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  1. If enough people freeze their credit with Equifax - but not with Experian and Transunion, Equifax will lose customers. I just got a new credit card and my credit is frozen with them. Just had to talk with the card people over the phone.

  2. It is said of LSD "You might see things that aren't there, but you won't NOT see things that are there."

    The three terms have discrete meanings and are not buzzwords. 3D simply implies any technology that tricks the eyes into seeing a two dimensional surface as having depth. Virtual reality means replacing the real environment with a virtual one; A headset that blocks out the real world. Augmented reality is essentially an overlay.

    These earbuds are well within the realm of augmented reality. And the overall ideas were all sound. It's a product that can in principle enhance conversations for the hard of hearing, protect ears from loud noises without reducing the quality of the sound (useful for anyone who still goes to the movies), add ambient sound to a boring room while still being able to hear people, or even listen to informative tracks at a museum. But...they were, what, three hundred bucks, fugly looking, and even their hyped battery life was a damn joke.

  3. Strange vibe on CIA Releases 321GB of Bin Laden's Digital Library (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this common? I wasn't aware this kind of thing was done. I don't have any problem with it, but it just seems like a weird thing to do.

  4. Re:I blame Carly Fiorina on Hewlett-Packard Historical Archive Destroyed In California Fires (pressdemocrat.com) · · Score: 1

    That was actually the first thing I thought. But I checked, and she wouldn't have been the one responsible. This is one thing she didn't do.

  5. Mobile users mostly. I'm sure disneycartoys is happy.

  6. Re:Outrageous on PSA: Apple's iPhone X Screen Repair Will Cost You $279 (macrumors.com) · · Score: 2

    It is indeed a marvel that you can buy a prepaid smartphone for a subsidized price of ten bucks, but I dunno about the very cheapest having 90% functionality. I've bought a few, and they're usually Android 4, missing important radio bands, and have a screen resolution better suited to waffle irons.

  7. Re:Will it do what I tell it to do? on Microsoft Is Working On a Foldable Device With a Focus On Pen and Digital Ink (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem to be conflating my offering a workaround with my advocating the thing that needs a workaround. There's a mental trick you can use to overcome this confusion, but I don't want to come across as promoting low intelligence.

  8. Retailwise, this whole thing is an excuse on Kaspersky CEO Says Hack Claims Cutting US Cyber Security Sales (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I work in a retail store that just pulled it, and I never heard of a single consumer complaining simply because we stocked it. I suppose there's a small chance we pulled it in order to pay obeisance to whinging douchebags who weren't even real customers, but I think there's a better explanation.

    Kaspersky was bad for profits. The biggest reason is we'd rather promote our own antivirus guarantee service, and less competition means more money. Second, people who bought Kaspersky kept bumping into Windows 10 errors that could tie up associates with trying to provide support over the phone. Finally, it simply wasn't a great seller. It was hard to sell even during the holidays when it was free after rebate. I've sold antivirus on Ebay, and even Norton antivirus basic tends to pull in three times as much money as fullblown KIS.

  9. Re:Will it do what I tell it to do? on Microsoft Is Working On a Foldable Device With a Focus On Pen and Digital Ink (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 1

    Protip: You can use battery cases to deal with the non-replaceable battery issue. Some also feature microsd slots.

    You're still SOL when it comes to being at the mercy of software updates though.

  10. Why this technology might be even bigger than gesture based interfaces. "Just hold your hand up to the camera and close it into a fist. That's a left click!"

  11. Re:Good on Reddit Conducts Wide-Ranging Purge of Offensive Subreddits (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Freedom of speech has pretty simple limits. It shouldn't be used to attack one of the classic unalienables. In other words, one shouldn't be allowed to promote violence, murder, slavery, unending harassment, or directly create chaos by trying to incite panic. So I won't suggest you shut your whore mouth. I do suggest you have a whore mouth though.

  12. Re:Power washer on Scientists Find a Better Way To Wash Pesticides Off Your Apples (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What I do is get the screen replaced by a third party. Wipes them totally clean.

  13. $130 and they don't appear to list the technical specifications anywhere on the product page. Maybe I just missed it, but I did look and saw nothing. Not the resolution nor the storage capacity nor the estimated charge length. Also you have to touch the button every ten seconds. Also they're damn fugly.

  14. Re:No leg to stand on on Wolf of Wall Street: Cryptocurrency ICOs Are 'the Biggest Scam Ever' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't mean worse in an ethical sense, but in a hot potato sense.

  15. No leg to stand on on Wolf of Wall Street: Cryptocurrency ICOs Are 'the Biggest Scam Ever' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, ICOs are scams, but they aren't any worse than an established company that doesn't pay dividends on their stock.

  16. Re:No. Also no. on Could Cryptocurrency Mining Kill Online Advertising? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    I was trying to shoot for some kind of mean. Yes TDP varies wildly, as do electrical rates. And yes, if my room is chilly, firing up a 3d game takes on whole new meaning.

  17. Re:What's the point? on Could Cryptocurrency Mining Kill Online Advertising? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't speak for the second question, but there are currencies designed specifically to be more "fair" towards all miners. They are intended to work best on regular CPU's and combat the use of GPU's and ASICs. CryptoNight would be an example of such a currency.

  18. No. Also no. on Could Cryptocurrency Mining Kill Online Advertising? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Whatever the future of these currencies, mining is drying up fast, so no. Also buy a cheap electricity meter and check out what hashing does to your power bill. You may think twice about wanting to have your processor running full tilt for sixteen hours a day. Throwing an extra two hundred dollars a year at your local coal plant is a pretty damn stupid way to support websites you like. Use blockers and donate to those sites you couldn't bear to be without.

  19. I'm ambivalent on Amazon Patents Drones That Recharge Electric Vehicles (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    The part of me that remembers topping off my plane in Top Gun approves. The part of me that remembers topping off my ship with power conduits in Starglider strongly disapproves.

  20. Re:I'm depressingly sane on Intelligent People More At Risk of Mental Illness, Study Finds (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the version I've seen calls him Pagliacci.

  21. Re:Again, or a new one? on Amazon E-Book Buyers Receive Payment From Antitrust Lawsuit Settlement (idropnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen four of these. Collectively I've gotten about $150. Two were from a big group of publishers accused of price fixing (Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Penguin), and then two separate ones from Apple who didn't settle at the same time as the others.

  22. I got twenty bucks. I spent it on birdseed.

  23. Re:I'm depressingly sane on Intelligent People More At Risk of Mental Illness, Study Finds (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's a joke where Bono claps his hands on stage. He then says that every time he claps his hands, a child starves to death, and some guy shouts "Then stop doing that you bastard!"

    We live in a world where the death of children is so routine that you can clap to it, and this is the setup for a punchline. Your mental illness may well cause you profound pain, but it's not childish to see the world and be miserable.

  24. I've read that the popularity of housecats creates tremendous predation of small animals in urban areas. I wonder if the prevalence of birdfeeders creates similar booms of insectivores.

  25. They would have found the missing populations if they'd bothered to check my living room last Thursday.