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  1. Re: Can you not read? on Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals To Unlock Their Wi-Fi (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The only moron here is you, as usual. Lazio is 1 of Italy's 20 administrative regions, in other words, the regional government, not a private individual or private organization. Look it up and stop being such a fucktard.

  2. Re: massive parallel processing=limited applicatio on Princeton Researchers Announce Open Source 25-Core Processor (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Instead of branch prediction picking the most often used branch, and stalling when they get it wrong, just take all possible branches and toss out the ones that turned out to be wrong.

  3. Re: Trivial??? on Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals To Unlock Their Wi-Fi (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Unless you live in that part of the world, what you can buy locally is irrelevant.

  4. Re: Opposite on Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals To Unlock Their Wi-Fi (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe the Laszlo region refers to the regional government, and not a private organization? Kind of obvious, yes?

  5. Re: Yes and No on Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals To Unlock Their Wi-Fi (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You are some asshole. Do you really think that the people in the region, and all the people flooding in to help, as well as those trapped under the rubble or being treated outdoors because the hospital is unsafe, are going to kill their devices battery by surfing kiddie porn or streaming movies? How many chargers do you think the shelters have?

  6. Re:Hyper-linking was invented in the 60's .... on Internaut Day Might Not Be the Web Anniversary You're Looking For (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a graphical BBS system (RoboBoard) with a windowing interface, icons, mouse, pictures, vector fonts, links, 1024x768x245 graphics ... all on a DOS machine with a 1200 - 2400 baud modem. No need to install a winsock, or chameleon, or have windows or the extra ram and faster cpu. It looked a hell of a lot better than what the internet had to offer at the time.

  7. The first real breakthrough wasn't the web on Internaut Day Might Not Be the Web Anniversary You're Looking For (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The first real breakthrough that brought digital communications to the masses was the various Bulletin Board systems. What did people do with them? Looked for pr0n, buying and selling stuff, uploading and downloading software, pictures, etc., sending each other messages about what they were doing ... the medium (dial-up or tcp/ip) wasn't important from the people perspective.

  8. Re:Fix your browser first. on Mozilla Is Changing Its Look -- and Asking the Internet For Feedback (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    [lipstick-emoji] [pig-emoji] [bovine-excrement-emoji]. Probably the first time in history that using emojis to communicate an idea isn't half bad :-)

  9. Re:Only one of these is even intelligible. on Mozilla Is Changing Its Look -- and Asking the Internet For Feedback (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    How about a [middle-finger emoji] logo? Or a [burning-pile-of-money] logo?

  10. Re:Education isn't a "magic bullet" on Four Code Bootcamps Are Now Eligible For Government Financial Aid (hackeducation.com) · · Score: 1

    Hope you lied and made up something that would be hilarious when repeated. Like Top Control Protocol and Under Data Control, and how you had to have both or the switches would get jammed by either having not enough control on top of the data or not enough data to control underneath.

    And when that happens, you need to remove ALL the cables from your PC before rebooting, not just the ethernet jack, because it's like static electricity - it's just going to stick there - and show that you're not BSing by saying it's just like the sticky bit in linux.

  11. Re:Yay! More women learning Python under 2 week! on Four Code Bootcamps Are Now Eligible For Government Financial Aid (hackeducation.com) · · Score: 1

    You're no prize either, Bubba. Otherwise, you'd be attracting a better class of woman.

  12. Calling those training courses "degree programs" is rather generous.

    Certainly less so than a boot camp. The grandparent poster is absolutely right - we've been here before (in the 80s, in the 90's, etc). Same sh*t, different scam.

  13. No, now is not the ideal time to go to boot camp. Look around - with everyone getting desperate over their future, now is the time to open a boot camp.

    When the economy goes in the sh*tter, enrollment in education always goes up - and tuition has increased in price much faster than inflation, while the economic value has dropped.

    At one point, those two trend lines are going to cross. They already have for many degrees.

  14. Both philosophy and sociology (as well as psych) were useful in understanding assholes - and with the number of assholes in tech, should probably be mandatory.

    Nobody can know in advance what will be useful knowledge or what will be as useless as ruby on rails or the next fad.

  15. Software assurance isn't exactly programming. Neither is management. Your ass is considered way to old too do coding. 30 is the new 55. 40 is the new 65.

  16. Fix your browser first. on Mozilla Is Changing Its Look -- and Asking the Internet For Feedback (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Who gives a damn what it looks like when it's a buggy memory hog. Changing a logo is just turd-polishing.

  17. Re:Fix: Counter Suit on Maker of Web Monitoring Software Can Be Sued (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    "Implicit" doesn't stand up in court.

    The is no "implicit" right for you to spy on activities with a third party just because you suspect your spouse of cheating. There's not even an "implicit" right to spy on your spouse. Neither of them are bound by any EULA that YOU agreed to - basic contract law - you cannot bind a 3rd party to an agreement without their consent, as expressed via a power of attorney. So, you are the one who needs "have your head checked and catch up to the 21st Century.

