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  1. Re:Mixed blessing on Gawker Files For Bankruptcy After Hulk Hogan Lawsuit (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a large proportion of US that believes in the sanctity of marriage and isn't impressed when someone films themselves committing adultery. That this someone also happens to be a public figure known for not just wrestling and a Rocky film but a reality TV series where he is the overprotective dad who scares the shit out of any prospective boyfriend who might want to have sex with his legal age daughter as part of a relationship. Gawker, while assholes, pointed out his hypocrisy of "do what I say, not what I do".

    Should they have been sued? Damn right. Should they have been bankrupted? Hell, no.

  2. Re:Speaking as a chromebook user on First Batch Of Chromebooks Reach End Of Life, To Stop Receiving Support and Updates (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    "...lick my taint you hippie twat"

    Ah, that brought back happy memories of alt.flame at its best. Bravo, and thanks.

  3. There's no "seems" about it. DPA applies to anybody with data about anybody else. Yes, this includes the authorities, but with exemptions because trrism etc.

  4. Re:Would not change anything on Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Internet Has Become 'World's Largest Surveillance Network' (theinquirer.net) · · Score: 1

    I don't claim Trump is racist because he wants a functional border. I claim Trump is racist because he is racist. As for the border controls, comparing what he wants to what Britain has is apples and oranges: we have strong border controls not just for stopping people but to stop notifiable diseases like rabies and Dutch Elm. If you want really stringent border control, look at Australia.

    One big difference between the racists with a public platform here is that they don't have around half of the popular vote and are running to be president of the most powerful and oppressive country on the planet.

  5. A better solution is to report the app and uninstall it. If enough do so, Google might annoy Microsoft by removing it from the store.

  6. This does also rely on the speaker having the ability to output sound at that frequency.

  7. Re:Dunno on Hackers Claim to Have 427 Million Myspace Passwords (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If only I hadn't used the CDs for disposable coasters over 15 years ago...

  8. Re:It's called a black box on Why Are We Spending Billions and Tons of Fossil Fuel On Search of Lost Planes? · · Score: 1

    Unlikely. As an example, fuel monitoring units for an A380 cost $250,000. Each. You can fit one in the palm of your hand...

  9. Re:Bad News like this on Mars Is Coming Out Of An Ice Age (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    The Sun waves hello from a mere 93 million miles away...

  10. Re:Does anyone else hate Discourse forums? on Study: '50% of Misogynistic Tweets From Women' (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It isn't nicknamed dick sauce (or disco horse or other variants) for nothing.

  11. Re:Choice between what? on Smartphone Surveillance Tech Used To Target Anti-Abortion Ads At Pregnant Women (rewire.news) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's also a certain irony that those who cry "murder" are living in a country with a death penalty.

  12. Re:Here's a simple fix... on How Copyright Law Is Being Misused To Remove Material From the Internet (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    "I'm rather surprised that they didn't reach for the libel laws"

    They did. Mumsnet told them not to be so silly and kept the post up. Then BuildTeam sent the boys round to her place to demand she delete the post. At that point she should have told them to go fuck themselves and called the police on them for doorstepping harassment.

  13. Re:Biometric Analysis is Inadequate on Code Quality Predicted Using Biometrics (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    * Milgram

  14. Re:Poetic APIs on Declaring Code Is Not Code, Says Larry Page (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    A world where it is illegal to implement my own version of die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog because the signature is copyrighted as part of a API is a world I tell to get stuffed. The same applies to software patents.

  15. Re:Dirt, leaves, road grime, etc. on Google Patents Self-Driving Car That Glues Pedestrians To The Hood In A Crash (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It'll become a badge of honour: "I got six yesterday (attached pic), highest in my area!" Never mind Snapchatting a pic of doing 100mph, there'll be an app for this.

  16. Re:Uh huh, sure. on There Were Mega-Tsunamis On Mars (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a Routemaster bus on the moon. I saw pictures of it. Then someone stole it which was even bigger news than the discovery. Well, for just one paper...

  17. Re:Trading seasons on There Were Mega-Tsunamis On Mars (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    C S Lewis wrote about that in The Space Trilogy; the closer you got to Arbol, the younger the world was.

  18. Re:Delete the fucking delete button. Apple would. on Google Chrome To Disallow Backspace As a 'Back' Button (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'm laying the blame at Microsoft's door. They also decided that the Enter key should submit a form as apparently tabbing to the submit button and *then* pressing Enter was really hard for the retards in the focus group. This causes even more issues than backspace as it is easy to have a partially completed form submitting when you didn't expect it to because (again) you weren't in a form input. Then the site grumbles at you for not filling in all the required fields...

  19. Re: They were Johns charged as pimps on Amazon and Microsoft Directors Charged in Prostitution Sting (kiro7.com) · · Score: 1

    Hint: hit reply in the comment you want to reply to, as yours made no sense in the current context. There were plenty to choose from.

  20. Re:They were Johns charged as pimps on Amazon and Microsoft Directors Charged in Prostitution Sting (kiro7.com) · · Score: 2

    70 visits to prostitutes since 2012 is less than twice a month. If you think that that frequency of sex is excessive (TFA didn't state if that guy is in a sexual relationship, so could be the only times he has sex) and equates to being "lead[sic] by their genitals" then you're a hypocritical prude.

  21. We did pay you back. It took us until 1999 so I'll add usurious to the list.

  22. So a line from a British show written by a Briton and starring Britons for a British audience isn't a good example of correct English? Stop inflicting your shitty offshoot separatist colonial dialect on me saying that I, as a native, am wrong about what is correct in *my* language. Oh, and learn to fucking spell as well.

  23. Doctor Who used it when the Master told the Toclafane to decimate the population. So they duly killed 1/10 of humanity. That episode got plaudits for correct usage of English. That illiterate dolts assume it means "destroy nearly all" it is immaterial, unless you also consider "irregardless" to be a valid word.

  24. Re:Before most of the idiot Americans.... on Jeremy Clarkson's Amazon Show To Be Called The Grand Tour (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I'll bet my underpowered shitbox is faster, more fuel efficient, lighter, more environmentally friendly, more comfortable and safer with a smaller engine than your underpowered shitbox.

  25. Re:Ogilvy on Atomic Oxygen Detected In Martian Atmosphere (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Ogilvy was a proven idiot.