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  1. Re:American cry babies on Bigger Isn't Better As Mega-Ships Get Too Big and Too Risky · · Score: 1

    Tying up the mentioned dredging, to make a port dredged many times before, 5 feet deeper, with environmentalist lawsuits, is making the dredging take longer than it took the US to build the Panama Canal over a hundred years ago.

    And this dredging isnjust to handle the new superpanamax ships for the newly expanded Panama Canal.

    Meanwhile China is building an even bigger canal for even bigger ships. The US has lost by allowing itself to tie its own hands.

  2. Re:Where is the news? on China Builds World's Fastest Supercomputer Without U.S. Chips (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    > unlikely to feature NSA/GCHQ backdoors

    Chips from China. No backdoors. Riiiiiight.

  3. Re: Bull-fucking-shit. on New 'Hardened' Tor Browser Protects Users From FBI Hacking (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Isn't it useless on Windows 10, where Microsoft monitors everything you type and every site you go to? The govt. probably doesn't even need a warrant because you "have no expectation of privacy" on your data in Microsoft's databases. Thus do they have warrantless access to your privacy because of some fine print on page 287 of your Windows click-through license agreement.

  4. Re: Government vs. Government on New 'Hardened' Tor Browser Protects Users From FBI Hacking (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Wey hey! since everyone's doing it... Shut up you donkey-raping shit eating mung filled muff cabbage.

    I'm pretty sure you can watch that porn without needing TOR.

  5. Re:Billion-dollar holes... on New 'Hardened' Tor Browser Protects Users From FBI Hacking (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So the US government claims reason 1 to crack it, while most of the US constitution is oriented around preventing #3, and, having cracked stuff, so, too, do China and Russia. Thus does simple crime detection here enable a steel toe boot to be pressed on the necks of billions, forever.

    Yay.

  6. Re: Funny, you are so blind you assign the wrong o on IBM Engineer Builds a Harry Potter Sorting Hat Using 'Watson' AI (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    "Hufflepuff!"

  7. Re: Funny, you are so blind you assign the wrong o on IBM Engineer Builds a Harry Potter Sorting Hat Using 'Watson' AI (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, you know. Modern young ones were raised buy union public teachers who taught, literally, what a terrible president Reagan was.

    When school capture allows raising of new generations to kowtowing to particular narratives, you have won. Very Soviet.

  8. "If it was those back-bacon-eyes at the Bank of Canada, they would have arrested those kids!"

  9. Re:Who is hiring the security guys at the Bank? on Political Party's Videoconference System Hacked, Allowed Spying On Demand · · Score: 1

    They should be publicly insulted & fired.

    It's Canada. They are probably required to give them therapy and training and a second chance.

    As for the political conference video watching, don't governments run around saying, "Don't worry about the cameras...if you have nothing to hide." How much more so it should apply for those power hungry plotters

  10. Re:If they pay the license fee on South Australia Refuses To Stop Using An Expired, MS-DOS-Based Health Software (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    In this case, they are trying to yank out a perfectly fine, if older, medical system, and there are duties to care that may come into play.

  11. Re:At this point , I just need to ask: on Those 100,000 Lost Air Force Files Have Been Found Again (govexec.com) · · Score: 1

    What the hell does "leverage" mean?

    I'm no longer able to pretend to know what these nonsense buzzwords mean.

    What the hell does "leverage" mean?

    I'm no longer able to pretend to know what these nonsense buzzwords mean.

    I'm sorry they removed the study of simple machines in 6th grade in favor of a unit on how not to offend on twitter. It is a wedge issue, to be sure, when it was wheeled out without much discussion by people with undue pully on the situation. I'm inclined to think they've put the screws to future generations.

  12. Re: Spit or swallow, Paramount? on Star Trek/Axanar Lawsuit Isn't Going Away Just Yet (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Fair use would not includude a full movie with no financial responsibilities owed to the copyright holder.

    And this isn't a parody for critical purposes, anyway (aside from the high level of slapping the reboot in the face.)

