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  1. Re: Anyone know if it's going to run 64 bit apps? on 'Snapdragon 1000' Chip May Be Designed For PCs From the Ground Up (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The steam catalogue.

    Maybe you're not the target demographic.

    (and maybe the world doesn't revolve around you)

  2. Maybe so but this will only protect "several" Android users and I'm guessing we're not on the list.

  3. Re:Anyone know if it's going to run 64 bit apps? on 'Snapdragon 1000' Chip May Be Designed For PCs From the Ground Up (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    If Microsoft can compile Windows/Office/Edge/Visual Studio/.Net/etc. in native ARM code and run other software via. an emulator then they've got a good proposition for for a lot of people.

    I assume native versions of major apps like Firefox/Chrome/etc. will be ready for launch day. What else does the average user need?

  4. Re:Will we ever get real macbooks ever again on 8 Months After a Surge of Complaints, Apple Announces a Repair Program For Its Flawed MacBooks and MacBook Pros (theoutline.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah, yes... The Macbook Bro, I remember it fondly.

  5. It's a trap!

  6. Re:Strong Maybe? on NYT: 'Firefox Is Back. It's Time to Give It a Try.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    I like some features, but chrome does a very good job

    Call me when it has NoScript, etc.

  7. Didn't they used say this about Winnebagos and "cruise control"?

    Old people putting it on "cruise" at 70mph then going in the back to make a sandwich?

  8. I'll giver that one 2/10. Please try harder next time.

  9. Re: That is surprising on 'Digital Key' Standard Uses Your Phone To Unlock Your Car (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're going to carry an " emergency backup physical key" with you then you might as well just carry a proper key.

  10. You're saying Hitler's malice can be explained by stupidity?

  11. Any bets... on Valve's Knuckles EV2 Controller Will Let You Squeeze Things In VR (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Any bets on what the first things to be "squeezed" will be?

  12. Re:This should be all we focus on as a species on Scientists Genetically Engineer Pigs Immune To Costly Disease (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    We as a species IMO should be focusing 75% of our resources on biology for curing diseases and life extension,

    Oh, sure. What we really need is nobody dying any more. There simply aren't enough of us at the moment.

    There is lots of space in this universe

    In the Universe, yes, but we can't get to any of it. We only have access to one tiny dot and we're busy fucking it up as fast as we can.

  13. Re:The liberal judges used an expanded definition on Bitcoin Makes Historic First Appearance In US Supreme Court Opinion (ccn.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't need one though.

    Bitcoin 'profits' will only be taxable the moment you convert Bitcoins into real money. When that happens the existing tax laws can be applied.

  14. Re:The liberal judges used an expanded definition on Bitcoin Makes Historic First Appearance In US Supreme Court Opinion (ccn.com) · · Score: 1

    There's not much point in taxing it though: Bitcoin is only going downwards.

    I guess they might have some taxable income if they bought Bitcoin last December when the lunacy was at it's height. Apart from that? Nope.

  15. Re: Down with Pythagoras! on Stonehenge Builders Used Pythagoras' Theorem 2,000 Years Before He Was Born (techtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you read the article? There's absolutely nothing in it, so, whatever...

    Oh, there's one thing in it. This priceless quote:

    Heath also contends that the ancient humans who built Stonehenge likely used a rope or another object to represent a time period as it relates to the sun and the moon. He says that this is where the phrase "a length of time" originates from.

    If that's the quality of the math in the book then Pythagoras can sleep soundly tonight.

  16. Re:That is surprising on 'Digital Key' Standard Uses Your Phone To Unlock Your Car (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually phones have increased security for things like mobile payments.

    Sure, until you drop them.

    (or sit on them, or whatever...)

    I wouldn't want my money and car to be locked up using something so fragile.

  17. Re:That is surprising on 'Digital Key' Standard Uses Your Phone To Unlock Your Car (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You need to get out of the house more often.

  18. Re:Borg Cube on Spacecraft Hayabusa2 Returns Photos of Asteroid Prior To Contact (syfy.com) · · Score: 1

    True enough! I hadn't spotted that one.

  19. Re:Pixel peepers on Spacecraft Hayabusa2 Returns Photos of Asteroid Prior To Contact (syfy.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hayabusa2's diameter is roughly 800m and these photos were taken around the 300km mark. That's like taking a photo of a human being from 7km away, but in space...after the mechanical stress of a rocket launch, 3 years of high temperature extremes and radiation, in ridiculously low light levels and on hardware that has to be as close to 100% reliable as you can make it. Hats off to the team, that's pretty damn impressive in my book.

    There's also the fact that it was taken using the "navigation camera", not the "pretty-photo-taking camera".

    This camera has just enough resolution to make sure it's going in the right direction.

  20. Re:Borg Cube on Spacecraft Hayabusa2 Returns Photos of Asteroid Prior To Contact (syfy.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    The real question is: "Is there anything in Japan which isn't named 'Hayabusa'?"

  21. Re:Crazy European Privacy Laws... on EU Takes First Step in Passing Controversial Copyright Law That Could 'Censor the Internet' (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If I were Google I'd be working on my new price list:

    How much should they pay me to go back to linking to their news sites ... ?

  22. Re:Forget "good intentions" on EU Takes First Step in Passing Controversial Copyright Law That Could 'Censor the Internet' (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's like this whole model has been upended and spun around by 180 degrees.

    Only in the imaginations of a few deranged old men.

    I've seen them arguing, it really doesn't occur to them that Google will simply turn of the links and their web site will vanish from the 'net.

    Even funnier: That nobody will want to advertise on a site that Google doesn't link to.

  23. Re:Crazy European Privacy Laws... on EU Takes First Step in Passing Controversial Copyright Law That Could 'Censor the Internet' (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is where all those crazy European internet laws like GDPR inevitably lead.

    Nah, you don't get it.

    The media is run by a bunch of old men who imagine that Google needs them, that Google will pay good money to link to them. They've actually been fighting for this law for about a decade.

    Yes, it's going to be fucking hilarious when Google stops linking and they disappear from the Internet.

  24. Re:Forget "good intentions" on EU Takes First Step in Passing Controversial Copyright Law That Could 'Censor the Internet' (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

    The "media companies" are the ones fighting for this law - in the hope Google and Facebook will pay them for the right to link to their stories.

    It's going to really funny to watch their faces after Google and Facebook stop linking to them.

  25. Re:Why Bitcoin? on Square Obtains New York State Cryptocurrency License (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    ... 1% or less of Bitcoin's transaction fees?

    The New York State Department doesn't care what your transaction fees are.

    The only people who use Bitcoin are money launderers and drug dealers so they won't care either.