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  1. Of course Microsoft knows who's using Win10 on Microsoft Claims 110M Devices Now Run Windows 10 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 0

    Why wouldn't they? When information starts pouring into their servers about every keystroke you made, your bank account password, how many times a day you wank and what your second cousin had for breakfast, what else could it be but Win10 ratting you out.

    Or maybe a NSA back door.

  2. Reassuring the public... on Legionnaires' Bacteria Reemerges In Previously Disinfected Cooling Towers · · Score: 2

    Speaking at a hastily-called press conference only a few hundred miles from the buildings in question, Tower-cleaning specialist and former Volkswagen Vice President Gesundheit Krappstadtz stated unequivocally that all cleaning and disinfection operations had been performed with full attention to the requirements of New Jersey's famously strict environmental regulations.

  3. Re:Yeah, this comes as a shock on EPA Gave Volkswagen a Free Pass On Emissions Ten Years Ago Due To Lack of Budget · · Score: 1

    And all that pollution vomited into the air thanks to the far right's love of cutting an oversight agency's funding until it can't do its job properly.

    Think about it

  4. Re:ooh, ooh, I know how to fix this problem on EPA Gave Volkswagen a Free Pass On Emissions Ten Years Ago Due To Lack of Budget · · Score: 1

    Well said.

  5. Yeah, this comes as a shock on EPA Gave Volkswagen a Free Pass On Emissions Ten Years Ago Due To Lack of Budget · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just another eff-up neoconservative Republicans will to refuse to stand accountable for.

    They remind of the old story about the kid telling a grasshopper to jump, and pulling a leg off each time it hops. When he's pulled all six legs off, he concludes it's gone deaf.

  6. Re:Yes, chip and PIN would be more secure on Will 'Chip and Pin' Credit Card Technology Really Increase Security? (Video) · · Score: 1

    They'll also work in Canada, which has had chip-and-pin for years.

  7. "Bio-weapon Defense Mode"? on Tesla Unveils the Model X · · Score: 1

    How is this going to help when the bio-weapon I fear most is the result of my girlfriend's lactose intolerance, and its delivery system is ensconced in the passenger seat beside me?

  8. Re:Ha. Let me explain why you're on this page... on Elon Musk Predicts 1,000km EV Range In Two Years, Autonomous Cars In Three · · Score: 1

    Figures...I used my last mod point before I came to this page. Thanks for that very informative comment.

  9. Re:If I received a terminal diagnosis... on Another Pharma Company Recaptures a Generic Medication · · Score: 1

    I'm very glad I don't live in the US of A.

  10. Re:If I received a terminal diagnosis... on Another Pharma Company Recaptures a Generic Medication · · Score: 1

    When you eventually get this guy's cock out of your ass, maybe you'll read what I wrote and understand I wasn't saying I'd do anything to him. As it happens, I live in a civilized country, and wouldn't have to worry about getting this drug at a reasonable cost that would have nothing to do with the little creep.

    But thanks for your opinion. The next time I want more of your lip, I'll rattle my zipper.

  11. Re:You honestly thing you'd get near anyone on Another Pharma Company Recaptures a Generic Medication · · Score: 1

    I think somebody later on in life would very likely possess a level of sophistication to blend in well enough to do what they wanted to do.

  12. If I received a terminal diagnosis... on Another Pharma Company Recaptures a Generic Medication · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...I know how I'd spend my last time on Earth.

  13. Re:When is it malicious? on When Does Software Start Becoming Malware? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure you need to use "pernicious". As far as I'm concerned, somebody who attempts to use a position of power or specialized knowledge to trick me into behaving against my own interests is being malicious. In this case, they are doing me harm by appropriating something that's mine for their own use.

    My computer doesn't own anything. So they aren't stealing my computer's resources. They are stealing my resources.

  14. I'm shocked! on Drone Hobbyists Find Flaws In 'Close Call' Reports · · Score: 1

    Government, along with its corporate masters and its enforcement arm, stand to lose in a big way if they have to endure the same kind of "eye in the sky" scrutiny they subject the public to on a regular basis.

    It only stands to reason that they'd contrive excuses to forbid average people from having access to the same kind of toys they use.

    And they aren't about to make the same kind of mistake they made with cell phones. If police and their masters had known how effective cell phone cameras would be in exposing widespread physical abuse of civilians, they'd have made it illegal to point any kind of recording device at a cop years ago.

