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  1. Re:It always seems kinda racist to me ... on The 'Human Computer' Behind the Moon Landing Was a Black Woman (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    How did that work out? Not so good as I recall.

  2. Re:It always seems kinda racist to me ... on The 'Human Computer' Behind the Moon Landing Was a Black Woman (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you always this stupid or did you hit your head this morning?

  3. Re:HP Logo Police chief must have retired. on HP's New Logo Is the Awesome One It Never Used (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Every large company has branding standards and most are very strict about how they are used. This is not limited to HP.

  4. Re:By analogy... on Tech Billionaire Mark Cuban Argues Stock Regulators Hurt the Economy (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're familiar with some of these regulations the reason it is hard (and unwise) to make exact rules is because businesses are all different. If you make regulations too specific in certain areas it could needlessly restrict businesses unless you make a different regulation for every business type. If you think regulation is a burden now think about that scenario.

  5. Re:Sending IPO's overseas along with everything el on Tech Billionaire Mark Cuban Argues Stock Regulators Hurt the Economy (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Spoke by someone who has no idea what SOX does.

  6. Whenever I hear an investor crying about regulation killing jobs I want to smack them. The lack of regulation is what led to the recent collapse, much worse than any "regulation" has ever done.

  7. Re:How is this not win/win on 33,000 Sign Online Petition Promoting Guns At Republican Convention (cnet.com) · · Score: 1
    That is some of the most misguided logic I have ever seen in my whole life.

    Because statistically the more people that are armed the more likely those armed people are to not be crazy

    That's a fucking joke right?

  8. Re:Just wear a proper IWB holster on Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Or just ditch the gun and don't spend your life in fear.

  9. Re:Wonderful. Just wonderful. on Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 0

    If you're black going for your cellphone.....or your wallet, or keys, or just running away will get you killed.

  10. Re:Either.... on Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    If I have to take that vote I vote for none. I haven't had the need for one yet and my life is half over.

  11. Re:If you've got it why hide it? on Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    That's quite a claim to make. I woke up early today and it rained. It must rain every day I wake up early!

  12. Re:Slice Statistics on Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess you banned your brain from this discussion. None of those things were designed for the specific purpose of killing. Guns have been weapons of death from the beginning.

  13. Re:Slice Statistics on Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Actually that's kind of the definition of the type of thing that should be restricted.

  14. Re:Trying to get shot? on Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure people who like having power over other people are the one's with the guns.

  15. Re: Trying to get shot? on Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 0

    You people really are paranoid aren't you?

  16. Re:Nazi-shmazi... on Hacker Weev Admits To Hacking Printers To Spew Racist and Anti-Semitic Messages (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Neo-communist? The McCarthyites have come out in full force ever since Bernie started his run. I still haven't figured out if the communist label is out of laziness or stupidity.

  17. What self loathing will make some people do.

  18. Pets.com anyone? How is this news?

  19. Forget coding in the US we need CIVICS on Jason Bradbury Believes Coding Lessons In Schools Are a Waste of Time (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 1

    When I was a kid we had civics class. Apparently that isn't a thing anymore and it is apparent. Politics drives me nuts today because half the candidates know nothing about the basic functioning of our government and their constituents know even less or worse they use their constituents' ignorance of civics to lie to them for the sake of winning an election. It's no wonder we end up with Trump winning the primary of one of the major parties.

  20. Finally on Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Join Forces To Create New Encrypted Email Protocol · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Email is the backbone of most businesses and it is a horrible insecure mess. Maybe people will finally be able to email secure information easily. Email is easily one of the biggest compliance issues because of how insecure it is.

  21. Re:WRONG on Rust-Based Redox OS Devs Slam Linux, Unix, GPL · · Score: 1

    The OPM hack is hardly proof of your assertion. As far as I am aware the hack was nothing more than stolen credentials. From what I have read about it they are not sure how those credentials were stolen. Could it have been a hack? Sure but we don't know. It could have been a former employee, or obtained through social engineering. C may have its problems but safer languages don't guarantee security either.

  22. Good Luck with that on Rust-Based Redox OS Devs Slam Linux, Unix, GPL · · Score: 1

    I have little faith that we are going to see another OS other than Linux/Winodws/OSX dominate in general computing. The biggest reason is drivers. It's funny that in one of their blurbs they mention that they like BSD over Linux but they mostly still use Linux. I wonder why? Probably because the driver situation is much more comprehensive on Linux. Redox will suffer from the same problem. Don't color me surprised when in a few years this project is stagnant or dead and the developers are all still using Linux.

  23. Just wait on Why You May Not Like Ted Cruz's Face, According To Science (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    While his face is eminently punchable wait till you see his policies. You'll want to kick him in the nuts.

  24. A little early for a Memoriam on In Memoriam: VGA (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen a server come without a VGA port yet.

  25. Re:It was the first standard for video? on In Memoriam: VGA (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyway, as much as some of us might like for RS-232 serial to be dead it doesn't look like we can write it off entirely any time soon, given the sheer expense of the kinds of devices that we have to support that use it. It's a lot easier to give up VGA because monitors, by and large, are not expensive, and even when they are there will still be methods to get analog video to them either through add-in cards or through conversion devices.

    The same thing can be said about RS-232. USB to serial connectors have existed for a very long time as well as add-in cards that support serial connections.