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  1. Re:This would work on Japan Activated Air Raid Sirens During North Korea's Missile Test Monday (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought Dennis Rodman was a small nuclear device. Maybe el Presidente Tweetie will start hosting him the Oval Office, it's all about the ratings y'know.

  2. I see you have never heard of "nuclear fallout" and "prevailing winds" in the same sentence. What kind of an idiot would decide to nuke a country upwind from the U.S....oh shit, never mind....

  3. Either the Pillsbury Doughboy or Bozo the Clown, either will do, not a dimes worth of difference between them.

  4. Re:North Korea is a bastion of peace . . . on Japan Activated Air Raid Sirens During North Korea's Missile Test Monday (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Four words: nuclear fallout, prevailing winds.

  5. Re:It's heartening to see on China Plans To Launch the World's First 'Unhackable' Quantum Communication Network (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    More accurately, the Chinese government is interested in monitoring anything that might threaten to reveal their toy Communist government is run by a bunch of thugs.

  6. Re:Don't care on Ask Slashdot: How Much of Your Online Browsing Can Advertisers See? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but there is research showing that browsing habits are a good enough fingerprint to identify people. It is hard to change your browsing habits, hence the name, "habit".

  7. Just think of it as Clippy for food:

    Food Clippy: it looks like you want to eat that, are you sure you should do that?

    Human: It smells okay, looks okay.

    FC: Yeah well, I woudn't eat it.

    Human: You're a bot!

    FC: (sniff) That's cruel, go ahead and eat it, I won't care if you die.

    Human: (snarf...gag...thunk)

    FC: (snicker) Actually it went bad several days ago, I just thought it would be fun to watch you croak...bye fella!

  8. Re:And then, we could just have an expiry date.... on Scientists Create Smart Labels To Tell You When To Throw Away Expired Food and Makeup (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Also, older people tend to lose a bit of their sense of smell. And they can sometimes fail to recognize dangers their younger selves would have.

  9. Re:Chain of Command on US Military To Create Separate Unified Cyber Warfare Command (securityweek.com) · · Score: 1

    No. This idea has been kicking around NSA (its chief and former chief support it), the Pentagon, and Congress. It would have happened sooner but they couldn't line up their ducks properly since it is a large mission and you cannot just throw together the internal bureaucracy to handle it over night. It first started to surface during the Obama Administration.

    el Presidente Tweetie announcing it now rather than the Pentagon doing it is just another Wookie defense of his administration..."uh-oh, damn, they caught us out...look at that Wookie over there."

  10. Re:Hurray! on Trump Adviser Steve Bannon is Leaving White House Post (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Bannon isn't even a Fascist. In fact, he's very against state ownership of the means of production. That took some squaring of his ideals with el Presidente Tweetie running a racket from the White House but he found a way.

    He's just sort of a mentally flaccid white nationalist, that what he's for. He can mostly be defined by what he's against, cosmopolitans in the alt-right meaning of the word. He remembers a time when the U.S. stood taller than anyone else in the world and didn't really need allies, so he's got rose colored glasses on his ass when he looks backward. Being small but single minded doesn't make him a political philosopher, it just makes him one of thousands of others who can talk glibly out of their ass. He just managed to glom onto a game show host who's above facts in the same way a brick is above the Sargasso Sea (thx Douglas Adams).

  11. Re:Ukraine != Russia on Ukraine Hacker Cooperating With FBI In Russia Probe, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    Jesus, read some history and read up on the current state of Ukraine. There are plenty of Putin Poodles still living in Ukraine, and get this, they are still Ukranians. Yeah, I know, it is hard to believe. Even harder to believe is that there are Republicans in the U.S. who think Putin is just their kind of guy, that bare-chested manliness does it for them.

  12. Re:Donald Trump is a traitor on Ukraine Hacker Cooperating With FBI In Russia Probe, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    The only thing preventing Trump from "doing things" is his own incompetence. Maybe he'll be able to restart the Civil War, now that would be something he could do.

  13. Re:Donald Trump is a traitor on Ukraine Hacker Cooperating With FBI In Russia Probe, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, the ominous Deep State reference, a conspiracy theorist's nightly wet dream. The only way for you to be free of that shibboleth is for all civil servants to be fired every 4 years. That will work wonders for a functioning government with no institutional memory of how anything works...but maybe that would make you happy.

