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  1. Re: Poorly maintained local electronics? on Hearing Loss of US Diplomats In Cuba Is Blamed On Covert Device (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 2

    It also broke your "H" key.

  2. Re:Gosh... on Consumer Reports Pulls Microsoft Laptop Recommendation (go.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Windows 2000

  3. Re:Moving goalposts on Maybe Americans Don't Need Fast Home Internet Service, FCC Suggests (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, SNAP!

  4. Re:Wait... What? on Microsoft Dumps Notorious Chinese Secure Certificate Vendor (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They should do that now.

    If I may quote Vilos Cohaagen (Ronny Cox) from 1990's Total Recall:

    "Fuck 'em. It'll be a lesson to the others."

  5. Re:Obligatory XKCD on The Man Who Wrote the Password Rules Regrets Doing So (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ...and *NOT* implement that scheme! Hackers are already using 4-word dictionary attacks. (They read xkcd as well.)

  6. Re:I'll Be Amazed on Mazda Announces Breakthrough In Long-Coveted Engine Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe it could be adapted to work with hydrogen... Or is that also too volatile?

  7. Re:No, they don't. on Is this the End of Typing? The Internet's Next Billion Users Want Video and Voice (foxnews.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm annoyed by news articles that have ONLY video, and no text description. Especially articles whose headlines seem to be globally important. For example: on CNN's website, an article headline reads "North Korea says that US will 'Pay Dearly'".

  8. Is HBO full of idiots? on Game of Thrones Hackers Demand Ransom (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "The hackers claim to have 1.5TB of data in total, but HBO has said it does not believe its email system has been compromised."

    You could take the script for EVERY game of thrones episode and fit it onto a single CD-ROM... without compression. The hackers have ***1.5TB of data***. You don't get that much data from scripts. They obviously have video. I don't know about HBO, but you don't usually go EMAILING video back and forth in your organization.

  9. No, it's a *GOOD POLICY* to enable "click to flash", it's just 15 years too late.

  10. I don't think that makes him stupid... It's a valid point. Current ATCs use verbal commands to indicate clearance to take-off or land. Sure, you can have one or two planes that are automated, or even a whole airline at any given terminal, but that means the tower will need to give clearance somehow to the auto-plane. This means more expense, more rules, more training, more equipment, etc.

    What if the auto-plane needs to land at an airport that doesn't have the equipment or training? See my point?

  11. Re:They bought a person?? on Netflix's First Takeover: a Comics Firm (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was more confused by this line:

    Mr Millar said he was still "blinking" over the news.

    If Millarworld was founded by Mark Millar, and he currently runs it with his wife, then he really should have known that Netflix was bidding to buy it, and this should really not come as a surprise to him... unless "blinking" means that he got some cocaine in his eye during the acquisition party with all the hookers.

  12. Re:We already have fighting robots on MegaBots Is Finally Going To Take On Japan In the World's First Giant Robot Duel (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    For a moment, I thought you were going with Voltron!

  13. Mustang 357 vs.Honda Civic

    I'm not worried.

  14. Because shills for the app developers can skew the results. Now what?

  15. Re:Saw the preview, it's not a "quality" problem on CBS Delaying 'Star Trek: Discovery' To Maintain Quality (foxnews.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The original Star Trek only ran for 3 seasons, but created a *HUGE* following, and led to several movies, a few of which were actually good. TNG was a reboot and it lasted for 7 seasons, and also had a HUGE following. It followed the same formula, and it did great!

    Deep Space Nine - Star Trek on a space station. When the commander points his finger and says "Engage", nothing happens. That's why halfway through it's run, they brought in the Defiant.

    Voyager - Gilligan's Island in space. I didn't care that the Captain was a woman, but apparently the rest of the demographic did. Halfway though it's run, they dropped Kes and got Seven of Nine for eye candy.

    Enterprise - Star Trek with the guy from Quantum Leap. They deal with species that we never see in any of the other shows, and are missing the species that we WANT to see. Only lasted about 4 years.

    There is only one formula that works. That's what the viewers want to see. CBS is *NOT* going to do that, so Discovery will suck.

  16. My first thought was Zap Branigan.

  17. Re:Same song, different verse on Are App Sizes Out of Control? · · Score: 1

    Devs of desktop apps didn't care because you could always just install a larger Hard Drive. It's not always so easy with a phone.

  18. Button press unnecessary when on board the Enterprise.

  19. Re:Bitcoin Splits in Two Amid Fraud on Bitcoin Splits in Two Amid Feud (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Did they make the shovels and pick-axes out of gold?

  20. Amazon doesn't know what it's talking about. on Amazon Suspends Sales of Blu Android Phones Due To Privacy Concerns (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon stopped selling the phone because of "a potential security issue" because an app on the phone collects data and sends it to China without the user's consent. Well, obviously, that's a *PRIVACY* issue, not a *SECURITY* issue.

  21. Re:I'll take your open office, on Apple is About To Do Something Their Programmers Definitely Don't Want (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    It sounds like a perfect place for Apple to purchase my new product, the iCone-of-Silence.

  22. Re:SSH Tunnels? on Russia Bans VPNs To Stop Users From Looking at Censored Sites (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if you run HTTP through them from a banned website.

  23. Re:It's definately time on O'Reilly Media Asks: Is It Time To Build A New Internet? (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, *YOU* just got yourself un-invited to the new internet!

  24. Re:With.., on O'Reilly Media Asks: Is It Time To Build A New Internet? (oreilly.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and IPV6!

  25. Wrong Penalty on Honolulu Targets 'Smartphone Zombies' With Crosswalk Ban (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If Honolulu *REALLY* wanted to target smartphone zombies, they would do nothing. This seems like a problem that solves itself.