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  1. Re: We have space program b*itch! on Debris From India's Anti-Satellite Test Poses Threat To ISS, Says NASA (npr.org) · · Score: 0, Troll

    If the H1Bs that we hire are their "best and brightest" then India as a nation is screwed.

  2. Re:What to do with all the people? on Automation Threatens 1.5 Million Workers In Britain, Says ONS (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, the rest of us should learn how we should capitulate from those populations that are already broken and submissive. Only then can we properly beg for scraps. Look at how much their lives improve through the song and dance of globalization! That extra dollar a month is a boon to their families! Never mind that it doesn't keep pace with inflation, they aren't educated enough to know that and as long as the globalists have their way they never will be. Their standard of living is almost not considered a war crime, we just need to eliminate a few more of those pesky human rights laws.

  3. Rowhammer is garbage on Every Android Device Launched Since 2012 Impacted By RAMpage Vulnerability (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Unless your objective is to crash the device, rowhammer is a useless technique and even then there are far easier ways to accomplish this. Until you can tell me EXACTLY what cells you are modifying and in what way, you will NEVER be able to utilize this vulnerability interesting observation for any kind of useful exploit. Even then, you would have to know WHAT you are modifying and even the most basic memory page protection prevents that. #SLOWNEWSDAY

  4. I Live In WNY on Should Facial Recognition Cameras Be In Schools? (nyclu.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm not explicitly against this, there are already cameras in most schools in Erie and Niagara county anyway so adding the facial recognition is kind of an inevitable next step. The problem with this move is that this is an unconscionable waste of money. Lockport N.Y. has 20K people, the high school has less than 2K students enrolled with something like a 10-1 student teacher ratio. My point is that this isn't some high density area where kids are crammed 30 to a classroom and the teacher barely know their names. It's actually a kind of idyllic suburb where nothing happens especially compared to Niagara Falls or Buffalo. So the idea that this is where we want to crank up security is really what has people around here laughing.

  5. Re:Consolidating what is already going on ... on President Trump Directs Pentagon To Create New 'Space Force' Military Branch (defensenews.com) · · Score: 1

    In any case, pray to God that Trump is not involved in the new uniform design.

    My bet is that he'll go with Hugo Boss. I hear they do some nice work with military uniforms...

  6. Neither Device Actually Works? on 6 Fitbit Employees Charged With Stealing Trade Secrets From Jawbone (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Why is this even an issue much less a civil or criminal one? Neither device successfully does what it claims to, so what actual damages are being done?

  7. Yes, The World Is Returning To Normal on Antarctica Is Melting Three Times As Fast As a Decade Ago (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I hate how many otherwise intelligent people completely misunderstand global warming. Although people are contributing a fair amount to the rate at which we are warming up, this planets default temperature is much MUCH higher than what our species is comfortable with. Guess what? If you are reading this, you were born during an ice age: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  8. It's almost as if investment stuff is regulated for a reason: https://www.investopedia.com/t...

  9. Re:What about pet waste? on Chile Becomes First Country In Americas To Ban Plastic Bags (ewn.co.za) · · Score: 2

    I was skeptical of that fact, then we did the math out-loud in my office and I'm starting to suspect that is an extreme low-ball estimate. Daycare alone is $10-12,000 a year so you're halfway there by the time their 10 years old. The additional food cost is probably negligible, but the medical and, eventually, the auto insurance sure as hell isn't. Then clothing and after school activities would easily put you over that mark. That doesn't even mention vacations. It's a quarter million to raise a child, but how much is it to raise a functional kid?

  10. Gen X Comes In With Exactly The Wrong Idea, Again on Face Recognition Is Now Being Used In Schools (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    How much would it cost to issue each child a Chromebook and have them telecommute from home? All of your flashy shiny technology looks good on paper and I'm sure it makes you feel like a kid with a brand new toy. But the best way to prevent a MASS shooting, is to remove the mass. And if things really aren't so bad that you would consider this as an option, then I guess they really aren't all that bad.

  11. Re:is it due to the gender on Game Livestreaming Explodes, But Women Are Less Likely To Be Paid Than Men (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    ...accidental sexist bias.

    Translation: X doesn't want to do Y so the thing that works for measuring productivity for literally EVERY ONE ELSE ON THE PLANET must be biased.

  12. Re:Free Tommy Robinson! on Increasing Similarity of Billboard Songs · · Score: 1

    When your bigotry demonises a complete sector of society for the faults of a few, then you should be excluded from society as well as you just have hatred to others different to yourself

    There is no way this isn't satire. I'm used to whiteknights having very little self awareness, but this statement right here has got to be the dumbest thing I have ever read from the left.

  13. Re:Say what now? on California Bypasses Science To Label Coffee a Carcinogen (undark.org) · · Score: 1

    At this point I'm convinced that it's the state of California that causes Cancer.

  14. You don't seem to understand, these people don't have the mental capacity to do the task they're asking about. I've run into these people to both in person and online and they are becoming more and more common. These people got their job based on some hiring quota and they spend all day scouring the internet for people to do their work for them so that they can fake their way through another work week. They appear to be doing a lot of work at a casual glance, even though that work is just them bitching out people on Reddit. They can usually last a year or two before everything comes crashing down around them, but by then they've established a work history and had plenty of time to make up what ever cancerous SJW reason they can think of for being terminated. Meanwhile they've collected 4 or 5 times the wages they would have otherwise in a job they are actually qualified for.

