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  1. Re:Linus on Finally, It's the Year of the Linux... Supercomputer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Why?

    One reason is enough, isn't it?

    More reasons would only reinforce the one.

  2. Re:Linus on Finally, It's the Year of the Linux... Supercomputer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Bell curves have two "wrong ends," if we define "wrong," as the fringes at some distance from the peak, or "norm."

  3. Re:Linus on Finally, It's the Year of the Linux... Supercomputer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    More actually, Christians do not worship Jesus.

    Jesus himself, like Muhammad, forbade it.

    That explains the Muslim prohibition of paraphernalia relating to his likeness and the use of the name, Allah.

    That also explains the phrase, "In Jesus' name , we pray."

  4. Re:Meanwhile, at the other end of the scale ... on Finally, It's the Year of the Linux... Supercomputer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I can testify to this:

    I was tickled pink when my firewalls embraced Linux.

    Windows shops are goddam near impossible to protect from the bad nasties and, configured properly, Linux continued to become hardened over time.

  5. Re:Linus on Finally, It's the Year of the Linux... Supercomputer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

    And just how hard is it for mankind to make a fucking ball cap?

    That was certainly achieved well before the wheel.

    The brand names proposed above refer to TYRES, not wheels.

    The brand, "Boring," applied to an invention preceding the wheel by millennia, is an idea that's slicker'n deer guts on a door knob.

  6. Re:Linus on Finally, It's the Year of the Linux... Supercomputer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    We do not know the name, but it was not a guy. It was a gal.

    She languished at the encampment, be it hut or cave, as the seasons came and went, and had access to a varying amount of small objects.

    As she laboured in her primitive lab, she had the intelligence, experience, opportunity and motive to experiment with combinations of adaptations and stumbled, early on, upon the idea that rolling was more efficient than dragging or pulling.

  7. Re:Linus on Finally, It's the Year of the Linux... Supercomputer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The spectra you are alluding to are two dimensional along an x-y axis, in a bell curve that does not support your negativity.

  8. Re:Linus on Finally, It's the Year of the Linux... Supercomputer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    People jumped from the God of Abraham to prophets Jesus and Mohamed and it isn't going well, so there's a precedent of the United States and stuff.

  9. Re:I already have a job on LinkedIn's Forthcoming Analytics Tool May Boost Job Poaching (techtarget.com) · · Score: 2

    And Al Gore rhythm?

    He, and guilty feet, ain't got no rhythm.

  10. Google wants to be a bitch, too.

    Data prostitution pays well.

  11. Re:The real issue: on WHO Gaming Disorder Listing a 'Moral Panic', Say Experts (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have credentials, please present them.

    WHO is including all of the planet.

    Most children ...

    Where did you get data on more than 50% of the children on the planet?

    How do your findings include children without parents?

    What does your study say adult gaming addiction?

    Also, role playing is actually a way to teach.

    Role models do it all the time.

  12. Re:Great business decision.... on Warner Bros Is Cracking Down On Harry Potter Festivals (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Warner is not a startup with little brand recognition.

    That same, "Think of the exposure," defense didn't work with the Disney franchise, either.

  13. Re:More aggressive ... on America's 'CyberWar' With Foreign Governments Could Get More Aggressive (wral.com) · · Score: 1

    You and I are in agreement on that.

    My goal is to separate that from aggressive, proactive cyber attacks on the part of the US.

    They can't do that.

    And my point is: While the US sucks the big one on hacking, they are also lousy gatekeepers.

    It's incompetence all the way down.

  14. Here's what I do ... on NYT: 'Firefox Is Back. It's Time to Give It a Try.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I use FF in private window, using DuckDuckGo as the search engine, and FF is loaded up with NoScript, uBlock Origin, AdBlock, Facebook Container, NoMiner.

    --

    I religiously perform the following steps before and after using FF:

    I run a batch file with the following commands ...

    --

    taskkill /f /im iexplore.exe
    taskkill /f /im firefox.exe
    taskkill /f /im chrome.exe
    taskkill /f /im MicrosoftEdge.exe
    taskkill /f /im MicrosoftEdgeCP.exe
    RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 4351
    cd\
    cd C:\Program Files\CCleaner
    ccleaner /auto

    exit

    --

    I have CCleaner remove everything, including all cookies.

    Then I run ATF-Cleaner.

  15. Re: Strong Maybe? on NYT: 'Firefox Is Back. It's Time to Give It a Try.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    My expertise with TOR is torrible.

    In an experiment, I used the Tor browser to log in to a burner Facebook account and those bastards downed it handsomely.

    They wanted phone numbers, photo-ID, and that shit.

    Also I got geoblocks at some sites. "This content is not available in your country."

    Tor is great for porn sites, nut it's slow.

  16. Re:More aggressive ... on America's 'CyberWar' With Foreign Governments Could Get More Aggressive (wral.com) · · Score: 1

    That's leaks , not cyber attack.

    Pay attention.

    Your example highlights incompetency.

    Additionally, hackers extant to the US have grabbed the good shit crom CIA and NSA, right?

  17. No.

    I was an instrumntman there.

    In most cases, the operators were aware that the unit was upset and made adjustments.

    In several cases, the alarm was for very serious conditions.

    Safety measures/guards/alarms exist because of human learning.

    We didn't have false positives.

    We had operators who were inconvenienced, much like the persons who will not practice due diligence by keeping their goddam hands on the steering wheel, even when warned to do so.

    We did have

  18. Re:Too bad the Republicans will never let us have on Can Two Injections of Tuberculosis Vaccine Cure Diabetes? (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    How's that working for the ex-Google employees who refused to work on gubmint programs?

  19. Re:Liability... on Tesla Autopilot Safety Defeat Device Gets a Cease-and-Desist From NHTSA (autoblog.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Been there.

    Texaco refinery, Port Arthur, Texas.

    The operators stuffed red rags into the alarm horns and, sure enough, 8 people died on a unit where instruments showed there was sufficient time to get out of harm's way had the sound not been muffled.

    I remember my dad pulling the wire of the "ding, ding," of the lap belt warning.

    People take batteries out of smoke detectors.

    I think the answer is for the goddam artificial intelligence to be fucking intelligent.

    Until then, don't beta test the goddam thing in production.

  20. These are the same people who ... on America's 'CyberWar' With Foreign Governments Could Get More Aggressive (wral.com) · · Score: 1

    ... can't get rid of Kaspersky.

    US Government Can't Get Controversial Kaspersky Lab Software Off Its Networks

  21. More aggressive ... on America's 'CyberWar' With Foreign Governments Could Get More Aggressive (wral.com) · · Score: 1

    ... than what?

    We hear about Russia, China, Ukraine ...

    What has the US ever done?

  22. ... that would take science and money.

    Sorry.

  23. Re:My perspective as a stock holder. on Tesla To Close a Dozen Solar Facilities In 9 States (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Since then, [Trump's tariffs] many economists have publicly disagreed that raising tariffs so sharply will improve the economy, as Trump asserts it will. In particular, experts have pointed to the failure of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, passed in June 1930, to protect U.S. industries with tariff increases.

  24. Japan should have ... on Researchers Fish Yellowcake Uranium From the Sea With a Piece of Yarn (ieee.org) · · Score: 0

    ... patented the method.

    Then SCOTUS would have us pay royalties.

  25. But titties on babies.