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  1. Re:What a bunch of pompus crap on Stylebooks Finally Embrace the Single 'They' (cjr.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I love people who complain when faced with nobody forcing them to do anything at all.

  2. Re:I see what's coming. on Court Fines Canadian $26,500 For 'Unconscionably Stupid' Balloon-Chair Flight (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Didn't happen before, won't happen now. So basically, this is a dumb often repeated joke that proves the opposite of the point it's meant to make.

  3. Re:Morons are running the USA on US Federal Budget Proposal Cuts Science Funding (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    A budget that does something about that, not a budget that takes from things which make the US more valuable and gives to things the US doesn't need more of and doesn't impact the deficit at all?

  4. You know this because you were a shitty kid? Or a shitty parent?

  5. I don't understand. Were you born an adult?

  6. Re:And so it begins... on A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    "Those are the only two possibilities."

    Not really.

  7. Re:This is a wise move on Germany Plans To Fine Social Media Sites Over Hate Speech (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "All speech should be legal."

    This is a dumb statement that is neither true, nor should be true.

  8. Re:And so it begins... on A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think about the only possible dumb reaction to this news would be to immediately assume you know what happened.

  9. Re:She didn't or hasn't done well in my opinion on Yahoo's Marissa Mayer Could Get $23M Exit Payment, Ex-IAC Executive Will Become CEO (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    > Ever since she took over, Yahoo has been trending downhill!

    It has gone up in stock value from the point she took over to today. If you're going to have an opinion, it could at least be based on events that have occurred in reality.

  10. Re:In your face Betteridge! on Slashdot Asks: Are Password Rules Bullshit? (codinghorror.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In the goal of increased security, it's exceedingly unlikely that a larger bank is storing anything password related in plain text. Banks are beyond that stuff these days. Procedures and software are audited, etc etc - nobody but mom and pop sites would be able to fly under the radar of the harm to reputation that would occur if it turned out that your bank passwords were being stored in plaintext.

  11. Re:Drivers should be able to control this feature on Uber Admits Its Ghost Driver 'Greyball' Tool Was Used To Thwart Regulators, Vows To Stop (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Uh, no.

  12. Re:64-bit on Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2017 (visualstudio.com) · · Score: 2

    You might as well just have posted, "I don't know anything about software development."

  13. Re: Best way to defend yourself on Snapchat Wanted $150K To Not Run NRA Ads On Gun Control Group Videos (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The thing that makes this so stupid is that you haven't made contingencies for the thousands of other terrible things that are far more likely to happen to you, your wife, and your children. This is what makes the "I'm prepared game" so fucking hollow.

  14. Re:This is illegal. on Laid-Off IT Workers Worry US Is Losing Tech Jobs To Outsourcing (www.cio.in) · · Score: 1

    Trump doesn't want anything more than to be liked. If disenfranchised American workers wanted him to feed them poison, because they thought it would get them jobs, he'd do it. That's how stupid populism works. The kind you seem to buy into.

  15. Re:UCSF is training people for...what? on Laid-Off IT Workers Worry US Is Losing Tech Jobs To Outsourcing (www.cio.in) · · Score: 1

    Good lord, paying a company in another country doesn't amount to foreign aid. Holy shit, what the fuck has become of what used to be a country of fairly sensible people?

  16. Re:He's lucky it wasn't Canada on Software Engineer Detained At JFK, Given Test To Prove He's An Engineer (mashable.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    And then the officer who fired the tazer went to prison for 30 months. Nice of you to leave that out.

  17. Re:Sounds good to me on 'Uber Is Doomed', Argues Transportation Reporter (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    If those questions were not rhetorical, it's probably best you focus on goals more down to your level, like say, how to tie your shoes.

  18. Re:its basically a sun shade that you can see thro on Professors Claim Passive Cooling Breakthrough Via Plastic Film (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    All it is is a heat disposal system. A building has heat. I'm sure you understand how you can use an IR camera to "see" a heated structure in total darkness. The heat on the inside is absorbed and emitted towards outside in a spectrum that isn't absorbed by the atmosphere. It's effectively "dumped" into space. (And shielded by a mirror that prevents it from absorbing the infrared coming from the sun.)

  19. Re:The Million Regulators March on Washington on FCC To Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Pizzas and sneakers are luxury markets with no dependencies on infrastructure and low barriers to market.

  20. Re:Because FUCK YOU, that's why on FCC To Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure. Want to go without internet for a few months to wait for one? Didn't think so.

  21. Re:Lack of understanding rather than nefarious on FCC Votes To Lift Net Neutrality Transparency Rules For Smaller Internet Providers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Options and competition are good things, right?

    For luxuries, yes. Is bypassing traffic if your son is sick a luxury?

  22. Re:Perhaps the constant overhype is the problem on Former Engineer Says Uber Is a Nightmare of Sexism; CEO Orders Urgent Investigation (susanjfowler.com) · · Score: 1

    > except for discrimination against white men ... I'm sure you know the story of the boy that cried wolf

    Well, obviously you're familiar with it.

  23. Re:I'll never understand on Your Personal Facebook Live Videos Can Legally End Up on TV (thememo.com) · · Score: 0

    You're a moron for not just thinking that was the most likely possibility in the first place; that you were not familiar with the term. Hey, two reasons you're a moron.

  24. Re:The Herd on No CEO: The Swedish Company Where Nobody Is In Charge (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't have a CEO. Chief, implying one person, is right there in the name. They have others who have taken on different parts of the job that a CEO does at other companies.

    That's not having a (one) CEO.

  25. In what alternate reality does one think that the internet wouldn't have been developed without one person? Or that computers and thus networking of those computers, and thus communication via those computers isn't just an inevitable part of the path of science and technology? We are all dumber for having read your post.