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  1. Re:So anyone with a kid ... on Comcast Expands $10 Low-Income Internet Plan (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That sounds good. Those kids are going to be more likely to grow up to be contributing members of society. You must be from a blue area of the country.

  2. Re:Comcast is a GSM yet not regulated under the PU on Comcast Expands $10 Low-Income Internet Plan (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Obama and friends have been trying to make Internet service regulated as a utility for several years now, but of course, the Republicans have stopped that so that they can continue to get their bribes.

  3. Re:but you will need a credit card to the account on Google Will Let You Share Movies, Apps, and Music You Buy With Up To Six People (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Use cash. Shop locally. Quit whining.

  4. Re:The DNC overlords always get their way on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    See, that's the thing. He hasn't made "horribly, horrible policy". He didn't start any unnecessary wars. He didn't significantly take away the rights of regular people. He didn't increase taxes on poor people. He didn't embarrass the US. So, for somebody to say that he has made "horrible, horrible" policy, says that that person is either a racist, or a moron.

  5. People don't care on PSA: Pokemon Go Has Full Access To Your Google Account Data (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People simply don't care. In all honesty, most people's lives aren't interesting or important enough to be worth anything to anybody, anyway. Harvest their data, try to sell them (more) crap they don't need, and that's about it.

  6. The number of deaths resulting from accidents *far* outweighs the number of "self-defense" uses.

  7. Re:old wisdom on Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Ooops.

  8. Re:Do your job on Uber Investor Suggests Addressing Police Killings With an App (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    If the police ignore people selling untaxed cigarettes, then all cigarettes will be sold untaxed

    You're right. That shouldn't happen. The police should continue to murder people who don't give the government their rightful cut.

  9. Thanks Christ you're not a cop. It sounds like you need to seek some professional help.

  10. So then, an itch or a sneeze should also be a death sentence according to your logic, huh?

  11. Your reasoning for not collecting all of the guns in the US is because people might get hurt while collecting them? That makes no sense, whatsoever.

  12. Re:Do your job on Uber Investor Suggests Addressing Police Killings With an App (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    Hey make-believe armchair cop, how about not pulling your gun out every time you see a black person?

  13. Re:old wisdom on Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    You gave a list of problems that don't fall under the umbrella of General Relativity, or do, but are problems that require more computational power than we have right now. General Relativity, is, by and large, understood at this point.

  14. Re:My thoughts... on Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    That's your opinion. I very, VERY rarely mod AC's up, because usually, posting as AC doesn't create quality conversations.

  15. Re:old wisdom on Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    General relativity is very different than particle physics. That's why Einstein chose to ignore it. We have a unified theory of Newtonian physics, just not a theory that takes into account subatomic particles and the way they behave.

  16. Re:Does this imply that on Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No. Climate change and income inequality are easily provable by science. We're talking about grown-up things that are much more difficult, if impossible to prove.

  17. Re:Quantum physics on Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    It is certainly new. We weren't able to prove germs existed until we had powerful enough microscopes. We'll need to be able to time travel to prove some of the next hypothesis in physics. I think that there's a significant difference between not having powerful enough equipment to measure things, and not having the ability to travel through time/travel to alternate universes. That's the point. Science may have come to the point where further experimental knowledge is, quite literally, impossible.

  18. Re:old wisdom on Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    General physics is more or less solved. It makes sense. Sure, they could work on turbulence more, but it''s not going to tell us anything else about the nature of reality. It's just going to require more computing power.

    Quantum physics isn't reductionist, it's the basic building blocks of our universe, and it doesn't make sense. I don't think it's fair to call it "reductionist" at all.

  19. Re:But Seriously... on Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    I don't know what "Division I" is, but quantum physics isn't a game, or something to sell books. It's the nature of our reality, and as we understand it, it doesn't make sense. That's pretty awesome!

  20. Quantum physics on Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Super interesting idea. Article summary missed the point. The point is: We may not be able to determine the nature of the universe as it relates to quantum particles, experimentally. Are the ideas any less valid, if we can't prove them experimentally (by, say, going back in time, or visiting alternate realities)?

  21. Re:old wisdom on Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? (npr.org) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You didn't RTFA, obviously. You might want to try that. It's super interesting, and brings up an important point that you obviously missed.

  22. Ghostery does this on Do We Need A Better Private Browsing Mode? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    If you're concerned about tracking, just install the Ghostery extension. It takes care of this.

  23. The worst of Linux in Windows! on Ubuntu's Unity desktop environment can run in Windows (wordpress.com) · · Score: 2

    Boy, that's got to be something a whole two masochists would want to do. Take the worst part of Linux and run it in Windows! Wow! I think I'd rather put toothpicks under my fingernails.

  24. It's better than what we have now... on Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? (newscientist.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... which is essentially a corrupt theocracy. I'd gladly live in a society run by rational ideas over what we have now.

  25. Re:no way it is secure on Facebook Messenger To Get End-To-End Encryption · · Score: 1

    I'm not a cryptographer, so I just have to use common sense. Common sense says that for-profit companies exist to generate income.