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  1. Re:No government role? on Turkey Arrests Journalists For Using Encryption · · Score: 1

    Bingo, spot on over Erdogan. He's a whore though, not a fw. He'll gladly sell his pop. freedoms to Islam. You are correct that he doesn't much care about ISIS although he thinks it is just potty they are taking on dolt next door.

    The agreement between the U.S. and Turkey to use the bases in Turkey against ISIS is an example of the Obama/Biden foreign policy, lead through weakness and be clueless about non-U.S. agendas. It is beyond stupid for Obama to sell the Kurds out and allow Turkey to screw them over. Erdogan needed a foreign adventure to use in his campaign to be dictator for life after the party including the Kurds prevented him from winning that exalted position in the last election, and gormless Obama walked right into it. The Kurds will notice what the U.S. did to them, just as the Shia in S. Iraq noticed when G.H. Bush and the U.S. sold them out to Saddam, they never trusted the U.S. again, and helped push them into the loving arms of the Iranians who will defend Iran's interest to the last Arab.

  2. Re:Interesting on Where the Tech Industry's Political Donations Are Going · · Score: 2

    Carly Fiorina, support the woman to do to the U.S. what she did to HP!!!

  3. Re:Instead of technical solutions on The Coming Terrorist Threat From Autonomous Vehicles · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Really? Many of the idiots fighting for Daesh left middle class life styles in both Euro and Mid-East countries because they think they are fighting for a new order on this dirtball planet. It is the old order of 600 A.D., but they think of it as new. And they need Allah on the brain to deafen the cries of their suffering victims.

  4. Re:Is quantum mechanics a theory? on 'Ingenious' Experiment Closes Loopholes In Quantum Theory · · Score: 1

    "Newton gravity is considered a better explanation because it's the simplest working model"

    Yes, and no. The simplest has a certain charm to it, but that doesn't make it more correct. What makes a theory more correct, aside from predictive value, is how well the elements and relationships of the theory correspond to elements and relationships of the physical system.

  5. Re:In other words. on Kansas Secretary of State Blocks Release of Voting Machine Tapes · · Score: 1

    "The law should NEVER, EVER, EVER, provide protection over any data available behind public sector activity."

    Could you please post your SS#, public sector activity information wants to be free.

  6. indoctrination on Wired: IBM's School Could Fix Education and Tech's Diversity Gap · · Score: 1

    I doubt this is useful except as a method of turning out corporate drones all with the same mental DNA. Where do the arts flourish in an environment dominated by business concerns. Technology is only an enabler, it isn't an end in itself and this destined to produce uni-dimensional beings who cannot and will not think for themselves.

  7. Re:Wow on Next Texas Energy Boom: Solar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, the government never should have sunk all that money into ARPANET, it would have just happened by Immaculate Conception when the economics made sense. Come to think of it, all that money the government sunk into quantum mechanics made no sense until there was use for it, then it would have miraculously evolved from its primordial ooze by bootstrapping itself into usefulness.

    Wow, economics is truly miraculous, able to conjure...well...just about anything out of nothing.

  8. Re:Waste Disposal on Robots Are Coming For Our Jobs, Just Not All of Them · · Score: 1

    Not in Japan. They expect to lose 1/3 of their pop. in 20 years or so and there's no way they'll be letting in those "other" people in any quantity.

    Russia is similar and yet we don't see long lines to get into Putin's new Gulag.

  9. FrankenTrump on Researchers Grow Tiny Human Brain In Lab · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If the tiny brain starts sporting big hair and a big mouth, better kill it. We don't need mini-Trumps wandering around seeking media exposure.

  10. Re:Blind squirrel finding an acorn on Trump Targets the Abuse of H-1B Visas · · Score: 1

    I agree, but if he gets the Republican nomination, the Democrats could run a cucumber against him and win.

  11. Re:Yes, it's not new on Debate Over Amazon Working Conditions Goes Back Years · · Score: 1

    The fish rots from the head.

  12. Re:yeah go ahead, contact me -- I dare you. on Debate Over Amazon Working Conditions Goes Back Years · · Score: 1

    Yep, it is the Monkey Butt Syndrome. In a tree full of monkeys, the monkey at the top sees only smiling faces looking up at him. To the monkeys down where the dog pisses, all the monkeys see are assholes. I'm guessing the truth is not in the middle, but closer to the dog pee.

  13. Re:Can the enemy actually shoot down the F35? on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 1

    Over half of the defense budget is personnel costs. So if you want to arm the U.S. military with slingshots, sure, go ahead and cut their budget in half.

  14. Re: He's got company on Donald Trump Thinks Going To Mars Would Be "Wonderful" But There Is a Catch · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Bush didn't cause the recession via the war. It came about because of years, including his, of allowing Wall Street and the housing bubble to suck the life out of the U.S. economy. Also, the American people bear some of the blame, they took out second and third mortgages, were too busy to read what they were promising in loan payments, more or less lived beyond their means because, what the hell, everyone they knew was doing the same thing. The American people are fucking saints...dumb saints, but saints.

