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  1. Re: Too Bad on Why Stack Overflow Doesn't Care About Ad Blockers · · Score: 1

    It's not easy to spot scraping sites so easy, they can "spin" the content to make it all a little different programmatically.

  2. Re: The way to fight this on Even With Telemetry Disabled, Windows 10 Talks To Dozens of Microsoft Servers (voat.co) · · Score: 1

    My approach is to only run Windows as a virtual machine from my Linux host machine. Shutting off internet unless needed, and only installing whatever the one Windows program I need. Simply not trusted.

  3. Re: And is an example of the worst... on Apollo Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Sixth Man On the Moon, Dies At 85 (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    {Insert-sarcastic-remark.py}

  4. Re: Everyone's phone, DSL and copper on Grandma's Phone, DSL, and the Copper They Share (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I still keep a landline for emergency, it's never failed in 40 years.

  5. Re: Where? on Push To Hack: Reverse Engineering an IP Camera (contextis.com) · · Score: 1

    Possibly while sitting on the toilet.

  6. Hidden GPS on his car on Homemade Speed Trap Made By Former UVA CS Professor (cvilletomorrow.org) · · Score: 1

    Would be interesting to hide a GPS speed reporter on his car for a month and see how he drives through everyone else's neibourhoods.

  7. Re: environmental impact on World's First Robotic Farm To Produce 11 Million Heads of Lettuce Per Year (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    I really think the earth can do a pretty good job of supporting 1 billion people well. Too bad we're already at 7 billion and growing fast...

  8. Re: I welcome our new robotic overlords' produce on World's First Robotic Farm To Produce 11 Million Heads of Lettuce Per Year (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 2

    Oil contamination may increase though, they should lube the robots with food safe oil.

  9. Re: Oh boy! on Fine Brothers File For Trademark On Word "React" · · Score: 1

    That's called a "well known trademark" it takes a lot of time an money to create.

  10. People still watch TV? on Price Dispute Means 800k Customers Lose TV Channels In Sweden (telecompaper.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I find it surprising people still watch TV.

  11. Re: Challenge accepted. on Volvo Promises 'Death-Proof' Cars By 2020 (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    Good point. Rather than killikng the engine a 30 second warning could be given. The same should be done for low oil engine kill switches which already exist " yes I'd rather kill my engine and get 2 miles ahead because it will same my life button"

  12. Zuned on Microsoft's Windows Phone Platform Is Dead (windows10update.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup, the Windows phone got Zuned. Shouldn't be a huge surprise, customers are tired of being treated by a cash register by Microsoft, time to be treated like a cash register by Apple and Google instead.

  13. It might seem like a good idea, but personally I hate the idea that a minor glitch in a database somewhere and I'm getting halued off to jail or pay for a fee I don't actually owe. Just for driving down the street.

  14. We still use Carrier Pigeon on Why 6 Republican Senators Think You Don't Need Faster Broadband (cio.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    We still use Carrier Pigeons for our packets. The speed is okay with a box of 128GB SDHC cards, but the latency is the shits.

  15. Re: Say what you will on Apple Court Testimony Reveals Why It Refuses To Unlock iPhones For Police (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Often these days criminals first step after committing a crime is to brag about it on Facebook.

  16. Re: its just more selective than allowing every LE on Apple Court Testimony Reveals Why It Refuses To Unlock iPhones For Police (dailydot.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can't, they are encrypted too.

  17. Re: Just enough effort on Netflix's Doomed Battle Against VPNs Begins (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it would be funny to make a film of someone watching a video only available in the US and stepping over the Canadian border and saying whoops, now I'm in violation, then back and forth a few times. Visualize the madness.

  18. Re: You can't fix stupid on Netflix's Doomed Battle Against VPNs Begins (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Same here, Netflix or it doesn't exist in my house.

  19. Re: Challenge accepted. on Volvo Promises 'Death-Proof' Cars By 2020 (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't cost more than a dollar or two to include a CO detector and engine shutoff.

  20. Re: Buried by lawsuits on Backdoor Account Found On Devices Used By White House, US Military (sec-consult.com) · · Score: 1

    They'll probably be given government grants to try and do better next time.

  21. Re: Creating money on Bank Consortium Successfully Tests Bitcoin Tech (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    The other point is that transactions are free. Banks make a lot of money passing the money around.

  22. Please! Won't someone think of the fauna?

  23. Re: far side of the moon. on China Targets 2018 For Landing Probe On Far Side of Moon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, they can make them for about 4 cents each.

  24. Sign of the times. Back in the day at least they gave us a blue screen, now we're stuck with black ...

  25. They could call it soil-lent green? It really is made from people, and grows green plants.