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  1. Re:why qualify the nightclub as "gay"? on Senate Rejects FBI Bid For Warrantless Access To Internet Browsing Histories (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You're a shitty gun owner. You leave your weapon to be fucked with by passers-by.

    You have extremely poor reading comprehension to take my post seriously in any way what so ever. The entire point was in reply to the previous poster who seemed to think that guns kill people and that it's not the person pulling the trigger that is doing the killing.

  2. Re:why qualify the nightclub as "gay"? on Senate Rejects FBI Bid For Warrantless Access To Internet Browsing Histories (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Because guns don't kill people, right?

    So let's test that bumper sticker bit of logic.

    What's funny is that I left a gun on my front porch. The mail man delivered the mail and didn't get shot. Dozens of people walked up and down the sidewalk and not one of them got shot either. I thought maybe it was defective or something. But the manufacturer wouldn't take it back. They said it operated perfectly fine. But not one single person got shot. Imagine that.

  3. Re:why qualify the nightclub as "gay"? on Senate Rejects FBI Bid For Warrantless Access To Internet Browsing Histories (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Since when hasn't the government not known about when you buy a gun? Where is it possible for you to purchase a gun, legally, that the government wouldn't know about?

    Any time you purchase a firearm from a private party. I can go through all of the checks etc when I purchase a firearm from an licensed dealer. But there is nothing stopping me from deciding I don't want it any longer and reselling it to another person. As far as I know I'm allowed to sell it to another person in most (if not all) states without performing a background check.

  4. Re:Meh, I won't bother on Mark Zuckerberg Tapes Over His Webcam. Should You? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm using Linux, so it probably doesn't work, anyway ;)

    (serious: I suppose this actually IS possible on Linux, but any cases in the wild?)

    I'm guessing that there may be one of two people who got their camera to work on Linux. But not much more than that. ;-)

    I don't suppose you remember the fun of trying to get ISA sound cards working under Linux? Half the time it was a struggle with Windows.

  5. Donald Trump "was assigned to Gryffindor for his boldness -- but only with a 48 percent certainty.

    At least Watson was more certain than the percentage of republicans that voted for him to be their nominee.

    I'm thinking we vote for Trump to go the Gryffindor, Hillary ot go to jail and "None of the Above" for president. How much worse could Richard Pryor do than the choices we're going to have this fall anyhow.

  6. Re:Old on Sony Recalls Vaio Battery Packs Due to Fire Hazard · · Score: 1

    But aren't they made by Japan Industrial Partners since Sony sold off the Vaio brand in 2014?

  7. Re:Watched a robot escape once on It's Happening: A Robot Escaped a Lab In Russia and Made a Dash For Freedom (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    And your story sounds like about the same circumstances as the one in the story to me.

    You should have sensationalized yours better. Something about a mad cow robot escaping and attempting to go on a killing spree at the airport. The TSA was unable to stop it. Only the heroic efforts of a cashier were able to avert certain disaster.

  8. Yes, if you have the attention span of a goldfish.

    Isn't that Vine?

  9. Re:Only users left on Executive Says Facebook Will Be All Video, No Text In 5 Years (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    That means that the only users that will use Facebook are people that want videos. People that do not want videos will not use Facebook anymore.

    I guess they'll have to return to MySpace. Oh, wait. Is that still around? Or the new FaceSpace or something.

  10. What is really cool is that sometimes you can find "stolen" content that is just not available anywhere else like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Amazon has it for sale

    You can also rent it from Netflix. I know they still had all of the disks available a few months ago as I watched them sometime late last year. It wasn't as funny as I remember it being though.

  11. Re:All Electric? Cool! on SpaceX's Falcon 9 Crashes Into Droneship (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So what's the range? We talking 200 miles or is this the new 300 mile configuration?

    I'm not sure, somewhere between 100 and 1200 miles. But it did have the ludicrous speed option.

  12. This is why it is so critical we maintain textual information about what life was like before Republicans.

    Not that I'm' a Republican (or a Democrat)... But the Republican party was founded in 1854 (by anti-slavery Whigs) with the primary goal of abolishing slavery. So prior to the Republicans, the US had slavery. Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president.

    In 1878 A.A. Sargent, a Republican, introduced the 19th amendment, it was voted down by the Democrat controlled congress. It wasn't until 1919 that the Republicans controlled both the house and senate that they passed it, still under the opposition of the democrat party. Including the president at the time, which the suffragettes referred to as "Kaiser Wilson."

    Before Jeanette Rankin, a Republican, in 1916 no woman had been elected to the house of representatives.

    During his time as as the military governor of Germany after WWII, Dwight Eisenhower realized the value of the German highway system. When he became president, he signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act into law in 1956.

    Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights act of 1960 into law after a five day filibusterer by several democrats in the senate.

    Many credit Ronald Regan with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Depending on your point of view, this may not be a good thing.

    In 2001 Colin Powell became the first black secretary of state. Followed by Condoleezza Rice in 2005 who became the first black women to hold that position.