  15. Re: He's got company on Donald Trump Thinks Going To Mars Would Be "Wonderful" But There Is a Catch · · Score: 1

    Trump getting shit done, eh? Like them 4 bankruptcies? Let's ask the people those fucked over how they feel about Trump and shit. And Sanders will be fine until you get the tax bill to pay for the blue haired and every other group he feels the rich (the rich being people like you) ought to pay for.

  16. Re:fix it first on Redefining Security Visualization With Hollywood UI Design · · Score: 1

    That and this: security is notorious for being unmeasurable. How much security do I get if I spend $x? The biggest problem is the black swan problem. I stop 99.9999% of all attempts to break in, but the one I do let in completely exfiltrate all my data. Worse, little data here, a little data there, and sooner or later I have real information about your operation. It is hard to add data together to figure out what information the interloper got. If I exfiltrate a single bit, I have...errr...a bit. However, if I know that 0 means Donald Trump's hair is a weasel with eyes, and 1 means his hair is a creature from the planet Pluton, and I exfiltrate the bit, then I know much more.

    So can the pie charts, and blinky lights, only PHBs will think them important.

  17. Re:Was not Oracle code in the first place on Oracle Exec: Stop Sending Vulnerability Reports · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, Java and Oracle's DB are built on Flash, that explains much.

  18. Re:Expect the Republicans to stop this... on Continued Cord Cutting Hits the Pay TV Business Hard · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you go girl!! Tell the Federal Government to take the interstate highway system back. The States will rebuild it on their own. NiH? Shoot, which self-respecting state cannot do their own medical research. Mississippi will be at the head of the line, Alaska right behind. NHTSA? States are well positioned to investigate air crashes in their states, I hear NHTSA even goes to foreign countries to learn about how crashes occurred there...it's a gowd-awful waste of taxpayers money for them to make air travel safer in the U.S. by looking at foreign countries' accidents. NSF? Nope, don't need no stinking federal research dollars for research.

    Social Security? I think we'd all feel a lot better about our lives if Grandma could move in with us for the next 20 years of her life. Medicare? For Pete's Sake, money for health care for the blue haired? No one needs that!! It costs too much money, let'em rot. There is no need for anti-trust rules and investigations, we'd all be happier if there were only one software company, Satya knows all.

    Why, the list is endless of things the federal government should NOT be allowed to do. It is preventing us from establishing the dog-eat-dog society of Ayn Rand and her dyspeptic intellectual progeny, Rand Paul.

  19. Re:Wait, what? on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 2

    Corn with fisheyes is generally considered to be GM. Corn in tune with Mother Nature (when she's not trying to kill us) and grown under the benevolent gaze of a wholistic crystal is not.

  20. Re:I have told you people REPEATEDLY about this on on Researcher Exploits 18-Year-Old Design Flaw To Compromise X86 Chips · · Score: 1

    Will you please forgive us?

  21. Re:Great Economy? on Good Economy? Tech Layoffs Are Up · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apparently you do not realize that anyone's definition of the unemployment rate is flawed and either includes or excludes people. It isn't a real number, it is something like the bill in an Italian restaurant (if I recall Douglas Adams correctly).

    And Obama didn't come up with the prescription the government uses, it was in use well before him.

    I admit Obama isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but this isn't his fault, he isn't lying about this.

  22. Re:Not at all a new concept on Counterterrorism Expert: It's Time To Give Companies Offensive Cybercapabilities · · Score: 1

    No, it won't. Let's give MS free reign to screw with Google's systems (even more than they are) by claiming they were going after cyber miscreants. And when they get caught, they'll simply throw up their hands, rock back and forth like a guilty Gates, and give non-committal answers pointing at the law that allows them reprisals.

    Or how about giving that paradigm of virtue, Larry Ellison, the legal cover to commit sins against whomever he's worried about these days.

    The Beltway Bandits would be tripping over themselves to trip each other, all under legal cover. And what happens when one of our corporate citizens decides it needs to take out some system in China and China considers it an attack by the U.S., it was there law, after all, which sanctioned the attack.

    This is a stupid idea.

  23. Re:$4.3 billion on DoD Ditches Open Source Medical Records System In $4.3B Contract · · Score: 2

    You have no idea of scale.

  24. Re:Trading one for the other on DoD Ditches Open Source Medical Records System In $4.3B Contract · · Score: 1

    And if DoD decided to do it inhouse, the libertards would be hanging from the lampposts crying the blues about big government.

  25. Re:Smashing idea on China's Island-Building In Pictures · · Score: 1

    "The only reason why they would do this, is so that they can call it sovereign territory, and to game international border rules to their own benefit."

    Yes but the deeper reason is that the Communist Party of China has no legitimacy, so the Party uses anything they can to make their dicks look bigger.