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  1. Re:Two Words.... on Ask Slashdot: What's a Practical Response To the Equifax Breach? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You misspelled "SECOND AMENDMENT".

    Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
    Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

  2. Re:At least they're being honest now. on Apple and Google Fix Browser Bug. Microsoft Does Not. (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would you add them up across Windows7, 8, etc.? Just to get a bigger number by counting the same vulnerability multiple times?
    With that logic, you'd be counting each Android vulnerability once for each Android build it occurs in.

  3. Thankfully on UN Aviation Agency To Call For Global Drone Registry (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Thankfully, Trump isn't a UN cuck.

  4. Re:Have Hurricanes Increased in Frequency? on Could 'Re-Engineering' Earth Help Ease the Hurricane Threat? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Like sales of disco music in the 70s.

  5. Re:Stop talking to yourself on Could 'Re-Engineering' Earth Help Ease the Hurricane Threat? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's SuperKendullard.

  6. Re:I would say no on Could 'Re-Engineering' Earth Help Ease the Hurricane Threat? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Earth.QA and Earth.Training.

    We need to take new screenshots and rebuild the user manual, and managers need the changes to be live on the training site, with scrambled data but also real data, before orientation at 9 AM on Monday. Also, we need someone to come in 20 minutes before hand to set up the projector. And can you stay throughout the meeting just in case a technical issue comes up?

  7. Re:First sentence is absurd on Could 'Re-Engineering' Earth Help Ease the Hurricane Threat? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's been so boring and tame that they had to drum up SUPERSTORM SANDY in the media. Bonus points because it got their sacred cow, New York, wet.

    Of course, it wasn't a hurricane when it hit New York, it was only a cyclone. It was a hurricane when it hit (and killed) the brown people in Jamaica, but the media didn't care. The media desperately wanted another Katrina.

  8. Found the cat owner.

  9. Tell me more about this rug smuggling.
    Have you priced out a decent sized area rug lately?

  10. Then Thoreau is a moron. It's absolutely possible to be more right than the dumb fucks on either side of you.

  11. Ugh on Why It's So Hard To Trust Facebook (cnn.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Conservative activists have accused the company of censoring right-wing voices and stories.

    Conservative activists and non-conservative activists have accused them of censoring right-wing stories. And we all know it's true. First it was a bug with the bot, then they claimed they needed to control the bot to better censor things, then they admitted to hiring more humans to manually adjust the bot, injecting more bias.

    I imagine a liberal activist who actually cares about free speech, censorship, etc. also complained. There's got to be at least one.

    Liberal activists have raised alarms about its exploitation of personal information to target ads.

    Ah, here's the liberal mention. Actually, it's the conservatives and other non-liberals who are most vocal against Facebook. I'm sure there are liberals against Facebook's use of personal information (and many more than the hypothetical one who complained about the targeted censorship), but for the most part, liberals love Facebook. They love to feed the machine and any protest is toothless and pointless. Like wearing a mocha colored bracelet for some anti-corporate, free-trade whatever coffee awareness while sipping on your Venti Mocha Frappe Crapa Latte.

    Of course, this isn't about politics, this is about age. Younger people love and use Facebook much more than older people. And younger people tend to be more liberal (becoming more conservative as they age). We've got "adults" who don't know a world without Facebook, and don't know a world with privacy, so many of them simply don't see the invasion.

    TFA could have just mentioned that people have been complaining about censorship and privacy violations (I assume TFS was copy-pastad from TFA), but no. It had to get a divisive, political angle in there. Conservatives mad about this. Liberals mad about that. Both should be mad at both, as should non-partisan people.

  12. Re:Know when to use i.e. (not the browser) on A Few Bad Scientists Are Threatening To Topple Taxonomy (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 2

    Know when to use i.e. and when to use e.g.

    e.g.=exempli gratia="For example"
    i.e.=id est="that is"

    A bad browser e.g. internet explorer

    But this crowd can tolerate such things better than this grammar nazi can.

    "e.g." more closely translates to "example given" or "free example". Neither fits in grammatically with how it's used (i.e., "e.g., whatever"). You'd likely want a colon or perhaps a hyphen instead of the meager comma (which you yourself have omitted). (And fuck your style guide that likes to ignore and collapse punctuation.)

    Beyond that, how can you call yourself a Grammar Nazi? Your post is riddled with flaws such as a lack of punctuation and a lack of proper casing.

  13. Re:"Life or Death" Situation on A Few Bad Scientists Are Threatening To Topple Taxonomy (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    There's so many levels of unbelievably stupid with this possible scenario. If this is the best worst scenario they can come up with to reassure the readers of the importance of taxonomy - well this leads me to believe it's far less important than I originally assumed.

