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  1. what nonsense, people are living longer now than ever. The benefit of using "those poisons" far outweigh the negatives.
    The big risk factor for cancer? aging. being 65 or over.

    And what is this stupidity about the mostly molten rock called Earth having opinion about humans? If you think people are so bad, kill yourself. We won't miss you.

  2. Re:Citibanks says thank you on Citigroup Sues AT&T For Saying 'Thanks' To Customers (techdirt.com) · · Score: 2

    As long as you're not using my FUCKYOU(R)(TM)(Pat. Pend)(C)

  3. yeah a commercial with Ricardo Montalban's voice saying that would be awesome.

  4. Re:Rebranding old products... on Microsoft is Working On Software For The Legal Marijuana Industry (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    are only the leaves legal or is hash ok too?

    I'm picturing clippy with burning bit of hash on his end, just like Cheech and Chong used to sniff it.

    hash clippy: "like hey man, what's the problem, man?"

    user types in question

    hash clippy "oh wow like that's some really heavy shit man"

  5. if it doesn't have fine corinthian leather seats I don't want it.

  6. Re:Less efficient on Larry Page Is Secretly Working On a Flying Car (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    helicopters have to fight against gravity, which will always make them less efficient than ground based cars that mainly have to deal with friction.

    hovercraft have to fight against gravity....

    airplanes have to fight against gravity

    rockets have to fight against gravity

  7. Re:If you have physical access to the phone... on Researchers Turn Smartphone Vibration Motor Into Microphone To Spy On You (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    the microphone present can already be used either by compromising software or, with physical access to phone by many other means too.

    why bother at all with this pointless hack that gives inferior audio?

  8. correct, this story is about a stupid needless hack for which there are trivial means to get even better audio from the microphone a phone already has.

  9. Re:One more reason for bitcoin. on Oklahoma State Troopers Use New Device To Seize Bank Accounts During Traffic Stops (news9.com) · · Score: 1

    yes it is; if the state demands you give them for this law you will be jailed for not doing so

  10. will this Sealab be operational in 2020?

  11. Re: Only an academic... on The Web's Creator Thinks We Need a New One That Governments Can't Control (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a world wide Web before that 1990s CERN stuff. It did not use tcpip, parts of it used uucp and DECnet

  12. nonsense.

    there are known ways to subvert all the common phone OS in use and take over phone functions including microphone.

  13. Re:If you have physical access to the phone... on Researchers Turn Smartphone Vibration Motor Into Microphone To Spy On You (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    bothering to install a microphone

    on a cell phone

    mmmmkay you need to think a little harder

  14. my phone has a microphone built in! OMG what were the engineers thinking?

  15. Re:incredibly stupid article and sumary (rant) on Future Phones May Use Vacuum Tube Chips As Silicon Hits Moore's Law Extremes (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    not to mention vacuum tubes also will hit limits where quantum effects completely dominate at about the same scale that silicon based ones will. it isn't a solution that avoids Moore's law

  16. Re:Just imagine... on Universal Basic Income Programs Arrive (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    someone who didn't understand economics did that false study. there are always liars like that, the same ilk that showed Obamacare would be a good deal while in reality it is screwing working people at SMB over

  17. Re:well.. on Universal Basic Income Programs Arrive (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The helpdesk lines I call have people on them. just in last 24 hours with ISP cutover talked to people at godaddy, internet crusades, f5 bigip and lightower.

    maybe the world between your ears is tinier than the real one

    I'm over 50 and that scare talk you are spewing has been constant theme but the opposite has happened and is happening.

  18. Re: Please report this. on Apartment In US Asks Tenants To 'Like' Facebook Page Or Face Action (business-standard.com) · · Score: 1

    wrong, leasing company is utterly responsible for any action of any employee no matter how low, that affects lease.

    the company needs to be crushed. quit being a shill for wrongdoing

  19. not "programs" at all on Universal Basic Income Programs Arrive (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    giving handouts to handful of some people in no way tests "universal income".

    There is no way we could have 90 million people in the USA being given $2K a month for a total of a 2 trillion dollars a year, while also taking the hit of them not creating wealth in economy. the country would fail.

    I realize you useless people love this kind of talk, but instead you'll just have get a job, you fucking hippies. we don't need parasites.

  20. Re:well.. on Universal Basic Income Programs Arrive (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    nonsense, IT has created jobs, millions of jobs exist now that could not without technology. web sites alone have created sales and marketing forces that are huge, besides the markets for pure information that now exist.

    robots can't do most jobs, quit believing sci-fi shows

  21. Re:Just imagine... on Universal Basic Income Programs Arrive (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    wrong. large portion of populace can't be paid to not work. the economics don't work out. the country would fail.

    you useless people will just have to get a job

  22. Re:Thank You! Debian team(s) on Security Updates Released for Debian 8 and 7 (debian.org) · · Score: 0

    except they've chosen to go the path of stupidity and needless complexity by switching to systemd. what a shame, giving idiots megaphones

  23. Re:Baloney on RSA Keys Can Be Harvested With Microphones (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    this trick can also save your cars blinker lights when they get low on blinker fluid. but wd-40 can't be used to save rear muffler bearings, you need something more viscous like jello

  24. Re: Please report this. on Apartment In US Asks Tenants To 'Like' Facebook Page Or Face Action (business-standard.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    please do, a business who lets "unauthorized people" put random crap in a lease or otherwise burden tenants with nonsense must pay the price.

    there are laws about this kind of thing

  25. Re:may not be money but that's irrelevant on Miami Money-Laundering Case May Define Whether Bitcoin Is Really Money (ibtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    sad news for you, it's still money laundering which even includes using other things than money to disguise and/or transfer proceedings from criminal activity

    could have been vouchers for free marshmallows instead of bitcoin, still money laundering