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Comment Re: $400M for AOL (Score 1) 35

you're stuck in the 90s. nobody even cares for that!

you know those reports showing ad networks sending all your data to China? well, that's AOL. and now yahoo (which Apollo also bought).

the worst performer ad networks in the planet, but they still get campaigns from apple and other big brands with too much money. so they can participate in reverse bidding (when the site you visit send all your info to hundreds of ad networks to sell an Ad in realtime) which then stores all that data, build your user profile, and sell it.

Comment Re:Maybe (Score 1) 92

Won't happen. Why? Because the government uses the future of their students to guarantee a seemingly unending flow of cash. Lower prices? Ha! They will raise them until the government cuts off their funding.

Or, apparently, when people stop going to college because of how expensive it is.

Comment Good (Score 4, Insightful) 82

I'm tired of dealing with substandard IT services, from both India AND China. The language barrier is one thing, but I don't think I've ever spoke or worked with an agent from either country that could do anything other than read from a script. Once the problem deviates from the script they were useless.

Granted; US support is a mixed bag. Sometimes it's great, sometimes it sucks, but at least sometimes it IS great. That's not something I've ever experienced with Indian or Chinese support.

Comment Worth noting (Score 2) 108

It's worth noting that current nutrition guidelines pegs recommended protein @ ~50 grams a day for an adult male, which is far below the 1.6 grams discussed in this article.

Let's take your average 160lb dude. That's around 72kgs. The article says there's no benefit beyond 1.6 grams per kg, so he should be eating 115.2 grams per day, far exceeding the "recommended" amount of ~50 grams.

Comment Re:25% tax (Score 1) 61

Kind of an apples to oranges comparison. There are a lot of fundemental differences between Denmark and US which would impact the outcome.

Instead, let's take a look at government funded healthcare right in the US: The VA. A quick look should tell us everything we need to know about expanding such a system to cover all citizens.

Oh...oh no. No no no no.

Mind you, the VA is aimed at our soldiers. The people we depend on to defend our borders. Look what we do to those we should be celebrating! Now imagine what would happen to your average, ordinary every day joe. Or worse; imagine it gets politized by "the other side" ( which ever side you don't like ); can you imagine the republicans in charge of universal healthcare and you need an abortion? Or the democrats in charge and a heart attack victim comes in with a "Donor" dot on his DL and a MAGA hat on?

Thank you, no. There are far too many horrible, yet likely outcomes to this idea.

Comment I have an idea (Score 2) 138

Hey MS, I have an idea: How about you FINISH BAKING YOUR OS. It's a radical idea, but it just might work.

Streamline your control panels, make sure they all *work*. That'd go a long way in making your OS better.

Then you could take a quick look at usability; it shouldn't take me a dozen clicks to do something I routinely need access to. Oh, and stop fucking with the start menu if your so hot on people using it.

I could see voice input being a niche ( for those with accessibility issues ), but it's not going to replace the mouse and keyboard, anymore than touchscreen did.

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