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  1. Re:The irony is that half of you idiots complainin on Landlords, ISPs Team Up To Rip Off Tenants On Broadband (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    You make my point, you simply don't get it... It is unlikely I could say anything to help you since you probably aren't open to learning anything. You would rather reinforce your existing viewpoint rather than open your mind to something new.

    The problem you dont have a point, I cant get your point if you dont have one. In what ways has America become worse than it started in the last 8 years. What makes you not so proud of America. You dont say anything, and you expect me to telepathically understand your point, and you blame me for not getting your point? Well, looks like we have found what America's problem is. It is this.

    You have a funny idea of what "better" means...

    Touche

  2. Re:The irony is that half of you idiots complainin on Landlords, ISPs Team Up To Rip Off Tenants On Broadband (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    America has only become better during Obama's tenure. I certainly am proud of my country.

    America has become diminished, less, in the eyes of the world and in itself in the past 8 years. I am no longer proud of my country and now see it for the falling power that it once was.

    And this is sad, because so many men fought and died to get us here, and now so many are willing to throw that all away...

    If more people have to die, just to make you proud of your country, I dont think I can support that.

  3. Re:The irony is that half of you idiots complainin on Landlords, ISPs Team Up To Rip Off Tenants On Broadband (backchannel.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hillary will be just like Obama, that is exactly why I vote for here. Obama accepts wall street donations. Obama accepts pharma donations. Obama accepts big oil donations. Obama accepts cable co donation. But Obama has not been bad president for any of these reasons. I dont mind 4 more years (or 8 more years) of Obama alike.

    Now I have no idea if Trump would do anything to stop it, but there is at least a CHANCE

    That is exactly the problem. Trump could make it better. Trump could make it worse. Trump could make it far better. Trump could make it far worse. There is no way of knowing anything. It like voting an 8 ball as the president. An 8 ball is not hillary, it has that going for it, right?

  4. Re:And nothing for rest of America. on Google Fiber To Acquire Gigabit Internet Provider Webpass (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    No one is forcing anyone here. No one is forcing you to move, you can move by choice and get fiber if you want. No one is forcing ISPs to lay fiber at unprofitable places either. I am sure ISPs even in blue states will bring guns, and point it at any official that tries to force them to lay fiber.

  5. Re:And nothing for rest of America. on Google Fiber To Acquire Gigabit Internet Provider Webpass (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you expect private firms to roll fiber in rural areas which you know it is unprofitable? Do you just like whining about impossible things not happening? You could have your town council or your county pay for the infrastructure and lease it to the ISPs.

  6. Re:So will their existing customers get hit... on Google Fiber To Acquire Gigabit Internet Provider Webpass (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    No. They can opt out by disconnecting their service.

  7. Re:Why no mention of Motorola removing the same on 'Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives' (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    Because Moto is not worth talking, it is just Lenovo branding some of their phones as Moto and slow killing the brand. Make that headline "Lenovo killed the headphone jack and nobody noticed" and you know why nobody noticed.

  8. Re:I'll believe text is dead... on Facebook Is Wrong, Text Is Deathless (kottke.org) · · Score: 1

    Would a gif do? Google usually uses a gif as their logo.

  9. I already told you, your news source is using a hacked source. Source that Petra News Agency was hacked http://www.petra.gov.jo/Public... and http://english.alarabiya.net/e...

    Why do I have to dig up anything on koch? Seems irrelevant here. You and your silly popcorn.

  10. worry about big money manipulation from Saudi Arabia on Clinton instead.

    A hacked website was used as a source for that, which is news for a geek. But I do not have to worry about big Saudi money manipulating Clinton, because that is bullshit. Only the guileable have to worry about that.

  11. Hillary asked for this to able to check emails on the phone and was denied. Only after Kerry became Sec of State, a serious effort was put it and he was even the beta tester for this phone.

  12. Re:Oh great on Microsoft Is Buying LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    You assume there isnt. You never know what your acquaintances have uploaded.

  13. Re:It doesnt on Severe Chrome Bug Allowed Arbitrary Code Execution (talosintel.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Disregard that, I am an idiot. It does use an SUID sandbox. There are plans for it to be replaced by user namespaces sandbox, but as of now, it needs root.

  14. It doesnt on Severe Chrome Bug Allowed Arbitrary Code Execution (talosintel.com) · · Score: 1

    The sandbox doesnt run as root. If you have been using sudo to run chrome, you have no one but yourselves to blame.

  15. Re:Mod parent up on Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze · · Score: 0

    $5000 per house wouldnt have covered all the expenses, the SAD would have used public funds in addition to yours. May be you should have petitioned the city (or county or whatever) to allow you to turn the road into a gated community and purchased the road. If not yeah, you have no right to refuse entry to anyone. If there is construction in the parallel major road, impeding traffic, expect people to use your road until construction completes.

    Waze is wise to these things, and you cant brigade it for more than a few days.

