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  1. Re:Helpless Without Google on Google Wipes 786 Pirate Sites From Search Results (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    ...or the other way around, if the site you are trying to get to isn't THAT big a site (or, for good reason, a bit obscure and lesser well known...) and the typosquatter managed to have more (landing) pages link to his typosquatted domain.

    Now try to get your browser (and the inevitably attached search engine) to believe you that you did NOT want the typosquatted domain and that you're an adult fully capable of using a keyboard sensibly enough to type the URL correctly.

  2. Re:Helpless Without Google on Google Wipes 786 Pirate Sites From Search Results (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    It gets worse. Current browsers support this bad habit by blurring the difference between URL and search field.

  3. Re:I'm a foreigner, so I have to ask on 'The Death of the MBA' (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Usually they give it away by the way they dress.

    Why they come with the convenient noose already around their neck, ready to be strung up is beyond me, though. Suicidal much?

  4. Re:More important on Study Finds Different Types of Alcohol Can Determine Different Moods (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Back where I come from there's a saying, if you can lie on the floor without having to support yourself, you ain't drunk.

    It's also the place where a distillery advertised "buy 5 bottles, get a seeing eye dog for free"...

  5. Re:Now lets do a blind study on Study Finds Different Types of Alcohol Can Determine Different Moods (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And a double blind study is when your doctor joins the party?

  6. Joke? We ain't joking!

    Here is everything you ever need to know about how Vodka works.

  7. Re:poison alters the mind! on Study Finds Different Types of Alcohol Can Determine Different Moods (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Oxygen isn't just toxic, it's destructive. Back when it got into our atmosphere it almost killed off all life!

    In other words, don't worry about us changing our environment. Life will prevail. And we'll most likely die out. In the end, it's win-win for the planet.

  8. Re:poison alters the mind! on Study Finds Different Types of Alcohol Can Determine Different Moods (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Your name is oddly on topic in a very disgusting way...

  9. Re:Fuck the universities on 'The Death of the MBA' (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey people! Stop looking, I have here someone who said he already found the decent MBA!

  10. Re:We need to share a password on Ask Slashdot: How Are So Many Security Vulnerabilities Possible? · · Score: 1

    Someone does free testing and often debugging for you and most developers would just throw it away. Admittedly 10 years ago, but people don't change that much.

    It's not necessarily different if they pay for the testing. I've seen it more than once, testing a company every year and finding the same bugs every year, only to hear "yeah, we got the obligation to test it annually for bugs and security holes".

    Apparently fixing them is not part of the obligation...

  11. Why the salad, it's just empty vitamins.

  12. Re:Save a life, or comply with rules and regulatio on The Feds Are Officially Cracking Down on Basement Biohackers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Let me ask you the same question you just asked, a different way. Should the government be required to vaccinate all kids, regardless of parental wishes, and arrest parents who don't?

    Yes. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.

    Next question?

  13. Re:Save a life, or comply with rules and regulatio on The Feds Are Officially Cracking Down on Basement Biohackers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I have no problem with you pumping bleach up your own asshole. I draw the line where you hurt your child.

  14. Re:Fuck the universities on 'The Death of the MBA' (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't quit your day job, you suck as a psychic.

  15. Re:jesus fuck this guy on Net Neutrality Advocates Plan Protests For December 7 at Verizon Stores (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If that asshole has a pacemaker and that has a minimum bandwidth requirement to keep him alive...

    Say, on a completely unrelated issue, is that LOIC still a thing?

  16. Re:jesus fuck this guy on Net Neutrality Advocates Plan Protests For December 7 at Verizon Stores (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    When IoT pacemakers are a thing and this guy has one, it gets REALLY hard for me to keep my fingers from working for the greater good.

  17. Re:Fuck the universities on 'The Death of the MBA' (axios.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, we have arrived at the point where you cannot recover the cost for a degree a while ago, where it's actually going to net you more money in the end when you learn a trade and starting to work basically when you get out of school rather than continuing to a university and start at 25-28 with a mountain of debt on your back.

    Eventually people will most likely say "fuck that" and turn their back to universities, realizing that they're better off in the end starting at a lower level entry position. In the end, your degree doesn't really mean much, you don't start as high as someone with one but where you end up, and at what age, depends more on how good you really are.

  18. Re:Over supply on 'The Death of the MBA' (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, people pondered which part of the workforce won't be outsourced and (rightfully) came to the conclusion "probably the jobs that handle the outsourcing".

  19. I'm a foreigner, so I have to ask on 'The Death of the MBA' (axios.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apologies, English isn't my first language, does that mean we get to shoot MBAs now or do we still have to wait for them to die naturally?

  20. Just ponder what this would get you today on Television's Most Infamous Hack Is Still a Mystery 30 Years Later (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I think it's a bit like hacking back then. Nobody really cared TOO much if you did. Getting caught meant a slap on the wrist, if that, and a stern lecture.

    Try any of this shit today and you'll probably be doing quite some time for a lot of ridiculous reasons and everything that COULD have happened. Not to mention the billions of damage you did because a network couldn't broadcast their bullshit for 2 minutes.

  21. Maybe it was retroviral.

  22. Re:Alternative Medicine on The Feds Are Officially Cracking Down on Basement Biohackers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, is he still sick? Is he?

  23. Re:Save a life, or comply with rules and regulatio on The Feds Are Officially Cracking Down on Basement Biohackers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The main problem with this is that for every smart genius with good connections to genetic experts, there's thousands of deluded parents who pump their kids full of bleach because some unscrupulous assholes want to make a quick buck pretending to be medical experts.

    I can see your point and I do agree that in this particular case it saved a life, but we have seen what damage patent medicine by self proclaimed medical geniuses can, did and still does.

  24. Re:Human Research Subjects on The Feds Are Officially Cracking Down on Basement Biohackers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    But it's ok to poison people with fake medicine and charlatans selling snakeoil to people who are desperate enough to believe it, yes?

  25. You can't just cure HIV! on The Feds Are Officially Cracking Down on Basement Biohackers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    There's thousands and thousands of jobs hinging on that!