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  1. The same way Sony did with the rookit. Nobody went to jail for that, you know.

  2. You really don't understand how high court/low court works, do you?

  3. Re:This. on Australian Man Uses 1TB of Mobile Data in a Single Day (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 2

    It's Muphry's Law...

  4. Regulated capitalism. Look at what happened in the US with the train and oil monopolies and you can see that when one person owns it all, lots of people suffer and they don't care.

  5. Better get a receipt for that (and have a friend take a video for good measure).

  6. Re:Sounds good. on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I think diagnosis machines would be FAR better than most doctors at diagnosing diseases. Surgeons would keep their jobs, but I would rather have an expert system with unlimited knowledge of all diseases on earth running tests to see what I have, rather than some guy who spent 4 years learning this stuff 20 years ago.

  7. Re:May spur automation on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Carl's Jr already has a machine that correctly cooks the patty the same way every time.

  8. Re:May spur automation on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    This was Henry Ford's answer when he volunteered to raise his wages so his employees made enough to buy his cars.

  9. Re:Meanwhile overall U.S. content is down 33.2% (2 on Netflix's Original Content Library Is Growing By 185% Each Year (cordcutting.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm also curious what the contraction in their catalog is caused by, are they really taking on less A list shows or are they not bringing in as many C list made for TV movies. If its the latter I think they can get away with it (although those movies make for cheep filler, they may not need as much filler).

    Since I watch a lot of Christian content (which is relatively obscure and not mainstream and definitely usually qualifies as C list quality), I can tell you that niche content has exploded and "blockbuster" movies, especially those that can be found almost everywhere, aren't on there anymore. There's a heavier emphasis on TV shows and less on movies.

    Netflix knows what they are doing. I can always find something interesting to watch on there. I don't need the blockbusters, because I probably already saw them in the theater or I can buy the DVD/Blu-Ray. But they have stuff for me to watch that I really like that I can't find anywhere else. The bigger problem for me is not that I can't find anything to watch, but that I don't have time to watch it all.

    This is the exact opposite problem with cable where I pay 10× as much and even with a DVR, never have anything to watch.

  10. Re:Doing it backwards on CloudFlare Wants Tor To Change Or Risk CAPTCHA Blockades (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have a website providing services, then yes, there is little value in having people who are completely anonymous use your services and businesses like this should have an easy way to block Tor exit nodes.

  11. And in Australia, the criminals were first...

  12. They had $50 billion to buy DirecTV, but now they can't afford $100 million?

  13. Re:Not a dime up front on AT&T Wants $100 Million From California Taxpayers For Aging DSL (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I have no idea why these things aren't phased. Want the money for Part 2? Show us that Part 1 is completely finished. Otherwise, get lost and we're opening you up to competition with someone who CAN get it done.

  14. Re:can someone give the TL;DR on Zero-Rating Harms Poor People, Public Interest Groups Tell FCC (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Somebody explain hyperbole to this guy.

  15. Which web browser do you use?

  16. I just upgraded my game machine which had similar specs. But I turned on the other 2 cores.

  17. I just retired my GAME machine that was 7 years old. With a good enough graphics card, there really weren't very many problems as I could run most games at almost full settings at HD resolution. But it started getting flaky and not starting up sometimes and doing other occasional weird stuff that seemed like some part was overheating, so I bought a new gaming PC.

  18. I turned my eeePC netbook into a file server. It runs Windows 10 on a 256 GB SSD and only uses 10W of power so it's cheap to run 24/7. I see no need to upgrade it. It's 8 years old and works just fine as a file/media server.

  19. Re:Never? on Apple Pay Has a Siri Problem (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And then you have the CurrenC vendors like CVS where Apple and Android Pay used to work, but then they disabled it on purpose.

  20. Re:16GB storage on Apple Unveils Smaller iPhone SE, Starting At $399 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Micro SD cards are back for the Galaxy S7, so you can put as much storage in there as you like. 64 GB for $20 and 128 GB for $40.

  21. Re:Saving face on Microsoft Revises Windows 7, 8 On Skylake Cut-Off Date To 2018 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I have an Asus eeePC netbook that came with Windows XP.

    Vista? Too slow. Unusable.

    7? Runs nice.

    8/8.1? Resolution is too small.

    10? Runs nice.

    Windows Vista wasn't compatible with almost any hardware. Windows 10 is compatible with almost everything made in the last 7 years.

  22. Re:Hey, Microsoft! on Microsoft Revises Windows 7, 8 On Skylake Cut-Off Date To 2018 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Windows XP was Windows XP of the enterprise environment...

  23. Re:What is the real reason for this push? on Patch Tuesday Brought Windows 10 Ad Generator · · Score: 1

    All Enterprise users can always upgrade or downgrade versions. At least, that's always the way that I've seen it.

  24. I see nothing of this. It's libellous.

  25. Re:My computer is fine.... on Windows 10 Forced Update Resets Default Apps To Microsoft Products (theinquirer.net) · · Score: 1

    No Ubuntu just loses everything and boots up to a text prompt. At least, that's what updates always did to me when *I* was using Ubuntu. I'd rather fix a few file associations than figure out how to get back to the graphic desktop.