  13. Re:Well then, no Beyond for me on Star Trek/Axanar Lawsuit Isn't Going Away Just Yet (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Movies like that are best seen on the big screen. It is too bad they don't recycle the earlier ones on short runs in theaters -- they couldn't possibly do as bad as some of this junk in only its third week.

  14. The 2nd directly mentions The People and not the states. The state cannot regulate away the people keeping and bearing arms, as that is the backbone upon which is built the well-regulated militia, which is what is necessary to keeping freedom.

    "The state shall have the power to take away arms...the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." -- this makes no sense if government can take it away under "regulated militia".

  15. Re:If it is, buy AMD on Is the 'Secret' Chip In Intel CPUs Really That Dangerous? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the NSA has surrounded duckduckgo with network spy stuff and knows what goes in and out.

    For that matter, duckduckgo's privacy wording doesn't exclude NSA letters.

  16. Re:A few more mergers on Time Warner Cable Suspends Broadband Upgrades After Merger (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    I have no problem with that as long as they don't actively hamper competition.

  17. Government is voracious for money, we get it.

    That does not mean the people should view any income not taxed away as the government letting someone keep the government's money.

  18. subsidy / welfare == receipt of someone else's money
    tax deduction == less of one's own money being taken

    those things are different

    In this case, the congresswoman's rhetoric is doubly idiotic -- if the rich person is on drugs and it were a problem, they wouldn't have earned the money to be taxed in the first place.

  19. Re:"Hacked" is a strong word on Texas Traffic Signs Hacked With Anti-Trump and Anti-Hillary Messages (hackread.com) · · Score: 1

    Loosely, but there are court cases floating around about this. For example, is a guy who was given a password then accessed the data, but for the wrong reason, and thus illegal, hacking? Punishment does indeed make a difference. Same if the guy had the password legitimately, then was fired, then accessed the database. Was his access "revoked"?

    These seeming split hairs make a difference for prosecution and sentencing, as they are different crimes (and some may not even be.) It is like saying someone was breaking and entering, when you never reclaimed the key when firing them. Stealing is something else.

  20. Re:Base fines on corporations on CEO's wage slip on Amazon Faces $350K Fine For Shipping 'Amazing Liquid Fire' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    "Hey, you! We're gonna take 10% of your worth because one of your hundreds of thousands of hires fucked up doing a couple of the millions of things your company does every day!"

    Boy, you think politicians don't get enough donations already, this much power would be their wet dream.

  21. Re: UPS is union and they need to sue to recover t on Amazon Faces $350K Fine For Shipping 'Amazing Liquid Fire' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't know if I have ever seen a 300 pound object in my building, in all my years there.

    Oh come on now. I am sure other slashdotters work there, too.

  22. Re: UPS should send bill... on Amazon Faces $350K Fine For Shipping 'Amazing Liquid Fire' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I submit it is a lack of greased palms, so the palmees are working to see huge fines applied until things get back to normal.

  23. Outcomes on Repurposing Drugs To Tackle Cancer (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    At least 15 years ago someone started a giant, long-term hard outcomes study to track food and drugs for outcomes of cancer and stroke and heart disease. What ever happened to that? The idea being nobody knew if there weren't a few good or bad items in the mass of stuff people take.

  24. Re:Nice on Severe Chrome Bug Allowed Arbitrary Code Execution (talosintel.com) · · Score: 1

    Point was if you are relying on them to prevent bad things from happening, then compile them away for production, you need to build an if around them instead. Hence they only have development value. Hence programmers get lazy using them and never get around to cleaning them up like they are supposed to. To the tune of hundreds of instances in non-trivial code.

    Then you run a code review tool and it points this out.

  25. Re:Other rule violations on Amazon Faces $350K Fine For Shipping 'Amazing Liquid Fire' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Are these number of times a lot? Or is it a drop in the bucket? Is someone political out to get Amazon for not making their donations for the year?