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  1. Car Warranty on Phone Companies Get New Tools To Block Spam Calls (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    But what if my car's extended warranty really is expiring?

  2. Re:Oh, come on... on The Booming Japanese Rent-a-Friend Business (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Allowing people to be whatever they want is a a LOT different than forcing your beliefs on people.

    You mean forcing people to tolerate things that they don't believe are right but you do isn't forcing your beliefs on them?

    Forcing to tolerate? What the fuck does that even mean? Not letting you beat people up you don't like? If you don't like something go away.

  3. including his former employer, a Minnesota-based PoS repair shop.

    After all, it was a "Piece-of-Shit" repair shop.

  4. Re:Oh, come on... on The Booming Japanese Rent-a-Friend Business (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure where you get your data, it isn't the case that the left wants men uncircumsized or wants you to be genderfluid and polysexual - the left just doesn't give a fuck whether or not you're circumsized or what fucking gender you consider yourself or what kind of people you love. Allowing people to be whatever they want is a a LOT different than forcing your beliefs on people.

  5. Re:A solution searching for an application on Windows 10's Version of AirDrop Lets You Quickly Share Files Between PCs (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Now try it with Windows, I dare you.

    LOL. I wouldn't.

  6. Re:A solution searching for an application on Windows 10's Version of AirDrop Lets You Quickly Share Files Between PCs (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, I've done this between a friend's iPhone and my iPad with no problem - transferring a whole slew of photos she took. We could have used email - we were at my house even. But AirDrop worked fast and easy.

  7. Re:A solution searching for an application on Windows 10's Version of AirDrop Lets You Quickly Share Files Between PCs (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's for when one of your friends takes some cool pictures and you want them too. Yes, there's often wifi or you could just email them, but this is convenient.

  8. Reading Comprehension Fail on EPA Approves Release of Bacteria-Carrying Mosquitoes To 20 States (nature.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There are no genetically-modified mosquitoes here. They are infected with a naturally-occurring bacterium. Please reduce the size of your tinfoil wardrobe.

  9. Re:alcohol - where are these people working!? on One in Four UK Workers Maliciously Leaks Business Data Via Email, Study Says (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, my comment was not meant to be a reply to yours. Bad click from arthritis fingers.

  10. Re:alcohol - where are these people working!? on One in Four UK Workers Maliciously Leaks Business Data Via Email, Study Says (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Bull-fucking-shit. I don't believe that 24% of UK workers even have ACCESS to meaningful business data.

  11. That mosquito-infested hellhole? Not me. Good riddance.

  12. Re:Free speech of NFL players on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 0

    a legal case can EASILY be made

    Ha! Is that your standard for winning arguments? Not much, not much...

    It's not always about winning an argument, it's about understanding others' POVs. You should try it some time.

  13. Re:Free speech of NFL players on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 0

    The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES is advocating for FIRING people for exercising their first amendment rights.

    The President does not lose his First Amendment rights, when he becomes President.

    That is government suppression of free speech.

    Nope. As long as he is not doing anything about it in his official capacity, it is not.

    That may by YOUR opinion, but a legal case can EASILY be made that he is using his OFFICE to suppress speech.

  14. Re:Free speech of NFL players on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You've missed the point entirely. The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES is advocating for FIRING people for exercising their first amendment rights. That is government suppression of free speech.

  15. Re: That gender fluid main character... on Star Trek: Discovery Nearly Cracks Pirate Bay's Top 10 In Less Than 24 Hours (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    Is just being female or non-white enough to trigger people now?

    Yes.

  16. Re:That's what they all say on Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    "End users who know better" are the "parents who have done their research about vaccines" in the mobile device world.

    You win the Internet today. Unfortunately, you posted AC, so we can't send you your prize.

  17. Re:Anyone else use the Shopify POS App? on Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    Another example to doubt this claim: if anyone uses the Shopify POS App, you probably see that as you do more transactions with the swiper, the app gets slower and slower...and if you close and restart the app, it works fine again. Maybe this is true with some Apps, but I don't think you can say with all Apps...

    That's due to crappy programming. They probably have a huge memory leak in their code. Killing the app reclaims the leaked memory. That's a whole other story. The article is about power savings, not crappy apps.

  18. Re:Gmail addresses confused me with a plastic surg on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 1

    The best email I ever got: a woman who thought I was a plastic surgeon, and wanted a boob job for her teenage daughter. And one for herself. And a vaginoplasty. I kid you not.

