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  1. Re: On the other hand... on Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I have to try this!

  2. Re:On the other hand... on Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    I like those Excel XLERATOR hand dryers that are capable of launching a small child into orbit (or several feet into the bathroom floor)

  3. Bad Summary? on iOS 1970 Bug Is Back, Can Be Exploited Via Rogue WiFi Networks (softpedia.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So the summary (and the headline) seem to imply that this bug affects even devices with iOS 9.3.1, but the article actually states:

    If the device was running an iOS version vulnerable to the 1970 bug, after a minute, the device would reach the problematic crash date.

    ...

    Kelley and Harrigan recommend that users update as soon as possible to iOS 9.3.1.

    This is actually just a remote way to exploit this bug, and not a new bug as the summary suggests.

  4. Re:A backup battery? Wow! on Jeff Bezos Says Amazon Will Unveil a New Kindle Next Week (the-digital-reader.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, I interpreted it as a case that has a light or something. Yeah, a backup battery sounds stupid. Unless this is more like a regular tablet, then it makes sense...

  5. Re:Meanwhile their DVD product is being killed off on Netflix's Original Content Library Is Growing By 185% Each Year (cordcutting.com) · · Score: 1

    I went from 3 discs down to one plus streaming... because generally anything I want that they have on DVD I can get from Amazon for $3-6, and I don't have to deal with (potentially scratched) DVDs. I do keep one DVD service, for some reason, though. I rarely even use it.

  6. Re:Oops on Wired To Block Ad-Blocking Users, Offer Subscription (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's referring to the effects of caffeine :D

  7. Re:Offline, single player ... on Video Game Cheaters Outed By Logic Bombs · · Score: 1

    I'd also give myself unlimited money in SimCity and just buy out all the competing civilizations except for one city that I'd keep around to keep the game from ending. (I called that my "Microsoft Strategy.")

    I feel like... I feel like you've combined SimCity with Civilization to create some weird mega-game!

  8. My opinion is, if a hole suddenly occurred in the back side of your house/apartment, and people started using it as a way in or out, it would actually make sense to call it the backdoor instead of the backhole. Also, backhole sounds dirty.

  9. Re:But ... on Oracle To Drop Java Browser Plugin In JDK 9 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    The worst thing, IMHO, is not just that it was a systray icon, but that at some point the updater would attempt to run immediately! I'd start doing something, and UAC pops up with a "Are you sure you want to run this?" My instinct is "WHAT IS THIS MALWARE?!?" and to click "Hell no"

  10. Re:I'm not saying it was aliens...... on An Ancient, Brutal Massacre May Be the Earliest Evidence of War · · Score: 1

    What's the point of an obsidian-tipped club? :D

  11. Re:Alan Rickman is like Sean Connery on RIP Alan Rickman, AKA Hans Gruber, Severus Snape (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree! I only saw that for the first time a couple of years ago, and I absolutely loved it!

  12. Re:Good! on Pirates Finding It Harder To Crack New PC Games (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Last time I looked at the PC games section at a store (Target), it was... pretty much only the Sims (3 and 4)... maybe Starcraft II and some random bargain bin junk.

  13. Re:Sid Meiers lied to me. on Alpha Centauri Turns Out Not To Have a Planet After All. At Least, Not Yet (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    The drones revolted ... really... hard.

  14. Re:Also, Adhesives are rare... on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Adhesive Tape (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Screw finding Shaun... I know what I'm gonna be doing in the wasteland.

  15. Re:Also, Adhesives are rare... on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Adhesive Tape (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait... you can? That's what I get for ignoring the chem station.

  16. Re:VR Support on NetHack 3.6.0 Released After a 12-Year Wait (nethack.org) · · Score: 1

    Hrmmm... I have a DK2 and I almost want to do this...

  17. Re:Star Trek not so much on Theremin's Bug Let Soviets Spy On USA For More Than 7 Years (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, you can't really start at the beginning, because much of it is missing... but I'd recommend starting at the beginning of the 2005 series. I was a fan as far back as the early 80's, but my wife started watching the new series and she liked it right away... so I'd say watch the new series, and you can watch the old one as you like to fill in some of the back story.

    There are occasional references to the original series in the new one, but they aren't really required viewing.

  18. It's like rules 34/35, but slightly different.

  19. Re:But "makers" on The Death of Electronic Surplus (hackaday.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So that's what I was wondering... this part:

    Electronic flea markets and surplus stores are a nexus point of talented and interesting people. As they go, so does the opportunity to interact in person with the gurus of electronic development.

    ...seems to be a role now filled by maker spaces. When I went to the local mini maker faire earlier this year, there were plenty of talented and interesting people doing fun projects with electronics.

  20. Re:First time I heard of VR filmmaking on Nokia's $60,000 Virtual Reality Camera Goes On a Drone Test Flight (roadtovr.com) · · Score: 1

    To see people dressed up as stormtroopers or jedi knights?

  21. Re:Hate emojis ... on The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 Is an Emoji (oxforddictionaries.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure there are actual poop emojis.

    The standard Unicode poop emoji is U+1F4A9

    In most renderings I've seen it's actually smiling!

  22. Re:S3 as webseed on ISP To Court: BitTorrent Usage Doesn't Equal Piracy (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    That's nuts! Sounds like they send you the entire game on every update? Maybe they need to look into binary diffs... or maybe that's post-diff, which is even crazier.

  23. Re:Reminds me of st:TNG when the heads of starflee on Grow Your Daily Protein At Home With an Edible Insect Desktop Hive · · Score: 1

    That episode freaked me out when I was a kid!

  24. Re:Helping subscribers remain subscribers on ISP To Court: BitTorrent Usage Doesn't Equal Piracy (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I suppose that depends on the players. World of Tanks is a F2P (aka freemium) game... I bet the majority of the 45 million players don't pay a cent. Do you want to pay extra to retain them? If they're a whale, it makes sense.. They could offer "priority downloads" to them, but I don't know.

  25. Re:S3 as webseed on ISP To Court: BitTorrent Usage Doesn't Equal Piracy (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm curious about that too... If I'm reading their pricing schedule correctly, S3 is generally $0.01 per 10000 GET requests...WoT claims to have 45 million regular players, that's $45 for the requests, so not too bad... but it's $0.01 per GB transferred... if we say each update is 500MB, that's roughly $225,000 for all of the players to update. I can see why they use BT.