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  1. Re:Would have loved this in 2005 in London on Facebook 'Safety Check' Lets Friends Know You're OK After a Major Disaster · · Score: 2

    By definition, if the internet is down I am NOT okay.

  2. Nothing says luxury... on Tesla Teardown Reveals Driver-facing Electronics Built By iPhone 6 Suppliers · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nothing says luxury like simulated wood grain accents.

  3. Re:(some) cars are gadgets now on Tesla Teardown Reveals Driver-facing Electronics Built By iPhone 6 Suppliers · · Score: 1

    You're absolutely right! The best known Tesla I'm aware of died at age 78:
    http://earthenergyreader.files...
    I'm not sure if there are any that made to be 100.

  4. Natalie Portman nude photos on Tesla Teardown Reveals Driver-facing Electronics Built By iPhone 6 Suppliers · · Score: 1

    It has nothing to do with nude photos of Natalie Portman either.

  5. Re:2nd generation leaded gasoline babies on As Prison Population Sinks, Jails Are a Steal · · Score: 1

    You've clearly missed the TEA party revolution. "Angry young men with impacted reasoning abilities" is one of their recruiting slogans.

  6. Won't anyone think of the corporations? on As Prison Population Sinks, Jails Are a Steal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sure it's good to have fewer people behind bars...if you happen to be people. But corporations run many jails now, and depend on your tax dollars to simply put food on the table for their corporate families. If there are no inmates, who will make money feeding them $0.86 meals, or use 19th century methods of medical care to maximize profits, or make payments on their newly built facilities? It's still a young industry. Won't you think of the corporate children?

    I say it's time we stand up and put more people behind bars. For you. For Me. For the corporations. Because when corporations suffer, we all feel the hurt.*

    *not really, but it seems like a good slogan

  7. Re:should of just put pinball games in the bar on The Great Robocoin Rip-off · · Score: 1

    (that was the idea; too subtle, I guess)

  8. Re:The Actual Issue on Court Rules Parents May Be Liable For What Their Kids Post On Facebook · · Score: 1

    I quoteth from the text:

    "Parents may be held directly liable, however, for their own negligence in failing to supervise or control their child with regard to conduct which poses an unreasonable risk of harming others."

    citation: Assurance Co. of America v. Bell, 108 Ga. App. at 766-767 (4) (“A
    parent may be guilty of primary negligence in failing to exercise reasonable care to
    prevent a child under his control from creating an unreasonable risk of harm to third
    persons, where he has knowledge of facts from which he should reasonably anticipate
    that harm will otherwise result.

    You'll have to look up the big words in the dictionary yourself, I don't have time to do all of your thinking for you.

  9. Re:The Actual Issue on Court Rules Parents May Be Liable For What Their Kids Post On Facebook · · Score: 1

    If they are a minor, are they not subject to legal proceedings?

    It has been generally held that, in civil matters, the parents and/or guardians are financially liable for damaged caused by a minor dependent.

  10. Re:So competition is bad? on Worcester Mass. City Council Votes To Keep Comcast From Entering the Area · · Score: 1

    Why buy the city when you only need to buy the city manager?

  11. Trolly troll troll on Facebook and Apple Now Pay For Female Employees To Freeze Their Eggs · · Score: 0

    Part of the dumb fuck right wing, I see. You should learn more about the government you hate (and the FMLA) and the corporations you love (and why they don't value you enough to buy you better healthcare).

  12. Re:Really? on Facebook and Apple Now Pay For Female Employees To Freeze Their Eggs · · Score: 1

    How many iPhones did your kids sell last quarter?

  13. Exceptionally bad language on Facebook and Apple Now Pay For Female Employees To Freeze Their Eggs · · Score: 2

    They say the art of language is dead.

    The asshole in me wants to tell you that you take that as a slap in the face because you already, on some level, believe that you are a less productive employee (person, citizen).

    In reality, this is true in the sense that your company does not come first, your family does. Your time is split, and the profit of your employer is not your number one priority, your family is. (As it should be, I should add). There is no politically correct way to say, "we're going to offer you the option to delay your family obligations so it doesn't get in the way of your value to the corporation". Because, lets face it, kids are a selfish thing to do. You're going to spend half a million dollars and remove a good 20,000 hours of "work time" from the system, plus (statstically) cost the government another $150k in education just so you can have a child, when there are really too many humans on the planet already.

    It's true of employer sponsored daycare, too. They're really saying that you can't be a good mom and make us money, but we can take care of your kid so you can concentrate on what matters to us - productivity. Heck, it's been implied by all the corporations who (unabashedly) say, "we'll pay you enough so that your wife doesn't have to work," but what they really mean is we expect 100% from you and that means none of that pick-up-the-kids, go-to-every-little-league-game bullshit that keeps you from focusing on your work.

  14. Lowest cost laundering on The Great Robocoin Rip-off · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One persons large spread on a conversion, is another persons bargain on laundering.

  15. Re:should of just put pinball games in the bar on The Great Robocoin Rip-off · · Score: 0

    your not helping

  16. Re:At this rate on Positive Ebola Test In Second Texas Health Worker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Unless you consider that we're doubling the number of cases every week, not increasing by 1. In which case we've got about 26 weeks left before the entire US population is infected or dead.

  17. Re:Seriously, the nurses have a point. on Positive Ebola Test In Second Texas Health Worker · · Score: 3, Informative

    Average is closer to $70k for an RN, which puts them in the to 15% of all wage earners in the US.

