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  1. Re:Same as Columbus on Multi-National Crew Reaches Space Station · · Score: 1

    The costs for digging things up on earth are going to be higher than anywhere else because it is our own habitat.

  2. Re:In other words. on FCC Confirms Delay of New Net Neutrality Rules Until 2015 · · Score: 1

    Actually, this is very intentional. This means that there is no way to have net neutrality at all until probably 2018 or later, because we can't even begin lawsuits to confirm how it should work/how it exists until after the FCC even tries.

    This confirms that wheeler has been in the pocket of vested interests the entire time.

  3. Re:Simple fix on Apple's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 1

    No.

    Most manufacturing is in China because it's one of the only places people do it anymore. Low margin items are simply not commonly manufactured in the US and haven't been for probably 30 years.

  4. Re:nope on Net Neutrality Alone Won't Solve ISP Throttling Abuse, Here's Why · · Score: 1

    clarification: prioritization conflates latency with bandwidth. Right now a lack of bandwidth is the most prominent reason for increased latency.

  5. Re:nope on Net Neutrality Alone Won't Solve ISP Throttling Abuse, Here's Why · · Score: 1, Troll

    The entire post was bad. Voice isn't even latency sensitive and the reason for prioritizing as an ISP is because of how shitty they are doing in managing their bandwidth, aka deliberately creating a lack of. If things aren't being saturated, there shouldn't be a need for prioritization at all.

    Is there a need for compression and optimization? Absolutely.

  6. Re:To what Standard? on NSA Director Says Agency Shares Most, But Not All, Bugs It Finds · · Score: 1

    Economics involving internet business is not and has never been zero sum. Please don't ever post here.

  7. No on Another Election, Another Slew of Voting Machine Glitches · · Score: 1

    Not quite.

    We'll get it right when we stop using shit voting machine companies that happen to do a shit job. It's not like diebold was ever known for quality at any time in their existence, for example.

  8. Re:Not a feminist issue. on The Inevitable Death of the Internet Troll · · Score: 1

    It's not a troll. You might not agree with everything people say. Your optional response is more speech. That's life, man. Deal with it. That's not a troll, that's explicit fact. My method of conveying it is not polite because I don't see a need to be.

    My"sally" was pointing out what you said was wrong. While my definition wasn't perfect either, it was worth pointing out that it was incorrect. Sorry your feelings are so precious that nobody can dare point out that you're wrong. Oh well, we'll have to chalk that up to problems other than free speech....I have no polite or friendly term to call it, but I assure you all of them are negative.

    You might want to read popehat's article today, because it sums up a lot of the feminism stuff that you posted wrongly.

  9. Re:"Social justice warriors" are the ultimate trol on The Inevitable Death of the Internet Troll · · Score: 1

    That's simple free speech. Feminism has the same common goal it always has, and people having differing opinions is simply what makes that up. You get a spectrum, not a single viewpoint unless it is a single person view. Feminism is not a 1 person movement, ergo. The only response to speech is speech, and criticizing other people's speech tends to open you up to the same.

    This is like criticizing that two people who are are both declared $view, whether that is pro feminism or democrat or geek, are wrong because their opinions disagree, simply because they both still support something - such as equality, or freedom, or being anti-gaming corruption.

    You couldn't be more wrong in your understanding because you basically created a strawman and pointed to it. I suggest you read as below.

    http://www.popehat.com/2014/10...

  10. Re:Alternatives? Same problem.. on FTDI Removes Driver From Windows Update That Bricked Cloned Chips · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Not a feminist issue. on The Inevitable Death of the Internet Troll · · Score: 1

    Among the healthy and mature, there's no right "not to be offended"; not for men, and not for women. There is 100% equality here.

    That is not the equality which feminism is about. Being able to be offended is free speech and has nothing to do with feminism at all. In fact, being offended may be completely false or completely legitimate and none of that is relevant to anything

  12. Re:Alternatives? Same problem.. on FTDI Removes Driver From Windows Update That Bricked Cloned Chips · · Score: 1

    There is no part of "right" here, and is 100% wrong. You don't combat counterfeit items by destroying them, that doesn't do anything. You build a better product and accept that counterfeit exists because you aren't serving some part of the market. Serve that part, or deal with that the market has routed around your shortcomings via counterfeits.