    You should have offered an in-home consultation - for a fee.

  19. Re:Abandon it. on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 1

    This might work if the tag identifier were unique for each email service, but a standard one like bang would be a giveaway, if common. Spammers will just remove the portion of your email that is the tag.

  20. Re:You can't do much, really on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 1

    Yes, there is. Don't use your fucking name! I use @gmail.com. Got that way back when gmail was invite only. I've never gotten someone else's email by typo or duplicate.

  21. Re:It's probably not one person. on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 1

    The problem is that there are so many people that just a typo will do it. This is why big email aggregators are a bad idea (there are reasons why they are a good idea, of course, or they wouldn't exist, but this is one of the reasons why they aren't).

    Unfortunately there is no way to prevent these--there's no test that will reveal them as errors.

    No, some people are just doing it wrong. Don't use your fucking name! I use @gmail.com. Got that way back when gmail was invite only. I've never gotten someone else's email by typo or duplicate.

  22. Re: Americans Are Ignorant, Possibly Stupid. on Is Homeland Security's Face-Scanning At Airports An Unreasonable Search? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    So, you admit that people murder even though it is against the law?

    In spite of what you might see in the movies no government entity issues licenses to kill.

    Would you believe that there are 10 states in the USA that do not require a license to carry dangerous weapons like firearms? You shouldn't because the actual number is closer to 30. This wasn't always the case but people realized that the license did not make people safe, training did, enforcement did. People don't need a license to get training, and the police don't need people with pieces of plastic in their pockets to enforce the law.

    You fail to understand that licensing is what is used to indicate that training has occurred. Without it, how does one know if training has occurred?

  23. Why wouldn't a career politician want a shot at being VP? Granted, it's kind of the 1st Runner Up Consolation Prize in the political beauty pageant, but if that's as close as you think you'll ever get, then I guess you take it. There's also the possibility that the GOP knew a populist Trump was their only way in, knew he'd probably get ousted at some point, maybe even planned on throwing him under the bus when the time was right, so they'd get Dominionist ultra-conservative Pence in the Big Chair. It's a bit Machiavellian but it's plausible.

    I don't think the GOP necessarily wanted Trump at all, I was just talking about Pence's reason for taking the VP. Most people thought Trump was a third rail and would kill your political future. If Trump had lost, would Pence ever be heard from again?

  24. Re: Americans Are Ignorant, Possibly Stupid. on Is Homeland Security's Face-Scanning At Airports An Unreasonable Search? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    So, you admit that people can and do drive without a license? Also, you admit they had a license, and still drove poorly? I mean you cannot revoke a license if they had none in the first place.

    If we cannot keep people from driving without a license then what purpose do they serve? It's not like the presence of the license makes them drive safely. All we are doing is making life inconvenient for the safe drivers. If at some point they prove to no longer be able to drive safely they are "asked" to not drive any more by taking away their license. We don't need the licensee to ask people to drive safely, or to ask them to not drive if they are incapable of driving safely.

    Drivers are only a problem if they fail to drive safely, and we don't need a piece of plastic in their pocket to enforce safe driving.

    So, you admit that people murder even though it is against the law? If we cannot keep people from killing what purpose does a law against it serve? It's not like a law against murder makes them not kill.

    A licensing process shows that people are at least somewhat competent at driving. When they cease to be competent, their license is revoked so that they no longer permitted to drive. Eliminating licensing would definitely increase both the number of incompetent drivers and the level of incompetence.

  25. Did you notice that Pence lawyered up a while back? He, apparently, is not completely stupid: he sees how much of a liability being involved with the current administration is to his political career and saw fit to get ahead of the whole thing as soon as possible; he's a career politician, through-and-through. Five bucks says when the axe falls, he's going to be standing aside of the conflagration, yelling like Ashe in the Bruce Campbell version of Army of Darkness "..hey, I don't even KNOW these assholes!". He'll step aside, co-operate fully with any further Senate an FBI investigations, and try to walk away as cleanly as possible -- or at least I hope that's what happens. I don't think Mike Pence should be POTUS, especially by default.

    Of course Pence shouldn't be POTUS, much like Trump shouldn't be POTUS, but Pence is smart enough to be still standing when Trump gets the axe. I wonder if that's why he even agreed to be VPOTUS in the first place.