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  1. Re:And you shouldn't be.... on New York DA Wants Apple, Google To Roll Back Encryption (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    The answer is so fucking simple. Waterboard the criminals until they decrypt their phone. In the words of Peg, "Problem solved!"

  2. Re:Manhattan DA on New York DA Wants Apple, Google To Roll Back Encryption (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    Their phones were all encrypted.

  3. Re:And you shouldn't be.... on New York DA Wants Apple, Google To Roll Back Encryption (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    Who said anything about a warrant? We don't need no stinkin' warrants.

  4. Re:Maybe they can "invent" Angry Bird Go on Apple Q3 Earnings: iPhone Sales Continue To Slide, But Apple Beats Estimates (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    I pull settings for a new phone from Google so that I have all the contacts and e-mail from my old system. No problem. 80 gigs of music? That's takes a while even with a 50MB connection over wifi. The only thing I'm missing from the iPhone is iOS which is superior to Android but not enough for me to give up needed functionality. I think there are enough people that like to have physical control of their data without a "cloud" hanging over them for someone to sell an SD equipped phone. So what if it costs an extra dollar or two, the greedy fuckers are making hundreds of dollars off every phone. The only reason to exclude it is to make more money charging ridiculous sums of money for something that costs them almost nothing. Of course if you're happy with that situation then that's fine for you. I guess I'm a control freak.

  5. Re:Reminds me... on Apple Q3 Earnings: iPhone Sales Continue To Slide, But Apple Beats Estimates (bgr.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't know. A lot of companies would like to make 7.8 billion dollars in one quarter. What other computer manufacturer made that kind of money in Q3? Sure, they didn't make the money they did last year but man, look at how stupendous last year was for them. You can't do that every year, it's a tough act to follow.

  6. Our computers at work got upgraded and suddenly Bing is the default search. I can definitely say that MS did not copy Google's search function. Bing is almost useless.

  7. Re:Maybe they can "invent" Angry Bird Go on Apple Q3 Earnings: iPhone Sales Continue To Slide, But Apple Beats Estimates (bgr.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I see your point and that's fine if you like getting fucked over. I don't so I don't buy iPhones. I don't mind paying a premium for superior equipment but it has to have the features I want. Why in hell would I pay nearly one thousand dollars for a phone that wasn't what I wanted? I've seen many an iPhone 3 years or less old with a swollen case and dead battery. My Samsung S5 original battery still lasts a while but it's not the same after a year and a half and neither is your iPhone. I bought a brand new Samsung battery off Amazon for less than 20 bucks to the door and now my Phone stays charged all day instead of 85 percent of it and I still have the old battery I can use if for some reason I can't get to a charger. Storage depends on usage and a lot of people are happy with 64GB but I like 128 better and the ability to swap out. I crushed my S4 so bad I bent the battery in it but I pulled the SD card and popped it in the new S5 with all my pictures and music on it. Try that with your iPhone. I refuse to buy a phone designed for the manufacturers convenience rather than mine.

  8. It all depends on whether he understood that it was not autopilot. If they can show where he was informed that he was required to be aware and involved then I'd say it's not going to hurt Tesla. If it was buried in the fine print then you are correct, they'll have to pay out the ass.

  9. Re:Possibly it is pay for risk on Highest-Paid CEOs Run Worst-Performing Companies, Research Finds (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Enlightened self interest is good, greed is not. Self interest is smart, greed is stupid. Many people confuse self interest with greed but they are not the same thing.

  10. In Georgia over 85 in a 70 zone is called super speeder. Since they came up with that most patrols don't fool with the little fish going 80 or so. They want that big paycheck for a super speeder. It's a fucking huge fine. I was doing 82 the other day and a guy in a beemer blew my doors off. 6 miles later I saw him with one of those new Dodge Chargers sitting on the side behind him. The bad thing is after the fine the insurance company is going to bend him over and bitch fuck him.

