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  1. ... "Bin that Book" containers all over the UK. Or perhaps just throw them in with the butter knives.

  2. Re:As far as AT&T is concerned ... on AT&T Will Offer a Lower-Quality Video Option But Without a Discount (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    When I'm using my phone for streaming, it is usually in browser.

    Also none of AT&T's business. I'll use whatever browser I feel like. The video quality negotiations happens between that client and the content server. The result is I use some bandwidth. Whatever that ends up being, charge me for it.

  3. As far as AT&T is concerned ... on AT&T Will Offer a Lower-Quality Video Option But Without a Discount (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    ... it's raw data. If I want to reduce the resolution, I'll do so via my client settings. AT&T has no business inspecting those packets.

  4. Re:Lies during an election ! Tell me it's not so ! on Facebook on its Fake News Problem: 'There's So Much More We Need To Do' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    But Facebook isn't part of the good-old-boys press club. Yet. It doesn't depend on some quid-pro-quo for future access to the Washington talking heads or an invite to the press club. It's just a pipeline that anybody can use to bypass the MSM editorial policies and get their (or third party) content out into the public.

    It's up to the readers to apply some bullshit tests to what they find there.

  5. Since when ... on Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    ... did what was posted on Facebook qualify as 'news'?

  6. Re:Moving to Canada on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Too late. Trudeau is building a wall.

  7. Re:too little, too late on Ubuntu Budgie Is Now An Official Ubuntu Flavor (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    It's just pining for the fjords.

  8. My pet frog, Pepe got loose and was jumping on my keyboard.

  9. Re:Dear Obama, Clinton, and Trump.... on US President Barack Obama Criticizes Facebook of Spreading Fake Stories (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    Facebook needs to borrow the line that /b/ uses:

    The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood.
    Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.

  10. Re:white supremacy on Nvidia Adds Telemetry To Latest Drivers (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but with Asian porn, the pixels are always so big ....

  11. Re:History of Email on Gawker Pays $750,000 To That Guy Who Didn't Invent Email (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah. But this is a clear case of taking some technology in the public domain and patenting it by appending "using the Internet".

    I know. E-mail wasn't patented. But in this sense, Ayyadurai isn't even as bad as Apple with it's rounded corners. He's just practicing something akin to stolen valor. And in this case, a kid banging some code out isn't particularly heroic, even if it was novel at the time. He should have just built a digital clock in a pencil case if he wanted attention.

  12. ... Musk would back an effort to send all the unemployed to Mars.

  13. Not only is De Beers continuing to rip off consumers, now they are selling a $4500 box that does essentially the same thing that my UV flashlight can do. Even a high end short wave UV mineral light goes for a couple of hundred dollars.

  14. Renewable Resources on IT Workers Facing Layoffs Jolted By CEO's Message (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    During the training of replacements, just let it slip that your data centers are all powered with rendered cow and pig fat. Just like the cartridges for British Enfields.

  15. Re:phone subsidies on Steve Ballmer Says Smartphones Came Between Him and Bill Gates (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    "I wish I'd thought ...." [Ballmer] said.

    Pretty well sums up his time at Microsoft.

  16. Re:hey, you got your computer in my PLC on Researchers Create An Undetectable Rootkit That Targets Industrial Equipment (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    not needing to be hooked to any other "computer"

    So how then you you propose to have the engineering department located in Bangalore update the PLC firmware?

  17. generally means those tenets are publicly known, not secret.

    Church of Scientology

  18. Alfred E. Neuman hasn't aged a bit in over 60 years.

  19. Re:Why is no one commeting on the really importat on Why a Theoretical Physicist Wants All State Bills To Be Online Before Final Vote (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different.

  20. Re: Getting things done and compromise on Why a Theoretical Physicist Wants All State Bills To Be Online Before Final Vote (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No problem. You'll have 72 hours to fix the typos.

  21. ... a buyer's remorse law for Bad Cars. Let it sit in the driveway for three days and then either take it back or you are stuck with it.

    Not a bad idea (the 72 hours). The recording meetings thing could be abused however. Things can be used out of context and it might discourage some people with unpopular opinions from speaking out.

  22. Everything tastes like chicken.

    Because there's a glitch in the matrix.

  23. Too late, Turkey on Turkey Doubles Down On Censorship With Block On VPNs, Tor (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    We're going ahead with Thanksgiving.

  24. How the f*** does someone design a washing machine without a limit switch that shuts down the spin cycle in the event of excessive vibration? I've had washing machines in the house since I was a kid and I can't remember a single one that wouldn't shut down quickly. And we'd have to open it* and re balance the load.

    *And the machine I've had for the past 20 years has a brake on the drum, so it stops very quickly (in a second or so) when the lid is opened.

  25. Re:Canada Dry on UK Government Wants Prisons Geoblocked By Drone Manufacturers (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    "Drink Canada Dry."

    I'm trying, man. I'm (hic) trying.