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  1. Re:Talk to Selena on China Launches Satellite To Explore Dark Side of Moon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the characters are on the side never seen from earth, and talking about how the hypothetical residents there would react if they saw earth

    You might be interested to know that for centuries "dark" also meant "hidden' or "unknown"

  2. Re:Am I supposed to be outraged? on Internal Documents Show Apple Knew the iPhone 6 Would Bend (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    nah, no one i know has damaged their iphone 6 - 9 this way.

    maybe a certain tiny percentage of customers are careless people and put their phone in their silly skin-tight clothes and bend over hard. A longer phone will do worse in that situation, surprise surprise.

  3. criminals on About $1.2 Billion in Cryptocurrency Stolen Since 2017 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    at least 25 percent of bitcoin is used for criminal activity, what percent of this was crooks getting their money stolen by other crooks? should I care?

  4. Re:Am I supposed to be outraged? on Internal Documents Show Apple Knew the iPhone 6 Would Bend (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    actually, steel deflects under any load too. The deflection caused by a fly on an i-beam has been measured.

  5. Re:Am I supposed to be outraged? on Internal Documents Show Apple Knew the iPhone 6 Would Bend (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    and longer phone is more likely to bend than shorter one in a pocket. This is a shocking revelation.

  6. Re:Talk to Selena on China Launches Satellite To Explore Dark Side of Moon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "Yes, startling is the word for it," observed Barbican, replying to a remark of Ardan's; "and still more so when we reflect that not only are both lunar hemispheres deprived, by turns, of sun light for nearly 15 days, but that also the particular hemisphere over which we are at this moment floating is all that long night completely deprived of earth-light. In other words, it is only one side of the Moon's disc that ever receives any light from the Earth. From nearly every portion of one side of the Moon, the Earth is always as completely absent as the Sun is from us at midnight. Suppose an analogous case existed on the Earth; suppose, for instance, that neither in Europe, Asia or North America was the Moon ever visibleâ"that, in fact, it was to be seen only at our antipodes. With what astonishment should we contemplate her for the first time on our arrival in Australia or New Zealand!"

    "Every man of us would pack off to Australia to see her!" cried Ardan.

    "Yes," said M'Nicholl sententiously; "for a visit to the South Sea a Turk would willingly forego Mecca; and a Bostonian would prefer Sidney even to Paris."

    "Well," resumed Barbican, "this interesting marvel is reserved for the Selenite that inhabits the side of the Moon which is always turned away from our globe."

    "And which," added the Captain, "we should have had the unspeakable satisfaction of contemplating if we had only arrived at the period when the Sun and the Earth are not at the same side of the Moonâ"that is, 15 days sooner or later than now."

    "For my part, however," continued Barbican, not heeding these interruptions, "I must confess that, notwithstanding the magnificent splendor of the spectacle when viewed for the first time by the Selenite who inhabits the dark side of the Moon

  7. we'll see what happens down the road, I pay taxes by the year

    already know what other party did for me and my friends, fucked us over with Obamacare and other things

  8. haha, this just reminds me of judge saying it was okay to rifle through people's trash without permission, then was humiliated when people rifled through his trash

  9. Re:Talk to Selena on China Launches Satellite To Explore Dark Side of Moon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    that 'dark side' phrase has been around for couple centuries at least, you can find it in Jules Verne's work

  10. Re:It's like the year 2001 again on Microsoft Works To Port Ubuntu To Windows ARM (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    no linux desktop market share was 3%, try to pay attention. the 10% was non-windows, linux+mac.

  11. Re:And it will be for a long time on Netflix's DVD Rental Business Is Still Profitable (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Hopefully they're getting put into stream archive

    A lot of them are on Amazon, if you mean 1930s - 1950s.

  12. Re:Talk to Selena on China Launches Satellite To Explore Dark Side of Moon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's also called the "dark side" with "dark" meaning "unseen from earth" you autistic dipshit.

  13. economy is doing better
    job market is better
    NK is scared shitless and willing to deal
    so you don't like the tax plan? I will pay less, my 140K a year isn't "rich", maybe you should get better job?

    yes Trump is a buffoon but not seeing the problem

  14. Re:And it will be for a long time on Netflix's DVD Rental Business Is Still Profitable (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    no the market is slowly dying. to lose a million subscribers in one quarter and have 3 million left is huge, as in hugely downward

    https://www.statista.com/stati...

  15. Re:And it will be for a long time on Netflix's DVD Rental Business Is Still Profitable (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    but there are 1 million less subscribers than a year ago, thing is going down the drain
    https://www.statista.com/stati...

  16. Re:And it will be for a long time on Netflix's DVD Rental Business Is Still Profitable (fortune.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    nonsense, compare that to Netflix's 11.7 BILLION dollars in revenue with 560 million in profit.

    The DVD business is chicken shit in comparison, it's why they're not bothering with it.

  17. Re:The solution is easy, folks .. on IBM Warns Quantum Computing Will Break Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    DVD copying software was illegal. a certain number in your possession was illegal (used to copy DVD)

  18. Re:The solution is easy, folks .. on IBM Warns Quantum Computing Will Break Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    nope, no one knows what that would be.

    that's why the statement of "alternatives" in summary about is hilarious, it is not known what alternatives at present, or if any of them, would be resistant to quantum cracking.

    Instead those agencies that can afford a quantum computer will be cracking communications, finances, etc.

    Maybe they'll make it illegal for us to own quantum computer, only governments get to play. Similar things have been done before, such as "encryptions x,y, and z are munitions"

  19. Re:Bloody hell what a horrible synopsis. on Google Chrome To Remove 'Secure' Indicator From HTTPS Pages in September (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    no edge case to read text in public domain online, don't need http for that either. nor for a dozen other things.

  20. *Suppose this was one of the 40% of US citizens who still supports Trump and may not think that foreigners are human beings.*

    You were doing fine with first paragraph but after that sentence I'm wondering if you're a failed attempt at AI.

  21. Re:Gnome is too buggy on Canonical Shares Desktop Plans For Ubuntu 18.10 (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 1

    why not use modern UI forked from GNOME2, aka MATE? GNOME3 is rubbish

  22. Re:Wireless handphones anyone? on The Internet of Trash: IoT Has a Looming E-Waste Problem (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    eh, these are the people buying $500+ cell phones with same issue, they don't care

  23. Re:Bloody hell what a horrible synopsis. on Google Chrome To Remove 'Secure' Indicator From HTTPS Pages in September (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    who said it was internet facing?

    the need for browser to do http is real and we don't need browser programmers trying to be everyone's nagging nanny. that kind of goody-goody attitude can go to hell

  24. Re:Wolfram Mathematica on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Sophisticated Piece of Software Ever Written? (quora.com) · · Score: 2

    nah, the programming language is crap, on the level of basic or fortran. Sagemath uses python and for most people can do with Mathematica does with less effort.

    Yes, I've used both. used to own Mathematica

  25. Re:Bloody hell what a horrible synopsis. on Google Chrome To Remove 'Secure' Indicator From HTTPS Pages in September (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    wrong, autism boy.

    plenty of sensors and controllers need http to configure, and no one is going to scrap an HVAC unit to make you happy.

    that has nothing to do with IQ of employers. I'm worried about yours though