  13. Re:"Social justice warriors" are the ultimate trol on The Inevitable Death of the Internet Troll · · Score: -1, Troll

    Feminist blogger? What does that even mean? You're defining something in a way that cannot possibly be correct, because you imply feminist bloggers are women. Your entire concept of "feminist blogger" is wrong. First: There are men who also push for women to have equal rights too.
    Second: you've got it backwards. Most of the SJW's are men who say that they're being oppressed by "feminists", or women who push for equality.

    Feminism becomes obsolete when women and men are treated equally and with equal privilege, something you very clearly do not understand.

  14. Re:All the more reason to get an antenna. on Your Online TV Watching Can Now Be Tracked Across Devices · · Score: 1

    Why pay for TV when you can download the shows you care about?

    TV is so terrible at catering to people who only want to pay for what they want to see, so you may as well get it when you want how you want - because they refuse to provide that.

  15. Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Which is why they went from above the federal minimum of 3 seconds, to exactly the federal minimum and thus below said minimu. This has happened repeatedly.

  16. Re:Telsa's lobbiest crashes on Michigan About To Ban Tesla Sales · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Look at the existing franchise laws and how they are being used. It's not really a question that bribes are occurring, it's what lobbying is by it's very definition.

  17. Re:Let me get this right on Bill Gates: Piketty's Attack on Income Inequality Is Right · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. You know why? Efficient taxation should result in more tax money coming in. If they can't do so, that's a fault of putting out inefficient taxes.

  18. Re:That's not the reason you're being ignored. on Flight Attendants Want Stricter Gadget Rules Reinstated · · Score: 1

    You know how everything you said is 100% false?

    When the captain says "brace for impact", if someone is deaf and on their phones? How much of a difference is it going to make? Zero. Now apply the same to people who can hear, and guess what? Same impact.

  19. Re:Oh hey, consumers! on Belkin Router Owners Suffering Massive Outages · · Score: 1

    Be reasonable. It may have been *sys.

  20. Re:Nope on Text While Driving In Long Island and Have Your Phone Disabled · · Score: 1

    This requires people to install the app. That's a failure right there on many levels.
    Not only that, but it cannot tell if you are the driver or the passenger. That's failure #2.

    Then you get to the fact that this could stop you from making emergency calls. That's questionable and teeters in the "is this even legal?" quesiton range.

    It is not just the implementation - the very concept of "if vehicle is moving you cannot use your phone" will ALWAYS be wrong whether it can figure out you are a passenger or not, if the decision is implemented via software.

  21. Nope on Text While Driving In Long Island and Have Your Phone Disabled · · Score: 0

    It should be the District attorney that is disabled (or never quoted ever again). She is an idiot, because software like the interlock concept doesn't exist on a phone.

    Part of the problem is user education and part of it is that an attorney who has no understanding of technology who simply wants to create more business via litigation.

    Who the fuck is Kathleen Rice and why should any of us give a shit? Answer: we shouldn't.

  22. Re:Employers don't want employees who LOOK lazy. on Coffee Naps Better For Alertness Than Coffee Or Naps Alone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Of course an employer can do what they want which includes busywork, but that doesn't mean the employer isn't a complete failure when it comes to defining the scope of a job position. Most employers are too lazy to do this well.

    Any employer who can't accept that you won't be busy every second of the day is not an employer worth working for in any country in the world.

  23. Re:I like... on U.S. Senator: All Cops Should Wear Cameras · · Score: 2

    It will save a hell of a lot of the settlements they have as a result of illegal police action as it will hold police accountable, too.

    That is as long as they can't disable or prevent the recording.

    So far, it seems every version of a camera tool lets an officer later review and potentially delete the information, which can lead back to the same coverup/problems.

  24. Re:So, is there any shred of EVIDENCE? on How the Ancient Egyptians (Should Have) Built the Pyramids · · Score: 1

    No, it's not really interesting. It's settled science that wetting the sand and dragging the sled is how it was done. This is in the OP. It's not a question.

  25. Re:Not surprising on California DMV Told Google Cars Still Need Steering Wheels · · Score: 1

    I get your idea, but we're going from simpsons to flintstones. So requiring a steering wheel is not exactly a step in the right direction.