    The lady doth protest too much.

  14. Re:The history of taxonomy (systematics)... on A Few Bad Scientists Are Threatening To Topple Taxonomy (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Die, you lumper scum!

  15. Re:The history of taxonomy (systematics)... on A Few Bad Scientists Are Threatening To Topple Taxonomy (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean, we've got a "fish-scaled gecko" in the summary. Is it a fish? Is it a reptile? Is it an amphibian? How do we even get to the "gecko" part if it has fish scales?
    Then of course there's the platypus.

    Taxonomy is like Whose Line Is It Anyway?. The rules are made up and the points don't matter.

  16. Re:Can we just get an affordable, usable phone?! on Google Is Apparently Ready To Buy Smartphone Maker HTC (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Uh, according to that link, 7 and 7.1 make up 13.5%, not 23%.

    Additionally, screen size category is reported by the device, and is arbitrary, and the labels are relative.
    Thus as screens grow larger on average, the reporting of the size diminishes. That is, 2012's "large" phone is today's "normal" phone.

    "Each generalized size and density spans a range of actual screen sizes and densities. For example, two devices that both report a screen size of normal might have actual screen sizes and aspect ratios that are slightly different when measured by hand. Similarly, two devices that report a screen density of hdpi might have real pixel densities that are slightly different. Android makes these differences abstract to applications, so you can provide UI designed for the generalized sizes and densities and let the system handle any final adjustments as necessary. "

    The fact that so many people complain about not being able to find a good, "normal" sized phone is testament to that fact. Screen sizes are growing, and that's happening because people prefer larger screens. Apple resisted for years. The iPhone was the perfect size. Then they caved to market pressure.

  17. No, they see you as a leech that's seeking their credit, their loans, etc. A leech they make money off of, but still a leech. The banks consider themselves "makers", and everyone else is a "taker". Their view is distorted as fuck, of course, but that's their view.

    There's the old concept of good debt and bad debt, and lately the finance goons have been telling us that that concept is now wrong. But that's only because the current system sees almost all personal debt as bad debt. Credit cards, medical bills, student loans, etc. are all cancer. An auto loan is slightly more respectable, and for someone with little credit history it can establish some history, but the outstanding debt still counts against how much someone thinks they should lend you or what sort of risk you represent. A home mortgage is given even more leeway, and generally won't count against you as long as you're making payments, it isn't your third mortgage, etc. They'll simply subtract your mortgage payment from your income when considering your loan/credit application.

    The ultimate cancer is a small business loan. No bank wants to take that risk anymore, or risk lending any money to anyone who has such a loan. You may as well sell your soul and 51% of your business on Shark Tank. A small business loan tells a bank that you're either starting a business and thus extremely risky, or you've got a failing business, or you've got a business that isn't profitable enough to grow on its own. It's a steep uphill battle to show a bankster that your business is healthy and the loan/credit you're looking for will further grow that business and improve its success or (for personal loans) that it will not be jeopardized if the business fails.

  18. Re: Windows is full of old bugs on Bug In Windows Kernel Could Prevent Security Software From Identifying Malware (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    PowerShell supports cmdlet completion though, so it's not a big deal.

  19. Re:Windows is full of old bugs on Bug In Windows Kernel Could Prevent Security Software From Identifying Malware (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Tengo un circo en mis pantalones.

  20. Re:Windows is full of old bugs on Bug In Windows Kernel Could Prevent Security Software From Identifying Malware (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    If that were true, it would only be in Spanish.

  21. also if you tell nerds they are about to get a swirly, they will suck your DAMN balls

    I find that a single Iron Palm tends to discourage future attempts at swirlys. Not all geeks are computer geeks heh.

    That's a double swirly for you, nerd.

  22. Re:HTC G2 was my favorite phone. on Google Is Apparently Ready To Buy Smartphone Maker HTC (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Physical keyboard goodness!

  23. Re:Ready for a true Hardware/Software commitment on Google Is Apparently Ready To Buy Smartphone Maker HTC (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Android is basically Java on Linux.

  24. Re:YUO FALE IT on Google Is Apparently Ready To Buy Smartphone Maker HTC (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

         

  25. Re:Can we just get an affordable, usable phone?! on Google Is Apparently Ready To Buy Smartphone Maker HTC (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The goal of the Nexus line was to offer a moderately priced and fairly capable phone running a clean/standard version of Android for development use.

    See the Nexus One. Of course, ever since then they've been creeping on features, price, and Googleifying the clean/standard version of Android. The Pixel was the final "FUCK YOU". They're making Google iPhones now, not Android phones (let alone AOSP phones).