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  1. Re: Bomb or missile on EgyptAir Flight 804 Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    None of that makes him not a pedo. Just because it was accepted then doesn't mean it should be accepted as a thing that wasn't bad now. He put off fucking a nine year old. How very noble....

    You're applying modern laws and beliefs to an ancient time in very different cultures, which is just silly.

    In many ancient cultures, not just Muslim, children were "of age" once they reached puberty. Hebrews put the date even lower at a ridiculously low three years and a day. It wasn't until Caesar Augustus during the Roman Empire that the the age became 12. During Medieval times, the Catholic Church put the legal age for betrothal at 7 and consent to marriage at 12.

    The average person didn't have modern 70 year lifespan. You were doing pretty good if you reached 30 and infant/child mortality was very high for much of human history. There were familial and society advantages if you started procreating as early as possible.

  2. Re:No shit sherlock on LinkedIn User? Your Data May Be Up For Sale (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    If you're a linked in user, YOUR DATA IS UP FOR SALE

    There's no need for the if statement. It's an unnecessary comparison since YOUR DATA IS UP FOR SALE on the internet.

  3. Re:Yet another mistake on Google Unveils 'Gigapixel' Camera To Preserve and Archive Art (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    But is that a base-2 billion or a base-10 billion?

  4. Re:Very surprised on Warren Buffett Buys $1 Billion Stake In Apple (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    He may be worth the $66B, but he didn't personally invest in Apple. Berkshire Hathaway did, of which Buffett is the CEO. It turns out that one of his two lieutenants was the one that made the investment. I have a feeling that nothing BH does at that scale is ever "a favor".

  5. Re:fucktards on Microsoft Auto-Scheduling Windows 10 Updates (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Why pay you when they'll just auto-upgrade you instead?

  6. ...About the same way they treat them when they still have a use for them. They don't give a fsck. They're generally expendable.

  7. No, but that's different. That would require Google to make up stories because there aren't any stories that make Trump look good. Facebook isn't accused of making up stories, just possibly suppressing stories.

  8. Re:why is it that on US Congress Bans Members From Using Yahoo Mail (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Why is it that people who are provided accounts by their employer/organization insist on using "free" services ?

    For the same reason that I have a corporate email account, but also have a free account hosting my own domain at gmail. I want to keep my work activities and emails separate from my personal activities and email.

    In the case of Congress members, they are prohibited from using official account(s) for personal or political campaigning activities that are not related to an official representative purpose. Now why they would use a free Yahoo account as opposed to a paid hosted account I don't know, other than they are cheap, stupid, and technologically inept.

  9. It also has to be re-filled with insulin while the pancreas does not.

    If you want to nit pick, the pancreas also needs refilled, it just does so biologically.

  10. Re:Scanning apps to make sure they're safe on Latest Update to ES File Explorer Android App Brings Adware To Your Lockscreen (xda-developers.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps that was what they were doing. My money was on they were tracking what everyone was installing for analytic purpose to sell to whoever would pay for the data. That's an easier conclusion to jump to now that they're bundling adware with it then it is to think that they are are "security researcher" actually trying to protect my device.

  11. Scanning apps to make sure they're safe on Latest Update to ES File Explorer Android App Brings Adware To Your Lockscreen (xda-developers.com) · · Score: 2

    It's annoyed me for a while now that it likes to scan every app I download to make sure it's "safe". I wonder if I hadn't uninstalled it just now if it would scan itself and prevent it from being installed?

  12. Re:That doesn't surprise me on Sales Of PCs, Laptops, Tablets Continue to Fall, Hit Lowest Point Since 2011 (canalys.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, if everyone else is anything like me, we're all waiting for the deluge of "VR-ready"...

    I remember my first CD-ROM drive, a Mitsumi double-speed CD-ROM drive, came with a CD of crappy demo games and applications. One of them was a VRML world. That was in 1995 or there abouts. I've been waiting for "VR-ready" since then. Or maybe since Lawnmower Man in 1992...

  13. Did you happen to watch last Sunday's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver? He talked about this very type of bullshit reporting of not very meaningful studies.

  14. Re:Single gallon of jet fuel on Combat Lasers To Be Added To US Fighter Jets (nextbigfuture.com) · · Score: 2

    You sure about that? I remember seeing a documentary back in the 80s where they were able to get 5MW into a plane. It might not have been a pulsed laser though...

  15. Re:Pretty sure he died at 3:12:45 on New "Perfect Game" Donkey Kong Record May Be Unbeatable (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    You watched it in it's entirety?