  15. Re:ALL SPEECH.... on Reddit Continues To Protect Racist Language In Favor of Free Speech (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    They never had any intention of consuming the cake. People have mapped it out, the Gay couple drove past something like a dozen other bakeries specifically to target this one because they are such screeching blue haired drama queens that they cannot physically function without calling inordinate amounts attention to themselves. The news made it out to seem like it was a surprise that the bakery wouldn't serve them, but that bakery had a well established reputation by then. The bakery was targeted because of their religious beliefs, it's the very definition of discrimination but because it's cool to be gay, the other protected class won this round.

  16. That's completely different. No one blocked the Daily Stormer, they just couldn't find a host for their content.

  17. Re:No man is an island on NYC Fines Airbnb Hosts For 'Illegal' Home Rentals (cnet.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Translation:Wah! Wah! I don't know how free markets work! So instead of doing anything to address an obvious shortage in the supply of housing I'm going to bitch and moan until the government makes my safe space all comfy cozy again. Here's the short version for those of your who wasted your life on a liberal arts degree; there are people providing this service in Berlin because there is enough demand for high quality short term housing to support this business model. The solution is not to throw a temper tantrum over how the world works, but instead to invest in new housing developments until the supply has caught up with the demand. This is called economic growth and despite what your NIMBY mommy has told you it's actually a very good thing. If you want to see what whining about housing situations without a proactive solution in play will get you then just look over at California.

  18. Re:If they're smart... on Trump Trades in Android Phone For Secret Service-Approved Device (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Incidentally, if he's so stupid, how come Hillary isn't being inaugurated today?

    Because she was even dumber than he is? We're talking about relativism at this point. When you're talking about two retards, declaring one to be smarter than the other does not change the fact that they are both still a retarded.

  19. Re:Congratulations! You invented...the smart TV! on Sling TV Accidentally Reveals Its Set-Top Box For Cord Cutters (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Well for one thing, the Sling application is absolute garbage on every single platform it has ever been ported to. So maybe having dedicated hardware would actually make it usable?

  20. Re:ZOMG!!! on Aircraft Entertainment Systems Hacks Are Back (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    So anyone can access the _MAKE_AIRPLANE_CRASH_ API call!

    Again these hacks are fun but not scary at all. the Infotainment system has NO CONNECTION tot he avionics.

    You say they aren't scary. But just you wait until you're stuck in the air for 6 hours while a malicious actor plays nothing Son in Law with Pauly Shore on a loop.

  21. We're not "very, very far behind" in anything. We just don't need to foot the extra cost of shifting wind farms off shore, we like to do things correctly. Here is a local example from my own backyard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . There are dozens of sites just like this one all over the Great Lakes. Why would we swim out into the ocean to get what is more easily had in our backyard?

  22. Re:They don't on Security Firm Shows How To Hack a US Voting Machine (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't need large scale fraud, you only need to defraud key population centers in a state. Think of how the electoral college works, you have districts broken up geographically and weighted by relative population. Take my state of New York for instance, this place is a solid lock for Hillary but most people don't realize how red it is; because of the overwhelming number of people in NYC we always come up blue in the polls. There are literally millions of people elsewhere in the state that are die hard republicans. Now assume that those people are going to vote red and their district is going to come up for Trump with no need for manipulation. You wouldn't need more than a handful of compromised machines in Buffalo, Rochester and\or NYC to alter a few key districts and flip the entire state for the republican party for the first time since the 80's. People would ask questions sure, but by then you could easily have the few dozen machines you compromised flashed back to their stock firmware, or destroyed in a fire or what ever the hell you wanted. There are enough people who would have actually voted republican who would jump at the chance to defend the results on national television and insert that feeling of reasonable doubt.

    You're mistake is in assuming that just because candidates win entire states at a time, that those people in those states must all vote the same way. This is completely incorrect.

  23. Re:Let's Get One Thing Fixed... on Elon Musk Proposes Spaceship That Can Send 100 People To Mars In 80 Days (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It is? I must have missed it. I thought it was just something from a bad movie plot. When is the last time any sovereign state leader has routinely executed people for failure? Or any propaganda has said so?

    Does intentional failure count? Maybe like leaking data about certain Email? : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .

  24. Additionally, zero of those 3 emails actually contained classified information.

    You realize that that doesn't actually matter, right? The contents of the information is irrelevant, it could be a weather report for all the government cares. The fact that the documents were classified is what makes mishandling them a problem. The issue at hand is that it is not up to Mrs Clinton what is and is not classified, or how to handle that information. Personally, I don't even care about the criminal prosecution. This whole situation underlines a flaw in her character that IMO makes her unfit to lead a country.

  25. The guy worked for an MSP ( Platte River Networks ), he wasn't even a private contractor. What this does show is that Hillary Clinton cares even less about national security then anyone previously thought. At least a direct hire would have shown some foresight toward limiting the number of jokers with access to these documents. But no, what does this retard do? She outsources it to a bunch of garage sale technicians working at a glorified call center.