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  1. Re:Problem with Artifical Stupidity: discriminatio on Saying "Wasted" On Facebook Can Affect Your Credit Score (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you prove that you are not using proxies for race, or other protected classes in an analysis like this.

    Simple: demonstrate that you also red-line certain white neighborhoods, or show how many white people you decline.

  2. Re:I have no debt and a hefty savings account on Saying "Wasted" On Facebook Can Affect Your Credit Score (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    low profit potential because you'll probably pay it off in time

    They also make money in transaction fees from vendors.

  3. Re:I have no debt and a hefty savings account on Saying "Wasted" On Facebook Can Affect Your Credit Score (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    and pay it off every month

    They ding you (not much) for that.

    Every so often, even when I have the money, I take the bank up on a balance transfer offer. The trick is to pay it off just when the 0% incentive expires. (A web bill pay service makes it easy.)

    That way, you remind them that you can pay your CC bills, while simultaneously not having to pay the 12+% APR.

  4. Re:I have no debt and a hefty savings account on Saying "Wasted" On Facebook Can Affect Your Credit Score (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    they're making the offer because it *is* within your means...

    to pay the monthly minimum. Which is exactly what AC wrote.

  5. Re:I have no debt and a hefty savings account on Saying "Wasted" On Facebook Can Affect Your Credit Score (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    Much as I hate nanny-state type stuff, I feel like this is one area we may need the government to come in and save people from themselves

    So you want people to share their income and net worth with either the banks or the federal government (since how else would "they" determine whether or not they can offer you credit).

  6. We know that "they" will do it to Americans. on The Rise of Political Doxing (schneier.com) · · Score: 1

    But what about Russians, Chinese, Iranians, French, Brazilians, Indians, Japanese, etc, etc, etc?

  7. Mother was surprising small... on Mother of All Apes May Have Been Surprisingly Small (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 0

    but the father, being (naturally) male -- and therefore just as naturally a rapist -- was a big, uncaring brute who never shared his feelings.

  8. It's more likely that this was a criminal hack, probably to get people's names, birthdays, and SSNs.

    That actually was my first thought... :)

  9. Particularly about risk management and pricing.

    Aren't there books and research papers on risk management from Societies?

  10. Couldn't they just ask? It's not like these are state secrets...

  11. Unix finally gets in 2015, a pale imitation of... on Oracle Bakes Security Into New Chips (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    what Burroughs was doing 45 years ago.

  12. Re:fish bowl on The International Space Station Is Home To Potentially Dangerous Bacteria (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Who do we send up next?".

    Who's running for US President???

    And Putin. Definitely Vladimir Putin.

  13. "We are looking out for the consumer ..." on The Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine That Science Says Doesn't Work (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    "and he or she needs to know that science says that homeopathy does not work for anyone."

    That's the study I really want to see!!!

  14. "marketplace of ideas is inevitably compromised" on SXSW Cancels Panels On Harassment Due To Harassment (sxsw.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Pussy shit like this is why I could never vote Democrat. (No, that does *not* imply that I vote Republican.)

  15. Linux server and WD media players on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Media Setup? · · Score: 1

    The server runs minidlna, and the media players are connected to "dumb" TVs. The house is wired with Cat 5.

  16. Re:A truly rare find on Jefferson-Designed Chemistry Lab Discovered In UVA Rotunda (virginia.edu) · · Score: 1

    Which is why I look upon a Trump vs. Clinton campaign with such anti-glee.

  17. Re:But that wasn't all! on Jefferson-Designed Chemistry Lab Discovered In UVA Rotunda (virginia.edu) · · Score: 1

    It's the Utah Jazz which infuriates New Orleans.

  18. Re:A truly rare find on Jefferson-Designed Chemistry Lab Discovered In UVA Rotunda (virginia.edu) · · Score: 2

    not much different from a typical modern "American politician".

    How many modern American politicians could write the Declaration of Independence and found a University?

  19. Re:A truly rare find on Jefferson-Designed Chemistry Lab Discovered In UVA Rotunda (virginia.edu) · · Score: 0

    As opposed to Bill Clinton, who was just a Politician and a Rapist.

    I choose Thomas Jefferson, thank you very much!

  20. Re:NSA measures their computer resources in units on How Is the NSA Breaking So Much Crypto? (freedom-to-tinker.com) · · Score: 1

    Ummm, no, I think he was just speculating. That's why he said "who's to say".

    But he said it in the same conspiracy theorist manner as do nut jobs who "speculate" that Obama is a shape-shifting humanoid reptilian from Planet Nibiru.

  21. "might not appreciate the early publicity" on German Police Warn Parents To Stop Posting Photos of Kids On Facebook (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sudden breakout of common sense. It's the exact same thought I had when watching "David After Dentist" on YT.

    Imagine him at 15, scared and asking a girl on a date, and her asking him if he's been to the dentist lately.

  22. Re:We should arrest school picture photographers a on German Police Warn Parents To Stop Posting Photos of Kids On Facebook (thestack.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I knew some idiot who doesn't know the difference between "getting a photograph" and "posting the photograph on Facebook" would say something stupid like that.

  23. Rapid diagnosis can be life-saving. on In 26 Hours, Sick Newborns Go From Genome Scan To Diagnosis (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Which usually leads to a lifetime of huge medical costs.

    In a system of collective health care (after all, that's what "insurance" is), we can't pay for *everything*, and hard, heart-wrenching choices must be made.

  24. Re:Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump? on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    I don't expect that this E-mail thing will stick to her, or she'd be in handcuffs already

    Yeah. People just don't see how *incompetent* a move like this is.

  25. Re:Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump? on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    she's not prone to committing unforced errors.

    Like setting up her own completely unprotected Intarweb-facing server which housed lots of classified emails? That kind of unforced error?