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  1. Re: not Secret government proceedings? on C-SPAN Uses Periscope and Facebook Live To Broadcast The House Sit-In (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You sound like an opinion. But it was a supreme decision, I think dc vs Heller. If you're going to make an argument, you should include the law of the land where applicable.

    The militia argument is simply off the table unless you are a supreme court member.

  2. Re:Huh? Apparently I need to update my container k on Red Hat Launches Ansible-Native Container Workflow Project (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I recognized the part after "What this press release is saying is essentially you can manage mass deployment of Ansible-> docker deployments using Redhat based central applications management tools natively without relying on hand rolling all that"

    And I have to say, I was doing that 40 years ago.

  3. Re:Edge lost at browsing, this is the video player on Microsoft Says Edge Browser Is More Power-Efficient Than Chrome (windows.com) · · Score: 2

    -1 overrated. Know how I know you didn't read the article? I'm not even going to do a summary here, just know you're wrong. Here's a hint, there's more in the article than in the summary. You wasted your time, my time, and I assume 3 mod points, because its only at 4.

  4. Re:Is this what Bolden meant on NASA And The UAE Will Collaborate On A Journey To Mars (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    UAE knows that oil is the past, space is the future, and why not buy expertise from the best? USA gets funding in the form of a small percentage of our gas money back.

    It's win win for everyone, except for right wing nutjobs who believe in phrases like "glass parking lot", which I'm only barely surprised you omitted, so as not to be immediately modded Troll.

    A funding bill from congress is good for this year only, and external support seems to be a far more predictable way to budget.

  5. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Isis is not Islam, you insufferably retarded dildo.

    There are different types of Islam, just like the thousands of types of Christianity. And the literal words are obviously not the inviolable practice, or there would be but one.

    And if you believe that's like Catholicism, you don't understand catholics, nor Islam.

    Complete submission to what someone told you the religion means, that's Islam in a nutshell. And many Muslims pulled a martin Luther, reading and understanding for themselves. Kinda like the reformation you mentioned.

    So no, Isis us not Islam. Every news report has it as Isis, not Islam.

    How can you even equate actual religion with an obviously mentally unstable bunch of fanatics? Oh get persnikety about some trivial bit of simplification if it helps you deal with such an egregious error on your part.

  6. Re: Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Not "not a threat", rather not enough to trigger further investigation.

    Kinda like evidence, but not enough for a warrant. Or red flags but not enough for involuntary commitment.

    And you should be understanding when an employer has difficulty believing that this employee committed a superlative act of violence. Completely surprised? Unquestionably. One or two murders might have been worthy of a raised eyebrow. Five or ten unexpected but not surprising. 103 victims at least?

    Does pledging support for a terrorist organization make you unsurprised at that person taking 103 victims? Here's a hint, it is so rare as to be completely surprising.

    You meant to say that the employer should not be surprised at a murder or two. But that's not what you wrote, and you can't fix that on this website so THINK FIRST BEFORE TYPING.

  7. Re:Yeah, Right on GE Considers Scrapping The Annual Raise (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    How is inflation insightful? After a 20% pay cut, I'm still above average household income. And I can go for a raise at dome point, no one said raises are off the table.

    But more likely, I will work 3 years here, and negotiate a higher salary by either accepting another job offer, or actually taking that job.

    These new rules are not for the lifer treading water till retirement. And if you are that lifer, you need to be on a path of sound financial planning anyway, so those last 5 years of inflation shouldn't have much impact.

    I still fail to see how this is automatically a bad thing just because business is adapting to employee needs. And no it won't be implemented universally tomorrow, so include that in your disaster scenario.

  8. Re:Yeah, Right on GE Considers Scrapping The Annual Raise (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What's so bad about this? I didn't see enough detail unless I put my crazy anti business hat on.

    Millennials are going to change a lot of things for a lot of people. Sometimes for the better, if only accidentally. And business will change, again if only accidentally for the better.

    I might take a pay cut to work "full time" at 32 hours, and that might be good enough that I don't need a raise.

