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Comment Re:Lets hope they don't try to automate it (Score 1) 279

Personally I'm curious how it would function on a site like foxnews or huffpo - in the case of the latter, would it flag the one person posting pro-2nd Amendment comments, or would it flag everyone else when they pile one the aforementioned poster with mountains of venomous hatred?

Comment Re:This is fucking stupid. (Score 1) 279

It is stupid to me because it does not solve a problem. Detecting trolls is certainly not a problem, dealing with them is. They need to work on algorithm for that.

How about an algorithm for developing thicker skin?

Internet trolls only have the power you give them; many sites have an "ignore this douchebag" button anyway, so it's really a moot point.

Comment Re:Tracking (Score 4, Insightful) 569

Yea, that's called an occupational hazard, not an excuse to not do your fucking job. Jesus, if underwater welders and fishermen (wo have far, far more life-threatening jobs than any LEO) were as whiny and pussified as cops, we'd have no oil or food.

Of course, if the detectives use their brains they can decrease their personal risk while still doing what they're paid to do. Of course that implies hiring people who actually have functioning brains... something many departments apparently have a policy against.

Comment Re:Enlighten me please (Score 1) 450

Just because YOU have wireless projectors doesn't mean that EVERYONE is doing the same thing as you. I've worked at Fortune 500 companies that not only use wired projectors, they also rent them rather than owning one.

'Granted I work for a company that install (wireless projectors)'

Well, you're a shitty salesman if your main pitch is 'but everyone else is buying them from me!'

Comment Re:Too Soft (Score 1) 450

A solid gold casing would be too soft to be practical.

Apple claim to somehow have found a way around that. From the product page: "Each has a watch case crafted from 18-karat gold that our metallurgists have developed to be up to twice as hard as standard gold."

Ceramics are blended in with the gold.

Thus making the gold less pure, and therefore less valuable. FWIW, all gold was 24k, until it got mixed with something else. 18k isn't 18k anymore when it's been diluted with non-precious metals.

Comment Re:The moan of sour grapes (Score 1) 450

Because very few people will buy the gold edition, it will occupy the same collector market as some of the other early Apples.

Very few people bought a Microsoft Surface RT, but I highly doubt that makes the tablet a collectors item. Very few commercially made, mass produced items hold value the way you're assuming this watch will.

Maybe if they made it a limited edition, bit that doesn't really fit Apple's MO...

Comment PS4 Is Doing Fine (Score 1) 188

I've been helping run the family pawn shop since about November - we have had all of ONE PS4 come into our shop, whereas I've taken in at least a half-dozen Xbones.

Take from that anecdote what you will, but it seems to me that the PS4 is doing pretty good without any extra focus.

Also Sony makes killer DVD players and televisions. I hope they don't stop making that stuff, personally.

Comment Could Be Handy in the Gun Shop (Score 5, Interesting) 133

This could actually be useful for gun shops, since we have to meticulously catalog the serial numbers of all firearms that come in and go out. We often get older (like, 150 year older), used firearms where the serials are worn down and difficult to read, even with a jewelers loupe.

Or rather it would be useful for gun shops, if the process isn't as cost-prohibitive as I presume it will be.

Comment Re:We knew this in the 1970s (Score 1) 328

Unlikely. As professional drivers they probably already knew the best line on the track. A theory would be that the marijuana intoxication relaxed them a bit, so they were calmer entering corners and thus, entered and left them faster, leading to overall faster times.

My question to you is, do you not understand this thing you're talking about because the only racing experience you have is playing Gran Turismo, or because you're attempting to demonize a different thing you don't understand, for some equally idiotic reason?

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