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  1. Re:Oh, yeah? on Oops: World Leaders' Personal Data Mistakenly Released By Autofill Error · · Score: 1

    oh, no...

  2. What about their luggage combination?

  3. this is nothing on UK Licensing Site Requires MSIE Emulation, But Won't Work With MSIE · · Score: 1

    I had the adventure of installing XPsp2 from scratch once. That meant IE6. MSN(!!!!!) would crash IE6. I had to download Chrome. Just to download IE8 before I could update XP to sp3 (windows update wouldn't work at that point... had to be done through IE windows update site). Hard to blame the government if they had a perfectly designed site working for one version of the browser (IE6) and those versions of the browser stopped working even with the manufacturer's website. Imagine if they phones worked that way: " What? Your tried to call our call center, built more than 5 years ago? Why would you expect a modern phone to work with a 5-year-old call center?"

  4. Re:Solution is: on UK Licensing Site Requires MSIE Emulation, But Won't Work With MSIE · · Score: 2

    He said he tried XP. It won't install anything higher than IE8.

  5. which version? on UK Licensing Site Requires MSIE Emulation, But Won't Work With MSIE · · Score: 1

    MSIE is notoriously incompatible between versions. If your version is too low, try a higher one (you'll need Win7 or higher to use IE9 or higher). If your version is too high, try emulation mode (within IE) of a lower version. It's hard to blame the techs when sites written for MSIE 8 completely break on MSIE11.

  6. so? on Iowa's Governor Terry Branstad Thinks He Doesn't Use E-mail · · Score: 1

    Texting is not email. Emails are going the way of Yahoo messenger. Texting has the advantage of the counterparty being pre-approved. Although even that is beginning to break down. Donald Knuth said many years ago that he stopped using emails.

  7. Re:Randian Dumbfuckery on First Lawsuits Challenging FCC's New Net Neutrality Rules Arrive · · Score: 1

    The logic of not using a life saving method to save lives because breeds resistant strains can just as well be applied to inoculations. Reducing overall population of mosquitoes reduces probability of developing additional strains (just like inoculation reduces chances of additional strains). Your kind of stupidity causes millions of deaths. You are actually worse than Hitler. At least Hitler had a purpose. You and your kind would have millions of people die just to prove an argument.

  8. Re:Randian Dumbfuckery on First Lawsuits Challenging FCC's New Net Neutrality Rules Arrive · · Score: 1

    It was banned period. You are telling lies and calling it evidence. Oh, and your kinds of lies are not innocent run-of-the-mill Internet lies. MILLIONS HAVE ALREADY DIED because of lies just like the one you just told.

  9. Re:Randian Dumbfuckery on First Lawsuits Challenging FCC's New Net Neutrality Rules Arrive · · Score: 1

    DDT ban has literally killed more people than Hitler. But I guess most of them were in Africa (dying from malaria), so they don't count. It's also been shown that human beings cannot over an entire life time ingest enough DDT (even through the accumulated effect of it making its way into life stock and such) to raise it to harmful levels.

  10. Re:Randian Dumbfuckery on First Lawsuits Challenging FCC's New Net Neutrality Rules Arrive · · Score: 1

    Regulations on seat belts did cause accident rates to rise..

    Accident rates? Maybe. What about accident fatalities? Increased feeling of safety (which might result from actually being safer) could cause people to have more less-harmful-than-fatal accidents.

    Not to mention, where does the government get off on telling people what to do in their own automobile?

    The government only gets to tell you what to do in your automobile while you operate heavy machinery on a government-owned road. It also, for example, tells you what you may or may not do in a court room (like you can't sit and read a newspaper in there). What you do in an automobile on a private road or how fast you drive it on a private race track is not something that the government restricts.

  11. green card on Millennial Tech Workers Losing Ground In US · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Green Card is the only honest resident alien immigrant status. All others (student visas, J1, H1B, etc.) exist to force techies to accept 2nd class citizen status. If you compete with people for whom getting fired equals getting deported, you will think twice about asking for a partnership in your tech company the way any lawyer or doctor would ask if they contribute to their practice. You may be just as smart or well-educated, but you can be replaced by an indentured servant. Before serfdom was abolished, they used to advertise serfs with special skills (music talents, poetic writing talents, etc.) Being better skilled won't get you ahead if you have no power to bargain for your wages. And unlike low-skilled workers, you can't retrain after half a life-time of learning. You are in. As long as there is any legal immigrant status other than a Green Card, any US citizen would be insane to pursue a STEM career. To make a decent wage, you need to be in top 10%. And if you that smart, any career other career will do.

