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  1. But you people who talk during movies can do that and stay home, that's fine by me

  2. Re:A lot longer than that, actually on NSA, GCHQ Have Been Intercepting In-Flight Mobile Calls For Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Well I will fight the power by turning OFF my cellphone during the flight!

    Lol, it's not really going to help, even when not flying. Always assume any device you didn't design and build yourself is compromised, and even then you have to presume any encryption protocols are compromised if you yourself didn't write them, and the signal intercepts have already occurred.

    All you have going for you is being incredibly boring. The more boring, the better.

  3. A lot longer than that, actually on NSA, GCHQ Have Been Intercepting In-Flight Mobile Calls For Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This is only the current set of programs. The prior set had other names, and were data shared under other agreements.

    And, as always, you won't do anything.

    You never do.

  4. It's in Canadian dollars, so you're both right. $11 an hour Canadian is around $8.50 an hour US.

  5. Now if only he'd done a curling game, we'd be on fire!

  6. Tell that to the Swiss on Apple, Which Doesn't Reveal Watch Sales Data, Says Watch Sales Are Great (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Watches are so last decade, grampa

    Seriously who the frack uses a watch, or an Apple Watch nowadays, but lusers and narcos?

  7. Some do, others whine on Google Says It Is About To Reach 100 Percent Renewable Energy (blog.google) · · Score: 1

    Look, you'd have to be insane to be buying inefficient fossil fuel power nowadays. It's way too expensive, has fire and insurance risks, and it's too expensive.

    Plus, non-renewables cost too much.

    Did I mention the cold hard business fact that efficient modern energy supplies from renewables are cheaper?

    Put that in your e-cig and blaze it

  8. Not that much, really on Interns At Tech Companies Are Better Paid Than Most American Workers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Try to find a 1BR place and do deposit, first, last rent on that.

    Ha!

    That's not even middle class.

  9. I'll bet a bunch of kids in middle school are busy doing that right now.

    Red means Go Dog Go!

  10. Very true: can already see it happening on Climate Change Will Stir 'Unimaginable' Refugee Crisis, Says Military (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In South America, glaciers are disappearing so fast that people are running out of water, and moving to other places, regardless of boundaries.

    Even internally you can see the migration occurring in North America, regardless of boundaries, or oceans.

    Now if only these land-hoarding NIMBYs would stop their futile attempts to resist growth, and decommission the empty states and counties, we'd be fine.

  11. But he lost by 2,500,000 votes on Trump Appoints Third Net Neutrality Critic To FCC Advisory Team (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Just saying.

    Democracy ... yeah, sure. Step off the opiods, grandpa!

  12. Re:20th century to be forgotten on British Film Institute To Digitize 100,000 Old TV Shows Before They Disappear (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Technically Ogham and other runic writing lasted for millenia.

    So that is a good point.

  13. Never heard of it until last night. Had insomnia, it's on at 2 AM. Something about a chicken egg and tricking people into thinking it was a real egg. Funny as hell.

    Aired in 1954, 4 years before I was born.

    I think the CBC or CTV rebroadcast that back in the 1980s after midnight.

    Not sure which.

  14. I'm not sure I can think of a digital storage medium that has been proven to last 200 years.

    Gold punchcards

    No, I'm not joking

  15. There are no limitations on this, actually on Trump Will Get Power To Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages To All Americans (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    The limitations on what such text messages say don't apply to the acting President. They only apply to appointed staff, not to him.

    Yes, it's a nightmare.

    No, it won't get better.

  16. Depends on the variant strain, actually on New Study Shows Marijuana Users Have Low Blood Flow To the Brain (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    Look, we've basically bred two major variants: one is high in CBD and one is low in CBD.

    If you are using it for pain medication it has a lot of CBD and not much THC. The CBD counteracts the paranoic effects at high dosage, and is much more mellow.

    If you are using it to get high, yes, that would be the other variant, high in THC and low in CBD.

    It's like comparing different medications.

    Stop freaking out. Stop listening to studies funded by the alcohol and tobacco companies that regard this as a competitor. Those rarely replicate the results they tout.

    And stop taking it if you're under 21. Especially before tests, seriously, that's the stupidest thing ever. Save it for winter or spring break. And don't drive drunk or buzzed. If you think you might be either, you are. Duh.

  17. UK MPs exempted themselves on The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance [Update] (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    They specifically disallowed GCHQ email tracking for all Commons Lords and PMO originating electronic traffic.

    So, yes, you live in a Dictatorship, Lesser Britain

  18. Since MSFT is in a blue state on Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 0

    Obviously Linux wins, even if it has fewer developers and less money.

    Selectoral College OS rules

  19. Cheaper solution: all electric on EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    A far cheaper solution which helps the economy transition from 17th Century fuels like gasoline, ethanol, and benzene is to just buy a plug-in electric car.

    Ranges tend to go up to 300 miles.

    They work everywhere.

    Maintenance is half that of fossil fuel old grandpa cars.

    Energy cost for an all electric car is either zero (if you put some solar panels or wind turbines on your roof and have any 2000 or more recent building, which in most cities has to be wired and built to handle these by zoning codes) or 1/10th to 1/20th the cost of fossil fuels.

    Adapt.

    The world doesn't owe you whale oil and kerosene users anything. Capitalism is heavily subsidizing your buggy whip industries and it's killing life on this planet.

  20. This is stupid on Apple's Next iPhone Could Have a Curved Screen, Says WSJ (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, all of my cell phones since my Motorola flip phone have been iPhones.

    But I liked the iPhone 5 SE, and this is clearly the wrong direction to take, Apple.

    Curved is dumb.

    Stop trying. Just give us what we want, not what some insane person thinks we want.

  21. First to file on China Breaks Patent Application Record (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    First to file does not mean first to invent.

    You have to remember the Soviets used to do this too.

    And the Japanese.

    I don't blame the Chinese for doing what they do, if I were them, I'd be doing the same, especially since the NSA taps all their communications, but doesn't share the results with American inventors.

  22. Re:Haven't finished counting ballots here on Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That's on December 4th. I'll be electing replacements for offices vacated by socialist democrats who ran for higher office. And won.

  23. The problem is not the plant on Trump Says He's Going To 'Get Apple To Build a Big Plant In the United States' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Look, perhaps many of you don't understand how modern factories work, you're stuck on the old concepts of assembly lines with a few robots and a lot of humans.

    A modern factory, for the most part, has robot trucks and forklifts and many robots doing work.

    And very very few humans.

    They operate 24/7/365 in the dark, unheated and uncooled.

    Not a lot of jobs there.

    They are even BUILT by robots for the most part.

    That's what an Apple factory in the US would be. A 2018 plant with very few jobs. Unless you're a robot.

  24. Re:Haven't finished counting ballots here on Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    learn how the electoral college works, WA and CA already had the democrats win. voting count there irrelevant. they will send democrat reps to the electoral college to vote for Hillary who will lose because there are more EC reps voting for Trump than Hillary

    two of my friends have been Electors. don't try to teach me how the Electoral College doesn't work, or how Elections (I was just elected in August, btw) work.

    Or why it was created, to keep slave states from giving slaveowners more votes.

  25. Obviously an audit is needed on Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, what's up with this Electoral College garbage. Seriously, it's 2016, not 1776.