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  1. Re:bite my elinks on Mobile Websites Can Tap Into Your Phone's Sensors Without Asking (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Just shut up. You're jealous of that N900 too and it shows.

  2. Doesn't that just give your personal information to Google instead?

  3. Re:My tag for this story (see comment) on Slack Buys and Shuts Down Intelligent Email App Astro (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's like basecamp for people smart enough to know IRC is superior but not smart enough to realize you could still just use IRC.

  4. Sounds great right up until they find out how to hack the WEP encryption on the wireless headsets and spoof false targets all over the place while erasing the legitimate ones.

  5. I think in theory with the right hardware and software there are scenarios where this type of technology could significantly increase combat survivability.

    I heavily doubt that anything Magic Leap - or really any of these other wanna-be game hardware vendors - has up their sleeves is up to the task however.

  6. Re: AC On Linus Torvalds on The New Yorker on Linus Torvalds (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Look, I'm not saying it's right or good. I'm just horrified that people that high up in the organization want to waste time on this instead of getting the work done.

  7. Re:AC On Linus Torvalds on The New Yorker on Linus Torvalds (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    I could give a shit if everyone hadn't always been twice as mean to me my whole life in person as in plain text. Imagine living your entire childhood and most of your adult life completely surrounded by people that demeaning and cruel verbally, and who were also physically just as abusive, but not nearly as smart, so there's nothing redeeming to learn from the beatings.

    It really boggles my mind that there's people out there this high up in Linux kernel development who have managed to grow to adulthood thinking they have the right to be treated nicely. That was never a given anywhere I have ever been.

  8. Of course they fucking say that. on Despite Data Caps and Throttling, Industry Says Mobile Can Replace Home Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you really think they hate overage fees?

  9. Well he said we'd have a great relationship with Russia. And while he didn't quite ban all immigration, he sure took a big shit on the legal ones.

  10. I think the official answer is something along the lines of "Fuck you, Nerd! We didn't buy your shit to learn stuff!"

  11. Re:Quick! Someone kick this tyrant in the cunt! on Ajit Pai Calls California's Net Neutrality Rules 'Illegal' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Now even our sitting president won't respect the laws. How do you expect anyone else to behave like an adult with that type of example to follow?

  12. You assume a lot in that sentence.

  13. Re:No surprise, he channels his boss. on Ajit Pai Calls California's Net Neutrality Rules 'Illegal' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yea, but not as the leader though. He was later bribed then promoted past his level of expertise and trustworthiness by Trump.

  14. Re:I don't think it matters on Ajit Pai Calls California's Net Neutrality Rules 'Illegal' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We already have a law for it. Unfortunately the head of the FCC was supposed to be the one in charge of enforcing that law...

  15. Re:I don't think it matters on Ajit Pai Calls California's Net Neutrality Rules 'Illegal' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I get that you're having trouble dancing around the fact that the Republicans are proving themselves to be liars here on the whole "small government" thing but don't you think it's at least a real problem with visuals that this seems to belie Pai's own prior statements about states having the right to overturn his un-neutral, unethical rules if they so want? Or are you really okay with the fact that the whole party line is only internally logically consistent if you don't have a memory span that lasts longer than 48 hours?

  16. Re:We all know on Ajit Pai Calls California's Net Neutrality Rules 'Illegal' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He didn't really have a plan for any really big states calling his bluff on that.

  17. Re:One less day is only a few minutes less work on Four-Day Working Week For All is a Realistic Goal This Century, UK Trade Unions Say (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What I ended up doing was buying some books and training myself to be qualified for a better job. And then I took the first offer that came along. Reading programming textbooks counted for appearing busy. Good thing for them they didn't let me become important to the company, or they may have missed me when I left.

  18. Re:One less day is only a few minutes less work on Four-Day Working Week For All is a Realistic Goal This Century, UK Trade Unions Say (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    And then later, when I asked why I was not allowed to play video games on my work computer when I was not busy, they told me that the most important part of my job was to simply appear busy. Suddenly all those panicked meetings to pretend there was lots of work to plan for made perfect sense.

  19. Re:One less day is only a few minutes less work on Four-Day Working Week For All is a Realistic Goal This Century, UK Trade Unions Say (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    *because they couldn't allow any one employee to become important to the company.

  20. Re:One less day is only a few minutes less work on Four-Day Working Week For All is a Realistic Goal This Century, UK Trade Unions Say (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Most the full-time, salaried positions I've held were like this. At once place I was so bored I begged for more work. They told me they couldn't allow me to be busy because they allow any one employee to become important to the company.

  21. Lemme just take one guess here... on OxyContin Billionaire Patents Drug To Treat Opioid Addiction (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    This pill to combat the addiction to the previous pills... it's addictive too, isn't it?

  22. Re:90s technology on Beta Release Nears For BeOS-inspired Open Source OS Haiku (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    It was ahead of its time. You should give it a try.

  23. Re:But I thought on Pluto Should Be Reclassified as a Planet, Experts Say (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    You're right. It doesn't matter whether or not we classify it as a planet, but Disney, Inc. had better step up and make sure that we stop calling it Pluto.

  24. Re:Was the tool itself malicious? on Google Has Notified At Least Dozens of People Targeted by Secret FBI Investigation (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I think that depending on how it was marketed, buying one can constitute probable cause.

  25. If you're always running in circles only looking forwards it seems like you're making consistent progress, but you're not.