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  1. Re:I can't imagine something like that in the U.S. on The AI Boss That Deploys Hong Kong's Subway Engineers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I dunno. If a corporation smells a profit in it, then I think they'll find a way.

  2. Re:How to prove the source code maps to the binary on Microsoft Opens 'Transparency Center' For Governments To Review Source Code · · Score: 1

    The secret to secret keeping is limiting the amount of people who know.

    Not much of a secret now, is it?

  3. Re:what? on Happy Software Developers Solve Problems Better · · Score: 1

    How could they have possibly run this test?!!?

    By manipulating Facebook news feeds.

    /ducks

  4. Re:The central tenet of atheism on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 1

    Thank you so much for your uniformed opinion regarding how I believe in things.

  5. Re:why would I want to hang with a buncha cunts on Match.com, Mensa Create Dating Site For Geniuses · · Score: 1

    There's a whole lot more snobbery going on in motorcycle clubs IMHO. If you try to join a Harley group in anything other than a Harley, good fscking luck. Try joining a sport motorcycle club with a cruiser, or a small cc standard.

  6. Re:They hate our freedom on San Francisco Bans Parking Spot Auctioning App · · Score: 1

    Seems to me they're banning the sale of something you don't own, which sounds a lot like stealing.

  7. Re:whistling on IRS Recycled Lerner Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    I smelled used-car-salesman sliminess on Obama when I first heard of him, and I was surprised how many people fell for his great sounding but deliberately vague speeches. The man came from Chicago, the most corrupt political system in our country. And I voted for Nader in 08, so I'm no Republican.

  8. Re:Not more solar energy!! on Elon Musk's Solar City Is Ramping Up Solar Panel Production · · Score: 1

    I don't know, battteries? FSM knows I need a lot of power at night when all my lights are off and I'm sleeping.

  9. Re:With a name like that... on HP Unveils 'The Machine,' a New Computer Architecture · · Score: 2

    There'a all kinds of possibilities. Machines of Loving Grace, Rage Against the Machine, NIN's Pretty Hate Machine album. There's a roller derby player going by Pretty Skate Machine.

  10. Re:Fine ... on NSA's Novel Claim: Our Systems Are Too Complex To Obey the Law · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that the new facility is for storage of new programs, not stable backups of existing data. I'm not an expert though.

  11. Re:Fine ... on NSA's Novel Claim: Our Systems Are Too Complex To Obey the Law · · Score: 1

    So, basically, your saying that they should just expect everybody to simply trust that what they're doing is entirely legal?

    Where did I say or imply anything like that? I'm no more a fan of what NSA is doing than anyone else here. They are disliked throughout the rest of the intel community too, btw.

  12. Re:Fine ... on NSA's Novel Claim: Our Systems Are Too Complex To Obey the Law · · Score: 5, Informative

    I imagine the problem is that these databases only hold collected data for a short period of time, say 30 or 90 days. The data scraped is massive, so it is constantly deleting old data to make way for more. IAA Intelligence Analyst, and I know of some imagery databases, for example, that only hold the last 30 days of imagery. If you forced them to hold all of it for years, it would mean increasing server space by orders of magnitude.

  13. Better title on America 'Has Become a War Zone' · · Score: 1

    "America Has Become a War Zone, According to This One Guy"

  14. Re:Why are taxpayers funding this? on NASA Names Gavin Schmidt Director of the Goddard Institute For Space Studies · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If climate science is really worthwhile

    You mean our atmosphere, the thing that keeps us alive and will hopefully continue to do so in the future as long as we don't fuck it up? That thing? Yeah, totally not worth the sliver of NASA's small budget.

  15. Re:If Evolution is true... on Study: Male Facial Development Evolved To Take Punches · · Score: 2

    If you think they're bad, you should see the even uglier people who never had kids!

  16. Re:Stuffing your face makes you heavy on The Light Might Make You Heavy · · Score: 2

    Yeah. Things seemed simple to me too when I didn't know anything.

  17. Re:Anyone notice... on Zazzle.com Thinks Depictions of Pi Are Protected Intellectual Property · · Score: 2

    Uh, actually, I didn't get it until barlevg pointed it out. Yes, I feel stupid.

  18. Re:Could the soul survive? on Scientists Find Method To Reliably Teleport Data · · Score: 1

    Good thing there's no such thing as a soul then.

  19. Re:Physical interdiction of trucks? on UPS Denies Helping the NSA 'Interdict' Packages · · Score: 1

    Or is it even remotely practical to identify specific package/truck combinations?

    Maybe. But also know who is driving ahead of time and know their address, relatives, etc? Less likely.

  20. Re:I'd be satisfied with... on NYC Councilman (and Open Source Developer) Submits Bill Establishing Open Source · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sure. As long as the same is done with Windows. We went from XP to 7 and every edition of Office with no training. In those cases, we all taught ourselves and each other informally. I taught myself Ubuntu at home, so it can be done. Let's just compare apples to apples.

  21. Re:Weakest links? on Iranian Hacker Group Created Fake News Organization For Social Engineering · · Score: 3, Informative

    Defense contractor here, and we get tons of training on how to avoid phishing and other cyber threats, espionage, sabotage, active shooter, equal opportunity, sexual harasment, emergency occupant, ad nauseum. For many people, it's in one ear and out the other.

  22. Re:Jesus is coming on The Andromeda Galaxy Just Had a Bright Gamma Ray Event · · Score: 1

    "The event" means Jesus is on his way.

    Ironic then that it's a false alarm.

    But even if it did happen, it happened two million years ago, when mankind was little more than short walking chimps. Hard to believe Jesus made an enormous explosion in some other galaxy that would have no effect here 2 million years before being born. Or maybe you're just being funny. Hard to tell sometimes.

  23. Re:No steering wheel? No deal. on Google Unveils Self-Driving Car With No Steering Wheel · · Score: 1

    Do you trust human drivers MORE? To be clear, we're talking about the humans that text, drink, smoke, talk, and everything but look at the road and kill over 30,000 people in the US alone every year. THOSE humans?

  24. Re:A Formula only an Actuary could Love on Why You Shouldn't Use Spreadsheets For Important Work · · Score: 1

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  25. Re:It's not just medical information.... on Wikipedia Medical Articles Found To Have High Error Rate · · Score: 2

    I find it strange that people generally exhibit good critical thinking skills when it comes to Wikipedia (fact checking, understanding sources, looking for biases), but gleefully eat up their favorite news channels without a second of thought. No source of information is free of biases or errors, but at least Wikipedia actively works to avoid them.