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  1. Re:greybeard here, so watch it. on House of Representatives Proposal Aims To Regulate Car Privacy (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    this

  2. Thankful on Australian ISPs Not Ready For Mandatory Data Retention (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Thankful I'm not Australian. Worse than America almost. Maybe they're trying to be like Britain.

  3. Re: Your mortgage got you stressed? on Dell To Buy EMC For $67 Billion (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    On the expectation they will be able to contribute to the common welfare of the country with the education they receive. There IS a mutual benefit. So why is one side potentially penalized more than the other?

  4. Re:I'm glad, now, ... on Dell To Buy EMC For $67 Billion (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    So this and other comments like it seem strange to me. The VMs run on actual servers, not virtual ones. The actual servers have to be high availability before any software that runs on them. And how can you virtualize additional OS's without adding more CPUs, RAM, and disk space without making a joke of what you are running? Presumably you add OS's to actually do something. And in my experience those somethings happen concurrently with what happens in multiple virtual OS's on the physical box. Otherwise you wouldn't need multiple OS's now, would you? And they all require resources. And a host is a host is a host, VM or not. When was the last time you only had to patch one host? You normally will have to patch all of them. Unless of course you run a different operating system for every one of your servers. And I don't know many places that do that (at least not any place of any size). Sure there is some economy of scale virtualizing machines and there are virtues in virtualizing; you can share some resources and save on hardware where appropriate. But I'm surprised to hear anyone say it is for high availability. If anything, it seems like one *huge* point of failure is being described here.

  5. Re:Therac 25 on How Bad User Interfaces Can Ruin Lives · · Score: 1

    I think I will use this.

  6. Re:Your biggest screw up on "We Screwed Up," Says Reddit CEO In Formal Apology · · Score: 1

    The ink was made out of crocodile tears.

  7. Re:Therac 25 on How Bad User Interfaces Can Ruin Lives · · Score: 2

    When you mention Godwin, you Godwin yourself. It is the overused Godwin effect.

  8. Is This The Death Of The Internet on Detecting Nudity With AI and OpenCV · · Score: 1

    I thought porn was what it was built for. I mean besides an advertising platform for Google.

  9. Or Stop Using Google on Google Will Reduce Accidental Mobile Ad Clicks, With Mandatory Borders and More · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have started to use duckduckgo.com for searches when I'm looking for actual articles or information. I have found that I get better results. On a Google search for some information on SaaS billing integration for example, all I got from Google were spiels from companies selling shit. No articles. I did the exact same search in duckduckgo and found something I could use right away. No I don't work for duckduckgo, but I am getting sick of more and more not being able to get useful results from Google. Maybe Yahoo would give better searches to, but I have tried them lately.

    Google should concentrate on better and more useful search results and stop fucking around with pushing more advertising, and to stop forcing web sites to code their sites the Google way or be kicked so far down the listing as to not be there at all. But I know that'll never happen. Maybe it is easier for Google's algorithms to mess with the sites if they are in a Google approved format. Google should concentrate on returning useful web searches. But I guess they are useful to the advertisers even if it isn't useful so much for people who are trying to use the internet to get things done.

  10. Re:I have no Privilege, but I must Scream on FB Reveals Woeful Diversity Numbers · · Score: 1

    A straw man argument if ever there was one. When companies are laying off people, they never lay off the most qualified. The question in this thread is about hiring. So, and I say this in all diplomacy: Fuck off.

  11. Re:Demographics on FB Reveals Woeful Diversity Numbers · · Score: 1

    Boat people came to America in the late 70s and early 80s with NOTHING. Not even the language. Many of their children and grandchildren will be doctors and lawyers, in far higher proportion than blacks. If they can do it, anyone can. If they want to. Sometimes the walls that are built are your own.

  12. Re:Chassis built with nuts and bolts? on 3D Printed Supercar Chassis Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Thinking the same thing. What is the crashworthiness of the thing. If you can do 200 mph, it better have a very good safety cell. Something like this Ferrari 458 in Japan that crashed during a race doing 200 mph (that's 300 kph). The track worker and driver both lived.

  13. Re:How to avoid tech bubbles? on Ask Slashdot: How to Avoid The Worst of a Tech Bubble? · · Score: 1

    Wearing sophomoric rose coloured glasses.

