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  1. The real question on Apple Music and the Terrible Return of DRM · · Score: 1

    All one has to do is not use the service, then they starve and die, because do you want a future where the only way media is available is streaming?
    I don't.

    But the real question is this, are there more of the people that don't care about this DRM issue, or more that do?
    How many of you can do without your "entertainment"?

  2. The site been blacklisted by Twitter, Facebook on Anti-TPP Website Being Blacklisted · · Score: 1

    If you use those "social" media sites you're giving them the power to screw us over, stop using them.

  3. Oh no on Quantum Gravity Will Be Just Fine Without String Theory · · Score: 1

    Has anyone told Sheldon yet?

  4. Re:Ask these folks... on How To Store Your Data For 1 Million Years · · Score: 1

    You have portions of your DNA that is likely to be 45,000 years old or more, rather the "same as" Homo sapiens from 45K years ago.

  5. Re:Ask these folks... on How To Store Your Data For 1 Million Years · · Score: 1

    How does it know what's "critical" to our survival?
    It would also depend on where you put the data, what section.

    DNA is well-suited for biological information storage. The DNA backbone is resistant to cleavage, and both strands of the double-stranded structure store the same biological information. Biological information is replicated as the two strands are separated. A significant portion of DNA (more than 98% for humans) is non-coding, meaning that these sections do not serve as patterns for protein sequences.

    Plus there's always "error correction" and redundancy.

  6. Re:Ask these folks... on How To Store Your Data For 1 Million Years · · Score: 1

    DNA is surprisingly robust, in any case portions of our own DNA are very, very old, and still the same.

  7. Ever wonder on How To Store Your Data For 1 Million Years · · Score: 2

    Where animals instinctual behaviors come from?

  8. Re:Yet another reason on US Bombs ISIS Command Center After Terrorist Posts Selfie Online · · Score: 1

    Do you think "anti social media" would be a better term considering how some use it and what the companies/governments do with your data?

  9. Yet another reason on US Bombs ISIS Command Center After Terrorist Posts Selfie Online · · Score: 1

    To stop using Facebook and other "social" media...

  10. Re:Which Stormtrooper is it... on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    Look at it another way, it's a real gun, he shoots up the school and the officials at the school state "we thought it was a toy".

    Face it, he's a 40 yo idiot dressed up in a costume from a 3rd rate movie series.

  11. Re:Fear on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    Yes and all school officials are weapons experts, it looks enough like a real gun.

  12. Re:Which Stormtrooper is it... on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    Gun, he had a toy gun, people at schools aren't going to screw around any more.

  13. Fear on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    And more fear.

    But yeah walking around with a toy gun by a school is bad judgement these days.

  14. When you're a monopoly on Why Americans Loathe Cable Companies · · Score: 1

    You don't have to be good.

  15. Re:Can they compile from source? on Microsoft Lets EU Governments Inspect Source Code For Security Issues · · Score: 1

    "Can they (the governments) compile from source?"

    I wager they can not, that takes control from M$.

  16. Hmm on Researchers Power a Security Camera With Wi-Fi Signals · · Score: 1

    Health concerns?

  17. Die Yahoo on Yahoo Killing Maps, Pipes & More · · Score: 1

    Just die...

  18. Huh... on Microsoft To Release Low-Cost Windows 10 With Bing Branding · · Score: 2

    "1 billion PCs, tablets, and smartphones to be running it until 2017"

    So it's EOL'ed in less than 2 years?

  19. Huh... on Dealing with Google's 'Mobilegeddon' Algorithm Changes (Video) · · Score: 1

    Brian's not interested in site design and visibility because his company does SEO or designs websites.

    So not interested in the 2 things his company specializes in?

  20. Re:Laugh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    Yes, my grandparents are from New Zealand, and English is a living language.

  21. Re:Laugh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    2 meters = 6.5 feet
    That’s how tall I am.

    And:
    meter1

    [mee-ter]

                    Examples
                    Word Origin
    noun
    1.
    the fundamental unit of length in the metric system

    You must be one of those malnourished eastern Europeans.

  22. For years I have been using the metric system during discussions, it's fun to say "Oh yeah that's only 3 KM from here" or "I'm 2 meters tall" and watch the confused looks on most peoples faces.

  23. Re:Remember on Disney Making Laid-Off US Tech Workers Train Foreign H1-B Replacements · · Score: 1

    I used Facebook as an example, did you not see that?

    If no one used Facebook, Zuckerberg would not be in a position to do what is being done, can you not figure that out? Maybe corps have a good argument for H1B's if you can't even figure this out..

  24. Re:What HB-1 workers get paid. on Disney Making Laid-Off US Tech Workers Train Foreign H1-B Replacements · · Score: 1

    I don't know about taxes, what it shows you is they are not as "inexpensive" as advertised.
    What also is not shown is the fact there are plenty of tech workers in the US that can do these jobs, most certainly in the case of Disney.

  25. Re:What HB-1 workers get paid. on Disney Making Laid-Off US Tech Workers Train Foreign H1-B Replacements · · Score: 1