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  1. Re: Fucking Useless Shit on Microsoft Helps Develop Smart, IoT-Enabled Refrigerators (microsoft.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Oh, the sensor broke?

    The cooling element gets disabled and the refrigerator needs to be repaired.

    Same way you can't scan a black and white paper if your all-in-one printer and scanner is out of cyan ink.

  2. And when the information gets sold on Microsoft Helps Develop Smart, IoT-Enabled Refrigerators (microsoft.com) · · Score: 2

    Health insurance goes up because you're not eating healthy enough, police have free access to all these cameras to make sure no one's storing drugs in their fridge etc.

    Because writing 'Milk' on a list when you take the last carton of milk is such a daunting task!

  3. Re:Here's an idea... on Long TSA Delays Force Airports To Hire Private Security Contractors (popsci.com) · · Score: 2

    To be fair to the GP, only a fucking retard signs a letter that puts their name and company at the top in the letterhead.

    See how that works?

  4. Re:He can buy it back ... on John McAfee Sues Intel To Use His Own Name (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    But the thing is he didn't have to change his name when he sold the brand.

    Should we only ever get one chance to use our real names as a brand?

  5. Re:Good trailers? on IBM Watson Created The First-Ever AI-Made Movie Trailer For 'Morgan' (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Slapping together a trailer of scenes from a movie isn't that different from slapping together a quick little program combining libraries someone else already wrote. It's not like the trailer maker has to go out and do a new shoot, edit for lighting and audio, add CGI effects etc. He LITERALLY has to watch the movie and at a few points go "Ooh, that looks awesome, that goes in the trailer!"

  6. Re:Seriously? on 'Longest Living Human' Says He Is Ready For Death At 145 (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You mean like the Higgs Boson?

  7. That is a very old signal.

  8. Re:Motherboard committed a felony? on Tens of Thousands of Infowars Accounts Hacked (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Motherboard had two options: Crying wolf with no evidence or testing if they could log in (followed by immediate logout, I'm guessing) before crying wolf.

    Please tell me which one is worse.

  9. Okay, so your solution is that no one should ever be an early adopter?

  10. I personally found the Creature stage to be the best part of the game, with a decent amount of amusement going around seeing all the different species that had spawned, digging up fossils and such.

  11. Re:Seriously? on 'Longest Living Human' Says He Is Ready For Death At 145 (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I will sooner dismiss the know-nothing who says "That can't be true, don't bother checking it!" than the know-nothing who says "That might be true, go check it."

  12. Imagine you are at a restaurant. It takes three hours for your food to arrive, it's not entirely cooked, the potatoes are mushy, the gravy looks like swamp water, but at first it tastes ... okay. Not great, but okay.

    Then on the way home you start having stomach cramps.

    You spend the night throwing up thanks to food poisoning.

    The next day you stagger down to the restaurant to demand some kind of compensation, and all they do is call you a thief because you did eat the food!

    How would that make you feel?

  13. You mean the reviews that were more or less forcibly held back and the leaked video that made them flip out because it would 'spoil the awesome game play' when it did nothing of the sort and was only 15 minutes long?

  14. How quickly do you find out that the endgame raids etc. in an MMORPG are crap when starting from level 1?

  15. This.

    Remember Spore, with multiple different game modes depending on your evolutionary stage? It could EASILY take 30-50 hours to get to the space stage and zoom around there a bit if you were an explorer, only to realize the endgame was ... quite lackluster.

  16. Re: Good tactic calling your paying customers thie on Players Seek 'No Man's Sky' Refunds, Sony's Content Director Calls Them Thieves (tweaktown.com) · · Score: -1

    Since Sony is completely free to sell his digital copy of the game again, and can even do so without having to label it as used, he is not a thief as he has not deprived them of anything.

  17. Re:IP law has nothing to do with logic. on US Patients Battle EpiPen Prices And Regulations By Shopping Online (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No one said the company isn't allowed to turn a profit - but as a patient, do you want the sole supplier of medication that keeps you alive to suddenly realize they are the ONLY REASON YOU ARE ALIVE and bumping your daily expense up to a million dollars?

  18. Not possible on BitTorrent Cases Filed By Malibu Media Will Proceed, Rules Judge · · Score: 1

    Dude, to err is human.

    Unless he claims to have some kind of psychic ability there is ALWAYS the possibility of misidentification. If those were his words, the case should be thrown out for lying to the judge.

  19. You are getting dangerously close to 'Sins of the fathers' territory with that logic.

    The solution to inequality is not an equal amount of inequality to the other side.

  20. Re:BSOD and QR Codes on Windows 10 Computers Crash When Amazon Kindles Are Plugged In (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I was taking a shot that there is no language with days ending in F. If you can prove me wrong I'd love to know.

  21. Re:Two confirmed deaths? Worse than sharks... :Q on Second Confirmed Death In Japan Involving Pokemon Go (japantimes.co.jp) · · Score: 2

    The problem is the people who died weren't the people playing Pokemon Go.

  22. Re:Pokemon Go killed more people than Tesla Autopi on Second Confirmed Death In Japan Involving Pokemon Go (japantimes.co.jp) · · Score: 1

    No, then it becomes science to find out if the survival was a statistical anomaly or reproducible result!

  23. Re:BSOD and QR Codes on Windows 10 Computers Crash When Amazon Kindles Are Plugged In (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No ads at all on any day ending with the letter F!

  24. Re:Thats it? on Driver Killed a Pedestrian in Japan While Playing Pokemon Go (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Does Pong require movement the way Pokemon Go does?

  25. Re:Offtopic on Uber Loses At Least $1.2 Billion In First Half of 2016 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, that is a standard setting.