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  1. Re:Why I Prefer Dumb Displays on Declining LG's New Ad-friendly Privacy Policy Removes Features From Smart TVs · · Score: 1

    Bulk access to MVNO is pretty cheap, it's more expensive to get the sim cards provisioned for each country they operate in, and make sure they are paired with the right country.

  2. Re:This was already done back in 2001 on Scientists Propose Collider That Could Turn Light Into Matter · · Score: 1

    You know how we know that you didn't even bother to read the excerpt?

  3. Re:It's one of many reasons why Adblocking is mora on Malvertising Up By Over 200% · · Score: 1

    When websites vet their advertisement and host the stupid things, I'll let them through (and in fact do so).

  4. Re:Anti-competitive on Apple To Face Lawsuit For iMessage Glitch · · Score: 4, Informative

    Arh 'murcian, cause what we do is what everyone else are doing.

    Text prices outside the US was definitely not driven anywhere by Apple, they have been plummeting for ages - having multiple carriers did that, not some shiney toy.

  5. Re:Regular Wallet on Why Mobile Wallets Are Doomed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In Denmark, Mobile Pay is a massive success, users can transfer money to each other, split bill etc.

    The value added as a consumer using Mobile Pay, rather than CC, is the fact that we can instantly settle our "debt". No more "I bought round number 4, so I'm not up for another now", someone goes and pays with their CC (or using mobile pay in the places that accept that) and can instantly deal with the bill among their peers.

    Almost 25% of the population has adapted this solution in less than a year.

  6. Re:Sugar on Gaining On the US: Most Europeans To Be Overweight By 2030 · · Score: 1

    At what point did I blame society for the problem?

    What I said was society needs to understand the problem and help the people who are in trouble, iff we wan't to fix this issue. Huge difference...

    Also, you are really really ignorant, if you think it's a matter of impulse control. Sugar is extremely addictive - think Heroin like cravings. Those of us who grew up with lots of candy are battling an inner demon like you wouldn't believe; and having ignorant people like you telling us to just grow up is again a detrimental to the effort.

    As long as you and the rest of society doesn't understand the problem, we as a society can't fix it.

    Also, as I wrote, I've dropped 30kg, don't fucking tell me what impulse control is about, you have no idea what hell I've been through.

    So yeah, fuck you, but thanks for playing.

  7. Re:Sugar on Gaining On the US: Most Europeans To Be Overweight By 2030 · · Score: 1

    Really? The do tell why smoking commercials where banned?

    Are all people suddenly mentally ill?

    The feedback loop in your brain for stimulus like sugar is very well understood and it's almost impossible to fight; but hey good for you if you haven't been conditioned like about 90% of the young population.

    Also props for not understanding anything about the current issue, stay ignorant, stay happy!

  8. Re:Sugar on Gaining On the US: Most Europeans To Be Overweight By 2030 · · Score: 1

    No no no and no.

    Fat people are not going to lose weight by eating calories. Rice and pasta has very high amount of carbs per g.

    I'm not advocating eating chocolate, but trust me, binge eating rice will not help you.

    Also, if you absolutely must eat something sweet, ice cream is actually not a bad option. Pretty much any candy you pick will come in at 500kcal / 100g (+/-50kcal), most ice cream will come in around 250kcal/100g, just remember 100ml != 100g.

    Another fun fact, sugarfree candy is usually just as bad as the regular stuff, look at the content description, the calorie table will almost always match the regular candy.

  9. Re:Sugar on Gaining On the US: Most Europeans To Be Overweight By 2030 · · Score: 1

    I only ever cycle, I do fitness 3-4 times a week. I'm still quite a bit overweight. And I fucking hate people like you who thinks it all comes down to getting some exercise. Having muscle will help metabolism, however, it is a big fucking mistake to think that hitting the gym will lower your weight, in fact quite the opposite happens for most overweight people.

    Hitting the gym with the object of losing weight will be very detrimental to your efforts, 1. you will gain weight from the additional muscle. 2. raising your activity will increase your need for calories and if not kept in check, will just have you eat more.
    Now what happens to us fatties at this point is, we realize that all that effort in the gym hasn't helped us, so we stop going there, but the calorie intake doesn't go down, causing even more weight gain...

    If we as a society want to get rid of this epidemic, we can't just go around telling people to move more, it doesn't help, we need people to eat proper food, we need to have the amount of added sugar to daily food removed. And we need to make it easier for people combatting their weight - restrict advertisements on candy/cake/cookies, just like with smoking. Require supermarkets to move the unhealthy food away from cash registers and by law require a "healthy" path through the market, a path which allows you to buy the daily groceries, without having to fight your inner need for candy, and trust me it's a daily battle and it doesn't get easier.

    I've dropped almost 30kgs over the last 18 months, and it's still a fucking struggle; one advertisement can send you on a binge eating candy spree like you wouldn't believe it.

  10. Re:F-35 on Norway Is Gamifying Warfare By Driving Tanks With Oculus Rift · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I get that it is a silly comparison, but what's with the negative vibes?

    These guys have come up with a nifty solution to an expensive problem and they are using some awesome geek gear to do so.

  11. Re:For fuck's sake.... on Google Hit With Antitrust Lawsuit Over Default Search on Android Phones · · Score: 2

    Go ask Microsoft how that defense works out...

  12. Re:Time to move into the Century of the fruit bat. on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    I generally disagree with capital punishment as it can't be undone, should injustice have occurred.

