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  1. Re:Cook will have to apologize soon on Apple CEO Tim Cook Tackles Truth in the Digital Age (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't want to be rude or troll, I sincerely believe what I will reply to your comment

    There is a huge fraction of the population (at least in my country, .mx) that do not want to be told what to think, but people are pragmatic, since it looks terribly complicated or even likely that the things will change for good, the simply let the world/humanity go on, that does not mean people are happy, or that they will accept much more crapy things from gobernment/media/etc

    Let's go with something "new" as example: the fake news issue. In México we had in the recent months a lot of issues with fake news, in politics, violence, clown jokes, etc. People all over the place came telling the terrible things that were happening here and there, only to eventually see that they were fake, so, in the last 3-4 months we passed from 50% of the people believing a lot of fake news, to current maybe 10% of them believing only those fake news that are quite plausible.

    Is not that they wanted to be told what to think, they were over confident on the sources, but that changed a lot in very few months, I think that is a probe in favor of most people.

    Yes, even in México we have racism, classism, and some other -isms, but by far they are not the majority, you can see a lot of poor/uneducated/whatever-classifier people that actually understand the tricks of politics and economics, and they are pretty conscious on what the real problem is about all the difficulties we are facing, so it is really likely that the last paragraph you wrote will happen a lot in the next months years.

  2. Re:Group savings? on Spotify's New Family Plan Is Cheaper, $14.99 For Up To 6 people (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    the main account (the one paying) has some control over the others, so, it can be done, but you depend on trust, that's why it is called "family plan".

  3. Re: Bogus argument on Are You Sure This Is the Source Code? · · Score: 1

    Oh, come on, I know I will be modded troll, but this is a fact of life, when was the last time you feel 100% confident on politician decisions? Almost every aspect of life is subject to trust betrayal, some of them having betrayal more often than not.

  4. Re: so what is porn? on ISPs To Censor Porn By Default In the UK By 2014 · · Score: 0, Troll

    By your reasoning we should ban science too, it correlates terribly fine with social unequalty!

  5. Re: so what is porn? on ISPs To Censor Porn By Default In the UK By 2014 · · Score: 1

    As much as I would like it to be true, just a little bit of realism lets you see that humanity has a LOT of problema with self-control.

    We say in .mx "power corrupts", test it statistivally :)

  6. Re: Bull Shit! on Majority of Americans Say NSA Phone Tracking Is OK To Fight Terrorism · · Score: 1

    Damn you Kevin Bacon! I knew this would not be ending fine

  7. Re: Good on Ubuntu Developing Its Own Package Format, Installer · · Score: 1

    Tendency? I have yet to see something like that.

    i have found a few dependency problems using unstable, like 1 every 1-2 years, and most of the time it could be avoided by investing some 10 seconds reading what would be installed/removed with the current try, but a circular dependency, Im pretty sure apt has enough validations to avoid that automagically

  8. Re: just an observation... on The Text-Your-Parents-Your-Drug-Deal Experiment · · Score: 1

    So that's why you guys defend the atrocities your presidents do to everybody in the world? "Because we all are criminals"

    My country is not in better shape, but at least I know a lot of people do not support all the criminal acts of our politicians, I just hope the same happens in yours

  9. Re: just an observation... on The Text-Your-Parents-Your-Drug-Deal Experiment · · Score: 1

    I had a childhood surrounded by quite a few addicts, everything from alcohol to coke , crack and heroin...

    It is not funny, and even the less harmfull weed destroys a lot, nobody can tell me it is fun to do drugs, I had to pay a lot just by being witness of the shit a lot of family members did to themselves, drugs are not fun, at all.

  10. Re: This is a good idea. on The Text-Your-Parents-Your-Drug-Deal Experiment · · Score: 1

    A minor doing coke should not worry anybody? i'm done with this now

  11. Re: This is a good idea. on The Text-Your-Parents-Your-Drug-Deal Experiment · · Score: 1

    Im usually worried enough by the freakyn stuff we have to see in these days, worrign a little more about my kids doing drugs or even selling them will not help me in any way.

    I prank my girls with pretty obvious things, like "let me think if we can go to movie theatre, I will tell you tomorrow", and they smile right away, not after I need to explain them that I was joking.

