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  1. Re:I'm still LOLing... on Britain's Scientists Are 'Freaking Out' Over Brexit (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    One can argue that EU does not want to be reformed. Junckers and Merkel are happy with the way things are so no change would be coming anyway. The real friends of UK are in east of Europe. The British xenophobes that use the occasion to celebrate their idiocy are of no help here however.

  2. Re:Useless... on New Solar Cells Can Convert CO2 Into Hydrocarbon Fuel (nextbigfuture.com) · · Score: 1

    liquid fuel that you can produce form this still has some small advantages, of which one is fueling time, over Musk's batteries.

  3. Re:I also like the date on Mr. Robot 'Plugs' uTorrent and Pirate Release Groups (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Inded - Pope Pope Clement XIV was born on that day.

  4. I think the only thing that EU is still missing is proper uniforms for its guardians (black with nice double lightning would be perfect on the collar). I find the said salute a bit silly but if they want to go all he way then so be it. Schulz and Juncker are also much less photogenic than the little Austrian back in the day was however and this is not fixable I think.

  5. Verge is not essential on Do We Need The Moto Z Smartphones' New Add-On Modules? (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    either or do I see it wrong?

  6. Re:If they didn't want unlimited use on Verizon To Disconnect Unlimited Data Customers Who Use Over 100GB/Month · · Score: 1

    They are fulfilling the contracts, only the ones with the word 'unlimited' are not longer valid. Flat rates as these are called here have limits on them so that you can still pay flat rate. You want no limits then pay per usage. There are other outrageous things out there about which you can get rightly annoyed, Verizon is not an angel and they are usually bunch of assholes but in this case they behave properly so stop being rectal about it.

  7. Re:So basically... on Verizon To Disconnect Unlimited Data Customers Who Use Over 100GB/Month · · Score: 1

    Why? m-w accepts 'almost never' so why not accept 'almost exactly'? You do not even have to go into how average non autistic humans communicate, it is just that any qualifier can be qualified itself too.

  8. Re: Yay for Open Standards! on Software Flaw Puts Mobile Phones and Networks At Risk Of Complete Takeover (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean ANS1 is/was used because of security?

  9. Re:Yay for Open Standards! on Software Flaw Puts Mobile Phones and Networks At Risk Of Complete Takeover (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    If I understand this correctly you blame the encoding standard which may or not be useful in some applications for faults in a library?
    What I found really bad is that somebody modded you into insightful for expressing this silliness.

  10. I do not think GP needs any citation. The belief in deeper truth and higher moral stand is apparent though.

  11. who are these two? Have they escaped federal prison?

  12. Re:What's the problem? on TOS Agreements Require Giving Up First Born -- and Users Gladly Consent · · Score: 1

    What about the clause requiring to give up your kidney and slice of your liver?

  13. Re:More Precisely on Mozilla Will Ship Its First Rust Component In Firefox 48 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Magic thinking is a problem not only in SW development but in any project. In SW projects however the problem usually is that because there is no material cost you can redo things (possibly better) at no cost which of course is not true. Then there are some agile nonsense that have not much to do with the way Toyota did its first 'remove the walls' and use stickers experiment - successful projects are successful because they have luck, good crew and good leaders. How this all is arranged around is not important as long as the way fits the purpose. Doing agile for agile sake is as silly as doing water fall (or whatever other combination of words) for its sake - ideology does not work well in engineering.

  14. Re:Another Day Another Mass Shooting on Password Reuse Tool Makes It Easy To ID Vulnerable Accounts On Other Sites (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I have not seen it this way till now but now you convinced me that disarming yourself is an idea that can easily kill you thus should not be followed.

  15. Re:Environmental impacts? on A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are In Decline (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I still remember my grandfather in a poor country in east Europe lon time ago. He was not running around his fields half naked. In fact he also wore a hat. And my grandma did wear some head cover too. They have hardly ever exposed anything but face and hands to the sun. The reasons may have something to do with the way they worked the fields but it stopped UV light doing too much damage to their skin too. We tend to know more about melanoma these days. We use sunscreens and some of us do not go outside in summer without a proper hat and covered with clothes. This does not remove the danger but it decreases chance of skin cancer. I also go to a doctor every now and then to see if my heath is in good shape. This made me more conscious about the whole stuff and I stopped binge drinking and eating bad stuff that on top of being bad cost money and did not taste good anyway. winwinwin! My father did not get that and died while they were curving a massive cancer out of his belly. I may succumb to this fate too but probably at later stage in my life. Still anecdotal I know but it is not so as if we did not have significant changes in life style, health information availability etc

  16. Re:Environmental impacts? on A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are In Decline (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I eat meat because it tastes good. This makes it a rare occurrence because good meat is expensive. I think this is a good strategy especially as apes from which we come from did not eat meat every day anyway. Not even Neanderthals ate meat only. But I also think - hey I have to die of something anyway. Better it is not boredom.

