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  1. Re:This should be illegal on YouTube's Biggest Stars Are Pushing a Shady Polish Gambling Site (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2

    Pretty sure that is already in the ToS, and this is going to backfire HARD.

  2. Re:Where is your GDPR now????? on Hundreds of German Lawmakers Targeted in Mass Cyber Attack (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Good job with the "Don't kill people!" laws, America. Those sure helped!

  3. You missed such a perfect chance to simply reply 'Windows' instead of 'A window'.

  4. Re:Drone seems incidental here... on Severn Bridge, a Main Route Between England and Wales, Shuts as Drone Flown From Tower (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same thing. I can understand shutting down an airport because the drone can actually cause damage to an airplane motor or other sensitive parts, but shutting down the bridge in this case seems like something you'd have to do anytime there's people around.

  5. In my mind, words like 'pound notes' and 'dollar bills' and so on have always meant the currency in general, not a specific (low) value.

  6. Semantics, the 1 Pound Note was withdrawn, but the rest of the paper money in Britain is still various numerations of pounds.

  7. Re:UBI article entirely vanished? on As More Retailers Ban Paper Money, It's Making Things Awkward For Customers Without Plastic (wsj.com) · · Score: 1
  8. Why can't one of the hair stylists or other customers take the cash and pay with their credit card?

  9. Re:I don't get what the fuss is all about on Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly, And People Are Very Angry (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    My inactive tabs still have rounded corners and are visibly grey instead of white for the active tab. I'm definitely not one to just accept change for the sake of change, but I honestly can't see that anything has changed since last week or last month.

  10. Re: Getting tired of this on Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly, And People Are Very Angry (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Using a full keyboard includes using the period key at the end of sentences.

  11. Re:What is the use case? on Hot Tub Hack Reveals Washed-up Security Protection (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Get it started up before you get home, perhaps?

  12. It's just the Mass Effect relay out past Pluto. Nothing to worry about, the chance of an eldritch horror from beyond the galactic rim to come bomb our planet is astronomically low.

  13. Evidence? on JD.com's Billionaire CEO Will Not Be Charged With Sexual Assault (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since when do we need EVIDENCE for rape accusations? Burn him at the stake and end his career!

  14. They do somehow. The main emule forum is unavailable on my DSL connection (says they can't detect my IP, whatever the hell that means) along with ShareTheFiles which I use to find TV shows. Yes, I'm that dirty a pirate.

    Both of them are, however, fully accessible through my phone's data plan, which leads me to conclude my DSL ISP is doing something naughtier than I am.

  15. Re:No. You are juvenile. on Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing A Package Over Its Name (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    Show me six lines by the most loyal of men, and in them I shall find reason to hang him.

    Paraphrased from some very eloquent guy.

  16. Re:Wut? on Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing A Package Over Its Name (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is right there in the summary: WEB Out Of Browser. WEBOOB.

    Is being at work the reason you can't read the summary, either?

  17. You need to get home more.

  18. Re: Someone Somewhere on Emergence of Lab-Grown Meat Poses New Questions for Religious Leaders (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    But I'm really just asking to know whether the graphics card is made from plastic and gold or if it's made from whatever tin cans they had lying around. Just as the OP wants to know what kind of meat he's buying and how it was made. We already have something like that in classifying whether meat is free range, whether eggs are from caged hens and so on.

    Why are you so opposed to declarations on goods? Do you want to run a scam operation?

  19. You mean like Scooby-Doo real estate developers?

  20. Re:I had to click on a button on CenturyLink Blocked Its Customers' Internet Access in Order To Show an Ad (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Next step is they don't restore the connection until you purchase the software. NEXT step is cutting off your connection while watching Superbowl and only restoring it after you sign up for this more powerful connection for just 59,99 <font size=1>more than you are paying now</font>. After that who knows what reasons they'll think up to cut off your connection whenever they feel like it?

    This isn't about pressing a button. This is about the whole thing being a proof-of-concept DDOS from the ISP.

  21. Re:Someone Somewhere on Emergence of Lab-Grown Meat Poses New Questions for Religious Leaders (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    No, my point is that when you buy a graphics card, or a pair of pants, or pretty much ANYTHING, you want some amount of control and knowledge on what it is you're buying. The AC suggested you should just shop blindly and be thankful for what you get, or do a Back To Nature skit where you make everything yourself from scratch.

  22. Re:Someone Somewhere on Emergence of Lab-Grown Meat Poses New Questions for Religious Leaders (wsj.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not sure why you think you should have any control or knowledge about your GRAPHICS CARD if your purchase it. If you want to control what you PUT IN YOUR COMPUTER, you should BUILD it yourself. Otherwise you are being sold PLASTIC AND PRECIOUS METALS and nothing more. Nobody is making you buy it.

    How does that logic sound? Look forward to getting a refurbished Voodoo II card next time you 'upgrade'.

  23. Re: So... on People Are Harassing Waymo's Self-Driving Vehicles (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    So all accidents in traffic ever were deliberate and not because someone wasn't in full control?

  24. Re: It got a waiver to the state driving test. on People Are Harassing Waymo's Self-Driving Vehicles (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    You hate it when someone unfamiliar with the area is sharing the road with you, don't you?

  25. Don't you mean occlusion?