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  1. Re:Screenshot... on Google is Testing Self-Destructing Emails in New Gmail (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Screenshots would never be admissible as evidence.

  2. Are you happy for your health-insurance company to know all your life details, too?

  3. You could try and teach people to never click on a Facebook ad.

    If you see something interesting (it happens sometimes) then google it in stead of clicking the ad.

    It's probably never going to happen in the slack-jawed 3rd world of Facebook users, but... worth a try.

  4. Re:good luck getting past the UPS on Data Exfiltrators Send Info Over PCs' Power Supply Cables (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Or just work in a thing called a "building" where lots of other people are doing stuff.

  5. Games almost never get new versions.

    (for example)

  6. The FDA warns that you shouldn't be screened with the device if you have had laser treatment, eye surgery or injections, as well as those with other conditions, like persistent vision loss, blurred vision, floaters, previously diagnosed macular edema and more

    Not very intelligent if it can't spot any of those, is it?

  7. Re:It's Apple on Apple Is Developing a TV Show Based On Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series (deadline.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This will only inconvenience their paying customers, not the pirates.

    (as with all DRM)

  8. Re:How about on AV1 Beats x264 and Libvpx-Vp9 in Practical Use Case (facebook.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Also: What's the decoder efficiency? Does it have hardware decoding on mainstream CPUs/GPUs?

  9. Re:I, too, watched Netflix's Marco Polo. on George Soros, Rockefeller Take Their Marks Before Diving Into the Cryptocurrency Pool (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I forgot the apostrophe:

    It should be "...take all the round-eyes' life savings and college funds."

  10. The wristband might be a bit of a no-go since it requires the kid to wear something,

    It also has batteries that can go flat, a battery powered siren system, etc.

    Seriously: How did something as badly thought out as this, with as many failure modes as this, become "news"?

    Oh, wait, it's Kickstarter and this is Slashvertising.

  11. Re:What? When naysayers finally eat crow? on George Soros, Rockefeller Take Their Marks Before Diving Into the Cryptocurrency Pool (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What's hard to understand?

    A handful of Chinese own most of the cryptocurrency and are busy manipulating the markets* so they can take all the round-eyes life savings and college funds.

    (*) By buying and selling between themselves at artificial prices

    Here they are, all sitting in a row:

    http://cointimes.tech/2017/01/...

  12. Re:Can we get rid of money yet? on George Soros, Rockefeller Take Their Marks Before Diving Into the Cryptocurrency Pool (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Honestly this seems the way of the future, it is sweeping the globe. It works better than money, and it has none of the down sides of the bickerings of the international community.

    "Works better than money?" LOL!

    No bickerings? LOL!

    You're blowing off the "international community" and putting your money in the hands of a bunch of Chinese who've already shown that they'll manipulate the price all day long:

    https://hackernoon.com/the-gre...

  13. Re:What? When naysayers finally eat crow? on George Soros, Rockefeller Take Their Marks Before Diving Into the Cryptocurrency Pool (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    All this announcement means is: They think they can game the system.

    (Possibly by buying a load of cryptocoins then going around spreading rumors that they're "getting into crypto"...)

  14. Re:not this again on Motorola's Modular Smartphone Dream Is Too Young To Die (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Damn straight. I've got an old LG with 3.5" screen here and every time I see it I think this would be perfect if they only updated it to a retina screen, etc.

    Who wants to lug around a 6" beast all the time? (apart from people who want other people to see them using it).

  15. Re:not this again on Motorola's Modular Smartphone Dream Is Too Young To Die (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I do

    Sure, but are you prepared to pay $5000 for one?

    (which is probably what it would cost if it were brought to market)

    I thought not.

  16. Re:Well it's clearly not x86 on Apple's Redesigned Mac Pro is Coming in 2019 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Your RISC/CISC processor isn't really what people used to call "RISC".

    (And neither are modern ARM processors, they've gone over to the dark side in order to compete with CISC on performance...)

  17. Yep, adding more guns and security scanners on all the entrances to their buildings wi.e a corporate image of tolerance and harmony.

    It won't give anybody the impression that they're a big bad corporation or make them even angrier.

  18. Is there a point to it or are they just out of real ideas?

    I get the marketing angle, I'm sure Apple buyers won't want to be seen dead holding one of those traditional flat screens from last year.

    What I'm wondering is if there's anything more than that.

  19. Re:Why Apple gets away with this bullshit on Latest macOS Update Disables DisplayLink, Rendering Thousands of Monitors Dead (displaylink.com) · · Score: 1

    *Apple users pay $1000 for a monitor.

    And one that doesn't even have a DVI/HDMI connector.

  20. Re:Why Apple gets away with this bullshit on Latest macOS Update Disables DisplayLink, Rendering Thousands of Monitors Dead (displaylink.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In other news: People pay $1000 for a monitor.

  21. Re: Bug or feature? on Software Bug Behind Biggest Telephony Outage In US History (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Who says it's a regexp?

    It could just be one of those weakly typed kiddy languages and somebody typed == instead of ===.

  22. Re:Suspect the Chinese have some spare fuel left on Chinese Space Station Burns Up On Re-entry in South Pacific (reviewjournal.com) · · Score: 2

    Right, they could plan that because they were 100% certain that all the fuel and thrusters would survive re-entry.

    Uhuh.

  23. Re:Boohoo on MailChimp Bans Emails Promoting Cryptocurrency (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. Do any of these people even know what a "blockchain" is?

    (apart from 'a buzzword')

    Hint: It's just a digital signature.

  24. Re: Non-ionizing radiation can be harmful on Two Studies Find 'Clear Evidence' That Cellphone Radiation Causes Cancer In Rats (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    no amount of cell phone exposure will add heat faster than normal heat loss occurs

    ...or anything like the amount caused by going outdoors in the sun.

  25. Re:Disadvantage US manufacturers? on EPA Prepares To Roll Back Rules Requiring Cars To Be Cleaner and More Efficient (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you saying my 1 ton car can't possibly kill you if you're in a 4 ton car?