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  1. Re:not surprising on Obama: The Word 'Classified' Means Whatever We Need It To Mean (techdirt.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    As there is for loud mouthed Republicans who believe it's their duty to force their religious and moral beliefs onto the rest of us. This happens with all parties, you're retarded if you think it's only one party's problem. I truly mean like mouth breathing, should be culled from the herd kind of retarded.

  2. Re:bad for standardization... on The Future of Firefox is Chrome (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    But Chromium is open sourced vs closed source IE. If you don't like the direction Google is taking Chrome you can fork and go at a different direction and if you're right, then people will come and (likely) Chromium will pick up what you're doing and merge it back to the main project. The nice thing is that there is some level of standardization. Make a difference when and where it matters, being different for the sake of being different is dumb.

  3. Re:Make it undesirable to exploit zero days on Zero-Days Doubled In 2015, More Companies Hiding Breach Data, Says Symantec (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd say the death penalty has been 100% successful at stopping a murderer (of whom the death penalty was applied) from murdering other people.

  4. My Poem Application for Amazon on The Next Hot Job in Silicon Valley Is For Poets (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    My Loreum your Ipsum input not found, you dolor.

  5. Actually Blizzard sold them a license to be able to use a game client within compliance of the Terms of Use. If the license stipulates that the client cannot be used to connect to a different server than there's not much anyone can say. I'm not saying I agree with the outcome, but merely that you people start understanding what you're purchasing and use your money to support developers who'll actually sell you what it is you think you're buying.

  6. Why shouldn't they? They created the product, spent the money investing into it, and brought it online. They marketed it and supported it and it got popular and they've continued support for it for over a decade. Do you believe you're not entitled to control how your work is used and by whom?

  7. Re: What abt people who don't want kids? on Twitter To Give All New Parents 20 Weeks of Paid Leave (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    But, to be fair, those rights/benefits weren't segregated by the act of having a child. The original post marks a valid concern: why is it that *only* parents should get 20 extra weeks? Maybe what they do is socially important, but going on vacation and spending money is also socially important. The act of raising a child is what's socially important, not just having them.

  8. When did I get old? on Chat App Kik Beats Facebook To Launching a Bot Store (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't use to be this way, but now I struggle with some of today's new technology. Why do I want to send stuff through bots as opposed to "uploading" through an application?

  9. Re:All three customers rejoice! on BlackBerry Makes Privacy and Control Subscription in BBM Free · · Score: 2

    They have one in BB10 and have had it for some time.

  10. I think you misunderstand. If I had clicked to add that graphic to one email, there was a bug that would have that happening in future emails, including those not going to the same contacts. It impacted ALL outgoing emails, for SOME people.

  11. Re:Warrant canary on Reddit Deletes Surveillance 'Warrant Canary' In Transparency Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No they're not. Most normal folks don't really care. They already share their whole lives in "selfies" and post continually updates to their geo-tagged Tweetbookgram pages.

  12. Not really. Google even admitted that there was a bug that, after sending the image, any subsequent emails could have the image attached to those even without pressing the button. It could be that many of these people who reported the issue sent the funny email once, intentionally, and then all subsequent emails got it too. They shouldn't be considered "dumb" when it was the stupid engineer and QA teams who were too stupid to see a simple bug. For once, it was the stupidity of the "computer people" and not of the "luser".

  13. Re:More useless microsoft vaporware on Microsoft Makes Xamarin Free In Visual Studio, Will Open Source Core Xamarin Tech (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    There's already a beta out for it. Do you know what "vaporware" actually is?

  14. Re:More Microsoft PR Here Today? on Microsoft Makes Xamarin Free In Visual Studio, Will Open Source Core Xamarin Tech (venturebeat.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Are you illiterate? Just look on the front page.

  15. Re:So, like Tesla? on Volvo Wants You To Ditch Car Keys For Its New Smartphone App (dailydot.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    > Onstar owners smug sense of superiority (is there such a thing?)

    Nah, most of us Onstars don't even think about the plebeian poser fucks who don't have it.

  16. If you choose to use the product/service -- sure, why not? Do you think that creating, maintaining, and upgrading this kind of system is cheap?

  17. The cause doesn't necessarily define the conclusion. Why climate change is happening is far less important than the end result and the opportunity to at least TRY to do something about it.

  18. Re:OK Atheists: Religion is temporarily approved! on We Had All Better Hope These Scientists Are Wrong About the Planet's Future (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    This means what exactly? That climatologists are going to die if they don't stop researching the climate and making prediction?

  19. Re:OK Atheists: Religion is temporarily approved! on We Had All Better Hope These Scientists Are Wrong About the Planet's Future (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Perhaps it's because his work is based on mathematical models, research, and the scientific message. Religion is based on - believe me cuz I said so...OR DIE. There's no comparison, just your lack of intelligence on the difference between climate science and religion. I'd call you stupid, but that'd probably go over your head.

  20. Perhaps the increasing fervor is due to a situation that no one is addressing and that most Republicans aren't wanting to force to NOT be addressed. People like you remind me of the cartoons where the screaming character is a hilariously long distance away from the steam roller moving slowly towards him so that the character's scream is long and drawn out....until he gets ran over.

    The climate is changing. The vast majority of scientists are not debating that point. IF it is man made, we may have an opportunity to fix it and we should start now because this is literally the only planet we have to support our life. The other case doesn't really matter, we're boned no matter what we do, but there's no reason outside of some people claiming that OMG CAPITALISM COULD DIE. Personally, I'd rather the death of an economic system that'll eventually die off vs the planet that sustains the life I live.

  21. Re:Pudding pops? on Radio Attack Lets Hackers Steal 24 Different Car Models (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I think so. I believe it's a common practice for people who want to horde/hide stuff to hide it in their freezers. I think the statistic on that is 1 in every 4 Americans.

  22. I don't understand this mentality. What you're buying and what is clearly stated in the terms of purchase is that you are buying a LICENSE or the rights to play the game/use the product or service. Whether your like it or not, this has nothing to do with "freedom" and everything to do with understanding what it is you're actually buying. It's like renting a car -- you're not buying the car, you're buying the rights to drive that car for a limited amount of time/distance.

  23. Re:Nothing stopping them from giving more.. on Millionaires: Raise Our Taxes To Address Poverty, Fix Roads (go.com) · · Score: 1

    The intent isn't actually to likely persuade anything to happen outside of something important: discussion. One or two people giving away, say, 20% more of their net worth hardly does anything and the case can easily be made that if doing X action doesn't meet Y result then find a better action.

  24. Re:The trifecta on Amazon Employees Launch Matchmaking Startup For Coworkers (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    > smart women are turned away from STEM

    Bullocks. There are plenty of smart women in STEM. It's a personality thing, the more egg headier the workplace, the less likely people are going to take half thought-through ideas or concepts or "emotions." Plenty of smart men and women don't run in STEM circles because they're too quick to conclusions or decisions and don't think about the implications. There are also different kinds of "smart" - a mechanic with 30 years of experience probably knows some things far better than the automotive engineer with 10 years under his belt. Women don't go into STEM because a lot of them don't care to. It's a cold area where feelings aren't a basis to make a claim and where people are willing to tell you that you're stupid if you act like it.

    The women I've seen in STEM aren't any different to the men and aren't treated any different, at least to sum of my experience.

  25. Re:FYI app list on FTC Warns Android App Developers About Use of Audio-Tracking Code · · Score: 1

    AC said "allowing apps to have always running services." I was replying to that...there isn't an alternative to "always running services" that makes sense, given what these apps do and that even iOS allows apps to have services (at least to some degree).