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  1. Re:Most of the money spent at college on At $75,560, Housing a Prisoner in California Now Costs More Than a Year at Harvard (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't have to. So by your logic, all these jobs should be paid premium wages

    No, by my logic the market is paying around what it needs to before people are prepared to do a shitty job. You said something like that yourself so how did you miss it?

  2. Re:Typo: Value from X not "for X" on Ubuntu Works With GNOME To Improve HiDPI Support On Linux Desktop (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    dpi-unaware and dpi-aware applications

    With the greatest possible respect, what excuse is there for a graphical application designed to be used by anyone other than the original programmer to be dpi-unaware on any platform that can have more than one screen size or resolution?

  3. Typo: Value from X not "for X" on Ubuntu Works With GNOME To Improve HiDPI Support On Linux Desktop (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Applications can get the DPI settings directly from X.
    It's what that value is for FFS.

  4. Yes this is what I mean, there's no standard way

    Oh yes there is.
    Applications such as chrome get the value for X instead of having hard coded sizes like gnome3 does. (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI#X_Server)

  5. Here is a bit of a summary:
    https://wiki.archlinux.org/ind...

  6. Not out of context. It's an absolute.
    We went through this shit with cars a few years ago. The product is supposed to be owned not leased and the owner should be able to do anything legal they want to with the thing they own - including taking it to whatever mechanic or technician they want to.

  7. It has it's own toolkit for it's own applications instead of using broken Gnome3 applications.
    For other stuff there's qt, gtk2 and many other things.

    Seriously guys, I remember reading about this stuff on a mailing list around 2000 FFS! A lot of people were paying attention to it before the Gnome3 people even started programming!

  8. Re:What are you quoting/smoking? on Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1
    No, not a democrat. I'm just someone not fond of providing weapons to Islamic terrorists.
    So are you fond of that? No? Then why are you cheering for North?

    exposed you for what you are ... played

    Seriously? You are going to try to pretend it was all a game now just because I'm not taking your shit lying down?
    What's with all this shit about putting The Party ahead of the Country and excusing treason? Do you want a King and see treason as being not following the whim of an absolute ruler? What would George Washington think of you?

  9. Re:What are you quoting/smoking? on Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    From your attitude I very much doubt it. You write like someone who lurned ta reed unda Raygun and not someone who was an adult when the hostage crisis propelled him into the White House.

  10. Re:If only all of us would stop committing felonie on At $75,560, Housing a Prisoner in California Now Costs More Than a Year at Harvard (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    College educated people had to be hired to design the F-35

    With the helmet so heavy that it can kill people who eject (and a long list of other things) I'm not so sure about that.
    I suppose MBAs come from college as well.

  11. "where it's desired" should be "even if it was desired".
    The reality of prisons not being your ridiculous suggestion of luxury penthouses should show how utterly stupid the post blaming the "product" and not the supplier was anyway.
    The prisons are just being used as a way to overcharge the taxpayer.

  12. Re: If only all of us would stop committing feloni on At $75,560, Housing a Prisoner in California Now Costs More Than a Year at Harvard (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Or California could stop trying to make prisons into luxury apartments that also provide top notch health care services. But noooo, that's not politically correct, and California can't do that.

    That budget could do as you say (in the ridiculous situation that doesn't exist where it's desired) but it's not what is happening. It's going in profit. The taxpayers are being scammed by the prison owners.

  13. Re:Most of the money spent at college on At $75,560, Housing a Prisoner in California Now Costs More Than a Year at Harvard (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Speak for yourself, but you couldn't pay me enough to be a prison guard so long as there are other jobs going.
    Why shouldn't we pay them a fraction of a stockbrokers pay? On the other hand why are we paying those stockbrokers so much when it's so much easier to find someone to do that job and they don't need as much training?

  14. Re:Edison? What now? on Before Silicon Valley, New Jersey Was Tech Capital (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    His company did all of the above, not the man himself.
    It's kind of like saying Al Gore invented the internet. There's no point trying to turn either into some sort of lone hero instead of making it possible for a successful team to get things done.

  15. Re:Yes it is. on Police In Oklahoma Have Cracked Hundreds of People's Cell Phones (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    exactly my point. How do you think they get the contents of those SMS?

