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  1. Prison knife on Bumbling Hacker 'Bitcoin Baron' Sentenced To 20 Months In Prison (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He stabbed his father with a kitchen knife, not a prison knife.BR>
    Also, if your website is defaced by some script kiddie hacker, you have serious opSec problems.

  2. Re:Fact-based debating on New IBM Robot Holds Its Own In a Debate With a Human (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    (Warning: political rant ahead) Sorry, but I don't find conservatives particularly logical either.

    When I was in college, I spent some time trying to figure out which party to join. For a while I sided with the Republicans because (in the days before Bush) of their support for fiscal conservatism. Then some senator would say something bone-headed and stereotypical, like, "We need to cut taxes for rich corporations." ok, so I switched to the Democratic party. Nice friendly people there, they accept everybody. Then some prominent Democrat would say something bone headed and stereotypical, like, "abortion doesn't go far enough, we need to bring back infanticide." Well then, I didn't want to associate with that! Eventually I gave up and didn't join either party, remained independent.

    Now, with more experience, I realize that any relatively large group of people will have idiots in it, but I still haven't joined any party.

  3. Re:Debate skills one of the useless skills. on New IBM Robot Holds Its Own In a Debate With a Human (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    I always thought of debate skills as one of those things we teach kids so they can recognize all the stupid tricks people are trying to use on them.

  4. cool project on New IBM Robot Holds Its Own In a Debate With a Human (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a cool project, but the article is utterly useless without a transcript.

  5. Re:Lower court ruled against Apple on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not impossible to put a malicious app on the store, but it's harder, more rare, and likely to be removed quickly.

    How do you even know this? Compared to what? What is the mean time of removal for malware on the Apple store?

  6. Re:Except if you're Hillary Clinton on Ex-CIA Employee Charged In Major Leak of Agency Hacking Tools (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    I know she's been all over the world trying to blame anybody but herself, but had she not done this private server thing, she'd likely be president today.

    Hard to say, right? Who knows what were in the emails she deleted?

  7. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Cockman said in a statement that investigators looking into Schulte found the pornography in his residence. His personal computer, federal prosecutors alleged, held more than 10,000 images and videos of such material, protected under three layers of passwords.

    Amazing how easily they were able to break through three layers of encryption. Did they use quantum computing?

  8. Re: Lower court ruled against Apple on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Cool story Bro. I have to be the strangest Apple zealot around, having mostly other platforms.

    Yeah, maybe you are.

  9. Re:Distribute your app as open source on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Users can then download Apple's free Xcode development environment and build your app themselves and run it on their devices.

    That's a crap solution, and you know it.

  10. Re: Lower court ruled against Apple on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    With Apple you can make an app and get paid. With Android you can make an app and everyone will pirate it.

    That's a point worth considering, piracy is harder on iPhone.

  11. Re: Lower court ruled against Apple on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I have no reason to believe you know what you are doing.

  12. Re: Lower court ruled against Apple on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    Sometimes I do write my own apps. I've also written stuff that wouldn't be allowed on the Apple store. Some of these are things that would be popular, although it doesn't need to be popular to be be justified. People who defend Apple in this aspect are corporate slaves. Remember the famous Apple 1984 commercial? That is you, sitting in the audience, saying how great it is that the corporation maintains control and doesn't give it to the individuals who would just mismanage it.

  13. Re: Lower court ruled against Apple on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    I don't understand your single focus on money. There are more reasons to want side loading than just money.

  14. Re:Lower court ruled against Apple on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The walled garden is a pro or a con, depending on your perspective.

    There is no perspective from which disallowing side-loading is a pro. The "walled garden" doesn't keep malware out. It's a nice convenience, just like Debian's package management system is a nice convenience.

    Sideloading disallows you freedoms you could have. If you don't want those freedoms, then disallowing it is neutral for you: it's not a pro.

  15. Lower court ruled against Apple on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 1
    According to the article, the appellate court ruled against Apple:

    In 2013, a district court in California initially sided with Apple, agreeing that the tech giant was shielded by the Illinois Brick Doctrine. But the plaintiffs appealed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed the lower court's opinion last year.

