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  1. Re:Centrelink in Australia... on Thousands in London Face Incorrect Benefit Cuts From Automated Fraud Detector (sky.com) · · Score: 1

    The UK did something similar before, I think it was with disability benefit. They outsourced it to a US company and paid them based on the number of cases processed and the amount of money saved.

    But I'm sure a quadriplegic could work on a building site, if he made the effort.

  2. Re:80% False Positive !?!? on Thousands in London Face Incorrect Benefit Cuts From Automated Fraud Detector (sky.com) · · Score: 1

    If you were suspected of tax fraud you probably earned enough that the Tories consider you to be human.

  3. Does "Tim Cock" make you feel better?

  4. Re:80% False Positive !?!? on Thousands in London Face Incorrect Benefit Cuts From Automated Fraud Detector (sky.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Translation: There will be a premium rate phone number that goes to India. It will never be answered, not that it would be any use if it was.

  5. Re: In China, you mean? on Leaked Documents Reveal Facebook's Global War On Data Privacy Laws (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If their suspicions based on not having FB make them search, search. You won't find anything. If they tried to "do" anything based on those suspicions alone, my lawyer makes money on the deal.

    Tomorrow's headline: Internet tough guy shot while resisting arrest.

  6. Re:This is the profit motive at work on Leaked Documents Reveal Facebook's Global War On Data Privacy Laws (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    people are too dumb to do the right thing for themselves, and cannot be educated to behave more sensibly.

    Call me a cynic, but look at history. I think it proves the point, doesn't it?

    There are perhaps counterexamples - the American revolution, England getting rid of the monarchy, England restoring the monarchy - but I suspect the reason why we study them is precisely because they are so rare.

  7. If your country's elections can be "rigged" by screwing around with a social media platform, then your country deserves the end result.

    1960: s/a social media platform/TV shows/
    1930: s/a social media platform/radio shows/
    1880: s/a social media platform/newspapers/
    1700: s/a social media platform/ye town crier/

    'twas ever thus.

    Fucking moron doesn't even begin to describe the average American voter.

    Aaaaand (picking a purely hypothetical example out of the air) British voters are so much more savvy, as they've recently demonstrated.

  8. They should have said "fuck everything!" and gone straight to 5.

  9. Re:Why do so many people get economics backwards? on Is The Attention Economy Dying? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Until that number reaches 25, my point still stands.

  10. Re:fucking idiots on The Washington Post Decries 'Toxicity' in Videogames (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    Protip: read the *whole* post before writing a reply to *any* of it.

    If your finger gets tired, take a rest.

  11. Re:cool on France Considers Raising Taxes on Internet Giants (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    All colonials are vulgar, that's true. But the septics are mostly comprehensible.

  12. Learn to fucking write already on Probe From NASA's InSight Lander Burrows Into the Soil of Mars (space.com) · · Score: 1

    its first subsurface sojourn beneath the surface of the Red Planet

    Good thing you clarified that. Otherwise we might have thought it was the other kind of subsurface sojourn - the one that happens twenty feet up in the air.

  13. Re:Why do so many people get economics backwards? on Is The Attention Economy Dying? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    shear volume

    It transforms a cuboid into a parallelepiped?

  14. Going far beyond the pure appearance and surface, adding thought value by interconnecting news and facts from different sources

    He bestraddles the warp of the attention economy with the weft of long-tail synergies.

  15. Re: Build that wall, sir. on France Considers Raising Taxes on Internet Giants (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Circus? It's more like a pantomime.

  16. Re: You jealous? on France Considers Raising Taxes on Internet Giants (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not going to look it up, but I bet they could reach Switzerland.

  17. Re:Magic free money on France Considers Raising Taxes on Internet Giants (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because if adverts cost more then companies will be able to afford less, of course.

    Hang on ...

  18. Re:cool on France Considers Raising Taxes on Internet Giants (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    s/who speak/who think they speak/

  19. Re:Learn to write on Does Listening to Music Have a Negative Impact on Creativity? (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    "unlike listening to music" (an action) is compared to "the group that" (some people). A type mismatch.

    It's like saying Mozart's symphonies aren't as good as Beethoven. At what, tennis? Hardly surprising, since he has two more arms.

    P.S. That comma after "was" shouldn't be there. And "different" and "difference" should be in quotes, since you're referring to the word itself rather than what it means.

  20. Yo, dawg! on Tristan O'Tierney, Square Co-Founder, Dies at Age 35 (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he was addicted to addiction itself?

  21. Stupid nogger. He was making a cocktail with eggs in it and forgot the eggs.

  22. Re:cool on France Considers Raising Taxes on Internet Giants (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    The fuck it is, you dumb fat cunt.

  23. Re:Why do so many people get economics backwards? on Is The Attention Economy Dying? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's bloody obvious, and always has been, that there are 24 hours in a day, 8 of which you typically spend asleep.

    It's a ten dollar name for a ten cent idea, and now the "influencers": and other bullshit artists are latching onto it.

  24. Re:I'm sorry on Is The Attention Economy Dying? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That time you went to Shelbyville.

    Again.

  25. Re: I don't know... on Is The Attention Economy Dying? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Was it ever one? The Verge, Wired and that other one - the scissors-paper-stone of semiscientific shite that is the source of 90% of PHB's "initiatives".