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  1. What tortured system of logic do you use to come to the conclusion that it should not be up to companies to decide? If people don't want to purchase GMO food, they are free to tell companies themselves. Companies are free to act on this information. There's already truth-in-advertising laws to prevent or punish companies who falsely claim their products are GMO-free. We don't need more laws.

  2. Re:Need to replace Asians with everyone else? on Apple Releases 2015 EEO-1 Diversity Data Over Weekend (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    There's a push to get men into nursing. For pragmatic reasons, though, not social-crusader type reasons.

  3. Re: I'm somehow not surprised. on Opel Dealers Accused of Modyfing the Software of Polluting Cars (deredactie.be) · · Score: 1

    That, and US auto manufacturers aren't interested in selling diesel cars to US residents, so they have no incentive to cheat.

  4. Re: Doesn't matter. on Apple's Gatekeeper Still Broken (csoonline.com) · · Score: 0

    OS X actually has a hidden Gatekeeper to keep out ignorant, bigoted pieces of shit like the GP. That's why he doesn't know anything about it.

  5. Re:Why is javascript being pushed as generic? on Microsoft Open-Sources Its JavaScript Engine Chakra (windows.com) · · Score: 0

    It would be a good idea to find a python and lock yourself in a room with it for a few weeks.

  6. Re:Why is javascript being pushed as generic? on Microsoft Open-Sources Its JavaScript Engine Chakra (windows.com) · · Score: 0

    JS is no picnic, but anyone who prefers Python doesn't really know about good languages anyway.

  7. Re:It's a trap! on Microsoft Open-Sources Its JavaScript Engine Chakra (windows.com) · · Score: 1

    You deserve pain and misery for all your days. Unfortunately, this world is not a just world.

  8. Re:It's a trap! on Microsoft Open-Sources Its JavaScript Engine Chakra (windows.com) · · Score: 1

    You loathe MS because you're mentally deficient. Carry on.

  9. Re:It's a trap! on Microsoft Open-Sources Its JavaScript Engine Chakra (windows.com) · · Score: 1

    It would be good if Microsoft sent someone to rip off your face and feed it to a passing hobo. Only then will MS have done a true and lasting favor for humanity. Until then, I'll take what I can get.

  10. Re:Must be thoroughly examined first! on Microsoft Open Sources Edge JavaScript Code, Plans Linux Port (windows.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope someone rips your face off and feeds it to your family.

  11. Re: So it is an ex post facto law on NY Bill Would Force Decryption of Smartphones On Demand (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    I doubt they'd wait for your corpse to cool.

  12. Re:Easy Fix on NY Bill Would Force Decryption of Smartphones On Demand (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    You obviously don't know the difference between "useless" and "meaningless" and when to use each. By any chance, are you a product of the US Public Education system?

  13. Re: Easy Fix for the Paranoid: Cold Reboot on Nvidia Blames Apple For Bug That Exposes Browsing In Chrome's Incognito (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There isn't a single OS that doesn't do this. You wrote a bunch of crap that has nothing to do with what the GP wrote.

  14. Every modern OS from Windows to Linux clears memory before making it available to user-land. Where the hell have you been for the past 20 years?

  15. Re:The herd's moving on Gardasil Cleared of Anti-Vax Nonsense (slate.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Which is ridiculous. Which teenager needs encouragement? :-P

  16. Re:The herd's moving on Gardasil Cleared of Anti-Vax Nonsense (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Viruses are not always transmitted from other people. Some people can't be vaccinated, so putting them at risk is morally reprehensible, if not criminally negligent, and even those who are vaccinated can get sick, as vaccines are not 100% effective for every individual.

    No one who matters cares if anti-vaxxers die of preventable diseases. They care that innocent people are put at unnecessary risk by those idiots.

  17. Re: "other people" on Gardasil Cleared of Anti-Vax Nonsense (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Not always. Sometimes due to age (both directions) and sometimes personal health issues (allergies or auto-immune disorders). This is especially problematic in pediatricians offices, and there are many which forbid non-immunized people from waiting in the same area as regular patients.

  18. Re:You know? Something here is disturbing... on Gardasil Cleared of Anti-Vax Nonsense (slate.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Then you need to prove the herd effect is very useful.

    Not that you were batting anywhere close to a 1000, but this just totally ruins it. 1) You should have written that the herd effect needs to be proven to exist; it's obviously beneficial. 2) It has been proven, empirically, hundreds, if not thousands, of times. It does not need to be proven for each and every vaccine individually.

  19. Re:Focus on what they do best on The FSF Is 30 Years Old; Where Should They Go From Here? (fsf.org) · · Score: 1

    Freedom doesn't mean "make it easy". You are just a self-absorbed asshole.

  20. So even though you know better, you're going to ignore them. Thanks for sharing?

  21. Re:Is it news? on China's Tech Copycats Transformed Into a Hub For Innovation (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be "quadro-typical"? ;-)

  22. Re:Downloads that don't count against your limit on EFF: T-Mobile "Binge On" Is Just Throttling of All Data (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Actually, the issue seems to be that content which is supposed to not count against your cap is throttled. Content that is supposed to count toward your cap is supposed to be throttled.

  23. Re:But.. that's exactly what they SAID it does. on EFF: T-Mobile "Binge On" Is Just Throttling of All Data (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Any video provider that doesn't adapt to slower connections is a boneheaded piece of shit anyway. Just because some people get better than 1.5MB/s doesn't mean everyone does. And there are number of reasons this might be so, even if the viewer is on a supposedly-fast network.

  24. Re:Agree. Marketing speak is the problem. on EFF: T-Mobile "Binge On" Is Just Throttling of All Data (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Actually, it sounds like T-Mobile is perfectly correct. All optimizations are trade-offs. If you aren't trading anything, you're fixing, not optimizing. In this case, bandwidth is limited, therefore T-Mobile is optimizing for less bandwidth usage, which is an inherent constraint with mobile networks.

  25. Re:First world problems... on EFF: T-Mobile "Binge On" Is Just Throttling of All Data (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    In theory, theory and practice are the same... in practice, you're a fucked-up useless idiot.