  9. Re:Complete lie and a distracting story on Facebook Says It's Not Secretly Recording You (fb.com) · · Score: 1

    Sheeple implies thoughtless, uncritical people. The ones unlikely to rtfa, where the prof says she doesn't think what she reported is actually happening.

    A website with one billion active users will get a coindidence like the reported anecdotes from time to time. That seems like a reasonable conclusion, as opposed to following the Sheeple path and not thinking this through.

    Baaaaah.

  10. Re:Complete lie and a distracting story on Facebook Says It's Not Secretly Recording You (fb.com) · · Score: 0

    It is hard for me to believe that they would use 24/7 speech recognition for opted in devices. It is far easier that they might enable shazam like audio recognition to identity music and shows.

    And the evidence reads like a professor who misuses statistics. Ask for a jeep and get car adverts? That's the worst targeted advertising ever, she should have seen jeep ads.

    Also, the feed is known not to be in chrono order, so at best we have a coincidence that she decided to test this idea on a story that was already posted.

    No rigor, no reproduction, and I'm not sold. Show me a packet trace with the audio capture. And no I can't try it because I do not have ans will not install the app.

  11. Re:My App-ettite plateaued after a certiain point on Nearly 1 In 4 People Abandon Mobile Apps After Only One Use (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You are an extraordinary case of nonrepresentative sample. I mean, by standard deviations you are way the hell outside the norm.

    Please do not confuse anecdote for data.

  12. Re:Time to read the 4th on US Court Says No Warrant Needed For Cellphone Location Data (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup, Shanghai Bob is mistaken

  13. Re:Armed robberies can't happen in Europe! on Mugger Arrested After Victim Spots Him On Facebook's 'People You May Know' (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Making prosecution easier should not ever be a goal. If you don't have evidence, prosecutors need to go find some or drop the case.

  14. Re:I don't have a FB account on Is Facebook Sabotaging A Face-Recognition Law? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    "you have no right" is the bs here. It is legal or not, and your personal offense means nothing.

    Get in touch with your representatives, if that is a thing in your country, or shut up. Feel outnumbered? Then start a Pac or shut up. Union? Movement?

    Or wait, you want to pronounce something on a little read website among the 7 billion people, or 350 million Americans, and have it be sacrosanct? That's not how this works. If you don't pay in blood, and don't pay in sweat, and can't be arsed to pay in dollars, you are wasting everyone's time.

  15. Re:I failed my music class on Apple CEO Tim Cook: I'd Require All Children To Start Coding In 4th Grade (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Better that you had opportunity to fail music.

    Of course, unless you compose or perform or improvise, music is a very rigid, logical construct. And perform does not mean your solo in 6th grade. It is very mathematical, and translates well to programming and logic and maths.

    You are not a good example, and anyone who disagrees failed statistics. I hate history, did poorly in it, and work with s history major. What insight do you have there? I also work with someone who majored in comp sci for the money, not for any amount of gravitation towards it. Personal anecdotes mean anything here?

    No.

  16. Much as I love poking at the dashslot noneditors, assuming that Annette is a female name is so 1960. If you had posted support for your side, then just maybe.

  17. Re:Nothing short of Disturbing on Facebook Could Be Eavesdropping On Your Phone Calls (news10.com) · · Score: 1

    You have stated the obvious, now what?

    "Why, there oughtta be a law!"

    "Someone do something!"

    Did you have a next step in mind, like figuring out who cares and whether they can be mobilized? Because this is opt in, as in use Facebook or don't.

    I miss a lot of stuff, because people don't talk about most Facebook stuff, because everyone else read the post. It's worth missing out to me, but not most people. Their argument is that this thing, which is necessary, shouldn't do certain things, as if using Facebook is a natural right.

    So now what, captain obvious?

  18. Re:Could be? Or is? on Facebook Could Be Eavesdropping On Your Phone Calls (news10.com) · · Score: 1

    "Reveals. It's news, not olds!"

    Wrong. News is what happened, or is happening. I don't care what your community college degree says, that's not how people communicate.

  19. Re:Do we need more corporate power? on A Third Of Cash Is Held By 5 US Tech Companies (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    For the record, I agree with you. I do not believe in censorship by any means, and I do not believe that corporations are inherently bad. I certainly do not believe that employees of successful businesses should not be able to register their political opinion, individually or collectively. Because that violates so many Supreme Court rulings.

