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Comment Re:I love you man (Score 1) 305

I'm not drinking alcohol at all this year (just as an experiment - I'm not a recovering alcoholic or anything like that). I don't think that this has made any difference to my socialising.

Yeah, but you've probably already established a (meatspace) social network prior to this.

Comment Re:"Not intentional". Right. (Score 5, Insightful) 370

Check the qualifiers. That behavior was intended, but for other markets. Samsung does have plans to introduce it to the Australian market, but in the long term.

That's exactly it. There's no way for them to claim it's unintentional, as it takes intentional code to create this behavior. I don't know what on earth these people are thinking, but I won't be buying any "smart" TV that decides to share my conversations and injects ads where they don't belong. Same thing goes for Keurig and their DRM'd coffe makers or any other "smart" applicances. It seems that every "smart" appliance has a lot of foolish thinking behind it.

Comment Re:Hmmm .... (Score 1) 125

Do you have any idea how much $7.99/month is to an average Cuban? More than what they make...
The "free market" as they'll see it will eat them alive, I'm afraid.

You're going to blame Netflix for Cubans' low monthly income? I thought that Cuba, like all communist countries, was a "worker's paradise"?

Comment Re:news ? (Score 2) 327

Err. That's good, right ? Police arresting bad people ?
Not sure why this is news.

It's news because it involves abuse of technology. Swatting is pretty heinous, especially since it can endanger an innocent person and is a gross misuse of police resources. All I can say is I'm glad they caught him, and if he's guilty he deserves to be locked up for a long time.

Comment Theoretical metaphysicists (Score 1) 212

They plan to put a well shielded neutron detector next to a shielded nuclear reactor that produces neutrons at a research facility in France. All this shielding means the detector should not see any neutrons from inside the reactor. However, if the neutrons are leaking into another brane and then back into our world, they can bypass this shielding and trigger the detector.

Seems like the more likely answer is the nuclear reactor isn't as well shielded as they hoped. Besides, how can you have a braneworld if the universe is a simulation of a hologram?

Comment Re:Reality TV (Score 1) 244

But I agree otherwise - not much worth watching these days.

I've actually started to watch a lot more TV, thanks largely to NetFlix. We caught the first season of The Walking Dead and the first 3 of Breaking Bad - in each case binge watching so we could be caught up for the start of a new season. There are some other pretty good shows out there too. Game of Thrones is the best show that's ever been on TV IMHO. There are a few others like Gotham on Fox & Vikings on History. There's less to like on the Big 3, but we do watch The Black List and Marvel Agents of Shield/Peggy Carter.

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