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  1. Old dictionaries were amusing too. Before cars, the word "accelerator" had a different meaning: it's a muscle in your penis.

  2. The old rule still applies: don't post ANYTHING on the internet that you would be upset to seeing printed in the newspaper that next day! I'd advise against taking any digital nudes or videos in the first place; no telling where they will end up. Don't google anything that would trigger NSA keywords, no matter how interesting the subject of homemade explosives is. Avoid watching kitty porn. Don't mention online how much you would love to see Trump have a heart attack. Probably need to avoid monitored keywords in your phone conversations as well.

  3. Re:Name a big company that DOESN'T on Are Google and Facebook Surveilling Their Own Employees? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The biggest concentration of security cameras in any retail establishment are the ones looking straight down at the cash registers, for obvious reasons. The vast majority of "shrinkage" in retail is from employees, not random customers.

  4. Just Google and Facebook? on Are Google and Facebook Surveilling Their Own Employees? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Apply for employment at Amazon, and they make you take a "drug test" via a saliva swab. That's not the way they test for drugs, that's the way they take DNA samples! Every time I've actually been tested for drugs, I had to pee in a cup.

  5. Mercury fulminate? on DIY Explosives Experimenter Blows Self Up, Contaminates Building (fdlreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Only thing I can think of that is that unstable and that contaminating would be mercury fulminate. How do I know? My roommate in college stole a huge bottle of mercury from the chemistry lab and was making it in my dorm room, explaining, "I have to keep the window open for this; they usually use a fume hood to keep from poisoning themselves when they did this." Thanks...

  6. Probably not on Can Problems From Climate Change Be Addressed With Science? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seems like the Law of unintended consequences is going to kick in sooner or later if we start expensive engineering projects to counteract climate change. At some point we're going to get a massive volcanic eruption that will cause a nuclear-winter like cooling event anyway. The supervolcano off the coast of Japan has been growing rapidly lately.

  7. No laws required. If you just charge them more for the electricity than the value of the cryptocurrency that can be mined with that electricity, all but the most stupid will stop doing it! I still don't understand why they don't set up commercial operations here in the Northwest, where we have the cheapest electric rates in the country due to proximity to Bonneville Dam.

  8. First rule in marketing on Walmart Whistleblower Claims Cheating In Race With Amazon (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Anybody can create a million dollar increase in sales if given a two million dollar marketing budget!

  9. Re:the nihilist in me says no. on Demand For Programmers Hits Full Boil as US Job Market Simmers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I talked to an Oregon state government recruiter at a job fair once. I asked how much they were offering, then told her that was $20K less than I was making at my current job. Felt kind of sorry for her, she had a thankless task.

  10. Re:I look forward to using in 2022 on Google To Reveal 'World's Highest Resolution OLED-On-Glass Display' For VR Headsets (roadtovr.com) · · Score: 1

    Turns out HDMI cables don't have the bandwidth to do that. I wonder what the new cable standard will be? What's the maximum bandwidth of DataPort?

  11. I do. But 4K 3D content is pretty hard to come by.

  12. Is this the best they can do? on Google To Reveal 'World's Highest Resolution OLED-On-Glass Display' For VR Headsets (roadtovr.com) · · Score: 1

    What we really need for VR is 8000x4000 pixel screens, so the user can't see the pixels. The pixels per inch is irrelevant, since there is a lens between the screen and the eye anyway.

  13. Giving the devil his due on JavaScript Rules But Microsoft Programming Languages Are On the Rise (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's the thing: I really wanted to hate C#, but it's better than C++. What they did is look at all the common mistakes programmers made in C++, and tried to design a language it was impossible to make those mistakes in. Combined with managed code, it makes bad programmers more productive. Of course, it's slow, bloated, and tied to the Microsoft/WIndows ecosystem. But if I was offshoring all my Windows work to India, I'd be happier if they were using C#. Of course, if were developing in Linux or for multiple platforms, I'd be using C++ and/or Python.

  14. Re:That makes sense on Apple Seems OK With Currency Miners In the Mac App Store · · Score: 1

    Have you replaced the battery yet? I was given an old iMac at work that was impossible to use due to overheating problems; I assume they've since fixed the issue. The ARM-based Apple equipment doesn't appear to have overheating problems; just battery life problems. You pay a 20% premium for Apple, but their support is much better. Also, I buy all Apple hardware for my daughter, and Windows/Android hardware for myself.

  15. Re:Forget offices... on Dial P for Privacy: The Phone Booth Is Back (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Put 'em in airports, and people will figure out a way to have sex in 'em... or sleep in them.

  16. Re:The new office on Dial P for Privacy: The Phone Booth Is Back (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's like a Tardis; it's bigger on the inside. Yeah, it's just a matter of time before they get sued for not being accessible to overweight people!

  17. Dumb idea on Dial P for Privacy: The Phone Booth Is Back (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    A privacy booth accessible by everyone. Sounds like the first place I'd plant bugs to try to get blackmail info on people!

  18. Re:Your free market president at work! on Trump Issues Order To Block Broadcom's Takeover of Qualcomm (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please stop, that is demeaning to mentally handicapped people!

  19. Re:Not going to mention on Trump Issues Order To Block Broadcom's Takeover of Qualcomm (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If Nunes said something didn't happen, that's actually pretty good evidence that it DID happen!

  20. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while on Trump Issues Order To Block Broadcom's Takeover of Qualcomm (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've had enough problems with Broadcom's chips and Broadcom's lack of support for their chips that I think Trump did the right thing here. I tried to bring up a parallel computer on Broadcom's MIPS chip once, eventually decided they were lying about the performance and it couldn't really retire one floating point instruction per cycle. We gave up and switch back to Intel CPUs.

  21. And if you can't find anybody to buy it from you, guess what? The greater fool is YOU!

  22. This is known as the "greater fool theory". Just find someone stupider than you to buy it from you!

  23. Exactly! "Identify yourself IN PERSON, and we'll see about getting you your money back!"

  24. In fact, some might say they are practitioners of the world's oldest profession!

  25. Self-selecting sample set on Android Beats iOS In Smartphone Loyalty, Study Finds · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The iOS users couldn't figure out how to fill out the survey!