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  1. The energy department has forgotten the meaning of the word "oversight."

    It's not like this information can't be compiled from public information.

    And anyway, due to civil service rules they can't be fired.

    I mean, what is the DoE afraid of?

  2. The joy of contracting: don't do it on Uber Is Treating Its Drivers As Sweated Labor, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    I suppose the people who did the study didn't realize that Uber drivers are contractors.

    If you don't want to be a wage slave, don't be a wage slave; do something else.

  3. Bad QA on Google Cloud Print Is Turning Off Epson Printers (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    When a cloud service has a issue with firmware, it's the cloud service that's the problem.

    Google's QA is just as good as it always is, apparently.

  4. What about the signatures? on Google Further Shrinks the Size of Android App Updates (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    What happens to the app signatures when you do this?

  5. Re:What the court actually said on Supreme Court Rules For Samsung in Smartphone Fight With Apple (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The ruling doesn't mean that the lower courts can't say that "Apple gets all the profits."

    The ruling says the answer to the question as to whether all the profits are in play is open.

  6. What the court actually said on Supreme Court Rules For Samsung in Smartphone Fight With Apple (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The court actually said something to the effect of "289 doesn't require all the profits to be eligible for judgement, so go redetermine what's eligible for judgement."

    It's not really a victory.

  7. You mean posing a challenge for Obama? on Destructive Hacks Strike Saudi Arabia, Posing Challenge to Trump (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This should read "Posing a challenge to Obama." You know, the guy who's still President?

  8. What's Trump Got To Do With It? on The Internet Archive Is Building a Canadian Copy To Protect Itself From Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Obama's the one that let the NSA capture all the communications in the US.

    If history has shown us anything, it's that both the left and the right will attempt to expunge information from archives...but the left does it on a bigger scale. Look a the Cultural Revolution under Mao, or the various programs under Lenin and Stalin. Heck, just look how the left in the US is rewriting history.

  9. Re:Net neutrality isn't on Trump Names Two Opponents of Net Neutrality To Oversee FCC Transition Team (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's your reading, for everyone who's too lazy to google.

    https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_pub...

    Paragraph 4 of the introduction:

    "The lesson of this period, and the overwhelming consensus on the record, is that carefully-tailored rules to protect Internet openness will allow investment and innovation to continue to flourish. Consistent with that experience and the record built in this proceeding, today we adopt carefully-tailored rules that would prevent specific practices we know are harmful to Internet openness— blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization—as well as a strong standard of conduct designed to prevent the deployment of new practices that would harm Internet openness. We also enhance our transparency rule to ensure that consumers are fully informed as to whether the services they purchase are delivering what they expect."

    The FCC implies that its enlightened rules were key in getting the internets to the state of awesomeness that they are today. However, the FCC rules regarding the interwebs have been shot down consistently by the courts and have never taken effect.

  10. Net neutrality isn't on Trump Names Two Opponents of Net Neutrality To Oversee FCC Transition Team (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    For those of you who believe that the net neutrality regulations that the FCC are trying to impose actually is what you believe it to be, you should actually go ahead and read the regulations.

    Your understanding of what "net neutrality" means and what the FCC is actually doing are different. By reading the regulations you might actually understand why what the FCC is proposing is, well, bad.

    It's 2016. You can go read the stuff yourself. Even the preamble to the regulations is full of inaccuracies, half-truths, and outright lies. For example, the FCC tries to say that its current regulations are what made the Internet great - except that the FCC's attempts at regulating the internet have never actually taken effect. Then it gets better.

  11. Re:China threatens its own stability. News at 11. on China Threatens To Cut Sales of iPhones and US Cars if 'Naive' Trump Pursues Trade War (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Because once they do that nobody will do business with them anymore, that's why. If they can f*ck Apple the'll f*ck anyone.

    We have successfully locked China into a MAD situation. That's not to say they won't do it, just that they will suffer as well. Whether the cost will be worth it is something the Chinese government has to decide.

  12. China threatens its own stability. News at 11. on China Threatens To Cut Sales of iPhones and US Cars if 'Naive' Trump Pursues Trade War (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Stop sales of cars and iPhones? The aftermath: tens of millions of Chinese are suddenly out of work, in big cities where they can cause trouble. Chinese currency flatlines. Financial panic, uprisings, revolution.

    Go ahead, China.

  13. Sometimes I think they introduce new tools like ss, ip, and systemd just so that the NSA or some other TLA can stuff backdoors into systems more easily.

  14. Re:Why this over CentOS? on AWS Releases Amazon Linux Container Image For Use in On-Premises Data Centers (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    It doesn't have systemd and the other fucked up stuff that Centos7+ has. Example: netstat is still there. So are logfiles, so you don't have to use some retarded tool to look at logfiles. ifconfig still works.

    They replaced all those other tools in "modern" linuxes because the older tools were obviously bad, since they were like 5206 years old.

  15. It's secure, as long as you don't use it on Google Security Engineer Claims Android Is Now As Secure As the iPhone (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as it's off it's as secure as an iPhone. Once you turn it on, though, all bets are off.

  16. Fueling is risky? on SpaceX Plan To Fuel Rockets With People Aboard Raises Alarm Bells (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Fueling is risky? Risky like sitting on top of a couple of hundred tons of propellant risky? Or risky like shooting people into outer space risky?

    What benefit would there be to fueling with people inside the ship? Would they save 30 minutes?

  17. Name stigmas: why, parents? Why? on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 2

    Would you pick up someone named Judas Iscariot? Adolf Hitler? Josef Stalin?

    Why would someone name their child a name that makes it harder for them in life?

  18. African-American sounding names? on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 1

    What are these African-American sounding names? Are you saying that you can tell someone's race by their name? But if races are social constructs and not real, what are they really measuring?

  19. And it's New York on Rich People Pay Less Attention To Other People, Says Study (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    In NYC you're generally on your way to somewhere, so anyone that stops for a study is going to be kind of weird.

  20. Let's ban ideas we don't like on Facebook Employees Tried To Remove Trump Posts As Hate Speech (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let's ban ideas we don't like because uncomfortable ideas make us uncomfortable. The world should be a safe space, one where we can focus on how great we are instead of possibly thinking about the disturbing thoughts of others.

  21. Russian Government? Why use a contractor? on How Hackers Broke Into John Podesta and Colin Powell's Gmail Accounts (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    If the Russian Government is as good at this shit as they say, why would they outsource it to a Russian firm? That's stupid.

    It's like someone wanted a big sign that said RUSSIA DID IT.

    Do the TLAs really thing that the Russian Government is going to fake them out by using a Russian firm? How incompetent are our cyber investigators?

  22. Can't the aliens leave our spacecraft alone?

  23. Has the NFL heard the good news about the 5ghz band? It's less crowded and more reliable than the in-stadium 2.4. Maybe they should check it out.

  24. Re:What are PROBABLY Russians on Report: Russian Hackers Phished The DNC And Clinton Campaign Using Fake Gmail Forms (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    This more likely was a job-for-hire. Something this exciting would be done a bit more cleanly. It's almost like the people who did it wanted it to be found.

  25. Do me the needul, OEMs! on It's Time For Laptop Companies To Switch To Precision Touchpad (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh Jesus, has that become an official part of the English language now?