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  1. With his pinky at his mouth, when announcing the "record" fine...

    22.5 Millions. Wow. That's a LOT! Well, at least until you realize that Facebook's annual income was 40 Billions in 2017. In other words, the record breaking sum they're about to fine them (maybe, probably, it's not quite through yet) is about 0.05 of a percent of their annual income. 0.05 percent. Not 0.05 of their income, but actually 0.0005.

    To put that into perspective, let's assume you earn 100,000 a year. Then this fine would be about 50 bucks. The record breaking fine of 50 .... last time I was speeding it cost more than that! Did I stop speeding? Not even for the same day. Did I even notice the fine? No. I was honestly pissed about the time wasted with the cop there than the 50 bucks. I guess that's why Zuckerfucker doesn't appear at hearings anymore. "Fine me if you please, assholes, but stop fucking wasting my time!" seems to be the sentiment here.

    Do I care about such a fine? Would you?

    Do you think Facebook does?

  2. We tried that, it didn't work so well. Got any other suggestions?

  3. Why waste taxpayer money? A bullet is cheap and very efficient.

    And the good thing is, you only have to cap one of the bastards, the rest will quickly understand. They're smart.

  4. Don't worry, these jobs are quiet attractive, you'll find people to fill them.

    And if you don't, don't fret. The quality of the average CEO decisions can easily be matched by a magic 8 ball.

  5. If we hang Obama, can we chop the annoying orange too?

    I mean, it's a small price to pay, really... especially since I don't care about either of them too much. If you want to, add Hillary's head as a goof.

  6. Trump needs Twitter, not Facebook. As long as Twitter continues to work, you can shutdown everything else, including government, Facebook, the world...

  7. A billion per lie to congress, sounds adequate?

  8. Re:DNA = 666 on Adding New DNA Letters Make Novel Proteins Possible (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    So ... Furries with even weirder fetishes, gotcha.

  9. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Adding New DNA Letters Make Novel Proteins Possible (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, Jesus was an Italian

    Proof:
    1. He lived at home at 33.
    2. He thought his mom was a virgin.
    3. His mom thought he's a god.

  10. ...drafted by Romania on Europe's Controversial 'Link Tax' in Doubt After Member States Rebel (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Translation: Romania was simply the cheapest country to bribe.

  11. The sky ain't falling, relax on Adding New DNA Letters Make Novel Proteins Possible (economist.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    OMG,genetically modified bacteria are gonna kill us!

    No. They won't. That's the beauty about this stuff. To be blunt, I'm no big fan of GMO myself, but this is the kind of GMO I could get behind. Why? Because it has a built in kill switch. Those bases X and Y don't exist in the wild. In other words, for your bacteria to live and multiply, you have to keep feeding them these things after artificially creating them. You want your bacteria to die? Just literally starve them to death by not providing X and Y.

    This is the kind of therapeutic GMO bacteria that are just perfect. Use them while you need them, then after they've done their job just cut off their supply of food and they're dying. Beautiful.

  12. Re:DNA = 666 on Adding New DNA Letters Make Novel Proteins Possible (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Damn Furries...

  13. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Adding New DNA Letters Make Novel Proteins Possible (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    What? My mother was a saint!

  14. Re:opps! on Adding New DNA Letters Make Novel Proteins Possible (economist.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, as long as the building blocks of those amino acids X and Y cannot be found in the wild, I'm not that worried. These things would then simply and literally starve to death.

  15. Are they potentially held liable for a recession? No chance.
    Are they potentially held liable for a a cyber attack? Well, the writing's on the wall that they could very well be held responsible if they can't show that they took reasonable steps to prevent it. The noose is getting tighter, Europe already is moving towards liability laws for data breaches and security blunders if the CEO can't show that he didn't just blatantly ignore any kind of security warnings from his infosec department (or shows his negligence by not having one).

    It's basically self interest that they start taking infosec serious. Sooner or later they will be held responsible for it.

  16. Wasn't Mega Kimmie's baby? on Collection 1 Data Breach Exposes More Than 772 Million Email Addresses (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Ya know, Kimmie-boy Schmitz, lardball extraordinaire and mostly beloved for being something the copyright mafia can sink a lot of resources in so they can't prosecute someone innocent at least for the time being?

    Well, he is German originally, and "cloud" is a homophone of the German "klaut", which means "he steals".

    Draw your own conclusions.

  17. One more year on Microsoft is Separating Cortana From Search in Windows 10 (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Support for Win7 runs out in a year. I hope they pick up speed, if they continue at that pace, Win10 will not be ready for use by the time Win7 bites the dust.

  18. Re:Do these people ever listen to themselves? on Microsoft is Separating Cortana From Search in Windows 10 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Undoing a lobotomy is hard.

  19. If it was up to me I'd toss them into the same room and get rich of the pay-per-view rights.

  20. You want to say that religions don't prosecute their own because they are not following the "true" path of their religion?

    Why again did people from England go to America? Being from Europe that wasn't handled in detail in our history lessons, so my information might be sketchy.

  21. I admit, I didn't watch the videos in full. This is still time I'd want back and I know I'll never get back, but I guess I get the gist of it.

    Removing a religion from a country is impossible. What a country can, and should, do is remove religions and the sensibilities of imaginary beings from their laws. Along with anyone who wants to put these into legislation. The idea that some woowoo from lalaland gets to decide what people should or should not do is not compatible with the legislation of a society that should by now have overcome ancient superstition.

  22. Now I'm interested. Can you provide pointers to his statement?

  23. That would require reading more than the headline, so not getting that is quite in-sync with what /. is. But not quipping on the headline is just ... sad.

  24. 10 comments in and still nothing about the Papal Mainframe?

    This ain't the /. I used to know.

  25. Be it as it may, if their little dick makes them pay for my games, I welcome the little dick money. Especially if the ones with the big dicks don't buy my games, no matter how I bend over backwards.