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  1. Re:Hey Wipsplash on UK Gov't Launches Public Consultation On Porn-Site Age Checks (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    News for Nerds. Not all nerds are in the USA.

  2. The problem is that if you ask for verifiable information, you'll lose so many customers that you'll go out of business.

    Which the Tories would count as a success.

  3. Re:The basic question is answered...but still... on Australia Cuts 110 Climate Scientist Jobs: "The Science is Settled." · · Score: 1

    We're all gonna die!!!!!!!!!!

    True enough. The question is whether the process will be accelerated.

    (Thinks: if only we could put project managers in charge of human mortality; they'd never deliver early.)

  4. Re:do most accounts need to be secure? on The Most Popular Bad Passwords of 2015 (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's especially annoying having to reduce the security of the strong passwords I generate using a password manager because a major organisation has employed a coder who thinks that "between 6 and 8 characters, including a digit and a special character" is a stronger password than "MXxFrmyx6pUCbyBvNx3zerBb06DABs" ("Must contain a special character").

    And I know I'm not the only one frustrated by this.

  5. Re:Strange logic.. on BBC Taken Offline By 'Anti-IS' Group (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You better be quick though, because you are just as bad as IS in the eyes of the UK people.

    No they're not. Bad, yes, but not even in the same league of bad as IS in the eyes of the UK people.

  6. Re:at least is not tcas off on Boeing 787 "Blacklisted" From Some Air Traffic Control Services (flightglobal.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd be interested to know where the glitch is. If it's just in the ADS-B system then with the restrictions in the article it just costs time and money. But if it's in the navigation system then the aircrew and TCAS will have wrong information about where the aircraft is, which is far more worrying.

  7. Re:If it's really a policy on Richard Dawkins Opposes UK Cinemas Censoring Church's Advert Before Star Wars (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Who said they were in favour of free speech? They're in favour of maximising their profits.

  8. Re:If it's really a policy on Richard Dawkins Opposes UK Cinemas Censoring Church's Advert Before Star Wars (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems you were too busy being racist to pay attention to the facts: this is not one theatre, it's the chains that control 80% of the theatres in the UK.

    Or, since you refer to "muslin kids", perhaps you meant rag dolls, not rag heads?

  9. Re:Moslems are killing you guys and ... on Explosions and Multiple Shootings In Paris, Possible Hostages (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I understand enough about Islam to know that there's no consensus within Islam about what the material aims of Islam are, and that no one individual has the authority to say what those aims are, and "no one individual" includes you and me. I wonder what expertise you claim that trumps these 1000 Muslim leaders and academics?

    I suspect you've been misled by the common myth that religion is bound to an unchanging literal interpretation of its founding texts, and so the "true" version of a religion is found by a simplistic reading of those texts, but that's not the way most religion works in the real world (including most of Islam). Religions change over time, much to the inconvenience of those whose argument against religion is the dogma that they don't.

  10. Re:Moslems are killing you guys and ... on Explosions and Multiple Shootings In Paris, Possible Hostages (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    He shot no Muslims (as far as I am aware) but he shot supporters of a political party specifically because the party wasn't anti-Muslim.

  11. Re:Moslems are killing you guys and ... on Explosions and Multiple Shootings In Paris, Possible Hostages (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, Islamic terrorism is a coordinated movement (though not as coordinated as you seem to think) but it's not the same as Islam, It's a bunch of jerks within Islam. And white supremacist terrorism is more coordinated than you seem to think, as is anti-Islamic terrorism such as Anders Brevik's.

  12. Re:Moslems are killing you guys and ... on Explosions and Multiple Shootings In Paris, Possible Hostages (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Lets check your reasoning:

    Some terrorists are Muslims
    Therefore
    All Muslims are terrorists.

    Oh, look. It seems you just flunked Logic 101.

  13. Definitely correct on one point on Bank of England's Andy Haldane Warns Smart Machines Could Take 15M UK Jobs (robotenomics.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The article is definitely correct on one point. It says "The media will likely focus on the number of jobs that can be displaced and not necessarily Haldane's points on new jobs being created." And the /. headline? "Bank of England's Andy Haldane Warns Smart Machines Could Take 15M UK Jobs."

  14. Convenient timing on UK and US Suspect That ISIS Bomb Took Down Flight 9268 (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So although the experts don't know what caused the crash, it seems that the British PM David Cameron does know, and it's ISIS.

