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  1. Re:My home warranty has been useful on Online Critics Decry Even More Wells Fargo Fraud Scandals (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    We lucked out... they applied the cost of the compressor and labor to replacing the whole thing. Didn't end up much out of pocket.

  2. Re:dont bullshit the hangman. on HBO Hacker Leaks Message From HBO Offering $250,000 'Bounty Payment' (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    This sort of thing is more or less blackmail, though... get them to identify themselves for the bug bounty or have them pound sand because there's no point in paying the blackmail.

  3. Re:Don't care about your site you precious snowfla on Password Power Rankings: a Look At the Practices of 40+ Popular Websites (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah at least when sites have custom logins the profile stays there, more and more are asking to log in via social media or gmail account... why would I want to link anymore information about be on the internet than absolutely necessary?

  4. Re:There is an even better way... on A New Way to Tell Your Airline You Hate It (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Now there's a successful use of e-commerce. It is great living in the future.

  5. Have you tried listening to FM radio in a while? It's the same at it used to be but worse, somehow, after getting used to cached internet radio stations sans commercials...

  6. Re:Not understanding how it's a blow to Netflix. on Disney To Pull Its Movies From Netflix and Start Its Own Streaming Service (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I do think Netflix is positioning themselves well for syndicated content, still. Plenty of TV shows that I'd considered getting on Amazon but just wait a year and it is on Netflix. Similarly, since they're distributing the new Star Trek show outside the US I think I'll skip the CBS service and see if it shows up on Netflix in a year. Even if it doesn't show up there, if the reviews were good enough then sub for CBS for a month and binge it. Netflix will stay king if they can keep enough people subscribing year round rather than "just when Game of Thrones is on" like we do with HBO Now.

  7. They use some trickery to allow you to stream censored versions of movies (and maybe shows?). Somehow they do this without actually licensing the content themselves, I'm not aware of the technicalities. I always found TV edits of movies confusing and annoying as a kid, I think for mine they'll do just as well to wait to watch a movie until they can handle the thing in its entirety.

  8. Sure but the series don't hold as much sway with kids because there isn't any merchandise associated with them. We cut cable before my younger daughter was old enough to watch TV, but via peer exposure she has become a big fan of a Nickelodeon show she had never seen, and requested some DVDs from the library. Since then we bought a few DVDs and ripped them onto her tablet. The Disney products with lots of T shirts and so on to advertise to other children are the movies. (If she wants to stream something there's Tumbleleaf on Amazon Prime and all sorts of things on Netflix. I'm not paying another subscription fee or I would be better off getting cable again.)

  9. I can only assume that it will help them become literate. My pre-school-age children know some/all of their letters but the older one is still only on the cusp of reading. Trying to use tablets and ipods has only improved their literacy as it motivates them to develop the skills to find what they want in the devices. The older one is also starting to teach herself Spanish from videos and games she downloads.

  10. Well sure, I mean look at what the crossbow and arquebus did for warfare: a peasant taught how to load and fire is nearly as lethal as a guy that trained his whole life with a longbow. Or the difference in skill needed to operate a table saw versus a hand saw.

  11. Re:this is why Tesla is going to be HUGE quickly on Nissan Won't Build Its Own Electric Car Batteries Anymore (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Although if they build the 'best' battery, they can still say in the small margin battery business even if they stop making cars. It's like a Husqvarna mower with a Honda engine, except it'll be "Ford e-Peen, Powered by Tesla!" on the advert.

  12. Re:I care about battery brand, sorta on Amazon Owns a Whole Collection of Secret Brands (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah it wouldn't have occurred to me if I hadn't searched online for any clever ways to get a swollen battery out of a maglight. Apparently Duracell and Energizer will stand by their products not ruining things. I lucked out in that one battery could be extracted easily enough to verify that they weren't expired. They gave me a check for replacing the flashlight and a coupon for more batteries. Amazon worries me for battery purchases, I usually get them at the hardware store, or if you have a warehouse store membership you can get them relatively cheaply there. Anything that eats them quickly gets Eneloop instead.

  13. Re:I care about battery brand, sorta on Amazon Owns a Whole Collection of Secret Brands (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah thanks for the warning, then... I'd been tending to buy them since I had positive experiences before but perhaps things have changed.

  14. Re:I care about battery brand, sorta on Amazon Owns a Whole Collection of Secret Brands (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    On the offchance that you have a product ruined by the batteries, like a maglight (since they aren't designed terribly well in restrospect and a battery swelling ruins the whole thing), Duracell is relatively painless to get recompense from.

  15. Re:Remember kids... on China Built the World's Largest Telescope, But Has No One To Run It (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I suppose when it came to your knowledge of C#.Net you could claim to have as much knowledge as anyone did about it.

  16. Re:I've been happy with Eneloop NiMH on Startup Unveils Revolutionary New Rechargeable Alkaline Batteries (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah those are great. Used to use them in my Xbox 360 and Wii Controllers. Now they're in children's toys that they forget to turn off...

  17. RCA on Why Steve Jobs Loved the IPod Shuffle (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I had a nice RCA player that took compact flash cards, so you could swap them out. I bet it still works but you needed to use WMP to transfer the files so they could get encrypted into some goofy DRM format. That one ran off of AAs so was great for road trips as a kid. Later on I got an iRiver which was a great anodized aluminum player with a capacitive strip to interface with but it had a mini hard drive in it so eventually it broke down. Nowadays I mostly just use my phone, but I do have an old shuffle around for listening to music while doing something laborious with power tools when I'm afraid I might damage a phone.

  18. Re:Will nobody think of the teetotalers? on Why We Can't Have the Male Pill (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If it isn't a direct interaction, it means that the slight work the liver had to do on the booze left it unable to deal with the drug. This isn't good... a bigger study would probably then find that taking an advil would result in similar.

  19. Re:Brake and tire dust? on Electric Cars Are Not the Answer To Air Pollution, Says Top UK Adviser (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Think of all the wool, cotton, and skin dust all those people in the city are generating! Time to eliminate them, too!

  20. Enough people already commented that pet food is mostly made from waste from human food production, so the only thing I have to add is that I'd also read that the manufacturers said they'd hardly even know what to do with all of the waste they turn into pet food otherwise. Which means it'd probably get burned or landfilled. Feeding it to pets is probably the most environmentally friendly way to dispose of it.

  21. Re:My first thought wasn't terrorism (for once).. on Mozilla's Send is Basically the Snapchat of File Sharing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The lucrative banner space for banner ads that look like Download Here buttons and give you viruses, I'd imagine.

  22. Re:Environmental change and reaction to it. on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes, that's why the Pentagon has been worried about climate change. They need to ramp that up with Fox or something, though, as I think the voice of the military would hold more sway over some swaths of denialists than any number of scientists.

  23. Re:Not deadly yet on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 1

    The duration matters... you can place your palm on a hot grill without being burned if you're quick.

  24. Re:Siberia looks cool on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't read the article you mention, but offhand the US already has floods and deserts. It is pretty big. The deserts can get bigger and the flooding worse.

  25. Re:People don't get it on Verizon's New Rewards Program Lets It Track Your Browsing History (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it as true for internet ads, though? Sure TV makes me aware that Bounty brand paper towels exist and are superior to the "leading brands". But banner ads I see are for products I already bought, or maybe sometimes stuff I've researched when planning a purchase. In either case I'm already aware of the product. For who to buy it from it comes down to the largest wholesaler with a good shipping price, generally, which is easy to look up. The rest are mortgage refinance offers no one capable of getting a mortgage would consider using or 'how to date Natalie Dormer'. No ads for consumables.