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  1. Never on Android Banking Malware SlemBunk Part of Well-Organized Campaign (fireeye.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is why I don't and never will have a banking app on any mobile device.

  2. Re:I don't think... on Why Some People Think Total Nonsense Is Really Deep (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope that's true because that's what I am. If asked if I am a believer or an atheist I say no. I'm not interested enough in the question of whether God exists to have an answer. I leave that to people who think it's important. I don't.

  3. Re:Not anti-immigrant on Paper Retracted After Anti-Immigrant Scientist Bans Use of His Software (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is the wrongest part of his manifesto. Immigration--that is, the free flow of labor across national boundaries--strengthens the working class by undercutting national and nationalist prejudices, and anything that strengthens the working class hastens the demise of capitalism. His point of view is that workers are not capable of making history, only being the objects of history. This is wrong--if you don't believe me go work in a sweatshop for a few years.

  4. Re:What Congress should do on Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    No one can force you to work. Since your job is going away anyway, quit.

  5. Simple solution on Wealth Therapy Tackles Woes of the Rich · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A couple of others have referred to this idea, which I have myself suggested to individuals who were troubled by "privilege." Give away all your money, get a job at Walmart and join the fight for $15 and hour and a union. All your (previous) troubles will seem so far away, you will make new and interesting and sincere friends and you will be contributing to making a better world. What more could you ask for?

  6. Re:Makes sense considering on China Beats US In Early Cuban Internet Infrastructure Investment · · Score: 1

    Evidence please? Do you have any actual facts about censorship in Cuba of the internet or are you just repeating what the State Department has been saying? For example can you name a specific site that is not accessible from Cuba? I thought not. In fact there is no comparison between Cuba and China, where there is enormous censorship. Just because both countries begin with the same letter as Censorship doesn't mean they both practice it.

  7. Re: O Rly? on China Beats US In Early Cuban Internet Infrastructure Investment · · Score: 1

    Evidence please? Neither one of them owns anything. Unlike politicians in office and retired in a certain large country to the north of Cuba and I don't mean Canada but I could.

  8. Fiorina and the ruling class on Carly Fiorina: I Supplied HP Servers For NSA Snooping · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That stuff about small government is for the chumps. The NSA and the rest of the police agencies are there to protect US capitalism. HP is a big US corporation. There's no reason in the world why she wouldn't cooperate with the NSA. Nor is there any reason why any other big corporation won't, whatever they may say publicly.

  9. Re:Hardly the only example on Flash From the Past: Why an Apparent Israeli Nuclear Test In 1979 Matters Today · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You might also keep in mind that the KKK and the Democratic Party were pretty much the same thing, along with the sheriff and the rest of the cops.

  10. Not quite ready on Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind · · Score: 2, Insightful

    to replace reliable hydrocarbons or nuclear power

  11. Re:"One document reminds NSA officials to be polit on AT&T Helped the NSA Spy On Internet Traffic · · Score: 2

    The NSA wasn't "fucking the wife" and it really is a partnership. AT&T is a loyal corporate citizen and was doing its loyal patriotic duty. If you were AT&T, wouldn't you? Isn't the NSA and the rest of the state police apparatus there to protect AT&T and its class?

  12. Under what authority? on Police Shut Down Anti-Violence Fundraiser Over Rapper's Hologram · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps someone who knows some law could explain under what authority the mayor or the cops can shut down a concert because they don't like one of the performers? Is this going to be the new normal? They'll shut down the next one because it "promotes terrorism"?

  13. Managment is not interested in safety on Amtrak Installing Cameras To Watch Train Engineers · · Score: 1

    If Amtrak management were really interested in safety, they'd put a second person in the cab. Like airplanes. Why not switch to a single pilot and a camera? How safe would that make you feel?

  14. Re:The edits aren't the problem on British Politicians Delete Negative Wikipedia Descriptions Before Election · · Score: 1

    a. 99 percent of wikipedia users don't know there are audit logs let alone are willing or interested in wading through them. And audit logs don't tell you anything about prejudices or points of view. b. Wikipedia is pretty good for science stuff. The further you get away from science the worse it gets in terms of reliability.

  15. Re:Stupid ... on US Proposes Tighter Export Rules For Computer Security Tools · · Score: 1

    except who's gonna enforce that?

  16. Re:Uh oh... on Swedish Court Orders Seizure of Pirate Bay Domains · · Score: 1

    Only govt that's not "pro corporatist" isn't Iceland but Cuba. Don't be fooled by the propaganda that's emanating from the US and other capitalist countries.

  17. Very superficial on The Auto Industry May Mimic the 1980s PC Industry · · Score: 3, Informative

    Too many differences to list. One, the cost of entry into the market for making automobiles is staggering, so there aren't going to be any new manufacturers. Quite different from the PC. Two, the cost to the buyer. PC's got cheaper but cars are getting more expensive. Three, you can live without a PC (you could back then, anyway) but very few cars are bought as luxury items. So, the vast majority of cars are going to continue to be sold as transportation devices and not as smartphone substitutes.

  18. "Cashless" is meaningless on The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Cashless is a convenience. You need a currency. And once there is one, you're in the dollar world again.

  19. Re:Keeps the brain sharp on John Urschel: The 300 Pound Mathematician Who Hits People For a Living · · Score: 1

    He said "not a pleasant person to be around." I'm that way too sometimes. Who isn't? Why do you call him "brutish" and "a time-bomb"? There's not a word to suggest he's ever been violent outside his job.

  20. Misleading headline on Critics Say It's Time To Close La Guardia Airport · · Score: 1

    "'Critics' say"? I only read one name on the article. So it's one guy's opinion. I fly in and out of LGA a lot and I've never had a negative reaction any worse than at any other airport. The biggest problem isn't the airport, as others have noted, it's ground transportation, which is not exactly a difficult engineering problem to solve. It is an unsolvable political-economic problem.

  21. Re:Chill, bitcoin-istas on Bitcoin Is Disrupting the Argentine Economy · · Score: 1

    You'd have to be nuts to peg your currency to something as volatile and mysterious as bitcoin.

  22. Chill, bitcoin-istas on Bitcoin Is Disrupting the Argentine Economy · · Score: 1

    This scheme works by buying dollars with bitcoins. How is that any different from buying dollars with pesos? The value of the bitcoin is pegged to the dollar. The value of the peso is pegged to the dollar. Until bitcoin replaces the dollar as the world's standard currency, all this scheme does is circumvent some government rules. It certainly doesn't disrupt anything, any more than not reporting income disrupts anything.

  23. I call BS on U.S. Gov't Grapples With Clash Between Privacy, Security · · Score: 1

    The only thing they're "grappling" with is how to continue unlimited spying while convincing you they're respecting your privacy.

  24. Not "US justice" on After Anti-Donation Executive Order, Bitcoin Donations For Snowden Jump · · Score: 1

    "evading US justice"? I don't think so.

  25. No such thing on Feds Attempt To Censor Parts of a New Book About the Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 2

    as a real secret any more, if there ever was. If the "secret" is based on scientific research, it's been published and is reproducible and all the relevant people already know about it. If it's engineering, anyone can figure it out. Probably the only thing that's "secret" any more is the Coca Cola formula.