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  1. Re:Yeah but there's a whole world out there on Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Is Secretly Funding Trump's Meme Machine (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not really, what makes it hard to take Italy seriously are prosecutors who during a single trial advance motives ranging from normal sociopathy to crazy sex games to devil worship and do so completely seriously.

  2. Ironically, given the nature of the business of the corporations in question and the internet in particular, this is actually a situation where an originalist reading of the commerce clause would give the feds carte blanche. The one time the courts fucking should apply it, they don't.

  3. Re:Single payer system would avoid this problem on Hackers Offer a DIY Alternative To The $600 EpiPen (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Works fine everywhere else because you have the US paying for their sandbagging asses. Remove that and suddenly Big Pharma would actually start spending money in other countries to get the govt. to jack the prices up.

  4. Re:wow, completely clueless... on Computer Specialist Who Deleted Clinton Emails May Have Asked Reddit For Tips (usnews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Brits moved out of Benghazi 6 months earlier explicitly because the security situation in the town was completely fucked unless they wanted to invest a shitload more material, soldiers, and money. The ambassador requested more soldiers and a more secure embassy multiple times over the preceding 12 months. Anybody involved paying fucking attention knew damn well that the situation was untenable but either Hillary or the White House found it politically expedient to leave them to hang out to dry. Then they subsequently lied about it in the media.

  5. Brian Boitano?

  6. Re:Other than Brother... on HP Printers Have A Pre-Programmed Failure Date For Non-HP Ink Cartridges (myce.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's saying it's low, which doesn't mean replace, it means get off your lazy ass and buy a new one so when you run out you can pop the new one in immediately, thus interrupting workflow for a minimum amount of time.

  7. Three mistakes. The first mistake was making a sex tape in the first place. This can be mitigated by using proper file encryption and not giving the file to anyone else. The second mistake was talking on the sex tape, thus personalizing it further. As above, proper encryption and lack of distribution can stop any consequences. The third mistake was sending it to her ex-boyfriend and three others. At which point she was up shit creek and everything that followed was her own damn fault for being a moron.

  8. Re:It just gives you a warning on Chrome and Firefox Block Pirate Bay Over 'Harmful Programs' (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hey, expecting the average pebkac to click a button saying they acknowledge the high probability that the website in question will infest their computer is entirely too difficult. As for TPB, it has been worse than normal recently, enough that I immediately run MWB and S&D after visiting.

  9. Pretty sure DC would have to build more jail cells. Figure at least 2/3 of each party plus half of the various alphabet agencies based in DC gets thrown in the slammer.

  10. Well, I guarantee... on A Woman Is Suing Her Parents For Posting Embarrassing Childhood Photos To Facebook · · Score: 2

    The days of her parents not taking her very seriously are coming to a middle.

  11. Re:who pays? on New EU Rules Promise 100Mbps Broadband and Free Wi-Fi For All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    You're right. The US should remove all military from Europe and announce that they are no longer protecting any Europe bound or originating shipping lanes. This obviously would not apply to the UK.

  12. Gotta love the grain industry! on Sugar Industry Bought Off Scientists, Skewed Dietary Guidelines For Decades (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Now trying to deflect blame from carbs in general to all sugars. I mean, it's not like fructose is processed through the liver like other poisons or anything.

  13. Re:So what was the prior feature? on Elon Musk Says Tesla New Autopilot Features Would Have Prevented Recent Death (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    How long till someone comes up with a fake 'hand' that tricks the system into believing you maintain control of the car?

  14. Re:Can't buy popular support on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Only in polls of registered voters. The electoral maps are a toss up or leaning Trump among polls of likely voters.

  15. Re:If one employee had done this on Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 Employees For Creating Millions of Phony Accounts (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Jesus Tittyfuckng Christ. The gross negligence statute has been around since 1917. It has nothing to do with email itself except that in setting up a private email server in her bathroom she was quite clearly grossly negligent, or in the words of that fucking cock smear Comey himself, extremely careless, in her handling of classified information. The statute requires no malice yet the aforementioned cock smear in explaining why he was not charging Hillary said that since she didn't mean to break the law that he wasn't going to charge her. Nothing wither Jeb or Colin did has anything to do with being grossly negligent when handling classified info.

  16. Re:Good plot hooks on Today Marks The 50th Anniversary of 'Star Trek' (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    Eh, I could actually see a reason for that machine, except the reason would require similar machines inside the tubes themselves which means the scene still doesn't work.

  17. Re:If one employee had done this on Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 Employees For Creating Millions of Phony Accounts (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, just as soon as you explain the difference between gross negligence and extreme carelessness, and then explain how Jeb and Colin violated that statute.

  18. Re:If one employee had done this on Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 Employees For Creating Millions of Phony Accounts (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    *cough* Hillary Clinton *cough* It's not corporate personhood that's the problem. It's the idea that too big to fail or important to jail should have any legitimacy in our society.

  19. Re:"Crazy Loon Industries" Was Taken? on Intel Selling Majority Stake In Intel Security, 'New' Company To Be Called McAfee (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    Because they want to give a big fuck you to Johnny boy. There's a reason this is only happening after he attempted to make a company using his name. At a guess they were already planning to spin it off and decided to take a great big shit on his plans at the same time.

  20. Re:He can buy it back ... on John McAfee Sues Intel To Use His Own Name (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, yes, and if he tries to brand the products themselves with some derivation of McAfee you would have a solid point. However currently all he's doing is naming the company John McAfee Global Technologies Inc which may be perfectly legal since Intel voluntarily dropped the usage of the company name.

  21. Re: Empty threat on Apple May Bring Back Billions In Profits To The U.S. (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with the Trail of Tears is it only happened after the Cherokee president illegally maintained power and several of the opposing political faction in the Cherokee Nation who saw the writing on the wall and wanted to get out of dodge were assassinated. There was no way in hell that the US would have allowed a prosperous Indian nation with large amounts of gold to exist inside its own borders for any real length of time. Had they left while Jackson was in office, they would have had more money, and all their movable possessions. Instead Ross played chicken with the US Govt. and lost badly.

  22. Musk: Who will I show up this year? on SpaceX Is Building a Hyperloop Test Track Near Los Angeles (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I know, I'll leave the Hyperloop guys in the dust and revolutionize a specific, highly conditional transport capability.

  23. Re:Good trailers? on IBM Watson Created The First-Ever AI-Made Movie Trailer For 'Morgan' (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, I see you graduated from the same school as both the Ghostbusters and Suicide Squad trailer creation teams.

  24. Re:linux etc on New Intel and AMD Chips Will Only Support Windows 10 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The War on Drugs as a policy started with Johnson, a Democrat. Also the one who started the Great Society bullshit, which arguably was the greatest single cause in the rise of single motherhood among the black population. Nixon gave the policy a catchy name and consolidated the disparate efforts already ongoing in the US federal govt. Reagan inherited a rapidly growing problem, and while he certainly didn't help the situation, did pretty much what every adviser and think tank apart from the hippies and libertarians at the time was telling the federal govt to do.

  25. Re:So sue the makers of walkie-talkies then! on Revived Lawsuit Says Twitter DMs Are Like Handing ISIS a Satellite Phone (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Except Colt, Toyota, and Sony have no control over the end products(Ignoring for the moment the PS4) once they leave their hands. Through continued curation, both Facebook and Twitter have not only demonstrated that capability, but the willingness to use it.