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  1. Re:Video only? on Legislation Would Prohibit ISPs From Throttling Online Video Services · · Score: 1

    Profit first, principle second.

  2. Re:Not going to happen on Legislation Would Prohibit ISPs From Throttling Online Video Services · · Score: 1

    And if it does happen, it's designed to support the big names like Netflix and Youtube, not net neutrality for anyone else, who can't afford their own custom legislation.

  3. Re:Intellectual property is a hoax. on WikiLeaks Releases the Secret Draft Text of the TPP IP Rights Chapter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Intellectual property is a useful social construct. This post is a bit like saying "manslaughter is a hoax" because all the distinctions between it and murder are subjective. The problem isn't the existence of intellectual property as a concept, but its treatment as a shining jewel of fundamental rights. Ignoring the purpose of something in legislating about it is always a problem.

  4. Re:Dallas? on Physicists Plan to Build a Bigger LHC · · Score: 5, Funny

    hmmm....I wonder where they could build it. Oh - I know. Dallas. The tunnel has been dug so all they have to do is drop in a few magnates.

    I'm all for putting Donald Trump underground, but shouldn't we cover the hole with dirt afterwards?

  5. Re:Encountered this kind of thing ... on Microsoft Kills Stack Ranking · · Score: 1

    Normalization is a thing. Not that I'm saying they're using it. Just that it exists.

  6. Re:They printed off assembler on Apple II DOS Source Code Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I like to imagine every new programmer has that amazing sense of euphoria as they begin to uncover all the major algorithms for themselves, and begin developing a sense of just how much is possible with programming.

    Then it's your job. To give the end-user some uninteresting but necessary layer of data connectivity.

  7. Re:Good thing it's non-commercial on Apple II DOS Source Code Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    You never know... I'm not sure how far back in time Microsoft goes to rip off Apple; they do always seem to be pretty late to the party.

  8. They printed off assembler on Apple II DOS Source Code Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Whatever your complaints about your job, at least debugging your code doesn't involve stepping through assembly on a pencil and paper virtual machine.

  9. Re:Encountered this kind of thing ... on Microsoft Kills Stack Ranking · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's not the problem. I mean, it's a problem. But the real problem is trying to apply numerical methods to personal subjective assessment.

  10. Re:The old Chair-man is gone on Microsoft Kills Stack Ranking · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes. It's time for a new plan. New leadership. A new face to take this once proud company and lift it up. To trod on customers in bold and unprecedented ways. To crush the employees wills in ways never before seen. To boost short-term gains for utterly amazing long-term losses in a way unheard of by mankind. In short, to make Microsoft the utterly clusterfuck it was born to be.

  11. Re:Recurring theme? on Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Vanishes, Taking £2.5m of Coins With It · · Score: 2

    Even doey eyed idealists like convenience.

  12. Re:Recurring theme? on Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Vanishes, Taking £2.5m of Coins With It · · Score: 2

    It's functionally untraceable, or at least trivial of launder, because the envelope only includes encrypted information about previous owners.

  13. Re:America on The NSA Is Looking For a Few Good Geeks · · Score: 1

    I never do that. Advertisers can burn in hell forever, and anyone who depends on them can adapt a new strategy or burn with them.

  14. Re:Don't worry guys on Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Vanishes, Taking £2.5m of Coins With It · · Score: 1, Insightful

    His point is that he has a marginally different impression of the role of government than what appears to be the default in his country, therefor every act of that government is clearly tyranny.

  15. Re:Recurring theme? on Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Vanishes, Taking £2.5m of Coins With It · · Score: 2

    Because the rubes in this case should have been aware of the risks, getting involved in an untraceable currency. It's practically designed for illegal activity, so the news here is fly-by-night should be assumed to be the default.

  16. Re:Recurring theme? on Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Vanishes, Taking £2.5m of Coins With It · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sadly no, people seem to cling to bitcoins no matter how many times this happens. The kind of people drawn to anonymous decentralized currencies aren't the kind that are going to be deterred by measurable financial risk.

  17. They can't program the devices to fail on a specific day. That's stupid. They're just designed with a secret substance that reacts with that day's PLANNED CHEMTRAIL composition.

  18. Re:America on The NSA Is Looking For a Few Good Geeks · · Score: 1

    2 of those have had more advertising directed at raising their profile than lowering them. And BP is quite happily back on a profitable path.

  19. Re:world ramifications... on The NSA Is Looking For a Few Good Geeks · · Score: 1

    You had to be pretty dumb to have trusted us any time since there wasn't a soviet union to worry about anymore(or before then, but at least you had a good reason).

  20. America on The NSA Is Looking For a Few Good Geeks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Enough advertising overcomes any negative consequences of your actions.

  21. Re:New possibilities on Solid Concepts Manufactures First 3D-Printed Metal Pistol · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how that criticism could possibly apply in a conversation about open source designs and 3d printing.

  22. Re:New possibilities on Solid Concepts Manufactures First 3D-Printed Metal Pistol · · Score: 1

    Well, I'd say modularity is fantastic for maintainability, and an absolute necessity for anything with moving parts. One solid piece isn't always what you want.

  23. Re:Manbearpig in 5...4...3... on Largest and Most Intense Tropical Cyclone On Record Hits the Philippines · · Score: 1

    Could you pretend to have a point? In the context of the post, I was pretending to not care about facts at all; including a factual argument would have weakened the point.

  24. Re:Manbearpig in 5...4...3... on Largest and Most Intense Tropical Cyclone On Record Hits the Philippines · · Score: 0, Troll

    I also can't demonstrate my points in reality, and rely on fiction as the entire basis of my perspectives. Let's have an Atlas Shrugged party together(BYOB, parasites).

  25. Re:He WAS ex-soviet on Spooked By His Sci Fi, FBI Looked Into Asimov As Possible Communist Tipster · · Score: 2

    It doesn't matter, because if you have relatives in another country, they just assume that country has potential leverage over you.