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  1. Re:Good for her on Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Then a few of us will die, but the rest of us keep our freedom. It sure beats having more of us die under runaway tyrannical regimes while the rest of us toil under them. Ever notice how those who spy on others get more maniacal the more dirt they get? It builds a culture of paranoid delusion. Americans saw it first hand after 9/11. The reality is the threat never goes away. We can only choose how we live in spite of it.

    However, that doesn't mean we can't take action. If such people really are the threats claimed, then it's time to declare war on the countries enabling them. Compromising western values is exactly what they want us to do.

  2. Re:And when the ethnic groups mix? on What the Mites On Your Face Say About Where You Came From (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    The goa'uld.

  3. To state heretical truth.

  4. Re:Is this actually confirmed yet? on Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out of 3rd-Party Bulbs With New Firmware (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    All that's needed is a disclaimer stating that functionality is only guaranteed with certified accessories. Perhaps pop it up when associating uncertified products.

  5. The internet of things will help ensure that network administrators have full time jobs. Check your privilege. Light is a service now. Get over it.

  6. Ever try ad block?

  7. Re:Crackers invent poison and are regressive on Leaded Gas, CFCs, and the Dark Side of Progress (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Sadly, this is the mentality taught to young people nowadays.

  8. Re:Lie? on Why Governments Lie About Encryption Backdoors (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    The US government is not the only government that lies. They all do.

  9. Re:Cruz can't be trusted on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    yeah because vanity fair is a reliable source

  10. Re:Fake overclocking on Locked Intel Skylake CPUs Can Be Overclocked After BIOS Update (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    It also means something small. "A speck of dust."
    http://www.merriam-webster.com...

  11. Re:Fake overclocking on Locked Intel Skylake CPUs Can Be Overclocked After BIOS Update (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    1. RTS games, esp with lots of units and cpu opponents.
    2. FPS games during multiplayer. despite common belief, today's engines physics are heavily cpu dependent. The simplistic physics of quake are long behind us.
    3. simulation - video encoding - ray tracing - faster multi core on the cheap (compared with your expensive xeons). a 4.7ghz 4core chip will do better than an 8 core at 2.6ghz, yet is much cheaper. You might be a rich bastard, but lots aren't.
    4. emulation - very cpu heavy, it uses relatively few cores and wants them as fast as possible. low clocked xeons fail here too.

    An oc cpu comes with higher IPS, faster cache, and faster IO. It's worth it if you know what you're doing and don't have a corporate sized budget.

  12. Re:Mozilla are LUDDITES. on Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    apperating system. I'll have to remember that one.

  13. Re:I'd like to mention.. on US Cyber Criminal Underground a Shopping Free-For-All (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Laws and regulation != competition. Therefore what is being charged isn't necessarily represented by what the market will bear. This leads to crazy fares. Of course, that's ok, but when uber does it, it's the end of the world, right? There's nothing special about transportation services that requires 'medallions' and artificial exclusivity.

  14. Re:Snitching devices on Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Everything in life is a trade off. I want the power to decide. I don't want it decided for me by insurance companies or the state.

  15. Re:Snitching devices on Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt the driver agreed to anything. I'm sure it was buried in some EULA. This doesn't change the reality of user-hostility billed as convenience or safety, especially if there's no choice to permanently shut it off or opt out.

    While it's hard to sympathize in this case, I do not want to live in a world where owner-hostile behavior is built into consumer products. The real danger is when it is mandated by politicians beating the safety drum or included by default as a feature with no permanent opt out.

  16. Re:I'd like to mention.. on US Cyber Criminal Underground a Shopping Free-For-All (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but it's the left that's been anti uber/lyft. You can bitch about uber's pricing but it's not like taxi service hasn't been a ripoff. Some competition should help settle market prices. Look what lack of competition did to the american car market. There's a reason americans buy foreign, and why detroit is now a hellhole. Competition is a needed element to keep businesses limber. Otherwise, they turn into bloated, inefficient monopolies like any other state service.

    Part of the problem of 'living wage' is the unseen inflation caused by deficit spending. This hurts the 20-30k/yr working class much more than your 1% (which includes a lot of liberals btw). The left wing solutions always revolve around increasing minimum wages, welfare services, and taxes, which in turn inflates the currency yet more. If you want to help those people, reduce their tax load and support paying down debt. Eliminate tax loopholes and simplify.

  17. Re:I'd like to mention.. on US Cyber Criminal Underground a Shopping Free-For-All (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    you lefties are a riot. Equating murder for hire with taxi services is the mark of crazy.

  18. Re:Developing in C/C++ on Developing In C/C++? Why You Should Consider Clang Over GCC (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh. What language is that? javascript?

  19. Re:Translation on Developing In C/C++? Why You Should Consider Clang Over GCC (dice.com) · · Score: 2

    No. Sometimes Clang produces faster code. Read the rest of that review.

  20. Re:First step towards solving a problem on Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    The people who 'have the vote' are the soccer mom idiots who think the world owes them a hugbox and a blanket. I do not want to live in such an orwellian panopticon.

    There shouldn't be a computer to debate with in the first place.

  21. Re:I'm kind of ambivalent about this. on Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Those who want to fire in secret would simply disable the transmitter anyway.

  22. Re:Snitching devices on Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops (yahoo.com) · · Score: 0

    You mention your fallacy and then override it? That's rich. People like you enable tyranny.

  23. Re:Snitching devices on Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops (yahoo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not wanting your devices snitching != thinking it's moral to leave the scene of an accident when someone is hurt.

  24. Re:New York is tied on Museum of Political Corruption Planned For New York (npr.org) · · Score: 0

    or it'll just be run by politicrats who will bias the 'exhibits' to their political agenda. It'll be the leftist version of the creation museum.

  25. Re:So who did it? on HTTP/2.0 Opens Every New Connection It Makes With the Word 'PRISM' (jgc.org) · · Score: 1

    (Never explained why they were poking around our executable with strings)

    It's on his computer. That gives him the right.