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  1. Activisim? on Does the Internet Spur Social Change, Or Lazy Activism? (usc.edu) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "lazy activism" is a complement. There's an age old word to describe what happens in social media, it's "gossip".

  2. I was considering using AWS... but it seemed to complicated with their calculator to get any kind of estimate of what it would cost me I went with dedicated servers instead.

  3. Re:Uh... not exactly. on Pirate Bay Cofounder Utterly Bankrupts the Music Industry (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't think there are a big portion of people out there who end up ignoring the files they download? Yet PirateBay is penalized for them just the same. That's kind of the point.

  4. Re:Do they want the drone intact? on Analyzing the US Air Force's New "Portable Hobby Drone Disruptors" Solicitation (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    It sounds like you just need to wait until the military's new weapon comes out and then find some rich drone operators to carry on this cat and mousery.

  5. Re:This is "news"? on Pirate Bay Cofounder Utterly Bankrupts the Music Industry (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    The point is, by the logic presented by the music industry and the logic used against Pirate Bay this WILL hurt them. He is proving that it will not, so therefore it begs the question why they were allowed to use this logic in the first place.

  6. As a parent, I would much prefer to hear ANYTHING from /dev/null.

  7. Re: Accounting 101 on Pirate Bay Cofounder Utterly Bankrupts the Music Industry (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Somewhat incorrect. They have purchased a license to play the song on the radio. They have not purchased a license to allow you to record the song so the point is valid.

  8. Re:Walls are free? on Facebook's Free Basics App Has Been Temporarily Banned in India (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    The only thing that bothers me about this is that Facebook gets to control (and profit from) what the poor masses see. It amounts to a sort of controlled propaganda. As long as they are being regulated and show a range of competitors and not just have an invitation only competition free service, then I am ok with it.

  9. Re:Walls are free? on Facebook's Free Basics App Has Been Temporarily Banned in India (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If I told you that you could live totally free of cost, but it would be in a prison, would you accept?

  10. Re:END THE FED! I saw this coming 30 years ago. on US Bureau of Labor Statistics: Programmer Jobs Will Decline 8% (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems to me if they were truly desperate, they would be looking all over the US, and to import people from Canada. Looking in the next state is hardly trying.

  11. I'm pretty sure that you have to live in a very specific spot in the US to have those kinds of offers available.

  12. Re:"The cloud" on ZFS Replication To the Cloud Is Finally Here and It's Fast (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "Ignorance is bliss"

  13. Re:Rsync could have done this too! on ZFS Replication To the Cloud Is Finally Here and It's Fast (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure there are people using rsync successfully for more than "a couple directories".

  14. Java is going to nag me to update even more!

  15. Re:That's ok on US Predicts Zero Job Growth For Electrical Engineers (bls.gov) · · Score: 1

    This must be why corporate America is actively working to make every development job one of the worst jobs available.

  16. Re:Robotics revolution is just around the corner.. on US Predicts Zero Job Growth For Electrical Engineers (bls.gov) · · Score: 1

    I thought ALL electrical engineers went into it because they wanted to work with robots! I mean, isn't that the best part of being one?

  17. Re: Of course it's zero growth! on US Predicts Zero Job Growth For Electrical Engineers (bls.gov) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Donald Trump is a businessman. A person who thinks like a businessman doesn't really care what they're saying right now, when push comes to shove they will get themselves ahead and no one else.

  18. Acceleration on Facebook Replaces Flash With HTML5 For Videos (facebook.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as it doesn't require any special hardware acceleration like Netflix does.

  19. Re: eGolf is agreat car on Musk, Others Want Volkswagen To Go Electric Instead of Fixing Diesels (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    So there is going to be a charging station for all 500 people who stop to shop? Per mall??

  20. Re: eGolf is agreat car on Musk, Others Want Volkswagen To Go Electric Instead of Fixing Diesels (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It's like how your smartphone lasts all day when you don't need it and dies at 1pm when you do, but with cars. Not awesome.

  21. The IT industry on White House Expected To Announce Big Computer Science Push · · Score: 1

    If the IT industry was being made worthwhile to do into, I would think it would sell itself. I feel somewhat cheated because when I was going into post secondary education it was supposed to be *the* thing to go into and now they have to drag people into it like this.

  22. Re:16 years on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 1

    What's the harm in it? Email is small and with a good search function you never know what you will find in it that you needed to remember.

  23. Webmail != replacement on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why do people constantly suggest a web console as a replacement to a native application? When you use gmail, the browser gets in the way, there is lag, you have to do things in an HTMLy way.... Web services are far more clumsy, and if I'm deaiing with hundreds of emails it's really nice to not have all those obstacles. Owning your emails is nice too.... my wife lost the last emails that her father sent to her because Microsoft decided she wasn't using her account enough.

  24. I am so looking forward to calling an automated car and having to deal with the piss, shit, and vomit that the previous passengers left.

  25. Re:collaborative editing is in the pipeline on Collabora and OwnCloud Announce LibreOffice Online (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Now you're just talking hipster talk.