    If only Apple had allowed side-loading apps a long time ago, I might have bought an iPhone.

  16. Re: I want Google to be very 'diverse' on Diversity At Google Hasn't Changed Much Over the Last Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Chimps might have a token female in their squad as they roam hunting and maintaining territory but that female is always a straggler participating in what the males initiate. I'm not even sure why you could possibly expect anything different..

    You don't understand why you could expect something different between chimpanzee culture and physiology and human culture and physiology?

  17. Re: I want Google to be very 'diverse' on Diversity At Google Hasn't Changed Much Over the Last Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It makes sense from a biological evolutionary perspective. A female has to carry the baby to term, at a great personal investment, therefore the female is very selective in picking the right male to have sex with. This leads to a high risk/high reward situation for the males, competing for the same females.

    This is indeed a logical hypothesis. Until you do the experiment, it's just speculation.

  18. Re: I want Google to be very 'diverse' on Diversity At Google Hasn't Changed Much Over the Last Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    O okay you totally convinced me that women are physically equal to men, and biologically identical in literally every single way, because you can't find enough bones from 190k years ago.

    You have comprehension problems. While there are clearly biological differences between men and women, drawing firm conclusions based on skeletons from 200,000 years ago is not possible. At this point, we still don't know which particular fossils are even ancestors of modern humans.

  19. Re:It Looks Random To Me on Fake Earthquake Detected In Mexico City After Player's Goal In World Cup Match (abc7.com) · · Score: 1

    In this article, they report an acceleration of 37 cm/s2, which is IV on the modified Mercalli scale. I don't know how to interpret those numbers. If there are lots of stories like this in Mexico, then it's likely people are jumping purposely to try to cause an earthquake. A person jumping can shake a house, but it's hard to imagine it's more than standard shaking of traffic, though.

  20. I had my 2D Second Life clone out of Alpha within two weeks, and out of Beta within a month. What the fuck are you doing, still writing the invasive telemetry shit when you could've already figured out the starting code for the actual goddamned game?

    There's the difference, he's not writing a clone, he's making something new.

  21. Re:Shocking... on Diversity At Google Hasn't Changed Much Over the Last Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    All of Damore's errors I noticed were because he was a strongly biased leftist.

    Which errors are you talking about exactly?

  22. Re: Who Cares? on Diversity At Google Hasn't Changed Much Over the Last Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    >Why would you assume that only women wear dresses you sexist shitlord. I'll have you know I'm wearing a kilt right now.

    What? WHY WEREN'T YOU ON THAT DESIGN TEAM?

  23. Re: I want Google to be very 'diverse' on Diversity At Google Hasn't Changed Much Over the Last Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There's very little reason to believe that the previous 190k years were any different in that respect.

    'Humans' that long ago didn't even have the same teeth. They were wildly different than modern humans. There is every reason to believe that 190k years earlier were quite different, both in culture and physiology. My god, think before you talk.

  24. Oh man on Man Reports PillCam Stuck In His Gut For Over 12 Weeks · · Score: 4, Funny

    You should hear about my kidney stones. But that was nothing compared the migraines. Severe pain, the doctor recommended castration to relieve them. Of course I didn't want to comply but the pain was so bad finally I agreed. After the surgery, I didn't have headaches but for obvious reasons I was feeling down. To cheer me up I went to get a nice, custom tailored, French suit. The tailor measured me, and said, "you wear size 35 pants." I said, "No, I do and always have worn size 32. Don't tell me what I know." The tailor said, "No Monsieur, I am sorry, but for a man like you, wearing size 32 will be too tight and give you severe migraines. I'm surprised you haven't had them already."

    Anyway I hope your camera pill passes better than my kidney stones.

  25. Re:What If (XKCD) did it on Fake Earthquake Detected In Mexico City After Player's Goal In World Cup Match (abc7.com) · · Score: 1

    More importantly, how big was the quake? Like a .1 on the richter scale?