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  1. Unacceptable for professional use on Apple Introduces 'Report Junk' Option To Deal With iCloud Calendar Spam Invites (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yet another reason why Apple products are unsuitable for business use. Getting calendar spam shouldn't be the user's problem. It should be the provider's problem. If for some reason we got spam into our Outlook Calendars at work, we'd switch providers in a heartbeat.

  2. Re:Fuck Twitter appeasement on Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader's Account (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Who cares? Let him use some third rate, white-only application to shit on other people.

  3. You get what you pay for on Vulnerability Prompts Warning: Stop Using Netgear WiFi Routers (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    Netgear is the McDonald's of routers. Personally, I only use Draytek routers. Have had great success with them where Netgear, Linksys, D-Link, and Cisco have all failed miserably.

  4. Re:'No such thing as free shipping' on Struggling Workers Found Sleeping In Tents Behind Amazon's Warehouse (thecourier.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They're not profitable from selling stuff, that's for sure. Never have been, and probably never will be.

  5. Re:Didn't you know? on David Pogue Calls Out 18 Sites For Failing His Space-Bar Scrolling Test (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Enter for form submit, in the way you mean, is only an "accepted practice" because Microsoft made it the behaviour in Internet Explorer even when the button didn't have focus and other browser makers followed suit.

    I don't think that's true. I seem to remember Mosaic doing it waaaay back when.

  6. Re:'No such thing as free shipping' on Struggling Workers Found Sleeping In Tents Behind Amazon's Warehouse (thecourier.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    (which is more of a metric companies are measured by)

    And there's the rub. Stupid people measure a company by sales. Unfortunately, most people are stupid, hence companies like Amazon's valuation via the stock market. Any moron can sell a $1 bill for $0.90. That's essentially what all of these "e-commerce" companies are doing. There's no value to that (or there shouldn't be).

  7. Powershell is powerful! News at 11! on PowerShell Security Threats Greater Than Ever, Researchers Warn (computerweekly.com) · · Score: 1

    Now more than 95% of PowerShell scripts analysed by Symantec researchers have been found to be malicious, with 111 threat families using PowerShell.

    What scripts were they analyzing? I've got a bunch of Powershell scripts, and none of them are malicious.

  8. Yup! Not quite...

  9. There's no Apple software allowed at home or at work, so it wouldn't even be something I'd consider.

  10. Bullshit. 50,000 jobs? To save shipping costs for small electronic products? Bullshit. This is another Trump lie.

  11. Re:Cherry picking data, you say? on Weather Channel To Breitbart: Stop Citing Us To Spread Climate Skepticism (weather.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh, please. "Citizen journalists" are citizens without the training or knowledge to be journalists. The "biased MSM" garbage is largely just that: garbage. Shove it up your ass. Assholes like you either believed the Trump bullshit, or encouraged other and/or encouraged other dim bulbs to believe that bullshit, putting us in the horrible place we are in now.

    Human-caused global warming is a serious problem.

  12. anyone who disagrees can instantly be silenced online

    You can be stopped from using their services, yes, but there's no indication that somehow you won't be able to access the Internet. That sounds like stupid paranoid bullshit that you just made up.

  13. losing faith about the integrity of a product

    There's nothing in this article about advertisers "losing faith in the integrity of a product". On the contrary, I think that more advertisers that can pay for more than dick pill ads will spend more money with these platforms. The "retards" that I was referring to are the shitty part of the product that these companies are planning on ejecting. Sure, they can make money selling dick pills and insurance scams to these people, but they're more trouble than they're worth. It's long past time to get out of that market, and leave it to somebody else. It's bringing the value of their brand down, at the very least.

  14. When a company controls so much of the screen real estate, this actually moves beyond what they're allowed to censor.

    That makes no sense.

  15. Deep and wide-spread currents of dissatisfaction run at the root of terrorism's growth. We need to acknowledge the tremendous psychological pressures that lead to terrorism, and we need to begin healing the social, political, and spiritual disenfranchisement that our societies create. A good place to start would be in our schools, with promoting the principles of individualism, autonomy, open-mindedness, compassion, and the Golden Rule. A generation raised on these values just might stop pissing off other nations so much that they fly airplanes into our skyscrapers. Sadly, the public schools are in fact religious schools, and the high priests of corporatism will never let this happen. They have too much invested in the powerlessness of the citizenry - their Ponzi scheme of an economic structure relies on it.

    That's not it at all. We have an uneducated populace that keeps voting to gut our schools. That's how we got to Trump, and that's where things will continue to go unless something else dramatically changes.

  16. Sure, I can. Why not? Newspapers and magazines have been doing it for hundreds of years.

    Besides, what do advertising networks have to do with anything?

  17. The retards might quit using it. They'll head over to places like Breitbart and Infowars. So what? Nothing of value is lost. These people certainly aren't advertisers. They're not even great to advertise *to* unless you're selling some kind of scam. Let 'em go. If anything, it'll make more money for FB/Google/MS/Twitter et all.

  18. Social networks are TWO-WAY. Its a VERY different thing, which is why different rules should apply.

    You want to start applying rules to private companies telling them what they can and cannot publish? THAT'S totalitarian.

  19. They can do it today. It's their own networks. They can censor whatever they want. So what? Don't like it, don't use them. The Internet isn't going away.

  20. These companies have nothing to do with free speech. You can say all you want on the Internet. Whether anybody else will give a shit or hear you is another question, altogether.

  21. The Internet and dumb people on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As evidenced by this sad case (I hope the pizza shop owners sue this idiot and garnish his wages for the rest of his life), and the election, I think the case can be made that the Internet doesn't necessarily enhance society. It's an interesting turn of events, and certainly not one that I considered seriously. I had always thought that the Internet went to shit in the early-mid 90's, when the public-at-large started to use it in large numbers. I couldn't imagine how bad it would end up today, though. And, sadly, we have such a large amount of the world's population still not online, I fear that it's going to get that much worse. I'm honestly disappointed in humankind that something with so much potential as the Internet can go to such shit so quickly.

  22. Yearly upgrades! on Apple Says It Is Working On Self-Driving Cars (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Imagine the cash flow if the same people who buy Apple products every year or so did the same with cars?!? That would be insane. Smart move for them.

  23. Re:Amazon's responsibility on Fake Apple Chargers Fail Safety Tests (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't take somebody's money and then point to somebody else and say, "They're the real seller". That's just bullshit. The entity accepting payment in return for a good or service is the seller.

  24. ... or just keep doing what you're doing and die of cancer at an early age. Standard of living is irrelevant if you're not living, you twit.

  25. Luckily, your extreme selfishness doesn't determine the world's environmental policies.