    I noticed that point of the game too. I watched most of the first level of play, then skipped to a random spot close to the end just before the 3:12:45 point.

  16. Re:Champlain Hudson Power Express on AG Scores Victory In Bid To Shut Down Indian Point (lohud.com) · · Score: 1

    Hydropower plant operation produces large amounts of Co2 per kilowatt hour.

    Care to explain that one?

  17. Re: "Industry desire" is all good and well on Intel Wants To Eliminate The Headphone Jack And Replace It With USB-C (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Google's first Android phone, the G1 (aka HTC Dream) didn't have a headphone jack either. It required a proprietary "ExtUSB" adapter to use headphones with it. It was one of the first things I lost with the phone when I got mine.

  18. Re:A bit more thought and passion in products plea on Dyson Launches New 'Supersonic' Hair Dryer To Revolutionize Hair Care (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    the other half of the engineering is put into skirting patents he ripped off from other companies

    So in other words, doing exactly what the patent system intended inventors to do.

  19. Re:Surely a fundamental human rights breach? on Child Porn Suspect Jailed Indefinitely For Refusing To Decrypt Hard Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Article 5 - He's not being subjected to any of those (at least no more than any other jail inmate...but that's another issue)
    Article 6 - Not sure how that applies here
    Article 9 - It wasn't arbitrary. There was a lawful court order. He didn't comply. Contempt of court.
    Article 10 - He had a fair and public hearing hearing. Multiple likely.
    Article 11(1) - He has been presumed innocent from the original charges. He's being held in contempt
    Article 12(1) - He hasn't been found guilty of a penal offense. He's been found in contempt of court. This article subsection applies to ex post facto laws.

  20. Personally I don't care about the child pornography pictures and movies. More precisely, to me they're evidence of wrongdoing, they're horrible and I never want to look at them, but they in and of themselves shouldn't be criminal to possess.

    Should it be criminal to possess money from a bank robbery? How about merchandise that was shoplifted? You might not have been the one that stole the money or merchandise, but at minimum it should be forfeited and possibly additional criminal charges if it can be demonstrated you were complicit in the original crime.

    Similarly, CP is illegal to possess as it discourages it's trading and acquisition. If it wasn't illegal as you'd suggest, only the initial individual who created it would be liable. And subsequent trading would absolve later individuals of any wrongdoing. It'd create a market for the perpetual transfer of CP without legal consequences from the originally illegal activity.

  21. Re:So forgetting a password on Child Porn Suspect Jailed Indefinitely For Refusing To Decrypt Hard Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's what God wanted.

  22. Re:It's the streaming equivalent of region coding on After Netflix Crackdown On Border-Hopping, Canadians Ready To Return To Piracy (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    I can buy Lays Potato chips in various stores around the world. Streaming should be working on the same model.

    It is. It's no different than any other product that is sold by distributors that have sales territories. In your potato chip case though, the distributor has chosen to distribute his chips in various locations. In the case of some films in Canada, the distributor has chosen not to distribute the film online, at least with Netflix.

  23. Re:Not for lack of trying on Mitsubishi: We've Been Cheating On Fuel Tests For 25 years (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Lasers didn't come with the AWD package until 1992 while the other models had it a year before. Production was also discontinued in 1994 while the other two models continued on with the 2nd gen models.

    The difference between the models aside from if they were turbo charged and/or AWD were mainly cosmetic in nature. Elcipses and Talons had a rear spoiler and Lasers did not with it's "Aero" styling, so it always looked like the Lasers were missing something on the rear end in my opinion. Perhaps that's why they didn't sell as well or weren't as noticeable/memorable.

  24. Re:Not for lack of trying on Mitsubishi: We've Been Cheating On Fuel Tests For 25 years (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The Eclipse GSX was also imported by Chrysler and rebadged as the Eagle Talon TSI

    The Plymouth Laser was the 3rd model in the original Diamond Star Motor (DSM) lineup. None of the Eclipses, Talons, or Lasers were imported. They were all assembled in Normal, IL at what was originally a 50-50 joint venture between Mitsubishi and Chrysler. Mitsubishi later bought out Chrysler's share but still continued to manufacture vehicles at the plant under a contractual basis for Chrysler.

    The DSM's bigger brother, the Mitsubishi 3000GT, WAS imported by Chrysler and sold under the Dodge Stealth name.

  25. But it could work for within the US borders as well. All levels of government could benefit from a messaging system that was secure against against snooping investigations and other government oversight, but also to securely be deleted should those investigations progress and journalists or the public in general.