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  1. 60% of all Americans and 85% of Obamatrons on Supreme Court Decides Your Silence May Be Used Against You · · Score: 1

    Cheerfully support unlimited spying on everyone all the time. You have the government you deserve and asked for.

  2. Oh please spare me on Have We Hit Peak HFT? · · Score: 2

    First off, politicians who claim that everything that ever will be invented has been invented is worse than retarded. Second, they're just looking for tax money. That's it. It's just about the money. If they could tax talking about taxes they would.

  3. Re:Put in a seatbelt to police call system on NHTSA and DOT Want Your Car To Be Able To Disable Your Cellphone Functions · · Score: 1

    That's the silly part of it. We do exactly the same thing here in NC. Meanwhile I cannot remember a single instance of a driver in my county being charged, in the last 15 years, of ANYTHING when they run down and kill a pedestrian, bike rider or scooter driver if they weren't intoxicated. It's simply not considered a crime or much of an event at all. When you're behind the wheel they give you a pass to run people down as long as you can pass a sobriety test they won't charge you.

  4. I can see a Mission Impossible solution on It's Time To Start Taking Stolen Phones Seriously · · Score: 1

    It's not enough you can remotely wipe your phone, you need to remotely set it on fire.

  5. Considering that 49 people there can read on Saudi Arabia Blocks Viber Messaging Service · · Score: 0

    well legally... at any rate, what's the real harm?

  6. Put in a seatbelt to police call system on NHTSA and DOT Want Your Car To Be Able To Disable Your Cellphone Functions · · Score: 1

    And if you unlatch a seatbelt while moving, the car automatically disables itself and the police are called.

    Come on people everyone can see this is a funded effort by car companies to force you to use their in-dash 'entertainment consoles' at a mere $3,000 plus $39.95 a month.......for safety's sake.

  7. Re:Just require authentication to install anything on Android Malware "Obad" Called Most Sophisticated Yet · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more along of the lines of don't allow the installation of anything unless the user punches in some always varying pin code that's sent along a different channel. It's not a wonderful fix but the simple act of forcing someone to wait and then do a few manual things might address part of the issue. After all it's not precisely that people are blindly allowing things on their phones, it's the privileges on their account that allow them to do that. At work in the Linux world if your company is good at their job, they place hard limits on what you can willy nilly install on your own laptop because Linux, unlike Windows gives them the ability to do that. Maybe what Android needs is a well deployed su- or sudo feature?

  8. Just require authentication to install anything on Android Malware "Obad" Called Most Sophisticated Yet · · Score: 1

    Really, is it that complex?

  9. And built completely out of cheese and lead on Chinese Firm Approved To Raise World's Tallest Building In 90 Days · · Score: 1

    Like most Chinese products.

  10. Reorgs are internal on Pondering the Future of a Re-Org'd Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Reorgs are rarely the result of or for the benefit of external factors and market pressures. Reorgs exist for two key reasons: inertia and political infighting. Inertia is when senior management gives up on trying to fix unfixable problems and resorts to throwing all the moving pieces in the air and hoping something works. Political infighting is self evident - just turf wars and stepping all over each other for personal gain. First the senior managers try to push specific underlings out of their jobs - and we've seen that already. The leaderless orgs are war-booty for whomever's left. The great think about reorgs is that they're addictive. Companies can avoid them for years but the first time they do one it's like crack. They can't stop and every year or two there will be another and another as the company becomes increasingly paranoid, inward focused, inefficient and floundering.

    To all the MS haters out there this is a good thing it signals the beginning of the end of MS. Wouldn't even shock me if Mao Tse Bill is dragged back in.

  11. OIC pressure to stop drones on UN Debates Rules Surrounding Killer Robots · · Score: 1

    That's what this is.

  12. That was one of the stupidest things ever written on Why Everyone Gets It Wrong About BYOD · · Score: 1

    In the history of people. It wasn't even complete sentences and thoughts. It was word salad bullshit. If that's what "CIO Magazine" calls 'best practices' and data security regulatory and privacy law compliance, then we're all doomed and we can burn down all the data centers and go back to the 18th century.

  13. Ingrid Newkirk should be exterminated on PETA Wants To Sue Anonymous HuffPo Commenters · · Score: 1

    Like the cockroach she is. Kill them all.

  14. Round up a hundred Hollywood lawyers on US Entertainment Industry To Congress: Make It Legal For Us To Deploy Rootkits · · Score: 1

    And kill them.

  15. Kirchner's neo Peronist Regime wins again on Google Unable To Keep Paying App Developers In Argentina · · Score: 1

    I'm in the outsourcing business and we're fleeing Argentina ASAP. They seem bent on some kind of fascist autarky.

  16. It's the EU regs on Spain's New S-80 Class Submarines Sink, But Won't Float · · Score: 1

    Which require the sub to carry hardcopy of all the EU regulations stipulating how hardcopies of EU regulations should be carried.

    PS an "average" EU specification and regulation for the steering wheel on a bus runs in excess of 80 pages.

  17. When the 1st liberal mentioned Mastodon rights. on Narrowing Down When Humans Began Hurling Spears · · Score: 1

    That's when the first spear was used.

  18. It's kind of a hopeless propostion on Book Review: Locked Down: Information Security For Lawyers · · Score: 1

    We have to include scads of attorneys in every security incident. They grab 90% of the oxygen in the room, rattle off endless questions and NEVER EVER bring anything to the table. All they ever do is demand draft communications documents for the customer and then relentlessly and obsessively red line everything including the few fragments they themselves offered. After about 9 or 10 iterations of this the lawyers play the passive aggressive game and mumble "do whatever you want!".

    Don't you love it when the 3 people leading your meeting are lawyers who, when you ask them for anything, the first thing they say is "Well I'm not technical so I can't say." BUT YOU JUST DID SAY, YOU FUCKING SHITHEAD. IN FACT ALL ANYONE HAS DONE FOR THE PAST 90 MINUTES IS LISTEN TO MICROMANAGE.

    Die die die die cut all their heads off on Youtube every last one.

  19. I completely support this on NSA Data Center the Focus of Tax Controversy · · Score: 1

    Let the state tax the hell out of the Federal government. Chalk up the NSA's overhead as an unfunded mandate. Oh the irony.

  20. Yaay another Marissa Mayer story for CNN on Yahoo! Japan May Have Had 22 Million User IDs Stolen · · Score: 0

    Lean in, then fall in, on your ass.

  21. Oh please on John McAfee's Belize Home Burns To Ground · · Score: 1

    The man lived in the middle of the jungle in a third world nation. Of course it burned down. No doubt 50 squatters were living there when it did.

  22. Re:Who cares? on How Facebook Ruined Comments (at Least For One Writer) · · Score: 1

    I rarely respond to morons like you but in your case I'll make an exception because I have 30 seconds to kill.

  23. Kirk is a golden douchenozzle on Ad Exec: Learn To Code Or You're Dead To Me · · Score: 1

    And drop the Bo Burnham glasses. Then jump off the roof.

  24. Who cares? on How Facebook Ruined Comments (at Least For One Writer) · · Score: 1

    fb comments are only marginally less retarded than YouTube comments.

  25. It takes a lot of backwards hats on How Colleges Are Pushing Out the Poor To Court the Rich · · Score: 1

    To pay for my three kids scholarships. Keep up the good work Brotards particularly the communications majors and environmental science majors.