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  1. Re:IT Crowd irl on Equifax CEO Hired a Music Major as the Company's Chief Security Officer · · Score: 1

    This is "How I Met Your Mother" and she is Barney Stinson. except that she waited too long to narc out her employers.

  2. Re:Majors don't mean shit on Equifax CEO Hired a Music Major as the Company's Chief Security Officer · · Score: 1

    So you are saying that she was the Equifax Barney Stinson, but without the foresight to snitch to the SEC in time?

  3. Re:unlike Cortana or Siri you can change Alexa Nam on South Park's Season Premier Sets Off Everyone's Amazon Echo (maxim.com) · · Score: 1

    Would work better if you could record your own, like "*DEMON*, I COMMAND YOU!" with my own choice from the Greater Seal of Solomon or the Cthulhu Mythos.

    As long as the real one didn't show up, instead, of course. Azathoth shows up, and it looks like a small nuke went off, killing me and a few thousand neighbors.

  4. Re:The only way I'd have such a device on South Park's Season Premier Sets Off Everyone's Amazon Echo (maxim.com) · · Score: 1

    If your employers look down on you because you have no "social media" accounts, you are employed at the wrong place. I just explain that having "social media" is usually just a way for schmucks to accidentally leak secrets, and I prefer not to do so, either mine or theirs. Besides, most of my friends are more paranoid than me, so who would I "talk" with on Facester, anyway?

    Actually, I do have friends who aren't particularly paranoid, but I see them in person often enough that I don't need to poke/tweet/chat online. And I find my life a tad dull, anyway. My July 3, 1863 entry would probably have just been "Near Gettysburg, PA. Saw our seminary, nothing special. Shot at a few Southerners, again. No counter-attack. Looks like rain, tomorrow." if I was feeling particularly chatty.

  5. Re:No sympathy on South Park's Season Premier Sets Off Everyone's Amazon Echo (maxim.com) · · Score: 1

    Who better than a drug dealer to explain why drugs are a bad idea?

    My parents used to play bridge with the town mayor, and one year, when there were a lot of dealers arrested, she joked on New Year's Eve that it was a testimony to how safe the town was, that all the big dealers moved here to live and raise their children, and that they probably kept the riff-raff drug dealers away, too.

  6. Someone needs to put in the appropriate Buckaroo Banzai quote, here (unless there is an xkcd that works, too), but I am terribly afraid that you might actually BE a surgeon.

  7. Re: Genius on South Park's Season Premier Sets Off Everyone's Amazon Echo (maxim.com) · · Score: 1

    Not totally disagreeing with your math or cooking knowledge, but there is no partial tablespoon measure save the teaspoon, so this is 3 and a half teaspoons (there ARE half, one third, and one quarter teaspoons available). Knowing that there are three (3) teaspoons (t) in a tablespoon (T) is almost as basic as knowing that there are five fingers on a hand, despite all those cartoons like South Park.

  8. And that "different from everything they've been experiencing" for white babies is black people

    So Southerners raised by black nannies, cooks, maids, etc., were racism-free?

    Mind, this is possible; I have heard (on TV) people claim that they experienced less in the South than in South Boston.

  9. Re:Too little too late? on Trump Blocks China-Backed Takeover of US Chip Maker 'Lattice Semi' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    On Motorola, who owns the phones (and is responsible for the awful commercials)?

  10. Re:Are you a dictatorship or what? on Trump Blocks China-Backed Takeover of US Chip Maker 'Lattice Semi' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Why or how can a head of state interrupt a single business transaction?

    You forget that POTUS is not merely Head of State (like Bess II in the UK) but Head of Government (like a Prime Minister), as well.

    And the USA has never been a democracy, but a republic. Democracy is like France during the Reign Of Terror, the tyranny of temporary majorities or even pluralities over minorities.

  11. Re: military related manufactured can just copy IP on Trump Blocks China-Backed Takeover of US Chip Maker 'Lattice Semi' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Your post needs clarification.

    Do you mean that the Peoples Revolutionary Army (or whoever really controls the bidder) will ignore Lattice's IP rights, or that the US Government can and sometimes does ignore their rights and demand that they produce solely for it, for National Security reasons? Or something else, that I haven't thought of disambiguating your post as?

  12. Re: Blame it on Trump no matter what on Trump Blocks China-Backed Takeover of US Chip Maker 'Lattice Semi' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously, poster meant "a presidential election", not the last presidential elector election.

    And states don't vote (and haven't since the Articles of Confederation) but individual electors, elected in each state, which is why they sometimes vote for someone who DIDN'T win their state despite practice and even state laws to the contrary.

