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  1. The BB10 OS was a delight to use. Imagine being able to peak into your inbox no matter which app you have running? I have a Priv now and while I like it (especially the trackpad feature) I still miss the old OS.

  2. Re:A .000002% incrase in something we didn't track on Rapid Rise In Methane Emissions In 10 Years Surprises Scientists (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I suppose the Pentagon, announcing that climate change is the biggest foreseeable threat, is in on this too? They want some grant money?

  3. Re:We're so screwed on Rapid Rise In Methane Emissions In 10 Years Surprises Scientists (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If your definition of "hyper alarism" is Venus then sure. The rest of us are "hyper alarmed" at the thought of meters of sea-level rise, vast swaths of the planet becoming uninhabitable due to heat and drought, refugee crisis of an unimaginable scale (just imagine relocating everyone in the lower half of Florida).

  4. Re:We're so screwed on Rapid Rise In Methane Emissions In 10 Years Surprises Scientists (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That's absolutely false. *Some* methane is being released from the sea floor (actually quite a lot of it) but the cattle industry alone generates huge amounts of methane.
     
      What's extra scary is that CH4 is usually quoted as being 30x as potent as CO2 but that's on a 100 year time scale. Methane in the atmosphere tends to break down. Given that methane rates are *rising* it's more appropriate to use the immediate CO2e value of .. 120x. As someone above noted, we are so screwed. I've never envied the elderly before now.

  5. Re:Battery size doesn't matter on iPhone 7 Finishes Last In New Test of Battery Life (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    They're an option for phones with sub-standard battery sizes. Kind of lame though to have the efficiency loss going from the external pack to the internal battery.

  6. Re:Could this be FUD? on Spam Hits Its Highest Level Since 2010 (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Could you share some of your MTA rules? I run just vanilla spamassassin (latest version) and I am finding it has become borderline useless.

  7. Re:The ensuing case will be dismissed on Canadian Fined For Not Providing Border Agents Smartphone Password (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    The US technically has the same but if you're within something like 100 miles of the border (which includes the coastline) you are in a "speical" area where your rights are flimsy. https://www.aclu.org/constitut...

  8. Re:whatever on Facebook Will Force Advertising On Ad-Blocking Users (wsj.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    LOL.. yeah, "social pariah." Goes to show just how far down the rabbit hole you've gone. why don't you try stepping away from the screen once in a while. Join a club. Volunteer. 95% of your "friends" on facebook are anything but that.

  9. Might binary view of the world you have.

  10. What are you blathering about? Chen might have business moves that you disagree with but he has not "wasted billions." BlackBerry's cash position has held steady outside of acquisitions such as Good. We'll see what happens with the new Android based DTEK50 phone. It's aimed right at businesses and may well be bought by the boatload given BB's commitment to patching frequency, hardware security, and so on.

  11. Re:Would love to see something done on Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Several calls a week? I'm envious. I get a minimum of several a day.
     
    You know, murder is a crime because you rob someone of the remaining time they might have had on this planet. Robo callers steal the equivalent of lifetimes every single day and our useless FTC seems utterly incapable of doing a damned thing about it.

  12. Precisely why I despise the FTC on Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    For years they have basically thrown their hands in the air and declared the robo-calling problem unsolvable. They even pathetically tried to crowd-source a solution. And here we learn that there are a small number of perpetrators behind the majority of the calls. No doubt the FTC will do nothing with this information.
     
    I get as many as six robo calls a day. When I used to answer the calls just to waste their time the majority of the operators spoke American english so were clearly operating in the jurisdiction of US law.

  13. Re:Sigh, this again on E-Cigarettes Emit Toxic Vapors, Says Study (upi.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's really interesting how vaping is different from cigs in terms of addiction. I switched from cigs to 12mg vaping and that was fine for a while.. but then, oddly, I found I could no longer handle 12mg! I couldn't understand it, I would walk to work, puffing along the way like I always do, and then find I was having trouble swallowing, terribly anxious amongst other symptoms. Looked up "nicotine overdose" and bingo. Switched to 6mg and now down to 3. Every attempt I made to "cut down" with cigs failed miserably. Somehow vaping gives you a glide path away from the addiction.

