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  1. Re:Legacy Application Support? on Microsoft Removes 260-Character Path Length Limit In Windows 10 Redstone (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Sure, everybody with a personal computer should just recompile. Even the 99.9% of people who don't code, right?

  2. Re:Strange, and bollocks. on Canada's Energy Superpower Status Threatened As World Shifts Off Fossil Fuel (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    As usual the bigger picture is revealed if you change the time span.

  3. Re:Strange, and bollocks. on Canada's Energy Superpower Status Threatened As World Shifts Off Fossil Fuel (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    The study isn't about "how great" fossil fuels are, it's about consumption. There are rules about use of statistics and reporting for publicly listed companies. I suppose you think some Marxist environmentalist group is going to produce a completely unbiased report, do you? Calling me thick. What a cheek.

  4. Re:Strange, and bollocks. on Canada's Energy Superpower Status Threatened As World Shifts Off Fossil Fuel (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2

    Oh no! A "right wing organization"! That means it's probably supporting genocide! It wouldn't surprise me if its employees keep Human body parts in their freezers! Fascists!!!

    Or perhaps it's just reporting the BP Statistical Review of World Energy Use.

  5. Strange, and bollocks. on Canada's Energy Superpower Status Threatened As World Shifts Off Fossil Fuel (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2

    I hear global consumption of fossil fuel continues to increase. Can you stop reporting wishful thinking as actual reality. It's incredibly tiresome.

  6. Re:HRC's judgement sucks on State Dept. IT Staff Told To Keep Quiet About Clinton's Server (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know. How can she have survived at the top of politics so long and at the same time be such an idiot? If you admit that, you're basically admitting the entire US political system is dead. As someone from the UK who admires Adams, Jefferson, Franklin et al (who took the flame of the English Enlightenment across the Atlantic), it seems completely insane.

  7. Re:HRC's judgement sucks on State Dept. IT Staff Told To Keep Quiet About Clinton's Server (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't wish it. I tried to look for an explanation that wasn't she's an idiot. Unfortunately it appears she is.

  8. 100? Citation?

  9. Re:HRC's judgement sucks on State Dept. IT Staff Told To Keep Quiet About Clinton's Server (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It occurred to me, and this is a long shot, that actually the server was a honey pot and the information contained therein was misinformation, for foreign intelligence services to enjoy.

    ... I did say it was a long shot but it would explain the lack of an explanation for it. Otherwise her behaviour is inexplicable as long as you forget she's a Clinton.

  10. Re:The enemy of my enemy is my friend on Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel Secretly Bankrolled Hulk Hogan's Lawsuit Against Gawker: Reports (gawker.com) · · Score: 0

    Oh do fuck off. Gawker lost the case.

  11. Re:Get ready everyone with anything on Google France Being Raided For Unpaid Taxes (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I mentioned 5% part trolling, part making a point. I would (1) simplify the tax system to such an extent even a jury could understand whether or not the law was broken, (2) lower the rate of tax to such an extent that only the most determined criminals would try to avoid paying it, (3) enforce and strengthen the legal responsibilities of CEOs and company directors, including the penalties for non-compliance.

  12. Re:Get ready everyone with anything on Google France Being Raided For Unpaid Taxes (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    We used to have something called the serious fraud office. I think they closed it or something because the legal cases were so utterly complex no jury could ever possibly understand whether or not what was going on was legal or not. This is course partly a function of the complexity of the tax system I mentioned above.

  13. Re:Get ready everyone with anything on Google France Being Raided For Unpaid Taxes (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree. However it's easier to actually enforce a much simpler tax code.

  14. Re:Get ready everyone with anything on Google France Being Raided For Unpaid Taxes (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    35%? That's huge. 5%.

  15. Re:Get ready everyone with anything on Google France Being Raided For Unpaid Taxes (reuters.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Perhaps if taxes weren't so high, fewer companies would bother with the shell game and tax rules wouldn't need to be so utterly absurd? I mean look at the UK, 15,000 pages of tax law and regulation. It's insane.

  16. No error bars. on Burning All Fossil Fuels Would Scorch Earth, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 0

    I just had a look at their supplementary information. Their models have no error bars. Quelle surprise!.

  17. Re: Good. New York Times and CNN gave-up... on Facebook Is Tweaking Trending Topics To Counter Charges of Bias (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Read No One Left To Lie To by Christopher Hitchens. If you prefer the Clintons to Trump knock yourself out.

  18. Re: Good. New York Times and CNN gave-up... on Facebook Is Tweaking Trending Topics To Counter Charges of Bias (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    How absurd.

  19. Re:Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us on AI Will Create 'Useless Class' Of Human, Predicts Bestselling Historian (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The Hard Problem is called the Hard Problem because it's, you know, Hard.

  20. Precisely.

  21. Re:Less coding, more thinking== better software on 'Eat, Sleep, Code, Repeat' Approach Is Such Bullshit (signalvnoise.com) · · Score: 1

    You say that but I still find managers completely unrealistic about timescales to do things properly.

  22. Re:So, post-Snowden on Civil Liberties Expert Argues Snowden Was Wrong (usnews.com) · · Score: 0

    "They" can, but will they? Think about this for a minute. In Communist East Germany they had a pervasive security apparatus that employed hundreds of thousands of people. We didn't have that here in the West. They could have done it here. They have the guns after all. But they didn't. So it seems a bit strange to assert that they're seeking to construct this kind of society when it's easily done without it. There are enough butt-licking narcissistic dribblers out there to do it. You only have to look around your own workplace to see them in action every day, kissing the manager's arsehole.
    Needless to say, if you don't want the NSA to know all about your private life, quit Facebook. I mean that's what we're talking about here isn't it: People stupid enough to put photo albums and diaries of their entire, tedious lives on the internet for the entire world to see.

  23. Re:Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us on AI Will Create 'Useless Class' Of Human, Predicts Bestselling Historian (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It was a good article except the idea the sentient robots were a near-term reality is completely ridiculous. We don't know how to instantiate consciousness (as Searle would agree). The best we can do is see some very rough correlations in cognition. Sentient they won't be.

  24. Re:Maybe they just don't like the shows? on Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 0

    Join the dots. Men shouldn't be allowed to comment on shows produced "for women" unless they're gay, obviously. The converse, not allowing women to comment on shows produced for men is obviously sexist and anyone suggesting it is a misogynist.

    Are we clear?

  25. Bollocks isn't it. on Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sex and the City is shit. Next question.