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  1. So Comcast is now a government agency? on FBI: Just Don't Call Them Backdoors (networkworld.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Comcast:

    It's not a "cap", it's a "usage plan"

    If Comcast were a Swiss insurance agency:

    Don't think of it as "exclusive", think of it as a "custom experience".

    If Comcast was the FBI:

    It's not a backdoor, it's [redacted].

  2. How about best company w/ lower selectivity? on Airbnb Dethrones Google As the Best Tech Company To Work For In the US · · Score: 1

    It's nice and all to have a company that's highly rated. It is even better to have a (non-staffing agency, non-MSP) company that gives citizens a favorable chance at long-term work.

  3. Re:Maybe replace the headless linux box in closet on $5 Raspberry Pi Zero Compared To Intel's NetBurst CPUs & Newer (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Using both at once is what causes it to fail.

  4. Re:Maybe replace the headless linux box in closet on $5 Raspberry Pi Zero Compared To Intel's NetBurst CPUs & Newer (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Not if the desktop has other I/O channels other than USB. The R.Pi only has USB, and fails hard at trying to handle multiple devices.

  5. Then enjoy your hellhole. on DOJ Cracking Down On Profit-Driven Policing, Audit Looks At How Far It's Spread (muckrock.com) · · Score: 0

    If you do not want effective police, expect civilization to disappear with their departure. See Detroit (1967-2013) and Baltimore for examples of politically-correct paradises.

    I'll take a well-policed area, especially if it repels BLM thuggery. It's not only safe, but people of all backgrounds can act without fear of political incorrectness.

  6. "Power Efficiency" measurements misleading. on $5 Raspberry Pi Zero Compared To Intel's NetBurst CPUs & Newer (phoronix.com) · · Score: 0

    They're just a way to make slower chips look better when they really aren't. If it gets the job done faster, what's the real issue?

    I'll take a Netburst P4 over the R.Pi any day just for spite and proper USB implementation.

  7. "Legal" as Barry Bonds or Lance Armstrong doping on Zuckerberg Answers Critics of His Move To Give Away His Facebook Stock (facebook.com) · · Score: 1

    Exotic accounting is still being a tax cheat, no matter how you want to call it.

    It's not ex post facto if they're punished for continuing action of a certain type. In addition, the rule of law remains since it would penalize the action, not the actor.

  8. Re:Fixed that error in patriotism for you. on Zuckerberg Answers Critics of His Move To Give Away His Facebook Stock (facebook.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't take an accounting major to write out the answers to a 1040EZ.

    On the other hand, it does take one to construct the exotic tax arrangements that have no good worth to exist.

  9. It's not charity. It's tax cheating. on Zuckerberg Answers Critics of His Move To Give Away His Facebook Stock (facebook.com) · · Score: 1

    Short of some disinterested party having control, it's nothing more than a tax dodge in need of elimination.

    Modbombing me with -Infinity, Disagree won't change it.

  10. IOW:You cut the corners that kill people, not us. on NASA 'Moving On' From Low-Earth Orbit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much the current purveyors of unaccountable, opaquely financed, space junk (such as SpaceX) bribed them to say that.

    No thank you, but NASA would do well to return to high-quality space travel, no matter the distance. They'd also do well to return back to at least the 1980's with a more Shuttle-like (and not Apollo-like) design.

  11. Does it also simulate the data cap? on Verizon Creates Minecraft Mod To Let Players Video Chat On an In-Game Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Minecraft worlds can get quite large, as well as the data that goes through them.

  12. Re:Not when the racist blacks caused the crime. on DOJ Cracking Down On Profit-Driven Policing, Audit Looks At How Far It's Spread (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    Every looter and arsonist should be prosecuted and jailed, but you're blind - or racist - if you think that the actions of fifty or a hundred black criminals make it moral for Ferguson police to allegedly do some fictional wrong to forty thousand other black residents in the town.

    If they take the direction of the looters and professional agitators, which they did, then the answer is to bring Singapore style strictness in law enforcement to Ferguson. If that means Sharpton, Crump, or their defenders get punished for fomenting violent hate crimes (if not terrorism), fine. If it means protecting the police and their families with deadly force, then fine. You do not give in to such agitating groups - you remove them before they can stir up the population.

    That's especially true since many of the criminal looters didn't even live in Ferguson, they just used the tension as an excuse to come to the town and stir up trouble.

