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  1. Didn't check that one did they ?

  2. Re:ehhhh...? on New Google Data Shows Dangers of Third-Party App Stores (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Hang on, Google have always said that Google's "single Play Store" was the best approach, and Amazon think the same with their store. The only reason Google had to open its stores to others is to show they weren't trying to create a monopoly.

  3. Re:They read one Tom Clancy novel on San Francisco Bay Area In Superbowl Surveillance Mode (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    And then they lose all sense of proportion.

    At least the game isn't in Denver....

    Goodbye California from Alistair McLean is an interesting read if the game is in SFO...

  4. Re:Component Upgrades on How Robotaxis Might Mitigate Electric Car Depreciation (robohub.org) · · Score: 1

    Just because they haven't worked out the business model (ie how much people are ready to pay for it:

    1. Sell new car
    2. Profit
    3. Sell technology parts upgrade
    4. Profit again

    Sounds like a wonderful idea.

  5. Re:Star Wars should cease on 'Star Wars: Episode VIII' Delayed By Seven Months (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Alright Mr Troll, here are 2 more questions for you:
    - Emacs or Vim?
    - Windows or Linux or MacOS ?

    (To those who modded you Informative, great work, the troll is not hungry anymore)

  6. Probably just an excuse to fire a worker that wasn't doing his job...

  7. Re: Slackware for the win on 0-Day GRUB2 Authentication Bypass Hits Linux (hmarco.org) · · Score: 1

    Have you used a BSD since 1999? The ports system takes a bit of getting used to, but it works more than fine. But it's a server distro, I wouldn't dream of using any of them as a desktop OS though, but that's not what they're designed to do...

  8. Re:"Credible" Bomb Threat Closes on "Credible" Bomb Threat Closes, Evacuates All Los Angeles Public Schools · · Score: 1

    The title is grammatically correct.

    Only by the warped grammar of 20th century newspaper headlines. An "and" would have been more appropriate, and if you're jammed up for space, and ampersand replacing the comma would have less confusing. But I sometimes think we now live in a world where confusing headlines are acceptable because everyone finds the reality of the news confusing.

    Please don't publicise your limited grammatical capacity to others who can, do understand elaborate headlines.

  9. Re:wah wah wah clickbait on Writer: Why Watching the Original Star Wars Again Was a Bad Idea (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What ruined Star Wars for me can be described with one word: Ewoks

    You... You... YOU INSENSITIVE CLOOOOOOOOOOD!!

  10. Re:A typo my ass... on A Typo Almost Derailed Paris Climate Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember vs. fact check on Wikipedia.

    Maybe I should have done that...

  11. Re:A typo my ass... on A Typo Almost Derailed Paris Climate Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    They tried to pull a fast one...

    OTOH - mistakes do happen. Negotiating a treaty between 100s of nations is not something where you can play silly games with words. Children do that; governments have to go back to their parliaments, congresses or maybe even populations where it will be scrutinised in great detail. A small, unfortunate wording would have been very embarrassing, of course, but nothing more than that.

    You're right, and sometimes they stick around for a long time. I seem to remember a story about UN resolution 242 (1967) where the translators made a mistake (deliberate or not) over whether Israel should withdraw from "occupied territories" or "the occupied territories". The latter would have meant all of them, and was the intent of the version negotiated in French. But Isreal stuck to the former and moved out of a small portion of them.

  12. Re:PPK on Dark Matter Grows Hair Around Stars and Planets (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    I read that as " a nanogram's worth per pubic kilometer"

    0_o

    that, coupled with the hair thing... wow, the human mind hey?

  13. You mean unmanned time machines??

  14. Re:I Can't Figure Out on UK May Blacklist Homeopathy (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    OK you win :-) I was comparing to the waste in antibiotics...
    To complete your analogy, what we need is to have those 4m in 1 pound coins, spread them over 240 million wallets, and ask them to pick just one.

  15. Re:I Can't Figure Out on UK May Blacklist Homeopathy (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    This.
    £4m is absolutely *nothing* compared to other wastes. Homeopaths are not covered by National Insurance, you have to go with private medical to get them covered. We're only talking about pills prescribed by registered GPs... and if they are only little sugar pills, they're a cheap placebo!

  16. Re:botnets cost money on Webmail Services Struggling Against DDoS Attacks (fastmail.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Denying traffic takes computing time too, if the attacks are as massive as the TFS suggests, any device used to filter the incoming requests would soon be overwhelmed and the service would be down anyway...

  17. Re:What about a Faraday cage on FCC Fines Another Large Firm For Blocking WiFi · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Whistleblowers shouldn't necessarily be fired, assuming they notified their employers first who didn't didn't act upon the information. In fact in some instances they should probably be rewarded for pointing out things that may put employees or the public in harm's way. My cousin once pointed out during a food-processing factory visit that non-nut products were crossing the way of nut products but that the allergen information didn't reflect that. She didn't get fired, she got a bonus for it.

  18. Strip off? But where did those 1-2mm go?

  19. Re:This is in the UK on Jimmy Wales and Former NSA Chief Ridicule Government Plans To Ban Encryption · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Hello, My name is David Cameron, MP, and I'm the Prime Minister of the UK. Today I would like to put forward a bill to ban all forms of mathematical science and studies, because they are an essential building block of encryption, and that fuels unacceptable behaviours that we can't snoop on. Pretty Please."

  20. Ice House? on An Ice House Design Concept For Mars Bets Long On Liquid Water · · Score: 1

    It's called an Igloo on Earth, why change the name?

  21. Re:Manipulate people opinions on Coke Discloses Millions in Grants for Health Research and Programs · · Score: 2

    Yeah, I'm guessing 120m is a drop in the ocean for a corporation that large. They probably paid 5 times that to be sponsors of the Fifa football world cup...

  22. Re:"not tolerated," but they allowed it on Morgan Stanley Employee Pleads Guilty In Data Breach Case · · Score: 1

    No, the fact that it was available to him doesn't mean he had the right to take it home. He probably needed to access it to do his day's work. He knew he wasn't allowed to take it home and still did it, so he's getting sued. Sounds reasonable.

    It's a hard pushed analogy, but butchers need knives to do their day's work, that doesn't mean they're allowed to use them to stab their colleagues. They know that, and if they do it, they get prosecuted for it.

  23. Re:How about if we OWN our personal information? on The Difficulty In Getting a Machine To Forget Anything · · Score: 2

    In essence, yes. If one of their citizens wants to use their right to be forgotten, then the French government want that to be worldwide. But then imagine a Russian official trying to hide a controversial article about himself.

    It's the same kind of debate when the US want Apple to backdoor iChat for wiretaps. If you can coerce them into doing it, then so can a less democratic countries where Apple have business...

  24. Re:This cannot happen in Scotland! on UK Man Gets Britain's First-Ever Conviction For Illegal Drone Use · · Score: 1

    If only you could use those in the rugby world cup stadiums... ;-)

  25. Re:Relevancy? on Vulnerabilities In WhatsApp Web Affect Millions of Users Globally · · Score: 1

    C-Level requires you to be a C... to get there, maybe? ;-)