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  1. Re:So will they...... on Justice Department, FBI Are Investigating Cambridge Analytica (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    What about when WalMart does it? Or Starbucks? Or your college alumni association? Face it, privacy has been gone for more than 20 years now. The only difference is that facebook is a one-stop-shopping-center for gross analytical data and specific targeted marketing.

  2. Re:So will they...... on Justice Department, FBI Are Investigating Cambridge Analytica (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but only biased genocidal maniac feminist fact checkers.

  3. Re:So will they...... on Justice Department, FBI Are Investigating Cambridge Analytica (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I still don't understand how what Cambridge Analytica was doing is any different than any other modern marketing campaign.

  4. Re:Flat earth for the in crowd: on Reporter Shares Experience of Visiting a Flat Earth Convention (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Vaccines are not poison. If you want a link between autism and vaccines, it's because needles are painful to people with hyperactive nervous systems.

  5. Re:tranquilize the masses? on Reporter Shares Experience of Visiting a Flat Earth Convention (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It is Television. The reporter mixed up tranquilize with sterilize.

  6. Re:tranquilize the masses? on Reporter Shares Experience of Visiting a Flat Earth Convention (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    need to replace 'tranquilize' with 'sterilize' in the article summary.

    Which also explains why people on TV have so few children.

  7. Re:Everybody is a time traveller. on Stephen Hawking Service: Possibility of Time Travellers 'Can't Be Excluded' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    But only as long as you are within the Windows CE 1.0 Microsoft Standard Century, apparently.

    Could they not afford 4 digit years for their database?

  8. Yep, just another left winger who believes in the Enlightenment and secularism.

  9. Those are all liberals in comparison to me (in that they support liberty and freedom).

  10. Sitting in camps is a great way to end up getting weird diseases from insects.

    And that isn't entirely metaphorical.

    Having said that- as a right wingnut and a pro-lifer who was once left, and as a professional programmer, I really like this joke. Calling abort(), which can cause memory leaks and is a horrible way to terminate a large complex multithreaded program, is very much like a medical abortion, which can leave behind pregnancy hormones and all sorts of other unended processes that can do more damage to health than letting the pregnancy continue.

    Therefore, yes, "We would be required to say that this is not an acceptable way of terminating a program." is quite correct, actually.

  11. Re:The tiniest dick swinging possible on Richard Stallman Demands Return Of Abortion Joke To libc Documentation (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I am socially pro-life and I consider this joke to be not only perfectly reasonable, but as a programmer who knows that calling abort() may kill a program without doing proper garbage collection and thus create memory leaks, the point of it being an unacceptable way to terminate a program is quite reasonable as well.

  12. Isn't that why you browse with Lynx and turn off scripting?

  13. What I don't get about spectre, meltdown, and now this- is why any *single user* computer cares about accessing the user's own data, regardless of what ring they are in.

    Isn't this only a problem for servers and multiple user computers? Why patch user level OS for this?

  14. Re: Good on Trump Withdraws US From Iran Nuclear Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me like Obama stole it from the Shah, and gave it to the rebel alliance.

  15. Re: Tax system to tax gravity... on Orbits of Jupiter and Venus Affect Earth's Climate, Says Study (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Tax system to tax gravity... on Orbits of Jupiter and Venus Affect Earth's Climate, Says Study (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    But that North may end up in Hawaii. With glaciers.

  17. Only those living below 1700 feet.
    https://geology.com/records/biggest-tsunami.shtml

  18. Re:If you're dumb enough to sign up on Connected Cars Don't Necessarily Disconnect Previous Owners When Resold (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife recently bought a 2014 Honda Odyssey from a used car lot. We had to actually take it to a dealer to wipe and reinitialize HondaLInk before we could use it.

  19. Only to those idiots living below 300 feet in elevation, I'm pretty sure.

    What, you didn't foresee the inability to combat climate change and choose the location of your house based on elevation above sea level?

  20. Like I said- diversity to you is just skin deep. All you can see is skin color, you don't recognize the huge diversity in ethnicity in white people nor do you recognize neuraldiversity nor do you understand the diversity in rural populations.

    And yes, old rural farmers may be the biggest base faux has, but that leaves out a TON of other rural populations.

  21. The Wall Street Journal and Faux News don't take human dignity into account, and both are horribly biased against rural populations.

    "diversity" is just skin deep to you, isn't it?

  22. Re:Median Salary on Talent War in Silicon Valley Demands High Salary (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The general rule is shown by the example of the specific case.

    The exact same thing would happen in any market. Where wages are hyperinflationary, the increased money supply means that the supply/demand curve changes and prices go up.

    It's just a subset of the law of supply and demand. I don't see why you're getting so worked up about it.

  23. Re:Median Salary on Talent War in Silicon Valley Demands High Salary (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The original median salary was the same hyperinflationary market. I'm saying the higher median salaries are driving the higher priced homes.

  24. Statistics is only as good as the source. I have zero reason to trust the source.

  25. Re:Median Salary on Talent War in Silicon Valley Demands High Salary (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes it is, actually. The same house, 100 years ago, would have sold for a few hundred dollars.

    Just because it is localized and excluded from the government's propaganda does not mean it isn't a hyperinflationary market.