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  1. Hillary promises military retribution on US Would Be 28th In 'Hacking Olympics', China Would Take The Gold (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Not to worry, Hillary has promised military retribution for cyber attacks. I guess she'll either start wars with Russia and China on day one of her presidency or draw red lines and then run away from them like Obama has.

  2. ObXKCD: Heatmap

  3. Danger, Emergency on Facebook Lets Users Prompt Danger Alert · · Score: 1

    Look at what I'm having for dinner!

  4. More Neutral Than Others on Europe's Net Neutrality Doesn't Ban BitTorrent Throttling (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    All network accesses are neutral, but some accesses are more neutral than others.

  5. Re:First item on the agenda... on How G.E. Is Transforming Into An IoT Start-Up (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The Internet of Hacked Things.

  6. Cut out the middle man on FBI Authorized Informants To Break The Law 22,800 Times In 4 Years (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as the FBI has the power to authorize people to break the law, why not just get them to murder every suspect? No investigation needs to last longer than a day.

  7. Considering that Cox's customers probably commit 10-million acts of copyright infringement each year and each act is liable for a statutory fine of $150,000, the total cost of letting this idiotic ruling stand is $1.5-trillion per year. For one ISP.

  8. Picture it in your mind on America's First Offshore Wind Farm In Pictures (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 0

    You don't need to see pictures. Just imagine pallets stacked high with taxpayer and consumer cash being lit on fire. There's your wind farm.

  9. Re:More proof on WSJ: Facebook's Point System Fails To Close Diversity Gap · · Score: 1

    Does "systematic racisms/sexism" exist?

    A better question would be: *Can* systemic racism/sexism exist in an industry dominated by cut-throat competition? If you don't hire the best engineers, you lose to a competitor who does.

  10. Re:"A Russian cyberattack that targeted Democratic on Hack of Democrats' Accounts Was Wider Than Believed, Officials Say (nymag.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same." -- Scott Adams, _The Dilbert Principle_

  11. 6.7 meeeellion dollars! on Google Fined For Breaking Russian Antitrust Rules With Android (seekingalpha.com) · · Score: 2

    fined a sum of $6.75 million

    I don't understand this. I expected a fine from hurting Russia on a rich company like Google to a multi-billion dollar budget-filler. This piddling fine is more like a wink and a nod to keep "breaking the 'law'" (let's pretend Putin's Russia has Law).

  12. Re:Online Voting on 32 States Offer Online Voting, But Experts Warn It Isn't Secure (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 2

    "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." -- Winston Churchill

  13. Re:I think the precedent has been set... on FBI Probes Hacking of Democratic Congressional Group (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    After all, "... no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case..."

    "... no [loyal] [Democrat] prosecutor would bring such a case ..."

  14. How is that relevant to iOS vs Android, when a Samsung device costs just as much as an iPhone?

    Because Samsung's flagship S7 products aren't the only Android phones on the market. Which is why iPhone only has 15% of the smartphone market share. Android is the standard.

  15. Re:What a coincidence! on Hyperloop One Announces Opening of Its First Manufacturing Plant (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you ever heard of a "fluid hammer"? The mass of the hammer matters there.

  16. It's too bad on Hyperloop One Announces Opening of Its First Manufacturing Plant (techcrunch.com) · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It's too bad that the entire concept is completely LUDICROUS.

  17. Emergency: an advertiser needing to advertise to you.

  18. Islamists don't wait for Trump's say-so to commit mass murder and Russians don't wait for Trump's say-so to commit cyber-espionage. It's all purely rhetorical.

  19. Re:The basest, vilest on Trump Calls For Russia To Cyber-Invade the United States To Find Clinton's 'Missing' Emails (gawker.com) · · Score: 2, Informative
  20. Re:Why do us Canadians always get screwed? on Star Trek CBS Series To Be Streamed Internationally On Netflix (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    One word: Bell.

  21. Re:The Republicans want to make everyone work on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Not any more. Sweden became the rape capital of the world by expanding to 2 ethnicities, 2 religions, and 2 cultures.

  22. Re:Lots of bad assumptions here. on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 2

    When you don't simply apply a program to everybody, as UBI does, then you need a government bureaucracy to administer who is allowed into the program. But this bureaucracy consumes half of the money you attempt to pump through it.

  23. Re:The DNC overlords always get their way on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The FBI director detailing several crimes Hillary has committed and then recommending that no charges be filed should tell you that the fix is in. She won't be charged with anything so long as the current FBI director, Attorney General, and president are in place.

  24. Re:Bloody F!@#ing Idiots. on Historic Route 66 To Feature Solar Road Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The idea is pure lunacy. Here's more details on your test cycle path from thunderf00t. They got about half of the power you'd get from putting the solar panels on a roof.

  25. Re:Having a do-over on Web Petition For 2nd EU Referendum Draws Huge Interest (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    You're assuming that the will to leave is a fixed function of birth year and not age. In five years, most people will be five years older. The deceased old people will be replaced by new old people whose former youthful naivety will be replaced by a more sober assessment of reality. Support for the EU has been steadily declining since 1975. Why would that suddenly stop? The EU has its chance to stop operating like smug dictators. And now the EU is mortally wounded in addition to being bankrupt.