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  1. Re:They also uploaded from their mobile apps on Facebook 'Unintentionally Uploaded' Email Contacts From 1.5M Users (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    In addition to that, without asking you, they uploaded all of your mobile phone contacts when you installed their mobile app:

    I would gently question the wording of this. Facebook didn't "upload" your contacts, they forced your computers and phones to upload them. Without your permission. They stole it.

  2. I foresee a business opportunity. Selling thumbdrives full of porn. Perhaps they could have a tiny, tiny rack for them in the newsagents', where the lad mags used to be.

  3. Re:Maybe very tiny on Pepsi Drops Plans To Use Artificial Constellation To Promote An Energy Drink (spacenews.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pepsi could have donated several hundred square meters of additional solar panels for the ISS. Panels that just happen to be shaped like letters of the alphabet.

    "Guys, great job installing the new panels.. but you need to re-arrange them. People are wondering what 'PE PIS' means."

  4. Why are most people on the internet so fucking dumb now? Nobody has enough knowledge on literally any subject to make an intelligent post. It's all pseudoscience and conspiracy tards everywhere there's a public interface.

    Nobody ever got rich telling people how stupid they are.

  5. Company promoters say a lot of things. I don't think they'll do it.

  6. Re:Samsung phones have a similar feature on Why Tens of Thousands of Perfectly Good, Donated iPhones Are Shredded Every Year (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Samsung account lets you back up and restore your phone's settings and data. It worked well the one time I had to do it.

  7. Re:"a likely image of the black hole" - LOL on The Black Hole Image Data Was Spread Across 5 Petabytes Stored On About Half a Ton of Hard Drives (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would a black hole be a disc shape?

    'cause it's spinning?

  8. Re:So let me understand this correctly on EU Tells Internet Archive That Much Of Its Site Is 'Terrorist Content' (techdirt.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where/When have we seen this sort of act before in our human history? i.e. Library of Alexandria

    That's one hell of a take-down notice. Don't give them any ideas.

  9. How long before the first... on Magnetic Field Reversals Unlikely To Be a Problem For Life, Says Astronomer (arxiv.org) · · Score: 2

    ... hiker who gets lost and starves to death because of a compass that isn't pointing north any more?

    ... where will it be pointing? will there be a mass recall of compasses?

  10. Re:Turing Police? on Europe To Pilot AI Ethics Rules, Calls For Participants (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean Rick Deckard, right?

    (Eyeing you suspiciously) and how do YOU know so much about Replicants, eh? Hands where I can see 'em, pal!

  11. Re:Turing Police? on Europe To Pilot AI Ethics Rules, Calls For Participants (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    I want to know what the penalties are for an AI deliberately disobeying an order, and if the penalty is applied to the AI, its coders, the statisticians who chew the data before it's fed in, or the legal owners. And if there's a penalty for setting an AI loose.

    That'd be a fun job. AI finder general.

  12. Re:Why do I want this... on Microsoft Launches First Chromium Edge Builds (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    biggest difference is that, in future, you'll be using this to download the firefox installer instead of edge.

  13. And perhaps at some point they'll slip a sterilizing agent into your food, because who the hell needs more deadbeats.

    The poor will discover this at some point. They aren't allowed the space or the resources to grow their own food, but there is a lot of Homo Sapiens on the hoof, if you know how to treat the meat for prions... and the rich variant tastes a lot better and doesn't have the sterilizing agent.

    There has to be a dystopian TV series in this.

  14. Are they like Star Trek films, where alternate ones are good and then cursed?

  15. Re:The nanny state on Ban Fortnite, Says Prince Harry (gamespot.com) · · Score: 1

    From the point of view of a king, there is great reason to micromanage the peasants.

    Then he should be playing "Dungeon Keeper 2".

  16. Re:Better Idea on Ban Fortnite, Says Prince Harry (gamespot.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't know they're unfit to be parents until they have kids. You can't then unborn the children without getting in to a whole lot of ethical issues.

    How about a phone-based video game where people have to bring up virtual children? Like tamagotchi. if the virtual children don't survive, or if the kids become sociopathic degenerates or even politicians, the failed parents are given forced vasectomies and tubal ligations.

  17. Re:Come on, more addictive than drugs? on Ban Fortnite, Says Prince Harry (gamespot.com) · · Score: 1

    All electronic games are made to be addictive, ever since the heyday of pinball.

    You have obviously never played "Bordy Gordy 2".

  18. That's nice... on Gmail Turns 15, Gets Smart Compose Improvements and Email Scheduling (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... as long as we can turn it off.

  19. Re:Is this even a serious question? on Does India's Anti-Satellite Missile Test Mean The Weaponization of Space? (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    If you're gonna go there, then space has been weaponized since the 1930s, when the Lensmen took out Helmuth's base.

  20. Re:peanut butter on What's The Correct Way to Pronounce 'GIF'? (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is pronounced like "JIF" the peanut butter.

    Stupid jit.

  21. Re:Ars Technica link... on California Man Sentenced To 20 Years In Deadly Kansas 'Swatting' (fox4kc.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    This guy does deserve the sentence he got. If his jail sentence means others will learn not to do horrendous acts that endanger peoples lives then GOOD!

    They'd better keep a close eye on him when he's making his weekly phone call.

  22. A torus comes after Aries and before Gemini.

  23. Re:What a mystery on Garfield Phones Beach Mystery Finally Solved After 35 Years (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Geez, does anyone go exploring anymore?

    In caves on the coastline of France? No. Not since Noximilien found that Eliacube. Didn't end well.

  24. Re:and NASA tells Mike Pence - on Mike Pence Tells NASA To Accelerate Human Missions To the Moon 'By Any Means Necessary' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Launched out of a Jules-Verne style cannon.

  25. - give us more money. Give us half of the budget allocated to the military. Give us half of their seven hundred dollar toilet seats and three hundred dollar spanners.