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  1. Re:3 more brands for the 'no' list. on Appliance Companies Are Lobbying To Protect Their DRM-Fueled Repair Monopolies (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You obviously want Ds to appear completely unhinged. Good job.

  2. Re:Brave take on 8K TVs Are Coming, But Don't Buy the Hype (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    What? You can _easily_ pay $1000 for 'off the rack' from Italy.

  3. Those morons surveilled themselves.

  4. Enjoy the FISA spying on the next D candidate. You are enabling it.

    Unless people go to prison over this, it will be SOP from now on. Candidates will encrypt every form of comms, and it still won't be good enough.

  5. It's not great, but it's better.

    The ideal time to fix this is after the next election. After the Ds have had a candidate's campaign spied on. But the danger is they will lose and the spying will remain hidden, as it would have if Hillary had won.

  6. 3 more brands for the 'no' list. on Appliance Companies Are Lobbying To Protect Their DRM-Fueled Repair Monopolies (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Fuck them and their unrepairable junk. They have competitors.

  7. Better. The judge's are supposed to be skeptical as there is no routine review of these warrants as the cases progress. They were clearly rubber stamping, now they are embarrassed at having approved warrants on presidential candidates staff based on fiction.

  8. Re:For those of you not up on any of this on More FISA Orders Were Denied During President Trump's First Year in Office Than in the Court's 40-Year History (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What a load of bullshit.

    This is about the FISA warrant that was used to spy on Trump's campaign. He was supposed to lose and the facts were never supposed to come out.

    Now that those facts are out, they are embarrassed and a few even realize that it could be turned against them and their pet candidates.

    It's too late, unless someone from Hillary's campaign and the FBI goes to prison for this, every (non-incumbent/appointed successor) candidate's campaign will be spied on.

  9. Re:Let's take a moment for reflection and thanks on Apple's Podcasts Just Topped 50 Billion All-time Downloads and Streams (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    1. MacIdiots are too stupid for more than one button. Your not disagreeing with me. Clearly Mac OS initially got that wrong.

    2. Nonsense. Gates got it from Xerox, same a Jobs.

    3. Name one way NT was inferior? 3.51 was better in all respects, even the Windows 3 style UI.

  10. It says 'they' are embarrassed by the unreasonable approval rates that were revealed after the election. The judges are _now_ doing their jobs, not rubber stamping.

    Which is good, I guess. Another example of routine corruption that got exposed and derailed by Trump's election.

  11. Re:Toilets on Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Cholera epidemics were routine until modern sewage treatment.

    They still are where the sewage isn't treated and the population density is high.

  12. Re:Meh. on 8K TVs Are Coming, But Don't Buy the Hype (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Super cheapies. Don't let the bad reviews scare you. I just paid $300 for a 55 sceptre dumb 4k TV, Walmart online only.

    It's OK, the name brands aren't better at the economy end and are all 'smart' only, which makes them worse.

  13. Re:I want these for pictures on 8K TVs Are Coming, But Don't Buy the Hype (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    This always takes me back to being a young fellow, looking wistfully at Tektronix graphics terminal ads...Someday I would own that good a screen, now I throw them away.

  14. Re:Brave take on 8K TVs Are Coming, But Don't Buy the Hype (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Human eyes are diffraction limited to about 1 arc minute. Cite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

  15. Re:Of unicorns and compression rates on 8K TVs Are Coming, But Don't Buy the Hype (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Let me email you a precalculus textbook...

  16. Re:Brave take on 8K TVs Are Coming, But Don't Buy the Hype (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Look closer, 55'' 4k Sceptre, $300. Walmart, internet only.

  17. Re:Brave take on 8K TVs Are Coming, But Don't Buy the Hype (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    You have a rich fantasy life...

    You think $1500 will get you a nice custom tailored suit. Maybe in HongKong of Vietnam. (I know the dude, he takes you measurements in a hotel and sends you the suit from China.) Local, you'll still be slumming in an Armani, at best.

    You realize that government salaries aren't tax free? Politicians are scum, but they know that would be one grift too far. Take home on $175k isn't that high, not that there's any chance.

  18. Re:Meh. on 8K TVs Are Coming, But Don't Buy the Hype (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You have to goto the real cheapies, but they're readily available.

    The problem with the super cheaps is the quality control. You might need two or three before you find a good one, the 'name brands' aren't much better.

    I paid $300 for a 55, It's OK. Speakers do _suck_, but that's long covered. You can't find a (dumb or not) 1080 for less.

  19. Re:Brave take on 8K TVs Are Coming, But Don't Buy the Hype (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you're sitting close enough to see the pixels, you are 'watching the equipment' not the show. Like an 'audiophile' listens to the stereo, not the music.

    4k screens are for monitors and VR displays, 8k will be the same. I'm just glad stupid people will cover the R&D costs of my future monitors.

  20. Re:Anyone that doesn't understand why you'd want o on 8K TVs Are Coming, But Don't Buy the Hype (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    Duh, you already can't see a single pixel in the highest resolution part of your vision at typical viewing distance (at 4K, 1080 for older people).

    But you want one anyhow...because man card.

  21. What's the total for the torrent network? on Apple's Podcasts Just Topped 50 Billion All-time Downloads and Streams (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    50 billion, that's cute...suckers.

  22. Re:Let's take a moment for reflection and thanks on Apple's Podcasts Just Topped 50 Billion All-time Downloads and Streams (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    What?

    We're using one button mice? (because we're too stupid to for a second button?)

    Jobs stole the GUI (for the Lisa) from the same place Gates did (Xerox). Face facts.

    Modern GUIs have evolved and come from no single place. MacOS prior to X was architecturally very much inferior to all versions of NT, even 3.51 just blew it away. It was in a league with Amiga's OS.

  23. Re:Don't Get Played on EPA Proposes Limits To Science Used In Rulemaking (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry no, each of those scientists needs their publication history reviewed.

    For example: I'll bet their are sociologists in the group, those typically only know how to practice science WRONG.

  24. Re:Don't Get Played on EPA Proposes Limits To Science Used In Rulemaking (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Did you read the damn thing? They don't claim it bans anonymization of data. They just claim that transparency isn't good or necessary...trust them. We're supposed to just forget things like 'the Hockey stick' that turned out to be simple minded fabrications.

  25. Re:Toilets on Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Groups that use wheels, duh.