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    Resident Evil 3 remake headlines a handful of PS4 announcements

    Awesome! I really loved RE2:Remake and I can't wait til April. I just hope they include the Mercenaries mini game like the original had. The only downside with RE2:Remake was that the side games were lame compared to previous titles.
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    Nissan plans 12,500 layoffs after operating profits fall 98 percent

    Excellent analysis especially the price, reliability and performance part. That describes exactly how my wife and I bought her 2017 Rogue: It was light-years ahead of the Hyundai counterpart (and cheaper amazingly enough); the Toyota was 10% better but cost $10000 more, so scratch that...
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    Nissan plans 12,500 layoffs after operating profits fall 98 percent

    Good point. I loved old school Pathfinder and had planned to upgrade to it once I out grew my Xterra, but the Pathfinder is now a lame ass minivan. And the Xterra line is gone too.
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    Author pulls software that used deep learning to virtually undress women

    You must have went on like a Tuesday afternoon or something. Try going on a Friday night, then you'll see the club's A-Team working the polls.
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    Mass grave in Poland embodies the violent beginning of the Bronze Age

    I skimmed the source article was surprised at the number of marraige-age (for a lack of better term) females in the grave. My understanding Bronze Age raids is that goals were usually cows and women (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Táin_Bó_Cúailnge and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_...
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    DVD and Blu-ray sales nearly halved over five years, MPAA report says

    The industry really shot themselves in the foot by putting 10 minute trailers that run as soon as you put the DVD or Bluray in the machine and are un-fastforwardable! I'd buy more movies but for those damn things.
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    More jails replace in-person visits with awful video chat products

    It would never work. Think 50 cent / minute is expensive, how much do you think the prison guard labor costs?
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    Google Fiber exits Louisville after shoddy installs left exposed wires in roads

    So Google is learning that doing stuff outside the datacenter is difficult and apparently, Google can't do difficult things.
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    Previously secret CIA report documents spear attack against surveillance plane

    So the analyst should have called it a "manually actuated, kinetically propelled, natively-sourced sabot-style surface-to-air projectile"?
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    Previously secret CIA report documents spear attack against surveillance plane

    I'm not seeing the racism here. Was the guy giving the presentation wearing a KKK robe or something?
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    Florence is now “only” a Category 2 hurricane. That won’t matter much

    On a discussion board that has included commenters saying effectively: "they deserve it because they vote Republican", you find my mild retort to be "disappointing"? Well I'm disappointed in you. Correct but also irrelevant to this discussion. Virtue signaling. Lazy. Your hypothetical...
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    Florence is now “only” a Category 2 hurricane. That won’t matter much

    If this bobbles a bit further north, how would Charlotte handle a similar amount of rainfall and potential flooding? (Note: that's an honest question, I don't know how prone Charlotte is to flooding). I used to live in Charlotte. It is in no way especially prone to flooding. Sure you've...
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    Florence is now “only” a Category 2 hurricane. That won’t matter much

    Lets' do this in reverse: 2) A couple of days ago Florence was suppose to hit as a Cat. 4 now its a Cat. 2. So lets wait until all the rain stops falling before we measure the rain gauges and do comparisons. 1) I'm not downplaying the impact of Floyd. It was horrific for Eastern North...
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    Florence is now “only” a Category 2 hurricane. That won’t matter much

    Here's some more experience *for you*: such warnings in that part of the state mean watch out around bodies of water. This is directly from the NWS watch you cite: * Flash flooding of creeks, rivers, streams, nearby roadways, and washouts of area bridges are likely. This is NOT widespread...
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    Florence is now “only” a Category 2 hurricane. That won’t matter much

    I grew up in NC, in the central part of the state, not too far from Raleigh. I've lived thru Hurricanes Hugo (1989), Fran(1996) and Floyd (1999). Fran hit us the worse: the problem was downed trees and powerlines. You simply don't know much about the geography of the state and how it effects...
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    Florence is now “only” a Category 2 hurricane. That won’t matter much

    OMG Ars, you've turned the hysteria dial up to 11 on this one! A Harvey-style rainfall scenario here will not have has as devastating effect on North Carolina as it did on Texas. The nearest population center in NC that is in any way comparable to Houston is Raleigh, which is well over 100...
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    Report: Butterfly MacBook Pro keyboards require more frequent, more expensive repairs

    Shhh! Don't criticism Apple laptops too much, otherwise Mr. Cook will stop making them altogether!
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    Ford to end almost all US car sales, focusing on SUVs and trucks

    Makes perfect sense to me. And I wonder how long until GM follows suit. American car companies simply cannot compete with Japanese and Korean companies when it comes to small, mass-market sedans in the American car market. They just can't! When they try to compete on price, the quality is...
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    “You may shut the f--- up”: Dashcam vindicates cops confronting corruption

    Its so disappointing that you've gotten so many down votes for your comments. It says a lot about the average Ars reader.
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    The 2018 Nissan Rogue review: Wildly popular but room for improvement

    After they discontinued the Xterra, I thought "oh well, at least I can get a Pathfinder when its time to buy new". However, around the same time that they decided to kill the Xterra, they also decided to basically turn the Pathfinder into a minivan, at least with regards to styling. Everyone...