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  1. I keep waiting for color eink. You only need to refresh the image when changing it so it could run on batteries and solves your cord issue

  2. Re:Common carriers on PayPal, Visa, MasterCard Prepare To Block Payments To Pirate Sites In France · · Score: 1

    So MasterCard should allow drug dealers and mob bosses to use their services?

  3. Re:Keep chasing ghosts, Americans, wake up! on White House Petition To Let Foreign STEM Grads Work Longer In US Hits 100K Signatures · · Score: 1

    Three reasons why outsourcing jobs are bouncing back

    Labor is no longer as cheap,
    Shipping /transport costs are no longer as cheap,
    Quality control. It is harder to manage bad quality when the managers are 10,000 miles away from the employees.

    Automation and the above is brining back manufacturing. I see a time 30 years or so when yes cars etc are made to order instead of being shipped as that is how the cost structures are going

  4. Re:Backup for suitcase latches & zippers on TSA Luggage Lock Master Keys Are Compromised · · Score: 1

    That doesn't work as well as you think. I routinely ship thing by pallet and trucking companies that are prone to damaging things will simply rewrap your pallet.

    If you use shrink wrap put stickers on your package or leave inside the wrapping. When you cut it off later look for the stickers. If they are missing then you know it was compromised.

  5. Re:The information is just dispersed on Why the Black Hole Information Paradox Is Such a Problem · · Score: 1

    Random means exactly that. If there is a pattern how ever hidden it means it is no longer random.

    You can't take a melted ice sculpture and remake it .. It won't be exact. Only close.

  6. Re:My sharks don't use plywood anyway on How To Build With Delrin and a Laser Cutter · · Score: 1

    It is how I steal the loot from drug running semi-subs. My dolphins are trained to locate, the sharks with lasers cut open the hull, and then the dolphins snatch and grab.
    I pay the sharks with the crew ( which also cleans up witnesses), I pay dolphins in puffer fish, (they can't get enough of that stuff)

    I make out like a bandit.

  7. Re:Well, that's embarrassing on Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate Muhammad · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The difference is most Christians shrugged their shoulders and ignored it

    Muslims will kill all the researchers their families and threaten anyone who dares to not believe their version. I really can't wait for Muslims to get out of this phase.

  8. Re:The Homer! (FP?) on Many Drivers Never Use In-Vehicle Tech, Don't Want Apple Or Google In Next Car · · Score: 1

    Possibly however Tim Cook learned from both that era and Steve jobs return. We haven't seen a lot of new forward thinking products out of apple in 6 years but they generally take 6-10 for totally new stuff the rest are refinements and updates.

    When Apple introduced the apple holographic watch then take notice.

  9. Re:an objective analysis on Skylake Has a Voice DSP and Listens To Your Commands · · Score: -1, Troll

    How do you put a switch into an integrated circuit? Especially one you can toggle with your fingers.

  10. Re:Unfortunately on Two US Marines Foil Terrorist Attack On Train In France · · Score: 1

    actually you can't prove that, it is a logical fallacy, and definitely not supported by the facts.

    The tension between sunni and shite's has been building for centuries. Even without the US military and stupid foreign policies those two groups have been building to a islamic civil for a few hundred years.

    Just like christianity did when it turned 1400 there will be purges, burning, and random fighting between the various islamic sects. The very reason the USA has freedom of religion was to prevent any one christian religious sect from controlling the government at the expense of others.

    Muslims are doing the exact same thing. only with automatic weapons, and RPG's.

    Those terrorists would likely have still been there.

  11. Re:Normal people have no way to know that on City of Munich Struggling With Basic Linux Functionality · · Score: 2

    I am sad to say my coworkers outlook boxes are just like that. They are amazed I have zero unread emails and like 4 emails in my inbox. Then I expand the folders to reveal hundreds of folders with 500 MB from just the last six months.

    The thing is I just file things when I am done with them for future referencing. I can find things quickly just by knowing where to look. The seem arch box only helps if you have lots of details and time to go through the false positives.

  12. Re:Yep, aviation is still safe on The Boeing 747 Is Heading For Retirement · · Score: 2

    It gets better when you realize the shuttle had a 1.6% failure to death rate and Soyuz and the time of the shuttles retirement was at 1.8%.

