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  1. Re:Obligatory xkcd on Welcome To Alphanumeric Car Hell (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Odd. You're clearly obsessed with edgy, and it shows that edgy manufacturers know edgyfags want the edgiest letters, X and Z. You should be tickled stupid, mate.

    I imagine everyone knew X has always been edgier than Z, but the gap is remarkable.

  2. Re:Seems about right on Grumpy Cat Wants $600K From 'Pirating' Coffee Maker (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Biologists have a ways to go before they can claim craftsmanship of a face.

    Until then that craftsmanship ascribes to God at best, so "copyright infringement damages" would go to him, or whatever construct you place responsible for inventing cats.

  3. Re:free choice on Apple Is Making Life Terrible In Its Factories (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If they're violating Chinese labor laws your privileged disregard is at best misplaced.

  4. There's billions of iterations of one planet's core algorithm.

    50 hours is huge. It's probably just a number he pulled out his ass, but at 50 hours you left uncertainty behind long ago.

    I'm saying 50 hours of play, don't give me grief about download times or "I left it running". After 50 hours of "play" you know damn well what the "play" is, and you kept eating.

  5. Unless they're giving special treatment to video from certain places, the streamer tears aren't really reaching me.

  6. Re:Laissez Faire Capitalist Here... on Google Fiber To Cut Staff In Half After User Totals Disappoint, Says Report (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Monitoring =/= Logging

    There's no human element to the latter. Automation doesn't need to give a shit.

  7. Re:Videolink on 'Octobot' Is The World's First Soft-Bodied Robot (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    You trim that fluff.

    The people who make two second GIFs out of ten minute "WE'RE GONNA SHOOT electronic_product/large_fruit/etc WITH AN AK47" videos are doing God's work. Think of the cumulative hours lost.

  8. Re:Others To Sue on Cloudflare Faces Lawsuit For Assisting Pirate Sites (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't be the first known case of these trigger-happy dumbfucks literally suing themselves.

  9. Ghettos have real threat, for the sake of this argument.

    Sony is faking threat.

    Like a pufferfish.

  10. commentsubjectsaredumb on WikiLeaks Published Rape Victims' Names, Credit Cards, Medical Data (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, blast them, blast the content they leaked, whatever, blast their "good" name, I don't particularly care if wikileaks burns.

    But. What I'm seeing seeing is far too gasp-and-shock, far too cracked monocle, for shit that is OUT. It's out. Found. Busted. Whatever. Point is, it's going to get leaked somewhere. It's not like BAN WIKILEAKS! or whatever we're after here would do anything about that, before or after.

    Don't we already have elegant ways to make this frequent incongruity plain? "Shutting down the bar doesn't stop drinking" or somesuch.

  11. Their advisors have no incentive to keep it, and some to warn "absolutely zero risk" is "wisest".

    Of course, that's pretty much why intimidation works.

  12. Re:Reminds me of a crazy, hot girlfriend on New Mexico Nuclear Accident Ranks Among the Costliest In US History (latimes.com) · · Score: 2

    OP's mom.

    *holds up hand for high-five*

    No one? No one? Whatever, worth it.

  13. commentsubjectsaredumb on T-Mobile Brings Back Unlimited Data For All (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    T-mobile is thinking of the big picture, and shuffling their costs/revenue around to best respond to what the masses are doing massively.

    Which is to say normals and casuals slurping streaming without a thought, bloating half the landline tubes and probably lots of the air. Then they get mediocre video quality anyway, and God-awful shows because no taste.

    If it wasn't clear earlier, I can't blame providers for just reacting to the meta in their best interests. And I don't immediately blame plebs for acting as they please. But if the rest of us start to get dragged down as a result, that's different, I suddenly have a lot of incentive to start bashing streamers for what they're constantly doing on "my" internets.

  14. slim none blah blah

    However you feel about that drama, you can still appreciate the idea of a site which demonstrates (yet another example of) the hard reality that "you can't stop the signal". At best, you can stop a repeater.

  15. Re:Free Speech Must Be Stopped!!! on Former Twitter Employees: 'Abuse Problem' Comes From Their Culture Of Free Speech (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    Sounds like an overjumped conclusion:
    The types who claim "their words are taking away my freedom, so they must be muzzled" are likely to be, by co-incidence, those who identify as left. This suggests the argument that they aren't quite representing the left's tone precisely, for that act.

    You're unlikely to meet many who advocate absolute free speech. For one, most acknowledge front violations, eg yelling fire in theaters is prohibited because endangering people is prohibited, preempting speech concerns. For another, most acknowledge that outright threats of violent acts or flagrant libel should be addressed in some capacity.

    Those points still leave us a lot of gray spectrum between carte blanche and unquestioningly putting gags on every person./strike> "troll" disfavored by whoever's pulling the scene's levers. Who are often hounded, you might even say harassed, by our noble armchair crusaders.

  16. Re:They did not ask Dropfile for the IP of that us on Reddit Tells Label It Won't Cough Up IP Address of Prerelease Music Pirate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    TINY SMASH. TINY BREAK FURNITURE AND HOUSES UNTIL PROBLEM FIXED.

    Actually me not care who we sue, just sue somebody and appease upstairs.

  17. Re:So it's minecraft...without... on No Man's Sky Launches On Steam and GOG and It's Off To A Rocky Start (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I've put in about 12 hours and haven't died, so I guess I'm enjoying the "superiority" of a game with hardcore permadeath.

    Can people really not track if(Player.DeathCount==0) or do you need a computer to tell you?

