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  1. You Can't Stop Progress! on New Facial Recognition Software May Detect Looming Road Rage · · Score: 1

    When you are too angry, your car will die, troopers will fast-rope onto it from their ornithopter, hit you with sick sticks and halo you while your fluids fly from every orifice... That is, if the AdWords for the latest hypnotic from Pfizer flashing across your windshield didn't calm you down first.

  2. Give Argon A Break... on No Longer "Noble"; Argon Compound Found In Space · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... It's not always easy to be noble under extreme conditions. Happens to the best of us!

  3. All I needed... on Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive? · · Score: 1

    ...Was good money, decent benefits, and for directors to stay out of the damned way. Save your stupid soda machines and Google headquarters garbage. I would never have worked there for long. Work at work, play at home! I didn't leave any corporate job until directors started either getting in the way or not delivering on the promises they traded for the sacrifices I made. Take care of your people, let them do good work.

  4. Re:apple near deal and korea almost in war on Apple Near Deal For Radio Service · · Score: 1

    Ah, but the early reporting is how you juice your prices and make out better in the deal at the last minute. It's a staple in mergers and acquisitions as well!

  5. They don't understand HTTPS at all! on Nokia Admits Decrypting User Data Claiming It Isn't Looking · · Score: 1

    From their response, it is clear that they still do not understand what secure connections are for. They seem to want to assure customers that their data is not examined or stored by the company at all, which is hardly even relevant. The point of https is to establish a secure connection with two endpoints. Period. I would not worry about Nokia, but some government or criminal syndicate using Nokia's proxy security hole to ruin my life or spy on me. There are a few outfits doing this with https now, and they don't understand why https wants to work the way that it does!

  6. What's the problem? on Saudi Arabia Implements Electronic Tracking System For Women · · Score: 1

    Any upstanding Arab has right to keep tabs on the chattel. It has always been thus. All we propose is use of these electronic thingamajiggies and intarweb made by you infidels to automizate the process. Whycome you have problem?

  7. Why stop here? on Legalizing Online Futures Betting · · Score: 1

    Political futures options, collateralized political obligations, political swaps / swap options. We need to give these Harvard MBAs *less* things to sell, not more, for Christ! These dumb products allow banks to pull the money truck up to the discount window and spend it creating "assets" that blow us all up later instead of investing in something that's real!

    Let's also not forget to mention that creating these markets affects the underlying, in this case, the elections themselves. Consider as an example how the OTC markets for derivatives on Eurozone debt so obviously blew out the bond yields, creating hardship for millions -- or perhaps how securitizing wheat starved Somalians to death!

    Stop thinking up crap to gamble on and do something productive that adds to the economy, or just go away!

  8. I Don't Care on Valve's Big Picture Could Be a Linux Game Console · · Score: 1

    about any of this crap! I want more Half Life, dammit!

  9. Rights apply everywhere on How Free Speech Died On Campus · · Score: 3

    for citizens in good standing. That is the definition of unalienable. Sometimes you have to fight for them though! Not to worry, you are witnessing Peak College. Bloated, wasteful, dysfunctional institutions will vaporize with the credit that pays their ridiculous prices. Goods and services purchased with credit are altered by the supply of said credit. When we stop rewarding failure with bailouts, that is. Affordable education that caters only to the needs of the student body will be a welcome change!

  10. It's Simple... on How Facebook Can Out Your Most Personal Secrets · · Score: 1, Troll

    ... If you want something to be a secret, don't tell anybody, least of all a relational database!

  11. Didn't you guys get the memo? on Bill Nye 'the Science Guy' Urges Letters To Obama To Restore NASA Budget Cuts · · Score: 2

    It has been decided that we will be staying here. We will pray to our Gods for nice weather and the forbearance of asteroids.

  12. Re:when two pieces of shit fight on Zynga Sues EA For 'Anti-competitive' Practices · · Score: 1

    Sounds great, but they'll finance this B.S. by cutting their respective workforces!

  13. This is what we care about? on White House Petition To Investigate Dodd For Bribery · · Score: 1

    Our representatives sell us out every day for stock tips! Perpetual war, financial oppression, institutionalized fraud, erosion of liberty, unborn generations made zombie debtors, and a lack of political to change anything at all! This is the open petition with the most signatures, behind an anti-ACTA item. Does this disgust anything else? People, please stop worrying about your torrents/porn/tweets/blogs/yadayada and look around you. Why can't we use the /. effect for something more meaningful? Please mod me down until I get to Hell; I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

  14. Apple's Future on Apple Tries To Patent 3rd Party In-App Purchasing · · Score: -1

    So this is what Apple will do now that Steve is gone -- sit around and troll patents. This wouldn't hurt a competitor or a platform -- only people (developers).

  15. Bogeyman (CHF) Got Him? on UBS Rogue Trader Loses $2 Billion In Unauthorized Trades · · Score: 1

    If this guy was at an equities desk and suddenly needed a "miracle", I am wondering if maybe something like FXF got him. Huge one day loss after the SNB bolted the top of the swiss franc to the euro. Being long the swissie for a million a pip before the last big intervention might have done him in. Not sure what else it could have been. In any case, this guy is only a "rogue trader" because he lost money. I will wait for an earnings restatement from UBS, then I will go long if I get a chance.

  16. I Want My... I Want My... on Valve Announces Counter-Strike: Global Offensive · · Score: 1

    ...I Want My Half Life Three!

