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  1. Re:Colour me apprehensive. on Ridley Scott Adapts Philip K. Dick's 'Man in the High Castle' For Amazon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nothing better that two crewmen in a first-contact situation taking their helmets off, running off like ninnies, getting lost, and contaminating themselves. Top notch writing that.

  2. Re:Sounds like Google on Micromax Remotely Installing Unwanted Apps and Showing Ads · · Score: 2, Informative

    Had to terminate that POS because it's ALWAYS RUNNING and chewing up RAM on my 1GiB phone. WTF Google?

  3. Re:Time to abandon normal phones? on FCC May Permit Robocalls To Cell Phones -- If They Are Calling a Wrong Number · · Score: 1

    And while they're at it, prevent the same for the Indian recruiters.

  4. Re:Academic wankery at its finest on The Anthropocene Epoch Began With 1945 Atomic Bomb Test, Scientists Say · · Score: 1

    It will provide the basis for lots of academic papers and the creation of new "anthropocene studies" departments at institutions of higher learning. What's not to love?

  5. Re:Waiting for Republicans to come in and defend t on Eric Holder Severely Limits Civil Forfeiture · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That someone will be the GOP. I can see them trying to spin this as Obama's "war on cops". They're very predictable in opposing anything Democrats do no matter how rational it is.

  6. Re:Illogical on The 'Radio Network of Things' Can Cut Electric Bills (Video) · · Score: 1

    The old thermostat arbitrage. I can imagine hackers remotely turning on and off mass numbers of air conditioners so that they can manipulate energy trading markets for profit.

  7. Re:And that people... on Steam For Linux Bug Wipes Out All of a User's Files · · Score: 2

    You can use NFS to mount volumes readonly that are only writable by root when a backup is performed. That way the world rest of the users get continuous online access and the only way to accidentally delete is to have root privileges in a narrow window of time.

  8. Re:Qualifications on Fighting Tech's Diversity Issues Without Burning Down the System · · Score: 2

    If there was a supply problem the salaries would be rising. They're not because the "problem" is a charade and a lie you've been sold so that the wealthy can screw you over to make more money.

    There is no STEM shortage.

  9. Re:Returning to their roots & getting with the on Radio Shack Reported To Be Ready for Bankruptcy Filing · · Score: 1

    America is an idiocracy. We don't have time for smart stuff like that. It makes the dumb people feel ashamed and inadequate.

  10. Re:Limited list of languages on Google Aims To Be Your Universal Translator · · Score: 1

    Well we know the killer apps will be in translating Gorn and Tamarian.

  11. Re:Computer literacy? on UK Computing Teachers Concerned That Pupils Know More Than Them · · Score: 2

    No, It's the modern name for typing class with Powerpoint thrown in for good measure.

    Actually using a computer for more than document creation? Rocket science I tell you, rocket science.

  12. Re:Just hire a CPA on Intuit Charges More For Previously Offered TurboTax Features, Users Livid · · Score: 1

    Or you can take control of your life, download the PDFs, fill them out and mail in your return for the cost of a stamp or two. You know, like people did before the tax preparation industry blossomed and everybody became innumerate without the crutch of a computer.

  13. Re:Makes sense. on Google Throws Microsoft Under Bus, Then Won't Patch Android Flaw · · Score: 1

    When is Microsoft going to patch those flaws in Windows XP!

    XP does still get security updates.

  14. Re:UTF-32 would save memory in some cases on NetHack Development Team Polls Community For Advice On Unicode · · Score: 1

    As mentioned above this idea fails when combining characters are needed. This is the advantage of UTF-8 since you are forced to deal with variable length characters anyway. Support for combining chars won't be overlooked in most cases.

  15. Use the median on Big Names Dominate Open Source Funding · · Score: 3, Informative

    The average annual revenue for the open-source organizations considered in the analysis was $4.36 million, and that number was skewed by the $27 million taken in by the Wikimedia Foundation

    Then compute the median. That's standard practice if an outlier disrupts the mean. It's not like this is rocket science.

