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  1. I don't see what the fuss is about. It's not that different to how insurance companies determine premiums.

  2. Re:Ask Not of Whose Face is Being Palmed on Congressman Proposes Organizations Should Be Allowed To 'Hack Back' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Such epic levels of disastrously misguided thought cannot be allowed to stand without challenge from someone with common sense and logic.

    I'll let you know when one comes along.

    Yes it might be a hospital, bank, government, whatever - it's already screwed, bringing down that system does vast amounts of public good

    Wrong. Being used as an attack platform and the ability to perform its intended function are totally orthogonal.

    I know you don't believe in biology because lolwut monkeys, but sensible parasites don't kill their host.

  3. It's like reacting to a live shooter event with cluster bombs. But yay, number one and FREEDOM!

  4. Re: END-PERFORM on Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of COBOL, Dies at 89 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Never, ever, go full JCL.

  5. Re:What difference does it make? on Putin Now Argues Russia Could've Been Framed For Election Meddling By The CIA (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    [Russian accent] Vy do you vink zere vill *be* a 2020 election? [/Russian accent]

  6. It looks like there's a good chance that Theresa May will be gone

    Great. Because Haystack Head will be better.

    I always suspected he went with the outies not really out of conviction (he's a bloody foreigner himself FFS) but as a step towards number ten, even if he bottled it when he had the chance before.

  7. He's a yank. He couldn't even point to "yoorp" on a map.

  8. It's not the Foreign Secretary, there's a specific Brexit Secretary. It's currently David Davis, though it might as well be Dickie Davis for all the use he is.

  9. This. You can't draw any conclusions one way or the other about those who didn't vote. Electorally they don't exist.

  10. Ah, a PR supporter. Why you're an idiot in two words and a punctuation mark: Italy, Belgium.

  11. Re: END-PERFORM on Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of COBOL, Dies at 89 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    GOTO A900-GOLF-CLAP VIA A910-ROFL INTERTWINING B100-I-SEE-WHAT-YOU-DID-THERE OR SOMETHING-LIKE-THAT

  12. Re: 45% of consumer base is misleading on New Threat To Traditional Sports Leagues: Millennials Prefer Watching eSports (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    In a range of ethnic styles. And then he'd complain about them being racist caricatures.

  13. Re: Figures... No wonder the emptier stadiums. on New Threat To Traditional Sports Leagues: Millennials Prefer Watching eSports (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Yup. Public school slang for Association Football.

    Another fun fact: In England a "public school" is in fact a top-end private school.

  14. Re:how does it work? on Insecure Hadoop Servers Expose Over 5 Petabytes of Data (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    this Hadoop thing?

    Very badly, don't you remember when you had to train him?

    Hang on, that was Hardeep.

  15. Re: Is this a joke? on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Way To Write Working Code By Drawing Flow Charts? · · Score: 1

    Seconded. I wouldn't call that programming, more like a very specialised & specific GUI.

  16. Re:Hard Cases and wrap on What To Do If the Laptop Ban Goes Global (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you know how locks work?

    We were talking about the plastic. Do try to keep up.

    Honestly the wrap looks a bit tough to get through, I've never had it done.

    In other words you don't know what you're talking about.

    Basically either a lot of unwinding or you'd have to cut it open, but since we can't travel with knives...

    Which of course the TSA *can* have, because they aren't flying.

    The people stealing from the luggage have only so long before the luggage has to be moved,

    Umm, wrong. they're allowed to force/cut the locks for "security" purposes.

    on top of that there's the element of value over time

    Well it's lucky they don't have scanners then.

  17. And like I said, it's the same as it is now - except s/Computer/Judge/

  18. Re:Avoid travel or leave laptop at home on What To Do If the Laptop Ban Goes Global (backchannel.com) · · Score: 2

    Put your favourite live distro on a usb stick. Boot from that, or if you're there more than a few days install it over the existing OS.

  19. Re:Hard Cases and wrap on What To Do If the Laptop Ban Goes Global (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's that difficult, how do you open it at your destination?

  20. Re:Do it the old fashioned way... on What To Do If the Laptop Ban Goes Global (backchannel.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm a doctor you insensitive clod, my handwritings already encrypted!

  21. Re:Avoid travel or leave laptop at home on What To Do If the Laptop Ban Goes Global (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    A fair number of cargo shops have limited space for passengers. I understand the conditions are a bit spartan and there's not much entertainment, plus it might take a week to cross the Atlantic.

  22. Re:Avoid travel or leave laptop at home on What To Do If the Laptop Ban Goes Global (backchannel.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The TSA could run it using the ones they've stolen.

    Obviously it would require some record keeping in case someone actually gets their own machine back and makes a fuss, not that anything would happen because even cardboard cops are part of the ingroup..

  23. She's probably after the hunt saboteurs. And quite right too, dirty horrid little oiks who would prevent us following our traditional Christian ways of hacking defenceless animals to death!

  24. Are they? Is ending up dead "winning"?

    They're at something like 40 for 4 recently. The ratio needs to be the other way round.