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  1. Re:All of them on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Insults No Developer Wants To Hear? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One should be grateful for one's mother's sexual habits.

  2. Re:Your mom is so fat on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Insults No Developer Wants To Hear? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    And your mom is so fat she causes a stack overflow even in a language that supports tail-call optimization!

  3. Re:"Did you even test this??!!!" on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Insults No Developer Wants To Hear? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The Logitech MX mouse, their famous original free-wheeling wireless mouse, cannot be found on their web site without using a very specific search string. This was some years back.

  4. And not a Draeni on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Insults No Developer Wants To Hear? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    "Your penis is kind of small."

    Oh, wait. He wants to hear this because it means he's finally gotten with a girl.

  5. Re:Studies in the blind spots of academia on Life Expectancy Study: It's Not Just What You Make, It's Where You Live (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    They adjust for obesity and sedentary lifestyle. The same fatass couch potato lives longer in NY than elsewhere.

    And a lot are getting sidetracked on disparity or unequal or wealth or whatever, when the point of this story was it cuts across economic lines and seems location-based.

    Now we do know the more a doctor performs a procedure, the statistically better their outcomes. So maybe NY doctors are extra skilled at treating diabetes or doing angioplasty, from sheer numbers.

  6. Re:So is yours! on Life Expectancy Study: It's Not Just What You Make, It's Where You Live (npr.org) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    TBH I am not sure what planet any of your observations are from. We spend hundreds of billions on poor as it is. Are some still falling through the narrowing cracks? Fine. Use your freedom of speech to agitate for more.

    You also regurgitate 1984 Newspeak phrases like the freedom to borrow from a bank (or BE a bank and offer loans) is not freedom. Also, concerns over the rich buying influence wouldn't be as much of an issue if almost unrestricted economic control weren't an assumed power of Congress.

    You introduce that power to government, you (re)introduce many of the problems the founding fathers were trying to nullify -- the divine right of kings to muck about with (other peoples') wealth for their own benefit.

    Does it surprise you all the shits you hate through history make a beeline to try to control it? If so, why?

  7. Of course, the head of the CIA is a political position, and serves at the pleasure of the president. But if he raises a fuss and threatens to resign...

  8. Re:"is currently 75M miles away right now"? on NASA's Kepler Enters Emergency Mode 75 Million Miles From Earth (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if "currently" is not technically needed, it helps because this thing is moving away from Earth, if slowly, falling behind by 6 days or so per year.

  9. Re:Hey, mod this comment down, too on NASA's Kepler Enters Emergency Mode 75 Million Miles From Earth (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Who is "we"? Why import Stack Exchange jackassery? Does the mod system have utility words for self-appointed board monitors to bitch at innocent questions?

  10. Still not as bad as StackExchange dot assholes.

  11. Re:Kepler has been really impressive on NASA's Kepler Enters Emergency Mode 75 Million Miles From Earth (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It is a matter of interpretation. He is neither a liar nor ignorant. Having detected 1000 and a potential 4000 more exceeds NASA's site's stated goal of hundreds of planets.

  12. Re:This will be fun on All-Female Ridesharing To Debut In Boston (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Real Christians who made a Christian-preaching cab service would probably prefer non-Christians.

    It's against what Jesus said to harm non-Christians. You are to lead by example of being kind. That's what most of these hardcore Christians don't seem to understand about theeir own religion.

  13. Wherever we may find it. on Senate Bill Draft Would Prohibit Unbreakable Encryption (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    The Supreme Court needs to reiterate the right to speak encrypted in the First Amendment, and that "regulating business activity is not regulating speech" is itself unconstitutional sophistry.

  14. It's just an aircraft test area. I am sure they are happy letting clowns claim mysterious UFOs with strange capabilities -- the more to scare the Rooskies with. Who, by the way, are the only ones who don't think those are real UFOs.

  15. But the notch on a prosecutor's belt! on Apple's Fight With US Over Privacy Enters a New Round (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They should require escrow keys -- after all, it is far more important to catch a drug lord than risk falling down into permanent panopticon 1984 tyranny, with a boot on a human face, forever.

    Well, we know the US will never fall because history shows, wait, it doesn't show shit about democracies falling, in fact it shows they always do.

    But even if it doesn't, China and Russia won't abuse the exact same power. Wait, they already do. Well, sux2b them.

    But it is worth the risk to catch a drug lord, so let's risk all future freedom for all eternity by letting government put their hands in our underpants at will.

  16. "Oh. You won't mind, then, if we seize all these accounts in your, amd your lieutenants', names?"

  17. Re:Dark web needs some rebranding on Dark Web Mapping Reveals That Half of the Content Is Legal (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well that's part of the problem. As with the bigger issues of encryption, e.g. Apple vs. FBI, if one "good guy" government can crack it, then so can the bad guys, whom it was designed to fight.

    Does anybody think Russia and China, at a minimum, can't muster the technological and financial oomph to get the same job done as the NSA/FBI?

    This on top of things they also do, like the US, like phone metadata and Eye in the Sky. Sometimes they even buy the software for analysis from western companies.

    If we can do it for good guy reasons, so can they, and as far as I am concerned, this is all about stopping the building of these tools to begin with, to avoid the 1984 "Imagine a boot stepping on a human face...forever."

  18. Re:Big surprise? on Putin Says Panama Papers Part of US Plot to Weaken Russia (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, the US elections are not set. Wait until after the conventions.

  19. I have had Netflix for almost 4 years. I don't see why $2/month is a big deal. Help me fix my $170/month cable TV + Internet + Showtime suite.

  20. Re: Was he under oath? on FBI Director Says Unlocking Method Won't Work On Newer iPhones (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It is implicit for all government employees that they not deliberately violate constitutional rights.

  21. Donatingist land in all the land! on Uber To Pay Up To $25 Million For Misleading Advertising In California (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Warning! This taxi contains a company known to the State of California to not kowtow to the carefully built up government genuflection&donation industry."

  22. Re:we do not even know IF the phone was hacked on FBI Telling Congress How It Hacked iPhone (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Much more interesting is if "that little Israeli firm", or freezing and disconnecting quickly the chips, really helped or is just a "parallel construction" to cover industrial strength encryption cracking deep in a billion dollar black money building somewhere.

  23. Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian law firm: "They hacked our what???? All that data is leaked? From corrupt world leaders and billionaires? Oh no no no no no...oh oh. OH FUCK here comes Wilfred Brimley!"

    Wilford Brimley: "Have a seat there, son."

  24. Re:This is it on Spies In The Skies: FBI Planes Are Circling US Cities (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Presumably freedom of privacy and anonimity and association are anachronisms, much like guns, in the modern day free society.

  25. Re:Eye in the Sky on Spies In The Skies: FBI Planes Are Circling US Cities (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    The problem is the potential abuse of the system -- what political operative wouldn't love to track where and who an opponent is visiting? This is the same reasoning the warrantless metadata tracking of phone calls is bad: just knowing who they talk to is valuable political information allowing counter-planning to.

    They need some uncorruptible tracking and logging of all access to the system for review by judges and elected officials.