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  1. Re:HSBC boss now minister of state on Creator of Online Money Gets 20 Years in Prison (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Completely missing the point there aren't you, the directors, CEO etc got off scot free, continued to pay themselves huge bonuses and some were even given cushy govt jobs.

  2. A temporary block is still a block, far better than getting instantly pwned.

  3. Re:Where I live, OpenStreetMap is much better... on What Happened to Google Maps? (justinobeirne.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't install that, it wants to read my texts and contacts list and have the ability to make phone calls and access my photos. No ****ing way, especially as I also took a look at the privacy policy which is as vague as Donald Trump and basically says it'll share everything and anything without limit.

  4. I expect it's covered by these options under security:

    [ ] Block reported attack sites
    [ ] Block reported web forgeries

    If you don't have these ticked then Firefox won't block the sites I expect.

  5. Re:Fool Bars on Tucows Bans Pop-Up Ads, Goes Ad-Free (globenewswire.com) · · Score: 1

    What I hate is when that option is hidden in the 'custom install' or worse, it's hidden in a tree of installation options... in the custom install.

  6. Re:Do video card upgrades even matter anymore on NVIDIA Unveils GeForce GTX 1080, GTX 1070, Faster Than Titan X For a Lot Less (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I recently bought a nice big 4K Phillips TV... And then sent it back, it was rubbish, the contrast was poor, the colours weren't good, it couldn't handle 4k 60fps properly, the menus were a bad joke, it took about 11 button presses to get to the brightness change setting. There was no backlight control. By default all profiles had 'sharpness' on, god that thing is an abomination that should be banned, why would anyone want to deliberately screw up their picture with it is beyond me.

  7. I don't see the point of having 32GB of ram, games won't use it, do you have some special application that will use it?

  8. Re:HSBC boss now minister of state on Creator of Online Money Gets 20 Years in Prison (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    So Bitcoin and everyone who deals with it should also be thrown in prison then?

  9. Re:HSBC boss now minister of state on Creator of Online Money Gets 20 Years in Prison (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Although in this case they were breaking money laundering laws, HSBC was fined, HSBC bosses continued to award themselves fat bonuses, they govt even gave the wrong-doers nice govt jobs.

  10. Re:Far enough in the future... on San Diego To Run 100 Percent On Renewable Energy By 2035 (outerplaces.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, what would Elon Musk know about spaceships or cars, fool he is.

  11. HSBC boss now minister of state on Creator of Online Money Gets 20 Years in Prison (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    HSBC meanwhile, no-one held to account, no-one jailed etc, in fact the boss is now Minister of State for Trade and Investment. and the woman who was supposed to be over-seeing fraud is now Chairman [sic] of the BBC.

    And they call Putin a criminal. The criminals are running our governments and our biggest companies.

  12. Re:After the 29 will the simi forced updates come on Windows 10 Now Runs On 300M Active Devices; Upgrade To Cost $119 After July 29 · · Score: 1

    Yes, Microsoft will shut up and quietly upload info about everything you do with your computer, keystrokes, file names and times, apps used etc.

  13. Re:Too many close calls on Global Catastrophe, Even Human Extinction, Isn't All That Unlikely (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Those calculations don't appear to take account of worldwide crop failure, 50% might well survive the initial blasts but food would rapidly run out. It would be in the best interests of anyone surviving to kill as many other people as possible so that any remaining food supplies lasts longer.

  14. Re:Too many close calls on Global Catastrophe, Even Human Extinction, Isn't All That Unlikely (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    How bad would nuclear winter be is the question, the only study I've seen looked at a very small number of small nuclear weapons being released, if Russia or the US let off a lot of their nukes then we'd likely see > 99% people wiped out by starvation and hypothermia.

    Nuclear winter - still possible but preventable: Alan Robock at TEDxHoboken - YouTube

  15. Re:Too many close calls on Global Catastrophe, Even Human Extinction, Isn't All That Unlikely (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Look up Nuclear winter.

    Nuclear winter is global. If Russia did release every nuke it had at the US, nearly all Russian people would also die because of the nuclear winter that would follow. Latest studies suggest that nuclear winter would last years, that could be years of near zero food being grown, total crop failure because crops need sunlight.

    Nuclear Winter | Retro Report | The New York Times - YouTube

  16. Re:Yeey, less than 90% to go on Windows Desktop Market Share Drops Below 90% (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    ? My HP Laserjet has a rj45 which makes it 'network capable' it sit's on the cabinet, plugged into the fibre-modem which makes it wireless!!

    Network capable is cool if done right, wireless costs next to nothing these days so why not have it.

  17. "tl;dr 100 crap choices are worse than a handful of good ones."

    And they all cater to the lowest common denominator and are very establishment, status quo, brain washing consumerist crap, including the BBC.

    So I really don't care what they do to the BBC or any other channel because I don't watch any of it any more, I can't be bothered to waste my time searching through big piles of shit just to find the occasional good bit.

  18. Re:Side Note on Language Creation Society Says Klingon Language Isn't Covered By Copyright · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing you got that number from the Google search engine, it seems to have difficulty counting, much like Youtube's servers.

  19. And how does handing someone who's leaving the company huge sums of money benefit the shareholders?

  20. Re:Fantastic... on Google CEO Predicts AI-Fueled Future (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    So, kind of like the US now then.

  21. Re:Warming good, cooling bad on Bill Nye Slams Donald Trump, Republicans On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Judging by the actual yearly readings the Arctic sea will be ice free long before 2040.

    Arctic News: March 2014 Arctic Sea Ice Volume 2nd lowest on Record

    The sea ice now mass shrinks to as little as a quarter of it's 1979 volume, at that rate, the Artic sea could be ice free within a decade, 2020 even looks possible as the earliest potential ice-free during September date.

  22. In fact this was network specifically designed for facilitating this that are illegal for good reasons.

    If the police said AT&T's telephone network was designed to facilitate criminals, would you believe that too?

  23. You can't differentiate between the person running a phone network and the person using the phone network. How dim does that make you?

    Should we arrest the directors of AT&T for terrorism, child pornography and drug smuggling?

  24. Re:This... on First Successful Gene Therapy Against Human Aging? (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, it seems it was only done to her leukocytes not every cell.

    That's white blood cells to the rest of us. And they only extended the telemeres by a fraction of what is possible. It is interesting though, it looks like this scientists will make progress with anti-aging one organ at a time.

    Next they'll have to find a cure for ignorance otherwise we'll continue to wipe out life on this planet.

    (Why can't Firefox have a decent dictionary? So many words missing)

  25. Re:back to work ? on First Successful Gene Therapy Against Human Aging? (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think that works for the majority of the population, they just become set in their ways, unfortunately they vote upon assumption rather than fact, not wise at all and a hindrance to positive change.