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  1. Not Givin' Up My Galaxy Note 3 on Samsung is Setting Up Note 7 Exchange Booths at Airports Around the World (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    A phone with a stuck stylus and no SD, and and now a burning one.

    Just whip up a new phone throw it over the fence with no QA testing. Are they going to be surprised when Huawei takes it away from them?

  2. How Much Is This Going to Cost Samsung? on Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Phone Catches Fire on Southwest Plane (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, for starters, just how much does it cost to ground an airliner, find alternate airliner, repair and fix airliner?
    How much will it cost in sales?

    Though, it's cheap compared to the lives that might have been lost.

    Should people bring lithium batteries on a plane at all?

  3. How Can People Be So Stupid? on Samsung's Next Flagship Smartphone May Not Feature a Headphone Jack (sammobile.com) · · Score: 1

    People will but any turd marketing people put before them.

    Why not just sell people a sheet of aluminum?
    It's so thin. What a clean design....

  4. You are an idiot to think that Samsung has no choice but to fuck over consumers.

  5. Just Don't Buy It on Samsung's Next Flagship Smartphone May Not Feature a Headphone Jack (sammobile.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's all you have to do, and these stupid lame assholes will get fired, and their replacements will know enough not to take away useful features.

    If you buy one, you are part of the problem.
    If you don't buy one, you are part of the solution.

  6. Half Way There on Amazon Bans Incentivized Reviews Tied To Free Or Discounted Products (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Banning the vendors would have been the prudent thing to do for people paying for reviews.

  7. Still Wish it were Micro-Kernal. on Linus Torvalds Officially Announces the Release of Linux Kernel 4.8 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry. I love the community, but I wish the kernel was more modular and adaptable without recompiling.

  8. Showing Your Hand Inhibits Legal Politics on Tim Cook Defends Apple's Approach To Security: 'Encryption is Inherently Great' (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    If our founding father's had been hacked by Britain, we would all be speaking with a British accent.

  9. Probably Just Creative Difference$ on The Arduino Split is Over, New Non-Profit Formed (arduino.cc) · · Score: 2

    Now we just need a faster 5-volt version.

  10. No, We Need that Airspace... on FAA Sued Over Federal Drone Registry (technical.ly) · · Score: 1

    We need that airspace clear so we can sell it to the highest bidder. To hell with your recreational stuff, and your democracy protecting uses.

  11. Governor Most Pressing Task on California Enacts Law Requiring IMDb To Remove Actor Ages On Request (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, as long as his priorities are in order.

  12. And What Will Come of It? on California Launches Mandatory Data Collection For Police Use-of-Force (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't think that collecting data is enough. Think of how many innocent people were killed by the police without being videoed. Our police are still allowed to be expert witnesses, in courts. I am sorry if this offends people, but there is nothing intrinsically different about police officers that makes them honest.

  13. Many Accidents Caused By Bad City Engineering on US Regulators Issue Comprehensive Policy On Self-Driving Cars (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    We have traffic lights that tell pedestrians to cross at the same time that they tell people to turn left into them.
    We have increasing raddi turns.

    The city planners who don't plan, and the city engineers who don't know anything about engineering usually ever get called out.

    It's always cheaper to blame the pilot than the plane. It's cheaper to blame the driver than the make out cities coherent to drive in.

  14. FTC Asleep at the Switch, Again. on HP Printers Have A Pre-Programmed Failure Date For Non-HP Ink Cartridges (myce.com) · · Score: 1

    This is just another failure of our (America's) Federal Trade Commission. I don't understand how they in good fail can accept taxpayers' money.

  15. Snowden Is A Hero on House Committee: Edward Snowden's Leaks Did 'Tremendous Damage' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    We now know what we thought before because of him.

    A government is an organic entity that seem not have to capacity to admit that it was wrong and unlawful.
    Those who broke the supreme law of the land, Our U.S. Constitution should instead be arrested and tried.

  16. Rush to Market and Fail on Samsung Formally Recalls The Galaxy Note 7 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what you get when you don't test things before selling them.