  12. Re:No one is forcing anyone to do anything on Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home · · Score: 1

    He purchased the space with the designated purpose of writing code. This isn't akin to conducting business in an office setting (seeing clients, conducting meetings, etc.). It is more akin to writing prose. If he feels he is more productive in a personal setting, then this is no different from a novelist renting a cabin in the woods to finish that novel that's just not getting out. Would anyone recommend a novelist to rent office space instead of a somewhat isolated personal space to do creative work?

  13. Re:No one is forcing anyone to do anything on Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home · · Score: 1

    Presumably he paid for a home space which would accommodate the office. What he should or shouldn't do is pretty much his business and his alone.

  14. Re:We should lobby to break the cable companies on Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home · · Score: 2

    They'll claim that the same website indicated that Comcast did offer the service. So they stated the service was offered -- not that it was previously installed. Good luck holding a realtor liable for a 3rd party not going through with their offer. If the garbage pickup company stops service to your town, do you think you can sue the realtor for that, too?

  15. 00733+ on UK Government Admits Intelligence Services Allowed To Break Into Any System · · Score: 4, Funny

    The license to peek.

  16. Re:Hasn't been involved with Greenpeace since 1985 on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't "outproducing your competition" lower the market price and kill your profits?

    It would if you didn't lower costs. Which is what drives the investment in improvements in efficiency and, thus, enables the abundance.

  17. Re:Hasn't been involved with Greenpeace since 1985 on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    I don't believe I said "everyone." I am pretty sure I named a specific category of people.

  18. Re:Explain China then on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    The "future shock" scarcity of mass starvation was on track until China got it's act together

    And getting its act together meant loosening the screws and allowing capitalist enterprises to emerge. That's moving to the right. Oh, and my words may offend you, but they are not dumb. Just honest. And the only reason they are dissonant to your ears is that you are too used to the hearing the leftist serenade which, just as the original serenade, is meant to trap you into a lull, Odysseus.

  19. Re:Hasn't been involved with Greenpeace since 1985 on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    when communism calls for a post-scarcity society

    missed the whole point about the left not meaning what it says, did ya?

  20. Re:Hasn't been involved with Greenpeace since 1985 on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    The internet was rejected by the private sector. AT&T saw it as competition for their business model which was based on telephones.

    AT&T was a state-sponsored monopoly (until it wasn't). It is the court-ordered end of the state-sponsored monopoly which precipitated telecom Renaissance.

    You need permissionless, disruptive innovation, not some rich capitalist telling you what to do.

    Right. Because state regulation is what causes venture capitalism (ie, investment in creative disruption). GIve me a break.

    No, the green revolution was a result of government research efforts that the private sector is too short-sighted to invest in.

    If you still haven't heard, the actual scientists (you know... the ones concerned with facts and numbers) don't see green energy as a net-positive in energy gain. Chu stated the fact that he was forced to defend technology which is not mature enough as the reason for his resignation. And that's just on the generation side. On the storage side? Storing energy as covalent bonds is the most stable way of transporting it between disconnected paths which are not effected by gravity.

  21. Re:Hasn't been involved with Greenpeace since 1985 on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    Do read your Steinbeck. Just don't stop at the Grapes of Wrath. Read on to East of Eden. The very premise of the book is personal responsibility for one's choices. And that's the book that Steinbeck wrote (according to him) for his children.

  22. Re:Hasn't been involved with Greenpeace since 1985 on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The left is not what's responsible for not having the scarcity. Leftist governments always create the scarcity. The drive to succeed is the drive to outproduce your competition. It is the constant improvements in the efficiency of production which creates lack of scarcity. What the left seeks to do is to destroy the abundance and return to the scarcity(and mass murder). It is evil.

  23. Re:No need to know science ... on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    Ok, let's do. How much in federal grants has been awarded to scientists wishing to conduct inquiries into why AGW may be wrong? What's the dollar figure? What's dollar figure of the amount awarded to scientists conducting inquiries with intent of supporting AGW?

  24. Re:Who cares? on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    As opposed to the checks given to IPCC by government (you know... the people who kill people for a living).

  25. Re:Hasn't been involved with Greenpeace since 1985 on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, they are not optimistic. They left is the archetype of evil. They commit mass murder in the name of good intentions. Why would you think, even for a second, that their excuses have anything to do with their intentions? The right only puts up a good fight to defend civilization (the intricate fabric of interdependencies which keeps us alive).