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  1. awesome! on 54C Recorded In Kuwait Likely Hottest On Record In Asia (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It looks like FIFA found the next place to hold the World Cup! ;)

  2. things to look for in a survey on Auto Industry Publishes Its First Set of Cybersecurity Best Practices (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    The document comes after a Kelly Blue Book survey that found that 62% of drivers think "connected cars will be hacked," and that 42% say they "want cars to be more connected."

    the real concern should be the percentage of people that despite thinking "connected cars will be hacked," still "want cars to be more connected," and then laughed maniacally. ;)

  3. Re:Nothing is free on Spotify Is Now Selling Your Information To Advertisers (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing is free, Period.

    How much do you pay for your daily sunlight, air and gravity?

  4. Re:Public Admission of Stupidity on Tesla's Autopilot Mode Reportedly Saves Pedestrian's Life (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    So a pedestrian in dark clothes, at night, not hearing an electric car, and jaywalking by stepping out from between vehicles means the driver drives like "a moronic asshat."

    you do know that electric cars are almost silent, especially at low speeds, right? you might as well blame the driver for not hearing the pedestrian walking.

  5. Most Pokemon have migrated to North Korea for safety. Fortunately or unfortunately depending on how you look at it, Kim having the only smartphone, got the Pokemon Go bug and is now touring the country in an attempt to "catch 'em all".

  6. bullshit about nothing on Pixels Are Driving Out Reality (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    lots of movies come out and the reason people like them has nothing to do with how much is life-like and everything to do with how it's presented.

    this article is bullshit about nothing.

  7. what a joke. on DARPA Will Stage an AI Fight in Las Vegas For DEF CON (yahoo.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    the prize might as well be a lollipop of your favorite flavor because a program that can find and create vulnerabilities like they want are effectively money printing machines. you would be better of setting up an online store and hocking off exploits indefinitely.

  8. This will backfire! on DARPA Will Stage an AI Fight in Las Vegas For DEF CON (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    They clearly haven't thought this out because when you give them a supercomputer the first thing they are going to do is try to play Crysis at Maximum Detail and spend the rest of the time tweaking settings to try and get a stable framerate. ;)

  9. No. on Did Armenia Censor Facebook? (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Point, Betteridge!

  10. he's got a point on Is The DOJ Using Obsolete Software To Subvert FOIA Requests? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    More recently, the FBI’s own investigation into the September 11 attacks found that “[o]n September 11, 2001, the Bureau’s information technology was inadequate to support its counterterrorism mission”, noting further that “[t]he FBI’s legacy investigative information system, the Automated Case Support (ACS), was not very effective in identifying information or supporting investigations”.

    kinda bad when even you are on record as saying the system sucks.

  11. Re:Renewables vs baseload on Energy Prices Skyrocket in South Australia (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    This kind of thing is going to happen until someone invents a viable storage system to allow renewables to cover base load.

    what, you mean like a battery system that can scale up to the size of warehouses?

  12. Re:This is why you can't use solar/wind for base l on Energy Prices Skyrocket in South Australia (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Ask any child of five. And they could have told you this was going to be a problem. <-- WRONG

    i asked my niece (age six) and she gave me a blank stare before asking what a "solmer pantle" was.

    But hey, let's just shut down all non-renewables! Because we can get by without them! <-- CORRECT

    we can get by without them but only if we replace them with something else.

    This is why we need something like modern nuclear for base load power. Build enough to cover base load with future demand in mind. <-- WRONG

    while nuclear is a good option, it's quite expensive and requires a decade to get up and running. a much better option would be to expand to having solar panel fields and actually store the energy in large battery warehouses.

    And if there's any power in excess of demand, use it to convert carbon dioxide into methanol. Which can then be stored or burned for fuel. <-- BAD IDEA

    one step forward and two step back?

  13. family friendly? on Starbucks and McDonald's Announce Porn Blocks On Their Wi-Fi Networks (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    they do know how families are made, right? if not, i can show you a video about how... just not at a McDonald's. ;)

  14. This is terrible! on Cybercrime Overtakes Traditional Crime In UK, Says Report (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 2

    First machines take jobs from workers and now they take crime from criminals. WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO NOW?! ;)

  15. Re:Nothing to do with Net Neutrality on T-Mobile Gives Customers Free Pokemon Go Data (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This was not an agreement between Tmobile and Nintendo (or peering systems) to prioritize data.
    This was not Tmobile accelerating or throttling data.
    This was not Tmobile affecting the transfer of data at all.

    They will give you access to certain destinations that they decided but if you want to go anywhere else, they restrict your connection to 0 bps... unless you give them more money. That is unfair competition for my app which uses huge amounts of data too and therefore a violation of network neutrality.

  16. Re:Nothing to do with Net Neutrality on T-Mobile Gives Customers Free Pokemon Go Data (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Much like when people scream the 2nd Amendment when a private company declines to allow you to say your piece whenever you want

    No, "THE SECOND AMENDMENT!" is what I scream before I start shooting. ;)

  17. That is actually incorrect. They are using the HTML5 EME, dummy.

  18. Pence is just as nuts as Trump which is good... for Trump. If Trump picked a good VP and somehow got elected, someone might try to assassinate him just to get the VP in place. Way to double down on the insanity! ;)

  19. wrong story on Microsoft: Only Microsoft Edge Will Play Netflix Content At 1080p On Your PC (pcworld.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    here's what the real focus should be:

    DRM Slows Down Videos; Most Browsers Only Capable Of 720p From Netflix

  20. if they were serious, it would have at least been a $100 billion fine.

  21. young boy was "knocked down and run over" by one of the Stanford Shopping Center security robots

    let that be a lesson to the rest of you, the Stanford Shopping Center is bot territory! ;)

  22. no surprise on 90% Of Software Developers Work Outside Silicon Valley (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    after all, "computer software developer" is the most popular job in CO, UT, VA and WA.

  23. Re:"incentivized" on Why So Much Coverage Of Amazon Prime Day? The Incentives, Of Course (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There's already a perfectly good word: "incited". You don't need to make up "incentivized".

    Fun fact: they are different words with slightly different meanings! (isn't English fun?!)

    They both come from Latin.

    • incite comes from incitare, a transitive verb meaning "to incite, urge, spur, egg on"
    • incentive comes from incantare, a transitive verb meaning "to charm, enchant, bewitch, beguile, spellbind"

    When you incite it's an imperative.
    When you incentivize it's a temptation.

  24. The company says the new engines will reduce its reliance on the metals that are primarily supplied by China.

    This is pure lip service. Guess where they get all their steel that composes 80% of the car from? Yeah, it's all coming from China anyway, so this is meaningless.

  25. Re:Yay, hypocrisy. on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    What happened to "she's not fit" for the office?

    He didn't recant on that. The well crafted page implies it's the lesser of two evils.

    What's she got on you, Bernie?

    The nomination for the Democratic National Committee?