  14. Propaganda - Unless They Are Fucking Idiots on Report: Russia and China Crack Encrypted Snowden Files · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Look, they've had a couple years to figure out that if Russia and China have a shit pile of encrypted files, that they are going be busy trying to crack them. So if they haven't substituted out their people (operatives in spooky talk) in the last 2 years, the people running the circus are a bunch of fucking clowns. If they didn't have alternate plans with different networks, they are incompetent. Those files only show what those agencies were doing historically at this point. Because if they are still current, the U.S. is really in trouble. The next thing you know they'll be run by creationists who don't believe in science and evolution. Or they know how to capitalize on a really arcane book of myths to keep the people occupied.

  15. Re:What joy! on There Is a Finite Limit On How Long Intelligence Can Exist In Our Universe · · Score: 1

    Highly welcomed sarcasm. Best first post I've seen in a long time.

  16. Re:Only when I say 'Buy" first! on Report: Google To Add 'Buy' Buttons To Mobile Search Results · · Score: 1

    It's why Wikipedia is popular. It is one of the few places you can search on a subject and get that subject returned. And then have it give you useful or interesting information on that topic. Google returns nothing but spam now. Biggest spam machine since Hormel.

  17. Now Google is fucking up the internet on Report: Google To Add 'Buy' Buttons To Mobile Search Results · · Score: 2

    First they fuck up my mobile experience by putting sites they think aren't good enough for mobile to be off the radar as far a search results go. They say it is because mobile pages are better. I say bullshit. Even on my phone, 90% of the time I'd rather see a full site with columns than a fucking mobile site. Most mobile sites are shit compared to the full site, and the size of screens are more than enough to handle it. Fuck off Google and just return search results without your fucking tailoring.

    Now it seems they are OK with wasting screen real estate if it is for them to put 'buy' buttons on their searches. I say again, fuck off google.

    Maybe time to try yahoo or duck duck for searches.

  18. The Exact Reason For This Airbnb Major Fail on From Commune To Sharing Economy Startup · · Score: 1

    Your argument is true quite often, but not always. But still, it is why this Airbnb failure happened, and why it will again and again: Specifically Damages could hit $150,000 in Calgary home trashed by Airbnb renters

  19. Your argument is OK as far as it goes. But I believe the OP did make a point, while kind of vague, about asking who executes who if you execute an innocent man? It has happened more than once in the past. And we constantly see people exonerated who were convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death after a trial. So who do we execute if the trial finds that an innocent person should be executed and it happens? Do we execute the jury? The judge? The police? The prosecutor? The defense? Any of them? None of them? Why?

    For what it's worth, I don't have too much of a problem doing away with someone for murder when it is absolutely for certain that they caught the real bad guy. But I don't like it dragging on for years, and I don't like it done humanely behind walls. Make it horrible and in public. That way everyone sees what's up. Out of sight out of mind need not apply here. And for me, if an innocent person is executed, find out why and execute the people responsible... but at least one of them has to be an official... even if it includes jury members. That would have made trials of blacks by all white juries in the south more entertaining. Let them wear their uniforms while swinging. It would look like putting out the bed sheets on the line.

  20. Re:The new version is terrible! on Google Sunsetting Old Version of Google Maps · · Score: 4, Informative

    They focus test for all the advertising spam that pops shows up instead of what you're really trying to search for.

  21. Re:nope on The Problem With Using End-to-End Web Crypto as a Cure-All · · Score: 4, Funny
  22. Re:Bring on the discussion of fair sentencing... on 'Revenge Porn' Operator Gets 18 Years In Prison · · Score: 1

    He didn't "aid" in blackmailing people. He blackmailed people.

  23. Re:They don't know what "hard" is. on SpaceX's New Combustion Technologies · · Score: 1

    implemented systemd

    FTFY: implementd systemd

  24. Re:Oh, *BRILLIANT* on Fake Suicide Attempt Tests Facebook Prevention Tool, Lands Man In Asylum · · Score: 1

    Catch 21.

  25. Re:Great example on Fake Suicide Attempt Tests Facebook Prevention Tool, Lands Man In Asylum · · Score: 2

    Off the selves... Nice