    See a Judge and then the phone company - it happens a lot every day.

  16. Re:Yes it is. on Police In Oklahoma Have Cracked Hundreds of People's Cell Phones (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    What I found really funny a few months back is the drug dealer who would stand out in the middle of a park in the middle of the night with multiple phones, all turned on and on the network, setting up his deals. I think it was six phones, and nobody else within 200 yards. The location data did him in because one of the phones was in his real name with his real address. He didn't use that phone for his deals, but it was in his pocket telling the network where he was when he was doing the deals.
    There was plenty of other evidence and that wasn't his only fuckup but it was the most amusing one.

  17. Re:(Phone forensics expert AMA) on Police In Oklahoma Have Cracked Hundreds of People's Cell Phones (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet another reason for me to hold onto the N900. Not getting it's data copied if I get a speeding ticket.

  18. Take their iOS Device to the Apple Store

    That required step is well and truly "anti-third-party-repair".

  19. It will be a long time for it to become commonly available

    It is commonly available - it just wasn't in Gnome3.
    Enlightenment had it many years ago and pretty well everything else did it not long after.

  20. Re:What are you quoting/smoking? on Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    A determined, unyielding Reagan told National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, "I want you to do whatever you have to do to help these people keep body and soul together."

    Including giving classified anti-tank weapons to a declared enemy of the USA that had killed over a hundred US Marines less than a year earlier, and taking some money on the side for a convertible, air-conditioning and a fence? I don't think so.
    So not orders, and not to North either - epic fail.

    Which is it, friend of foe

    Country not King.
    Reagan found a man waaaay down in the chain of command whose ambition was far greater than his love of his country and it spiraled out of control to the point where enemies were being armed. There are many books on the topic.

    As to Iran, we thought we could get our hostages back

    It was after that. There are many books on the topic.


    The hilarious thing here is the people who put Party before Country used to say there were no orders so it can't be pinned on Reagan - and now sellouts such as yourself are saying that it wan't North's fault because there were orders. You are a joke!
    Now go ask your Dad about it instead of trying to infect me with your ignorance.


    North spent days deleting emails one by one, the sysadmins noticed, and they put a backup tape aside just in case because North was counting on the next erase cycle getting rid of the evidence. It was news for nerds and stuff that mattered. There's not much bigger news that treason so everybody was paying attention to it - ask your Dad instead of patronizing shit of saying "did you read the article" to people who were following the issue for YEARS.

  21. Re:What are you quoting/smoking? on Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    You didn't read the article

    I and nearly all of the older posters here could have written it.

    The charges were dropped due to a technicality

    Not what I asked - where are those orders you pretended to quote?

    Perhaps you should follow that link I provided above to an article from 1989 to catch up instead of making shit up like the doubleplusgood revisionist that you are.

    communists ... Putin ... Cuba ... USSR ... Russia ... your candidate ... Iranians

    What's with the dozen little distractions you threw in there - lost it so throwing out chaff?

  22. What are you quoting/smoking? on Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    With that in mind he was following the orders of the President who previously stated "Do anything to help the Contras defeat the Cuban-backed Sandanistas".

    Ah - a quote! What are you quoting? Have you seen some top secret orders that never made it to court or are you making it up?
    The entire situation was infamous because he could not prove he was following orders - especially with the embezzlement for his own personal use. The only person that went to jail over the entire thing was the guy who took stolen money from North and built a fence for him. (http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/06/opinion/oliver-north-fortunate-felon.html)

  23. Which part of ignoring 600 requests for improved security, going back to bed once the attack started, then lying about it (although emailing your non-cleared daughter the truth in plain text) has anything to do with the benefit of the country?

    So Reality Leigh Winner, Oliver North and Hillary Clinton are all the same person?
    Wow, that explains a lot!
    Good luck with the new meds.

  24. Oliver North was acting under the orders of the Commander in Chief

    When did he or a court say that?
    Also, even if that was true, isn't the deal to serve the country and not a King?
    What part of giving classified anti-tank weapons to a terrorist group that had killed more than a hundred US Marines less than a year earlier is about serving the country?

  25. Anyway, she will never work in a government position again

    Why not? Oliver North did. If treason is no barrier then why should this be?