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  1. Foreign vs US developers on Tech Looks To Obama To Save Them From 'Just Sort of OK' US Workers · · Score: 2

    Most of our foreign (European) contractors are better developers (and all round co-workers) than the home grown US developers, unpopular thing to say but there it is. Add to that they are better educated in general than the US devs and US developers have the highest sense of self-entitlement and things start to look clear. I am a senior sysadmin and I prefer to deal with the foreign devs and select them for projects as they are not obsessed with position and work place politics, they just get it done.

  2. Unique? on Scientists Confirm Life Under Antarctic Ice · · Score: 1

    These organisms survive by converting methane into energy, enabling them to survive where there is no wind or sunlight, buried deep under the ice.

    Whats producing the methane?

  3. Not my job on Knocking Down the Great Firewall of China · · Score: -1, Troll

    Its not our job to knock it down. Its the job of the chinese citizens.

    I know it sounds un-American and like I'm not a team player in the Us Vs Them battle, but fuck it, not my job.

  4. Well they better hurry on Russia Prepares For Internet War Over Malaysian Jet · · Score: 1

    Coz we're wayyyyy ahead of them

  5. Must vote remain underlings on Scotland Could Become Home To Britain's First Spaceport · · Score: 0

    They'll get their "wee spacey house" If they would only be good little subjects and vote to remain part of Britain so England can still pretend to be an imperial power?

    Braveheart would not approve.

  6. So SSL is nothing more than an honor system? on India's National Informatics Centre Forged Google SSL Certificates · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So SSL is nothing more than an honor system? Fuck that. Security , such as it was, is utterly fucked now that any tin-pot government quango can start intercepting.

  7. Disgusted but not really surprised on Privacy Oversight Board Gives NSA Surveillance a Pass · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is absolutely abhorrent. The surveillance is illegal, the NSA even admits they spy on American citizens.

    The US government is not "of the people", nor is it "for the people". The intelligence services exist purely to maintain and protect dynastic power for the privileged few.

  8. Re:"inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant" on Thousands of Europeans Petition For Their 'Right To Be Forgotten' · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Why can't MEPs have as much integrity as our congressmen, senators and president.

  9. Iranians and their propaganda new outlets on Iranian Hacker Group Created Fake News Organization For Social Engineering · · Score: 1

    That would NEVER fly here in the US.

  10. Obsolescence is a cruel mistress on Report: Apple To Unveil "Smart Home" System · · Score: 1, Funny

    Awesome if you are prepared to rip it out and install a new one every 3 years, when Cupertino yells "Change Places!"

  11. Lets users control security? on Report: Apple To Unveil "Smart Home" System · · Score: 1

    The system will allow users to control security systems

    Surely they mean "property owners"? This will not end well.

  12. Bring back the firing squad on Botched Executions Put Lethal Injections Under New Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    Cheap, effective, quick ("humane"), and we don't need to rely on other nations to produce the materials.

  13. Re:Fix according to Apple is on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 1

    I hear it in the voice of the one armed army surplus store owner from the Simpsons

  14. San Fran is a poisonous shit hole now on Could High Bay-Area Prices Make Sacramento the Next Big Startup Hub? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Full of over-entitled punks talking shit in an incestuous echo chamber. I lived there for a few months not so long ago as part of a system roll-out job. Shopkeepers, bar staff and cab drivers said they were constantly being abused and condescended to by them. Its gotten really really bad.

    When the property bubble pops there, it will be sweet.

  15. Re: NO Photoshop for you! on Adobe Creative Cloud Services Offline (Again?) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Dolt? Did you miss the part about the license validation services being offline?
    I guess so.


    You are the most dangerous kind of techie of all, you know more than nothing but less than enough, and are not afraid to use it.

  16. NO Photoshop for you! on Adobe Creative Cloud Services Offline (Again?) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wasn't avoiding the "single point of failure" a large part of the reason for cloud services being pushed in our faces in the first place?

    This is truly a spectacular failure on Adobe's part.

  17. Like that scene from Blazing Saddles... on Major ISPs Threaten To Throttle Innovation and Slow Network Upgrades · · Score: 5, Funny

    where the new sheriff holds a gun to his own head and threatens to pull the trigger in order to get everyone to back off. I think it will work this time too as the FCC et al do their usual backing off party trick.

  18. Wow they better be careful with this on Google Testing Gmail Redesign · · Score: 1

    ... they could easily hang themselves with this tinkering. It may end up saving Yahoo Mail by creating a diaspora.

  19. Hmmm some artful Apple misdirection on Apple Can Extract Texts, Photos, Contacts From Locked iPhones · · Score: 2

    How about google, hotmail, facebook etc passwords from Safari's settings? Thats what law enforcement always look for. That is cop gold right there. Who gives a crap about the data in the calendar app, thats all hosted on apples cloud anyway.

  20. Sen. McCarthy said the same thing in the 50s on Kerry Says US Is On the "Right Side of History" When It Comes To Online Freedom · · Score: 3, Insightful

    US Gov gives itself a stellar report card. What a surprise.

  21. The consumer gets screwed, as usual on Jury Finds Apple and Samsung Infringed Each Other's Patents · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Its us the consumer who ends up picking up the tab for the legal bills, and in the end we just find out what we all knew already, they all steal each others ideas. Thanks Apple.

  22. Reads like a TMZ.com headline on Star Cluster Ejected From Galaxy At 2,000,000 MPH · · Score: 2

    If Star Cluster was a rap posse and Galaxy was a club.

  23. Sounds suspiciously like the current system on Lessig Launches a Super PAC To End All Super PACs · · Score: 1

    So they are going to influence policy by writing big checks? And this is change? Am I missing something.

  24. In America? on High-School Star League Brings Gaming As Sport to Teenagers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Pizza is considered a vegetable in the US so nothing surprises me any more from a country that measures food quality in calories per dollar.

    Who knows maybe on future the US Olympic organizers will petition for "Eating Cheet-ohs" to be admitted as an event.

  25. Like most governments... on Imminent Server Seizure Tests Brazil's New Internet Bill of Rights · · Score: 4, Informative

    they are full of shit.

    All the noises they;ve made about protecting rights and speech are just lies. They are desperately trying to look like a "people first" nation in the run up to the FIFA World Cup, to counter and quell the unrest at home relating to the spiralling cost of hosting the tournament.