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  1. What's the current line? on US Senators Seek Military Ban on Kaspersky Lab Products Amid FBI Probe (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought the current li(n)e was that there isn't anything wrong with Russian influence. Or does that only apply to The Holy One?

  2. no, it's harassment, without scare quotes. The chivalrous thing to do is to keep your hands off your coworkers until you're invited.

    That's a double standard. It sounds like you are saying that only the woman should be allowed to "make the first move" by inviting the man, and that the man is never allowed to initiate anything (since he has to wait to be invited).

    Even if we remove gender from this, under your theory, no could ever initiate anything, since they would have to wait for an invitation, but the invitation its self would be initiating, which can't be done until the other person invites you, and round and round we go.

  3. Re:Lawsuit in 3, 2, 1... on Walmart to Vendors: Get Off Amazon's Cloud (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Wallmart isn't even close to having a monopoly on cloud services.

  4. That sounds like an easy fix.

  5. Re:What *can* FCC do? on FCC Can't Cap the Cost of Cross-State Prison Phone Calls, Court Rules (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    A person's civil rights should not change just because they are on one side of an imaginary line or the other. State's right are a vestige of a bygone age, when we couldn't travel across the country in a matter of hours. They have no place in our modern political system..

  6. Re:That's not Uber's problem on Trump-Style Tactics Finally Stopped Working For Uber (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    It's merely your opinion that it's illegal for Uber to declare the people who work for them are contractors

    Yup, just an opinion: http://www.dailybusinessreview...

  7. Re:Hit to the brand on Sharp To Americans: You Don't Want to Buy a Sharp-Brand TV (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    We've seen how bad it is when you give up control, look at that latest Fantastic Four movie. It makes the unreleased Roger Corman licensing-placeholder look watchable.

    I heard the musical version was much better.

  8. Re:Defining what a "hate crime" is. on Prosectors Say the Kansas Shooting of Garmin Engineers Was a Hate Crime (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the crime was committed against an entire class fo people, instead of the direct victims,

  9. No rules were broken. The documents were completely unclassified, and he was fully within his rights to release them. The only mistake is calling it a "leak".

  10. The correlates well with the statistic that 100% of Millennials are entitled whiners.

    Peeps, this is what you get when you refuse to believe in all the things that got your parents and grandparents what they have.

    How does "wanting something but not having the money for it" count as entitled whining? Especially when it is a response given to a survey explicitly asking people if they want to own a house some day?

    I hope to one day see the Grand Canyon, but I don't currently have any free time to do so, does that make me a "whiner"?

    You, on the other hand, seem to be making an awful lot of high pitched noises about how you think millennials behave.

  11. To further put this into context, if your body takes in 2 calories more per day than is needed, you will be obese in a year.

    That doesn't sound right to me. An extra 2 calories per day for one year is 730 calories. Even eating an extra 1000 calories in a year isn't going to qualify someone as obese unless they are practically right at that line anyway.

  12. Re:You need hard-to-erase disks on 'WannaCry Makes an Easy Case For Linux' (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Data on disk often IS managed by software "lower than the operating system", especially on SSDs. The OS just issues SATA commands to the disk, and gives it a buffer full of data. It is completely up to the firmware of the disk (running on the disk its self) how to handle that command. The OS never directly accesses the drive. In fact, the only computer I can name off the top of my head where the OS directly controlled the disk was the Apple II line of computers.

  13. Re:There is no cloud on 'WannaCry Makes an Easy Case For Linux' (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    You can have that without the cloud too.

  14. Unless they access databases,

  15. 2nd definition at http://www.dictionary.com/brow...

    2. to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment.

  16. Re:Fast internet? on SpaceX Launches Super-Heavy Satellite Atop Falcon 9 Rocket (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Radio waves travel around 186,000 miles/second, meaning a round trip to the satellite is 1/4 of a second. If you're typing in ssh, double that. Press a key, half a second later the letter appears. If you click a link that has to hit a server, same thing - 1/2 second of overhead

    So it's the world's highest Comcast simulator?

  17. Re:But the terrorists are dumb! on US To Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights From Europe (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't need to bring down a plane to cause terror, they only need to cause mass public fear. I'm sure anything that actually explodes in the cargo hold, even if no one is hurt, would be counted as a huge success.

  18. Re:Regulate ISP's not Regulate the Internet on Senate Republicans Introduce Anti-Net Neutrality Legislation (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Except the didn't "manage" it, they obliterated it, completely preventing it from functioning. They even did this on otherwise completely networks when there was no bandwidth contention.

    Also, Comcast as a small, or rural ISP; you just made my day.

    If you completely block an aspect of the internet from working, then you, as an ISP, are no longer selling me internet access. Feel free to sell it as something else if you want to block things, and your advertising better make it very clear what is and isn't available. No more "Unlimited Internet Service" ads with 18 pages of limitations.

  19. Re:Regulate ISP's not Regulate the Internet on Senate Republicans Introduce Anti-Net Neutrality Legislation (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you give me an example of an ISP shaping traffic? The Netflix example is not valid because there was no shaping. Any other examples?

    Comcast actively interfering with network connections using Sandvine.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  20. Re:Witness the DoubleSpeak on Senate Republicans Introduce Anti-Net Neutrality Legislation (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    What do you call FCC oversight of peering?

    Logical

  21. Can an employee be fired for watching porn on company time? Yes.

    Can an employee be fired for reading novels on company time? Yes.

    Can an employee be fired for doing their job exceptionally well without a single violation of company policy? Yes.

    I'm not sure what point you were trying to make.

  22. Stupid as it may be, as long as enough other fools believe in it, you can exchange your imaginary money for actual government-backed, widely accepted money or even goods.

    Yeah, but can I do it without having to go meet some stranger in a dark alley behind a Quick-E-mart to exchange funds yet?

  23. Re:Revenue streams on Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars To Get Their First Real Riders (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's Comcast's self-driving car.

  24. Ohhh wow, I bet Google never thought of that! You should email them right away and let them know.

  25. That doesn't mean they are wrong.