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  1. And yet... on Most IT Pros Have Seen Embarrassing Information About Their Colleagues · · Score: 1

    And yet they keep lowering our wages, treating us with increased paranoia, demand that we keep logs of everything forever (for law enforcement reasons) and nothing (privacy), support the latest iWidget on the corporate Lan...

  2. Re:In other news... on UK Wants Authority To Serve Warrants In U.S. (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    So long as we remain their sole provider of major armaments, that's fine.

  3. Re:Selectivist places like MIT != CS arbiters. on The President Wants Every Student To Learn CS. How Would That Work? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That's because LISP, or perhaps one of its derivatives (SCHEME), is the language of the devil.

  4. You'd think they could have at least upgraded some of their x86 stock offerings to PCIe 3.0, but no, that'll have to wait...

  5. Re:Brutus on NY Bill Would Force Decryption of Smartphones On Demand (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    An evil people deserve an evil messiah.

  6. Re: Those who would give up essential Liberty... on Majority of Americans OK With Warrantless Internet Surveillance (ap.org) · · Score: 2

    Indeed. Reminds this one of women's suffraging, and how it has gone on too long (get the reference?).

  7. Re:Or maybe on Russia Cancels All Moon Missions Till 2025 (sputniknews.com) · · Score: 1

    Or our resources are currently being so badly squandered that they are untenable.

  8. Re: War on Privacy on US Budget Bill Passes With CISA Surveillance Intact (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Unlimited access to blackmail. There are still details about citizen's lives that are not collected through these apparatuses, but to be honest, they aren't details that these people are interested in.

  9. Re:VPN on US Budget Bill Passes With CISA Surveillance Intact (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    How about no? I say we rent a bus, park it out front of the capitol, and begin throwing people under it until such time as they rescind this "law."

    Quietly ceding territory has never been a good long term strategy, and freedoms lost due to appeasements are rarely restored with ease.

  10. Re:Why do you allow this travesty? on US Budget Bill Passes With CISA Surveillance Intact (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Well, if you combine this bill with the current preference for anyone on the No-Fly list being denied their 2nd Amendment Rights, that may be sooner than you think. Fairly soon, everyone will be on the list, and surveillance will be everywhere...so we'll end up like Britain.

  11. Re: Personal information is removed - read page 17 on US Budget Bill Passes With CISA Surveillance Intact (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Whereas I jump to a somewhat similar, but different conclusion: the population is finally apathetic enough about its own existence that we can begin double-blind human testing.

  12. Re:Personal information is removed - read page 174 on US Budget Bill Passes With CISA Surveillance Intact (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I mean, we are demonstrably well past that point. This is more of a question of whether or not you get a reach-around with that mandatory cavity search you're receiving...or, well, whether they use regular lube, or the kind with mint in it (tingles).

  13. Re: I guess watching Star Wars was more important on US Budget Bill Passes With CISA Surveillance Intact (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Another stellar year for the Party of Purple (Blue + Red).

  14. Re:They have spoken. on US Budget Bill Passes With CISA Surveillance Intact (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    No one of any intelligence already does not "trust" the cloud.

    I mean, who trusts their data to a machine that they do not have physical access to, but someone of unknown constitution does? That's like hacker 101.

  15. Remember when Google was a search company? Yeah....

  16. Why do you hate fun?

  17. Famine (Good Omens) on Japanese Company Makes Low-Calorie Noodles Out of Wood · · Score: 1

    He created nouvelle (which consisted of a string bean, a couple of peas and a paper-thin slice of chicken), D-Plan dieting and various foods that contained no actual nutrition whatsoever. He enjoys the paradox permitted by modern food technology: that people can eat "foodstuffs" which look, smell, and taste like food, yet contain precisely zero on any scale of nutritive value. Obesity entertains him: the concept that people can eat far too much and yet still die of food-related disorders

    http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawi...

  18. And I care why? on UK Police Make Third Arrest Over TalkTalk Cyber Attack (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    At some point, someone will have to explain what TalkTalk is, how it being hacked is relevant to IT (why do we care?), etc.

    All I have is a website / service being hacked by some teenagers...News @ 11.

  19. Re:Portal 2 would be nice on Thanks To Valve, More Than 1,500 Games Are Now On Linux · · Score: 1

    And mine would be a "01:00.0 Display controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Venus PRO [Radeon HD 8850M] (rev ff)".

  20. Portal 2 would be nice on Thanks To Valve, More Than 1,500 Games Are Now On Linux · · Score: 1

    Portal 2 would be nice, but that's more of an ATI/AMD issue where I am currently standing...http://imgur.com/a/2Nd9h

  21. Re:Rent seeking behavior on JetBrains Moving Its Dev Tools To Subscription Model · · Score: 2

    Pity, IntelliJ was on my list of considerations. Now I am rethinking that prospect.

  22. Re:This old geek could never grasp Macbeth on Google: Poor Kids Might Grasp Macbeth If They Code Like Kids At $43K/Yr School · · Score: 1

    There's a trick to it. First off, don't be in high school. Second, get a good copy of the play (you can find some online, me thinks). Third, get a summary guide of what's going on. Fourth, get a decent video recording of the play.

    Let me rephrase that: get a video recording of a good version of the play. There will be a dozen different versions (up to and including modern 'interpretations'), and you need to fine one that strikes your fancy (I'd go with the one where you can make out what the actors are saying, and you don't doze off after five minutes).

    Now, while you are watching the film, keep the laptop open, and mentally sync up with the summary. Here's one for Hamlet (http://www.shakespeare-navigators.com/hamlet/One1.html). In a separate window, keep the actual text of the play open (again, here's Hamlet: http://nfs.sparknotes.com/haml...). Don't read the actual text while watching the film (you can, but it's more important to keep pace with the summary than the text). You can pause and rewind when trying to grasp some of the finer nuances of the actual text / plot as need be.

    Fifth, go see the play in real life, and enjoy the inside jokes.

     

  23. Nada on How Developers Can Rebuild Trust On the Internet · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry, we're too busy training our replacements. Perhaps they can help you....

  24. Re:What about low-income boys? on Learn-to-Code Program For 10,000 Low-Income Girls · · Score: 2

    Every man, woman, and child for him / herself.

  25. Re:Job security on After Uproar, Disney Cancels Tech Worker Layoffs · · Score: 2

    That depends. How much do you value your freedom?