    There is a word for a ruling class of rich people, and that should be where the fight goes. Not against the rich, necessarily, nor the corporations. That line of argument makes you sound ignorant.

    Don't fight corporations, fight the reason they are bad.

  20. Re:I would care... on E Ink Creates Full-Color Electronic Paper Display (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Kindle DX one year after release was about $300, nowhere close to "a fucking arm, leg and half a kidney". Now they are cheaper.

    First, you didn't specify that you wanted some prepackaged display controller, hopefully you're that guy who figured it out instead of whinging about convenience and cost needing to both be inexpensive.

    Second, if $300 is literally all of those body parts, I'll give you $50 for half of your kidney, if it's in good shape. But you have to provide an installer. Because a kidney should not cost "a fucking arm, leg and half a kidney". And I'm not going to reverse engineer that process.

  21. Re:Do we need more corporate power? on A Third Of Cash Is Held By 5 US Tech Companies (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Semantics, and Bernanke's opinions on anything are worth shit to a baby.

    I can fund a corporation by buying a product, or choose not to. I can encourage a corporation buy purchasing stock, or choose not to, or discourage by selling.

    Acting under the flag of the corporation will get you promoted, or thrown from the board, or fired. If there is a board, that board is chosen by stockholders.

    All of this is people. You are ignoring the role of all of the employees and stockholders in this legal fiction. They have opinions and voices, and if market forces decide that a corporation needs to stop, it will be stopped.

    Your insistence on depersonalizing corporations is telling. You don't understand the economy, you simply disagree with it.

  22. Re:Remember where the responsibility is on A Third Of Cash Is Held By 5 US Tech Companies (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    So here's Apple's. What was your point?

    Corporate Governance Guidelines
    The Board of Directors (the âoeBoardâ) of Apple Inc. (the âoeCorporationâ) has adopted these governance
    guidelines. The guidelines, in conjunction with the Corporationâ(TM)s articles of incorporation, bylaws, and
    the charters of the committees of the Board, form the framework of governance of the Corporation. The
    governance structure of the Corporation is designed to be a working structure for principled actions,
    effective decision-making and appropriate monitoring of both compliance and performance.
    I. The Role of the Board of Directors
    The Board oversees the Chief Executive Officer (the âoeCEOâ) and other senior management in the
    competent and ethical operation of the Corporation on a day-to-day basis and assures that the longterm interests of the shareholders are being served. To satisfy its duties, directors are expected to take a
    proactive, focused approach to their position, and set standards to ensure that the Corporation is
    committed to business success through the maintenance of high standards of responsibility and ethics.

  23. Re:where is the paper? on Researcher Writes A Machine Language For The Universe (typepad.com) · · Score: 1

    So why comment? Did you mean to make this point earlier? If so, you should have made that point earlier.

    Were you being rhetorical in front of an audience that may not understand rhetoric? Stop it.

    Make a point, or don't ask a stupid question.

  24. Re:Do we need more corporate power? on A Third Of Cash Is Held By 5 US Tech Companies (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Corporations, like the government, are us. CEOs and entry level employees alike, are people. And stockholders are people. I can't think of anyone involved with a company who is not a person.

    Banks? Banks are made up of people. Unless finance is directed by A.I., it's people all the way around.

    We have a terrible tax system for foreign profits, but I can't find a problem with Citizens United that can't be explained as a fundamental misunderstanding of the economy, business, and people in general.

    If I work at a place and donate to their PAC to help my job prospects be steady, I'm feeding the corporate beast. And I'm an individual, as your website claims to support, voicing my opinion.

    Are you actually saying that my opinion as an individual doesn't matter? Does it depend on my employer? The number of employees my employer has? Do we punish corporations that employ more than a certain number of individuals?

    Man, your tirade really sucks.

  25. Re:wait a second... on Wristband Gives You An Electric Shock When You Overspend (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    No, because people are that stupid, and or ignorant.Buying this will save some people money. Almost every buyer will save money.