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Samsung's New Beauty Products Are Very Judgmental
Samsung Alexa/Echo vacuum
Ford Fusion Hybrid autonomous vehicle
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835
Samsung Unveils Quantum Dot Curved Monitors
Cars, robots expected to star at CES 2017
The Best of CES 2016: Where Are They Now?
CES 2017: Tech preview of Las Vegas's biggest launches
Microsoft Surface Pro 5 Outed By Manufacturing Partners For March Launch With 4K Display And Kaby Lake
Zookeeper to Syrian Army
A fun piece over at the Mirror that managed to reach near the top of Google's World news section.
Dec. 26 Mall Melees of America (Updated)
Not a Merry Christmas
OK, I've really done it this time...
One of the things that Turgid jr. got for Christmas was a new Android tablet. It's useless.
Mrs Turgid suggested buying some kind of Amazon kids tablet, and I looked them up on line and they didn't look all that great, certainly not for playing Pokemon Go.
So I asked some of the guys at work about tablets for children. They said you can set up an unprivileged user account in Android and lock it down pretty well so that it's mostly safe for supervised use.
With that in mind I went online and ordered a 10" Acer tablet (Acer Iconia One 10) and lo and behold Acer have removed the ability to create multiple user accounts.
It's my own stupid fault for not unpacking it and trying it out as soon as I bought it. I could have sent it back...
To be honest, it never occurred to me that a manufacturer would remove the ability to have multiple user accounts. It just seems crazy...
Needless to say, this creates a tricky situation. How do you explain to a 7-year-old that Santa Claus is an idiot?
Can I root the machine and put something sane on it?
Fill the Swamp! (Updated)
Gingrich Says Trump Must Address Business Conflicts Soon, Urges Monitoring
Gingrich: Trump dropping 'drain the swamp'
Trump Adviser Says He Is Ditching 'Drain the Swamp'
Newt Gingrich says Trump is done with ‘drain the swamp’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_MJbgO7SF0
The God Kek demands many more human sacrifices, otherwise Trump will continue to discard all of his campaign promises. Sacrifice children for the glory of Kek and the success of Trump.
Update: The child sacrifices have satisfied Kek, and Trump will continue his policy of draining the swamp.
Fake News Joke Tweet Leads to Call From the FBI
Trump and Duterte's Drug War Bromance
Duterte: During phone call, Trump praised my drug war as the ‘right way’
Duterte Says Trump Wished His Drug Crackdown 'Success'
Duterte says felt rapport with Trump, assures U.S.-Philippines ties intact
Philippines President Says Trump Congratulated Him on Violent Anti-Drug Crackdown
Duterte Call With Trump Seen Warming U.S. Ties After China Tilt
Rebooting our relations with the US
Trump lauds Du30 grisly drug drive?
Duterte invites Trump to the Philippines
He's just tailoring his message to his audience! There's no way he actually believes that! He's for individual liberties!!!11
Abbreviated Arguments
I know a lot of you are disappointed I didn't go ahead and finish the debate on the MIT petition story. Tough.
Most days it's fun smacking down the willfully ignorant but sometimes outside forces conspire to make me too tired to bother. I just delete all the messages, pop open a beer, and watch some TV.
This was one of those times and you're just going to have to live with it.
Moderation Today
So, I've been sitting here watching the Spam moderations page and the mod-bombs page post-election thinking someone's gonna get butthurt and abuse moderation. It has yet to happen. Kudos to everyone for managing to restrain themselves. You guys make me fucking proud, so I'll leave you with this little bit of humor on an otherwise tense day:
Britain: Brexit is the most shocking thing a country will do this year.
America: Hold my beer...
