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  1. Re:Are they stocking water tanks or tanks with gun on Symantec Stock Tanks After Announcing An Internal Probe (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    As a Brit, my first thought was that they were getting military vehicles, perhaps because the probe might provoke violence.

    Clearly that's silly, when you reflect on it. I'm sure there are whole websites devoted to ambiguous headlines, and I'm pretty certain some of them are deliberately written that way either for publicity or just 4 lulz.

  2. Re:China has to change on Young Chinese Are Sick of Working Long Hours (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    An expert on countries he couldn't even point to on a map wrote:

    The different way of life wanted by the rebels is Islamist. Assad is secular, remember?

    There's more than one rebel group, and they aren't all Islamists. Not even close.

    Also, why do you assume that the opponent of someone secular automatically religious?

  3. Re: Simple solution: on Australia To Ban Cash Purchases Over $10,000 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Money laundering is taking proceeds of crime and funnelling them through an otherwise legitimate business in order to disguise their origin.

    That's everywhere except the US.

    There it's become a thing that they just tag onto other offences to get a higher sentence and/or pressure the defendant into a plea bargain.

  4. Re:and reporting levels on Leaf | Prius | Volt ? on Days After A Fiery Crash, a Tesla's Battery Keeps Reigniting (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    bit of the Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang or 53 Herbie Bug spark in these things, hey?

    Or Christine...

  5. Oh jolly dear me on IBM Bans Staff From Using Removable Storage Devices (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    How will they be able to do the needfuls if they R having one doubt and wish 2 revert the same?

  6. Re:Not knowing anything on One of the Milky Way's Fastest Stars Is an Invader From Another Galaxy (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    The Sun will have expanded nearly to Mars by them, won't it?

    Not really any point in panicking one way or the other. I know my medical insurance won't cover me at even half that age, especially against things like being totally fucking burnt to fuck.

  7. Fiiiiix bayonets!

  8. Re:Cue idiotic millenial jokes in 3,2,1... on Young Chinese Are Sick of Working Long Hours (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Momma always said: millennial is as millennial does.

  9. Re:Hog the DeVry Graduate on Apple Scraps $1 Billion Irish Data Center Over Planning Delays (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Giap never won a patched battle.

  10. Re:Cue idiotic millenial jokes in 3,2,1... on Young Chinese Are Sick of Working Long Hours (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, asian trans-gender people usually look better than not-asian trans-gender people.

    Look at that Kardashian abomination. Face like a bricklayer's elbow.

  11. Re: Cue idiotic millenial jokes in 3,2,1... on Young Chinese Are Sick of Working Long Hours (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Or a brothel review writer or a quality inspector in a brewery.

    Protip: if you split them part-time it's important to get the sequencing right.

  12. Re: Cue idiotic millenial jokes in 3,2,1... on Young Chinese Are Sick of Working Long Hours (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Some of us aged under 35 would love to have fully paid off homes, however we have to contend with average house prices of $1 million dollars in Melbourne and an Average wage of $60,000 Australian dollars/year.

    You should have picked your parents better.

    Like Trump did.

  13. /|\ found the DeVry JD on Apple Scraps $1 Billion Irish Data Center Over Planning Delays (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The difference is, Apple GOT approval, so they met all the zoning and environmental requirements.

    If someone was able to block it, through legal process, then by definition there was something they didn't comply with. If it was otherwise, the case would have failed.

    Stupid Apple, they should have retained you as their counsel.

  14. Some talented screenwriter could probably make a good movie screenplay out of a battle-royale between Siri and Alexa and Okaygoogle

    And even if one doesn't, there's always George Lucas.

  15. Purely from academic interest ... on 26% of Companies Ignore Security Bugs Because They Don't Have the Time to Fix Them (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Purely from academic interest and in the cause of like research and al that, which 26%?

  16. What if the AyYay decides that the policy to stop them thar AyRainyYuns building noocler mussels actually worked, by applying advanced statistical maths and all that sort of shit to the evidence that while aforesaid policy to stop the AyRainyYuns building noocler missiles them thar AyRainyYuns did not, in fact, build any noocler mussels?

    Oh look, some faggots!

  17. Re:It is the Tesla shorts pre emptive strike. on Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    But has nothing to do with "shorting" unless you want to say a put option is a shot, too.

    By definition it is. The option gives you, in return for a non-refundable premium, the right (you may choose not to exercise it) to sell some asset at a specific price X (until date Y, yada yada). You might not in fact even own even own that asset - that's a naked put.

    So, the asset goes down to W, which is below X. My counterparty is legally obligated to buy at X. I can buy on the open market at W, and I pocket X - W.

    The asset goes up. I don't oblige the counterparty to do anything. I lose my premium.

  18. I was assuming all countries had similar methods.

    All civilised countries do.

    It's amazing how many people rant about seeing the source code for breathalysers (in case there's some hidden DWB routine or something) while actually believing in field sobriety tests which are purely subjective and also totally fucking rubbish. Disclaimer: I can't stand on one leg for more than two seconds if I'm stone cold sober two hours & three coffees after waking from the best night's sleep ever.

  19. at the most with a wreckless driving.

    But what if there is a wreck?

  20. No I did not realize that.

    That's a novelty.

    The article is flag-waving piffle. It presumes that NK will want to use them for something later and that the bombardment will go on for some time.

    But if their aim is a futile and stupid gesture or they hope to win by intimidation then neither of those applies. If they pre-cache plenty of ammo, have reserve loaders ready and take out the bridges first (a lot of the city is on the wrong side of a river) they can cause mayhem long before any counterstrike is even ordered.

    As for shelters, they do fuck all against nerve agents. Not always great against incendiaries either.

  21. Re:Thinner doesn't appeal to me on System76 Oryx Pro Linux Laptop is Now Thinner and Faster (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    You're right. Lose the headphone jack!

  22. Do "yes" or do "no". Not do "guess so". on 'Biohacker' Who Injected Himself With DIY Herpes Treatment Found Dead (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    You gave "being alive" as your evidence that you knew "enough about gene therapy" to give an informed opinion.

    Which is true.

    I also know enough about flying to have not killed myself in a plane crash and enough about nuclear bombs to have not irradiated myself because a screwdriver slipped.

  23. Re:I can't even imagine... on Apple Scraps $1 Billion Irish Data Center Over Planning Delays (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course if they wanted to build it next to your house you'd be completely happy with the idea.

    Because the needs of the many should overrule the rights of a few individuals, right?

  24. Re:Two Words on Tesla Stock Plunged After Elon Musk's 'Bizarre' Conference Call (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    He said it would be volatile ... and it was.

    I say I'm going to stick my finger up my nose ... and I do.

    Why does he get a fuckton of money and I don't?

  25. That's harsh on Drupal Sites Fall Victims To Cryptojacking Campaigns (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    On top of already being victims just by having Drupal.