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  1. Re:Anyone notice the far right getting cozy on Facebook Takes Down Fake Account Network Used To Spread Hate In UK (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It is bizarre because atheism is mainstream and popular in the UK and evangelicals and religion in general have little influence. If this is Putin's mob trying to stir up enmity again, then they might have been wasting their time.

  2. Is it those pesky Russians at the Internet Research Agency again? I bet it is. If only our bare-chested comrade would do something to improve his own people's lot instead of stealing from them, cutting their pensions and trying to bring other countries down to his crooked level.

  3. Re: Trump is a moron on China, Russia Are Listening To Trump's Phone Calls, Says NYT Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    None of that is relevant. He barely won and wouldn't have without the interventions by Putin and Brennan.

  4. Re: Trump is a moron on China, Russia Are Listening To Trump's Phone Calls, Says NYT Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "Truly imagine the quality of person that Trump had to beat to make it into office."

    It wasn't Hillary he had to beat but the good judgement of those who voted for him. He barely did it and only with help from Putin, Brennan and the electoral college because of course he still got millions fewer votes than Hillary.

  5. "If something that's not on the BOM for the PCB has been glued to the board and blue-wired into it"

    It was apparently not that obvious. They (allegedly) changed the board design at the factories making the Super Micro boards. Also,

    "In one case, the malicious chips were thin enough that theyâ(TM)d been embedded between the layers of fiberglass onto which the other components were attached, according to one person who saw pictures of the chips. That generation of chips was smaller than a sharpened pencil tip, the person says.

  6. What are we to make of Bloomberg's story then? Did they invent it?

    In all, 17 people confirmed the manipulation of Supermicro's hardware and other elements of the attacks. The sources were granted anonymity because of the sensitive, and in some cases classified, nature of the information.

  7. Cody Wilson belatedly realises he would have been better off spending his time making a 3D printed woman.

  8. I hope you're not suggesting that comparing Hillary's official spend with Russia's official spend is a sensible comparison.

  9. Re: Read another way... on Pretty Clear GRU's Goal Was To Weaken a Future Clinton Presidency, Former Facebook CSO Says (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why do you minimize the Russian spend?

  10. Re: "...the president continues to act in a manner on White House Says Anonymous 'Coward' Behind New York Times Op-Ed Should Resign (freerepublic.com) · · Score: 0

    "There's lots of things the president can't decide on."

    "Blue crayon, red crayon, blue crayon, red crayon."

  11. Yes but your drilling would also look like that if you drank a litre of vodka before your shift.

  12. Oh you really think it's the emergency services that are causing this throttling? Too many forest fires perhaps?

    It would have to be a really thin pipe in the first place for that to be true.

  13. Re: Baby, Meet Bathwater on Google To Nix All Tech Support Provider Ads (itnews.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Google is working on a verification programme for legitimate technical support providers, akin to how it checks local locksmith services and addiction treatment centres for fraud, [Google's director of public policy] Graff said.

  14. Re: laws in the uk? on Murder Suspect Jailed Over Refusing To Reveal Password In the UK (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "He's an Imperial Stormtrooper! He could just bust the door down!"

    Well hold on a minute. Not in all circumstances. On their own ships they get in a lot of trouble just busting doors down. Stormtroopers were blasting doors off their hinges if they forgot their keys or for other trivial reasons and after a while Facilities complained to the Captain. Now if they don't have a Designated Master Key Holder in the squad they have to call in for permission from an senior officer and then fill in reports afterwards with evidence and everything and if the reports are rejected it comes out of their salary. Same with their uniforms.

  15. Re: Physics on Physicists Measure Gravity With Record Precision (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Only photons at rest have no mass. Unfortunately we haven't found any. All photons we know of have energy and thus mass.

  16. Re: Well what is it? on Physicists Measure Gravity With Record Precision (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been through the data and the answer is obvious: someone wrote a 1 instead of a 4 or possibly (following Heisenberg) vice versa.

  17. Re: Bullshit!!! on Physicists Measure Gravity With Record Precision (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Electrons exist, for some uncertain definition of existence.

  18. Re: well now ... on EU Backs Ending Daylight Saving Time (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    By the same token, Churchill was almost always drunk and he did OK.

  19. Re: Seriously, America. on Mass Shooting Reported at Madden Video Game Tournament in Florida (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    "We're down to about 3% of Americans owning guns legally"

    That looked obviously wrong and so it is.

    Only a quarter of Americans own guns, according to numbers from General Social Survey and Gallup in 2013.

    But

    The US tops the list of countries with the most guns, owning about half the world's guns while making up only 5% of the world population. In relative terms, the US has the highest number of guns per capita. There were an estimated 89 to 100 guns for every 100 Americans in 2013

    How many guns you got?

    The average American gun owner owns three guns, according to a 2015 survey conducted by Harvard and Northwestern University. More than a half of them own just one or two, whereas 14% of them - 7.7 million or 3% of the US population - own anywhere between eight to 140 guns. This 3% of the population owns half of the civilian guns in the US.

    https://qz.com/1095899/gun-own...

  20. Well, Christianity, Islam and Judaism are regarded as Fake News by an increasing number of people.

  21. Re: Confused on AWS Error Exposed GoDaddy Business Secrets (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Whoosh whoosh.

  22. Re: Happy Birthday Piratebay! on The Pirate Bay Turns 15 (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    In the UK it's blocked iby most ISPs following a court order but a quick search will bring up sites like notreallypiratebay.com (I made that one up but who knows).

  23. Re: Celebrate by downloading Nintendo ROMS. on The Pirate Bay Turns 15 (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    That's "Big Mouse".

  24. Fine if you have 10G unallocated and Dropbox don't check the root partition.

  25. G whizz on 'It's Time to End the Yearly Smartphone Launch Event' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Next year's phone* will have 5G, without which social life will not be worth living.

    * maybe the year after.