    However, I wholeheartedly believe that should death penalties be administered, they *must* be swift and painless, because we as a society *must* be above the evil we are punishing. Spending 46 minutes killing someone is cruel, evil and unwarranted, those in charge of the execution and OKing the drugs should be tried by the human rights council.

  13. Re:Same as UK on Google May Be $1 Billion Behind In Tax Payments To France · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because one billion dollars will save the economy... FYI The EU generates a GDP of US$16.566 trillion, but hey, lets not let silly things like facts get in the way of being a jerk?

    The reason for "going after" google is because they are evading taxes and need to play on the same field as the rest of us.

  14. Re:Its the anti-gun agenda, seriously, read articl on L.A. Science Teacher Suspended Over Student Science Fair Projects · · Score: 1

    No, it's not anti gun propaganda. I'm from a country where guns are banned and people are wholeheartedly against guns, but we aren't fucking stupid! We enjoy science and experiments like these are allowed; but under proper supervision.

    This smells a lot like someone wanting an excuse for firing this particular teacher.

  15. Re:It's California on Can the ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers Be Believed? · · Score: 0

    Really? So you moan about having to pay a bit more to a guy who couldn't get insurance?

    You really need to get a reality check...

  16. Re:The Slide-to-Unlock Claim, for reference on Apple: Dumb As a Patent Trolling Fox On iPhone Prior Art? · · Score: 1

    Why do you keep claiming that Apple has somehow managed to do animation without discrete steps?

    Any animations are a series of discrete steps, you *might* add blurring but they are damned well still discrete steps!

  17. Re:Article is not very clear. on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    Considering the book "Flash Boys" is about how fucked up HFT is and how bad it is for investors, one does wonder what kind of agenda you are pushing, claiming the exact opposite.

  18. Re:Why stop there? on Will Cameras Replace Sideview Mirrors On Cars In 2018? · · Score: 2

    You obviously don't bike...

    The mirror is important because that's when the car is interacting with your space - when both parties are going straight, you don't care about their brakes or speed; The time for danger (provided you as a bicyclist actually adhere to the law) is when a car is trying to do a right hand turn - this is when they enter your domain and this is when you are going to get killed (statistically speaking); this should never happen at high speed, nor with malfunctioning brakes (yay for mandatory two year inspections).

    As a bicyclist you (should) pay very close attention to what's going on in the right turn lane, are they slowing down? Have they seen me? *CAN* they see me? And trust me, I assume that all drivers are idiots playing on their phone will trying to eat a sandwich - having a indication that the driver turning right is absolutely blind and oblivious to my presence just means I can react a second earlier.

    (I treat vans and trucks like they have zero mirrors)

  19. Re:Why stop there? on Will Cameras Replace Sideview Mirrors On Cars In 2018? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I live in Copenhagen and drive a bike, I think replacing sideview mirrors with cameras is a horrible idea. If someone is driving around with a broken mirror, I can tell from a long distance, and I will know to be careful around that driver - if he breaks his monitor or camera and don't get it replaced, I will have zero "heads up" about his lack of information.

  20. Re:Salvage Opportunity... on The Mystery of the 'Only Camera To Come Back From the Moon' · · Score: 0

    Team America - World Police.

  21. Re:Physical access? on Remote ATM Attack Uses SMS To Dispense Cash · · Score: 1

    Wrong century... ATMs of today are running on off the shelf hardware, with "special" (as in special needs) operating systems (Windows). They have exposed USB ports under the hood and to make it completely idiotic, the only thing locked behind high security is the money. The motherboard is quite often found just under the keypad, which can be accessed by standard keys.

    See these guys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... (Unfortunately the actual hack is poorly recorded, but still quite interesting).

  22. Re:This story is so strange on How Satellite Company Inmarsat Tracked Down MH370 · · Score: 1

    Well the problem with that story is it ruins perfectly good conspiracy theories, an airplane going down due to a fire is horrible, but it just isn't sexy enough to keep us news zombies interested.

    (Also, one thing I don't like about his deduction is how the airplane managed to stay airborne for 6 more hours; as he himself writes, a fire onboard an aircraft is a major problem, one does wonder how a fire managed to kill everyone on board but in the process also managed to put itself out before anything important for continued flight went dead).

  23. Re:Horrible article on Google Android Studio Vs. Eclipse: Which Fits Your Needs? · · Score: 1

    So, once you have learned an UI, you refuse to upgrade?

    I haven't tried Android Studio, but I am using IntelliJ Ultimate Edition - for the life of me, I can see any reason why anyone would ever prefer Eclipse over IntelliJ.

  24. Re:I'll make it easy on US Navy Strategists Have a Long History of Finding the Lost · · Score: 1

    There was a plane some time back that dropped out of the sky, due to black market parts, since then it has been cleaned up quite a bit, but if you are a cheapo operator, picking something up in the far east, that happens to be the real thing for 1/10th of the price, might seem like a good deal.

    Granted I personally doubt this is the goal of this disappearance, iff, and that is a big iff, the airplane was stolen, it is most likely because someone wants to do some terror, e.g. fill it with radioactive materials and stick it in a building somewhere.

    Personally I believe it to be somewhat more mundane, electrical fire taking out systems ad-hoc, pilot tries to save his plane, gets his bearings wrong and plane ends up in the water somewhere unexpected.

  25. Re:I'll make it easy on US Navy Strategists Have a Long History of Finding the Lost · · Score: 4, Informative

    In theory yes, in real life no. There is quite a huge black market for spare parts.