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  1. Like I say, no strategy. Just close your eyes and pretend.

  2. Banning a few accounts would take care of the last problem.

  3. Re:The classified rules dating from 2013 on Secret Rules Make It Pretty Easy For the FBI To Spy On Journalists (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    How much voice printing do you think they can do with phone quality sound?

    They would have to install a local app to print the local higher quality sound samples and get you to repeat test phrases. Even then false positives would be huge problem for them. To say nothing of the increased odds of being caught out, having so many apps on so many phones.

    Which is a good argument for using feature phones as burners and changing them more often than underwear.

    Fundamentally, secrets are better kept offline though. I'd agree that not carrying the phone to IRL meetings is smart.

  4. Nice, keep it up. _Blatant_ fixing with smarmy attitude had everything to do with the results. Pretending they aren't now in a credibility crisis isn't going to do them any good. That would have been the strategy had Clinton won...now they don't have one.

    I say that having voted for Johnson.

    Next cycle, CNN should get no presidential debates. They can't be trusted.

  5. More government is not the solution for too much government. There are, in fact, more than two sides to any story.

  6. Re:Both sides of the coin on Indian IT Sector Warns Against US Visa Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Just for ref (and to piss you off). My dad came to the USA in 1963 on contract to do research work on the Apollo heat shield. He got a green card in 30 days.

  7. Re:Why don't H1Bs simply build companies at home? on Indian IT Sector Warns Against US Visa Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The Pilgrims were puritan assholes too obnoxious for even the English to tolerate. British religious wars were over by then, except in Ireland.

  8. Re:They should stay and improve their own countrie on Indian IT Sector Warns Against US Visa Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Half of us are here to squirt, the other half are here to ooze. (Mark Mothersbaugh).

  9. Re:Labor shortage in engineering? on Indian IT Sector Warns Against US Visa Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Hire C++ programmers and lobotomize them. Done.

  10. Re:What are they gonna do? on Indian IT Sector Warns Against US Visa Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I had a solid handle on _all_ the building trades before I started Engineering school.

    Professional electricians don't fix drywall, they will cut the walls open, but leave the fixup after to 'professional' painters.

  11. Keep it up, nominate a full tilt red in 4 years. Guarantee another 1461.

  12. Re:The classified rules dating from 2013 on Secret Rules Make It Pretty Easy For the FBI To Spy On Journalists (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Burner phones. Duh.

    It's long past the point where 'they' can ever be trusted. Journalists anywhere near controversy use burners, as they should.

    BTW Thanks Ed, I was getting sick of being called paranoid.

  13. Re:secret rules on Secret Rules Make It Pretty Easy For the FBI To Spy On Journalists (theintercept.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Too soon.

    Everybody still remembers the 'free press' being owned by the Clinton campaign. Try again in four years, most Americans have poor memories, CNN, NYT etc might have a tiny shred of credibility back by then.

    Then again, that would require they tone down the propaganda for a period, so they might not.

  14. Re:Oh for goodness sake on Vinyl Record Production Gets a Much-Needed Tech Upgrade (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Motor noise? How is that more of a problem with DD vs belt? Belt drive uses a higher RPM motor.

    It's not like there are any active circuits in the signal path in the turntable and it's not like the motors are high torque monsters. Shield the motor and the cartridge and you're done. Which you have to do anyhow, 60Hz buzzes suck.

  15. Re:Hyland's teething tablets on FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses To Recall (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Male children?

  16. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest it's the hotspot doing it.

  17. Re:I know it's fun to make fun of Homeopathy on FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses To Recall (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I see no child shortage.

  18. Hey Butthead, they spelt 'woman' wrong.

    Cool, stupid chicks are easy.

  19. You are confused.

  20. Re:Hyland's teething tablets on FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses To Recall (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Make sure you bleed them regularly, to keep their humors in balance and drain off toxic blood.

  21. Re:Inevitable and unavoidable on FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses To Recall (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't the British NHS recently stop paying for homeopathic and chiropractic treatment?

    Begs the question: 'How long did they waste money on bullshit?' Did they let it decimate their patient population first? Irregardless of who pays, bullshit thrives. I could care less.

  22. Re:Oh for goodness sake on Vinyl Record Production Gets a Much-Needed Tech Upgrade (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You know the two important components on a turntable based setup?

    Phono cartridge and speakers. Nothing else matters until you get those _right_. Any direct drive turntable was as good as it's phono cartridge, but no better.

    A good cartridge cost far more than most consumer turntables. But so long as the turntable had enough rotating mass, strobe based speed adjustment and you didn't turn the speakers up to feedback it sounded as good as any turntable once you put the nice moving coil cartridge in.

    After cartridge and speakers you spend money on amp/preamp.

    These days 99% of idiots buying vinyl, play it on utter crap USB turntables.

  23. Re:Oh for goodness sake on Vinyl Record Production Gets a Much-Needed Tech Upgrade (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't separate seeds on a paper copy.

    Haven't seen pot with seeds since just after switching to CDs.

  24. Re:Have they added DRM yet? on Vinyl Record Production Gets a Much-Needed Tech Upgrade (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Loudness wars had been going on for a decade on vinyl in the 1970s-80s. The media limited how bad it could get. Happened on cassette a lot (trying to hide the hiss).

    There was a time when vinyl had one mix/eq (for average home audio), while cassette and 8-track had another (for crap car stereos of the day).

  25. Re:VR IS AWESOME on 10% Of 'Resident Evil 7' Players Are Wearing VR Headsets (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Mechwarrior Online supports VR.

    Mechwarrior Mercenaries supported the VFX1 in 1997.