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  1. Re: Trump 2016!!! on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Heh, anyone else notice the Rolling Stones playing in the background at Trumps acceptance speech?

    "You can't always get what you want"

  2. Re:Taikonauts on China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Orbit (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Hard working, more likely.

  3. Re:There Is No Rivalry on China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Orbit (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So, the capabilities are not the same.

    Capabilities or will? (politics, budget, priorities, debt, mumble mumble mumble...)

  4. I often have my phone identify as a desktop browser so that sites look familiar... now I have to switch back and forth for the "best" search?

    And what does StartPage look like to Google?

  5. Yes, they write software.

    The language keywords are in English, but, of course, the variable names and comments are all in French.

  6. It is about 1/128 of a library of congress in volume, so to convert to time you have to divide by how long it takes to walk through the library and multiply by an imaginary number, like SQRT(-1)*I+J.

    (I'll let you know what I and J are, later, but those fudge factors can almost always make the answer come out right)

  7. Let's just hope it isn't a "class action" lawsuit on Theranos To Shut Down Its Blood-Testing Facilities, Shrink Workforce By 40% (wsj.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All the checks I have ever received from class action lawsuits, by not opting "out", resulted in checks for less than a dollar. (or a coupon or something of similar trivial worth...)

    And, I rarely "opt in" to an invitation, since I rarely feel like I was wronged (like "did you buy such-and-such a stock in 2003?"). The most lucrative "opt-in" was for a car company who overcharged on lease return "damage", and I thought "yeah, they did charge a lot for that door ding". I got $400-ish.

    The last check out-of-the-blue, was from AT&T Mobile, for something like "they charged too much tax"; I got a check the other day for $0.02. (Of course, I have long since switched to another carrier, for half the price, and everyone in my family has made use of the free international roaming feature),

    2 Cents? Really? Thank you, lawyers. I am sure you made more than 2 cents. To be fair, I got twice as much as my father-in-law. He got $0.01. The paper industry, the USPS, and many others got more than 2 cents to create and deliver my check. (Don't worry, I recycle paper... even thought that might cost more than it's worth...)

    BTW: I am NOT going to cash the check, it goes in the collection of other checks that are too retarded for words.

  8. Artical 1, Section 8.

    Well, technically, it just empowers Congress to establish Post Offices... I guess it doesn't say they HAVE to.

    I don't care what you say, I liked that book, "The Postman".

  9. Reaction to fiat money? on Banks Adopting Blockchain 'Dramatically Faster' Than Expected (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they want to be relevant dealing with a Curran more real than government issued money?

  10. Although increases in longevity is slowing, we have more and more geezers every year.

  11. OT: another Clinton troll - "IS IS" on Anti-Defamation League Declares Pepe the Frog a Hate Symbol (time.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yeah, in the debate last night, everyone thinks Trump made a mistake when he said Hillary has been "fighting ISIS her entire adult life".

    Obviously ISIS hasn't been around that long, but the inside joke is that he didn't mean ISIS, he was referring to a certain guy who asked "what the meaning of IS IS".

    lol

  12. Clearing the way for drone delivery on Amazon Pursues More Renewable Energy, Following Google, Apple, And Facebook (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    They just want to kill a bunch of birds to reduce the chances of bird-strike drone-delivery failures.

  13. Tin Foil Conspiracy! on MIT Scientists Use Radio Waves To Sense Human Emotions (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    If only Tin Foil was easy to find. "They" have cleverly replaced what you can easily purchase with Aluminum Foil!

    We all know that is good for nothing, in stopping them from controlling your brain from afar!

    (MAYBE I SHOULD HAVE USED MORE ALL CAPS WORDS? I don't know, I can't find my tinfoil hat.)

  14. I already canceled on 26% of Netflix Users May Cancel Cable TV This Year, Says Survey (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    A few years ago, I asked my wife "Hey, do you watch almost $1000 a year worth of TV?". We decided we didn't.

    Don't miss it, have Netflix and Amazon Prime, and a 30 antenna to watch the superbowl (and Downton Abby on PBS for the missus, in HD, off the air, for free.)

    We can afford it, we just decided it was a waste of money.

  15. I've never cared for iPhones, but my daughter has had both iPhone and Android phones.

    Her iPhone 4s had plenty of issues (speakers, docking port, other stuff) so she went to a Samsung. Then she got an iPhone 6... which is now experiencing "issues" including the touch problem.

    She says she is done with iPhones...

  16. Well, your crap is not self-replicating, nor is it improving its "programming" (and we can all be thankful for that). I assume you flush.

    I, for one, welcome our robot overlords. We're all dead in the long run anyhow, and an inorganic legacy has a better chance of survival than flesh.

  17. Re:Another way to look at this is.. on Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but still, unemployment rates can get pretty bad...

  18. so many ways to be wrong on Tesla To Further Restrict Its Autopilot Software To Prevent Accidents (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure Or the fact that software is not warranted for its attended use.

    Is not the right word, but it could be intended, unintended, unattended...

  19. I don't use pinterest on Pinterest Acquires Instapaper (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    They keep wanting me to "sign up".

    Never heard of "instapaper"... but I assume it will be behind a "sign me up" wall now too.

    Meh.

  20. Re:No one is concerned about battery? on Steve Wozniak Says Apple Must Fix iPhone 7 Bluetooth Or Revive Its Headphone Jack (afr.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, your BT Earbuds will have a dead battery too.

    Wired earbuds just work. With BT earbuds, you'll have another device that you have to charge all the time, and it will be dead every couple of years, with non-replaceable batteries...

  21. * somebody is else is paying.

  22. Re:"Hate speech" on Yahoo's New Anti-Abuse AI Outperforms Previous AI (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They have to label it something other than "thought crime", because people aren't ready for that. Yet.

  23. Re:Seems logical on Canada Wants To Keep Federal Data Within National Borders (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    They said nothing about "transport", just "storage".

    Nobody would store bytes passing through inter-web pipes for free, right?

  24. Re:It's this kind of shit that makes you wonder... on Judge Rules FBI Violated Fourth Amendment By Recording 200+ Hours of Audio At A Courthouse (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    And, how many times they have illegally learned of something bad(tm) that was about to go down and did nothing, because they had "bigger fish to fry"? (A la Enigma intelligence, letting ships go down...)

    "Serve and Protect" unless we look bad. [See let a spy go as an "unregistered agend of a foreign government

    If you are not connected, you are collateral.

  25. Re:Conversation in public location on Judge Rules FBI Violated Fourth Amendment By Recording 200+ Hours of Audio At A Courthouse (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If it's something that would be illegal for a normal person to do, then even government officials need to be indicted. Period.