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  1. Re:so what happens on Wireless Charging Tech Adopted By Ford, Chrysler, and Toyota Goes Open Source · · Score: 1

    if you put your tinfoil hat on that charging surface?

    You turn into one of the lizard people which you already knew.

  2. Re:So? on Does Using an AOL Email Address Suggest You're a Tech Dinosaur? · · Score: 1

    Reason for leaving: My boss was an absolute cock and one day I had enough and I quit with no notice.

    But then if you lie on your CV, people get all "we've checked and you do not have a Nobel Prize in any field, and in fact there is no such thing as a Nobel Prize for Awesome anyway" on you.

    The trouble is that you end up with generic "I decided it was time for a new challenge" bollocks.

  3. Re:You can be both types of people... apk on John Urschel: The 300 Pound Mathematician Who Hits People For a Living · · Score: 1

    You can be *ANYTHING* you want in this life, both the mind & body are "plastic" responding to the needs you have you place on them...

    *There are, no limits: Only the limits you put on yourself...

    Right, so Stephen Hawking could have out-run Usain bolt if he'd just applied himself properly?

  4. Re:Sociopath on John Urschel: The 300 Pound Mathematician Who Hits People For a Living · · Score: -1

    I've know a couple of real sociopaths over a lifetime, and they were mean, manipulative, vindictive arseholes. One thing that they were not, was violent.

    Thanks for your anecdote, which comprehensively contradicts all other research into abnormal psychology. A sociopath is just a slightly better adjusted psychopath, and psychopaths are frequently extremely violent.

    Oh, and if you like hitting people, you're violent. It's sort of the definition of the word. And hitting people is not the same thing as enjoying physical activity or contact.

  5. Re:OT: Dogs on Will Robot Cars Need Windows? · · Score: 1
    So I guess you don't believe in wearing seat belts then?

    There's a difference between taking calculated risks in the course of doing something exciting, and just being stupid.

  6. Re:Won't know any better on Will Robot Cars Need Windows? · · Score: 1

    So you object to having fun just because it is dangerous? I would rather die having fun than live a long a long and safe life. I am pretty sure a dog would see it the same way.

    YOLO man, YOLO.

  7. Re:OT: Dogs on Will Robot Cars Need Windows? · · Score: 1

    Let's see a damned cat do that. You can't, because cats are stupid pets.

    Yes, the pet who doesn't stick its head out of the window of a fast moving car is the stupid one.

    I like both cats and dogs, but dogs have a basic level of loveable stupidity that cats can only achieve when they are tiny kittens.

  8. Re: carsickness on Will Robot Cars Need Windows? · · Score: 1

    come on now, driving with kids is always an adventue too: you never know who will poop, puke or start screaming first.

    If you want a real adventure, have a cat loose in your car. Guaranteed excitement.

  9. Re:Exede on Closing This Summer: Verizon To Scoop Up AOL For $4.4 Billion · · Score: 1

    We’re 250 miles north of Toronto

    What, like the North Pole?

  10. Re:Just watched it... IN A GREECE TV STATION... on Amtrak Train Derails In Philadelphia · · Score: 1

    Ignore him, he's turning into the Greek APK.

    There are definite similarities in style, irrelevance and insanity.

  11. Re:Just watched it... IN A GREECE TV STATION... on Amtrak Train Derails In Philadelphia · · Score: 1

    In 1969, man landed on the moon. Most of the planet learned about it 1.3 seconds later.

    Not in Greece. I think it took until the 1980s.

  12. Re:Just watched it... IN A GREECE TV STATION... on Amtrak Train Derails In Philadelphia · · Score: 1

    You only mentioned you were Greek three times, so I think you got away with it.

  13. Re:Obongo did it on Amtrak Train Derails In Philadelphia · · Score: 1

    In other news, the passengers were placed on buses to complete their trips. They arrived a day ahead of schedule.

    Keep it classy.

  14. Re:Wait. Ssergorp lurking here. on Uber Drivers In India Will Start Accepting Cash · · Score: 1

    In Belgrade, Serbia, I can phone a taxi and request a ride.

    Actually, not just in Belgrade, but everywhere where there are taxis. Or at least it's the case in Europe (personally used this in Metz, Toulouse, Berlin, Luxembourg), not sure about the United States. Reliability can vary though (stiffed by a taxi in Metz).

    Here in the UK there are two types of taxi: minicabs, which are those you phone and go to your house (or you go to a designated taxi rank to find them) and those you can hail in the street (basically London black cabs).

