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  1. Xenophobia on US May Prevent Chinese Hackers From Attending Def Con, Black Hat · · Score: 2

    Why are they singling out the Chinese? Don't throw statistics at me. There are French, Israeli, Egyptian, South Korean, Japanese, and on down the line who've hacked facets of the US Government and US Companies. If you're going to go down this road, you have to disallow everyone. I'm not saying you should go down this road. Then again, I aspire to be a Chinese Citizen.

  2. Re:What an idea on China May Build an Undersea Train To America · · Score: 1

    Instructable? I could really use some favors at the federal level.

  3. Re:What American goods would China buy? on China May Build an Undersea Train To America · · Score: 1

    If I can ever afford it, I want to buy one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

  4. Re:What American goods would China buy? on China May Build an Undersea Train To America · · Score: 1

    The Chinese import a lot of coal from us, last I knew. Aren't they willing to burn the coke that no one else will?

  5. Re:What an idea on China May Build an Undersea Train To America · · Score: 1

    And how many natives they were willing to kill for it.

  6. Re:What an idea on China May Build an Undersea Train To America · · Score: 1

    This has been said about literally every major feat of engineering in human history, and every time, you guys were wrong.

  7. Re:wait, what? on German Pranksters Spoof Google Nest At Tech Conference · · Score: 0

    If there is a vetted source you would have preferred to have been posted, if I were you I would have just done that in my comment instead of posting about the absence of said vetted source.

  8. Re:A 'sect of the intelligentsia' on German Pranksters Spoof Google Nest At Tech Conference · · Score: 1

    LOL, sorry. Had been up quite awhile working on my first Python programming stuff. I was pretty delirious. I can't remember where the hell I even heard about this prank. Oh it was on tumblr.

  9. Voice of the Hurd on Richard Stallman Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Whole time I read this I could hear Stallman's voice. This might be why I skimmed through the second half.

    It's not that I don't like him or support him, it's that I think his insistence on "GNU/Linux" as a mouthful whenever referring to Linux is childish and ridiculous and, more to the point, egotistical/annoying.

  10. Re:Git? on Linus Torvalds Receives IEEE Computer Pioneer Award · · Score: 1

    It's fast for the developer, is my understanding of Python.

  11. LOL @ article on Linus Torvalds Receives IEEE Computer Pioneer Award · · Score: 2

    In 1996 Linux Torvalds joined Transmeta, a California-based startup that was designing an energy-saving CPU. He continued to oversee kernel development for Linux, and in 2003 left Transmeta to focus exclusively on the Linux kernel as a Fellow at The Linux Foundation (known at the time as Open Source Development Labs) and today remains the ultimate authority on what new code is incorporated into the standard Linux kernel.

    https://drive.google.com/file/...

    The man has been renamed after his own Frankenstein.

  12. Re:Git? on Linus Torvalds Receives IEEE Computer Pioneer Award · · Score: 1

    I would say Git is virtually indispensable in development, or at least some form of version control, at this point.

  13. Stereotyping on Why Your Online Impersonation of a 16-year Old Girl Won't Last Long · · Score: 2

    Seems like it will be based too much on stereotypes. When I was 16, I typed in proper case (I wanted most of all to be a writer, and I used every opportunity to improve my grammar and typing), used big words in context, and did not easily use emoticons.

    I suppose over time they could develop something keener, but if you're going to base it on the mean of all people in a certain age bracket, there will be enough exceptions to render the most useful applications of the software irrelevant.

  14. Re:Psychopathy? on Psychologists: Internet Trolls Are Narcissistic, Psychopathic, and Sadistic · · Score: 1

    Good points all around.

  15. Re:Psychopathy? on Psychologists: Internet Trolls Are Narcissistic, Psychopathic, and Sadistic · · Score: 1

    Well, would you consider someone at the coffee shop who jumped into group discussions with bad intentions to be a problem? Some of the arguments that get started, IRL, would lead to physical altercations. I think this is why it's gradually being taken more seriously.

    Myself, I've never thought it could, in any way, be seen as positive to intentionally and willfully waste others' time. I think that sans trolls the number of people who don't want to partake in online conversations would be lower than 41%.

  16. Re:Can't They End Run? on Ohio Attempting To Stop Tesla From Selling Cars, Again · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Why do they have a problem letting others sell their cars? They are one of the few manufacturers who demand this sort of control over their sales.

  17. Re:SF is easier to hack than that on How To Hack Subway Fares Using Fare Arbitrage · · Score: 1

    I fought for a say in what gets fixed, working-class hero.

  18. Re:SF is easier to hack than that on How To Hack Subway Fares Using Fare Arbitrage · · Score: 1

    You must be a cop. :P

  19. Re:How stupid on How To Hack Subway Fares Using Fare Arbitrage · · Score: 1

    I can agree with that. I'm just pointing out the irony. The increased mobility and the few extra dollars in the working person's pocket (if mass transit were 100% subsidized) would both go a long way to boosting the economy.

  20. Re:Oil Executive Responses On This Should Be Quali on Oil Companies Secretly Got Paid Twice For Cleaning Up Toxic Fuel Leaks · · Score: 1

    Definitely did not say that. I appreciate the words in my mouth, though.

  21. Oil Executive Responses On This Should Be Quality on Oil Companies Secretly Got Paid Twice For Cleaning Up Toxic Fuel Leaks · · Score: 1

    This and this guy. Mod up if you remember being pissed at how smug they were about it, the British bastards...

  22. Re:How stupid on How To Hack Subway Fares Using Fare Arbitrage · · Score: 1

    Many downtown centers in parts of America such as Denver, Boulder, and even downtown Oakland, CA, have free buses for busy shopping districts which are given all the same rights as public transit even when they are privately owned. These buses are expressly for the purpose of giving those who can afford to shop an easier time in so doing.

  23. Re:Tickets on How To Hack Subway Fares Using Fare Arbitrage · · Score: 1

    They have those too. It's one of the top tourist destinations of the world, so of course there are solutions for people who aren't going to use it for a week or even for a full day.

  24. I thought on Oil Companies Secretly Got Paid Twice For Cleaning Up Toxic Fuel Leaks · · Score: 1

    'The oil companies have, in effect, profited off polluting.'

    I thought we had reached an agreement as a species that this is what they were doing in the first place? Did anyone else read the last book Kurt Vonnegut wrote?

  25. Re:SF is easier to hack than that on How To Hack Subway Fares Using Fare Arbitrage · · Score: 0

    Wrong. The BART has its own police force, unless I'm wrong. But I'm not.