    Except for LiFe, lithium batteries are nothing to be trifled with. Perhaps for the little bit of difference, we should ban Lithium Cobolt and Lipo batteries altogether.

  17. No Compelling Cellphone Upgrade on Samsung to Customers: Stop Using Note 7, Then Wait For Replacements (samsung.com) · · Score: 1

    I want Galaxy Note 3 for a bigger phone with a small thumb keyboard on it.

  18. Lot's of Spectrum Folks Here in The Valley on Microsoft Hopes To Hire More Coders With Autism (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Who would want to code while they could be out socializing?

    Aspie people made this Valley.

  19. Re:We Are Made of Wilderness on 10 Percent of the World's Wilderness Has Been Lost Since 1990s (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Some things that will help in more than one way:

    Our leaders should ask us to take it easy on resources and fuel, and generally, they are not.
    We need to to plant more trees, anywhere we can.
    We need to cut down on unnecessary packaging.
    We need to recycle ABS plastic. It's good plastic, but made of 3 cancer causing chemicals, and made fire retardant with a bromine halogen.
    We need to ration powerful chemicals such as bleach and drain cleaner.
    We need to cut down on detergents. I use 1/3 as much as I am supposed to, and no one has ever noticed.
    We need to put an end to the Chevrolet's brother's invention of the automobile model-year, and return to model, so cars aren't devalued before they are even sold.
    We need to sort are garbage better and design things so that they can be recycled from the get-go.
    We need a value system that wastes less.
    We need to build more 2 and 3 family houses with big yards--instead of single family homes.
    We need to offer someone a ride in our cars--if we are going that way.
    We need to make our roads safer for pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorcyclists, skateboarders, and scooterists. In the SF Bay, lots of people longboard commute.
    We need smaller and lighter cars.
    We need to buy things that can be repaired--instead of thrown away.
    We need to always keep in mind where "away" is before we throw something away from us.
    Where does it go?
    We need not to buy things we don't need or strongly want.

    [Preview? I've been spoiled by after-post editing.]

  20. We Are Made of Wilderness on 10 Percent of the World's Wilderness Has Been Lost Since 1990s (livescience.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We forget ourselves, and what we are made of.

    Our value system is totally fucked: the new housing index. Apples building new buildings in a Silicon Valley of empty buildings. We've used so much raw materials and fuel for pointless wars. We don't turn off the lights when we leave the room. We have too many instant on appliances with no regulation. Our government hasn't asked us to watch energy usage since the 1970s.

    Perhaps we ought to be extinct.

  21. Re:Putting it into Perspective. on Who Is Getting Left Behind In the Internet Revolution? (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You would want to poverty adjust a bill to consider the impact it would have on someone with lesser means. Below a certain amount of income, it is very difficult to get by, and even harder to rise. I am not saying it doesn't happen, but the American Dream is too often just a dream, and the reality is that we live in a country where poverty is a crime. We live in a country where it is illegal to be homeless, or dollar-less. It is illegal to sleep in your car.

    BTW, here in Silicon Valley, often I see a certain middle age man walk by and take food out of the trash to eat it. Even though, I don't have much, I've tried to offer to buy him a bagel or something, but he refuses.

    When I was young, we went hungry at times, but I did not starve.

    I have a friend who used to eat from McDonalds's dumpster when he was hungry.

  22. Re:Putting it into Perspective. on Who Is Getting Left Behind In the Internet Revolution? (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    I think it's prudent to have a cellphone for emergencies. And much commerce and mapping is done on the internet.

    You spend about as much clothes than I do in a year. I get about half of my clothes 2nd hand.

  23. Re:Putting it into Perspective. on Who Is Getting Left Behind In the Internet Revolution? (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Some of the poor have disabilities.

  24. VW's President is Responible for His Company on Volkswagen Engineer Pleads Guilty in US Diesel Emissions Probe (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Why throw this engineer under the bus? He was likely following orders.

  25. Their Republicans Want To Fight Our Republicans on North Korea Conducts Fifth Nuclear Test -- The Largest One Yet (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there somewhere we can ship them all?