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  1. Re:A weighty matter on Big Test Coming Up For Kilogram Redefinition (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    There it is again! "Heavy"! Why is everything heavy? Has something gone wrong with the Earth's gravitational pull in the future??

  2. Re:Same as at Krakatoa on Large-ish Meteor Hits Earth... But No One Notices (discovery.com) · · Score: 1

    Normally I'm fairly chill about typos, but that's an awfully niche Chosen One you're pitching.

  3. Re:All for Nothing on Bill Gates Sides With FBI In Apple Spat (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Feds are vesting very heavily into an "obligatory" check.

    That how you scream "ulterior motive", son.

  4. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong, but... on Bill Gates Sides With FBI In Apple Spat (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Dependency on UIDs provided by hardware.

    There's a fresh article on Ars about how they could, in theory, decap the chip and read the UID data, then spin up clones for brute forcing, yes. But you have to know where the data is physically located, and you're likely to just destroy stuff and make it completely unrecoverable.

    http://arstechnica.com/securit...

  5. Re:I knew something was suspicious about that app on Pirated App Store Client For iOS Found On Apple's App Store (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah mate, we ain't grokkin that, not in my house, y'feel me? Peace.

    https://xkcd.com/771/

  6. I... uh... maybe?

  7. Re:Was this guy really a terrorist? on Apple: Terrorist's Apple ID Password Changed In Government Custody (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    I think s/he's more concerned about the word being flung around until it loses all meaning.

    I can see how that'd lead to misunderstanding - most of us know it already has.

  8. >He'll do it using mostly social engineering.

    It seems like we (or the source) got this stuff a little hot, maybe from a handmade audio transcript. Over at Ars their take was

    > About 75% [of the associates] are social engineers. The remainder are hardcore coders.

    Plus the eating his shoe thing. Sensationalism or not I'm surprised that's not mentioned in TFA.

  9. commentsubjectsaredumb on Microsoft Plans To Make Windows 10, Xbox One Game "Crossbuys" A Habit (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    But, but, but, that's a lost sale! Are you making the ridiculous suggestion that these people "weren't buying a second copy anyway"? Are you implying Microsoft is doing this crossbuy feature because it doesn't cost them anything?

  10. Taxing the rent-seekers that would literally* drown in the coming profits will be necessary. Necessary to KEEP giving them hilarious, robogrown profits, but whatever, UBI means the rest won't starve. Probably.

    With that said, there's a few supplements that should've been a citizen's dividend in the first place. The Manna guy names a few, though some are just rebranding existing taxes as citizen's due: http://marshallbrain.com/robot...

    * https://xkcd.com/1260/

  11. commentSubjectsAreDumbTheArticleIsTheSubject on 'The Room Had Started To Smell. Really Quite Bad': Stephen Fry Exits Twitter (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    >Fry's latest exit from Twitter (there have been several over the last few years for numerous reasons)

    The fucks not given kinda remind me of his Gordon Deitrich. It sounds like when he gets fed up he simply walks off. Like he doesn't believe in the power that pixels on a screen have. Which we all know is wrong, angry internet words warrant five-figure support stipends.

    I'm guessing "bag lady" is supposed to be some mudblood namecalling, but I'm still pretty sure I've seen darker friend roasts.

  12. Re:Can't expect Firefox to be secure on Pwn2Own 2016 Won't Attack Firefox (Because It's Too Easy) (eweek.com) · · Score: 1

    >The UI must change with each release
    Maybe give this a rest.

  13. Re:Solution? on Why Sarcasm Is Such a Problem In Artificial Intelligence (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I think A.I. is really interesting, you should join my chat room so we can talk more about A.I. or maybe we could meet up in [NULL RETURN GEOLOCATION] and you can tell me how you really feel about A.I.

  14. As sister post said. FTA two black holes collided +1B years ago, +1B lightyears away, and we had lasers'n'shit set up finely enough that they could observe the wave pass by, observe the relativity'n'shit effects coming in.

    I think s/he also was saying that when the wave (zone of effect) does arrive the implementation does apply instantly.

    IANAS so this is my understanding and is possibly me talking out my ass.

  15. Re:Sad but... on Meteorite Strike Kills Man In India · · Score: 1

    It's probably the peak effort:fame ratio possible. Or "effort" is the first word I thought of.

  16. Re:Stop the let desert north on Meteorite Strike Kills Man In India · · Score: 1

    >mean strike by metroid
    >metroid

    If this means what I think it means, we're boned.

  17. Re:freedom (but only for those we like) on Twitter Tackles Terrorists In Targeted Takedown (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    >The site has banned more than 125,000 accounts after people hit the "Reported for terrorism" button

    FTFY

    No need to thank me, long as I get an equal amount of "fought terrorism" credits. Yes, I know they're counterfeit, that's obvious, but like them I don't care.

  18. [assertion needed]
    [overeager apologist detected]

  19. >If someone's DNA is what makes them bad
    So is this about the article's two pools? If so you forgot to actually say which one is "bad".

    If so, it would also probably be good to substantiate the choice a little so people don't think you're a ranting dumbass. Objectively, at that point. Which means I just let this point (a eugenics demand) fly as "arguably valid opinion".

  20. It's an archaic spelling of "mwah", conceived to avoid out of use characters.

    "Mwah", of course, being the tedious third-person reference to first-person. At least when you're stretching like Armstrong to make a French joke, anyway.

    Ugh, fuck it, this is botched, I'll just stop.

  21. Re: Obligatory on John Cleese Warns Campus Political Correctness Leading Towards 1984 (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They're entitled to /try/. Being offended is voluntary.

    Long before the Year of the SJW, I saw a youtube where Will Ferrel read some "fan messages". He read aloud a few hater emails that boiled to the "lol u suk faggot ur dumb and bad" fare, comfortably and unfazed. I suppose they might not even be real, not that it matters. Nowadays I think there's a whole series of "Celebrities read mean tweets" of the same routine.

    Point is, "He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool."

  22. Re:1998 called on Exposed HP LaserJet Printers Offer Anonymous FTP To the Public (csoonline.com) · · Score: 2

    Relax. We could care less. You're meaning gets across for all intensive purposes.

  23. commentsubject on Online Ad Czar Berates Adblockers As Freedom-Hating 'Mafia' (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    User discretion isn't censorship, it's selective viewing. For instance, I can admonish them to fuck off, get cancer, and die, but can't compel their discretion to actually accept my imperative.

    If you deliberately go and make your site display publicly accessible content, then it's hard to play a victim card when people publicly access it, incl. selectively. If you want your site conditional, make it fucking conditional and rope off the paywall.

  24. Re:And this is a security issue how? on Amazon's Customer Service Backdoor (medium.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Wrong: They're super-duper violating information if you're playing a victim card or an SJW.

    Seriously though, even SSNs aren't so hardcore anymore. Wake me up when you have a web site that stores plaintext passwords and lets CS read them - which surely exist even today, so give them a low-level password. Y'all ARE avoiding reuse by maintaining tiers, right?

  25. Re: Where is deniability? on Utah Bill Would Require IT Workers To Report Child Porn (ksl.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. That is how it works.
    >you are a dumbass
    Yes, we've been using that phrase for a long time. Including whenever "zero tolerance" gets shouted around for votes.