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  1. Re:Document2 on Kentucky Hospital Calls State of Emergency In Hack Attack (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It would help if Microsoft would quit making Windows effectively useless for real work without a local admin login. Try doing asp.net development without admin rights.

    Yes I know, a workerbee who only uses Excel and Outlook does not need admin rights for anything.

  2. Re:How anonymous is cash? on Why We Should Fear A Cashless World (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How will politicians collect their bribes if there is no more cash?

  3. Re:Matching requirements on City of Austin Locked In Regulations Battle With Uber, Lyft · · Score: 1

    It does no such thing and you know it. The only thing medallions do is protect the Cab Mafia from competition.

  4. Re:Third world working conditions, sponsored by Ub on City of Austin Locked In Regulations Battle With Uber, Lyft · · Score: 1

    And the end result is they are almost all controlled by a small group of connected insiders, none of which actually drive a cab themselves. This is why cab customers pay high fares while drivers make next to nothing. Fuck the Cab Mafia.

  5. Re:Again... on City of Austin Locked In Regulations Battle With Uber, Lyft · · Score: 1

    Could you be any more of an idiot if you tried?

  6. Re:Wrong End on Will Advanced AI Spell the End of Lawyers? · · Score: 2

    The 2 times I have been called for jury duty opened my eyes to just how stupid some people are. Let's just say I hope I never have to have anything important about my life decided on by a jury. I'd rather go with a coin toss.

  7. Re: Those who would give up essential Liberty... on Majority of Americans OK With Warrantless Internet Surveillance (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Read the post I responded to, idiot.

  8. Re:Just like being on-call on 'Flexible' Working Can Keep You Stressed Out For Longer, Lead to Illness (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    My biggest concern about being on call isn't so much the on call part, but the reliability of the underlying systems I'd be expected to support. I can deal with logging in outside of normal hours once a month or so to reboot some frozen service, but I would go insane if I had to spend all night every night manually running a really troublesome system.

    Also, if I would be expected to respond immediately rather than waiting an hour if I choose that would be hugely more stressful. I'm not taking the work phone into the bathroom with me every time.

  9. Re: Those who would give up essential Liberty... on Majority of Americans OK With Warrantless Internet Surveillance (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    "The vast majority of humans are idiots"

    Your post is sure a great example of that. What are you, 22 years old and think you have the entire world figured out? Talk about basquing in the glory of your own stupidity.

  10. Anyone still using Firefox, class, anyone?

  11. Re:A day that ends in "y" for LAPD on Los Angeles Flirts With Pre-Crime (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Prostitution should be legalized and regulated, and human trafficking should be aggressively prosecuted. Let consenting adults engage in whatever services they deem fit, and then focus law enforcement resources on those who actually harm others.

  12. Since when the hell have we reached the point of "zomg, someone learned something without teh intertubes"??

    We reached that point a long time ago, bro. Where have you been?

  13. Re: Listen yoos on Contractors or Not, Seattle Uber Drivers Might Get Collective Bargaining · · Score: 0

    It is YOU who is ignorant of history: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

  14. Re:MISSION: To obliterate the wages of programmers on Microsoft Brings Its Embrace-Extend-Extinguish Game To K-12 Schools? · · Score: 2

    What a great idea. Let's make programming dull as shit so they immediately lose interest in it!

  15. Governments all over the world tend to take a hostile view on gambling... unless they get a piece of the pie.

  16. Re:Professional organization? on Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The difference being that when construction and factory workers work 80 hour weeks, they actually get paid for all those hours. No free overtime in the blue collar world.

  17. Re:By Design on US Government IT Outsourcing Is Poorly Managed (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    It is. They just can't come right out and admit it however.

  18. Just adjust that tin foil hat a bit tighter, bro. It will all be OK.

  19. Re:After 20 years of pay cuts on Bank's Severance Deal Requires IT Workers To Be Available For Two Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If a business is letting people go in a layoff there is no way they can get out of unemployment in any US state.

  20. Re:What they really need on In Midst of a Tech Boom, Seattle Tries To Keep Its Soul · · Score: 1

    There is a lot of underutilized land near downtown SF. The government is very good at keeping it underutilized by the way of restrictive zoning that makes the building of high density housing all but impossible.

  21. Re:What they really need on In Midst of a Tech Boom, Seattle Tries To Keep Its Soul · · Score: 1

    Wrong. They moved to Chicago for the free money giveaways: http://articles.chicagotribune...

    And http://www.chicagobusiness.com...

  22. Re:What they really need on In Midst of a Tech Boom, Seattle Tries To Keep Its Soul · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What are you riding your bike on, dirt paths? Who do you think pays for those roads and bike paths you use?

    At least car drivers pay for roads in the form of gas taxes. What exactly do you pay for?

  23. Re:How about more offensive public mailing lists? on Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source · · Score: 1

    Most women don't want to work (for free, especially) in a community of open source pedants with extremely strong opinions who won't compromise an inch but will instead go off and form their own slightly different OSS project in response to the slightest disagreement with another team member. Until the open source community can rid itself of these team-cancers, open source participation will continue to suffer.

  24. Re:How about more offensive public mailing lists? on Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source · · Score: 1

    LOL. Written like a Rutgers University Liberal Arts student.

  25. Re:Systematic Economic Segregation on Houston's Gifted Education Program Biased Against Blacks and Latinos · · Score: 1

    " do intentional economic integration"

    So you want to forcibly move some of the kids from the bad school that you moved to get away from into the good school that you moved into? Do you not see the inherent disconnect here?