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  1. it shall be unlawful for any person to

    6 import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess, in or af-

    7 fecting interstate or foreign commerce, a trigger crank,

    8 a bump-fire device, or any part, combination of parts,

    9 component, device, attachment, or accessory that is de-

    10 signed or functions to accelerate the rate of fire of a semi-

    11 automatic rifle but not convert the semiautomatic rifle

    12 into a machinegun.

    2. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

  2. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman on Artificial Intelligence Has 'Great Potential, But We Need To Steer Carefully,' LinkedIn Co-founder Says (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who the FUCK gives a shit what this skeezeball thinks?

    He created a spam network that's so useless and dead that it was the subject of a joke on the Simpsons a couple of years back. Whooptydoo!

  3. Re:Well, maybe Ireland will leave the EU next? on EU Takes Ireland To Court For Not Claiming Apple Tax Windfall (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, it's so they can funnel all the revenue earned GLOBALLY through Ireland.

  4. Re:No more pedistrains? on Fully Driverless Cars Could Be Months Away (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll give you a "C" on that attempt at humor.

    As a resident, I'll tell you that it has far more to do with 100 days a year of 100+ degree weather, and another two to three weeks worth of 110+ weather.

    I think you mean "100 days a year of 100+ degree weather including two to three weeks worth of 110+ degree weather".

    100+ includes 110+.

  5. Re:"Bought" YouTube on Why Google Needs Gadgets (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Given that Google ran an obnoxious "MADE BY GOOGLE" campaign for the Pixel and Pixel XL, when they were MADE BY HTC, I'd say yes, it's an embarrassment to Google. Google wants you to believe they are innovators, inventors, creative, etc. Mostly they just things. The vast majority of shit they develop on their own they kill off unceremoniously.

    Google made PageRank and an ad platform. Nearly everything else they purchased, and most of the things they purchased they've ruined or killed off. Even internally they fight. Why does Android have Hangouts (now no longer supported), Messages, Allo, and Duo (and Google Voice!) to compete with the chat/messaging experience on Apple's side? Why are they killing off the one app that did it all (Hangouts) in favor of 3 apps that do one piece each, and shittily at that? (Answer: Because Google is too big for its britches and can't manage its own projects, teams, and products properly.)

    So yes, pointing out the truth behind the facade Google projects is embarrassing to them. Google wants you to believe one thing when the opposite is true. They can't even get security updates pushed out to an OS they fully control! EVERY Android device should be getting security updates for 3 years at a minimum, and in a timely fashion. There is zero reason for carriers or OEMs to be involved. The vast majority of security updates in Android won't impact OEM modifications / apps anyway.

  6. Re:Is It Backwards Day? on Google and Facebook Failed Us (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I do trust dog shit more than I trust horse shit. But 4chan is far from being either form of shit. The trolls and lulz are all over the place, but that's half the point. There are also plenty of serious boards and posts.

  7. Re:xhamster on Google Chrome Will Block Tab-Under Behavior (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I heard redtube does it too.

  8. Re:Stopped reading after the first line. on When You Split the Brain, Do You Split the Person? (aeon.co) · · Score: 1

    You don't mess around with Jim.

    Uptown Got Its Hustlers, the Bow'ry Got Its Bums
    Forty Second Street Got Big Jim Walker
    He's A Pool Shootin' Son Of A Gun
    Yeah He's Big & Dumb As A Man Can Come
    But He's Stronger Than A Country Hoss
    And When The Bad Folks All Get Together At Night
    You Know They All Call Big Jim "Boss"
    Just Because, And They Say

    You Don't Tug On Superman's Cape
    You Don't Spit Into The Wind
    You Don't Pull The Mask Off The Old Lone Ranger
    And You Don't Mess Around With Jim

    Well Out Of South Alabama Came A Country Boy
    He Said "I'm Looking For A Man Named Jim
    I'm A Pool Shhotin' Boy, My Name Is Willie McCoy
    But Down Home They Call Me Slim
    Yeah I'm Lookin' For The King Of Forty Second Street
    He's Drivin' A Drop Top Cadillac
    Last Week He Took All My Money & It May Sound Funny
    But I've Come To Get My Money Back"
    And Everybody Say "Jack

    You Don't Tug On Superman's Cape
    You Don't Spit Into The Wind
    You Don't Pull The Mask Off The Old Lone Ranger
    And You Don't Mess Around With Jim"

    Well A Hush Fell Over The Room
    Jimmy Came Boppin' In Off The Street
    And When The Cuttin Was Done The Only Part That Wasn't Bloody
    Was The Soles Of The Big Man's Feet
    Yeah, He Were Cut In 'Bout A Hundred Places
    And He Were Shot In A Couple More
    And You Better Believe They Sung A Diff'rent Kind Of Story
    When Big Jim Hit The Floor. Oh Now They Say

    You Don't Tug On Superman's Cape
    You Don't Spit Into The Wind
    You Don't Pull The Mask Off The Old Lone Ranger
    And You Don't Mess Around With Jim

    You Don't Tug On Superman's Cape
    You Don't Spit Into The Wind
    You Don't Pull The Mask Off The Old Lone Ranger And You Don't Mess
    Around With Slim"

    Yeah, Big Jim Got His Hat, Find Out Where It's At
    And Not Hustling People Strange To You
    Even If You Do Got A Two-Piece Custom Made Pool Cue

  9. Re: Wait a minute... on Google and Facebook Failed Us (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    PageRank, at its core, prioritizes popularity.

