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  1. Re:Really? on Shutdown Cost the US Economy $24 Billion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's bullshit that this is a -1. This is a legitimate question. When people with no healthcare wait until they need emergency services and then can't pay it that cost is picked up by all of us. If those people can get healthcare before it gets so bad for expensive ER visits it saves EVERYONE money.

  2. Re:Get used to it on Oakland Is Building a Big Data Center For Police Surveillance · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In 1984 the government actually cared about the citizens more than our government does.

    Now let that sink in for a minute.

  3. Re:As every paid journo knows on Online Journalism Is Becoming a Billionaires' Plaything (Again) · · Score: 1

    Which makes network neutrality all the more precious. Without it then you can set up your own server but the packets go nowhere.

    Every effort has to be made to allow the individual to be heard somehow.

  4. Re:Lets fix our tax code on Irish Government May Close Apple's Biggest Tax Loophole · · Score: 2

    Tax reform would be fine, but ONLY if we get rid of the corporate loopholes.

  5. Re:Linkbait on Irish Government May Close Apple's Biggest Tax Loophole · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is bullshit. The link between huge corporations and jobs has been use to justify all types of abuses and it's time to move on. The Internet has killed that link. We are shoveling more an order of magnitude more money (at least) towards corporate welfare than we do towards "real" welfare based on that theory. The small business is the only that is going to save he economy of the U.S. because those are the only jobs that are based in communities. The race to the bottom has made many multi-national employees no better off than slave labor. It's time to STOP shoveling money towards he biggest multinationals and taking care of the people that are doing the REAL capitalism, and that's small business owners.

  6. Re:Tax Avoidance on Irish Government May Close Apple's Biggest Tax Loophole · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My family owns Apple shares and I think it's wrong.

  7. Re:Foreigners on NSA Scraping Buddy Lists and Address Books From Live Internet Traffic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You have *less* rights to privacy than a USA citizen? In this case of privacy is there a number less than zero?

    The USA citizen that has no special associations is a peon, pal. We're in the same boat.

  8. Re:Trading term on Oil Traders Misread Tweet, Oil Prices Spike · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I do the "dollar cost average" thing, putting some money in every paycheck. I specifically don't read my account statements except once a year or so for this reason. The stock market always goes up in the long term. Even if it drops for a year it'll be fine. I won't be taking money out until I retire, and that won't be for at least another 25 years... it's best to not pay attention, in my opinion.

  9. Re:"New Interest" is needed on BlackBerry Founders May Try To Take Over the Company · · Score: 1

    "Toy" has been the common "business" slur against Macintosh going back to beginning. It was and is a corporate putdown that is really unfair.

    You can do a lot of cool looking stuff with Android (including play games) but I think the "toy" slur is just that... a slur. Android and to a lesser extent iOS are computers that have a phone function. BB started as a phone that can do some computer functions. IMHO, there Android gives you the ability to a lot more "business" than your traditional BB device, maybe at the expense of having the type of outside control that certain business IS managers would like to have.

  10. Re:Liars, liars, pants on fire on Guardian Ignores MI5 Warnings, Vows To 'Publish More Snowden Leaks' · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, "terrorist" is becoming as generic as calling someone an asshole.

    You took the last bear claw, you terririst!

  11. good? on NSA's New Utah Data Center Suffering Meltdowns · · Score: 0

    maybe this is okay.

  12. well... on Tesla Model S Catches Fire: Is This Tesla's 'Toyota' Moment? · · Score: 1

    Most Pontiac Fieros caught fire on the SIDE of the road without an accidents.

    Vehicles catch on fire! Wow!

    But Tesla is just like everyone else in the auto industry, and if there is something to make safer they should do it.

  13. well.. on Fukushima Leak Traced To Overflow Tank Built On a Slope · · Score: 2

    They should have hired Hank Hill to put it in. The could have told him it was a septic tank. It would have been perfect and had a lawn over it.

  14. Re:What moron judge allowed this? on Lavabit Case Unsealed: FBI Demands Companies Secretly Turn Over Crypto Keys · · Score: 1

    Easy. The U.S. Court is filled with old farts that can't grok what an SSL key even is.

    This is just another textbook case of NSA gaming a system that is far from equipped to adjudicate these modern problems.

  15. Re:Seriously? Did no one see this coming? on Malware Now Hiding In Graphics Cards · · Score: 1

    Bitcoin mining with the GPU is almost over. The way it is done these days is through specialized ASIC circuits. So really it's not all that relevant anymore.

  16. Illegal in Texas on Big Box? Nissan Note the First-Ever Car You Can 'Buy' On Amazon · · Score: 2

    If this were real and not just a link, wouldn't it run into the same problems as Tesla and be illegal in Texas?

  17. Re:Felony vs infringement on UK MPs: Google Blocks Child Abuse Images, It Should Block Piracy Too · · Score: 1

    In the corporate future, making the corporation lose $1 of revenue will be an offense punishable by instant death. Judge Dredd will head the copyright crimes department.

  18. Re:Piracy rationalizations in 3... 2... 1... on UK MPs: Google Blocks Child Abuse Images, It Should Block Piracy Too · · Score: 1

    irrational connection is irrational.

  19. Re:Hashtag oh no on Twitter Launches Emergency Alerts · · Score: 1

    #drownWithCruz

  20. Re:My wig is cracking your passwords on Scientists Build Computer Using Carbon Nanotubes · · Score: 3, Funny

    In the future, the NSA will have to be given a back door to your hair.

  21. Moore's Law on Scientists Build Computer Using Carbon Nanotubes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I can't remember the book I read this in, but it posited that if you remove the silicon part of Moore's Law and you just talk about computing power and cost and the like that you can make a case that it has been in place throughout human history. In other words computing power has always been doubling, it just started by drawing numbers in the dirt, went to the abacus, etc.. etc... until we reached the silicon age and integrated circuits.

    The hand wringing that the idea behind Moore's Law will ever end is just silly. When we reach the limits of silicon chips some other technology will take its place. This is just how human technology works.

  22. Re:As a HA consultant... on Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve · · Score: 1

    Quantum computing will first be used by traders, in other words.

  23. can I once again point out... on Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...that if the timing is down to milliseconds then the system is broken. It's automatically an unfair playing field tipped towards the largest competitors that have the computing power and programing to operate on that time scale.

    Of course nothing about Wall Street is about fairness anymore and usually they don't care about the law, either.

  24. Re:Turning in my Eagle Scout badge on Boy Scouts Bully Hacker Scouts Into Submission · · Score: 0

    I think the better reasoning for turning the badge is for discrimination, but that's just my opinion.

  25. Re:It's social engineering on Boy Scouts Bully Hacker Scouts Into Submission · · Score: 1

    They are scouting for gay guys and alerting their scoutleader when they find them.