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  1. I'm Gen-X also, and when I was a teenager, Captain Marvel was a black woman and part of the X-Men at the same time as Rogue, who's main superpowers at the time were stolen from the previous Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers (this movie), who had taken over the role from the original Captain Marvel, a man. So, three Captain Marvels, a white man, a white woman, and finally a black woman. I don't know if another person took over later in the 90's but I wouldn't be surprised.

  2. You're missing out though. If you just go with it and accept that we're living in the future now, you can wave your hands in front of the magic wall dryer and it actually will do a pretty good job drying your hands. The air-blade ones are especially cool and work great. Try it!

  3. Re: They also probably weren't expecting threats on GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository (obsceneworks.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    No, it's more like someone trying to give their children a better life by robbing a convenience store. You act like they're going to Disney World, no they're sneaking across the border illegally. The parents should be ashamed for putting their kids in such danger when they know the consequences have been the same for the past 20 years. It's not a new law. Trump didn't do this, Clinton did.

  4. Re: Ridiculous on GoDaddy Expels Neo-Nazi Site Over Article On Charlottesville Victim (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, well, now they're a terrorist group that campaigns against free speech and uses violence to silence anyone who opposes them. If you don't know this, you're seriously out of touch and you should stop talking about them like you know something relevant.

  5. Re:Why are they protecting RUSSIA!?!?!? on Privacy Watchdog Sues Trump's Election Committee Over Voter Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It's because TFA is FAKE NEWS. Pretty common these days.

  6. I live in Pennsylvania, dairy country, and milk is about $3.60 a gallon, roughly double what you said. Did you really mean to say a half gallon?

  7. Sooooo... These guys are upset that the Feds followed the law and got a warrant???

    Except we were promised these things won't be used except for matters of national security.

    Also, Stingrays have no way to selectively MitM only the target, so they spy (in violation of the 4th Amendment) on every single innocent person in a large radius.

    You don't think foreigners sneaking into our country illegally is a matter of national security? It's the definition of national security you dolt.

  8. Re:Feel good story of the day? on Federal Agents Used a Stingray To Track an Immigrant's Phone (detroitnews.com) · · Score: 2

    providing a Social Security number (which has to false). Falsifying government records is a felony

    So he printed a little piece of paper and then used it to GET A JOB? Golly, that is serious. I am certainly willing to give up my privacy rights to stop things like terrorist truck bombs and questionable job applications, since those two things are basically the same.

    If the SS number just happens to match your SS#, now you've got problems with the IRS and possibly your credit rating and maybe a life changing cascade of bad shit you need to sort out as a result of this little bit of identity theft. Completely harmless, right? I guess you never thought this through, or you just don't give a fuck because you expect all that to happen to someone else, not you.

  9. Feel good story of the day? on Federal Agents Used a Stingray To Track an Immigrant's Phone (detroitnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Your tax dollars at work

  10. Vulnerabilities are by design on Cyberattacks From WannaCry Ransomware Slow But Fears Remain (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Not too long ago you didn't need to worry about viruses at all unless you actively ran something with a .EXE .COM or .BAT extension, then through the expansions of javascript, flash, and even html, now you can get infected in dozens of ways without your even knowing it happened or what website did it. This should never have been allowed, but someone wanted it to happen, and this is where we are now thanks mostly to Microsoft.

  11. I think it's this idea that people want to move about the room that has held VR back as manufacturers get overly fixated on room-level stuff. All I want from VR is a super-immersive 3D monitor where I can turn my head and look around me. I don't need to get up and run around the room and frankly, I don't want to do that. My chair is quite comfortable for gaming.

  12. All the of the VR games so far have been small demo-like mobile-game level crap. Where's the big games like Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, or Skyrim? VR won't take off for anyone but the early-adopters if they refuse to make big mainstream games for it.

  13. Re:I'm fine with it.. on Milo Yiannopoulos Wants To Buy 4Chan, Promises Free Speech Haven (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretending to be ghetto? There's nothing ghetto about his taking a knee for what he believes. NFL would have needed to invent one? Are you drunk? Because you sound like a drunk guy at the bar.

  14. Fired instead of Jail, just like Police Officers on Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 Employees For Creating Millions of Phony Accounts (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Until now, I didn't know Wells Fargo employees had the same above-the-law protections as police officers. What other occupations allow you to break laws and get away with no legal repercussions?

  15. Re:Never a shortage of Apple hate on Apple Cites 'Courage' As Reason To Remove 3.5mm Headphone Jack (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The concern is that all the other manufacturers will do the same, and everyone's earbuds/headsets will be useless or need adapters.

  16. Not Google so it's okay? on Tattling Kettles Help Researchers Crack WiFi Networks In London (pentestpartners.com) · · Score: 1

    They were so quick to go after Google for riding around mapping open wifi networks, while these guys are actually hacking router passwords! Yet all people talk about is the WTF factor of a network-enabled electric kettle.

  17. I'm not one of those rare individuals that gets motion sickness playing first-person-shooters, and I don't get headaches from 3D movies. This is a non-issue for me.

  18. I'm very much looking forward to VR gaming, but have no intention of getting out of my seat. I want VR for the immersion, not flailing and jumping around in my livingroom. I wish Valve and the Rift people would stop focusing on this walking around VR they think everyone wants. If anything is going to kill VR before it can really take off, it's this. It's probably why everything is taking so long.

  19. Re:What is the basis of the suit? on Twitter Sued For Scanning Direct Messages · · Score: 1

    I don't see why you put more faith in a paid service over one that's free. The TOS is what matters, not the cost.

  20. Re:How is this legal? on Ashley Madison Source Code Shows Evidence They Created Bots To Message Men · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wouldn't expect that to hold up very well with them repeatedly using words like 'subscribers' and 'persons'. I don't think bots would qualify for either definition.

  21. I don't see much difference between police drones tracking moving vehicles and police helicopters doing it as they've done for decades. The helicopters are not pulling people over. They have a different role.

  22. Re: "...the same as trespassing." on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1

    If someone throws a ball onto (or over) your property, is that person tresspassing? I don't think that's how tresspassing works.

  23. Re: Haggling for Rates on Why Americans Loathe Cable Companies · · Score: 1

    I don't think anyone was able to splice spider genes into vegetables until mad scientists got involved. That's what bothers people. That could never happen in nature.

  24. Re:The real question on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    The answer is, because they can. Also, they're in the desert. Texas is almost entirely desert, FYI.

  25. Re:Larger landing area on Longer Video Shows How Incredibly Close Falcon Stage Came To Successful Landing · · Score: 1

    I think because the rocket was designed to land upright. That's the thing it does that makes it so special.