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  1. Get a cart, man.

  2. Re:People are buying this stuff on Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used To Be (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    And if you do inform them, they think, "oh, but it won't happen with this product, because (Google is big/product is shiny/they respect the company/other reason)"

  3. Re:wow, they have a real accountable democracy on Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're comparing Trump to Hitler, better hope you're wrong because nuclear war would be catastrophic for the world.

  4. Re:wow, they have a real accountable democracy on Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Expecting the RNC to oppose Trump is wishful thinking, I agree.
    But current polls are showing he can't beat Clinton. There's a lot of campaigning left to do, though.

  5. Re:wow, they have a real accountable democracy on Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't even know how many syllables are in that word and I'm dead certain my tongue would need a week of physical therapy if I tried to pronounce it.

    If you go through this, you'll learn the pronunciation pretty quick.

  6. Re:Give Islanders credit on Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I think that greatly depends on the why and how Putin and the media he controls spin it

    Yeah, I think most people already suspected he was doing that. I mean, are you really surprised to hear about it?

  7. Re:wow, they have a real accountable democracy on Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Metaphorically, or in real life? lol

  8. Re:Don't Be Evil on Alphabet's Nest To Deliberately Brick Revolv Hubs · · Score: 1

    Popcorn time ...

    I'm waiting for the "Leap Year" bug in self driving cars. (example 2 example 1 more)

  9. Re:Don't Be Evil on Alphabet's Nest To Deliberately Brick Revolv Hubs · · Score: 1

    You got modded funny, but Alphabet dropped the "don't be evil" from their motto.

  10. Re:wow, they have a real accountable democracy on Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Um, is there any good news?

  11. Cool, thx

  12. Re:Clippy on People Often Deride Game Changing Technology as 'a Toy' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    "They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

    Note that many of those things were toys when they were first introduced, and needed to increase in power and capability before competing in the real world.

  13. Re:Trump springs to mind on How To Hack an Election (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's because I figured everybody knows the rest.

    Maybe that's why you said it. But it sure looks like you are merely parroting patterns that you learned from the media you consume.

  14. Re:Trump springs to mind on How To Hack an Election (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    So clever of you to repeat the oft Fox-cited list of exactly 3 Democratic rich donors. It's a matter of degree, dontcha think? There are hundreds of Republican rich folks doing a lot more than paying for busses to get people to vote. The Koch's alone have pledged 900 million.

    The irony here is that you only named the rich Republican donor that always gets repeated by liberals.

  15. Re:Aging sucks on Futuristic Suit Lets You Feel What It's Like To Be An Old Man · · Score: 1

    I know there's always this delusional part of the population that says they feel better at 40 than at 20, but they're idiots.

    I don't know about 40s, but I sure feel better now than I did in my 20s. I was messed up then, in a lot of ways. I'm fine with reversing aging, though.

  16. Re:Subtitle on At 40, There's Never Been a Tech Company Quite Like Apple (qz.com) · · Score: 2
  17. april fools on At 40, There's Never Been a Tech Company Quite Like Apple (qz.com) · · Score: 1
  18. Now granted, there's still a lot of weirdness a human might spot that I wouldn't know how to begin to program for, but an oxygen star? That should have been flagged as unusual within minutes of recording its spectrum.

    That's probably true......someone else said, "that's typical for Brazilian science."

  19. Computers still aren't really good at random pattern matching, despite recent hyped performances (like alphaGo)

  20. Are you getting paid by the Red Hat?

    Duh bro, that's why it says "Slashvertisment," what do you think?

  21. Re:okay, this is totally retarded on Newly Discovered Star Has an Almost Pure Oxygen Atmosphere (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey man, with all the ad blocking, the site doesn't pay for itself. Sit back and read it like a good little consumer.

  22. Re:Huh.... on Newly Discovered Star Has an Almost Pure Oxygen Atmosphere (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apparently (and I get this from reading the article), it's not just the surface that's 99% oxygen, it's the whole star that is mainly oxygen.

    Also the crazy thing is how he found it.......he had data from 300,000 stars printed out, on 300,000 pages, and just started reading through them one by one to see if there was anything interesting in the data.

  23. I don't blame them on Egypt Blocked Facebook Free Basics For Not Letting It Spy On Users (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The users were probably using it for April fools jokes. The punishment could not be harsh enough.

  24. Re:I am fed up with these icons and UI changes on Gmail's Mic Drop April Fool Backfires Horribly Costing People Their Jobs (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Maybe this is a shocker, but Google and Android also spend hours on UI/UX testing, research, and so on.

    That's just more evidence that UI/UX is a joke of a job title. Remember iTunes has UI/UX experts working on it, too.

    There are some people who are good at UI/UX, but there are a lot of people who are really bad at it.

  25. Re:Cool on MIT Demos Wi-Fi That's So High-Tech It Doesn't Need a Password (mic.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This one is actually pretty good.....instead of being an out-right lie, it seems like something that could be plausible.......and then suddenly you realize not only is it plausible, it's the original configuration for wifi, and you were trolled in a completely different way than what you expected.

    In other words, you have to actually think or understand the technology to see why it's a lie.