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  1. OS dependent too on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Aggressive Forum Users? · · Score: 1

    I've noticed this a LOT in OSX forums.
    Essentially, a variant on the whole "You're doing it wrong", or "There's no need to do that".
    I'm not sure why this is the case.

  2. why bananas? on Amazon Now Gives Away 5,000 Bananas a Day (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not hand out something you don't have to ship so far like, oh, apples.

  3. Re:criminal trade show union employees on Two Triple-Screen Laptops Were Stolen From Razer's CES Booth (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    regardless of how you feel about Unions, if you've ever worked at a trade show, you'd agree that trade show unions are the epitome of lazy idiots living off doing nothing.
    "um, you can't move that rolled up carpet yourself, you'll need one of us to come over with a forklift, that will be 2 hours from now, oh, and you have to rent the carpet from us too".

  4. Re:NYT is Fake News on Germany Considers Fining Facebook $522,000 Per Fake News Item (heatst.com) · · Score: 1

    One thing I generally see about Fox news is that the people who don't like it generally hate it WITHOUT ACTUALLY WATCHING IT.
    It's on in my gym, and before the election they had a whole range of people debating immigration. Right, left, center, whatever. And the host was popping everyone.
    Since I don't normally watch Fox, I kept thinking "Where's the slobbering rants I'm supposed to see? This looks reasonably fair."
    Because I relied on secondhand information to judge the channel.

    Oh yes, I'm sure there are rabid hosts. And the equivalent counterpart over at MSNBC as well-- I've seen Rachel Maddow actually tongue tie herself trying to manipulate facts. But that exists everywhere.
    Personally, I like to take in all the nonsense and figure it out myself.

  5. but you could say that of many crimes, "Oh , that thief was fined and put on probation, but he'll probably just go back to stealing...".

  6. Re:It's a fluff piece for Uber on Eavesdropping Uber Driver Helps Rescue 16-Year-Old From Her Pimps (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    What's a ROW?

  7. Batteries have been a decade away from a major breakthrough for the past 40 years.

  8. Re:Silo on What's the Best Book You Read This Year? · · Score: 1

    That series was pretty good, but I kinda wish I'd stopped at the first book.

  9. Re:Ready Player One on What's the Best Book You Read This Year? · · Score: 1

    It's OK, but not that great. To be honest, if you approach it as Young Adult reading, it makes more sense.

  10. Re:Best book I reread. on What's the Best Book You Read This Year? · · Score: 1

    isn't that the guy who went wacky on the plane?

  11. Perfidia, By James Elroy on What's the Best Book You Read This Year? · · Score: 1

    And yes, I know it came out in 2014, I'm late to the party.

  12. Re:This is violation of privacy on Filmmaker Installed Security Software On a Decoy Phone To Spy On Smartphone Thieves (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Those people are called "thieves", and should be treated accordingly.

  13. Re:Solved on Can Consumers Fight Package Thieves With Technology? (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    That amazon prime guy isn't as happy as you think:
    http://www.latimes.com/busines...

  14. Re:Solved on Can Consumers Fight Package Thieves With Technology? (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's a good article on this:
    http://www.latimes.com/busines...

  15. Re:Cheaper than wind? on World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Technically, oil is created continuously.....just REALLY slowly.

  16. Re:Lots of typos on A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    I once observed a man beating someone on the street.
    But it's OK, since I know someone else who also does that.

  17. Re:Article disagreement on A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    This was also my first thought, he's obviously lying to cover up his thinking the mail was real.
    I'd have more respect for him if he just said " I made a mistake, I thought it was real and forgot to tell him to change his password by going directly to Google's page"

  18. Re:All hail our corporate overlords on Struggling Workers Found Sleeping In Tents Behind Amazon's Warehouse (thecourier.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    there's a really nice company town in California, I can't remember exactly where, near a dam. Small little cabins in the middle of nowhere in the forest. Of course, they're not forced to buy food at the company exchange, but the whole place is subsidized by the electric company.

  19. So I'm guessing it came with a nice letter saying a donation had been made in their name to "The Human Fund"?

  20. Re: It says they get paid minimum wage on Struggling Workers Found Sleeping In Tents Behind Amazon's Warehouse (thecourier.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Sounds pretty good to me...

  21. Re:Brexit will ruin this paradise on Struggling Workers Found Sleeping In Tents Behind Amazon's Warehouse (thecourier.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but you sound a bit lazy. Anyone who hasn't had to knuckle under in their life and occasionally ( I say occasionally, not constantly) work long hours to get something done isn't someone I'd want to employ.
    Yes, I'm saying if that during a crunch period if you can't pull one or two weeks a year of serious OT, then you're lazy.

  22. My Dad occasionally gets these on his Mac. He calls them via Skype at the number provided, then plays the "I'm the crazy old man who can't understand anything you're trying to tell me because I'm old and hard of hearing" card.
    He enjoys it a lot.

  23. Re:TSA grabbing guns on 70 Laptops Got Left Behind At An Airport Security Checkpoint In One Month (bravotv.com) · · Score: 1

    Except for the part where airline staff steal it because it's marked "FIREARM". I've got an uncle who had that happen twice to him.

  24. Re:Better be ready to be beat up when layed off wo on Many CEOs Believe Technology Will Make People Largely Irrelevant (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'd like to be a fly on the wall when they roll in the first robot CEO.
    "But, but, but, but I'm irreplaceable!"

  25. Re:Another step toward tyeanny on South Korea To Kill the Coin in Path Towards 'Cashless Society' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1