Recent content by Afrospinach

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    Self-Driving Car Accidents Will Make Us All Safer

    Yep, sure. But most accidents happen in cities not on major highways so back to the drawing board with that theory. They are also the worst places to drive a car anyway, no-one sits around excited and the idea of driving around the streets of London, unless they have never actually been there of...
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    Play Historic Games in Your Browser From the Internet Archive

    Clicked on link looking for ET - was not disappointed :)
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    Activision Blizzard Independent of Vivendi in $8.2B Buyout

    "Doesn't this just give Kotick more freedom to run the company the way he sees fit? Into the ground if he so pleases..." Honestly if no one told you this happened you would never have noticed. They are already rather autonomous.
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    New App Pays You to Put Ads On Your Lockscreen

    Back in the 90s I recall a wave of these programs and they were a scam. They would reduce the pay rate and up the minimum payout amount like clockwork so you were perpetually chasing an unreachable amount to get your check in the mail.
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    IBM Has Laid Off Over 3,000 Workers; Union Reacts

    Stingstang, IBM probably does a lot more business to business selling than it does direct to the consumer which is why you won't see a lot of ads around the place like other companies.
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    Minecraft Creator TIME's Most Influential Person of 2013?

    I think those top 3 are all pretty bizarre choices.
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    Anon Takes Down Government Site Over Aaron Swartz's Death

    dark_wizzieWTF is wrong with you? The magnitude of punishment did not balance according to what he did! A kid dies because people are computer-phobic. He would have gotten a lighter sentence if he killed somebody.I stole a piece of candy when I was 6. Do I deserve 35 years in prision? Stop...
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    Facebook Testing $1 Service for Messaging Strangers

    nebunthey need to be honest and admit that they are getting greedy Nah they just have shareholders who are tiring of the fact that in spite of such a large user base facebook really doesn't know how to make money from them. I would expect even more of this bullshit in the future if users let it...
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    Researchers Demonstrate Power Generator for Space Missions

    Striling engines require moving parts to operate, I wonder if this would actually last as long as the voyager 2 (35 years) RTGs