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  1. Put backup copies in truck.

    Drive them to the backup site.

    Repeat regularly.

  2. Hawking Backs $100 Million Interstellar Travel Pro on Hawking Backs $100 Million Interstellar Travel Project to Send 'Nano-Craft' To Nearest Star · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hawking Backs $100 Million Interstellar Travel Project

    I didn't realize that Hawking had that much money, but it is much better that he backs it than the tax payers.

  3. Re:Really...??? on Tesla Recalls 2,700 Model X Cars, Highlighting Risk of Massive Model 3 Rollout (bgr.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm certainly not an Elon fan-boy, but I completely agree. Other manufacturers have recalls too, and much worse they don't have recalls when they should (think explosive airbags and faulty ignition switches). Tesla is doing the right thing here and they deserve an acknowledgement of that.

  4. U.S. officials blamed Iran, suggesting it was in retaliation for political sanctions and several earlier cyberattacks on its own systems.

    In other words, we know that Iran must be doing this horrible awful thing, because we've been doing it to them and they must be getting upset about that.

    Not sure what that has to do with anything though. The attacks coming through Sweden doesn't prove or disprove where they originated, so I don't see the point of the above quote.

  5. Re:This will be fun on All-Female Ridesharing To Debut In Boston (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you really believe that? How do you determine that "rates are similar (almost equal" if in order to make that calculation you would have to know who committed all of the "unsolved" crimes? Could it be that you have a pigmentation issue that causes you to want to believe that? Or are you just a bleeding heart liberal?

  6. Re: This will be fun on All-Female Ridesharing To Debut In Boston (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Thanks for clearing that up. I now realize when I see all of the black people arrested for violent crimes along with a handful of white people that in reality it is whites that are committing all of the crimes and it is just that blacks are getting arrested for it.

  7. Re:Tor exit nodes could use white lists. on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that you have a list of the known CP sites, but not everyone does. In a sick world where it is illegal to post lists of torrent sites even when you don't host any of the torrent content yourself, wouldn't it be at least as illegal to distribute such a list of CP sites?

  8. next step, people using sealed envelopes on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    God damn privacy advocates. They are probably a bunch of paranoids who think the government is after them too. This should teach them a lesson.

  9. Re:Bring leaders to Hiroshima to see the damage on G-7 Leaders At Hiroshima To Urge More Visits to Nuclear Bombsites (voanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Bringing world leaders to Hiroshima and Nagasaki seems to create too much opportunity for terrorists. I suggest creating more locations where they can see the effects of nuclear weapons so the terrorists don't have just one or two cities to plot their attacks from. North Korea, Iraq and Iran all seem like good locations to create alternate viewing sites in.

  10. Re:This will be fun on All-Female Ridesharing To Debut In Boston (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A quick scan of local on-line arrest records shows a majority of blacks committing violent crimes even though the black population is a minority. So the next logical step will be a white only version of Uber. Just for safety purposes, of course.

  11. the conspiracy goes farther than I thought on The 'Human Computer' Behind the Moon Landing Was a Black Woman (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    I knew that they had faked the moon landing and that Stanley Kubrick had been enlisted by Nixon to help win the space race against Russia but now you're telling me that rather than have a real computer plot the course they just used a black woman?

  12. One small step for black women on The 'Human Computer' Behind the Moon Landing Was a Black Woman (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    I guess this would be a lot more impressive if we had actually gone to the moon in the 60's. But it's a nice feel good story and helps perpetuate Nixon's myth.

  13. found the pervert

  14. I someone sees a man going into a woman's restroom it at least draws attention. The rapists and perverts want it to become so commonplace that it doesn't attract attention and the rapist can express indignation and claim discrimination if anyone questions him.

  15. You moron on PayPal Pulls North Carolina Plan After Transgender Bathroom Law (reuters.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    While the perverts try to portray it differently, all the law did was say that individual communities couldn't pass a wide array of different and contradictory laws and that any laws relating to gender discrimination had to be state wide. This was done in response to a city (Charlotte) that passed a law that would have allowed men to enter women's bathrooms if they wanted to (all they had to do was claim that the "identified" themselves as women. Some people thought it was important to also protect women from rape and not allow every reactionary city to pass different laws to appeal to perverts.

  16. Sadly, the company's previous tactics haven't worked so well. The company doesn't have many clients, and it posted a net loss of $3.43m in 2015, up from the $2.85m net loss recorded in 2014.

    Why does this text begin with the word " Sadly "? It is certainly not the word that I would use.

  17. Re:Internet != internet on AP Style Alert: Don't Capitalize Internet and Web Anymore (poynter.org) · · Score: 1

    All primates can learn language, but knowing when to capitalize is what separates man from the aps.

  18. Re:fascists on AP Style Alert: Don't Capitalize Internet and Web Anymore (poynter.org) · · Score: 1

    I bow to the will of my ap masters.

  19. it is all relative on Lasers Could Hide Us From Evil Aliens (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, this might work, as long as you know exactly where the aliens are observing your transit from. If you didn't know their location then they could be anywhere in the sky and the transit would be at different times, so you wouldn't know just when to hide the transit or where to point the highly directional laser beam. I take this as another admission that we know about the aliens and this time we know where they are watching from. However, they likely have already visited us (or we wouldn't know about them) and so they know we are here and are not going to be fooled by our laser trick.

  20. Re:This is a good thing. on More People On Earth Now Obese Than Underweight, Says Study (statnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone who can cook a meal can make nutritious, unprocessed food cheaper than they can buy processed food.

    But you don't cook for yourself or even for your family if you are lazy and it is easier to get that fattening Big Mac or use the phone to "make pizza" rather than use the stove.

  21. Re:This is a good thing. on More People On Earth Now Obese Than Underweight, Says Study (statnews.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's because a Big Mac is cheaper to buy than groceries.

    Really? The problem that I have with such a comment is that you supposedly can't buy a Big Mac with food stamps. So if you are poor then groceries, even nutritious ones, are free, and Big Macs are not. Maybe it is more about being lazy than poor (not that I don't admit that there is a strong correlation). Of course, being lazy can lead to obesity in other ways too.

  22. not news if you've ever been to WalMart on More People On Earth Now Obese Than Underweight, Says Study (statnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Pound for pound there are a lot more obese people.

  23. Re:Trying to get shot? on Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Just yesterday there was a news story about a man who was shot by Capital police. He didn't shoot anyone. As far as I know he didn't threaten or try to shoot anyone. He simply had a gun, a right that is guarantee by the second amendment. Sounds to me that if you believe in your right to carry a weapon so that you can defend yourself or your loved ones if the need arises, then you better conceal it or the government will try to kill you.

  24. Re:Great News on Volvo Wants You To Ditch Car Keys For Its New Smartphone App (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2

    Do you think the proprietary opaque keyfob implementations are safer than bluetooth?

    A hardware based fob with rolling codes synced between the car and the fob? Sure I think that is more secure than a software based Bluetooth approach. Also, my fob battery has lasted over two years, my phone frequently runs out of power before the end of the day. My fob has a backup hardware key "just in case". My phone does not.

  25. This is great news, particularly since Bluetooth is so secure. And nothing could ever go wrong here.