  18. Re:The music 'industry' has it all wrong. on Cory Doctorow On What iPhone's Missing Headphone Jack Means For Music Industry (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    incites*

  19. Re: Habitats should be free from the act in this h on NASA Awards Companies $65 Million To Develop Habitats For Deep Space (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I've always been under the impression the lines are somewhat standalone. Particularly the last one, I think I was taught it's supposed to be reflective of the earlier, a remark or resulting thought or a hindsight's observation.

    My expectations are lower than that. Mostly I shit on the ones that are just a big sentence that simply hit the enter key after five and seven. You and daughter post are fine.

  20. Re:Never slip at all or else on A Bit of Cash Can Keep Someone Off the Streets For 2 Years or More (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    lol, whatever, my dad will just bail me out, grandpa owns the steel mills here

  21. Re:Very Basic Income on A Bit of Cash Can Keep Someone Off the Streets For 2 Years or More (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Are you another six-figure dumbfuck who thinks he has "money" and doesn't realize he'd GAIN from a genuine redistribution?

    Y'know, I've been pondering why you guys think you're wealthy, and it seems your simple minds have been deluded by quantity.

    Sneering aside, it makes a lot of sense. It happens when you look around you, at your city, and you see that your car is nicer, your house is bigger, your clothes are more expensive than ninety-eight peasants, and only lesser to one upper class person. Clearly, you are a person who is rich! This is plain to see, you only need a moment's glance! You live comfortably, and have access to leisures so many people don't!

    Wrong, dipshit. That one guy makes a thousand times more than you and the peasants combined. For all your cars, clothes, and houses, the title that the factual numbers would assign you is, at best, "not as poor".

    I consider overpopulation a problem the way climate change is a problem. Something I hope gets fixed, but not by a clusterfuck of self-interested agendas. That said? Earth has the resources to support far, far more humans than now.

  22. Re:Whiny Fanboy... but he has a point on Suicide Squad Fan Suing Studio For 'False Advertising' Over Lack of Joker Scenes (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    From what I heard, the people contracted to make the trailer were contacted (because it was very well received) to help redo the movie at the last minute. After the trailer's reception they wanted to shoot closer to big box blockbuster hit, they grabbed some scissors and tape and frantically tried to edit/reshoot their way towards more humor'n'noise big bang rather than gloom and grimdark, possibly keen on Marvel's recent Deadpool cashcow.

    The Joker cuts may have been a result of just that.

  23. commentsubjectsaredumb on Being Lazy Is a Sign of High Intelligence, Study Suggests (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh God that headline. C'mon guys. C'mon.

    But sure, there's going to be some kinds of correlation. When you "Work smarter, not harder" the obvious interpretation is that you don't work needlessly hard (lazy) because you were smart (intelligent) about the situation.

    Being "intelligent" is naturally going to trend towards optimized points on diminishing return curves. For an easy example and the obligatory car analogy, you might be "lazy" about where you buy your gasoline. The curve will shift if the price gaps become too punishing and demand more scrutiny, but otherwise you have bigger concerns than the tiny (after travel losses) savings gained from using the station across town. Conversely, the curve will shift the other way if the gaps become zero, or if the sheer scale drops (eg we're talking $0.12/gal vs $0.18/gal) so it's now too many orders of magnitude away from your income context (presumably) that giving it attention is a waste of your brain's fucks. You give it zero fucks. You don't even look at the price. You're "lazy".

    That's probably a measure of intelligence right there. You can quickly ballpark how many orders of magnitude is too far away to warrant fucks. To wit, you sense where increased effort only gains diminishing yields, and get lazy. Or smart. Or both.

  24. Re:FBI approved eggshells on DOJ Official Tells 100 Federal Judges To Use Tor (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This. There's a (frequently understated) distinction between mass automated logging and targeted, active monitoring. Very diligent use of TOR and associated tools/behavior can resist or even outright beat the latter, but most of us are just trying to beat the former, not the latter's scrutiny.

    It's pretty easy (tinfoil check: probably) to get "on a list" but I'm confident (mostly) that getting put under a microscope is very rare and only happens to people involved with large amounts of money, influence (incl politics/dissent), or as parent says, high profile criminal activity, especially re: FBI.

    Again, most of us aren't trying to beat microscopes, just dragnets. There's plenty others aside the FBI's, so we just spew solutions shotgun style and hope some stick. TOR is a good one.

  25. Many groups try to control the entropy and decay of their label. Feminists and SJWs, sure, but what about "nerd" vs "geek", or hacker/cracker/phreaker/etc, even the anti-title "Anonymous", it happens all the time.

    It's not ideal, but the most potent response isn't damage control ("only fucking shitlords say SJW") or arm-waving, loudly announced corrections ("ACTUALLY, hacker means...") it is to relabel.

    Premature relabeling is futile and will probably make society miscategorize your subgroups further (eg the tumblrs) but if your entire group is clearly stuck under old stereotypes it's probably best to pack up and leave behind an empty shell for continued scapegoating, despite being uninhabited.

    "Troll" hasn't even decayed in any particular direction. It actually has a wider, more chaotic, one-size-fits-all spectrum than "feminist". It was never very clear at any point, really. None of the 90's tech slang was, not by the time it made into the general population's documentations (ie news articles, course books).

    In a few cases, trolling is done as an art. Twitter itself has entire accounts dedicated, some very dutifully, to this end. Roleplaying seems popular. My own commitment is enough that I may actually taint my phone with a tindr/grindr/etc. app so I can make one of those horse mask accounts. But calling it "trolling" is asking for misinterpretation, after so many headlines (present company included) the only distinction we've taught Normals to discern is "trolling=bad thing" so we're best off with a precisely calibrated replacement for the chaotic neutral performers out there.