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  1. Re:A long time coming... on China's Stock Crash: $3.5 Trillion Wiped Out, $2.6 Trillion Frozen · · Score: 1

    * BTW, about that Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times," after decades in Asia, I have yet to find a native speaker who can tell me the original Chinese. So it seems this curse is apocryphal, most likely invented by a Westerner as a joke.

    I'd always read it was Arabic or Persian; probably means it's either Icelandic or Venusian.

  2. Close, but not quite on Most Doctors Work While Sick, Despite Knowing It's Bad For Patients · · Score: 1

    I think this is one aspect of poor management., Management sets the tone - do they complain etc. when you call in sick? If they don't, then people take off when they are sick.

    Not exactly. The 'miracle' of American worker productivity is that most of us are now doing our work and the work of the poor sap that got laid-off during the Sub-Prime Pyramid Recession. Now, we're all too terrified to call in sick lest we be tagged as lazy or disposable. So we all work sick, because we need the health insurance (hashtag: irony).

  3. Bike Messengers on Switzerland Begins Trials of Expensive Postal Drones · · Score: 1

    They better learn to peddle even faster.

  4. Intel Store Front? on Hacking Team Scrambling To Limit Damage Brought On By Explosive Data Leak · · Score: 1

    I particularly like how it's come out that they were backdooring (and presumably screwing, or at least reserving the opportunity to screw) their own ethically-challenged customer base.

    This singular fact may lead to the exposure of this company as a very impressive, long-term false front for an intel shop. Probably not the NSA, given that the FBI (backdoor irony alert) and other FedGov organs were apparently customers. Who *is not* on that customer list: GCHQ? Interpol? Russia?

    There may be a popcorn shortage before all this plays out.

  5. It's the old joke about work on Watching People Code Is Becoming an (Even Bigger) Thing · · Score: 1

    "Work is fascinating; I could watch it all day." Or the Kyle Kinane bit about Ice Road Truckers.

  6. Wow on Google Apologises For Photos App's Racist Blunder · · Score: 1

    What we call black people are actually just a richer brown.

    Wow. I assume you mean the racist 'we', aka 'they all look alike to us' we?

  7. It was on Interviews: Linus Torvalds Answers Your Question · · Score: 1

    The bigger issue, though, is systemd's influence over other projects. But that wasn't raised, so why would he comment?

    Oh, it was asked, but my question about Red Hats' (and their one employees') increasingly out-sized dominance even over desktop apps wasn't deemed worthy, much to all our detriment.

  8. They'll never see it coming on Test Pilot: the F-35 Can't Dogfight · · Score: 1

    Because it never will be coming.

  9. Re:The First Rule of Bacterial Fight Club on Creating Bacterial "Fight Clubs" To Discover New Drugs · · Score: 1

    In other words: they're developing a more effective bioweapons lab.

  10. Philip K Dick on Greek Financial Crisis Is an Opportunity For Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    "Do Electronic Carpetbaggers Dream of Sheep (to Fleece)?"

  11. Occams Electric Shaver on Cisco Security Appliances Found To Have Default SSH Keys · · Score: 1

    Essentially Cisco did this shit on purpose, and you can bet at least some people knew damned well this was there.

    Never attribute activity to nefarious government agencies to what can be more easily explained by clueless MBA PHBs demanding their own personal screendoor.

  12. Yes, there is adware and exploitive free to play games, but you can uninstall them and they're gone.

    I can't (and never will) speak for iOS, but on Android, when you hit the back button one too many times (overshooting the app main page), boom: full-screen scummy ad.

    Please tell us how to 'uninstall' that behavior.

  13. Anchors Aweigh! on Scientists Overcome One of the Biggest Limits In Fiber Optic Networks · · Score: 1

    I assume less electronics in-cable would result in more harbor 'accidents' for the NSA repair crews to 'fix'.

  14. It's not a bug, it's a feature on Nanoparticle-based Fibers Could Lead To No-fade Textiles With Structural Color · · Score: 1

    The brain cancer from nanoparticles? No charge.

  15. Not quite on Supreme Court Ruling Supports Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    A determination of "Water is wet" would be an 8-1 decision by the court with Scalia writing a scathing dissent that forcing the ruling on Americans destroys democracy.

    Nope. It would be 8-2. You can't forget about his mute shadow.

  16. Re:Another great Scalia line on Supreme Court Ruling Supports Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    Being as he was one of the unelected lawyers who selected our president in 2000, he apparently has no sense of irony.

    The more accurate word is shame.

  17. Re:Prime Scalia on Supreme Court Upholds Key Obamacare Subsidies · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Even for Scalia - who has a reputation of holding no punches - this is intriguing stuff in his dissent (which is nearly as long as the verdict itself - pages 27 to 47 of 47 total are all his)

    I assume one page of the others was written by Thomas and merely states: "Yeah, what HE said!" What a joke of a Justice.

  18. Systemd on Interview: Ask Linus Torvalds a Question · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why have you been so passive and uncaring about the obvious Trojan Horse of systemd? No concern about the increasing domination by one company (Red Hat)? Seriously?

  19. This shit again on High-Fat, High-Sugar Diet Can Lead To Cognitive Decline · · Score: 1

    But if you take a little time and look around, VERY good food choices can be had. And there is really NO excuse for only having bad foods at home. Ever heard of cooking? (and no, I don't mean popping something pre-made/frozen in the fucking microwave).

    Absolutely! All that is required of you is TIME AND MONEY.

    The majority of Americans' waistlines is tied innately to the fact they're being worked longer and longer for less and less buying power. This means they don't have the TIME to prep / cook relatively short-shelf life healthy food that also would cost them too much MONEY, therefore cheap, fast, preprocessed food IS THEIR ONLY CHOICE. Treble the impact in urban settings.

    But, yes; sit along side Oprah and Gwenyth Paltrow, cluck your tongue, pat us on the head, and tell us again how simple the solution is, six-figure. /s

  20. Oh, yes; *Hackers* are the source of the rot and corruption in the US stock, securities, and banking institutions. Hackers (i.e., Tufta).

  21. Nuremburg 2.0 on Emergency Adobe Flash Patch Fixes Zero-Day Under Attack · · Score: 1

    I look forward to the Flash programmers soon being tried for their crimes against humanity.

    Hmm. Maybe not, as it will probably be broadcast using Flash.

  22. Re:Wrong question. on When Will Your Hard Drive Fail? · · Score: 2

    Dropbox lets you retrieve previous versions for up to 30 days.

    See? And some say NSA surveillance is a bad thing!

  23. The Agony and The Ecstasy on When Will Your Hard Drive Fail? · · Score: 1

    "When it is finished!"

  24. Vietnam on New Snowden Leaks Show NSA Attacked Anti-Virus Software · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Basically you have organised crime going on in security organisation meant to be upholding the law and as a result supplying those viral tools to criminals to be used against the citizens those security organisations are meant to be protecting.

    'It became necessary to destroy the town to save it'

  25. The Mayday PAC isn't about right or left wing or partisan politics at all.

    Pretty sure they don't believe Corporations are People, thus: *not* Right Wing.