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  1. Re:For an alternative on Reddit CEO: Site Is 'Not a Bastion of Free Speech,' Change Coming · · Score: 1

    Exactly. in order to grow, they'll need investment capital. Those investors will want a return on their investment and, they'll insist on a site that's capable of being monetized. Creepshots, vitriolic, racist hate speech, underage pics and, shaming fat people just are not anything that's good for a business in the long run.
    Likewise, it doesn't occur to the users that they might be the problem. That's why Reddit is filled with ex Diggsters and 4Chan rejects. Good luck not having the exact same problem in 5 - 6 years at Voat.

  2. Re:Racist terms? on Geomapping Racism With Twitter · · Score: 2

    Cracker Barrel isn't meant as a term of offense. Specifically, it's a term coined because general stores in the 19th centuries kept items, Like crackers in large barrels. Though, I wouldn't hold them up as a standard of racial harmony considering how many times they've been sued for racial discrimination.

  3. OH on U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience? · · Score: 1

    I got in before the lunch crowd. It went quite smoothly

  4. Re:Ghost town on High Tech Companies Becoming Fools For the City · · Score: 1

    They have some awesome bars though.
    The real problems most older cities have is they are trapped in a cycle of gentrification and decay. The one redeeming quality about Cuyahoga county is they have bitchin Public transportation system. Unless they figure out a way to get the poor/ criminal element out of the city, it's all for naught.

  5. Re:There are those of us who can see it coming on Mathematician Predicts Wave of Violence In 2020 · · Score: 2

    Let me break it down for you. Christians are white therefore it is perfectly politically correct to demonize them. Contrast this with muslims. I'm not trying to conflate your viewpoint with racism and I wish there were a better explanation because I do not consider myself a racist but that's the explanation occam's razor leads me to.

    Well, that can't be right. My family is Baptist and Negro.

  6. It's OK. someone in the hood will be killed for em on What Do We Do When the Internet Mob Is Wrong? · · Score: 2

    Even if this story is false, the sheer amount of violence over Air Jordan's over the years has been staggering. I remember as a kid living in a rust belted inner city and there were people shot and robbed of their Shoes.

  7. Re:Well, she got the job. on Genome of Controversial Arsenic Bacterium Sequenced · · Score: 2

    My concern is that it appears that she seems to have been ostracized and punished by members of the scientific community for publishing her paper. Science and peer review aren't supposed to inject personal feelings into research. It's not supposed to be a case of liking or disliking her data but, whether or not it's accurate.

  8. This is the most lively, dead tablet platform. on HP Reviving the $99 Touch Pad On December 11th · · Score: 1

    I can't wait for them to start with the 7" tablet death march.

  9. Re:Shouldn't it be fairly simple to determine that on Genome of Controversial Arsenic Bacterium Sequenced · · Score: 1

    Indeed. How much of Human DNA is actually useful? How mUch is just aking up space?

  10. Re:It's a SERVICE on USPS Ending Overnight First-Class Letter Service · · Score: 5, Informative

    The USPS is totally self funded and profitable. The problem is Congress gave them a near-impossible pension funding mandate so that they could borrow against those pension funds. It's more like the government is leeching off of USPS. Not the other way around

  11. We Americans can show the Chinese Telcos on China Telecom Companies Pledge To Stop Monopolistic Practices · · Score: 5, Funny

    We can show you how to have a duopoly instead!

  12. Re:On the motherboard? on Aaron Computer Rental Firm Spies On Users · · Score: 3, Informative

    Unless there are additional details not disclosed on their kinda sleazy looking; but unabashed website, the hardware component seems like it is either a mistake(perhaps referring to some sort of anti-theft tag?) or an additional feature specific to this major chain.

    If you look at the company's pricing information, it only quotes software licensing fees and prices for additional/replacement/updated install media. No mention of hardware components, much less the sort of model-specific inventory mess that any deep integration would require. Obviously, the information available on the seller's site for that offering doesn't preclude a custom offering for a large customer, with more robust features; but it also isn't as though lying about the existence of super-tough hardware security in order to reduce the risk that your clueless customer tries to have their nephew who "knows computers" install a cracked copy of XP on a "bricked" machine would be a terribly unlikely strategy...

    Unless there are additional details not disclosed on their kinda sleazy looking; but unabashed website, the hardware component seems like it is either a mistake(perhaps referring to some sort of anti-theft tag?) or an additional feature specific to this major chain.

    If you look at the company's pricing information, it only quotes software licensing fees and prices for additional/replacement/updated install media. No mention of hardware components, much less the sort of model-specific inventory mess that any deep integration would require. Obviously, the information available on the seller's site for that offering doesn't preclude a custom offering for a large customer, with more robust features; but it also isn't as though lying about the existence of super-tough hardware security in order to reduce the risk that your clueless customer tries to have their nephew who "knows computers" install a cracked copy of XP on a "bricked" machine would be a terribly unlikely strategy...

    There appears to be something they add either through hardware or software than can require you to use a USB thumb drive as a key. Check out the accessories page. I'm going to say that it's both hardware and software.
    "Require an unLock device like a CD or a USB Thumb Drive to always be available or the device locks. It will not work unless the unLock device is found."