  13. Re:Does Trump do everything? on Trump Blocks China-Backed Takeover of US Chip Maker 'Lattice Semi' (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    CNN is obsessed with Trump. Everything is about him.

    Actually, their audience is so obsessed, and CNN just is following them. If the Left just "moved on" CNN would find something else to obsess over, like delivering real news as they once had, rather than trying to out-MSNBC MSNBC.

  14. Re:The Best Part of Jaws... on Paul Allen Finds Long-Lost World War II Cruiser, the USS Indianapolis (usni.org) · · Score: 1

    You were scared because the shark was so fake that they didn't use it more than absolutely necessary. Thus, you saw your shark in your mind, which was probably more terrifying than any real shark.

  15. Re:War graves can be visited on Paul Allen Finds Long-Lost World War II Cruiser, the USS Indianapolis (usni.org) · · Score: 1

    Sailors, you damned lubber!

  16. Re:War grave - do not disturb. on Paul Allen Finds Long-Lost World War II Cruiser, the USS Indianapolis (usni.org) · · Score: 1

    18000 feet is 5.4 km deep - VERY deep. I don't think the tech exists capable to disturb it.

    But surely we still have plans for the Glomar Explorer, if we needed to rebuild it?

  17. Re:It's only outsourcing on Atlas 5 Rocket Launches $400 Million NASA Satellite Into Space (spaceflightnow.com) · · Score: 1

    As has been pointed out many times in the past, there was no one set of tried and true plans for the Saturn V. Each bird incorporated changes to fix problems with the previous ones, as they were identified.

  18. The good news is that thanks to efforts by Disney, if Thag filled out the proper forms, his patent should still be valid

    The Mickey Mouse Law (which is supposedly designed to keep Steamboat Willie, and thus MM, out of the public domain) only affects copyrights, not patents.

  19. Re:Doin' gods work son! on Dilution of Whisky -- the Molecular Perspective (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    I assume that they only drink cask-strength whiskey (~130 proof)? Otherwise, they really ARE snobs, rather than displaying better taste than most.

    Of course, real whiskey fans know about the effect of a small amount of water opening up additional notes. If they (your relatives) don't, well, that just proves something more.

  20. Re:If it can be abused, it will be abused. on Apple Refuses To Enable iPhone Emergency Settings that Could Save Countless Lives (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Our government is filled with morally and/or ethically fallible humans.

    Maybe yours is controlled by angels, although according to The Book Of Enoch 1/9th of all angels revolted and became/invented evil, so even there, a bit of wariness might be wise.

  21. Whose "billion"? 1000 millions or one million millions?

  22. Re:A venus scenario won't happen on Global Investment Firm Warns 7.8 Degrees of Global Warming Is Possible (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Birds had diverged from dinosaurs (or vice versa) before the Cretaceous. And all the existing ypes of birds except ducks went extinct in the K-T Event. Yes, that majestic eagle is just a prideful duck that has learned to be a predator instead of rooting through the mud.

  23. Re:Extrapolation Nonsense on Global Investment Firm Warns 7.8 Degrees of Global Warming Is Possible (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If we kill ourselves off at +4C, say, human greenhouse gas production ceases, and (after a long lag) the world finds a new stable point without us.

    Actually, CO2 is recycled in about a century, methane in a couple of decades. Humans being reduced to a non-greenhouse gas producing component (by the invention of Stargate Zero-Point Modules or near-extinction, doesn't matter for the exercise) will let the world temperatures revert to the ice age interstitial conditions that they were 5000-10,000 years ago, rather than the Pliocene to Carboniferous conditions this firm claims will happen without intervention.

    On the other hand, there may be positive feedbacks (tipping points) that push us all the way to a Venus scenario.

    That will require a lot more forcing than we can manage, although it is practically guaranteed in another 500,000,000 years by the Sun just heating itself up as it moves through its Main Sequence path. As I pointed out above, there are stable hotter environments possible which were common in previous epochs. The skiing may suck in a post-Ice Age environment, but the monkeys in Northern Europe (Pliocene) or fern tree forests (Carboniferous) will be interesting to see.

  24. Why should we think you're judgement of science be right if

    Why should we care about either of you if you both post as Anonymous Coward? If there really ARE two of you!

  25. Re:Irresponsible Journalism the New Norm on Hacks 'Probably Compromised' UK Industry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Mr. RobotRunAmok is paranoid and distrusts government announcements that the sky is blue and water wet, especially when the government agency is citing another such agency as the source. This is despite the fact that there are so many weasel words in the announcement that it merely says that "hackers" exist and may not all be playing golf poorly.