  16. Re:So they are doing what? on Anonymous Declares War Over Charlie Hebdo Attack · · Score: 1

    There is still a great degree of cognitive dissonance when one gets upset by the senseless killing of a few hostages or bystanders at a public event but the mass killing of many thousands of innocent civilians by aerial bombardment is collectively ignored when it's enshrouded by the "legitimacy" of war. If the bombs were falling on you, you'd want to retaliate too.

  17. Re:So they are doing what? on Anonymous Declares War Over Charlie Hebdo Attack · · Score: 2

    This is precisely the problem with "bringing democracy" to places where absolute freedom isn't valued. It just opens the door for thugs to co-opt the process and impose their will on the populace all within the framework of "free" elections. But enough about how things work in the US.

  18. Re:No video? on SpaceX Rocket Launch Succeeds, But Landing Test Doesn't · · Score: 1

    It is inconceivable that they didn't have cameras all over the barge. The problem is that SpaceX is on track to put all of its competitors out of business and they will seize on any scrap of "evidence" to trot in front of Congress to claim that their rockets are dangerous. The 50% odds of success Musk claimed were probably bogus too but a necessary lie to keep the detractors at bay.

  19. Re:notice-and-notice on Canadian Copyright Notice-and-Notice System: Citing False Legal information · · Score: 2

    why do people keep saying "notice and notice"?

    They used Xzibit as a consultant.

  20. Re:Student Loan Debt just got cut in half on Obama Proposes 2 Years of Free Community College · · Score: 1, Informative

    They'll both fight it because it cuts into the profiteering of the ECMC Group. These are the debt collectors who have just taken over Corinthian to transform their schools into "non-profit" so that they can keep the federal student loan money train flowing which in turn guarantees a steady stream of defaults that they can profit from.

    Free education from the federal government will be lobbied against heavily by these parasites.

  21. Re:Internet as a public utility = higher cost? on FCC Favors Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Faster DSL isn't deployed in the US because it would require upgrading 50 year old copper that the telcos don't want to invest in. This is why even AT&T is getting out of the POTS business and selling off to bottom feeders like Frontier.

    I had DSL service in Frontier's hometown of Rochester, NY. Their entire backbone infrastructure was upgraded to fiber after a severe ice storm in the 90's but I could only get 4.4 Mbit which then downgraded to 2.1 Mbit when the original line was contaminated by water incursion. All this despite living within one mile of the CO with a straight shot through an old railroad right of way. Get it fixed? They're the telephone company and they don't care.

  22. Better Onion article on Publications Divided On Self-Censorship After Terrorist Attack · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is a better article[NSFW] from the Onion.

    Islam caters to a really special kind of demagoguery that its followers can be more batshit crazy over a cartoon than even the most committed abortion clinic bombers.

  23. There is a bug on Is Kitkat Killing Lollipop Uptake? · · Score: 1

    There is at least one known major memory leak in Lollipop. The planned early upgrades for Nexus and Motorola devices have been halted until it is fixed. There's probably more wrong with it that isn't known yet too. You can't extrapolate adoption rates from an update that isn't available to the vast majority of users.

  24. Re:Perjury, no? on Porn Companies Are Going After GitHub · · Score: 1

    Well, the lawyers that signed off on these false notices have sworn an oath to be upstanding officers of the court. The weasel clause of the DMCA doesn't absolve them of responsibility to be truthful in legal documents. Failure to live up to this standard can be construed as a form of barratry which can be used to slap down the sharks orchestrating this mess. If there was a real threat of being disbarred this sort of behavior wouldn't be so common.

    We know no DA in the country can be bothered to police their own ranks. Maybe Github has the will to make a stand and go after these sleazebags.

  25. Mass perjury on Porn Companies Are Going After GitHub · · Score: 1

    So these companies are committing mass perjury by submitting false DMCA takedowns. If only there were a way to prosecute this sort of behavior.