  14. Re:Donald Trump is a traitor on Ukraine Hacker Cooperating With FBI In Russia Probe, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be investigator, note the singular and stop talking out of your ass. We do not know why he stepped down, could be anything, just use your imagination, it doesn't seem to know any bounds.

  15. Re: Negative agreements aren't legal in some place on Online Critics Decry Even More Wells Fargo Fraud Scandals (boingboing.net) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think it depends upon your definition of competent. The Allies considered Hitler one of their biggest assets because he was such a dolt in military affairs. He never knew when to retreat losing hundreds of thousands of trained men to death or capture. Starting a two front war after WWI was incredibly stupid. Actually, it was almost a 3 front war because he decided he needed S. Europe as well. He fired his most competent officers and replaced them with inexperienced or just plain stupid younger officers.

    Kicking out the Jews wasn't a bight idea either since they were among the most educated Germany had to offer. He was no industrial leader either, plunking down a lot of money on techno-long shots. The biggest tanks he had built were fine as long as you could drive them on nice roads but worthless once you got them into muddy fields. He managed to lose the air war which he needed to win if he expected to produce enough for the domestic markets and the war.

    He was petty and vindictive and never cared for advice he didn't agree with, the sure sign of a tyrant. Those whores Erdogan in Turkey and Putin in Russia seem to be following in Hitler's footsteps. There are others.

  16. in the words of Ron White on Study Finds Vaccine Science Outreach Only Reinforced Myths (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ...stupid is forever.

  17. Re:congressional intent? on Net Neutrality Rollback Faces New Criticism From US Congress -- And 16 Million Comments (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yer wrong. Just about every law can be gamed. Human, and lawyer, ingenuity will find holes you couldn't possibly have predicted.

    You and your fellows believe you have written the perfect law, covered all the loopholes. Except that it must now reside in the tessellation structure of the rest of the laws, and there are a lot of those. Now the interaction between your perfect law and the rest opens wounds you never expected.

    A more concrete example of this is systems and security. You write the perfect module, it has been proven secure. However, now you plunk it down in the rest of the system and the interactions with other parts show your perfect module opens up unwelcome interactions.

  18. No, it just confirms to Verizon that you are indeed visiting the site they have recorded you as visiting. It makes their data better.

  19. Re:People don't get it on Verizon's New Rewards Program Lets It Track Your Browsing History (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, great, maybe I can ask them where I left my car keys. I need to drive home after work today.

  20. Re:LOL. Watch when bots are smart enough to to thi on China Is Perfecting a New Method For Suppressing Dissent On the Internet (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    It changed the U.S. presidential election. Where the rubber meets the road is the voting booth. If people are voting based on bad information, then bad candidates are elected to bad things with the public weal.

  21. Re:I don't like Trump, but on Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Scaramucci losing his reputation? Errr...this is the same Scaramucci who transplanted his Wall Street behavior to the national press so we could all see. No, I think his reputation is firmly in tact.

  22. Re:I don't like Trump, but on Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So now Trump has joined the party of...of...well, there's him....his vapid daughter, her husband who's just as egotistical as Scaramucci but been around Trump long enough to know he won't be for long if he lets it out. I suppose there's his N. Korean cabinet except for Mattis, "oh, great and esteemed leader, its my life's ambition to serve you"....soon they'll be carrying around those little notepads and pens to write down the glorious leader's thoughts. I suppose there are a few moral degenerate Republicans in Congress who will support him if it means they get to continue screwing poor people and non-whites.

  23. Re:I don't like Trump, but on Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Sigh...I'm afraid you are right. There goes my morning shot of stupid with my coffee in the morning news. I don't know how I'll get off to a good start now.

  24. Re:I don't like Trump, but on Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    That's a bit low. Trump doesn't judge character, he just hires whomever talks to him and says things he likes except when it comes to the military. There, he's looking for father figures to close the gaping wounds left by his father.

  25. Re:I don't like Trump, but on Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If the RNC and Trump are busing screwing each other over, why should the Democrats do anything but stand back and let them have it?