cleaner killing a patient because they unplugged the life support machine to vacuum in the room.

    Pull the other one, it's got bells on it.

  25. NZ population on New Zealand To Bring Ultrafast Internet To 85 Percent Of Population (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 3, Funny

    The expansion will mean UFB will be available to "up to 85 per cent" of the population

    So basically Auckland.