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  1. Re:Consider the source on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 1

    consider a surveillance system ...

    Until "Something Bad" happens and people bitch and moan that you weren't storing all this stuff. Concrete example: the Clinton Administration forbade the FBI & CIA from sharing data; otherwise, 9/11 might have been prevented.

  2. Re:Consider the source on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What's worse is that De Montfort University has a Senior Research Fellow In The Ethics Of Robotics.

  3. "You were wrong and here's our evidence." on Ex-Ashley Madison CTO Threatens Libel Suit Against Journalist · · Score: 1

    That's essentially what Raja Bhatia's lawyers said, and I see nothing wrong with that.

  4. Re:"secretly started pushing updates" on GM Performs Stealth Update To Fix Security Bug In OnStar · · Score: 1

    Nutria's corollary to Hanlon's Razor: never ascribe to malice what can adequately be ascribed to bureaucracy.

    IOW, they certainly wondered why they needed to send out millions of post cards (which is how auto companies communicate with their users) when just fixing the problem is so much simpler.

  5. "secretly started pushing updates" on GM Performs Stealth Update To Fix Security Bug In OnStar · · Score: 1

    That's pretty laden with strong, negative emotional connotations. What's the justification?

    Why not just read it as they started quietly pushing updates?

  6. Re:Would you guys be as poutraged for a Klansman? on Big Changes From Mozilla Mean Firefox Will Get Chrome Extensions · · Score: 1

    "That's not tradition" and "that's not the way we do things" are the rationalizations used by every bigot throughout history whether it be racists

    Interestingly, black slavery was not traditional among the English colonists. It had to be imposed from above, slowly and via changes to laws.

    IOW, if the well-educated elites had left tradition alone, this country would not have had the centuries of evil inflicted upon itself.

    or homophobes protesting marriage equality.

    Are you sure that I'm a homophobe?

  7. Re:"Comments left in the code ..." on Ashley Madison Source Code Shows Evidence They Created Bots To Message Men · · Score: 1

    Ask me to help with your spambot though and I will say no thank you, sir.

    But it exploits the stupid, and don't stupid people deserve to be exploited just as much as adulterers?

  8. "Comments left in the code ..." on Ashley Madison Source Code Shows Evidence They Created Bots To Message Men · · Score: 0

    Everyone thinks how Eeevil that the company managers were, but it was evil programmers who implemented this stuff.

  9. Re:What does the DoE get out of this? on World's Most Powerful Digital Camera Sees Construction Green Light · · Score: 1

    But that still doesn't answer the question of what the Department of Energy gets out of such a camera.

  10. Re:12 Month Isolation on In Hawaii, a 6-Person Crew Begins a Year-Long Mars Isolation Experiment · · Score: 2

    I'm sure they had shore leaves, and had to be replenished with food, and that even when on patrol the boat surfaced occasionally for the crew to get some sun.

    Still, US (not sure about British) ballistic missiles *do* go out for as much as 90 days at a time (without, as I understand it, shore leave), so your point is valid.

  11. Re:Make up your mind... on Open Source, Collaborative Rich-Text, Web-Based Editor Almost Available · · Score: 0

    "Has started" means it just began

    Yes.

    "almost available" means that it is almost done

    Yes.

    for most things, such as developing (a buzz-word rich software product), those two are mutually exclusive.

    Steaming crock of shit. (How much software have _you_ actually developed? Nothing that's non-trivial gets done that quick.)

  12. Re:Make up your mind... on Open Source, Collaborative Rich-Text, Web-Based Editor Almost Available · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do we have to explain that "has started" means that he's working on it, "(a)lmost available" means it's not done yet, and that those two conditions are not mutually exclusive?

  13. Re:a realist would say Ashley Madison is just a th on Analysis Reveals Almost No Real Women On Ashley Madison · · Score: 1

    Don't assume.

    Anyway, cut your hair, and no more need for "proper hair care products to keep sane".

