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  1. The older I get, the more content I'm interested in on TV is available over the air. The subchannels are full of old 1970s and 1980s reruns right now- and some 1960s and 1950s reruns.

    I'm amazed how well Johnny Carson's Tonight Show jokes about the 1984 Presidential Race translate to the 2016 Presidential race.

  2. Re:Spam, Spam, Egs, and spam on 86-Year Old Grandma Accused of Pirating a Zombie Game (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    In that case, it can safely be ignored, and is just normal spam

  3. Re:What is an "African-American sounding name"? on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Haven't had a chance to talk to them that much, but quite possibly.

  4. Re: It's the rational decision on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Who cares about skin color? It is an irrational data point

  5. Re: fucking hell that's horrendous on Police Used Cell Tower Logs To Text 7,500 Possible Crime Witnesses (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    They can get around their own camera, but their victims cameras and onlookers cameras as well? That's a bit harder.

  6. Re:It's the rational decision on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 0

    Smells like opportunity to me. "Yes, I'll still pick you up, but it's $10 extra based on your destination"

  7. Re:What is an "African-American sounding name"? on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Had a little white girl in my wife's daycare for five years- whose name was Ema Lee. Not Emily, but Ema Lee.
    We now have a Hadrian, a Jameson, a Bray, a Sophia, and a Moya. All except the last one, spelled just as you'd think, and even the last one spelled right if you are a Farscape fan.

    And I insist on my son's name being spelled right- Christopher.

  8. Spam, Spam, Egs, and spam on 86-Year Old Grandma Accused of Pirating a Zombie Game (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    It's still spam even when the government does it. This is no more moral than a Nigerian Prince scam.

  9. Re: fucking hell that's horrendous on Police Used Cell Tower Logs To Text 7,500 Possible Crime Witnesses (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    It's a method for keeping society polite. If every move you make to another person is on camera for later review, you are going to subconsciously react to that by being a better person. Same idea as if every person you meet is required to be armed and will shoot you dead for an insult or injury. Certain American cities, especially out here in the wild west, have had the idea for a long time. They even try it from time to time. I'd much prefer municipality owned camera badges on everybody than everybody armed with guns.

  10. Re: fucking hell that's horrendous on Police Used Cell Tower Logs To Text 7,500 Possible Crime Witnesses (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    "Forcing everyone to wear cameras 24/7 taping what they do for later review would catch a murderer, but you're clearly not happy with that."

    I'm happy with that. It's the same basic concept as "required concealed carry" laws, but a hell of a lot less violent.

  11. Re:End taxpayer's financing of research on Let Researchers Try New Paths (nature.com) · · Score: 0

    If I had mod points, I'd mod this up.

  12. Re: But . . . on Donald Trump Running Insecure Email Servers (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And why her reveal in the debate last night that the response time from the nuclear football is 4 minutes was a major security breach.

  13. So JFK Jr. is still alive? And didn't die in a plane accident *just in time* for her to take the New York Senate Seat?

    And all of those wikileaks releases are false?

    There's also a lot more than one bankruptcy related to The Donald, it's just that after that he played a little game called name licensing to give himself an extra layer of deniability.

    I see no reason to vote for either of these idiots.

  14. Re:How much did they contribute? on Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap To Mars, To Send People There by the 2030s (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the fact, what grandchildren? I didn't think he wanted his daughters "cursed with a baby"

  15. What indications are those? The string of dead bodies she's left in her wake over a 30 year career, or maybe the fact that she doesn't even know enough about technology not to run a unsecure server out of her house?

  16. Yep. Only stable form of the operating system in the last 10 years.

  17. That bitch is even more intrusive than Clippy. My Windows 10 box was popping up every 3 minutes trying to redirect me to Bing for some spam or another. I finally figured out how to disable her, turning off just about every feature.

  18. Re:Sigh not more of this bullshit on Samsung's Next Flagship Smartphone May Not Feature a Headphone Jack (sammobile.com) · · Score: 1

    My Samsung Wireless Charging works just fine. I don't see what the problem would be.

  19. Re:Lost emails on Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought it was an investigation into how JFK Jr's plane developed a mechanical failure.

  20. Re:This simply means we're succeeding. on Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Have Become Top Carbon Polluters (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not talking about the anti-AGW people. I'm talking about the pro-AGW people. They aren't *acting* in accordance with their *words*.

    Let's take the pro-AGW people at face value. Their data shows we just passed a tipping point, one which hasn't been passed in the last 800 million years.

    That is a FAR bigger threat to humanity than any government could ever be. So why aren't the pro-AGW people *acting* like it is the biggest threat?

  21. Re:So they only prosecute a safe, "no-harm" target on Federal Prosecutors Actually Prosecute H1-B Fraud (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    I'd personally prefer a village. A 2000 mile long, three city block wide, village.

    That way, you could have newcomers to the country welcomed with a place to stay within three blocks of the border. Include a 2000 mile long sewer and water system, and have the back yards of the interior row of houses be farms to feed everybody.

    Problem solved for the rest of the nation, and such a village/city could probably absorb all of the immigration possible from all of Latin America.

  22. Re:So they only prosecute a safe, "no-harm" target on Federal Prosecutors Actually Prosecute H1-B Fraud (ap.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not a chance, big fish have too many campaign contributions.

  23. Re:Clinton is above the law on Comey Denies Clinton Email 'Reddit' Cover-Up (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Especially since this doesn't even make sense as a question to ask on Reddit. If that is all he wanted to do, open all files in Notepad++ and do a find-and-replace across all open files. Any sysadmin worth his salary should know this.

  24. Re:This simply means we're succeeding. on Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Have Become Top Carbon Polluters (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking of WWII- where all material went to the war effort and extremely strict rationing was in effect.

    AGW, if it is true, is far worse of an emergency than beating the axis. Why aren't the very people who are trying to convince us that it exists acting like it?

  25. Re:Call me strange but... on World's First Baby Born With New '3 Parent' Technique (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep. Violent philosophies are still philosophies. And yes, just about every rational train of thought, and quite a few irrational ones, are philosophies as well.