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  1. Re:Hate to ask the obvious, but... on Obama Is Forgiving the Student Loans of Nearly 400,000 Permanently Disabled People (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    disabled when they decided to enter post secondary education

    And what is the nature of their disability that didn't interfere with course work but interferes with holding a paying job?

  2. sending in documented proof of their disability

    Do you mean to tell me that it's too much trouble for them to send in a copy of their liberal arts degree?

  3. It's not Facebook or Google. It's Facebook-UK or Google-Italy. Each can report their income and expenses within the jurisdiction that they operate. Usually this is an individual country. Those expenses can include interest, franchise, management, licensing and other fees paid to the parent corporation. If this parent corporation resides outside that taxing jurisdiction, good luck getting any continent-wide or global information out. The subsidiary doesn't have access to it and the local taxing authorities can't touch the parent.

  4. Re:Varying levels of classified documents on Obama: The Word 'Classified' Means Whatever We Need It To Mean (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Some information is only shared on a need to know basis

    That's a property of the clearance of the people using the material. I might be able to view top secret information. But only for the program for which I am cleared.

  5. Re:Why do we have gender-specific bathrooms? on Porn Giant xHamster Blocks North Carolina Users Who Support Anti-LGBT Law (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I call bullshit.

    I can't speak for France. On the other hand, I can for The Netherlands.

  6. Just redirect requests to a trap porn site.

  7. Re:Who cares if it ain't yours? on Genetic Studies Prove Cuckolded Fathers Are Rare In Human Populations · · Score: 0

    The thought of raising someone else's child typically has associations of infidelity.

    If it's infidelity that worries you, you have a problem. Infidelity happens quite frequently compared to the 'cuckhold father' rate. But it rarely results in offspring due to effective means of birth control.

  8. Re:Here's one that really gets under their skin on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Insults No Developer Wants To Hear? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    never bothered to learn how to interact effectively with other human beings

    The API documentation sucks.

  9. I cried ... on Apple Patent Filing Points To a Keyboard With No Keys (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    ... because I had no keys until I met a man who had no fingers.

  10. Re:inequality: a false measuring stick on Life Expectancy Study: It's Not Just What You Make, It's Where You Live (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    As for health their have been studies that show the more equal a society is (probably to a point) the healthier, happier they are, even the rich are sightly better off.

    But this study demonstrates otherwise. They took NYC as an example of great income disparity with a resulting smaller (and shrinking) gap in life expectancy disparity. I read that as; It's not income, it's something else.

  11. Re:inequality: a false measuring stick on Life Expectancy Study: It's Not Just What You Make, It's Where You Live (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    that selfishness is evil

    I can tolerate some wealth redistribution. But what are we expected to do about life expectancy? Take some wealthy people out into the town square and shoot them?

  12. So, this just leaves ... on Director Brennan: CIA Won't Waterboard Again, Even If Ordered By Future President (msnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ... the IRS.

  13. Hiroshima and Nagasaki ... on G-7 Leaders At Hiroshima To Urge More Visits to Nuclear Bombsites (voanews.com) · · Score: 1

    ... as tourism destinations? Somehow, that's not fair. They have a monopoly and can generate all sorts of tourism income. All we have is Detroit.

  14. Some aliens ... on NASA's Kepler Enters Emergency Mode 75 Million Miles From Earth (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... stuck tape over the lens.

  15. Re:They have re-invented monkey by the typewriter on Website Attempts To Generate Every Possible Patentable Invention (allpriorart.com) · · Score: 1

    They have re-invented monkey by the typewriter, and they are using computer power

    So, completely in keeping with the existing patent process then.

    Submit 'Something, something, blah blah blah' (all prior art) and append using a computer or using the Internet and you have a brand new patent.

  16. My roof has been green for years.

  17. Re:To paraphrase Zappa on Opinion: DevOps Is Dead (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    making one or more of the devs do the sysadmins' job

    Or it might mean hiring sysadmins who have some crossover talent into the dev camp. So they can work well with the development team. And then the sysadmins who get fired are the ones who don't want to help out in the development phase.

    In any organization there are a certain number of man hours of work to be done. Both on the admin as well as the dev side. Take a developer and expect him to do admin work and that's some development work that won't be getting done.

  18. ... than their usual method of collecting DNA by clipping the finger tip off of an interrogation subject with garden shears.

  19. Re:Why would the USA get a visit rather than other on Clinton Campaign Chair: 'The American People Can Handle The Truth' On UFOs (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Why even humans?

    So long. And thanks for all the fish.

  20. Re:Don't tell Donald Trump! on Clinton Campaign Chair: 'The American People Can Handle The Truth' On UFOs (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Walls? We're going to need a ceiling as well.

  21. We're just trying to drag the world down to our level. It's the bucket of crabs mentality.

  22. ... the odd numbered bytes.

  23. To paraphrase Zappa on Opinion: DevOps Is Dead (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    DevOps isn't dead. It just smells funny.

    But someone still has to come in and write the required tool set.

    This is what is killing it. Not the idea that developers have to write deployable, maintainable stuff. Ops needs to plug it in correctly. So lets create a software lifecycle that sits both parties down at the table while the requirements paper is still blank. That's a good idea. What makes it smell like a rotten corpse is the idea that a nice, shiny toolset must be procured to do the job. And consultants tacked big price tags onto their products and shoved them down the CIO's throat.

  24. Re:hoo boy this article. on Apple's Fight With US Over Privacy Enters a New Round (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    this took place largely through secret FISA court orders and wasnt a huge problem until the FBI pulled the wig off the fat lady. Apple would love to continue secretly unlocking phones,

    It's possible that the straw which broke the camel's back was the FBI's request for Apple to write a cracking tool. Rather than unlocking phones for them one at a time. With the tool, the FBI could go into the business of cracking phones themselves, no warrant (secret court or otherwise) needed.

    Furthermore, a sly DoJ lawyer could make an argument that, once the FBI has been provided with such a tool, any attempt by Apple to improve phone security could be interpreted as interfering with law enforcement if the tool ceased to work. Once you give the FBI a capability, it will be hell taking it back.