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  1. 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.

  2. Re:Dress rehearsal for the entire country on Dubai Proposes Giant Simulated Mars City In the Desert (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    For places with not so much sun, like Canada, they might want to lean more on nuclear power than solar.

    And what do you happens in the center of the Sun, eh?

  3. Re:Can it see through electrical tape? on Amazon's Echo Spot Is a Sneaky Way To Get a Camera Into Your Bedroom (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably, but I'm pretty sure it can't see through a #2 philips screwdriver either.

  4. ...the Echo Spot -- a little alarm clock with a camera that will probably be pointing directly at your bed.

    Joke's on them, I sleep on the floor.

  5. So that's what they mean when they say "it's for the children".

  6. Re: Translation on Bell Canada Wants Pirate Websites Blocked For Canadians (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    There's no such thing as "CBS All Access" in Canada. Try your own tip and use common sense first.

  7. Re:Nothing to do with streaming services on FCC Chief Tells Apple To Turn on iPhone's FM Radio Chip (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    The iTunes Store still existed, though.

  8. Re:It already had a name.. on 'Lost Continent' Rises Again With New Expedition (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    [tone="menacing"]Because it is a warrior's drink.[/tone]

  9. Maybe their bicycles and accessories are harder to assemble than their furniture?

  10. Re:Somebody should tell them... on System76 Pop!_OS Beta Ubuntu-based Linux Distribution Now Available To Download (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    #twitterisdumb

  11. Re:It already had a name.. on 'Lost Continent' Rises Again With New Expedition (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    I watched the first two episodes and now I'm afraid of anything with "Discovery" in its name.

    I mean, what the hell did they do to the Klingons? They look like constipated fish!

  12. "mechanical failure" is hardly a risk for a medium that is just basically just a long band of magnetic tape.

    You've never seen a kid handle a tape, have you?

  13. Of course he keeps repeating that to himself. That's how RAID works, doesn't it?

  14. Re:Only LUDDITES use tape. on Companies Are Once Again Storing Data On Tape, Just in Case (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll stick with notched sticks, thank you very much.

    Oh, I see what you did th - OWW! Careful with those sticks! They're sharp!

  15. Re:Translation on Bell Canada Wants Pirate Websites Blocked For Canadians (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Netflix got the rights for ST:D for all other countries on the planet, except the U.S.A. (CBS kept it for themselves since they're the ones making it) but Bell Media was able to get the rights instead of Netflix? We suspect a dirty deal somewhere. After all Bell has tentacles in media, TV, internet, etc. They are in a constant flux of conflict of interest but the CRTC doesn't do shit.

  16. Re:So Stupid on 5,000 People Are Working On Amazon's Digital Assistant Alexa (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    We're not thinking about the same kind of PCs, then. Sure, it applies to iMacs and similar, but I'm thinking about classic "tower-type" PCs. The only built-in speaker will be the internal PC speaker that can go "beep!" or "boop!" but nothing else. No microphones of any kind.

  17. Re:Only LUDDITES use tape. on Companies Are Once Again Storing Data On Tape, Just in Case (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    You do know that applications were once stored on paper tape, right?

    Tape!

  18. Tape? on Companies Are Once Again Storing Data On Tape, Just in Case (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apart from what I assume is a lower cost, is there any reason to use tape instead of just doing a rotation of RAID systems and disconnecting the unused ones?

  19. Yeah! Opportunities like working on a team of 5000 engineers at another company's voice assistant!

  20. Re:So Stupid on 5,000 People Are Working On Amazon's Digital Assistant Alexa (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Laptops, tablets and phones? Sure.
    PCs? Only a few of them.

    You also forgot smart TVs.

  21. Re:Minimal and flat design suck on Refresh Is Sacred (tbray.org) · · Score: 1

    The worst part about single-page websites is the damn "multiple backgrounds but you only see a slice of it while scrolling" crap. That kind of shit is so heavy of my old computer and slow internet connection that it negates the fact that it's a single page by about one thousand to one.

  22. And make sure it is an actual button on Refresh Is Sacred (tbray.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Some applications have started using a "scroll past the top to refresh" crap and if you don't know the application can do that, then you don't know it has the feature in the first place.

  23. Re:Québec on Bell Canada Wants Pirate Websites Blocked For Canadians (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1
  24. Re:And then on Bell Canada Wants Pirate Websites Blocked For Canadians (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    We only have Netflix and Amazon Prime in Canada. Well, those two and CraveTV, of course. Would be funny if Bell blocked CraveTV.

  25. Re:What's next? on Bell Canada Wants Pirate Websites Blocked For Canadians (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    CraveTV is Bell's answer to Netflix. They seem to think that TV is only for TV shows.