    If the joke need any explaining it is not a good joke, period.

  12. Re: This is a good idea. on The Text-Your-Parents-Your-Drug-Deal Experiment · · Score: 1

    Have you seen the kind of issues young kids have in these days? Just look at the answers, even the comments from the comediant are a good indicator for how low have we fallen socially

  13. Re: Privacy? on NYC Police Comm'r: Privacy Is 'Off the Table' After Boston Bombs · · Score: 1

    Here in .mx most kidnapers are or were on the police forces, Im sure you can find a similar example in .us

    I really rather not have anybody knowing the daily whereabouts of most people, just in case

  14. Re: bribery on Kenya Police: Our Fake Bomb Detectors Are Real · · Score: 1

    This thing does not have any electric or electronic part, it wont do any sound unless it hits against something

  15. Re:Don't forget the free and open source people to on Geeks On a Plane Proposed To Solve Global Tech Skills Crisis · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Just remember how much money Gates spent on a self declared failed education project....

    They might be damn good at making money, but they are not as good or dont even care wellbeing for the majority... After all they are represent the best of what is making the world be as it is, socially speaking.

  16. Re:Petition on Google Reader Being Retired · · Score: 1

    If reader goes away I will spend 30-60 minutes a day using a different app for RSS news reading, so I hope I find en equivalent app or my life will be changed a little bit.

  17. Re:And they (the workers) demand lower wages... on Large Corporations Displacing Aging IT Workers With H-1B Visa Workers · · Score: 1

    At least with a lot of immigrants from .mx, they may have been living worst that the 8-10 rented house, but they would not work around here! No wonder the could not achieve enough food, but for some reason migrating changes their mind and sudenly they can work, and hard... That is kind of weird for most of those who wouldn't go to USA easily.

  18. Re:Another one insulting from ignorance on Heavy Metal and Emergent Behavior · · Score: 1

    Most of the time theoretical work is about making a pretty deep simplyfication of the actual problem... Even quantum chemistry does that...

    In other words, sorry for the bad joke!

  19. Re:General phenomena, NKS on Heavy Metal and Emergent Behavior · · Score: 1

    you clearly have never performed theoretical science

  20. Re:Physicists on Heavy Metal and Emergent Behavior · · Score: 1

    or darkly, not one of them indeed

  21. Re:Wait, what? on Perl's Glory Days Are Behind It, But It Isn't Going Anywhere · · Score: 1

    Database was your bottleneck for sure, still, if C or C++ was slower those programmers were really lousy at the job

  22. Re:Wait, what? on Perl's Glory Days Are Behind It, But It Isn't Going Anywhere · · Score: 1

    I am a big fan of Perl, have used it for a lot of years, and find it useful most of the time, but if you have tried to install any complex app made in Perl you have noticed is damn hard, with the hell of dependencies, and specific library version requierements it can become impossible to install some really interesting tools (diaspora for one).

    Pretty much the same with small scripts, as soon as you start working on improvements by reusing libraries you find subtle undocumented API changes, and find yourself reading the source code to understand the phylosophy behind the implementation ending up in more wasted time that actually writing your own library.

    Perl rocks, but is not by far the most elegant language available right now.

  23. Re:How are they validating ID? on New Phishing Toolkit Uses Whitelisting To 'Bounce' Non-Victims · · Score: 1

    If they knew who was not a target victim in the first place, why send them emails too? Sounds silly to me

  24. Re:Pot smoker here... on Pot Smokers Might Not Turn Into Dopes After All · · Score: 1

    I have not smoked pot or did any drug aside from alcohol or tobacco years ago, I have not got drunk since a decade ago, and I do have a pretty decent IT career, most as the one you comment, so....

    We can do a study that probes no correlation between usage or not of pot for IT success :D

  25. Re:Bill Clinton on US DOJ Claims It Did Not Entrap Megaupload · · Score: 1

    I said most, and if you do not, you gotta be in complete disagreement with your gov about the issues I mentioned, is that right?

    Just let me tell you that I am mexican, and we do mostly just like you, there are good moral people around here, but you dont see them getting into politics, or at least not in high positions, and A LOT of regular people would take advantage of any priviledged position if they could do so.