    Yep, the world was a much rosier place before the existence of the Republicans.

  13. Re:ZDNet? They're still around? on Hacker Steals 45 Million Accounts From Hundreds of Car, Tech, Sports Forums (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    For all my friends who bitch at me about the fact that I don't give accurate personal information when creating forum accounts (on the very rare occasions I bother to do so), now you know why. Go ahead, tell me again how I am paranoid and how unfair it is to the forum operators.

    You're not paranoid, you're an evil oppressor. Don't you know? Information Wants to Be Free! Information has been held back by the (hu)man for far too long. You're to information like the RIAA to music, the MPAA to movies, English to the Irish, men to women, the white man to the native americans, vegans to vegetables, penicillin to bacteria. Nay, you're worse. information is helpless and cannot even fight back in the least. You should hang your head in shame. ;-)

  14. Could someone force the dweeb who set the server up into giving away all the credentials? Definitely, yes.

    I'll leave this here.

  15. Re: Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    No, that would just be persecuting someone for having different beliefs. Kind of like most religions do.

    Not doing something isn't a hobby, just like not worshiping an invisible super-being isn't a religion.

    I'd point to Richard Dawkins. Though for him it's more of a mission than a hobby. Christopher Hitchens, Bill Maher, Michael Shermer, etc.

    If you don't molest children, is that a "hobby"?No, that would just be persecuting someone for having different beliefs. Kind of like most religions do.

    "Not molesting" children is persecution of others?

    If you don't molest children, is that a "hobby"?

    No. It's being a decent person.

  16. Re: Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    "not collecting stamps" is a hobby.

    It is if you go out of your way to excoriate stamp collectors for the folly of their ways.

  17. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    According to an ex co-worker of his he had gone completely nuts.

    Was his colleague a licensed psychiatrist? Or a psychologist? I thought he worked in security.

  18. Re:Immigration on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone who is not a native american in the USA is an immigrant, or the child, grandchild, etc. of an immigrant.

    By your definition everyone in the USA is an immigrant. Unless you believe that "native americans" spontaneously appeared in North America. As far as I know, the current belief is that the native americans ancestors migrated here via the Bering land bridge 15K to 20K years ago. The majority of the "native americans" had been wiped out by plague just prior to the European settlers arrival, and that there was no nation of native americans, at least by any current definition of a nation. Either both the native americans and the Europeans were settlers, or they were both immigrants.

  19. Re:If incrimental upgrades are going to be the nor on Sony Confirms It's Making a 'High-End PlayStation 4' With 4K and Richer Graphics (ft.com) · · Score: 2

    Is it really that bad is a new version comes out every three years, but each model still supports all of the older games and gets new games going forward for 6-8 years?

    You must have forgotten what site you were one. Sony or Microsoft could give away bars of gold and someone on /. would complain that they were too heavy and strained their back.

  20. Re: Yeah - not at all an advert. on Woman Uses 'Hey Siri' To Call An Ambulance and Help Save Her Child's Life (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Theirs a lot of fingers of speech in they're.

  21. Re:If it was that easy and worked that well on Pilot Test Of Storing Carbon Dioxide In Rocks Shows Impressive Outcome (theaustralian.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Wait, you're saying someone has been warming the planet on purpose? That would suggest the "A" in "AGW" stands for "Alien!"

    That can't be it. If it was, it would mean Charlie Sheen isn't batshit crazy.

  22. OpenBSD vs. MSBSD on Microsoft Has Created Its Own FreeBSD (microsoft.com) · · Score: 0

    "OpenBSD believes in strong security. Our aspiration is to be NUMBER ONE in the industry for security (if we are not already there). "

    MSBSD must be on [Dr. Evil voice]"one-BILLION devices" within 2 to 3 years. Security is of such importance that you have no say in updates. Ignore that man behind the curtain phoning home. It's for security damn it. Drivers will be almost as reliable as you've come to expect from *BSD. You didn't have Start menu before, so you can't whine about it now.

    Would you like to schedule you free MSBSD update today? Y/N: N

    How about now? Y/N: N

    OK, MSBSD has started updating...

  23. To Help Police 'Kick Ass,' on BlackBerry Hands Over User Data To Help Police 'Kick Ass,' Insider Says (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Is that kid in the green and yellow scuba suite really that out of control?

  24. FTFY on Four Newly Discovered Elements Receive Names (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    How about naming one Elementy McElementfaceium?

    FTFY

  25. Re:Mysterious ways of the government on FAA Warns of GPS Outages This Month During Mysterious Tests On the West Coast (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's funny because you think the US is the only one with GPS satellites.

    Technically they are. Russia has GLONASS and the EU should have Galileo fully operational by 2020. China, Japan and India (Beidou, QZSS, and IRNSS) all have their own versions that function regionally, but none are called GPS.

    At the moment only GPS and GLONASS are global. Both China and the EU systems should also be global in 2020.