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    Android users bombarded with >4,000 spy apps, three land in Google Play

    Given the size of Google you would believe they already have plenty of staff. I believe is it more they have not had a PR disaster because of issues so they don't care until something big happens.
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    Android users bombarded with >4,000 spy apps, three land in Google Play

    So, we used to blame Microsoft for these stupid things, when do we finally scream about Google for this and other issues like other Android devices not getting security updates. I think it is crazy you need a virus scanner for a phone.
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    Rise of the Empire expands Star Wars: Rebellion in all the right ways

    I came to ask the same question. Because the combat is the only thing I really wanted changed.
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    Patent disputes stand in the way of radically safer table saws

    My brother is heavily into woodworking and he has retrofitted his saw with this years ago. It is widely discussed and retrofitted in many woodworking forums. I do not see an issue with this and do not see why it should not be required.
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    Bay Area: Join us 8/16 to talk about Silicon Valley and the inequality crisis

    I call BS on your "older developer" -- Having received by CS and MS in Computer Science in the 80s and 90s the issue then and the issue now remains the same. Computer Science and other Technical Majors are simply not attractive to women and the careers or the work they want to do. Much of it...
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    Google fires engineer who “crossed the line” with diversity memo

    I will say one thing that he said that is true of the general tech industry, while there is a lot of talk about diversity, it is an echo chamber and only a single view point is accepted and anything else will keep you from advancing. Anything other than a far left view is not accepted and I...
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    Second body cam video of Baltimore cops manufacturing evidence discovered

    This is not limited to Baltimore. Go national wide and they will find more. Either dirty cops or crappy PD or Chief of Police or Mayor with crappy political agendas. This is only gets the headlines when the numbers are large. Anytime across the country when something "gets sent to the state...
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    Kitchen sponges are festering germ dens—and sanitizing them doesn’t help

    I have no idea about this. All I know is that I am pushing close to 50 and the kitchen sponge has not killed me. I have followed this weekly for as long as can remember as it was beaten into me by my mom: Mix 3/4 cup of bleach in one gallon of water, and soak the sponge for five minutes or...
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    Amazon made a package delivery locker specifically for apartments

    Given the amount of package theft that accrues around the holidays, they should make residential units. I have had packages stolen from my front steps.
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    Travelers’ electronics at US airports to get enhanced screening, TSA says

    I travel a lot for work. They have already been doing this at some airports. Also, even if you have TSA Pre-check there have been times where they have you go down the normal line and saving you zero time. In a recent JFK to SEA trip I had to put my laptop and Samsung tablet each in their own...
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    Ataribox retro mini-console plays current and classic games

    If we can play all the Atari Standup Cabinet Games, we have a winner. If it is 8-bit 2600 few will interested.
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    Cash, drugs, and cannoli: The Godfather: Corleone’s Empire reviewed

    IMHO I believe the purpose of many CMON games is just to sell more plastic miniatures because none of the games seem all that interesting to me.
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    Cash, drugs, and cannoli: The Godfather: Corleone’s Empire reviewed

    IMHO Sons of Anarchy is the better game and it was at fire sale prices recently at MM. The base game was $16 and the expansions under $10. For less than $30 you get a much better game. I feel that this game is just a worker placement game that was wrapped in a theme CMON believed recognizable...
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    Review: Wasteland Express Delivery Service offers good times in a bad world

    I wish more games came with the organizing trays. This game hits all check boxes. Visually appealing both on and off the table. Excellent game play and not too deep and finally a well organized and quality set of components. No wonder why it sold quickly.
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    New Star Trek series will abandon Gene Roddenberry’s cardinal rule

    CBS All Access is the biggest killer for me. $6/month for network television -- no thanks
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    Guns kill nearly 1,300 kids in the US per year, and suicides are on the rise

    Lets break it down ars -- how many of these are from gang related activity? Stop the gang shootings in Chirac and many of those homicide deaths go away. Stop the drugs and the gangs trying to kill themselves. Also, "Japan has a relatively high suicide rate, but the number of suicides is...
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    Xbox One X: Everything you need to know

    Flat screen TV manufactures use all kinds of gimmicks to sell their TVs including questionable specs. Here Xbox X has Freesync and one would think that given how the spec is implemented a TV set maker would incorporate FreeSync into the game mode of select sets and they would have a good part...
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    Xbox expanding backwards compatibility program to original Xbox games

    This will come down to a rights issue. Microsoft has many of the old FASA game rights which is why Crimson Skies is on tap but who knows for other games.
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    Ars and GOG next steps: sales, collaborations, and more

    Thanks to Ars I will relive playing Sid Meier's Pirates!