  14. Re:'Carcinogenic compounds'. on E-Cigarettes Emit Toxic Vapors, Says Study (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    Jesus, thank you, someone did some maths. I feel like there's a slew of upstart researchers out there who are trying to make a name for themselves by publishing papers to the effect of "omg! looks at the bad things we found in ecigs" with no regard to whether the concentrations are actually dangerous.
     
    Guess what, kiddos, there's LEAD in every glass of water that comes out of the tap! LEAD!

  15. Re:Ban them on E-Cigs Are Exploding In Vapers' Faces At An Alarming Rate (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    3/10 on troll quality, would not recommend. Too over the top, needs a question mark in there somewhere to try and lure a response. Disappointing.

  16. Cigarettes - $10/day habit.

    e-juice: $1-$2 / day

  17. You evidently don't know that medical errors are the THIRD leading cause of death in the US. How much of that do you think is attributable to computer security? Yeah, not much.
     
    I would gladly go under the knife of a tested, proven robotic surgeon for most routine procedures when the time is right. A robot can integrate my vitals, look at the surgical area from n different angles, see in infrared, reference a thousand prior cases and on and on. It's a cute but defenseless argument that some computer worm is going to result in patients getting slashed to bits by a virus infecting a surgical machine.
     
    The main holdup for robotic surgery? The AMA which will look after its own.

  18. Re:Worse than the earnings decline in my eyes ... on Apple Has First Earnings Decline In More Than A Decade (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Ordinarily that's true but Apple has a literal embarrassment of riches. They could spend $3B on fusion research and it would be a practical rounding error on their balance sheet. Unless they want to majorly branch out of consumer electronics (ok, the car thing) they are basically at the mercy of shareholders who are demanding some of that profit.
     
    Were I apple I would spend on basic research like batteries and displays. If they want their devices to be anything more than rounded-corners version of android or blackberry they need a patent-protected differentiator.

  19. Re:And Nothing Of Value Was Lost on Bitcoin's Nightmare Scenario Has Come To Pass · · Score: 1

    And lead makes poor currency. We have plenty of ways now to quickly validate the gold purity of an object.

  20. Re:Anyone can intercept SSH some of the time on Snowden Documents Show How Well NSA Codebreakers Can Pry · · Score: 1

    With a new install you've got a perfect opportunity for a MITM attack.

  21. Re:For testing, use Trinity Rescue Kit on Amazon EC2 May Be Experiencing Growing Pains · · Score: 1

    When did you last spin up an EC2 instance? I wait at least 5 mins, sometimes closer to 10, for an image to launch.

    Granted the EBS-backed AMIs will boot faster as the image is already boot-ready.

  22. Re:extremes on Cell Phones Don't Increase Chances of Brain Cancer · · Score: 1

    Kurzweil, in his "I'm going to live forever" book, recommended using headsets and wrapping the cord through one of those ferrite donuts in order to dampen any leaking EM waves.

    He didn't sell them himself, however.

    Hmm.. business idea. Just need to find a good spammer.. j/k

  23. Re:Hmm... on Average Gamer Is 35, Fat and Bummed · · Score: 1

    May I suggest you cancel your cable or satellite TV? You've already indicated your awareness that it is completely manufactured drivel. Mainstream media to real life is like Cramer is to investing -- not to be paid attention to and ideally not to be watched period.

    Just turn the shit off and go do something outside.

  24. Re:iDiots... on Apple Tries To Gag Owner of Exploding iPod · · Score: 4, Funny

    And what do you propose to do with all those corporate lawyers if companies simply acted sensibly and didn't default to litigation for everything? The unemployment rate is already sky-high, we don't need a wave of unemployable, irritable suits hitting the streets.

  25. Re:May I be the first to say on Virgin American In-Flight Internet Review, From In-Flight · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Amen. Can you imagine an 8-hour flight with everyone yapping around you? Hideous.

    "yeah.. no that's what I said!.. oh he always acts like that HAHAHA... hey are you going to that thing on saturday?....... yeah but Jim will be there!..... oh this flight is taking for-EVER... geez promise you'll come visit me!.... oh hang on, he's calling, I'll call you right back!.. no, it's ok, we don't land for another four hours.. mmkay, bye--kisses!.... hey honey!"