  11. Want to bet? Judges don't deal in emotions like a jury does. A jury now, they'll freak.

  12. It's a "semi" autonomous system. You're not supposed to set it then read a book or watch a movie. I can see how the car could fail to see the rig since it sits high off the ground and might appear to be clear, especially when the trailer color is gray. I don't see how the driver failed to notice it though.

  13. At that speed they need to pull into the right lane to avoid being run over.

  14. Hey, they're doing better than microsoft.

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...

  15. Re:Apple Beats Estimates--- on Apple Q3 Earnings: iPhone Sales Continue To Slide, But Apple Beats Estimates (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    not funny

  16. Re:Maybe they can "invent" Angry Bird Go on Apple Q3 Earnings: iPhone Sales Continue To Slide, But Apple Beats Estimates (bgr.com) · · Score: 0

    Better yet how about a phone with a removable battery and SD card storage? Those are the two reasons I've never bought an iPhone.

  17. Re: Same as with all other Democrat institutions on Facebook Admits Blocking WikiLeaks' DNC Email Links, But Won't Say Why (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    This is like preseason football. It means nothing.

  18. I think he's crazy to want that fucked up job. I think he's crazy to promise a wall with the mexicans paying for it. He's crazy to personally attack families of his opponents. He's crazy to do all this shit off the hip without thinking about it but making it up as he goes along. He's almost as nuts and Hilliary is crooked.

  19. I figure you're one of the 10 percent that will vote for what you believe in. My hats off to you, this country would be so much better off if people were more like you. I say this as a person who disagrees with almost all of Bernie Sanders' platform. I was saddened to see him abandon his principles in favor of political expediency.

  20. They don't even really pretend to be straight anymore. I used to watch Al Jazeera for news but they took that off DirecTV.

  21. lying cheating and weasel sure but I don't think Hilliary is insane. Besides, the media is supposed to report news but now we have them colluding with party leadership to run a propaganda campaign. That's not really how it's supposed to go and they don't even pretend anymore.

  22. Because 95 percent of the media is going to actively campaign for Hilliary. All the corporations that usually donate to Republican candidates are going to donate to Hilliary. Every talk show is going to pillory him. Thousands of Hollyweird stars are going to bad mouth him constantly. The Republican elite are at best going to give only the most lukewarm support they think they can get away with. All that and he'll probably still manage to get within 3-5 percent of Hilliary but it wont be enough.

  23. Re: Sometime a delay is helpful on Facebook Admits Blocking WikiLeaks' DNC Email Links, But Won't Say Why (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    You know, if I was black I bet I'd hate your honkey ass too.

  24. Re: Same as with all other Democrat institutions on Facebook Admits Blocking WikiLeaks' DNC Email Links, But Won't Say Why (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    I like that, Republicans are elitists and rednecks. That's a perfect blend. It looks like the rednecks finally took the party away from the elitists this year. They picked a rich Yankee Redneck. It's so fucking hilarious. This is the best election ever if you enjoy chaos and confusion. If we don't get a viable third party candidate this year you know it'll never happen again in a century or more. I figure 40 percent of the people will vote for Hilliary because she's the Democratic nominee. 40 percent will vote for Trump because of his one good point, he's not Hilliary. That leaves 20 percent who are probably sitting there going "What the fuck?" Think of all the negative TV ads! There can't really be a positive campaign because there's not much positive to say about either party's choice. I fucking love it!

  25. Trump has never had problems making money. He filed bankruptcy several times and each time he came back bigger than before. He has self funded his campaign for the most part until recently when he finally started taking donations but he's still putting a lot of his own money in. I'm not sure what motivates Trump but I suspect it's just a desire to see what he can do. He'd like to win just to say he won. It's the kind of arrogant shit he's always doing. I can't even speculate on what a Trump presidency would look like but I suspect, given his past, that he'd like to be successful just to say he was the shit. It's crazy and that's generally how I look at this election. Crazy vs Crooked. A change from Crooked vs Crookeder.