    Uber is just the former accessed through an app instead of a phone, although I suppose they're edging towards the latter, in which case there will be blood.

  15. Not a taxi, oh no on Uber Drivers In India Will Start Accepting Cash · · Score: 1

    There is clearly no connection between a private service that conveys you from A to B in a car for a cash payment and Uber. Taxi, I mean. Hold on...

  16. Re:Going through it on Judge: Warrantless Airport Seizure of Laptop 'Cannot Be Justified' · · Score: 1

    I was expecting this to turn into a MyCleanPC spam post.

  17. Re:What a waste of EVERYONES time on Judge: Warrantless Airport Seizure of Laptop 'Cannot Be Justified' · · Score: 1

    Lots of terrorists and terrorist sympathisers are, in fact, incredibly stupid.

  18. Re:Explain this to me. I don't believe it. on Judge: Warrantless Airport Seizure of Laptop 'Cannot Be Justified' · · Score: 1

    It's easy. If they don't find anything incriminating, they will install something incriminating themselves.

    Why, exactly?

    I'm curious. Because if it's that easy, I don't understand why everyone isn't in prison by now.

  19. Re:Been through it on Judge: Warrantless Airport Seizure of Laptop 'Cannot Be Justified' · · Score: 1

    WOW, I *WISH* they'd try that crap on me. I'm worth enough to actually file lawsuits and back up my threats.

    I'd have refused, then laughed hard as I mentioned the drive is fully encrypted. I also have said "No you will NOT be taking my hardware, until I'm presumed guilty of a crime, I passed the airport checkpoint, you can leave me alone now or am I being detained, if so for what cause....

    But again I am *prepared*. Devices pre-encrypted with over 100 digit passwords that I memorized like a song. I also have a few hidden cameras on my body which I'd never mention and then use their verbal abuse against them in court or leak the videos to youtube.

    I already don't carry a cell phone, have never used facebook in my life, I am most definitely a terrorist since I talk about hating the NSA and I'm always talking about writing new encryption that isn't backdoored and telling people to ignore the whole "If you ain't a PhD don't write crypto" lie that tricks people into using "pre-broken" encryption.

    So yeah, I wish they'd try that crap on me.... Everytime I fly I'm prepared and nothing happens. I'm actively egging them on and random people like YOU are getting harassed. :(

    ...and also, I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills...

  20. Re:Been through it on Judge: Warrantless Airport Seizure of Laptop 'Cannot Be Justified' · · Score: 1

    I was asked to login into my phone emails and facebook on the laptop flying back to Miami from Bahamas in my private plane.

    Lucky for you it distracted them from the suitcase of cocaine under the seat.

  21. Re:What's a "software program" on Judge: Warrantless Airport Seizure of Laptop 'Cannot Be Justified' · · Score: 1

    "with the assistance of two forensic software programs that organized, expedited, and facilitated the task."

    Oh, a "software program"... As opposed to a hardware program? an exercise program? What's wrong with just calling it "software",

    A "forensic program" would not have to involve software (or computers) at all.

    "Program" is a standard shorthand for "computer program" but "program" can mean other things too.

  22. Re:FedEx your power supply... on Judge: Warrantless Airport Seizure of Laptop 'Cannot Be Justified' · · Score: 1

    And leave the battery at 1%?

    I'm not sure how intricate they get with laptops, Are you just required to show that it turns on? They can't rifle through it if it's out of juice. Or do they keep an emergency set of generic power adapters?

    It probably depends on how much of a cock you're being, and whether they have any intelligence that there is anything illegal there. If they want to, they can always impound the machine for a while, until you remember where the power adapter is.

  23. Re:There has never been any justification on Judge: Warrantless Airport Seizure of Laptop 'Cannot Be Justified' · · Score: 2

    Can they scan it for potential hazards, or ask us to turn it on to "prove" it is not a hazard?

    Sure.

    But that is all the Gestapo can do.

    Yes, and that's why they're nothing like the actual fucking Gestapo.

  24. Re:Burners on Judge: Warrantless Airport Seizure of Laptop 'Cannot Be Justified' · · Score: 1

    Do you physically snap the burner laptop in half after each use, like on Breaking Bad?

    You have to eat the laptop to be sure.

  25. Re:More hoops before travelling through USA on Judge: Warrantless Airport Seizure of Laptop 'Cannot Be Justified' · · Score: 1
    Government is still the lesser of two evils.

    Unless you are a megalomaniac multi billionaire living inside a hollowed out volcano, of course.