  17. Re:Short NFLX @ $299, wish me luck! on Netflix Deflects Rage Over Price Increase · · Score: 1

    Hey, don't congratulate me yet! I got a ways to go before I cover and I could be blown out of the water any minute by a Ben Bernanke sound bite. Shorting the berserk ponzi casino always comes with plenty of risk! :)

  18. Short NFLX @ $299, wish me luck! on Netflix Deflects Rage Over Price Increase · · Score: 1

    A company squeezed between pissed off customers, greedy content providers, jilted ISPs, and an insolvent postal service looking for things to cut. I was waiting for the cracks to start showing, and it happens at an all time high! What a great short -- wish me luck!

    On a more relevant note, what was so amazing about the price increase announcement was the sales pitch itself... Streaming for $8, DVDs for $8, and both for $16! What a deal! Only a Harvard MBA could think up such an insulting bargain.

  19. Checkmate! on No U.S. Government Shutdown This Week · · Score: 1

    Our distinguished ladies and gentlemen can hardly even rearrange 1% of the deck chairs on this Titanic without everything breaking down. 1% of the 2012 budget, and it has to result in this ridiculous piece of theater. The worst of it all is that I only have myself to blame. All those decades I went to school, went to work, chased girls, watched t.v., played video games, all the while failing to notice the global corporate tendrils gaining control over nearly every aspect of my life.

    Now it doesn't matter who I vote for -- the result is the same. Lawyer types on K street write the laws of my land in computer generated 5000 page bills that I could never have a hope to understand -- all to either maintain the status quo or to advance the collective kleptocratic agenda. Doubtless, our corporate masters will steal everything they can while it all slowly collapses! I could say more, but Dancing With the Stars is on, and I never miss an episode.

  20. Brings back memories... on Bjarne Stroustrup Reflects On 25 Years of C++ · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bjarne and the Community's creation was the bona fide beginning of my career. When I started, I thought I was a 7 in C++. Several years later, I was a 5. I wrote my best and worst code in the language, over 15 years, and I am still running into issues in the language that challenge me today. C++ helped me learn a lot about myself along the way, and I am grateful to Bjarne and the Community at large for that. A good article and interview, if not a tad brief.

  21. Let's have zero tolerance for zero tolerance! on Chertoff Advocates Cyber Cold War · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Destroying the countries where attacks originate is a broken doctrine, IMO. Use of force should always be measured, and focused, lest history revile us. The ease of false flag operations in "cyberspace" make the nature of our responses to attacks even more important. I would dismiss Chertoff out of hand were it not for the possibility that, rather than harmless BS, talk like this may encourage a doctrine that will allow our government to start wars and engage in various intrigues, to evil ends. Chertoff co-birthed the anti-Christ fetus disingenuously called the "USA PATRIOT" act, so we should tell him to take his "overwhelming force" and sell crazy some place else. We seem to be stocked up already.

  22. A strong argument against stop-loss orders on SEC Blames Computer Algorithm For 'Flash Crash' · · Score: 1

    There are traders that I know who use stop loss orders reflexively. I never used them because they only purport to limit losses; they are really market orders triggered by price action, and they will chase bids down and leave you out of the game before you are even done with your coffee at the market open. I never imagined them chasing bids all the way down to zero until recently! Since the PTB don't seem intent on fixing anything, just affixing blame, I would strongly discourage stop-loss orders. They are not a substitute for being both present and disciplined while you are trading anyway!

  23. Re:Don't let reality get in the way of your anger on MA High School Forces All Students To Buy MacBooks · · Score: 1

    I would have liked this post better if we lived in an alternate universe where you can't run Windows on a Mac. Respectfully, reality makes the parent post a complete waste of time. A Mac is a place where you can learn about Mac, Windows and Linux tech all in the same place either by dual booting or virtualizing; take your pick. Parent poster will not get this on his/her Dell, at least not by legal, reliable, nor easy means. Prices for Macs have gotten better but, unfortunately, are still quite high, and Apple seems to think we don't need to modify/maintain our hardware. These are, IMO, the only reasons one would need to buy a Dell at all.

    Maybe this argument about which laptop this school should be *forcing* kids to buy is moot. Is it not so that online/portal/cloud type services have evolved to a point where they may obviate the need for a specific platform anyway? IMO, any school that is only pushing platform specific software down for kids to learn on has invested wrongly in our future. In 20 years, it could be that only a few big greedy companies will be left desperately clinging to this idea. The rest of us will have moved to the online platform for most of our daily needs.

  24. Re:A Very Nice Move on Microsoft Acknowledges 360 Issues, Extends Warranty to 3 Years · · Score: 1

    So I suppose folks think I am supposed to be outraged. I guess I am not. My experience with MS has been generally good and I am grateful they are extending my warranty. If my box gets fixed properly I will go back to playing it and not give the matter another thought. If they bungle the repair, and I have been hearing quite a bit about this lately, then I may start to get upset. Until things like that happen, I generally do not act like a manufacturer owes me a personal apology when their product breaks.

  25. A Very Nice Move on Microsoft Acknowledges 360 Issues, Extends Warranty to 3 Years · · Score: 1

    I got my 360 shortly after its initial release, and I put a lot of hours on it (especially in the first year -- not so much this year); for the years that I had it, it was rock solid, and I think it's been a great console. As it turns out, it finally died a month ago and I was disappointed to find that it was out of warranty... Until now. This warranty extension will mean a lot to me, and I am very grateful to MS for having put it in action. Thanks, guys!