> otherwise what's the point of leaving earth

Getting away from Republicans... oh wait, I see your point about cockroaches. nvm.

Scammers can go die in a fire.

My phone numbers are on the do not call list. I get robocalls all the time; when I pick up these calls I tell them I'm on the do not call list so I know they're low life scammers (to which rather than disconnecting they start cussing me out, proving my accusation to be true) and invite them to consume copious amounts of strychnine, because suicide is far more honorable than being a fucking scammer and they'll be doing humanity a favor. Alternatively I'll play along and then after a bit I tell them I know they're scammers and while I've kept them tied up in a conversation I've kept them from scamming suckers. Another approach is to read Trumpster/Deplorable racist rants (based on their accent) I have bookmarked, hoping to demoralize them. Blocking their numbers doesn't work due to CID spoofing.

CID spoofing has become a big problem because it's trivially easy (in fact you can do it on most (all?) smartphones). I occasionally get calls from people claiming I called them marketing crap, so obviously someone used my phone # in their CID spoofing. No, I didn't call them. I tell them about caller ID spoofing and how it works but they are usually unconvinced. I end up blocking their numbers so I don't get repeated calls from people who choose to remain aggressively stupid.

Here no one runs pot grows in their basements to "hide" them but they're usually in the basement because it is a convenient use of unfinished space to put the grow tent there rather than in the living room or bedrooms. :D

" this breach is not capable of remedy."

Seems accurate, unless you have the Doctor and his TARDIS ready to bring a cure back from the distant future, to her past. >_>

We just discovered the one person in the world who uses their smartphone only as a phone.

Agreed! I keep my Precision M6400 going because of the 16:10 aspect ratio (and also the RGB-LED backlight).

a private corporation has a moral imperative to publicly tell Uncle Sam to get fucked.

If we had an administration which was working for The People rather tha Big Corp and Oligarchs, these companies would be fined big money for each and every individual HIPAA violation, and the fines would be measured at minimum in tens of billions USD.

Which Trump are you: Beavis or Butthead, er, I mean, Eric or Don Jr?

Surprised they didn't claim at least $12,586,000,000,000.00 lost. Why? 100 copies of CDs sold at $17.98 times ~7 billion people, all of whom surely would have purchased at least one copy of each were it not for file sharing. /s

The People elected him; people are a problem.

Usability hasn't been an objective ever since "human factors engineers" who know nothing of human factors have been designing UIs. Exhibit A: Gnome Exhibit B: the Firefox redesign.

The title bar has a functional purpose: it's easy to click and grab to move a window around without mistakenly clicking on other UI elements which might modify your document. Sure, on some platforms (X on *nix) you can use a meta key (usually alt) to click anywhere on a window to drag it around but good luck getting Windows (or Mac) users to memorize that.

GPU supercomputing cards are ideal for this:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/d...