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  1. Re:So find an unreasonable one on The FBI Recommends Not To Indict Hillary Clinton For Email Misconduct (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So what did they find?

    1. She and her aids were careless in handling classified information.
    2. There is evidence of potential violations of the statutes.
    3.110 emails in 52 separate chains had been determined to contain classified information “at the time they were sent or received.” Of those, he continued, eight included “Top Secret” information, while 36 chains had “Secret” information at the time it was received, while eight contained “Confidential” information, the lowest level of classification.
    4. Participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.
    5. You or I would be in big trouble -"To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions"

    So Questions:

    1. Will she face ANY sanctions of any kind?
    2. If WE would lose security clearance, will she?
    3. Can someone be President if they are not cleared to see 90% of what crosses their desk?

  2. Kinda on Why Tech Support Is (Purposely) Unbearable · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is a balance point in any support function. If you are too helpful and too quick, the user will never learn and will call you each and every time they get in a bind, even if they've been in that bind multiple times.

    We are very helpful the first time around and as part of resolving the issue, provide copious links to online training materials specific to the issue they experienced.
    The next time, we simple provide citations to where they can read the solution to the problems. Eventually, they don't have to call anymore.

    Yes, there are some idiots who just don't take the hint or just can't fathom the materials (often times, inept executives), but the solution there is to refer them to a peer who has been designated as an "expert".

  3. I hope it can figure out where the Ads are going and how big they are. Then, stop the page from jumping around as they load.

  4. Money Shots on NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    1. Armed citizens are less likely to be injured by an attacker:

    2. Defensive uses of guns are common:

    3. Mass shootings and accidental firearm deaths account for a small fraction of gun-related deaths, and both are declining:

    4. “Interventions” (i.e, gun control) such as background checks, so-called assault rifle bans and gun-free zones produce “mixed” results:

    5. Gun buyback/turn-in programs are “ineffective” in reducing crime:

    6. Stolen guns and retail/gun show purchases account for very little crime:

    7. The vast majority of gun-related deaths are not homicides, but suicides:

    Again, as ArylAkamov mentions, this was a CDC study.

    The Obama Admin disappeared it for all practical purposes. It wasn't on any morning news shows, the View, any of the late night Snark shows, none of the Sunday Morning shows, nothing.

  5. Insufficient Data on The Moral Dilemma of Driverless Cars: Save The Driver or Save The Crowd? · · Score: 0

    Any true "moral dilemma" would have to include information about all the parties involved.

    Neither the Government nor the Tech has the right to make a moral decision for someone nor do they have enough information to do so.

    Should a Nobel Winning Physicist be sacrificed in order to save a car load of Gang Bangers on their way to a Drive By Shooting?

    What if that Hypothetical Crowd was a bunch on NeoNazis?

    Morality is a Human thing and can't be programmed.

  6. Re:In other news... on Facebook Offers Political Bias Training In Wake Of Trending Controversy (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    All these words wasted on a pedantic argument.

  7. Re: In other news... on Facebook Offers Political Bias Training In Wake Of Trending Controversy (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Newspapers, ink, pens, don't occur naturally either. Someone I don't think you believe the right to Free Speech and of the Press is not a natural right.

  8. Re:In other news... on Facebook Offers Political Bias Training In Wake Of Trending Controversy (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    He's right. It's not a "civil right" according to the definition in the link provided, as pedantic as that is.

    What it is is more important... it is a Fundamental Right, or a Civil Liberty. It is a Right that predates Governments and is not subject to Government infringement.

  9. Re:Oh Please Yes on Will Self-Driving Cars Destroy the Auto Insurance Industry? (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 0

    They will always have my business because it will be a cold day in hell before I'll let a computer drive me around.

    And it will also it will be a cold day in hell before I'll enjoy sitting in the back like some some mushroom more than driving my 500+ horsepower, six speed Mustang 302R.

  10. Re:One bad assumption after another! on Alien Contact Unlikely For Another 1,500 Years, Says Study (msn.com) · · Score: 2

    The worst assumption is that anyone would actually be intersted in speaking with us. One look at the TV signals and they'd immediatly place a quarantine around our solar system.

  11. How many news stories by the supposedly professional news gatherers are festooned with copies of tweets by some random joe? Many stories are 80-90% Twitter comments.

    Useless.

    Social Media hasn't taken over the News Media, the News Medaia is freely giving itself over to Social Media.

  12. Duke Nuke'm Sequel...of Flying Cars on Larry Page Is Secretly Working On a Flying Car (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This guy has been working on a flying car for like 50 years.

    Funny thing is, his car is the coolest looking of them all.

  13. Re: So, a little encouragement can go a long way on Disadvantaged Students Stay In College If They're Told Everyone Struggles (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Don't forget the profs telling them that the system rigged against them and that some mystery "they" are racist out to oppress them.

    When the message you are getting every day is that your efforts are in vain, anyone would become discouraged.

  14. Re:So, a little encouragement can go a long way on Disadvantaged Students Stay In College If They're Told Everyone Struggles (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, we are going to write, "Stick to it. Never give up" 100 times...or tell them that 100 times.

    Really, that's called encouragement and leadership. The Armed Forces do it all the time. Coaches do it for their teams.

  15. Re:Pointless and Useless Speculation on Researchers Say The Aliens Are Silent Because They Are Extinct (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    It just occurred to me that I'm pretty fucking arrogant to suggest that we are an "advanced civilization"

  16. About Six Planes on North Korea Restarts Plutonium Production For Nuclear Bombs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Bombing the crap out of North Korea's infrastructure should take about 6 planes with two bombs each.

    Everything else is just barren wasteland.

  17. Pointless and Useless Speculation on Researchers Say The Aliens Are Silent Because They Are Extinct (theconversation.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even if there were advanced civilizations on only 1% of all the planets, that would still be millions or more.

    To believe there are no other advanced civilizations out there, that they are somehow obligated to come pay us a visit, or that they blew themselves up, is pretty fucking arrogant of us.

    When you move into a new neighborhood and the neighbors don't come to visit you, that doesn't mean they don't exist

  18. Maybe that includes a Camo finish.

  19. EVERY HTML app I've ever used sucked royally.

    Delays, dropped letters, crashes.

    Barely one step above two tin cans and some string.

  20. The Swiss Rejected the Idea. on Universal Basic Income Programs Arrive (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    The Swiss just rejected the idea big time.

  21. Re:No Profit...Ever! on How The FAA Shot Down 'Uber For Planes' (fee.org) · · Score: 2

    Now that is a nit-pic.

    But I wouldn't put it past the FAA

  22. Pull the plug.
    Take out the battery.

  23. Re:No Profit...Ever! on How The FAA Shot Down 'Uber For Planes' (fee.org) · · Score: 1

    So...no profit allowed

  24. Re:No Profit...Ever! on How The FAA Shot Down 'Uber For Planes' (fee.org) · · Score: 1

    General aviation airports bring in jobs, taxes, tourists (if they are big enough) and commerce.

  25. Re:No Profit...Ever! on How The FAA Shot Down 'Uber For Planes' (fee.org) · · Score: 1

    LOL!

    Well, we can dream, can't we?