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  1. Re:Remarkable on MenuetOS, an Operating System Written Entirely In Assembly, Hits 1.0 · · Score: 1

    hey, even rich people have some place to be.

  2. Good, now we can drill for oil in the Antarctic on Larson B Ice Shelf In Antarctica To Disintegrate Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Are you reading this Shell, Exxon and Chevron?

  3. Re:Remarkable on MenuetOS, an Operating System Written Entirely In Assembly, Hits 1.0 · · Score: 1

    The Patek is nice but you'll get your wrist sliced off wearing it on the subway. ;-)

  4. Re:Just block China already. on Penn State Yanks Engineering Network From Internet After China-Based Attack · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So protecting your data and your intellectual property is racist? That's a new play on the race card. It's not about blocking the Chinese people from accessing information, shit their own government does a pretty good job of that already. It's about blocking concerted, direct espionage against US companies, educational institutions and the government. It's not some pimple faced teenager trying to break in for fun, it's about the theft of our technology. Sure, technology leaks and history is replete with examples but this wholesale theft needs to be curtailed and if necessary start blocking IP address ranges; better yet we need a great firewall of China for traffic going to/from China.

  5. Re:A logical response on Penn State Yanks Engineering Network From Internet After China-Based Attack · · Score: 1

    bullshit.

  6. Re:Remarkable on MenuetOS, an Operating System Written Entirely In Assembly, Hits 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Really? I'll remember that when people's IWatches are breaking and my old Rolex and Omegas keep ticking. Just because something may not be as technically advanced as something else doesn't mean it's obsolete.

  7. You gotta love retrograde on Kepler Observes Neptune Dancing With Its Moons · · Score: 2

    I wonder, is there a backup beep when planets go into retrograde? Beep Beep Beep.

  8. Re:Not really about lie detectors per se on Douglas Williams Pleads Guilty To Training Customers To Beat Polygraph · · Score: 1

    Well if you take that to a logical conclusion then, some religions are guilty of being an accessory.

  9. Re:Not really about lie detectors per se on Douglas Williams Pleads Guilty To Training Customers To Beat Polygraph · · Score: 1

    Selling information on how to cheat isn't the same as cheating. In the case of those who used his information, those individuals should be subject to sanction. for example, I can tell you how to hotwire a car. I can even demonstrate it on my own vehicle and provide teaching aids that can allow you to be able to do it yourself. However if you steal a car using the methods I teach, you're committing the crime. I realize that free speech only goes so far such as yelling "fire" in a crowded theater but he wasn't creating panic, just offering methods to overcome pseudo science that's all about intimidating the person taking the test.

    In his secret testimony before the Warren Commission in 1964, J. Edgar Hoover, said that the "polygraph, often referred to as a lie detector, is not in fact such a device." He explained that its value to law enforcement agents was as a tool of intimidation: if a subject believed the central deception that the machine could detect lies, he would have an incentive not to lie when strapped in the machine.

  10. Re:It still amazes me that we treat labor as pawns on Apple, A123 To Settle Lawsuit Over Poached Battery Engineers · · Score: 2

    non-solicits/non-competes should be illegal, period. If a company wants to raid, let them. This is part of the problem when you talk about tech talent that nobody likes to acknowledge. Because of soft handcuffs, you're not truly mobile depending on who your work for or who you'd like to transition to. I've had it happen twice in my career and it's bullshit. These employees didn't agree to indentured servitude and I doubt that A123 had them under contract.

  11. It still amazes me that we treat labor as pawns on Apple, A123 To Settle Lawsuit Over Poached Battery Engineers · · Score: 1

    It's obvious that the A123 employees left of their own accord. A123 doesn't hold any exclusive rights to those folks unless their under contract. If these folks were "at will" employees then by all means if a new deal comes along they should go. All of this begs the point that Apple shouldn't be paying a dime to A123 in this case. Employees are not slaves and it's time to get out of the mindset that they are pawns that can be traded or kept at the whim of some task master.

  12. I use them all the time on Does Using an AOL Email Address Suggest You're a Tech Dinosaur? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In my role as a professional phisherman and spammer, I find that using AOL and Yahoo e-mails enhances my target audience responses by 90%.

    Besides, it's free and I can create hundreds every hour.

    While I'm at it would you be interested in Penis Pills? I have a special on them two bottles for $19.99

    Also please click on this link because I have important information about your Social Security benefits.

  13. Cartman would say on Ebola Lurked In Cured Patient's Eye · · Score: 2

    Don't give me pink eye you goddamn hippies!

  14. He should fucking resign, as should most of the old retards who occupy the halls of congress. It was their blind eye that led to the situation of torture being used in the first place.

  15. Re:Hillary says it's okay on 28-Year-Old Businessman Accused of Stealing $1 Billion From Moldova · · Score: 1

    So now wiping a hard drive is a Hillary? I'm not up to date on this, when did they send out the memo?

  16. Re:Amateurs on 28-Year-Old Businessman Accused of Stealing $1 Billion From Moldova · · Score: 1

    But that requires removing your shirt and wrestling bears!?! I'd still rather just e-transfer everything quietly.

  17. Re:Never pull a job without proper status on 28-Year-Old Businessman Accused of Stealing $1 Billion From Moldova · · Score: 1

    The Market has done better than 8% per year the past 5 years, it's shabby. TARP recipients received the equivalent of Federal Disaster Funds at low interest.

  18. Re:Huh? on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Announces Bid For White House · · Score: 1

    Compaq was not a shitty company. Yes the merger between HP/Compaq wasn't the best thing on the planet and essentially HP took on a ton of debt in the process. Remembering it now, it was more a merger to remove competition than it was to enhance the overall business capability of HP.

  19. Re:Several CEOs later on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Announces Bid For White House · · Score: 1

    Several being.. 2... Right?

  20. Re:Where did this bizarre idea come from? on Recruiters Use 'Digital Native' As Code For 'No Old Folks' · · Score: 1

    Shut up! I'm trying to refactor this old Cobol-77 shit and it's being a PITA especially on this TPF/OSPF editor. I knew I should have studied FORTRAN more in school. Okay.... ENVIRONMENT DIVISION..

  21. Re:Hey, Paul Graham can get another job, then! on AI Experts In High Demand · · Score: 1

    I hear Ruby does LISP really well especially when using systemd to orchestrate it.

  22. Re:Rectify? on China Takes Its Already Strict Internet Regulations One Step Further · · Score: 1

    I wonder just what "Rectify" means in these cases?

    You'll probably get removed, or jailed or better yet shot.

  23. Re:Let's not judge others on China Takes Its Already Strict Internet Regulations One Step Further · · Score: 1

    That reminds me "The Sand Pebbles" is on TCM this month..

  24. Re:Why were IT professionals the beta? on Microsoft Office 2016 Public Preview Released · · Score: 1

    So go get the preview and then comment back. Any feedack is better than none.

  25. Baseball and Psychology on Results Are In From Psychology's Largest Reproducibility Test: 39/100 Reproduced · · Score: 1

    Where batting .390 is considered a good thing.