  14. Re:a realist would say Ashley Madison is just a th on Analysis Reveals Almost No Real Women On Ashley Madison · · Score: 1

    Kind like those "women" on AM?

  15. a realist would say Ashley Madison is just a thief on Analysis Reveals Almost No Real Women On Ashley Madison · · Score: 1

    Likewise, Axe is a thief for selling boys on the idea that spraying themselves will make babes throw themselves at said stinky young men, and Pantene is a thief for selling women on the idea that using their brand of shampoo will make them supermodels.

    Or... gurps_npc is a socialist idiot who doesn't know how humans are actually motivated.

  16. Re:Blame TOR malicious botnets .. on IBM Tells Administrators To Block Tor On Security Grounds · · Score: 1

    considering folks like the NSA helps these organizations securing their 'computers'.

    All of the technical acumen in the world can't defend against a PHB running XP who clicks on everything.

  17. Re:That's exactly what the bad guys will do on IBM Tells Administrators To Block Tor On Security Grounds · · Score: 1

    I believe that most Tor users aren't criminals

    What substantiates your belief?

  18. Re:No one should *ever* wonder why... on Oakland Changes License Plate Reader Policy After Filling 80GB Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Don't forget: "cut taxes so that spending must be cut so we don't run deficits".

    That's "Delusional" cranked to 11.

  19. Re:No one should *ever* wonder why... on Oakland Changes License Plate Reader Policy After Filling 80GB Hard Drive · · Score: 2

    It's with the conservative authoritarians who want to expand the power of the police.

    There are damned few in power -- no matter their stripe -- that want to reduce their power. It's just a matter of where they focus their expansion of power. (Liberals naturally say, "but we know best, and that's why government -- with us at the head -- *needs* to expand". Besides, how many Democrats voted against the PATRIOT Act or to defund the NSA?)

  20. No one should *ever* wonder why... on Oakland Changes License Plate Reader Policy After Filling 80GB Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    conservatives think that government is dangerous: the idiocy that manifests itself here in this humorously benign manner too often manifests itself in other, more evil forms.

  21. Re:commentsubjectsaredumb on Massachusetts Boarding School Sued Over Wi-Fi Sickness · · Score: 1

    Possibly.

    Not where I live, though. The parochial schools that I send my kids to (public schools here are b-a-d) mandate vaccinations.

  22. Re:commentsubjectsaredumb on Massachusetts Boarding School Sued Over Wi-Fi Sickness · · Score: 1

    How she's not been reported to her state's medical board is beyond me.

    This is why:
    https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-trojan-horse-called-integrative-medicine-arrives-at-another-medical-school/
    The Faculty of Medicine and the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto seek a Director to lead their new interdisciplinary program in complementary and integrative medicine

    This plus ISIS plus "crystal power" plus conservative Christianity (note the commonalities between them?) is a sure sign that the end of the modern word is soon at hand. I grieve for my children and their (not yet) children.

  23. Re:commentsubjectsaredumb on Massachusetts Boarding School Sued Over Wi-Fi Sickness · · Score: 5, Informative

    Even "better":
    http://drhubbuch.com/

    Her interest in health and assisting her patients take control of their own health began with her work in the Womenâ(TM)s Self Help Health Movement.

    Even more better than better...

    Dr. Hubbuch is a member of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine

    But the AAEM is not recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties, and is mentioned in Quackwatch.
    http://www.abms.org/member-boa...
    http://www.quackwatch.org/04Co...

  24. Re:commentsubjectsaredumb on Massachusetts Boarding School Sued Over Wi-Fi Sickness · · Score: 2

    https://www.disabilityinfo.org/mnip/db/mddb/ResourceDetail.aspx?type=1&id=2344

    Specializes in treatment of chronic illness through an intergrative approach.

    IOW, fake medicine.

  25. Re:Blind test. on Massachusetts Boarding School Sued Over Wi-Fi Sickness · · Score: 4, Informative