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  1. Re:Yet another reason to never use in-store wifi on Amazon Granted a Patent That Prevents In-Store Shoppers From Online Price Checking (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    promise that some day, if they're good and compliant, you'll regulate all their problems away

    Actually, the promise is that if they comply, they too will some day be millionaires.

    Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

  2. Re:Audi, cars for cocks. on Germany Detects Emissions Cheat Software In Audi Models (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    What's the name of the car where they just push fresh air into the exhaust to lower the numbers

    This was the predecessor to the catalytic converter. The principle is that fresh air is pumped into a special superheated exhaust chamber (aka thermal reactor) to burn any fuel that didn't get burned in the combustion chamber.

  3. It's not cheating... on As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    ..it's inheritance.

  4. Re:Smartphone content in Web standards on Facebook's Instant Articles Platform To Support Google AMP, Apple News (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1
  5. The released a new version of their "Capture" app which was changed so that you couldn't control the camera without logging into the GoPro site first.

  6. Re:$900 payout! WooophooooWoooopp on Uber Plans Millions In Back Pay After Shorting NYC Drivers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Mouth is only $5. The other ports are more.

    How much for the SCSI?

  7. Re:We're going to get this sooner or later on Republicans Want To Leave You Voicemail -- Without Ever Ringing Your Cellphone (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    There's a reason I'm on the do not call list, to get rid of that kind of B.S. in the first place.

    It's so cute that you think the Do Not Call list actually means anything...

  8. Remove clickbait with this one easy trick! on Facebook Now Battles Clickbait On a Post-by-Post Basis (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    that is all

  9. Just block Fox News and Breitbart

  10. To be honest... on AT&T To Roll Out 5G Network That's Not Actually 5G (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    The "4G" we have isn't really 4G, either. http://gizmodo.com/5680755/the...

  11. Re:They could channel "This is Spinal Tap" on AT&T To Roll Out 5G Network That's Not Actually 5G (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    "Missed it by that much, 99!"

  12. Re:So what's the issue? on Computer Program Prevents 116-Year-Old Woman From Getting Pension (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    the bank could have just created a temporary account for her claiming she was born in 1901

    Then they would have told her that 15-year-olds were not eligible.

  13. encourages the drivers to waste time or take a longer route if they think they can justify it.

    This is why I fucking hate cabs.

  14. an employee grabbed a stack of confidential and top secret Itanium docs

    To be honest, if hired someone and they showed up with as much as an Itanic t-shirt, I'd probably fire them on the spot.

  15. Re: Only LUDDITES use VPNs. on Phony VPN Services Are Cashing In On America's War On Privacy (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    A true luddite uses cu and uucp

  16. Re:I think someone without a degree wrote that sum on Why More Tech Companies Are Hiring People Without Degrees (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    The pool of skilled labour is limited to the point that is making it hard for them to get the staff they need

    Then why are these companies - who are so desperate to get skilled staff - laying off so many of the skilled people they already have?

  17. We had one like that when I was in college... on How the IBM 1403 Printer Hammered Out 1,100 Lines Per Minute (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I don't remember the model (or even manufacturer) but it could print faster than other printers could form-feed.

  18. Re: Oath on Verizon Is Rebranding Yahoo, AOL As 'Oath' (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Prick your finger or it didn't happen.

    Directions unclear...

  19. How many different payment platforms do we really need? It seems like were just laying down more attack surfaces.

  20. In the long term, you're fsck'd

  21. Of course they won't sell them... on Verizon, AT&T, Comcast Say They Will Not Sell Customer Browsing Histories (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    ...they will rent them. Anyone who's ever worked in the data industry knows this.

  22. Hello Darwin my old friend...

  23. You do realize that the majority of the ultra rich, the ones people complain about not paying taxes, tend to vote Democrat, right? Citation needed

  24. and they're not that interested in porn anyway because they're grownups and have better things to do with their time.

    Funniest thing I've read all week!