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  1. Guess who has two thumbs and bought a D-Link router yesterday?

    *This* dumbass. :(

  2. Re:Might want to think about that... on Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's likely too late for anyone with mod points to see it, but you should get modded up.

  3. Re:Might want to think about that... on Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes? (bbc.com) · · Score: 3

    I think both you and the GP need a healthy dose of [citation needed].

  4. I say, the hot, molten magma fields are quite muggy today.

  5. But of course on Bill Nye Explains That the Flooding In Louisiana Is the Result of Climate Change (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It has nothing at all to do with over-development in what used to be (and by all rights and common sense, still ought to be) swampland and coastal forest.

  6. Re: Elect Trump for Honest Government on FBI Finds 14,900 More Documents From Hillary Clinton's Email Server (go.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's about how long it took to nail John Gotti, also. Eventually the teflon wears off.

  7. Re:Bing It on Microsoft Wants To Pay You To Use Its Windows 10 Browser Edge (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Bing is actually better that Google in returned results. But I do absolutely hate the interface with a fiery passion.

  8. Re:As a former journalist, this isn't a big deal on Gawker.com To End Operations Next Week (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    That is the problem with the rich, they will use their money to destroy anyone who crosses them.

    One counterexample for whom that didn't work: Nick Denton.

  9. FLOSS isn't "out in the open;" it's unknown. We don't KNOW that it's affected, and the "may be affected" line in the summary is purely speculative. The known affected parties were notified and given a short time to fix, as is standard procedure. If these security bug disclosure sites had unlimited resources, no one would be out in the cold. Alas, it cannot be.

  10. Re:Facebook is still a thing? on Facebook Rolls Out Code To Nullify Adblock Plus' Workaround (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Your experience is an outlier. The elderly are using the internet with increasing regularity; but that number falls off drastically after 75; of whom only a fifth use the internet with regularity (Pew Research; you know how to Google, unlike my grandparents).

  11. Re:Facebook is still a thing? on Facebook Rolls Out Code To Nullify Adblock Plus' Workaround (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    No. Grandmothers share recipes on weathered old index cards. Hipster millennials who can't cook worth a damn use FB to share "Tasty" videos of shit recipes with not enough salt.

  12. Re:Capitalism is good... on FCC Loses Court Battle To Let Cities Build their Own Broadband (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    When the state chooses the winners, it's not capitalism anymore.

  13. Re:I'm mortified on US Finds New Secret Software In VW Audi Engines, Says Report (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they're applying the same engineering principles they used to make King Tiger tank turrets in WWII.

  14. Re:When Did Code Become A Verb? on Kids Can Now Learn To Code With Pocky, the Delicious Japanese Snack (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Planning and Coding of Problems for an Electronic Computing Instrument, written by Von Neumann and Goldstein in 1947. You'll have to dig them up to see if your neck-beard is longer than theirs.

  15. Re:Big-Balls Boyfriend Buries Bone in Bunch of Bit on Facebook's New Anti-Clickbait Algorithm Buries Bogus Headlines (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    And every one of those pages tries to hijack my browser to another page.

  16. The thing is, they are trying really hard to emulate Roger Ebert's classic "North" review, and falling far, far, short: http://www.rogerebert.com/revi...

  17. Yeah, BUT they select from a curated list of critics. Recently, many of these critics (Chicago Tribune, I'm looking at you) that see movie critique as an opportunity to show off their acerbic wit in a series of ever increasingly scathing roasts. At this point, I'm wondering if some of these critics actually enjoy movies. Basically, I have to take RT ratings with a grain of salt.

  18. You must be popular at parties.

  19. The GOP's presumptive heir-apparent this year was Jeb Bush. Whoops.

  20. Can we at least agree that Camaroism is a heresy?

  21. Re:This is awesome. on Neuroscientists Have Isolated The Part Of The Brain That Controls Free Will (extremetech.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was predestined to make that error.

  22. Now, if we could only prove that free will actually exists, we would have something.

    I'm a Calvanist, you insensitive clod.

  23. Re:The Republicans want to make everyone work on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 0

    That's a great argument for some level of economic protection of minorities. Crunchy white art-school millennials? Not so much.

  24. Re: Umm, satellites? on In China, Fears That Pokemon Go May Aid Locating Military Bases (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I wasn't trying to make any kind of threat analysis. That's a whole Intelligence specialty I'm not trained it. I was simply pointing out that Google is not a significant source of surveillance info compared to spy satellites.

  25. Re:Wait, let me get this straight... on In China, Fears That Pokemon Go May Aid Locating Military Bases (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Lemme blow your mind, here: YES.