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  1. Re:Duh on Dropbox Head Responds To Snowden Claims About Privacy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Good thing she's not a Democrat, or we'd all be calling you racist and sexist.

  2. Re:New Microsoft CEO on Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities Increase 100% · · Score: 1

    Well, IE was originally created using Spyglass' code...

  3. Re:It is even faster when injured... on Robot With Broken Leg Learns To Walk Again In Under 2 Minutes · · Score: 1

    That's already been done. I know that for some of the robots they were building in the 80s, they found it easier to balance on one pogo-stick leg.

  4. Re:Benefits on Why Are the World's Scientists Continuing To Take Chances With Smallpox? · · Score: 1

    How about we focus on those things that actually gets people hurt, like banksters taking chances with the economy and politicians using the army to play chicken-race.

    Both a red herring AND a false dichotomy. Impressive!

    In the case of smallpox what would happen is that the scientist screwing up might get infected and placed in quarantine.

    What if he's immune, and, becoming a carrier, boards a plane?

  5. Re:The problem is... on Why Are the World's Scientists Continuing To Take Chances With Smallpox? · · Score: 1

    No one who wasn't literally insane would try to use smallpox as a weapon

    Islamic extremists.

  6. Re:Pft on The Daily Harassment of Women In the Game Industry · · Score: 1

    No, they're swept under the run because it's simply impossible for a woman to be sexist.

  7. Re:Pft on The Daily Harassment of Women In the Game Industry · · Score: 1

    What's a "cis"? Sounds like a codeword of the intolerant to me.

    You're part of the problem.

  8. Re:Pft on The Daily Harassment of Women In the Game Industry · · Score: 1

    "Nice ass" is more than enough to get one fired in today's misandrist society.

  9. Re:Make-work Project? on China Plans Particle Colliders That Would Dwarf CERN's LHC · · Score: 1

    The "ghost cities" you talk about are actually gradually filling up as more population moves from rural settings into the cities - this has been a long term goal of the Chinese government, but their "long terms" are a fair longer than the "around next election time" terms that westerners tend to think in.

    True, running a government is so much easier without that pesky democracy to get in the way.

  10. Re:So much for the "Information Age" on MIT's Ted Postol Presents More Evidence On Iron Dome Failures · · Score: 1

    Summarily dismissing information because you dislike the source is like fallacious reasoning, because it is.

  11. Re:let me correct that for you. on Experiment Shows People Exposed To East German Socialism Cheat More · · Score: 2

    The USA, Germany, UK, etc. insist they are capitalist. Does that really mean they have free markets?

  12. Re:No Access on MIT's Ted Postol Presents More Evidence On Iron Dome Failures · · Score: 1

    I guess I imagined the videos I saw that showed most of the rockets being intercepted and winking out in a flash. I can't say when the video was shot, but SOMEONE was firing at Israel (based on the Hebrew chatter of spectators) and the rockets weren't making it.

  13. Re:let me correct that for you. on Experiment Shows People Exposed To East German Socialism Cheat More · · Score: 1

    Well, considering the ruling party SED had the name "socialist" in it, I'd say he was correct.

    You're European, aren't you?

  14. Re:let me correct that for you. on Experiment Shows People Exposed To East German Socialism Cheat More · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Indeed. FDR was probably our most fascist president, followed very closely by Wilson. By no coincidence, they were probably the two most socialist and most "progressive". Fascism is the drug, by which socialism is the most efficacious delivery system.

  15. "free market" on Why My LG Optimus Cellphone Is Worse Than It's Supposed To Be · · Score: 2

    Similar to the suckiness of the Stratosphere and Stratosphere 2 that I was subjected to before this one, the phone's shortcomings actually raise more interesting questions â€" about why the free-market system rewards companies for pulling off miracles at the hardware level, but not for fixing software bugs that should be easy to catch.

    The free market is working. You paid for a cheap phone, and you got one.
    If you want a good phone, don't buy a cheap one. This doesn't mean, "don't buy a low-feature phone"-- it means, don't buy a smart phone for a dumb-phone price and expect it to work well.

  16. You aren't accredited to be following PCI because nobody is. There is no certificate. There is no special seal of approval. You provided security information to your acquiring bank(s) and you were allowed to process credit card transactions. There's no such thing as certification or accreditation for PCI.

    What you have said implies that people can just declare they are PCI DSS compliant. This is not quite the case, except perhaps for very small vendors who self-assess (I am not one of these, and therefore have no experience). A QSA must be employed for the audit, and the QSA indeed must undergo approved training and certification. They sign off on the Report of Compliance (ROC).

  17. Re:Missing information on Pushdo Trojan Infects 11,000 Systems In 24 Hours · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So basically, all EOL systems that have no business being connected to a network except for 2003, which also shouldn't be connected unless it has SP2 and all security patches.

  18. Country least affected... on Pushdo Trojan Infects 11,000 Systems In 24 Hours · · Score: 2

    North Korea is least affected, due to their "Don't let anyone have computers, well they don't have electricity anyway" security policy.

  19. Re:Seems like old times on Malaysian Passenger Plane Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine · · Score: 1

    You have quite a selective memory.

  20. Re:The sad part on Sexual Harassment Is Common In Scientific Fieldwork · · Score: 1

    In attempts to clarify that a little more, we found out we should not compliment a woman on her appearance or perfume, and that statements like "I like your earrings" were very dangerous.

    Great. Now you'll have people from the transgender community suing your for your sexual harassment program.

  21. Re:And? on The Improbable Story of the 184 MPH Jet Train · · Score: 1

    The gap would have been much smaller in 1992, when the fuel in the Metro didn't contain 10% ethanol. My 2004 Olds doesn't hit its EPA rated MPG even on highway trips with little traffic and no stops now-- the engine runs perfectly but gets 1-2 MPG fewer.

    I don't know whether the new EPA rating methods take this into account. Note that for the Metro, there's a link for "view original EPA MPG". it says 47, although I do believe there was a model year when it was rated for 49.

  22. Re:Railroads killed by the government... on The Improbable Story of the 184 MPH Jet Train · · Score: 1

    As far as Amtrak losing money on food service, despite it becoming a right-wing meme that this true, it's dubious at best.

    It's not a truthiness issue-- they really do lose money on food service. You contradicted yourself later in your own post! I understand that food service may have long been a "loss leader" in the industry, but the fact is THEY LOSE MONEY ON FOOD SERVICE.

  23. Re:Railroads killed by the government... on The Improbable Story of the 184 MPH Jet Train · · Score: 1

    Diesel fuel tax is higher than gasoline.

  24. Re:Railroads killed by the government... on The Improbable Story of the 184 MPH Jet Train · · Score: 0

    Clearly, Amtrak is racist for requiring photo ID.

  25. Re:Livin' in the USA on French Blogger Fined For Negative Restaurant Review · · Score: 1

    Modding something "funny" means you think it's funny. Just my outdated view.