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  1. Re:They should bring back the replaceable battery. on Samsung Orders the Global Shutdown of Both Sales and Exchanges of Galaxy Note 7 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Then someone with a bad battery can take it out for flights and such.

  2. Re:Define "free" on O'Reilly Gives Away Free Programming Ebooks (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    Breathing can cost you money, if you decide to set up your own filter and pump system. Doesn't mean you deserve or get any sympathy. It's still free.

  3. Re:I'm very confused now... on Why Is Science Fiction Snubbed By Literary Awards? (galacticbrain.com) · · Score: 1

    It's SF, but not SciFi. SF stands for both SciFi and Speculative Fiction at the same time, and are getting more likely mixed on the shelves. SF includes fantasy, and all sorts of things. "pure" SciFi is different, but these days, SF is the grouping they go into, and that group is mostly ignored.

  4. Re:Oh No! Trump opened his mouth again! on WikiLeaks Releases Paid Clinton Speech Excerpts, And Threatens To Expose Google (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    He's only a rapist if you redefine rape,

    Then go on and define it. He's accused of raping children, and has admitted to acts that one could call marital rape (accusation withdrawn, upon paying off the witness/victim).

  5. Re:9 out of 10 apes .. on Apes Can Guess What Others Are Thinking -- Just Like Humans, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In their defense, that's what you are always thinking about.

  6. Re:Explained...by a dude who knows there's a webca on Bigfoot Spotted Sneaking Around Below Bald Eagle Nest, Multiple Outlets Report (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Extended shutter releases were common. Used for long exposures, so you didn't shake the camera. They also worked for selfies.

  7. Re:Define "work" on There's Even More Evidence That Fitness Trackers Don't Work (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Your body is flex fuel. The studies of "no carbs" and "no fats" are contradictory. So the answers have become a religion, with "no carbs" currently winning the zealot race. With angry angry anti-carb zealots sabotaging every diet they can find that doesn't punish carbs.

  8. Re:Define "work" on There's Even More Evidence That Fitness Trackers Don't Work (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never seen a study that measures "output". The fecal transplant studies have hinted that there are many more variables than in/out count, and which studies have you seen that measure "out"? You know, actually counting the calories in the poo. Olestra is sugary fat, but not absorbed or broken down. So measuring in/out isn't valid. Some things pass through. Some things don't. Some things are processed by the human, others the creatures inside.

    So it ends up a religion. The religion of diet.

  9. Re:Lost emails on Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    My negative opinion of her started when she purchased her Senate seat by pre-establishing a nomination in a guaranteed Blue area that she didn't live in,

    Ah, yes. We called that "pulling a Cheney" at the time. Everything she's hated for she just copied a Republican.

  10. Re:Lost emails on Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    She's been hated for 30 years, and under constant investigation for almost 30 years. If you are only hearing about it now, that indicates a high level of ignorance. Did you not know she was named in Whitewater? The hatred for her started many years ago, and you'd be the first person I've met who didn't have any opinion on her prior to her appointment to Secretary of State. You held no opinion of her whatsoever in 2008? You do know, this isn't the first time she ran for president, right? Or are you saying that you didn't have an opinion on her until you heard her tried and convicted in the media, and then formed your opinion of her after that?

  11. Re:Lost emails on Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    She's not qualified because you don't like her, so every action take by her is proof of incompetence. Like Benghazi, the Republicans in Congress cut the security budget, so Clinton's at fault for sticking to her reduced budget, and she should have violated the Constitution to spend more than budgeted in defense of Americans. I can't find anything bad that's happened in the past 30 years that Hillary didn't personally do.

  12. Re:Lost emails on Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not defending her. I'm attacking her attackers. There's a difference.

  13. Re:Define "work" on There's Even More Evidence That Fitness Trackers Don't Work (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    Nope. The studies have shown that the calories matter more than the makeup of them. All the issues with fat solids vs protein is from poor studies, not reality. Though so many bought into a religion of diet that the facts don't matter anymore. The only time the makeup of the calories matter is if you are diabetic, or if your total intake increases because the distribution of calories is poor.

  14. hand it off to the fire department so no one else can investigate it until they're done.

