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  1. Re:Surprise Eternal Questions Are Hard on The Moral Dilemma of Driverless Cars: Save The Driver or Save The Crowd? · · Score: 1

    The birth of civilization?!?! Automobiles have only been around about 100 years or so.

  2. Point your television remote at your iPhone camera and press a button. See that little blinking Led? That's Infrared. The filter REDUCES the amount of IR getting to the sensor, but doesn't block it completely.

    So in order to implement this "anti-recording" feature, the phone will need programming updates in order to detect the particular prevention signal, and then prevent the user from activating the camera. Of course, this won't work on older phones that no longer have updates, or dedicated cameras, or anything else that wasn't specifically programmed to look for this signal. What a complete waste of time.

  3. Re:"Customer feedback"? on Microsoft To Make Saying No To Windows 10 Update Easier (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "We are making the change in response to customer feedback, not in response to common sense or the past 25 years of Microsoft UI design."

    DUH!

  4. Re:warranty length on How Sony, Microsoft, and Other Gadget Makers Violate Federal Warranty Law (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    My Apple //e had a 90-day warranty. Ninety days. It has worked flawlessly for 30 years. I bet you won't be able to say the same thing about your modern electronics.

  5. Station.

  6. How do you consume a beautiful piece of classical music by reading it?

  7. Re:I watch at 2x or more speed... on Is The Future Of Television Watching on Fast-Forward? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    So are the movies.

  8. Another good classic SciFi movie to watch at double-speed is the original TRON. It can really slow down in the middle, so the speed increase makes it tolerable.

  9. Re:most people already prefer listening to acceler on Is The Future Of Television Watching on Fast-Forward? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Bingo. If its NOT entertainment, I'd rather not watch it at all, and just read a transcript.

    Say that you're watching a video on oil painting techniques. I don't think you would get the full effect of just reading the transcript.

  10. Re:Intellectual Property Madness on From File-Sharing To Prison: The Story of a Jailed Megaupload Programmer (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What makes you think that?

  11. Well, then they need GOVERNMENT class pipes!

  12. I feel rejected. on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wanted to check on the progress of the Brexit vote, so I went to the CNN website, but it only said in large black letters "LEAVE".

    Jeez, they didn't have to be so mean about it.

  13. Re:Sounds like deliberate theft by Comcast on Comcast Admits It Incorrectly Debited $1,775 From Account, Tells Customer To Sort It Out With Bank (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Go down to the Comcast corporate office near you and STAND ON THEIR DESK until you have a check in your hand.

  14. Disappointed on Internet Trolls Hack Popular YouTube Channel WatchMojo (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    I saw one of those tagged videos this morning. I clicked on the video thinking that it was going to be a discussion about someone getting hacked, and it just turned out to be a stupid Top 10 list.

  15. Re:I'm actually okay with this..... on Federal Court: The Fourth Amendment Does Not Protect Your Home Computer (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Nobody said that you have to actually *LET* the FBI gain remote access to your PC. And even if they did, nobody said that you can't wipe your hard drive and restore from a known clean backup.

  16. Re:That's Not What The Decision Says on Federal Court: The Fourth Amendment Does Not Protect Your Home Computer (eff.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's why when I'm browsing the web, I only use IPX.

  17. Good for them! on South Australia Refuses To Stop Using An Expired, MS-DOS-Based Health Software (abc.net.au) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A DOS based software product is likely to be more secure from remote hacks, and from cloud-provider based security breaches. Thanks to VM technology, this program could be usable for decades!

  18. In Deus Ex - Human Revolution, Adam Jensen lives in the CHIRON building. Coincidence? I don't think so!

  19. Re:Bios embedded bloatware? on Microsoft Tests New Tool To Remove OEM Crapware (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    No.

    If you reinstall a fresh copy of windows, the extension in the bios will just look for it and reinsert it on the next boot.

    If you really want to get rid of the Lenovo embedded BIOS bloatware, then just go to the Lenovo site and update your BIOS. Their method of installing the bloatware via bios breaks the Microsoft OEM agreement, and Microsoft called them on it.

  20. Re:IME is defective by design on Is the 'Secret' Chip In Intel CPUs Really That Dangerous? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Or you could just disable your PC's on-board ethernet port in the BIOS, and add a 3COM ethernet card and use that instead. Won't the IME be surprised when it cannot control another company's hardware!

  21. Re:I'll believe text is dead... on Facebook Is Wrong, Text Is Deathless (kottke.org) · · Score: 1

    I'll believe text is dead when PC keyboards are abandoned for cameras, and PC ROMs no longer implement ASCII, but instead have native video codec support.

  22. Re:understatment or ignorance? on Rhapsody Rebrands Itself As Napster (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Rhapsody has made a name for itself as being a brand synonymous with DRM encumbered music. Of course they would want to make it look like "free illegal music".

  23. Re:New feature coming on Microsoft Is Buying LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    I know you're trying to be sarcastic, but you're 100% right. I recently had the need to create a LinkedIn account, and it was incredible how difficult it was to continue the setup without having it roam through my Outlook Address book (I don't even have Outlook).

    Also, why would Nadella mention LinkedIn in the same sentence as Office365 and Dynamics? To make LinkedIn grab your Office365 Address book!

  24. Re:Don't understand on How Activist DeRay Mckesson's Twitter Account Was Hacked · · Score: 0

    It means that the two-factor authentication wasn't bypassed, like it said in the summary. Instead, it was COMPROMISED.

  25. Downward compatibility on Sony Confirms It's Making a 'High-End PlayStation 4' With 4K and Richer Graphics (ft.com) · · Score: 2

    If all games released from this point on will support both the Neo and Original PS4, then what is the point of buying the Neo if you already have an Original?