    They stirred up trouble and residents got caught up in it.

  13. Exotic accounting and legitimacy :: water & oi on Zuckerberg Answers Critics of His Move To Give Away His Facebook Stock (facebook.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have to use exotic accounting to deal with taxes, chances are you're not up to any good.

  14. Fixed that error in patriotism for you. on Zuckerberg Answers Critics of His Move To Give Away His Facebook Stock (facebook.com) · · Score: 0

    Cheating on taxes like Zuckerberg or Traitor Saverin does not make you some kind of patriot in my book, it makes you part of the problem.

    FTFY

    The more exotic accounting that is required, the less legitimate the tax arrangement.

  15. "Legal" as Barry Bonds or Lance Armstrong doping on Zuckerberg Answers Critics of His Move To Give Away His Facebook Stock (facebook.com) · · Score: 1

    All questionable.
      [redacted phrase] (or so I'm told)

    Sometimes you need to make an example of someone, why not start with arrogant tax cheats? Take both the player and the game out to the woodshed, everyone wins!

  16. Defending him with flippancy doesn't help. on Zuckerberg Answers Critics of His Move To Give Away His Facebook Stock (facebook.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not charity, plain and simple. It's one big tax cheat that needs to DIAF.

    The reason why it matters to the Rest of Us, is their outsize influence in government policy - such as anti-citizen immigration policy and social justice initiatives.

  17. It's not charity. It's tax cheating. on Zuckerberg Answers Critics of His Move To Give Away His Facebook Stock (facebook.com) · · Score: 0

    Short of some disinterested party having control, it's nothing more than a tax dodge in need of elimination.

  18. No, it won't show them cheating. on Google 360 VR Patriots Experience Puts You In the Pocket With Brady (hothardware.com) · · Score: 0

    You can't show what didn't happen.

    They didn't cheat with the allegedly "deflated" footballs.

  19. In other words, Oracle licensing. on Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Moving To Per-Core Licensing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Not good there, not good here.

  20. Euphemism for 'Chinese'? on 15,000 Hoverboards Seized As Unsafe In United Kingdom (nationaltradingstandards.uk) · · Score: 1, Funny

    a group of criminal sociopaths manufacturing unsafe devices at Christmastime

    I believe they're called Chinese.

  21. Not when the racist blacks caused the crime. on DOJ Cracking Down On Profit-Driven Policing, Audit Looks At How Far It's Spread (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    Kind of hard to claim grievances if you're the primary offender.

    Even harder when you use racism against whites to justify looting, rioting, and non-enforcement of laws for black thuggery.

    The only thing that should have happened in Missouri is for law enforcement to be as strict as Singapore. For every cry of racism, act with more strictness. Stop only when the black racists (and their financial backers) are soundly defeated, spines broken.

  22. We know that he'll be a tax cheat. on Zuckerberg To Give Away 99% of His Facebook Stock (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless there's some push to remove the avenue of using "charity" as a cover, there's a 99% certainty that it's just tax cheating.

  23. Bullshit, defender of another tax cheat. on Zuckerberg To Give Away 99% of His Facebook Stock (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    $38M, since it's honest money not obtained by cheating while the other $162M is blood money. Besides, it's not as if one wouldn't end up receiving the $162M some other way.

    You don't get to play the Almighty just because you're the 21st Century version of a robber baron.

  24. The blood is on Snowden's (& Greenwald's) hand on Greenwald: Why the CIA Is Smearing Edward Snowden After Paris Attacks (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Encryption or not, tying the hands of the intelligence services did some harm. The very things that are asked of intelligence services would only serve to help people avoid them.

    For someone that aided and abetted a traitorous criminal, I'm not sure that Greenwald can explain this one away. They have yet to answer how intelligence agencies are supposed to work when they're supposed to give notice at the worst of times.

    Events like Paris are enabled and amplified by the Snowden-caused damage caused to intelligence collecting agencies.

  25. The blood is on Snowden's (& Greenwald's) hand on Greenwald: Why the CIA Is Smearing Edward Snowden After Paris Attacks (latimes.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    For someone that aided and abetted a traitorous criminal, I'm not sure that Greenwald can explain this one away. They have yet to answer how intelligence agencies are supposed to work when they're supposed to give notice at the worst of times.

    Events like Paris are enabled and amplified by the Snowden-caused damage caused to intelligence collecting agencies.