    In other news, Cameron wants British airstrikes on ISIS but can't get the support of parliament.

    No matter how much I tell myself that correlation is not causation, this just looks like too much of a coincidence.

  15. Re:Enlightenment on Talking Science and God With the Pope's New Chief Astronomer · · Score: 2

    Check your facts -- Galileo didn't get into trouble for his heliocentric theories, he got into trouble for calling the pope an idiot for asking for the evidence -- who was on the side of science there? Galileo had been told to stop teaching heliocentrism in Church schools unless he had some evidence to support it, and Galileo threw a hissy fit and refused to stop. Even the inquisition said that if he had evidence to support the theory he'd be in the clear. (Unfortunately, the only evidence he had was from telescopes, which were unproven and many scientists at the time regarded in much the same way as scientists regard E-meters nowadays.)

  16. Re:Summary is wrong on EU Court: Commuting to Customer Sites Counts as Work · · Score: 1

    No, because the ruling doesn't apply to pay at all, only to maximum permissible hours -- essentially a health and safety thing.

    The unions are pushing for the hours to count for pay as well, but that would take a new ruling.

  17. Summary is wrong on EU Court: Commuting to Customer Sites Counts as Work · · Score: 2

    This ruling has nothing at all to do with worker's paycheck. The ruling only relates to the working time directive -- the maximum hours someone can be required to work -- not whether that time counts towards pay.

  18. Re:How is this legal? on Ashley Madison Source Code Shows Evidence They Created Bots To Message Men · · Score: 3, Funny

    LOL, talk about these guys being taken for a ride!

    I think the problem is that the guys were not likely to get taken for a ride.

  19. Re:I don't understand the opposing argument. on London Deploys Cycle Superhighways Despite "Old Men In Limos" · · Score: 1

    Have you seen London traffic? It doesn't move. It's not possible to make it worse. The idea is that giving people who can use bikes that alternative stands a good chance of reducing the London traffic, because a bike is much faster (even for me, and at 60 I'm not far off the *elderly* category).

  20. Re:I don't understand the opposing argument. on London Deploys Cycle Superhighways Despite "Old Men In Limos" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just because you ride a bike, doesn't mean you can ride in the road and ignore traffic lights, ignore stop signs, cut the lane in between cars and have the gull to grab onto a car and use it as a speed booster.

    Indeed it doesn't. And I don't know about where you are, but in the UK most of those things are likely to get the cyclist a hefty fine if caught. Sure, some cyclists try it on anyway, but how many motorists can say they've never exceeded a speed limit?

  21. Re:Hiring a witch to protect from evil? on Techies Hire Witch To Protect Computers From Viruses and Offices From Spirits · · Score: 1

    A Christian POV is that witches don't necessarily realize that they've made a pact with the devil

    Fixed that for ya. (Most Christians of my acquaintance seem to have heard of that idea but consider it nonsense.)

  22. No they didn't on Marvel Tweaks Their Superhero Film Formula With Ant-Man · · Score: 1

    Marvel didn't tweak their superhero film format. When they found out Edgar Wright was trying to tweak their format they threw him off the movie. It was too late to pull it completely back into line, so some of Wright's humour is still there.

  23. Re:NASA's amazing capabilities on New Horizons Phones Home After Pluto Flyby -- Craft Healthy, Data Recorded · · Score: 1

    What, and cut off Big Pharma's revenue stream for palliative drugs?

    (I'm not sure whether I'm joking or not.)

  24. Re:He stole, he got arrested on Man Arrested After Charging iPhone On London Overground Train · · Score: 2

    Read the article. There is a sign on it saying it's for staff use only. It's also a very bad idea to use it when the train is in motion, as it can get massive power surges as the train crosses from one power zone to another.

  25. Re:Tax dollars at work. on Man Arrested After Charging iPhone On London Overground Train · · Score: 4, Informative

    No court time at all for abstracting the electricity. If you read the article (yes, I know, I know...) you'll learn that the police agreed this was a ridiculous arrest and de-arrested him ("de-arrested" is more of a statement than simply releasing him without charge -- pun unintended; it means that the arrest should never have happened, and the arrest is struck from the legal record so it won't give the person difficulty getting visas etc.)

    He's still in trouble for acting like a dick when he was arrested, though.