    The numbers may be off but are close. Still the shuttle put three time as many people into space as the Soyuz. The hard part is sitting on explosives is dangerous.

  13. Reform welfare on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 1

    Why doesn't reform welfare by turning it into a job search/ career search system? Even most of the mentally and physically disabled people can work at some jobs. It just comes down to finding something within their available skill set.

    What really get me is that telemarketers and help desk people could easily be workers who work from home who can't go to an office daily for what ever reason. heck businesses can do a remote phone secretary so that you can call in talk to a person, yet still get transferred correctly.

    Lots of jobs are possible for those who are currently collecting welfare. The problem is businesses are lazy and demand that all workers show up in the office.

  14. Re:I think it's hilarious and ironic Facebook on The Agonizingly Slow Decline of Adobe's Flash Player · · Score: 1

    I purposely use safari with out flash as my main browser and keep chrome for google apps and flash. At least until Google kills flash in chrome.

  15. Re:hope there's a "no videos" flag in HTML5's futu on The Agonizingly Slow Decline of Adobe's Flash Player · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not only are ads a known vector they are quickly becoming the primary vector. Ad companies keep poking security holes in your computer and web pages so they can display more ads. Run Adblock for a week and then switch to IE. The difference is amazing.

  16. Re:Strange limitations on Google's Project Sunroof Tells You How Well Solar Would Work On Your Roof · · Score: 2

    Local, state and federal subsides vary drastically only a few miles apart. That database would tax googles servers.

  17. Re:The stock market on US Busts Insider Trading Hackers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    high frequency trading isn't investing. in fact anything after the initial sale of the stock by the business is no longer investing in the company. it is just trading.

    After the initial IPO the only way a company directly benefits from stock is when they go to borrow money. all those regulations and headaches just means you are giving away pieces of your company to people who want to strip mine the cash reserves, liquidate the assets and move on.

    however with a good cash flow a business doesn't need that equity, and can get loans as needed. So why do they need to risk losing their business?

  18. Re: Ha! on Company Testing Standardized Salaries Is Struggling · · Score: 2

    He is struggling personally. Apparently he couldn't down size his life. Like his pay. Many rich people can't live as normal folk. See Hillary Clinton being dead broke.

  19. Re:Remember to KISS on The Bog Bodies of Europe · · Score: 1

    It is called decomposition. That is what is special. Kill someone in a swamp or peat bog and the boy will mummify instead of rotting.

    I thought it was pretty basic. I guess decomposition is beyond your ability to understand.

  20. Re:Hunter-Gather Homicides on The Bog Bodies of Europe · · Score: 1

    When the fastest easiest way to get complex resources is to kill someone and take their stuff then yea murder will happen. Humans are lazy. We like the easy way. Even if it is mined.

  21. Remember to KISS on The Bog Bodies of Europe · · Score: 1

    Keep it simple stupid.

    Violent deaths found in peat bogs. Guess what the easiest way to murder someone is to lure them to a swamp, bog, other dArk remote area and kill them there. It makes great dumping grounds.

    It is a universal truth. Like prostituion, thievery, and taxes.

  22. Re:But not in Philadelphia on Will Robot Cabs Unjam the Streets? · · Score: 1

    True, but the cars will also contain camera's and gps trackers. how many will get caught before they remember to cover their face?

  23. Re:Democrats on Parts of SOPA Hiding Inside a Boring Case About Invisible Braces · · Score: 0

    That is that many less children collecting welfare, and in the foster system. Forget skin color or demographics,

    Why do you think I should pay for someone else bad decisions for life?

    Why do republicans oppose welfare and then want the poor to keep making bad decisions and not give them options to get out? Planned parenthood, free condoms and birth control for the poor do more to help the poor than any charity ever could and any foster home could provide to kids.

  24. Re:Neat, but not especially novel on Tilting 4WD 'Spider Car' Makes Light Work of Bizarre Terrain · · Score: 1

    And you forgot all GM civilian models were discontinued 6 years ago.

  25. Option A just use google.

    all the porn you want, without paying money for it. Bonus it is already chopped up into clips of less than 5 minutes for you quickies