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  1. ISP name on Piracy Notices Can Mess With Your Thermostat, ISP Warns (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Armstrong? More like Strongarm.

  2. Since when is +50% the same as x2?

  3. Re:You must be kidding, right? on Some Telcos and ISPs are Frustrating IPv6 Adoption (guardian.ng) · · Score: 0

    how to make a terrrorist time bomb

    Stay with IPv4 and don't upgrade the world's networks to IPv6.

  4. Re:Gaming is one of the primary reasons on Could 2018 Be The Year of the Linux Desktop? (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    Please explain how the availability of games is NOT one of the driving forces for people staying with Windows.

  5. And that's just the connection to the satellite. Then it turns out the server farm where the game is running is in the OPPOSITE direction.

  6. Re:It's a simple coding error on UK Police's Porn-Spotting AI Keeps Mistaking Desert Pics for Nudes (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Oh, it gets better.

    The series was translated into my native language. The titles as well.

    Do you know what a dune is called in Danish?

    Klit.

    I'm not joking.

  7. Re:It's a simple coding error on UK Police's Porn-Spotting AI Keeps Mistaking Desert Pics for Nudes (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Nude.
    Nude Messiah.
    Children of Nude.
    God Emperor of Nude.
    Heretics of Nude.
    Chapterhouse: Nude.

  8. Re:Easy peasy on The Lower Your Social Class, the 'Wiser' You Are, Suggests New Study (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Basically, compromise is a survival skill for anyone without the strength (today, financial strength) to beat everyone else up until they do what you tell them to do.

  9. "Access Denied. Please verify username and password are both correct."

  10. Re:Overpopulation in Africa, the Middle East, & on Faced With Rising Temperatures, People May Seek Asylum (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    You fail at basic math.

    If each person working can produce enough food for 0.9 people, having a thousand times as many people will NOT help everyone suddenly not be hungry.

    If there isn't enough food or capacity for growing enough food for everyone NOW, the solution is to have less people, not more.

  11. Re:Way to miss the point ... on Apple Says Apps Must Now Disclose Odds For Loot Boxes (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    They should really take it a step further and require the math being done for the user. Next to each item and its odds should be the average total price to obtain that item.

  12. Re:LOL, flawed hardware! on 'Loapi' Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Is Causing Phone Batteries To Bulge (newsweek.com) · · Score: 2

    There is one thing you should consider, though.

    There is no phone on the market that can run at 100% CPU use for two days without being plugged in.

    If your phone runs at 100% CPU use for any kind of extended time, it gets HOT. Like, really painful-to-touch hot.

    If your phone gets this hot and you don't know why, you should shut it down and get it repaired.

    It lasts for two days under operating parameters that are so incredibly unlikely (if not considering malware of this sort, obviously) that the biggest complaint really should be that the phone doesn't automatically shut down, NOT that the battery physically can't take it.

  13. Re:Proofreading doesn't work either on Apple Seems To Have Forgotten About the Whole 'It Just Works' Thing (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I should point out English isn't my native language, either. I actually thought 'embarassing' was the proper spelling.

  14. Proofreading doesn't work either on Apple Seems To Have Forgotten About the Whole 'It Just Works' Thing (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That summary is so full of typos and missing words it's just embarassing.

    "so it the ethos"

    "petty bad year"

    "over the past few weeks we seen"

    Do I need to go on?

  15. If the CDC can't say that a disease like HIV leaves the body VULNERABLE to other infections ... what should they call it?

    Why are they not allowed to talk about transgenders if it turns out having your gender changed leaves you, yes, vulnerable to a specific set of vir...ii?uses?

  16. And yet ... on Predictive Keyboard Tries To Write a New Harry Potter Chapter (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... it's still a better love story than Twilight.

  17. Re: ... and also think of ... on The Environmental Cost of Internet Porn (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 0

    Offer her a drink? Next thing you know you're being charged with trying to slip her a roofie.

  18. Remember when the American ISPs and telecoms were given billions of taxpayer dollars to build out the infrastructure?

    Yeah.

    They already GOT their money and they squandered it.

  19. Going through rush hour traffic every single day, dealing with road rage, near-misses, all the time with an unforgiving schedule that doesn't let you deliver just 180 parcels that day.

    For less than minimum wage.

    Yeah, that does fit the definition of a brutal job.

  20. Re:God forbid they learn how to use a damn compute on Google Glitch Took Thousands of Chromebooks Offline (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe, just maybe, they don't want the students to actually KNOW the WiFi password, with which they can connect unauthorized devices to the network. Thus, someone with the password has to go around to type it in on all the devices around the school when the network policy shits the bed.

  21. Buffet, Gates and Bezos all start floating rumors that they want to liquidate all the stock they own.

    All of it.

    Watch the stock market absolutely panic and the value of not just the USD, but most currencies around the world, suddenly starts drawing mountains and valleys.

  22. Re:18.6 MB per customer? on A Popular Virtual Keyboard App Leaks 31 Million Users' Personal Data (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a complete log of everything ever entered using that app.

    You know.

    Like URLs, usernames and passwords.

  23. Re:There Are No Decent Video Game Makers Left on Free Game Company Sues 14-Year-Old Over 'Cheats' Video -- Claiming DMCA Violation (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Someone should introduce the millenials to a SNES emulator and a stash of ROMs. Just sayin'.

  24. Re:because what you want to watch isn't on netflix on Netflix Is Not Going to Kill Piracy, Research Suggests (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    So you and your friends get together. You have fun, and the topic turns to what happened on Show #1 last week.

    Well, actually it doesn't, because only two friends watched that. Another friend watched show #2, two others show #3, and you sat through show #4 because you were sticking to your principles.

    Yeah, have fun talking to your friends about those storylines in that scenario. Or understanding the memes that pop up, the pop culture references inspired by shows like Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, etc.

    People watch the latest popular shows because they are POPULAR and said people want to be able to discuss them with OTHER people instead of feeling left out all the time.

  25. Re:Did the right thing... on An Unconscious Patient With a 'DO NOT RESUSCITATE' Tattoo (nejm.org) · · Score: 1

    Hell, just a second tattoo of two lines striking out NOT should do.