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  1. Re:MicroCenter website down on Amazon Robots Poised To Revamp How Whole Foods Runs Warehouses (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Looking through their twitter feed, they don't seem to have any idea either. Seems their phone/e-mail went down, and now the waiting begins.

  2. Re:Whole Foods is all about pseudoscience on Amazon Robots Poised To Revamp How Whole Foods Runs Warehouses (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    When I buy from them, I'm seeking random/unknown/different foods, not pseudoscience. Unfortunate that the freakout/paranoia/anti-* crowds are a whee bit entrenched, but one could specifically avoid those brands if they cared as much about it as the folks they complain about.

  3. Best not to engage with those pests... I know it's fun to mess with them, but they can be mean little currs.

  4. Trust me here, now. on Google Replaces Gchat With Hangouts Today (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    You want this. Why? Because Google wants you to want it. /logic

  5. Does this one get a nifty name?

  6. Re:Can't wait for the next episode on 'Coal King' Is Suing John Oliver, Time Warner, and HBO (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Hotter than a good, old fashioned, coal seam fire. But probably hasn't got quite the same runtime.

  7. This was actually the pronunciation that kept coming to mind...

  8. I imagine that's what they were going for, but I personally reserve the right to pronounce it however the hell I like.

  9. Hopefully not too late on AMD Looks To 'Crush' Intel's Xeon With New Epyc Server Chips (extremetech.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Who knows what Intel might have in their back pocket after chilling around for half a decade? I know benchmarks aren't everything, but at least there's some hope for them wiggling their way back into the server market.

  10. It's where we keep the AC vitriol bottled up, lest it leak onto the greater internet. It's a community service.

  11. Touche.

  12. Granted, we don't have have 16 hour days in a coal mine anymore,

    Never fear, POTUS and fiends are working on that.

  13. Re:Toxic goat rodeo on Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Has Resigned Due To Investor Pressure (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    Kind of like a dumpster fire clown shoes shit-show?

  14. Re: The Koch brothers are evil on Louisville's Fiber Internet Expansion Opposed By Koch Brothers Group (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    e.g. AT&T ... can get decent gigabit service for $100/mo in new construction, but everyone else seems left to rot in 25mbps ADSL hell.

  15. Re: The Koch brothers are evil on Louisville's Fiber Internet Expansion Opposed By Koch Brothers Group (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    When people pull this crap, I usually just assume they're pretending to be Jesus, saying something like "Whoever is not with me is against me!" or something to that effect, regardless of if it's even appropriate to the context.

  16. Re:Great for taking a shit. on You Can't Open the Microsoft Surface Laptop Without Literally Destroying It (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Still better at crap-removal than the textureless paper they put in most public restrooms.

  17. Headless computing is all the rage these days... get with the times, mate!

  18. Consumer-hostile company does consumer-hostile thing!

    Welcome to the late-to-end-stage of the throwaway economy.

  19. Re:Frost Fernch Pots on New Evidence That All Stars Are Born In Pairs (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    You are not the only one. I'm also citing insufficient caffeine.

  20. Re:So the question is this: on Amazon Granted a Patent That Prevents In-Store Shoppers From Online Price Checking (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a conservative outlook, at least regarding software patents....

  21. 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

    There's a pool on the roof.

  22. 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: 2, Informative

    Similar, but slightly different... they were manipulating their own website (or rather, had a separate intranet site) to cheat people out of their own online specials.
    https://news.slashdot.org/stor... http://gizmodo.com/241220/best...

  23. Re:Economic Victory on Pirate Bay Is Infringing Copyright, European Court of Justice Rules (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Bread AND water?! Don't be so fast to bite the hand that feeds.

  24. I'd sooner trust Microsoft with my data in Azure. As people have been mentioning, I wouldn't be surprised if they randomly just pulled the plug with little notice, probably after they realize that most of the interesting stuff is encrypted and/or unprofitable.

  25. Re:What *can* FCC do? on FCC Can't Cap the Cost of Cross-State Prison Phone Calls, Court Rules (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    I'd have modded up, if I hadn't already dropped my load of snark around here somewhere.