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  1. Re:What? on Nokia Admits Decrypting User Data Claiming It Isn't Looking · · Score: 1

    Privacy is more of a concern for users in third world countries...you know..the thing where the government doesn't like what you're reading online and throws you in jail.

  2. Re:Why go to work for Facebook post-IPO? on The Trials and Tribulations of a Would-Be Facebook Employee · · Score: 1

    If you had joined google a few months after the IPO, you'd be a rich man. If FB can monetize their user base, they can make a lot of money. Make more money, stock price goes up. It all depends on your perspective. If you think FB has jumped the shark,you probably don't expect the stock price to go up.

  3. More info on Polio Eradication Program Suspended In Pakistan After Aid Workers Shot · · Score: 4, Informative
    The Pakistani taliban were against the polio campaign before the Abbotabad operation.

    Then there's this: Afghan Taliban support polio vaccination campaign

    So it's not really fair to blame this on the CIA's operation...

  4. counter-insurgent activity? on NCTC Gets Vast Powers To Spy On U.S. Citizens · · Score: 2

    Why are they looking at counter-insurgent activity? Shouldn't they be looking at insurgent activity?

  5. Cobra effect on Money Python: Florida Contest Offers Rewards In 2013 Everglades Python Hunt · · Score: 5, Informative

    Florida should read about the Cobra effect.

  6. Re:He Should Be on Republican Staffer Khanna Axed Over Copyright Memo · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't think this is just a R problem

    It's not...Chris Dodd is a D(ouchebag)

  7. Re:Ouch. on US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent · · Score: 2

    Let's say you pay a developer $100K/year, and the project lasted 10 years.

    Your numbers are way off. Each cleared contractor probably costs the government 200+$/hr. Then there's hardware. If the project has been going on for 10 years, they probably went through at least one refresh cycle. Then there are other costs like admin overhead, facilities, travel etc.

  8. Re:It's about the administrators not the kids on With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race · · Score: 1

    In one sense I could almost see schools competing for black enrollment so that their score goes up

    So it's like the NFL draft...but with Asians...

  9. W had a point on With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race · · Score: 1

    The soft bigotry of low expectations.

  10. subby...what's the kahn academy? on Are Teachers Headed For Obsolescence? · · Score: 1

    A competing online academy run by Sal Khan's jewish cousin?

  11. Re:Khan was coming for an anti-US fundraiser on Pakastani Politician Detained By US Customs Over Opposition To Drone Strikes · · Score: 1, Informative

    Don't you think that's it's kinda sad when a centrist liberal political party,

    Imran Khan's party can't be described as centrist, liberal or secular by ANY stretch of the imagination. He's frequently justified the actions of the taliban as jihad i.e. justified under islamic law.

  12. don't forget this on Pakastani Politician Detained By US Customs Over Opposition To Drone Strikes · · Score: 3, Informative
    He's also justified the taliban's actions as jihad.

    Afghan politicians have reacted with disbelief, with one parliamentarian suggesting Khan should be arrested. The Ulema Council, a grouping of senior clerics, declared his comments "unislamic". A Kabul foreign ministry spokesman said Khan was "either profoundly and dangerously ignorant about the reality in Afghanistan, or he has ill will against the Afghan people. "Our children are killed on daily basis, civilians killed and our schools, hospitals and infrastructure attacked on a daily basis. To call any of that jihad is profoundly wrong and misguided."

    So he's not on their radar just for his opposition to the drones...

  13. Re:Sigh... on Post Mortem of GunnAllen IT Meltdown · · Score: 1

    They are directly responsible for customer data, and they are explicitly on the hook in the case of data breaches. It is a gross failure of responsibility not to maintain IT in-house

    Right....because banks with in-house IT departments don't suffer from data breaches...

  14. Re:Don't panic on US Congress Rules Huawei a 'Security Threat' · · Score: 0

    Obviously, the US has been doing exactly that. There are documented cases of back doors introduced into US software and hardware.

    According to this logic, we should let criminals do whatever cops are allowed to do....carry guns...great...wiretap people....the cops do it too...

  15. Re:Not so fast on Republican Platform To Include Internet Freedom Plank · · Score: 1

    Before 9/11, Ashcroft actually requested a lower level of funding for the DoJ's anti-terrorism efforts.

  16. Re:Several states on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 1

    You're saying it's not a real thing and OP just made it up?

  17. Re:Seems like anything takes down the cloud... on More Uptime Problems For Amazon Cloud · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many more of these it takes before the cloud-skeptics start winning the debates with management a lot more often.

    This sort of thing never ever happens when you host everything in-house?

  18. Re:US Citizen or Chinese citizen?? on Programmer Admits Stealing US Gov't Accounting Software Source Code · · Score: 2

    I know a lot of decent Chinese people... Also a lot of people of Chinese descent.

  19. Siri on Worried About Information Leaks, IBM Bans Siri · · Score: 1
    Who's the CEO of IBM?

    Siri: Virginia Tometty

    then who the fuck is Jeanette Horan?

    Siri: Ask the OP.

  20. Re:No wrongful death? on Rutger's Student Dharun Ravi Sentenced To 30-Day Jail Time · · Score: 1

    What if I secretly filmed you trying to have straight sex and you couldn't get it up or something? that sort of thing can be embarrassing enough for people to do exactly what Tyler Clementi did.

  21. Wrong question? on GOP Blocks Senate Debate On Dem Student Loan Bill · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they need to ask why the cost of higher ed is increasing disproportionate to income levels and inflation?

  22. Re:when genius failed on The Math Formula That Lead To the Financial Crash · · Score: 2

    Scholes was one of the co-founders of LTCM.

  23. Bloomberg says? on Software Engineering Is a Dead-End Career, Says Bloomberg · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or Norman Matloff, in an op-ed on bloomberg.com, says?

  24. Re:Posturing on Asian Call Center Workers Trained With US Tax Dollars · · Score: 1

    Cost of insourcing your call center to comply with new policy vs. losing a multi-year Government contract for computer hardware.

    v/s cost of buying off a few politicians?

  25. Re:Hold on a second on Does Higher Health Care Spending Lead To Better Patient Outcomes? · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough Lasik surgeries haven't gone up in price. It isn't covered by insurance.

    Lasik is a one time procedure(for the most part) and it's covered under a Flex spending account.