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  1. We'll "win" that war. There will be much rejoicing in SK.

    If you lot go to war with Best Korea, fully expect a scorched earth approach from them, targeting South Korea.

  2. Re: It kinda sucks. on Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Merely nitpicking, but slave-trade in Europe started being made illegal in 1792 - the notion that differently-coloured people were inferior was going away by 1800, and only maintained for financial gain.

  3. Re:whatever on Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    After the awful JJ Abrams Trek,

    'k, at this point, I suggest you completely skip ST:D - it's VERY much from the same recipe book as JarJar Abrams' "Trek".

  4. Re:wrong on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Had my laptop (MBP) in for service, after it came back screws fell out and the plastic feet came undone almost immediately.
    Recently opened it up to clean out dust etc, found that the technician had also forgot to reconnect stuff correctly.

    Am actually worried that an internal screw will come loose, roll around shorting things out.

  5. 40.000 people in a tree-house? on Microsoft Employees Can Now Work In Treehouses (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    (No, didn't RTFA)
    Google says there's 30k-40k employees at MS' Redmond HQ - how many of them gets to even see this thing?

  6. Re:Performance reviews on Tesla Just Fired Hundreds Of Workers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you show up for work at 9:00, and then work non-stop, w/ no breaks or socializing, no getting up for coffee/tea/water etc, and then leave at 17:00?

  7. See: Brave browser

  8. Re:Nobels in Science Seem OK, It's Peace... on The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Being not-Bush

  9. Gotta love how Spain is celebrating Franco's 125th BDay.

  10. Re:Puzzled on A Fourth Gravitational Wave Has Been Detected (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup :)

  11. Re:Puzzled on A Fourth Gravitational Wave Has Been Detected (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Sun is moving at ~200km/s
    It's ~8 light-minutes away
    It's ~1.391 x 10^6 km in diameter

    Conclusion, it's moved ~1/13th of it's diameter

    This is basically invisible if we're in the path (at its pro- or retrograde) ... and also irrelevant when viewing the sun perpendicular to its movement :)

  12. Re:Binge watched anyone ? on Star Trek: Discovery Nearly Cracks Pirate Bay's Top 10 In Less Than 24 Hours (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    If you can, you might want to go watch "The Orville" instead...

  13. You're forgetting about the "Rest of the world" -- that massive populous outside of the U.S. of A (which is only about 22 times the population of the USA, so probably doesn't register for you) that don't have CBS (and probably many in the US that also don't have access to CBS), and thus have no other way to view the pilot..

    huh? Lots of people outside of the US watched it on Netflix.

  14. Re:pwgen -s 16, bitches. on AI Just Made Guessing Your Password a Whole Lot Easier (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Based on news throughout the lifetime of NemID, this seems to be FAR from the worst issue with NemID.

  15. Re:Not really true on Can An Individual Still Resist The Spread of Technology? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    Not too strong on NL laws, but think that you can file a complaint against the company.
    Provide receipt, which includes start and end points + time, and distance driven - if it's an extreme distance, it'll likely be a default win and the drive reprimanded or lose his license.

  16. ...which is why it's recommended for parents to NOT put their baby's pacifier in their own mouth.

  17. Re:Google Chrome doesn't ... on Google Chrome Will No Longer Autoplay Content With Sound In January 2018 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    That has to be the longest way about it
    About:config, then find "media.autoplay.enabled", set to disabled.

  18. Re:So, how about video? on Google Chrome Will No Longer Autoplay Content With Sound In January 2018 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Not understood - I've had Firefox set to not auto-play media for a least a couple of years now, why wouldn't you just do the same if you hate auto-playing videos that much?

  19. Re:Intentionally poor headline on The iPhone Is Guaranteed To Last Only One Year, Apple Argues In Court (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile I've had a European Apple drone try to convince me that my device wasn't covered, because the sales-slip said "Apple Ireland" ... It's a shitty company that tries to weasel out of anything and everything, incl laws.

  20. Lemme see, every mobile phone I've bought in this millennium has had BT support
    Some of the land-line phones/handsets I bought a decade ago has BT support
    I probably have 4-5 BT headsets somewhere (mono, stereo, headset-adapters)
    My Bragi Dash have 2 BT implementations (one for music/phone, one for health-monitoring)
    My PS3, along with its regular and Move controllers, use BT
    The PS4 might too, not sure.
    The Nintendo Wii's wiimotes are supposedly BT
    Got an Ethernet-PAN gateway somewhere
    A couple of keyboards using BT
    Some computer-mice using BT
    My Harmony remote base-station uses BT to control some devices (like the PS3, PS4 etc)
    A LOT of the IoT stuff I've been looking at uses BT ...

    Question is, who in the various 1st world countries, doesn't have at LEAST 1 BT enabled device these days?

  21. Re:I can't wait to pay $20/m for a disney streamin on Disney Is Pulling Star Wars and Marvel Films From Netflix (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    2) *someone* would make a front-end that re-aggregated all the services into a unified UI and would be attacked by the media cartel instantly

    From what I can tell, the PS4 already sorta aggregate all the streaming services into a single front-end.

  22. Good luck controlling what is sent to you

  23. Re:Where is the problem? on Verizon Up Offers Rewards in Exchange For Customers' Personal Information (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Could install some kind of Java based VM, perhaps Android compatible ...

    http://www.myriadgroup.com/en/...

  24. Re:US & globalism on China Orders Internet Comments Linked To Real Identities (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    That's also b'cos the US has never had any global ambitions

    Eh... you SURE about that?

  25. Re:Probably Not All That Easy on Getting NASA To Comply With Simple FOIA Requests Is a Nightmare (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Heh

    Last employer had a simple solution: Don't keep emails for more than a few weeks, to avoid them being subjected to a Discovery.
    (yup, that was an official email that went out to everyone)