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  1. Re:A sign of times on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    The primary weakness in science and religion is that neither camp has leadership that can swallow their pride long enough to admit there's a possible correlation here.

  2. Re: The key is not getting caught on Russian Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, the thing is she wasn't, at first. She only pivoted to supporting them because after that day Bernie ceded the stage to them at his own rally she didn't want to appear to be racist or uncaring by comparison.

  3. Re:The key is not getting caught on Russian Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but neither of those groups were aware they were being paid by non-citizens to essentially commit treason.

  4. Re:Closed Source is Better on Companies Overlook Risks in Open Source Software, Survey Finds (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    When I got ransonwared, Microsoft pad the ransom, because Windows was fully updated, and I maintained good security practices...

    Pics or it didn't happen.

  5. Re:Media Matters? Correct the Record? on Twitter Is Crawling With Bots and Lacks Incentive To Expel Them (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yea, if you'd only been on this site for about a week you could probably make that argument while keeping a straight face, but anyone actually paying attention knows which one of us is the astroturfer.

  6. Re:Darn? on Leave It To the Heat to Dull Autumn's Glory (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    But it is science-related.

  7. Re:Not a sign of global warming on Leave It To the Heat to Dull Autumn's Glory (wsj.com) · · Score: 0

    Astroturfer.

  8. Re:Simple on Voice Assistants Will Be Difficult To Fire (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    He meant most the time, [that someone who already knows how to type and cares about accuracy of the message contents is doing it] it's easier to just type in what you want anyway.

  9. Re:Media Matters? Correct the Record? on Twitter Is Crawling With Bots and Lacks Incentive To Expel Them (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    You're wasting your breath. You're responding to the Russian influence.

  10. Re:Neither is useful on Is the Chromebook the New Android Tablet? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Your post reeks of desperation.

  11. Re:They probably refused to ignore NSA malware on Office Depot, Best Buy Pull Kaspersky Products From Shelves (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's also possible that the software is fine as delivered by Kaspersky as far as they know, but altered/backdoored covertly while in transit, somehow. The U.S. government has done as much to Cisco hardware that has been shipped worldwide, so it's not like there wouldn't be precedent.

  12. Re:Nice on RIP AIM: AOL Instant Messenger Dies in December (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    ... or was the whole thing just a waste of a few million peoples lives and cash ?

    Maybe it'd be better for you if you never find out the answer to this.

  13. Re:Dumb question. Obvious answer. on Nearly 4 Million People In US Still Subscribe To Netflix DVDs By Mail (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Hah! 4 triggered responders suggests you're onto something.

  14. Dumb question. Obvious answer. on Nearly 4 Million People In US Still Subscribe To Netflix DVDs By Mail (recode.net) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Crappy rural broadband that services the 90% of the continental U.S. where the least-crowded 50% of the population lives just doesn't cut it for streaming services.

  15. Re:Non issue. Will be blown up out of proportion. on Facebook Says 10 Million US Users Saw Russia-linked Ads (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Imagine everything everyone ever told you was a lie. How would you think for yourself then?

  16. Re:Non issue. Will be blown up out of proportion. on Facebook Says 10 Million US Users Saw Russia-linked Ads (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a fundamentally different situation and you know it. ASTRO TURFER!

  17. Re:Non issue. Will be blown up out of proportion. on Facebook Says 10 Million US Users Saw Russia-linked Ads (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No, see, I'm actually the one arguing against treating people like herd animals. This article is about an ad campaign designed to do just that. Clever trick you just tried there, but this conversation doesn't work like that, you astro-turfing whore.

  18. Re:Non issue. Will be blown up out of proportion. on Facebook Says 10 Million US Users Saw Russia-linked Ads (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Imagine for a second it wasn't only $100k. That shouldn't be hard, because you're imagining the number $100k in the first place. You have no idea how much 10 million targeted ad views costs. You have no frame of reference, so just for the sake of the mental exercise, imagine it was say, a lot more, like say, $400 million. Gosh; wow! That's nearly half a billion dollars! Now, imagine it wasn't even mostly sold to traffic bots or ad blockers, because the people who bought these ads aren't idiots and they also are the same people running the bots. Still with me? I know it's a lot to imagine. Now, as the icing on the cake, imagine it wasn't only spent on facebook, or ads. Imagine they are slightly creative and so they thought of spending it on all the popular social networks and imagine they spent it on posted content too.

    Imagining all that, hypothetically, doesn't it seem like it might be slightly irresponsible to trivialize, at least? Doesn't it, as a rational thinker, bother you even a little?

  19. Re:I block ads on Facebook Says 10 Million US Users Saw Russia-linked Ads (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You know who doesn't block ads? Republicans. Know why? Because they think of that as stealing.

  20. Re:Hillary spent $1.2 billion... on Facebook Says 10 Million US Users Saw Russia-linked Ads (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They spent a lot more than $50k and you know it.

  21. Re:SHUT UP! on Facebook Says 10 Million US Users Saw Russia-linked Ads (reuters.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    You're both Russian and neither of you are fooling anyone here. This show is entirely for your own benefits.

  22. Re:Revoke their corporate charters. on AT&T Seeks Supreme Court Review On Net Neutrality Rule (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Because they have us by the balls.

  23. Re:Critically flawed logic on California Considers Banning Internal Combustion Engines To Meet Emissions Goals (sacbee.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice, I like how you "forgot" that it's possible to replace all this with solar power given only the right incentives, despite claiming to be a sensible thinker. So either you're not actually (sorry to have to be the one to inform you in that case), or you're just evil. Either way, go read a book. Hell, read one about pixies and I bet you'll still learn something new.

  24. Re:The electrical grid here in CA... on California Considers Banning Internal Combustion Engines To Meet Emissions Goals (sacbee.com) · · Score: 1

    A steep increase in the number of electric cars will finally be the justification for solar that idiots needed to get their act together.

    Fixed that for you.

  25. I don't think you realize they have this thing called sunlight, and despite hundreds of years of technological progress it is still free.