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  1. Re:Windows 10 has Secret Screen Recording Tool on Windows 10 Will Have Screen Recording Tool · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... is also a "tad bit obvious", as every system reporting tool will gladly show you that your screen recording software is chewing up resources for no apparent reason. If the NSA wanted in to your machine they'd use a backdoor or exploit to gain access, then install their own software which you'd not recognise.

  2. Re:Windows 10 has Secret Screen Recording Tool on Windows 10 Will Have Screen Recording Tool · · Score: 1

    It's not the perfect app, though, as everyone knows it's there. There is no such thing as the perfect app, but perfect backdoor (through which actors put their unknown malicious app). If this hypothetical backdoor exists (still waiting for concrete evidence of that, by the way), then the NSA would simply use it to install their own screen-recording software, and get your goodies that way.

    Come on, you can do better. I know bashing Microsoft is fun, but when you have to resort to childish hypothetical situations to bash them, you end up bashing yourself instead.

  3. Re:Dollars in IUSD or RUB? on Stephen Hawking and Russian Billionaire Start $100 Million Search For Aliens · · Score: 1

    You can't really be this stupid, right?

  4. Re:This was on Gizmag yesterday on New Molecular Transistor Can Control Single Electrons · · Score: 1

    I know, right?! It's as if they respect the scientific method and humans in general. So fucked up! Next they'll be telling us marching around in blackface shouting "oh lawdy!" is not cool!

  5. Re:Newsflash, the desperate have computers too on Internet Dating Scams Target Older American Women · · Score: 1

    You sound single.

  6. Re:Yes, you ARE stupid on Internet Dating Scams Target Older American Women · · Score: 1

    It does look a bit dodgy, I agree. I thought the same thing when I read the name. I then looked on the internet, and there is at least one Kelvin Wells living in Germany. Whether he is German or not I don't know, but that seems good enough.

  7. Re:I see theyre using the Step 2 profit model on Most Comprehensive Study Yet On Environmental Impact of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    So the study is just a bunch of half-baked bullshit, never once approaching an accurate view of the reality it purports to lay bare. And you love it.

  8. Re:I see theyre using the Step 2 profit model on Most Comprehensive Study Yet On Environmental Impact of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Don't kid yourself - you are looking at the present and are completely unaware of what's being planned for the future. Big shock.

  9. Re:I see theyre using the Step 2 profit model on Most Comprehensive Study Yet On Environmental Impact of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Seeing as lithium can be produced without any mining what so ever, I'd say your question is entirely nonsensical.

  10. Re:Now there isn't even an article to read ? on Most Comprehensive Study Yet On Environmental Impact of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    You should, as then you could read just how flawed the study is.

  11. Re:Economic factors are my priority on Most Comprehensive Study Yet On Environmental Impact of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Apart from all the superchargers being built out, the battery swap technology in the works, and the fact that the vast majority of drivers don't want to drive more than a full charge per day, you are absolutely correct in your appraisal.

  12. Re:I await downmod by censorious souls on 2014 Was Earth's Warmest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    You are showing your ignorance once more. The soil in Canada and Siberia are terrible for farming, and so moving agriculture there will do fuck all. Plus the increase in CO2 means the crop yields will drop, meaning more farming has to take place in order to support the required number of people. Not to mention the complete lack of infrastructure, and that you're calling for farming to be moved across country lines, which never ends well (see: all of history).

    You appear to have a spotty surface understanding of this problem, yet get confused about anything else. You really should fix your education, as it's embarrassing.

  13. Re:Once they adjusted the data, of course on 2014 Was Earth's Warmest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    Have you learned the difference between land ice and sea ice yet? I love how you laugh out loud at others, yet make amateur mistakes again and again and again.

  14. Re:I'm still shaking off the crappiest winter ever on 2014 Was Earth's Warmest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    And all the evidence points to you being wrong. What happens in your part of the world does not imply what's happening in the rest of the world. This is basic stuff.

  15. Re:Actually there is a 34% CHANCE... on 2014 Was Earth's Warmest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    So you don't understand why the corrections are made. Gotcha. I respect how much energy you have, but I find your disdain and wilful ignorance disgusting. What a waste of a brain.

  16. Re:Actually there is a 34% CHANCE... on 2014 Was Earth's Warmest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    Yes, both sides have scientists, but only one side has peer-reviewed papers. Ouch.

  17. Re:Datasets Please on 2014 Was Earth's Warmest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    Can you link to the actual rebuttal? To their paper which shows this peer-reviewed research to be faulty? No? Weird. I guess if all you have are some flapping heads on your side, you might want to reconsider your position.

  18. Re:After all the "Adjustments" on 2014 Was Earth's Warmest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. Your ignorance does not magically make all the evidence disappear. I'm sure you'd love that, but still...

  19. Re:After all the "Adjustments" on 2014 Was Earth's Warmest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    If they have evidence, they won't be shouted down. That's the whole thing. One can't substitute evidence with anger or zeal - if they don't have the evidence, they get shouted down. That's how science has worked this far, and it's telling that when it happens in this field it's a problem, but when it happens in every other field it's perfectly normal, and even expected.

    Al Gore is a politician. He has nothing to do with whether AGW is real or not. Mentioning him isn't going to make you look particularly rational :)

  20. Re:Improving data [Re:The Gods] on 2014 Was Earth's Warmest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    He doesn't know the difference between sea ice and land ice, even when it was explained to him, so I'd imagine you are right.

  21. Re:Cash Please on Cashless Adoption Growing In Europe · · Score: 1

    Well, the sorry state of banking and card security in the US has more to do with that than the technology itself.

  22. Re:Europe has also had wire transfers on Cashless Adoption Growing In Europe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It costs money to send money from one bank account to another? Jesus Christ. I don't even...

  23. Re:rotating camera a big distraction on Google Self-Driving Car Rear-Ended In First Injury Accident · · Score: 1

    So you're an easily-distracted driver, and that makes it Google's fault? :)

  24. Re:Something wrong there on Google Self-Driving Car Rear-Ended In First Injury Accident · · Score: 1

    I do know this as a fact, as it's in the fucking video! You'd know it too, if you paid attention. And as for the other 13 accidents, well, who knows - we're discussing this crash here, as we have the data for it.

  25. Re:Crash Mitigation on Google Self-Driving Car Rear-Ended In First Injury Accident · · Score: 2

    Yes, your perfect human being, prepared and ready for an accident, might be able to think outside the box, but then so can a bunch of engineers with millions of miles of road data, and their solutions will be far better implemented in their cars than by some distracted, poorly-trained, Dunningâ"Kruger driver. So yeah - people can probably think of better ways to avoid or lessen these impacts, but then those ways can be implemented in software, so we are back to square one: The cars are better drivers than people.