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  1. Re:So to cicumvent the screen locker... on Why Screen Lockers On X11 Cannot Be Secure · · Score: 3, Funny

    We always just added

    echo "sleep 1" >>$HOME/.bash_profile

    to their .bash_profile (or the equivalent if they were using something other than bash).

    And might have sometimes done:

    cp /bin/sh /somewhere/world/write/readable/sh-[username]
    chmod 4755 /somewhere/world/write/readable/sh-[username]

  2. Re:So what will this accomplish? on Uber Capping Prices During Snowmageddon 2015 · · Score: 1

    None of that has anything to do with "Apartments are practically divorced from price competition" or why you used "they don't become cheaper when more landlords own the same limited number of apartments" as evidence for that claim.

  3. Re:I'm on Exoexoearth, I guess. on Kepler Discovers Solar System's Ancient 'Twin' · · Score: 1

    No I didn't. But exodog isn't a word and hence isn't a more specific term than dog.

  4. Re: to apple fan boys on Apple Posts $18B Quarterly Profit, the Highest By Any Company, Ever · · Score: 1

    You have a strange idea of "clearly given". I have no idea what that paragraph was trying to say.

    Which is fine, my is worse than your english.

  5. Re: to apple fan boys on Apple Posts $18B Quarterly Profit, the Highest By Any Company, Ever · · Score: 1

    None of which has anything to do with the word "niche".

  6. No. Please point out the bit where I gave them special praise or implied anything more than "the bare fucking minimum"?

  7. Re:Apple cheats their investors too. on Apple Posts $18B Quarterly Profit, the Highest By Any Company, Ever · · Score: 2

    Are you really that stupid, or do you just play a moron on the internet? http://investor.apple.com/divi...

  8. Re: to apple fan boys on Apple Posts $18B Quarterly Profit, the Highest By Any Company, Ever · · Score: 1

    One would hope so if you think "niche" means "intellect". Do you know there are online dictionaries you can use to check the meaning of words you don't know before you throw them around?

    Since there are many alternative products clearly they are not significantly overcharging. If they were they would not have half the market.

  9. Right, the "Cash paid for income taxes, net" line item in the filing has nothing to do with taxes or anything like that.

  10. The filing has the number in it. Since you looked at it, why the fuck not read it there instead of in a comment here?

  11. Re:I'm on Exoexoearth, I guess. on Kepler Discovers Solar System's Ancient 'Twin' · · Score: 1

    Are you claiming those planets are actually orbiting the Sun?

    If not then exoplanet is more specific than planet and certainly not wrong. Do you also complain when people say they have a pet dog, with something like "No, you have a pet mammal"? (cue the next guy calling you wrong and getting even less specific).

  12. Re:So what will this accomplish? on Uber Capping Prices During Snowmageddon 2015 · · Score: 1

    They clearly are not confusing them. "If the exchange is for money, then the buyer values the money less than he values the thing he buys, and the seller values the thing he sells for less than he values the money he gets" is basically the text book definition of economic value after all.

  13. Re:So what will this accomplish? on Uber Capping Prices During Snowmageddon 2015 · · Score: 1

    "but they don't become cheaper when more landlords own the same limited number of apartments" - other than begging the question why do you think they would?

  14. Re:Insensitive clod! on "Once In a Lifetime" Asteroid Sighting Monday Night · · Score: 1

    I didn't! I still can't see the stars with all these clouds and snow.

  15. That is being illegal won't make criminals stop using is irrelevant.

    If they don't use encryption you spy on them and bust them that way, if they do use encryption you save a step and bust them for that instead. In fact the encryption one will be much less work.

    Not that it should be illegal of course.

  16. Re:Other than the obligatory security theatre... on Bomb Threats Via Twitter Partly Shut Down Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport · · Score: 1

    Yes, If the higher ups decide that the plane is going to do a 9/11 style attack the pilots will get the order to shoot it down.

  17. Re:Once more on U.S. Gas Stations Vulnerable To Internet Attacks · · Score: 1

    Because it's easier.

  18. Re:Do You Even Literate, Bro?! on Behind the MOOC Harassment Charges That Stunned MIT · · Score: 2

    So she has a history of sexual assault, yet her reaction to a pervy prof asking for nude photos was to send the photos rather than saying to herself "learning some physics is not worth this crap" and blocking him on facebook/email/whatever and sending the logs/etc to the university.

    Yes he is the one abusing his position of authority. he is the one at fault (taking MIT's investigation of the matter at face value - I don't have the details they have after all). That doesn't mean she can't make some better decisions in the future.

    If it was a prof at a university you were attending who you will bump into over and over again over the next few years and who is respected by the rest of the academic staff you deal with you have an actual dilemma since they can screw you over if you don't comply with their abuse. But in this case there's no loss in just bailing out - well other not getting to have a perv teach you physics which sounds like a plus really.

     

  19. Re:Suitable Penalties Need To Be Given on Dish Network Violated Do-Not-Call 57 Million Times · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dish's market cap is $34 billion. If they fine them $16,000 for of the 57 million calls then Dish certainly won't be making anymore...

  20. Re:Just give the option to turn it off... on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 1

    Should we mandate that all cars should smell strongly of rotten eggs, just in case a someone is looking the other way in an environment with a lot of background noise drowning out the mandated fake engine noise?

  21. Re:The only correct answers: on Illinois Students Suspected of Cyberbullying Must Provide Social Media Passwords · · Score: 1

    Obviously not.

    You can't produce a signed contract saying that you are to murder Mary Jane in order to void laws against murdering Mary Jane.

    You can't produce a contract saying you owe Bob $100,000 and hence those laws saying you have to pay a fine (and thus couldn't pay Bob) are void.

  22. Re:Yep it is a scam on US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax · · Score: 1

    Neither the Chicago Manual of Style nor the Associate Press Style Guide capitalize such pronouns, so thats hardly a universal convention.

    People not following you personal conventions makes sentences not understandable, too? That's even worse.

    I've added some errors above so I guess all hope is lost of any of that making sense anyway.

  23. Re:Yep it is a scam on US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax · · Score: 0

    You'd have to retarded to not be able to work out what they meant. Life must be really terrible when one character out of place in a sentence can render it not understandable for you.

  24. Because those at the top know the 5th is their friend, but don't care much about the 4th since their crimes tend not to be about hiding objects - money is easy to move overseas after all.

    The 5th matters for house and senate committees which matter to those at the top.

  25. Re:Pot, meet kettle. (He's in denial today.) on Drug Company CEO Blames Drug Industry For Increased Drug Resistance · · Score: 1

    Sure, other than the fact that his company does in fact manufacturer drugs in asia, with manufacturing sites in both China and India.

    There's a rather large hint in the name of the company.