  18. Re:More proof on WSJ: Facebook's Point System Fails To Close Diversity Gap · · Score: 1

    In homes where both spouses work, the woman still ends up with more than the fair share of housework. Additionally, people who say that lifetime earnings are the same after adjusting for things like fewer years worked because of child and family responsibilities miss the point - overall earnings still are less, so less savings, etc. Caring for aged parents falls mostly to the woman - another financial hit, and emotionally and physically draining. And the more kids, the less equally the housework and child rearing is shared.

    So, debate it all you want, but you're still wrong. The gender pay gap exists, and life actually gives us a pretty good controlled experiment, where the only variable is gender - the person stays the same in all other respects. Someone transitioning from female to male makes the same as their male peers. Someone transitioning from male to female makes less than other males or females.

    Transsexuals’ experiences working both as men and as women can be framed as a kind of experiment that illuminates the subtle ways that gender differences and gender inequality are socially produced in the workplace. While transsexuals have the same human capital and pre-labor market gender socialization after their gender transitions, their workplace experiences often change radically.

    Existing autobiographical and scholarly research demonstrates that for many MTFs, becoming women brings a loss of authority and pay, as well as workplace harassment and, in many cases, termination (e.g. Bolin 1988; Griggs 1998; McCloskey 1999; Schilt 2006a).

    On the other hand, for many FTMs, becoming men can bring an increase in workplace authority, reward, and respect, as well as new job opportunities and promotions (e.g. Griggs 1998; Schilt 2006a, 2006b). Transsexuals’ before and after workplace experiences, then, can help make the hidden processes that produce workplace gender inequality visible.

    And then there's this.

  19. Re:More proof on WSJ: Facebook's Point System Fails To Close Diversity Gap · · Score: 1

    You're assuming that all, or even the majority, of lawsuits are frivolous. If someone sues for discrimination and loses, it doesn't mean that their lawsuit was automatically frivolous, same as any other lawsuit.

    Your idea of just letting businesses run rough-shod over civil rights, discriminating against people for any or no reason "just because" is as absurd as letting people beat up on others for any or no reason "just because." Institutionalized unfairness ultimately is bad for everyone - otherwise we'd still have legal slaves.

  20. Re:Making recordings on Maker of Web Monitoring Software Can Be Sued (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    So somehow I'M changing the context when I always said "underage children"? Freak.

  21. Re:More proof on WSJ: Facebook's Point System Fails To Close Diversity Gap · · Score: 1

    Would you rather people take assholes to court or just cut to the chase and punch them in the face?

    And yes, litigation is violence, because it's enforced by men with guns.

    Litigation is not violence. According to your definition, stop signs are violence, food inspections are violence, voting is violence, being required to go to school is violence.

    Gee, requiring a hospital to treat anyone showing up in emergency is violence according to your stupid, stupid definition. Better not go shopping, because after all the rule about having to pay for your purchases is ultimately enforceable by people with guns. Better you stay home and starve to death rather than risk violence.

    The world has always had its' share of violence. You are not going to change that by whining about people who we've assigned to keep a lid on violence.

  22. Re:Making recordings on Maker of Web Monitoring Software Can Be Sued (cio.com) · · Score: 1
    You really are a fucking moron.

    You wrote:

    No. Someone is not guilty of downloading kiddie porn because they monitor what their kids do on the computer. The kid, who is UPloading kiddie porn, can be charged.

    I replied:

    Both the kid uploading and the kid downloading can be charged with possession of kiddie porn. Maybe you should watch those ads on old-media TV warning kids )and their parents) of that.

    You did NOT previously say that the kid downloading the pics could be charged, just the uploader

    No. Someone is not guilty of downloading kiddie porn because they monitor what their kids do on the computer. The kid, who is UPloading kiddie porn, can be charged.

    Stop making shit up.

  23. Re:Fix: Counter Suit on Maker of Web Monitoring Software Can Be Sued (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Fortunately, jurisprudence (you know, what judges rule) totally disagrees with you. Ask your local consumer protection office.

  24. Re:Fix: Counter Suit on Maker of Web Monitoring Software Can Be Sued (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Affairs across state lines were covered by the Mann Act. They claimed it was intended to counter-act interstate prostitution, etc., but it was notorious for it's use in prosecuting high profile cases of consensual sex where the parties who were not married to each other went to make whoopie in another state.

    Prosecutions included people who actually didn't have sex - anything that would scandalize the snooty blue bloods was fair game as "debauchery", including attending a burlesque show.

  25. Re:Fix: Counter Suit on Maker of Web Monitoring Software Can Be Sued (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Civil lawsuits have SFA to do with crimes. No connection whatsoever. They're also very hard to win (because the one suing probably has their fair share of blame) , and impossible to file in no-fault jurisdictions. Only a loser would file for "alienation of affection" - this is not 50 years ago when a wife was regarded as quasi-property.