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  1. Re:Google is ... on Google Tackles Fake News With Global Fact-Checking Rollout (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    If the bar is something like "Brietbart has a long history of publishing fake news and not issuing corrections so let's just mark everything from that site", I'm less keen on it.

    You know, if the land around is brown and dead for miles, it is in fact reasonable to presuppose the well is poisoned.

  2. Re:Cruel to be Kind on Facebook To Use Photo-Matching To Block Repeat 'Revenge Porn' (aol.com) · · Score: 1

    If you like policing women's sexual behaviour so much, why don't you fuck off to Iraq? I believe there's a bunch of like-minded folk there, what were they called again? Oh yeah, ISIS.

  3. Re:This is absolutely sickening... on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." -- Anatole France

    Mart

  4. As I said, you're a coward. Your hiding behind 'authority' figures makes that abundantly clear. Befehl ist Befehl, after all.

  5. they think it's acceptable behavior

    They think that because cowards like you keep letting them getting away with it.

    Furthermore, why would you believe that is must be other men that must assert it's unacceptable? Women aren't invalids incapable of asserting themselves.

    Because the very essence of their sexism means that they will take other men more seriously. Really, its not that hard.

    there are some men that actually are cowardly, what good does shaming them for not being "manly" enough accomplish?

    Since I was nowhere imputing cowardliness with a lack of manliness, I think we have the nub of the situation here: you are not a coward for not speaking out about sexism, you are a coward because you agree and just don't have the courage to speak out openly, instead just letting the douchebros do the hard work for you.

    As the start of this subthread quoted: "The standard you walk past is the standard you accept".

  6. Do you honestly believe that's all it take to curb that type of behavior?

    Point out where I said that.

    It would definitely be helpful if more men spoke out, because that would give a strong signal that sexist behaviour is socially unacceptable. If that is so hard for you that you feel the need to deflect when you are asked to do so, I stand by my assessment: you're a coward.

  7. 1. The belief that one sex is much better at something than the other by nature of their sex. [...] I'm pretty sure the first one is mostly dead and buried in the western world,

    Dude, on this very thread we see people argue that women just aren't as interested in tech as men. Are you blind?

  8. When you have no authority, you are in no position to tell anyone what to do. Management and HR are the ones with the authority.

    Are you that much of a coward that simply saying "Dude, not cool" when you hear a co-worker say something sexist is too much for you?

  9. You and the other Anonymous Coward just prove that the problem is not Pulse, but the fact that you are stupid.

    If you run Pulse on top of jack, you can just run your realtime audio apps direct into jack; Pulse has no influence on jack's realtime behaviour if it runs as just another jack client.

    So who is the fuckwit now?

  10. You do realise you're talking bollocks, right? Pulse runs on top of jack, and will happily make way for it.

  11. Re:This is silly on Firefox Goes PulseAudio Only, Leaves ALSA Users With No Sound (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Oh fuck off with your defensive attitude. This coder-centric kind of thinking is one factor why Firefox has been haemorrhaging market share.

    Frankly, the only reason I am still on it is because it is the least bad browser. Attitudes like yours do not help.

  12. Re:This is silly on Firefox Goes PulseAudio Only, Leaves ALSA Users With No Sound (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I couldn't be arsed to look it up, hence the question.

  13. This is silly on Firefox Goes PulseAudio Only, Leaves ALSA Users With No Sound (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    While I quite like PulseAudio, does it even run on anything but ALSA? And would therefore maintaining the old ALSA-only codepath in parallel not be much of an imposition?

  14. Article contradicts its own premise on The Promise of Blockchain Is a World Without Middlemen (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    So, just reading the excerpt in the summary is enough to make me facepalm: Blockchain technology encourages disintermediation, and as examples they put up some of the biggest intermediates on the web.

    Mart

  15. Re:Two personality types of long-term success CEOs on A New Video Shows Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Arguing With a Driver Over Fares (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Worse, he is basing that on Andrei Gromyko's words; not a biased source interested in heaping all the blame on Kruschev, no sir, of course not.

  16. Re:Betcha Trump is going to mad at Assange again on WikiLeaks CIA Files: The 6 Biggest Spying Secrets Revealed By the Release of 'Vault 7' (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Nope. The CIA is one of the agencies that is currently actively working against Trump, by helping out with investigating his Russia links. This has all the hallmarks of Assange giving Trump a reacharound.

  17. If we allow an Orwellian government to take holdâ"which all of these actions by the CIA are precursors for

    Stop being hysterical. Bad as the security complex is, it is nowhere near the levels we've seen in the past in places like the GDR.

    Being a watchful citizen and demanding accountability from the government is called for.

  18. Re:There were US leaders pushing a Kennedy to war on A New Video Shows Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Arguing With a Driver Over Fares (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    couldn't demand much in return

    So the USA removed their Jupiter missiles from Turkey out of the goodness of their heart? Pull the other one, it's got bells on.

  19. Re:Read the response... on DNA Test Shows Subway's 'Chicken' Only Contains 50 Percent Chicken (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The term blended scotch specifically means a blend of malts and/or grain whisky from multiple distilleries

    Very specifically: it must contain grain whisky. If it is a blend of malts only, it is called 'vatted'.

  20. Re:You're doing it extremely wrong on Scraping By On Six Figures? Tech Workers Feel Poor in Silicon Valley's Wealth Bubble (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the chorus of "Oh, the poor Marie-Antoinettes" on this article is deafening.

  21. That's not tech savvy, that is idiotic.

    It's the same loonies that produced Brexit that are proposing this. What did you expect?

  22. Re:Article advocates red terror on The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    There was never a catastrophe in Switzerland, but their living standard is one of the highest in the world.

    What a wonderful parochial worldview. Switzerland has grown fat by selling its services during catastrophes, from their pikemen to their banks being used to syphon money out of conflict areas.

  23. Re:Hmm on How is The New York Times Really Doing? (om.co) · · Score: 1

    A google search returns very few results, and I couldn't find anything debunking it.

    Probably for the same reason you will find few results for flat-earth denial, or phlogiston theory.

  24. Re:Clickbaiting on How is The New York Times Really Doing? (om.co) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Funny, the majority of the posts I see at +1 or better now are repeating some form of Trump's 'failing NYT' bullshit. And it is bullshit, as even TFS shows that the NYT is doing fine.

    I thought it was the Right that was supposed to be the realists and the Left the ones living in a fairy-tale world?

  25. Re:EU Governments need to ban Windows 10. on EU Privacy Watchdogs Say Windows 10 Settings Still Raise Concerns (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Dude, stop reading Breitbart and spreading neo-Nazi lies.