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  1. Re:I can't wait on Microsoft To Launch At Least One Surface All-In-One PC Next Month (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Judging people as "poor" for using a MSFT product.

    If you want to know, I usually judge them as ignorant more than anything.

  2. Re:And the crowd goes mild!!! on Costa Rica Has Gone 76 Straight Days Using 100% Renewable Electricity (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if Costa Rica were able to sustain 100% clean electricity production, the country still relies on petroleum for transportation

    If only there were a company building electric cars with the goal to eventually make them affordable.

  3. Re:Speak for yourself on It's Official: You're Lost In a Directionless Universe (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    Oh come on, it's well known he was the homecoming queen.

  4. Re:Speak for yourself on It's Official: You're Lost In a Directionless Universe (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    It's one thing to consider Everett's interpretation of the waveform collapse function. It's another thing to consider an alternate universe where Hitler is president of the United States, and I dated the homecoming queen.

  5. Re:I can't wait on Microsoft To Launch At Least One Surface All-In-One PC Next Month (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No Surface Tablet has actually been spotted outside of a store.

    I saw one at the library yesterday. They've been selling in the category of 'poor person's laptop.' At least, that's what I think whenever I see one.

  6. Re:Speak for yourself on It's Official: You're Lost In a Directionless Universe (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Rather a long stretch from the science to a populist click-bait philosophical "conclusion"...

    Still not as bad as some of the ideas of the Multiverse......

  7. Re:Why are you people so worried about this? on Leaked Demo Video Shows How Government Spyware Infects a Computer (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If it weren't for the abuses we've already seen (look up LOVEINT for just a simple example), if it weren't for secret courts that approve warrants and perform trials with hidden evidence, then maybe you would have a point.

    We've already seen too many abuses of these powers.

  8. Re:Never a shortage of Apple hate on Apple Cites 'Courage' As Reason To Remove 3.5mm Headphone Jack (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Geez people - if a 3.5mm analog jack built into the phone is so important, buy any one of the many, many, Android devices on the market

    Yeah, that's my plan.

  9. Re:Courage, it didn't come, doesn't matter on Apple Launches the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus; Feature Water-Resistance, Lack Headphone Jack (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    Apparently it takes more courage to make the default stocks app removable.

  10. Re:Dumping the Headphone Jack: My Theory on Apple Launches the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus; Feature Water-Resistance, Lack Headphone Jack (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And yet, no one else seems to have problems creating a 3.5mm jack, including Apple before today.

  11. I'm glad to see that they are improving the color spaces that can be displayed on their screens. Maybe someday we'll be able to have a true orange on our monitors.

  12. Re:"Meddling with nature"? Yes, please. on We Risk Programming Inequality into Our DNA (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    If it gives 30 good years to my lifespan, I'll definitely do it.

  13. Re:Increase employment rate? WTF? on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah. I think that's how the summary was able to justify that claim.

  14. Re:So then Hillary is the warmonger on US Investigating Potential Covert Russian Plan To Disrupt November Elections (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Wanting to go to war makes you a warmonger. Whether or not the opponent is worthy of destruction is irrelevant.

  15. Re:So then Hillary is the warmonger on US Investigating Potential Covert Russian Plan To Disrupt November Elections (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Both Hillary and Trump have stated that they will go to war (in Syria against ISIS) if they are elected. So that is basically a pointless comparison: they are both warmongers.

  16. The US is years behind and isn't even in the running.

    Stuxnet was really impressive tbh

  17. We don't like it for a lot of reasons, including the fact that it would not stop attacks. Getting an agent into the US is trivial.

  18. Re:Out of his depth on President Obama Wants To Prevent a Cyber Weapon 'Arms Race' (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    At any rate, there's nothing he or anybody else can do to "stop" a cyberweapons arms race.

    If software makers could be sued for vulnerabilities, then it would clean up a lot of problems quickly. Most vulnerabilities are a result of people not caring (managers, programmers, etc). The human loophole is another problem, but again, with legal liability, companies would pay for training to teach people not to open suspicious attachments.

  19. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    E-mail eh? So how do you get that promptly? Once per day checking in library,

    Yeah

  20. Re:Increase employment rate? WTF? on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Base income to increase employment rate? How is that supposed to happen?

    Because you are typically only counted as unemployed if you are semi-actively looking for a job.

  21. Re:Better Programs on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Worth mentioning that even the dumb George Bush understood that point and built it into his tax plan.

  22. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never had a recruiter who wouldn't schedule a phone call. First contact is by email, then a phone call is scheduled in the next couple days. I always use my mobile, but I could use my land-line (if I could remember the number).

  23. Re:another con on QtCon Opens In Berlin (qtcon.org) · · Score: 1

    May the God's above bless me that I never become one of those.

  24. Re:Carbon nanotubes... on New Carbon Nanotube Chip Outperforms Silicon Semiconductors (nanotechweb.org) · · Score: 2

    If it looks like they can improve CPU performance, then they will suddenly have billions of dollars of research money looking for a way to manufacture them.

  25. Re:Might want to think about that... on Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes? (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    You don't need to get rid of all mosquitos, just the varieties that feed on animals while carrying diseases. The Zika and Malaria mosquitos are relatively rare, while having an inordinately deadly impact.