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  1. Re: real computer systems? on US Military Aware Only Belatedly of Chinese Attacks Against Transport Contractor · · Score: 2

    9/11 came and went and they didn't learn a thing. Incompetent as ever.

    Far more pointedly: the Boston Marathon came and went. So either they let it happen to gain even more power [adjusts tinfoil hat], or all the 'post 9/11' security is total, absolute bullshit, with everything to do with career advancement then an early retirement to a payment in kind consulting gig, and nothing at all to do with the Fath^H^H^H^H Homeland.

  2. Clarification on Study Finds Link Between Artificial Sweeteners and Glucose Intolerance · · Score: 1

    The main difference is it is cheaper because it can be produced from massively subsidized, aquifer-draining corn.

    Plus, corn is used extensively as feed for cattle. But since they really can't digest it for long without getting sick, Big Beef lays on the antibiotics.

    Subsidized Corn: making people fat, draining aquifers, and creating superbugs - what can't it do?

  3. Problem solvers on ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children · · Score: 1

    So why are so many terrorists engineers?

    Because analytical minds can wall-off moral issues and cast murderous tasks as merely problems to be solved, up to and including nuclear weapons and genocide. Oppenhiemer wept and whined about what he was part of, but only after solving the problem.

  4. In light of this, it makes perfect sense that the former Plum Island animal disease institute be moved to the center of the country within eyesight of a fucking football stadium.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bio_and_Agro-Defense_Facility

  5. Optimization on FBI Completes New Face Recognition System · · Score: 1

    "We save time by automatically discarding all white faces."

  6. Apple Angels on Tim Cook Says Apple Can't Read Users' Emails, That iCloud Wasn't Hacked · · Score: 1

    A thousand angels, parsing the fuck out of every word on the head of a pin.

  7. Corruption? on WSJ Reports Boeing To Beat SpaceX For Manned Taxi To ISS · · Score: 1

    Corruption? Probably not. Hide-bound thinking bordering on Good-Ole-Boy-ism by NASA? Absolutely.

  8. Authors and Scientists on Sci-Fi Authors and Scientists Predict an Optimistic Future · · Score: 1

    Sci-Fi Authors and Scientists pollyannaishly forget about the ultimate, unstoppable evil: Corporations and their politician lapdogs.

  9. Related News on Windows Tax Shot Down In Italy · · Score: 0

    In related news, the price of PCs in Italy just shot up by about 100 Euros.

  10. The biggest failing on The Documents From Google's First DMV Test In Nevada · · Score: 1

    The biggest failing autonomous cars have is assuming they are *not* surrounded by malicious, aggressive, incompetent, brain-dead animals.

  11. Ding-Ding on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    The one thing about salt is that it does make stuff tasty, often the highly processed stuff, making it easy to overdo it. Avoiding salt sort of automatically helps one to cut out the heavily processed foods.

    Bingo. Processed foods are basically built out of salt and high levels of carbohydrates, which is just a fancy way of saying 'do you want a large order of diabetes with that'?

  12. It's worse than that on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    Where UK citizens would take a month long holiday every year because of the generous vacation time afforded by most European countries, the United States doesn't guarantee any paid vacation or sick time.

    Even US worker bees that do have a fair amount of vacation time available to them rarely dare take even 5 days at a time off. Why? The not unfounded fear that some bean-counter or your PHB will start thinking, 'hey, maybe we don't need the guy on vacation AT ALL'. So even while on vacay, we sufferers of never-ending Puritanism can't fully relax due to the fear of a pink slip waiting for us in reward for our holiday tan.

  13. Security on Google Hangouts Gets Google Voice Integration And Free VoIP Calls · · Score: 1

    I assume the security of the connection is haphazard, because, hey it's only an effing voice call. That, or backdoor mandated by the TLAs.

  14. Re: There's no stopping this. on US Rust Belt Manufacturing Rebounds Via Fracking Boom · · Score: 1

    The farm he spent his entire life building is going to literally be turned into an open pit 150ft deep. ... He plans to use his new found wealth to buy some land that has a trout stream running through it up the road and spend the rest of his days fishing.

    Odds are he outlives the fishing.

  15. Simple on UN Study Shows Record-High Increases For Atmospheric CO2 In 2013 · · Score: 1

    In any other scientific debate, you never hear about "Higgs Boson Deniers" or "String Theory Fanatics" or "Standard Model dinosaurs". As a matter of fact, this is pretty much the only scientific area where EVERY commentator acts as though they are experts.

    Simple. The Kochs and their whores can't make money off any of that.

  16. Let me buy a license on BBC: ISPs Should Assume VPN Users Are Pirates · · Score: 2

    Hey, Beeb. If you don't like people pirating your content (I don't, other than watching YouTube), them let them buy access, FFS. I'd be willing to pay a modest fee to watch domestic BBC programs for the convenience of not having to wait months / years / never (Porridge) for the content to show up in alternative media.

  17. Wagner on Private Police Intelligence Network Shares Data and Targets Cash · · Score: 1

    Hitler chose Wagner; neo-fascists always choose hard rock .

  18. Re:The death of leniency on U.S. Senator: All Cops Should Wear Cameras · · Score: 2

    I know that doesn't sound like a big deal but cops let thousands of people off per day on minor things where people just need a warning.

    Virtually none of them being young black men, which is the exact problem typifying US LEO since the Jim Crow days.

  19. Re:And this is how we get to the more concrete har on Limiting the Teaching of the Scientific Process In Ohio · · Score: 1

    So that's the real end goal - to get religion - or more correctly, Christianity, back into schools so everyone becomes a "good little Christian boy".

    more correctly, the Southern Baptist form of Christianity, which from science to women's rights, are in total agreement with Wahhabism.

  20. Auto-Qualification on Time Warner Cable Experiences Nationwide Internet Outage · · Score: 1

    A self-inflicted single point of failure to a mission-critical network? TWC, you are now qualified to be a government contractor!

  21. Downside on New Nail Polish Alerts Wearers To Date Rape Drugs · · Score: 1

    After she's well-hammered by 3 or 4 untainted drinks, will she still have the ability or memory to 'run the test' on the potentially last fateful drink of the night?

    More to the point: stay the eff out of bars and never go to a frat party of any type.

  22. Obligatory on Robo Brain Project Wants To Turn the Internet Into a Robotic Hivemind · · Score: 1

    PC LOAD LETTER

  23. Independence Day on Lizard Squad Bomb Threat Diverts Sony Exec's Plane To Phoenix · · Score: 1

    What people fail to understand is that the government is *huge* and as easy as it is to find laughable examples of waste, abuse, and outright incompetence, that's only one end of the bell curve.

    "Did you really think they were spending $500 on a hammer?"

  24. Ferguson on UK Police Warn Sharing James Foley Killing Video Is a Crime · · Score: 0

    The white power structure in Ferguson (more of a norm than exception in Red states) would be glad to use such a system if someone had a video of the execution.

    Apparently, Twitter has never heard of the hashtags Slippery Slope and Chilling Effect, let alone First Amendment.

  25. Strangely sensationalist on New Research Suggests Cancer May Be an Intrinsic Property of Cells · · Score: 1

    The was a strangely sensationalist article for NPR; one is left with a sense of hopelessness until the last paragraph or two about promising treatments. Not sure why they were so compelled to bury potential good news under a bushel of sorrow.