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  1. Re:Excellent on What Happens When Robots Can Deliver Your Groceries? (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Robots just take over bike lanes, duh.

  2. Check your math.

  3. Re:Let's talk about lotteries on More Fast Food Restaurants Are Now Automating (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Illegal numbers rackets uniformly had a higher payoff rate than state run lotteries.

  4. Telnet port blocked at router. Duh. on Hidden Backdoor Discovered In Chinese IoT Devices (techradar.com) · · Score: 2

    This is made worse by the fact that default router configurations leave telnet open.

    Could be worse. Close that port and it's a non-issue. Should have closed it with the last batch.

  5. Re: Best way to defend yourself on Snapchat Wanted $150K To Not Run NRA Ads On Gun Control Group Videos (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Lots of US SS recipients live in the third world. They live like kings instead of on cat food.

    If you had been around half as much as you claim, somebody you know would have experienced 'prison medical care' and you would know just how out of your ass you are speaking.

  6. Re:please do this for all places on More Fast Food Restaurants Are Now Automating (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    About the same value for money. Both are terrible and almost inedible. But Boyardee's stuff is much cheaper.

    The worst part about OG isn't the food, it's that they think it's worth $30-40 per person. Don't even have kitchens, just microwave and boiling centers. I don't understand how they stay in business...any of the 'mid-priced corporate' chains, uniformly terrible and there is always local competition next door that's much better for the price.

    To OG's credit, they have started to run ads _claiming_ to have kitchens in their restaurants, but I have seen no remodeling. I put those down with subways 'new improved chicken' of a couple of years ago. They recognize a problem and respond with a brand new lie, while actually changing nothing.

  7. Re: Best way to defend yourself on Snapchat Wanted $150K To Not Run NRA Ads On Gun Control Group Videos (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you have any idea what kind of life US social security can bring you in the third world. That assumes SS will be there, I'm not so sure, but still. At this point, you'd be a fool not to seriously consider 'globalizing' your retirement (but leave your funds out of reach of local keptocrats), having been beaten with the same stick for decades.

    You have obviously had a white bread upbringing. Nobody you know has ever gone up? If they had, you would realize that prison doctors are among the worst and a prisoner's best bet is to not get sick. Because the doctors will usually make it worse. Fed might be better, but I bet it's not much better.

    Bank robbers don't go to minimum security farms ether.

  8. Re:That org is garbage on Snapchat Wanted $150K To Not Run NRA Ads On Gun Control Group Videos (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Did a crime happen if you saw the cop do it, but don't report it because he would beat your ass?

  9. Re:That org is garbage on Snapchat Wanted $150K To Not Run NRA Ads On Gun Control Group Videos (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Most 'accidental discharges' are suicides, insurance can payoff if the suicidal person just takes out the cleaning kit before topping themselves.

  10. Re: Best way to defend yourself on Snapchat Wanted $150K To Not Run NRA Ads On Gun Control Group Videos (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Slower firing, but much greater accuracy. One thing redcoats were good at, was reloading and firing rapidly, but no generally accurately. They trained at it constantly, IIRC 3 shots/minute was their standard.

  11. Re: Best way to defend yourself on Snapchat Wanted $150K To Not Run NRA Ads On Gun Control Group Videos (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    What is the big deal? The US military has THOUSANDS of nukes. I only have three.

  12. Re: Best way to defend yourself on Snapchat Wanted $150K To Not Run NRA Ads On Gun Control Group Videos (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    The average bank robber gets a few thousand and ten or more years. It's a true idiots crime.

  13. There are already a bunch of 'crete floating, basically immobile 'houseboats' in the east and IIRC north bay. It's already been thought of.

  14. Don't know the details, but it was all in a huge rush at government work rates. It was a $1000 rotting wooden hulk under tow, but large and tall as riverboats go. Doubt they raised it in one piece. Likely just brought out a dredging barge and crane.

  15. Re:Why pay more? on Chevrolet To Offer Unlimited Data Plan With Cars (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Never had a problem with mine. German model, 'world phone', has the right bands to work on American TMobile LTE, but is a little flaky, I understand it's missing one band, that might still be on a few old towers.

    But I don't constantly use it as such either, and pay for data. There are a number of hotspot apps out there. If mine stopped working, my first step would be another app.

  16. Re:Just drive on Chevrolet To Offer Unlimited Data Plan With Cars (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Good luck, you're going to need it.

  17. Re:The value of clear communication on Uber Loses Legal Test Case Over Language (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Ulysses...English. I think you haven't read it.

    It is more coherent than _Finnigan's_Wake_. But that is saying very little.

  18. Re: garage parking + wifi extender on Chevrolet To Offer Unlimited Data Plan With Cars (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't want HOA people in my neighborhood. The problem is douchebagness. HOA neighborhoods are like Facebook, it keeps all of 'them' in one place. If they weren't in HOA neighborhoods minding each other business, they would be douches in the larger world.

  19. Re:garage parking + wifi extender on Chevrolet To Offer Unlimited Data Plan With Cars (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Hide it in a tree, small solar for power. Duh.

  20. Re:you mean Chinacoin? on One Bitcoin Is Now Worth More Than One Ounce of Gold (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It will be interesting to watch China fail at that. China has capital controls on its citizens, of course they are the biggest users of bitcoin. That was bitcoin's main purpose.

  21. Re:There is something seriously wrong here on One Bitcoin Is Now Worth More Than One Ounce of Gold (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    What can you sell it for? That's what it's worth on planet earth.

  22. Re:Yea. OnStar. Not really yea. on Chevrolet To Offer Unlimited Data Plan With Cars (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Back then, they dreamed of renting you ringtones. Scumbags.

  23. Re:Just drive on Chevrolet To Offer Unlimited Data Plan With Cars (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Your basic mistake is taking a car out of warranty to a dealership for anything. They don't hire competent techs, they hire recent wyotech grads and charge you insane hourly rates for them.

    Newer cars are back to being _easy_ to fix, you just need a few new skills. Brand new cars are back to being locked down. It's yet another reason to buy an older car.

    What you say about 'anything older than a few years' is a lie. Don't listen to whoever told you that, ever again. Since oxygen sensors (late 80s) car emissions have been flat.

  24. Re:garage parking + wifi extender on Chevrolet To Offer Unlimited Data Plan With Cars (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Bitchy voice. Tests show people pay attention to bitchy voices better.

  25. Re:garage parking + wifi extender on Chevrolet To Offer Unlimited Data Plan With Cars (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Towers less than 100 ft don't require a light and are pretty cheap. (40 ft tower and 40 foot mast anyhow).

    If you're living under a HOA, just move.