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  1. Re:it all works out on Lies, Damn Lies, and Tech Diversity Statistics · · Score: 1

    29% of the workforce by weight is female.

    But how many football fields?

  2. Re:genitals don't code, and Linus doesn't know my on Linus On Diversity and Niceness In Open Source · · Score: 1

    Rachel has helped solve some tough problems at work. She's never used her boobs to do so, meaning they just aren't relevant.

    How do you know?

    I hear that Lefty does a mean switch statement.

  3. Wow ... on Micromax Remotely Installing Unwanted Apps and Showing Ads · · Score: 1

    ... the only thing worse would be apps you don't want preinstalled, and no ability to uninstall them at all!

  4. There's nothing irrational ... on European Countries Seek Sweeping New Powers To Curb Terrorism · · Score: 1

    ... about responding to violent threats.

    It's irrational not to respond to violent threats.

  5. Only? on Eric Holder Severely Limits Civil Forfeiture · · Score: 1

    but that accounts for only about 57% of the cash taken.

    Ah, so "only" most of it?

    BTW, Holder can't just change a law by fiat, so ... WTF? Either it wasn't law in the first place (bad), or he just changed a law by fiat (bad).

  6. (rustles script pages) on 19,000 French Websites Hit By DDoS, Defaced In Wake of Terror Attacks · · Score: 2

    Ahem ... this clearly has nothing, NOTHING to do with Islam, which is a religion of peace, blah blah.

  7. Re:At some point ... on Simple Rogue WiFi Hotspot Captures High Profile Data · · Score: 1

    I live in the United States. Blue public mailboxes (for sending, not receiving, obviously) are all over the place. And if some bozo bolted a fake one to the sidewalk so he could harvest the mail, he'd be put in jail.

  8. At some point ... on Simple Rogue WiFi Hotspot Captures High Profile Data · · Score: 2

    ... you have to take responsibility for what you are doing.

    Yes, I could call up the post office and ask if that new blue mailbox on the street corner that says "post office" is legit. That would be so efficient, societal-ly speaking, huh?

    Or we could just throw people in jail who set up fake post boxes.

  9. Um, what? on Why We Have To Kiss Off Big Carbon Now · · Score: 1

    "We" have to "kiss off" "big carbon" because ... there's so darn much of it that it's not as profitable as some investors thought?

    Oy ...

  10. Re:Big Brother Is Expanding His Reach on Google Aims To Be Your Universal Translator · · Score: 1

    2) Competition. Microsoft and Yahoo would be happy to handle my email instead.

    And you'd get no privacy with either, as well. So competition does not make a real difference to you, the user.

    Who exactly do you think you'd get privacy with?

  11. Re:What about privacy? on Facebook Targets Office Workers With Facebook At Work Service · · Score: 2

    You misspelled cheap.

    (Don't forget the main reason hosted services like this even exist.)

    They exist because they beat the insanity of hosting email yourself. They exist because it's stupid to have to transfer your email hosting every time you transfer your web hosting (the other common alternative). They exist because they make doing business easier with less disruption.

    Remember, your alternatives are 1. host it yourself, 2. host it with your ISP, 3. host it with your website hosting. It's not immediately obvious why any of those are obvious winners over hosting it with a large well known technology company specifically offering an email service.

  12. Re:Big Brother Is Expanding His Reach on Google Aims To Be Your Universal Translator · · Score: 1

    I've thought for a long time that 'big brother' will not come from governments, but from corporations.

    What convinced you? The massive developments at the NSA?

  13. Re:The NSA has nothing to regret. on NSA Official: Supporting Backdoored Random Number Generator Was "Regrettable" · · Score: 1

    Nothing happened. The spying continues as if nobody said a thing. It had no effect on the election, and it won't have any effect in the next one. Whatever the NSA does from here on out cannot be blamed on anybody but the voters. It's extremely simple.

    Wow, you mean we get to vote for the chief executive, who is the boss of executive agencies like the NSA?

    That's good to know. I wonder who most of those complaining about the NSA supported and opposed the last time they had the chance?