    The rest is true, though. It's a pretty hectic job, and corporations will look for any market advantage (LVNs, overworked residents, image over process, etc.).

  18. I'm just counting down the white people on Positive Ebola Test In Second Texas Health Worker · · Score: 1

    If the Onion is right, I think we're still like 46 white people away from a cure.

  19. Re:AWS losing $2 billion a year? on If Your Cloud Vendor Goes Out of Business, Are You Ready? · · Score: 1

    Plus there are reasons for recording a loss in one business unit to show a profit in another. Tax avoidance is the most obvious, but there are others.

    If, for example, Amazon isn't charging itself market rates for it's streaming services it can show positive cashflow for that (new) service while absorbing the losses in the datacenter books.

  20. Re: All the Backups on If Your Cloud Vendor Goes Out of Business, Are You Ready? · · Score: 1

    I find that local backups are *a great compliment* to cloud backups.

    For $100, I can back up all of my business data locally (we have less than 300GB of actual, unique data); I presume a 3 yr failure on external drives
    For $100/yr, I can backup and synchronize all of my business data in the cloud*

    So for $133/yr I can have a backup in case the cloud provider goes belly up overnight (cough*Livedrive*cough), and I can have a cloud backup in case the building catches fire (or floods, or gets hit by a tornado, or is an extra in the next Avengers movie).

    Considering the value and/or convenience of the data we have from almost 12 years in business, it's worth the extra to keep it safe.

    *actually, I have two cloud services. One is for real-time sync and access to the files from remote locations, one is solely for backup. It's likely they use the same vendor through (prob. AWS) so there's no actual redundancy there.

  21. Re:0% profit on gas. Snacks, sodas make 200% on Battery Breakthrough: Researchers Claim 70% Charge In 2 Minutes, 20-Year Life · · Score: 1

    Actually, markup on beverages can exceed 500%. Soda costs about 1.5c-1.7c/oz for consumables in a cup which is typically filled 30-50% by volume with ice. That's about 50c all in for a 32 oz cup that sells for $2, or 30c for a 20 oz cup which sells for $1.80. Still, your point stands.

  22. Re:What about... on Wind Power Is Cheaper Than Coal, Leaked Report Shows · · Score: 1

    BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Damn, that was the best laugh I had all day. Thank you, sir (or madam).

  23. I MOVED to Google to avoid the spam on Ask Slashdot: Why Can't Google Block Spam In Gmail? · · Score: 1

    Okay, I moved because I had someone spoof my email a couple times, and the IP range of the server farm I was based out of (The Planet) on my shared box got flagged in spamhaus twice in 3 years. For a business, that's death to have everyone in the world reject your (legitimate) incoming emails.

    I might get 1-2 actual spam emails a month through Google's filter, with hundreds blocked every day - easily four 9s. Now, that doesn't include the friend who's email got hacked and now needs $1200 wired to him because he's been detained in [insert favorite European coutry here], or the Constant Contact emails I get from one or two of the vendors at the last business conference. As for false positives, I know of one in the past year that got accidentally flagged, so if there are/were more, the people sending the emails didn't care enough about it to follow up.

  24. Re:Victim blaming? on The Correct Response To Photo Hack Victim-Blamers · · Score: 2

    You go to a store to buy a storage for your valuables. You go to a big name - a national chain - because your not in the valuable storage industry. You pay your money, and your cash and affects are available to you based on the store's terms. That seems silly, right? Who stores their valuables in a business operation?

    But lets give that place a name. Let's call it Bank of America. And lets call your storage space a safety deposit box. Now is your money and jewelry safer than in a box in your bureau? It's quite arguable that your valuables are safer in a safety deposit box than in your nightstand. And who's fault is it if there's a security breakdown and your stuff is stolen? You for putting your gold coins in the Bank of America local branch safety deposit box instead of keeping them in your house? If you kept $1M in cash in your mattress and it was stolen, wouldn't you wonder about the sanity of the person of doing that instead of storing it in a bank?

    Now change it to your nude selfies that you stored in that safety deposit box. Are they now less secure because they're in a remote (aka cloud) location, and who's fault is it if the selfies get stolen.

  25. Re:Victim blaming? on The Correct Response To Photo Hack Victim-Blamers · · Score: 1

    I don't think it counts as victim blaming to say, "use a stronger password next time (non-dictionary)."
          Education of online activities is clearly lacking
    I don't think it counts as victim blaming to say, "don't stick your finger in that light socket next time."
          Education of online activities is clearly lacking
    I don't think it counts as victim blaming to say, "don't put anything on the internet that you don't want to get spread around."
          You don't have any fucking idea what you're talking about. Please go back to the 1920s. All modern business and government - which means everybody and everything - is based on transmitting things - which means storing things - on the internet.

    Actually, if you want to take a physical analogy, I store my valuables in the cloud. So do most old people. They're called safety deposit boxes. I send sensititive information all the time, as do doctors, lawyers, and other business people by simply handing it to a stranger and telling them to give it to someone else, to give it to someone else, to give it to someone else, ..., to give it to the person I've identified with nearly zero physical security (security by obscurity, to use the IT parlance). It's called mailing a letter, and people do it with highly sensitive material every day.

    It is interesting that people who do many things on the internet find storing sensitive information online to be the stupidest thing in the world when many of them do exactly that. You may be one of those luddites who pays for everything in person, in cash, from the stash under your mattress or in Mason jars buried in the back yard. Because otherwise you're doing the same with your finances (and medical and legal records) that these people are doing with their nude selfies.