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  1. When washing machines and TVs were built to last, because quality was how companies got to attract and keep their customers.

    Oh, I member! /SouthPark

  2. Re: Shit components assembled by the lowest bidder on Some Pixel 2 Users Are Complaining About A High-Pitched Whine and Clicking Noises (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    If the phones suddenly start making "Eh?" noises, they're probably made in Canada.

  3. Re:Soviet Russia that headline, please . . . on Sony Reportedly Announcing New Robot Dog Next Month (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't even think of searching for "japan cock sucks you", I'm pretty sure there's very disturbing mangas depicting just that.

  4. Re:There is a Tsunami comming on Tech Companies Pledge To Use Artificial Intelligence Responsibly (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    And then, eventually, systems that can really think. What will they think about us?

    This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die.

  5. Re:Socially awkward on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Hopefully people will understand it was implied. Comedy is hard these days with so many morans around.

  6. Re:Spoof the source IP and get them to eat themsel on Legal Hack Back Lets You Go After Attackers In Your Network (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Plural? on TV News 'Hack' Sees Bitcoins Swiped (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a similar prospectus that I give to each and every woman that enters my bedroom.

  8. Re:Who? What? on WeWork Employees Caught Spying on Competition (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    People don't want new, they want to member.

    (Courtesy of South Park)

  9. Re:Makes sense on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    PCMR PC is just redundant.

    And if you're really controlling what computing is being done on your PC then surely your PC isn't running Microsoft Windows.

  10. Re:whatever on Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Bell is trying to crush our rights online, so you have two options to pay for your own future doom.

  11. Something, something, Dark Side on Why Did Ubuntu Drop Unity? Mark Shuttleworth Explains (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Something, something, systemd.

  12. Re:Wonderland, rabbit holes, etc. on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Socially awkward on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    What do you mean by "weren't properly socialized"? When you were 8, did you have 283 Facebook friends? I didn't think so.

  14. Re:Makes sense on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    If your primary use is to read books, get something with an e-paper display. The latest generations have much better contrast ratios than at the beginning.

  15. Re:Makes sense on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope you remembered to lock the doors and disconnected all the security cameras during your porn-binging sessions.

  16. Re:Makes sense on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Park City Mountain Resort PC?

  17. Re:Makes sense on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Your workstation won't be any faster at accepting what you type than a 1980's-era 8-bit home computer. We've been the slowest part of computing for the last three decades.

  18. Re:Makes sense on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    8-years-olds and Tim Cook.

    Sent from my 2010 Mac mini.

  19. Obligatory South Park on Bitcoin Pioneer Says New Coin To Work on Many Blockchains (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Thanks (so they do point @ other servers) on Bitcoin Pioneer Says New Coin To Work on Many Blockchains (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    At first I thought his explanation was wrong, but I had skipped over the "mining scripts" part of your question.

    So yes, any crypto-currency mining javascript has to talk to a server somewhere because the computations are being done for someone else, not for the browser's owner.

    If that someone else credits the browser owner for something (content, links, whatever) then it's another topic entirely.

  21. Re:Sounds familiar... on Bitcoin Pioneer Says New Coin To Work on Many Blockchains (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe this is very similar to some sort of ????? scheme, I just can't quite remember what it is called...

    A governmental scheme?

  22. Re:Metacoins? on Bitcoin Pioneer Says New Coin To Work on Many Blockchains (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, more or less. When it's time to withdraw, you need to break said piggy bank so it's going to cost you a brand new one, which requires some of your U.S. coins.

  23. I'm going to move my fifty thousand Dogecoins to the Bitcoin blockchain!

    I'm rich!

  24. Re:ukraine is weak! on New Cyber Attacks Hit Airport, Metro in Ukraine (reuters.com) · · Score: 0
  25. Who? What? on WeWork Employees Caught Spying on Competition (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Co-working space business, WeWork, Knotel...

    Never heard of that or either companies before today.

    How is that news for nerds? Oh, right. That's not even Slashdot's motto anymore.