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  1. you win some you lose some on Judge: Defendant 'Had a Right' To Shoot Down Drone (wdrb.com) · · Score: 0

    I am fine with guns and drones, though I own neither. I am all for privacy rights and taking out nuisance drones. However randomly firing guns at anything that annoys you is the reason we need gun control in this country.

  2. Re:Amazing we didn't kill ourselves on How Nukes Were Almost Launched From Okinawa During Cuban Missile Crisis (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    This man was such a badass that he was portrayed by Liam Neeson and Denzel Washington. (The plot of Crimson Tide was loosely based on the B-59 incident.)

    In fact, his heroics on K-19 were much of the reason his caution was heeded on B-59.

  3. fallen far behind on Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon · · Score: 1

    At what point were they even close?

  4. Well if its anything like the US... on Reactions Split On What Canada's Liberal Majority Means For Tech Policy Future (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 2

    It will mean nothing at all.

  5. Re:alternately: on The Google Employee Who Opted For a Truck Over Bay Area Rents (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    When Google opened an office in Pittsburgh they did it in a formerly distressed area of the city. Over the past few years its become the new hipster area of the city and prices have shot off the chart.

  6. Re:"The code comes out cleaner"? on Bad Programming Habits We Secretly Love (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, I suppose I would consider the complete absence of code as clean, though.

  7. Re:Number of patents... on The Polymath: Lowell Wood Is America's New Top Inventor (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    What kind of current delivers power to every single building in America?

    Protip: it isn't direct current.

  8. Re:"The code comes out cleaner"? on Bad Programming Habits We Secretly Love (infoworld.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I would not consider non-working code as clean.

  9. Re:alternately: on The Google Employee Who Opted For a Truck Over Bay Area Rents (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps Google can pay them in company money so they can more easily shop at the company store.

  10. Re:alternately: on The Google Employee Who Opted For a Truck Over Bay Area Rents (dice.com) · · Score: 2

    Living wage includes "living within reasonable travel distance of the employer." And living expenses such as utilities, food, etc, within reasonable travel distance.

    Reasonable travel distance depends on the location and what people are willing to put up with, of course. My guess is the suburbs out there sprawl quite a bit.

    You can't say "well this is a living wage in the midwest, so we should pay that here in the city." If Google wants to pay the living wage for Dumbfuckistan, USA; then they need to move their office to Dumbfuckistan, USA. What, the quality of employees you need don't want to live in the middle of nowhere? That is your problem, Google.

  11. Cyber party? on Interviews: John McAfee Answers Your Questions About His Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    Shit, they are even behind the times on terminology. Nobody uses Cyber anymore.

  12. Re:Yeah, right ... on Facebook Notifies Users of Potential Nation-State Attacks (facebook.com) · · Score: 1

    Plausible deniability.

    FB User: "Hey, how did all of my personal details and stuff I uploaded to Facebook end up all over the internet."
    FB: "Sorry, it was nation-state actors, nothing we could do."

  13. Dr. Nitehawk's reccomendation. on Wealth Therapy Tackles Woes of the Rich · · Score: 1

    Get bent and get over it.

    That will be $10,000.

  14. Re:All Up Testing? on "Father of the Space Shuttle" George Mueller Dies At 97 (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Catering was most of the difference between a fake and real moon landing anyhow.

  15. Re:Works for me... on Why Paywalls Need To Be So Fragile (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it was the first site I ever blocked from Google search results. I had to check to see if they still existed. Though all I see is a fancy modern web page begging people to sign up and pay them money.

    I can't imagine anyone with access to Google would pay the hyphen site money.

  16. Re:Works for me... on Why Paywalls Need To Be So Fragile (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Some time after SO started up they became a scraping site.

  17. Re:Can't Even Unblock Ads Anymore on Why Paywalls Need To Be So Fragile (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I use these except for Flashblock. With HTML5 there just isn't a reason to have flash installed on a computer anymore.

  18. Re:A whole year's subscription for one page on Why Paywalls Need To Be So Fragile (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I spend about %50 a month on Patreon, going mostly to various youtubers. Though I m not about to pay-per-click for most internet content, it is really worth next to nothing.

  19. Re:Works for me... on Why Paywalls Need To Be So Fragile (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    All of their content was scraped from sites like Stack Overflow, so there was no point in expert sexchange even existing other than to trap users that did not know better.

  20. There are plenty of interactive art exhibits.

  21. That summary on Looking At the Hardware and Software of NASA's New Horizons (imgtec.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seriously, what the fuck is going on there?

    The comms: Forget 4G LTE, New Horizons uses the very best!
    Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon remain forever grateful.

  22. Re:The Department of Homeland Security? on New Concerns Over Earthquakes In Oklahoma Near Vast Oil-Storage Facility (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Making sure things are secure from natural disasters actually sounds like what the should be doing instead of being the department of "OMG TERRISTS!"

    That being said, I would expect the USGS to actually have the best interests of the people in mind, and certainly not the DHS.

  23. Re:I'm just curious on USB Killer 2.0: a Harmless-Looking USB Stick That Destroys Computers · · Score: 1

    No, he means accidentally shorting the terminals on the USB killer stick.

    Basically shorting a small capacitor. The summary says "With the help of a voltage converter the device's capacitors are charged to 220V" which is next to useless if you don't know what size the capacitor is. Equally useless is "pumping voltage into the computer". Yeah without the number of milliamps there is no way to tell.

    My guess is the thing has to look like a real usb stick, so it will probably just give a small spark and be done. Shorting it with your tongue would be inadvisable, though. :)

  24. Re:USB usually means you have physic access to the on USB Killer 2.0: a Harmless-Looking USB Stick That Destroys Computers · · Score: 2

    And companies are absolute shit at keeping stuff secret. When it becomes public that company A pulled this stunt, company A will be sued out of existence.

  25. Is art art? on "Are Games Art?" and the Intellectual Value of Design (timconkling.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless we are going by the definition of "anything I don't like is not art", then only the artist gets to decide.

    Now, art can be shit, but it is still art. Just like most video games, in fact.