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  1. Watch out, you might catch systemd. on Microsoft Now Uses Windows 10's Start Menu To Display Ads (betanews.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The ads are the least of your worries.

    Someone will find an exploit (maybe an intentional function put there "just for testing/troubleshooting/essential updates") and the shit will really hit the fan.

  2. Germans in the 1930s didn't think they needed to carry around guns for defense.

    What makes you think they were wrong?

  3. Re:Okay, So Why Should I Be Paranoid? on If You're Not Paranoid About Your Privacy, You're Crazy (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're a Dutch heterosexual?

  4. Re:I agree, mostly on German Police Warn Parents To Stop Posting Photos of Kids On Facebook (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Child nudity isn't inherently illegal either. Pornography is. If you can't tell the difference then you are the problem.

    And that, members of the jury, concludes the case for the defense.

    Of course by the time it gets to a jury it's too late - you've already been punished.

  5. Re:I don't even know where to begin... on FBI and Join UK Against Forces Against Spread of Dridex Banking Malware (nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk) · · Score: 1

    OK, let's work backwards. "Dridex Banking Malware" is pretty clear cut.

    There are some forces that are trying to stop it spreading.

    Now the FBI is opposed to those forces (presumably it wants the malware to spread) and to further that goal it's entered into an alliance with somebody - possibly a British timber merchant.

    Do I have to do all the thinking round here?

  6. Re:University patents funded by the public on Apple Loses Patent Suit To University of Wisconsin, Faces Huge Damages (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The development of the F-35 was paid for by the tax-paying public, why don't you go to the factory and demand a copy of the blueprints & schematics?

  7. Re: What the fuck on There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive · · Score: 1

    outlawing discrimination (as mostly happened in 1st and 2nd wave feminism) doesn't actually stamp out bigotry completely. Instead, such sentiment is driven underground...

    The great thing about it being underground is that when nobody can see it you can still claim it's there. Because like the illuminati are covering it up, or something.

  8. Re:Coalescing gas clouds? on Mysteriously Variable Star Causes Speculation About Dyson Sphere (slate.com) · · Score: 2

    Is it possible that they're fragments of a collision and haven't become periodic yet - too busy colliding and accreting and all that kind of shit?

  9. Re:Big Sister is watching on There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive · · Score: 1

    The original exchange about the name change and change itself was reasonable and civilised.

    I don't give a shit about the tone or wording - the fact that it even happened is unreasonable in itself.

  10. Re: It should be obvious on Author Joris Luyendijk: Economics Is Not a Science (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    does indeed involve naval gazing.

    But not as much as marine engineering or oceanography.

  11. Re:People who think economics is not a science... on Author Joris Luyendijk: Economics Is Not a Science (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    So how come the commercial sector, which was never in scope of the CRA, was in as a bad a state as residential?

  12. Re:Great another stupid dice article... on Can a New Type of School Churn Out Developers Faster? (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently, in the UK, degree programs aren't as "broad" as they are here in the US.

    That's because we expect you to be able to read & write before you leave high school.

  13. Re:Russian mischief on Fenno-German 'Sea Lion' Telecom Cable Laying Begins (yle.fi) · · Score: 1

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fenno-

    Google shows one example, a picture of a stamp. All the other hits are to a guy of that name.

    It's Finno. As in ~-Ugric.

    Also: "the the"

    You got me there. But you know, it looks like another winter of long shadows and high-igh-igh hopes is on the way.

  14. Re:$200 is "almost a burner"? on The Pepsi P1 Smartphone Takes Consumer Lock-In Beyond the App (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    WTF is a "Cowling Brand"?

    I think it's a mark you apply to baby cattle so you know who owns them.

  15. Betteridge is busy man on Can a New Type of School Churn Out Developers Faster? (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Can a New Type of School Churn Out Developers Faster?

    There's probably money to be made if it can.

    In fact, there's probably even more money to be made if it can't, because, you know, that was a pilot scheme ...

    Sadly, not by me in either case. No doubt those Pearson cuntbags will be in on it.

  16. Re: Weep for humanity. on Author Joris Luyendijk: Economics Is Not a Science (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This times a million... Economics is much more akin to religion the[sic] science.

    Hhh? It's the dismal science because of what it describes, not dismal at being science.

    drivel like deflation is bad (its bad for some actors but its a huge boon for the majority)

    Care to elaborate?

  17. Re:Russian mischief on Fenno-German 'Sea Lion' Telecom Cable Laying Begins (yle.fi) · · Score: 1

    Is shit journalism interesting?

  18. Re:Russian mischief on Fenno-German 'Sea Lion' Telecom Cable Laying Begins (yle.fi) · · Score: 4, Funny

    According the the title, this isn't about Finland, it's about Fenland.

    I thought that was around Peterborough?

  19. Anyone else read it as "Hillary and Bernie, he says, are promising *to* moon..."?

  20. I totally agree, community members are absolute idiots.

    Better not let them choose their government and decide issues like guilt versus innocence or the shit will really hit the fan.

  21. Re:Scammers on The World of Luxury Bomb Shelters (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    any hypothesized corrupt maintenance personnel would presumably not hold exclusive control over shelter access codes/credentials/whatnot

    Then how would they be able to keep out anyone who just showed up?

    any would likely be quickly subdued via firearms wielded by the "rightful" and presumably well-armed shelter occupants upon their arrival.

    Assuming the guards/caretakers aren't armed, and/or the shelter isn't bullet proof. In the latter case, what's the point of being inside it?

  22. Re:Scammers on The World of Luxury Bomb Shelters (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, Jeeves, you've been our butler for ten years now. Perhaps it's time for us to serve you?.

  23. Because what you do is a have a company in the Cayman Islands nominally owned by your cat, and CatFace S.A. (or whatever) bills Facebook UK for IP licensing, consultancy etc. thus reducing the profits in the UK (where taxes are high) and boosting them where they're low.

    The thing about salaries and bonuses is a bit of a red herring, I think. Except that in reality a company that made such low profits as they're claiming would probably be firing everyone instead of paying bonuses at those levels.

    Branson was pulling this stunt for decades.

  24. Perhaps he saw something featuring Uncle Fester and thought it was parodying him?

  25. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. on Can Star Trek's World With No Money Work In Real life? (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. Betteridge, sighing at a headline.