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  1. We would forgive you, Snowden ... on US Army May Relax Physical Requirements To Recruit Cyber Warriors · · Score: 1

    ... if you'd just bulk up a little.

  2. Does this imply ... on US Army May Relax Physical Requirements To Recruit Cyber Warriors · · Score: 1

    ... that DoD has determined that geeks are typically fat and stuff?

  3. Re:HooRay! on Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet · · Score: 1

    Thank you. I wasn't aware of it.

  4. Re:Liars on Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet · · Score: 1

    An extension of this:

    Both Apple and Google have sand boxed app stores.

    What if they both say fuck CurrentC?

  5. Re:DOA due to Liability shift to consumer... on Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet · · Score: 1

    Precisely this.

  6. Re:HooRay! on Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet · · Score: 1

    Mod +1.

    I love Eliza.

    I ran it on a TRS-80 and it recorded interactions with it.

    My sister got hold of it and took it very seriously. The transcript was hilarious as she tried to get Eliza to make a goddam commitment instead of asking leading questions.

  7. Re:No thanks. on Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apple has negotiated a lower fee and banks are agreeable to absorb initial revenue loss in an effort to make NFC a standard.. The fees are needed mostly to pay off credit card fraud and Apple Pay reduces that liability (so the reasoning goes). Rumor has it that the Apple Pay user will be liable for fraud to a much larger degree because it's so hard for the process to be abused.

    The competing CurrentC standard, supported by major retailers, kills credit card fees and puts the fraud burden 100% on the consumer. For that reason, retailers favor CurrentC over Apple Pay and Google Wallet, both of which use NFC.

    While Google Wallet and Apple Pay are available now, CurrentC is going to be late to the party by about a year.

    That delay is what's prompting Rite Aid and CVS (supporters of CurrentC) to pull NFC from their POS.

  8. Re:Is there a way to prevent this? on Verizon Injects Unique IDs Into HTTP Traffic · · Score: 1

    Interesting connective theory.

    Noted, as well, is that chemtrails began to appear only after the invention of radio.

  9. Re:Could be worse on Verizon Injects Unique IDs Into HTTP Traffic · · Score: 1

    You'll be easily recognizable as the only surfer without fingerprints.

  10. Re:Is there a way to prevent this? on Verizon Injects Unique IDs Into HTTP Traffic · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So your theory is that, now that women have been "integrated" in the military, male soldier's sexual needs have been met?

  11. Re:Fuck that thief. Ebola is here. on Tracking a Bitcoin Thief · · Score: 1

    I wear those cool blue CSI rubber evidence gloves when I type and handle my mouse. Also, I an careful to wear a mask when I lean in a squint at my small screen.

    People who post Ebola shit on /. are putting us all at risk.

    It's very hard to discern, just from screen names (and the ACs), who, exactly is from NYC or Dallas and stuff.

  12. Fail ... on Tracking a Bitcoin Thief · · Score: 2

    I don't have a copy.

  13. Re:Queue misguided bitcoin comments in....3....2.. on Tracking a Bitcoin Thief · · Score: 1

    What varying degrees of anonymity did the perps in TFS use?

  14. Re:my thoughts on NY Doctor Recently Back From West Africa Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 0

    Yes, Gov. Perry is an idiot.

  15. Good catch ... on NY Doctor Recently Back From West Africa Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 1

    That's true of the iPhone 6+, as well.

  16. Re:Pretty sure... on NY Doctor Recently Back From West Africa Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 1

    Gov. Perry just blew your thesis.

  17. Re:Amen on We Need Distributed Social Networks More Than Ello · · Score: 1

    The people who know best what the fucking Internet needs are the people who don't bullshit from wold honey about any technical shit at all.

    Refrigerators are designed to meet consumer demand. Fuck the repairman.

  18. Re:We had a distributed social network on We Need Distributed Social Networks More Than Ello · · Score: 1

    No.

    We had that and it didn't work. Recall geocities and the other lame sites. It was a bitch piecing up all that shit just as pimping up MySpace was a pain.

    People don't want to, and don't need to DIY for social media. They don't want decentralized meeting places. It was hard to get noticed with those small apartment complex designs.

    Facebook, in order to stay profitable, is going to have to build a shadow Facebook where people can subscribe to a gated community where the membership is the customer and data is private property.

  19. Re:No we don't on We Need Distributed Social Networks More Than Ello · · Score: 1

    Anything on the Internet vanishes very quickly if you don't go there.

  20. Join the witless protection program ... on Hungary To Tax Internet Traffic · · Score: 1

    "witless" and "fuckwit?"

  21. Why are we being linkstas? on Hungary To Tax Internet Traffic · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Nah, this is just stage 1 on Hungary To Tax Internet Traffic · · Score: 1

    YouTube should be used to watch Merle Haggard sing, "Misery and Gin".

    All other streaming shit is useless as tits on a boar hog and stuff.

  23. Re:Nah, this is just stage 1 on Hungary To Tax Internet Traffic · · Score: 1

    I agree and would just add the real bandwidth hog ... pornography ... in all its forms of video chat and streaming videos.

    At least that's what I'm told.

  24. Re:Nah, this is just stage 1 on Hungary To Tax Internet Traffic · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because Obama controls Hungary.

    Oh, wait ...

  25. Re:Community involvement is nice on Microsoft Introduces Build Cadence Selection With Windows 10 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Right.

    "Users" as in "workers."

    As in "free labor."