    You're complaining that popular things aren't always true/correct/right/good. You won't do well in the world with that chip on your shoulder.

  10. Is It Backwards Day? on Google and Facebook Failed Us (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 0

    4chan is a known source not just of racism, but hoaxes and deliberate misinformation. In any list a human might make of sites to exclude from being labeled as "news," 4chan would be near the very top

    I trust 4chan far more than I trust BuzzFeed.

  11. Re:How Many Saw Biased News? on Facebook Says 10 Million US Users Saw Russia-linked Ads (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm guessing he's pointing out that you and your ilk are duplicitous hypocrites.

  12. "We're everywhere you are." led to "We're everywhere you want to be.".
    I don't recall seeing an ad that flipped it around again.

  13. LOOOOOOOOOOL on Ex-Verizon Lawyer Ajit Pai Confirmed To Second Term As FCC Chair (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This country is well and truly fucked.

  14. Re:Excellent on Super Fast NVMe RAID Comes To Threadripper (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The trick is Windows (especially modern versions) absolutely hates whenever isn't in charge of booting itself.

  15. Re:It Just Works on High Sierra's Disk Utility Does Not Recognize Unformatted Disks (tinyapps.org) · · Score: 1

    That might be true. A few years back, Apple changed the way monitor calibration works, reduced it so all you can do is change the "target white point." The rest somehow happens automatically or something, I don't know.

    Unless you press "option-shift" when you open the calibration tool. Then you get the full calibration tool. "Option-shift." Good luck figuring that one out. Hooray for intuitive UI!

    Not as bad as LAN mode in Splatoon 2...
    http://en-americas-support.nin...

  16. In addition, the NAD also told T-Mobile to modify its claim that it covered 99.7 percent of Verizon customers to make clear that the coverage is by population and not geographic area.

    Why would anyone think anything else? X percent of Y refers to Y, not Z.

  17. It Just Works on High Sierra's Disk Utility Does Not Recognize Unformatted Disks (tinyapps.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're holding it wrong?

  18. Re:Cue the brainwashed Americans and their gun lov on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Guns don't kill people, people kill people.
    The guns the guy used were illegal.
    Gun laws won't stop crazies.
    Psycho gun killers are Democrats or on antidepressants.
    Guns stop zillions of other attacks.
    99.9% of gun owners don't massacre anyone.
    They still kill each other in DC (or gun free zone of your choice).
    We need guns to protect ourselves against New Hitler

    We've all heard them a million times before.

    And you can't refute a single one.

    Further, even if they were all objectively false, that wouldn't change a thing. The 2nd amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear arms. The government cannot legally infringe upon that right. I don't care how many people are killed, that right is fundamentally more important than whatever safety you imagine to be traded for it.

  19. Re:I don't the answer to this... I really don't on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    325/140 chance of said nut / patsy * 325/140 amount of pressure causing said said nut / patsy to crack * 325/140 targets.

    That second 2 factors would actually be much greater since populations have shifted into cities (density not scaling linearly with population).

  20. Re:We need more guns on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Not as delusional as thinking that making guns illegal will make you safe.

  21. Re:We need more guns on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    You clearly do have reading comprehension problems. Your own reply to the AC exposes it further!

    Gives me the good laff.

  22. Re:News for nerds? on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The Cisco story was pointless, though:

    Here's How Cisco Fixed A Backdoor
    They released an update which turns it off by default.

    There's literally nothing of substance and certainly nothing to discuss. Typical Cisco incompetence. Obvious fix for a backdoor. Everyone already knows you can't really trust them but you're fucked because you have to use somebody's products. There's simply nothing to discuss. It was also posted before much of the US was awake and bored at work.

  23. Re:That's not actually true on We're Not Living in a Computer Simulation, New Research Shows (cosmosmagazine.com) · · Score: 0

    Whether the universe is computable is a really interesting question.

    It's not an interesting question. The answer is yes. It's computing itself, isn't it?

  24. Re:You can't decree what you can't access on We're Not Living in a Computer Simulation, New Research Shows (cosmosmagazine.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The Universe covers everything. There is only one Universe. The fact that shitbrained assmunches have abused "universe" so badly that we need to capitalize the U to get the original meaning pisses me off.

  25. Re:Happy Friday from The Golden Girls! on Critical EFI Code in Millions of Macs Isn't Getting Apple's Updates (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the joke.