  14. Re:What about privacy? on Facebook Targets Office Workers With Facebook At Work Service · · Score: 1

    How many businesses have outsourced their email to Google or Micro$oft?

    Shittons of businesses are that dumb.

    Because nobody at Bocephus' ISP and Bait and Tackle Shop could possibly do anything wrong?

  15. Re:More US workers == offshoring?? on IEEE: New H-1B Bill Will "Help Destroy" US Tech Workforce · · Score: 1

    At which point they are just as much part of the US tech workforce as a citizen who was born and raised here.

    Except for starting from a significantly lower pay base, and being capable of initiating chain migration.

    Whether those are good, bad, or indifferent things depends on your point of view. But they are different.

  16. math? on IEEE: New H-1B Bill Will "Help Destroy" US Tech Workforce · · Score: 1

    It increases the H-1B visa cap to 195,000 (instead of an earlier 300,000 cap),

    Now I aren't no math genius, but ... increases?

  17. Re:Hacked? Uh huh, sure... on US Central Command's Twitter Account Hacked, Filled With Pro-ISIS Messages · · Score: 1

    Except it doesn't matter.

    Because, much like the DMCA made even incompetent security enshrined in law ... if you or I 'hacked' into someone's Twitter feed using these simple techniques, we would be facing serious criminal charges.

    Serious question, why shouldn't you?

    "Simple techniques" can be used to get through my locked front door, but guess what: it's illegal. And should be.

  18. Re:Discoverer? on NASA's New Horizons To Arrive At Pluto With Clyde Tombaugh's Ashes · · Score: 1

    he clearly discovered New Horizon by that first sentence, work on your reading comprehension. Hopefully whomever built it is not offended by NASA's comandeering of it for a Pluto mission

    Apparently he discovered tortured grammar.

    We, of course, already know where to look ...

  19. That's great, but ... on Google Fund To Pay For 1 Million Copies of Charlie Hebdo · · Score: 1

    ... until everyone is willing to say "yes, it was Islam, and we are done letting more of you into our countries," then all the hashtags and belated "I am {victims}" (they sure weren't Charlie Hedbo before it happened, when it might have mattered) and candlelight vigils and "oh nos, watch out for imaginary backlash" isn't going to do anything to stop this.

    This is an evil death cult, and they don't care what we think, except to use an excuse for more murder.

  20. Re:Sounds suspiciously like welfare. on Cryptocurrency Based Basic Income Program Started In Finland · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The USA is more than rich enough, especially if we stop the whole war-for-profit thing.

    We are? I thought we owed more money than anyone or anything ever has, ever.

    I'd be pretty "rich" too if I could borrow endlessly and never pay it back.

    Oh, and if it's "war for profit", where's the profit? How would stopping a supposedly profitable activity make us richer?

  21. Re:It's a con... on Cryptocurrency Based Basic Income Program Started In Finland · · Score: 1

    by promising to pay them money every month.

    Seriously, if it looks too good to be true (they're paying you for doing nothing), it probably is.

    Does that include when governments pay you money every month for doing nothing? Because check day is a time honored tradition, I'll have you know ...

  22. at a time of mounting concern about excessive force by U.S. law enforcement officers

    It's a time of mounting political cycle and news cycle, not mounting reality.

  23. As long as the world refuses to respond ... on Publications Divided On Self-Censorship After Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1

    ... this will continue. The appeasement just goes on and on.

    Did you see Obama's pathetic statement about this atrocity? I wasn't sure if he was just stoned, or if he was channeling Gene Wilder in the Chocolate Factory (the quiet, calm, utterly insincere "no ... stop ... don't ... ")

  24. how can something more in debt than anything ever on Obama Proposes 2 Years of Free Community College · · Score: 1

    ... even consider what to give away "free" next?

  25. Re:We have unbundled here. Prices went up. on Unbundling Cable TV: Be Careful What You Wish For · · Score: 1

    Cable companies will set their prices so that their ARPU remains unaffected. The vast majority of people will save no money. A small number of people who pick an extremely limited number of channels might save some money.

    So ... people would watch less TV, IQs and the birth rate would go up, everyone wins!