  15. Re:Since when is polycarbonate "scratch resistant" on The Force Awakens With Devon's $28,500 Star Wars Limited Edition Watch · · Score: 1

    I've got polycarbonate glasses. Even with a scratch-resistant coating, they don't stay in immaculate condition for long...and I'm good with glasses.

  16. Objective achieved, Captain on The Force Awakens With Devon's $28,500 Star Wars Limited Edition Watch · · Score: 2

    "You made it ugly enough and expensive enough that tales of the new Star Wars enterprise will be ejaculated into the face of every human on the planet who has access to some kind of social or mass media provider?" "Yes, Captain". "Well done, Marketron V. The Farce is strong in you."

  17. Looks like god... on In New Study, HIV Prevention Pill Truvada Is 100% Effective · · Score: 1

    ...sent another second-rate punishment to kill off all them gays. Poor ol' geezer appears to be losing his mojo.

    Either that or the ignorant morons who insisted AIDS was god's way of punishing homosexuals for being, um, homosexual, yet again proved to be full of shit.

  18. Not as widely reported... on 14-Year-Old Boy Placed On Police Register After Sending Naked Picture To Classmate · · Score: 1

    The Stoney Creek Times-Untelligenser claims that having seen evidence of what the young man has on offer, nearly three hundred of the young lady's closest friends have sent him text messages, five policewomen have suggested he agree to a further interview in more friendly surroundings, and a calls of an undefined nature from the local priest have maxed out his voice mail.

    And the Essex Pig Company has invited him to cut the ribbon at their new sausage factory in Swansea.

  19. Re:Multi-Role Aircraft on F-35 To Face Off Against A-10 In CAS Test · · Score: 2

    As I understand it, "kitting out" the F-35 is limited by the fact that anything mounted externally compromises the stealth characteristics it needs to survive.

  20. Re:The AK-47 Test on F-35 To Face Off Against A-10 In CAS Test · · Score: 1

    I love your analogy, but if I might make a suggestion based on the F-35's record so far?

    Perhaps your battling ballerina is also "blessed" with epilepsy...and an STD. :-)

  21. Re:pros and cons on F-35 To Face Off Against A-10 In CAS Test · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "[The F-35] wouldn't be parked on the tarmac waiting for a time when CAS in needed with uncontested skies."

    Based on its performance so far, it would be parked on the tarmac because of something like the wings falling off when it got dark, or the engines turning themselves off whenever the pilot tried to arm a missile.

  22. "We'll just put the tip in", CNSC promises on Canadian Nuclear Accident Study Puts Risks Into Perspective · · Score: 1

    Having fired former Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission head Linda Keen for refusing to compromise on safety, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper replaced her with one of his seemingly-inexhaustible supply of conscienceless, obedient drones.

    I'd be entirely unsurprised if the commission concluded the most important consequence of brushing one's teeth with plutonium dust would be a whiter smile.

  23. No tinfoil hats here! on Skylake Has a Voice DSP and Listens To Your Commands · · Score: 0

    "This caused something of a freak-out among gamers, who feared Microsoft would be listening."

    We're much more realistic these days. Now we understand it's the NSA that will be listening. The nutbars are those innocent creatures naive enough to believe they won't.

  24. I gotcher expectation of privacy right here... on San Jose May Put License Plate Scanners On Garbage Trucks · · Score: 1

    "City councilman Johnny Khamis dismissed such criticism: 'This is a public street. You're not expecting privacy on a public street.' "

    Somebody equipped with a good-quality DSLR and a very long lens should follow this creep around for a couple of weeks. I'm sure they could assemble a lovely mix of video and still photography showing Khamis picking his nose, reaching into his pants to adjust his dick, pulling his underwear out of his crack and ogling pretty girls (or pretty boys) when their backs are turned. Maybe they'd even get lucky and catch him running a red light or breaking some other law.

    I bet there'd be record turnout at the City Council meeting where a public delegation screened their video as part of a presentation on the importance of privacy.

  25. Get off my lawn... on Galactic Survey: The Universe Dying as Old Stars Fade Faster Than New Ones Are Born · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Newer galaxies are simply putting out less energy than galaxies did in the past..."

    Just like them young kids today, by dammit! Always settin' around and playin' with them tabulets and why-fie-fo-fummery and smart phones smaller'n yer pecker after a dip in the stream.

    A dumb phone that just set there polite-like and rang 'til you answered or hit it with yer shoe was always good enough for me.