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  1. Re:Apple is primarily a jewlery company on Design For the Present (marco.org) · · Score: 1

    They seem to do that on their phones now. A friend at work got a new magnetic charging cable with a lightening dongle, and the phone pitches a fit over the "non-apple hardware detected" when you plug it in.

  2. Re:Apple is primarily a jewlery company on Design For the Present (marco.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    What do you mean? That have a wonderful market in dongles! It is not like anyone uses a thumb drive to transfer files between Mac and PC. (Not with the poor speed of exFAT anyway!)

  3. Re:CenturyLink steps in.... on Another Internet Outage Takes Down Services in US and UK (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    I was a Qwest customer when they were acquired. It was "interesting." I am now a customer of Level3... Where is the antacid?

  4. Don't know the cause? on Another Internet Outage Takes Down Services in US and UK (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    It was as if thousands of people updated their LinkedIn profiles at once, and then were silent.

  5. Re:About damn time! on You Can Legally Hack Your Own Car, Pacemaker, or Smartphone Now (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    There won't be any challenges, they just won't sue you under the DMCA.

    They'll still void any warranty you may have and either refuse to work on it, or just fuck you bigtime if anything goes wrong that's even remotely connected to the "hack".

    Right now, everything I own that this is subject to is out of warranty. Do you replace everything when the warranty expires?

  6. I meant when it was competing against Win7, which is not longer is. And there is more difference between versions of Office then between the old versions most people know nd LibreOffice now.

  7. Wasn't my call (I'm not a programmer) but a great many serious software programs in a laboratory setting that will only run under win7, and is only certified to run under win7 *by the federal gov't*

    Fine, scream all you want about *nix, but the real world doesn't always listen.

    Lol! You just called the government "the real world!" That is some funny stuff right there!

  8. That was 2% against Win7. And growing. (It doesn't take much to make a big difference) And read the articles about the System76 website getting slammed after the Mac announcement. It has failed because the opportunity cost (retraining and support) was too high. But now that cost has gone up for Microsoft, so the results will change.

  9. The small business market is HUGE and often overlooked by the big boys. This is why Cisco is not feeling as well as they used to...

  10. Re:More like... on Microsoft Stops Selling Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 To Computer Makers (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    We still have software that doesn't run on windows 8/10

    Maybe you ought to be working on a fix instead of /.-ing?

    Like porting to Linux? :)

  11. Re:Microsoft: You can have any color car... on Microsoft Stops Selling Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 To Computer Makers (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    And are apparently surprisingly popular! https://sourceforge.net/projec...

  12. About damn time! on You Can Legally Hack Your Own Car, Pacemaker, or Smartphone Now (wired.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Of course it will be interesting to watch the challenges to this. Just because the law says you can, it does not mean the companies will let you...

  13. Re:Pipeline protests make no sense on Over 10,000 Facebook Users Worldwide Falsely Check in at Standing Rock To Confuse Police (time.com) · · Score: 1
  14. Re: 10K, 100K, does't matter on Over 10,000 Facebook Users Worldwide Falsely Check in at Standing Rock To Confuse Police (time.com) · · Score: 0

    The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. :)

  15. Re:Pipeline protests make no sense on Over 10,000 Facebook Users Worldwide Falsely Check in at Standing Rock To Confuse Police (time.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well, there is also the question of taking Indian land, and plowing over sacred burial sites... And while a well maintained pipeline is safer, there is some questionable maintenance on a lot of older pipelines well past there expected useful lifetime. I guess the question is do you trust these guys that stole your land, attacked you with dogs, and plowed under grand dad's grave in the dead of night while the injunction was going through court?

  16. Re:In unrelated news... on Over 10,000 Facebook Users Worldwide Falsely Check in at Standing Rock To Confuse Police (time.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, that would draw a lot of attention to that ridiculous list that has no real oversight...

  17. Re: 10K, 100K, does't matter on Over 10,000 Facebook Users Worldwide Falsely Check in at Standing Rock To Confuse Police (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Google "Snopes Lies" and decide for yourself.

  18. Re: Are linux adverts still bad adverts? on MacBook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalists To Ubuntu Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Saying that it cost a lot of money do provide this shit sandwich still does not make me want a shit sandwich. A lot of people do not like the idea of a software defined button bar.

  19. Re:Uh huh on Facebook Tried To Buy Asian Snapchat Clone Snow (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If having lots of companies throw money at you is hard times, bring em on! I think I need to make a snapchat close and sell it to FaceBook for millions...

  20. Re:More condoms less climate change on World Wildlife Falls By 58% in 40 years (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Not site... Articles. Like on this site... And yes, BBC has succumbed to clickbait from time to time.

  21. Re:More condoms less climate change on World Wildlife Falls By 58% in 40 years (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, we have messed up many places in a misguided attempt to save them, (History of Yellowstone) so yes, doing nothing may be better! But thinking about that is longer then a simple article, so never mind.

  22. Re:More condoms less climate change on World Wildlife Falls By 58% in 40 years (bbc.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    The point is they are dying out due to human activity...

    Really? All of them? None at all died out for other causes? Or perhaps that key differentiation is overlooked in click bait scare articles today...

  23. Re:Transfer the Responsibility on How Vigilante Hackers Could Stop the Internet of Things Botnet (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that like Windows XP in 2001, the minute the thing is connected to the internet it gets re-infected.

    Not if the password is changed like they said in the summery...

  24. Re:More condoms less climate change on World Wildlife Falls By 58% in 40 years (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I am sick and tired of climate change being mentioned in every story with no evidence to back it up?

    To me the solution to most problems is simple ... Less people!

    What about the fact that species die out all the time? Like before we were here? Actually, some of them dying out are the reason we are here now! It happens. It will happen to us. It will suck when it is our turn, but it will still happen.

  25. What am I missing.....................???

    The fact that many people are limited to 3mbps DSL or satalite...