    Better to have Samsung collect and destroy evidence to protect their corporate image? The Fire Department isn't interested in the Truth. They just want Samsung to look bad, because Samsung didn't give to the last collection. Is that really your assertion?

  15. The smoking phone was hot enough to damage the plane, and the toxic smoke filled the plane and had to be purged and cleaned. When one cigarette sets one sheet of paper on fire in a trash can, hundreds are evacuated from the building so the fire department can investigate. That's standard. To take less care with an airplane would be insane.

  16. Re:How is this different from any university? on How ITT Tech Screwed Students and Made Millions (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    No, nothing like the Clinton Foundation. I've seen no reports accusing them of fraud and embezzlement from the Clinton Foundation. There are accusations of bribery, but that's completely different. That's accepting bribe money and spending it on charity. Trump was accepting bribes and illegally paying off personal losses.

    Trump was stealing from charities, Clinton was giving to charities.

    But that would be the same to a Trump worshiper, right?

  17. Re:Aerial survey with no pictures on 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' Far Bigger Than Imagined, Aerial Survey Shows (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    He was engaging in hyperbole, with objects less often than that. But even trying to over-state the amount, it still sounds like not much. And the reports of the piles of trash never have pictures, because the amount of junk isn't nearly what they want to make it out to be. Where are these photos you claim? Every photo I could find was also listed on a "hoax" website. There are no pictures of the garbage patch, because it doesn't exist. It's an area where the rubbish is more dense than other areas. But not enough to be at one of the garbage pieces and have a reasonable chance to see another, from sea level.

  18. It's not illegal to go the wrong way on a one-way street. It's illegal to ignore signs that designate it as such.

  19. Aerial survey with no pictures on 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' Far Bigger Than Imagined, Aerial Survey Shows (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Every half second you see something.

    So, a plane cruising covers 500+ ft/s. So "one item per half second" is one item every 250 feet. The descriptions make it sound like a floating island of plastic you could walk across, but the reality from their description is a thinly spread cluster of debris over millions of square km.

  20. Re: Lost emails on Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Ah, so you can't refute the facts, so you insult the speaker. I'm not a Democrat, and I'm not voting for Hillary. But that doesn't mean I can't recognize the lies and hypocrisy of the Hillary-haters.

  21. Re:Sigh not more of this bullshit on Samsung's Next Flagship Smartphone May Not Feature a Headphone Jack (sammobile.com) · · Score: 1

    http://www.macworld.com/articl...

    Sounds like you are looking for excuses for your hate Apple, not reasons why their products are bad.

  22. Re:Lost emails on Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    Law enforcement requested them and you destroyed them. This is a crime.

    Law enforcement didn't request them.

    Destruction of federal property. The emails belong to the government. You destroyed them. This is a crime.

    So, where are the 22 million charges of destruction of government property charged to George W Bush? Oh yeah, Clinton is held to a different standard than anyone else on the planet.

  23. Re:Lost emails on Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    you immediately call the security people and you let them clean up the mess.

    So you are saying that the Secretary of State isn't qualified to handle classified material? The position is one of the highest for classifications. What clearances and authority would the response team have that isn't held by the Secretary of State?

  24. Re:Lost emails on Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    Does Trump actually have any criminal convictions?

    His companies have been, but in typical sleazebag fashion, any crimes by a company he's owner and CEO of is not related to him.

    Also, there is a difference between deleting a copy of classified material (to prevent that copy from becoming compromised), and deleting the *only* copy of classified material (preventing our own government from having access to it).

    By definition, anything on an email server *can't* be the only copy. They must have been sent from somewhere else or sent to somewhere else.

  25. Re: Lost emails on Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Who is the appropriate security official? One of the complications is that as Secretary of State, she was an "authorized person" for approving her own email server. Anyone who says it was "unapproved" doesn't know what the meaning is. As for turning it over, she *is* the federal government (being higher in the federal government than anyone in the FBI that would respond to the call), so why can't she turn it over to herself, clean it, then release it back to herself?

    The law is very unclear on these points, which is why she was following the processes set by the Bush Administration, and she violated no processes in place before she took office.