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    Twitter Finds New Excuses to Shut Down Folks They Don't Like

    Why is all the social media run by liberals, who will punish you for not agreeing with the Thoughtmaster General?
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    Wolfenstein II Season Pass Includes Mini Campaigns with Three New Protagonists

    Jessica Valiant? Did she dump Roger, and marry the P.I.?
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    In 2016, Tech’s Big Color Trend Was Ombré

    It's like the 90s threw up, all over everybody's logos.
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    Eavesdropping Toys Send What They Hear To A Defense Contractor

    Wasn't this an episode of CSI: Cyber? Only, those toys weren't for kids.
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    Fixing Dead Pixels On Your PC Monitor Or Smartphone

    Fixed a couple of stuck pixels, on an old NEC monitor, years ago. The massaging technique just damaged the surface. But the flashing color thing worked, took it several days, though. They stayed fixed, up until the monitor refused to power on, one day, after yet another power outage. As I...
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    The Transformers: The Movie 30th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray

    Never understood the love for this movie. It killed off all the guys I wanted to on the big screen, and replaced them with guys Nobody had ever heard of before. And, Hotrod sucks!
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    Super Cool Superhydrophobic Fountain

    That's what I was thinking; that they'd found a way to use hydrophobic surfaces to make water flow uphill. Might be breaking some laws of thermodynamics with that, though....
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    Amazon Fines Company $5,000 For Using Packing Peanuts

    Given the (nonexistent) packing I've had on a lot of my Amazon orders, I'd say that any packing at all would be considered a violation. How the caps didn't get ripped off that bagged power buck, rattling around with box inside the shipping box, I'll never know.
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    Ford Is Launching An Adaptive Steering System

    My dad's got a 12 year old Buick that does this. What's the big deal?
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    Patch Tuesday Update Causing Infinite Reboot Loop on Windows 7

    Funny, the last round of patches actually fixed a problem I was having. Never saw the reboot loop.
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    Robot Security Guards are Coming

    Am I the only one who finds that thing to be suspiciously Dalek shaped? :eek:
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    See How a Bugatti Veyron is Delivered

    I'm disappointed that it isn't delivered sliding sideways up your driveway.
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    13 of the Weirdest Computer Mice We've Ever Seen

    Buttons started going south in MX518 within a year of getting it. One of the side buttons started going out first. I keep that one set to middle click, and I tend to middle click everything. (how did I ever live without tabs?) Eventually, left click started to go, too. It was the optics that...
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    Scan the Entire Internet in an Hour or Less

    Well, this should make it so much easier to get the internet on a floppy disk. Aaaand, I just dated myself.... :(
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    Awesome Robot Video of the Day

    I, for one, welcome our headbanging robotic overlords.
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    You Might Be A Nerd If…

    Fortunately, all that radio equipment generates an EM field that scrambles the electronics in police cars. ;)
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    Warning: iPod Zombie Cyclists On the Rise

    I'm glad to see some people on here pointing out that thebikes in traffic thing is a two sided problem, and not the fault of just one side. I had a big long rant here, but nobody wants to read that. I'll just say that I've seen ignorance, and outright stupidity from both motorists and...
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    Stupid Computer Thief of the Year

    That's not murder. That's assisted suicide.
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    ‘Remarketing’ May Be Coming for Web Store Browsers

    Sounds similar to what I've been getting from Danscomp. They keep sending me emails not to abandon what I've got in my shopping cart. I logged back in and checked, there's nothing in my shopping cart. When I placed my order with them, I removed one item, because it wasn't the color I'd...
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    Machine Gun Mounted iPod

    I find the M16 family, and its derivitives to be scary for the guy behind the trigger. I've seen the numbers from reliability testing for those things, compared to other rifles. I know H&K makes a number of rifles based on the M16 mechanism, but they use a different, more reliable gas mechanism...
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    Facebook Pulls Breast-Feeding Photos

    I was just glad it wasn't that picture of Steve in a bra again.
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    I hate the lack of ergonamic keyboards

    Man I hate ergos. They put your wrists at a funky angle, unless you type with your elbows sticking out, like you're trying to fly.
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    Got ADs? Get these...

    On a default Windows XP install, with nothing installed but patches, and Ad-Aware, I'll find at least one Alexa registry entry in for IE. Spy Bot will point out at least one more. I seem to recall that WMP8 had some of that crap too, but I'm not sure.
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    Got ADs? Get these...

    I use Mozilla, and on exceptionaly rare occasion, I've still had spyware get through. Mostly tracking cookies. Keep in mind, that some spyware gets installed by default with Windows.
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    popup problem

    I'll add my vote to this: FIREWALL!
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