  16. Re:Private Trackers Do Better on The Pirate Bay Gets a 'Massive' $9 in Donations Per Day (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Good public trackers rake in millions in ad revenue. TPB used to one of those. They dont get as much traffic as they did, when they maintained stable servers, but I bet they still make hundreds of thousands of dollars.

  17. Re:Western Phenomenon on NASA Hackathon Expected to Draw Over 15,000 Coders (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    So women felt safe at a place where the female:male ratio was better? News at 11 you say?

  18. Re:Buying off the poor on Amazon Begins Housing Homeless In Seattle (jeffreifman.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon doesnt make a profit, because they invest every penny back into the company. Their fair share of taxes is zero. Dont club them with other tech companies.

  19. That is not what they want to get rid of. They dont want the top results for a "uc davis" image search to show the iconic pepper spray image. It looks like they have succeeded, everything that shows up is pure PR pics. A google search for "uc davis" although bring ups the wikipedia page of the pepper spray incident in the top results. The rest is PR. As the dust settles, I imagine even that wont show up or they will hire experienced wikipedia editors (the ones that know how to stone wall things by using archaic wikipedia rules) and clean it up.

    Someone who knows enough to add "pepper spray" to the search terms are not the ones they are worried about.

  20. Re:A statement of intent is not an actual plan on Despite Lean Space Budgets Russia Is Headed For the Moon (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    For the T-50, you dont iron out stealth issues over time. That is not how radar signature or stealth signature work. They are design time decisions. The US criticism is of cost and range. Stealth is generally considered part of the definition of 5th gen. No one has questioned if the F-35 is really 5th gen. I agree the Indian are going to continue to invest in it, mostly because the deal includes tech transfer, which they badly need. It is funny they are still threatening to drop it.

    T-14 were part of Russian arms expo. Here is one of those http://sputniknews.com/militar...
    It is also certainly in production, though not widely acknowledged. http://nationalinterest.org/bl...

  21. Re:A statement of intent is not an actual plan on Despite Lean Space Budgets Russia Is Headed For the Moon (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    For one the US did not have the support of the UN recognized govt. That makes all the difference in international law. I agree, US is just serving their own interests, just like Russia is, I wouldnt expect either of them to do otherwise.

  22. Re:A statement of intent is not an actual plan on Despite Lean Space Budgets Russia Is Headed For the Moon (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    That 10% cut and the budget was proposed with an expected average oil price of $60. Guess what, so far the average has been in the 30s, and it is expected to continue for the near term.

    Operation costs shouldnt matter of course, I agree with you on that. They came in help of an ally and they succeeded in getting their ally a very good seat in the negotiation table. But it should be not used as an example of abundance of russian military funding, because it it not.

    I find it funny that you find it puzzling that amrchair experts are fuming that Russia used dumb bombs, when none of the arm chair experts including you have said anything remotely close. You must be projecting your own views on dumb bombs in this discussion. My point was again, this should not be considered an example of abundance of russian funding. It just russians getting rid an aging end-of-life stockpile (of both smart and dumb bombs).

  23. Re:A statement of intent is not an actual plan on Despite Lean Space Budgets Russia Is Headed For the Moon (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    India has been flip flopping on T-50 based 5th gen. It is public knowledge that they are not at all satisfied with the radar and thermal signature. The fact that they have been even considered dropping the contract, when they have no other option for decades should tell you enough about them.

    T-14 has been in production for a while now, and Russia has been trying to find a market for it. Number of countries have tested, none went for it, because it did not live up to its hype. It is not unusual for the Russians to underdeliver. May be the Russians will prove them wrong and deploy them in battle against a well equipped adversary. I doubt the perception is going to change, until then.

  24. Re:A statement of intent is not an actual plan on Despite Lean Space Budgets Russia Is Headed For the Moon (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This is pretty outdated. Their 5th generation fighter? It is so under performing with respect to stealth and various things, that their only major purchaser, India, is pretty much dropping the contract (even when they dont have a choice of another 5th gen fighter, other than their home made one which is atleast a decade or two away). If India drops it, it will not go to production; it will be suspended, until oil prices improve and Russia can hold their own weight. The T14 is a great tank (Russia in general makes great tanks), but it is hardly current generation compared to the west. The reactive armor is pretty weak. Thermal signature is not well reduced. No export potential at all, everyone has these type of tanks. Ditto for the IFV, not modern.

    Russian military has been under funded for sometime now, had to take a serious cut this year. And about Syria, Russia pretty much wanted to get rid of their old arsenal, old missiles, old non-smart bombs. Nothing Russia used in Syria was modern and they did not have spend any significant money on the expedition (with Assad pitching in when required).

  25. Re:Hacking the mind on How To Hack an Election (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What? The republican state administration is not happy about a trump win (or a hillary win if you think they are conspiring with the democrats). They are not going "we stole your election". Their favored candidate lost. Seriously what the hell is this about?