  17. Re:Priorities on UK Proposes Mandatory Age Verification For Porn Sites (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This should apply to any law. Similar to actual process leading to any action in a group - decide if there is a problem, what the reasons are, how to fix it, decide on a solution and verify the effects, repeat if need be.

    There is a problem with this tho, more than one actually. When such method is deployed you need some sort of agreement on the deployment or else those that disagree just boycott the groups' decisions. The other is lobby work - clear statement of goal will show who our heroes sold themselves for. Then there are PR campaigns - and all political correctness nonsense (Rotherham?). So better concentrate on something that has effect only on anybody that cannot and/or would not protest, show how good we are as a society, at least on the face of it.
    I actually prefer to read stories. These can of course also harm minorities and 'weak'. I guess jerking off will be done to glossy magazines again rather than in front of a display.

  18. Re:Likely won't eventuate on Pod Planes Could Change Travel Forever (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you, that helps indeed. Like that story that nobody had to do anything after all and all y2k problem was a fake because nothing has happened (which 1. is not true - incidents due to y2k actually happened and 2. with this much attention quite a lot was ironed out indeed). The fact is that terrorism does exist and kills people. By taking your article seriously we can also skip all the technical controls of airplanes and all (technical) security regulations because not many accidents happen. That is having it arsebackwards.

  19. Re:next protection against God? on Google Is Working To Safeguard Chrome From Quantum Computers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What US government did support regime changes that resulted in major bloodshed? Was there one?

  20. Re:security of the Internet? on Google Is Working To Safeguard Chrome From Quantum Computers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    this may or may not be. 127.0.0.1 is more likely to be there.

  21. Re:Likely won't eventuate on Pod Planes Could Change Travel Forever (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Speaking of pyrotechnics - boarding at a bus stop is going to provide quite a lot of those with the current number of lunatics running around with explosives around their waists.

  22. for once technology on Google Searches For 'VR Porn' Increase 10,000% (vrtalk.com) · · Score: 1

    for the nerds. Something we were waiting for. Fuck self driving cars I want to have a robot self washing babe and if that is not available soon at least a good virtual pr0n. A nightmare of STD and pregnancy (yes in this day and age it still happens that you get screwed over an unwanted pregnancy unless you get yourself a cut) may be gone and I do not have to talk to other human when I do not want to. OC there will be people that will be disappointed - but hey the argument about dehumanizing sex as good as it would fit cannot be made because no human is getting dehumanized (sex) other than the customer themselves. Final release from naizfems and other confused individuals like my ex.

  23. Re:market rewards price, not security. on Security Researcher Gets Threats Over Amazon Review (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a reason why there is no airline ready to send you into heavens (in both meaning of the word) on a plane that has no original spare parts, have not been inspected anyway and where the badly paid crew did not have the possibility to learn proper emergency procedures or even normal ones, This reason is that all these things are illegal and a dumbass that would have tried to do that with his airline would get it locked out of any western market. IoT is at the same time: relative easy to abuse by technologically advanced script kiddies and well organized mafias and yet the way it can be abused is difficult to explain to John the plumber and Jane the social worker. That sucks but is a reality.

  24. Re:90% of dinosaurs survived? on Scientists Say The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Almost Wiped Us Out Too (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    I suppose I should have been wearing my glasses.

  25. Re:90% of dinosaurs survived? on Scientists Say The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Almost Wiped Us Out Too (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    As the discussion here got sheldonized already anyway I allow myself to add that some of the dinos that died trough the impact and whose species did not survive the aftermath must have had an offspring so indeed already there it is true.
    I suspect however that you meant that there is a chance some of the species of dinos survived an impact which would assume they had an offspring and it survived.