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  1. If you don't pay. on Unroll.me 'Heartbroken' After Being Caught Selling User Data To Uber (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You are the product. Well, then too they sell your data. So you are shit out of luck no matter what.

  2. Why is it all we here about from worthless news is on Theranos To Investors: Please Don't Sue! Here, Have Some More Shares (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    how badly investors were harmed? How about the people who had fake blood tests from Elizabeth Holmes run on them with fake results? She should be in prison.

  3. Blockchain is going to cure all the worlds ills! on IBM Unveils Blockchain As a Service Based On Open Source Hyperledger Fabric Technology (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    We've reached peak buzzword for blockchain in the last 6 months. It'll balance our national debt, cure cancer, and make everyone happy according to all the con artists, errr, sales people pitching it as the be all end all.

  4. The "it's always someone elses fault" boss on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Horrible IT Boss Story? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Only had one. She owned a 50 person consulting company. Always excuses or someone elses fault when something went wrong. By far just the worst.

  5. If it tastes better on Most People Would Give Lab-Grown Meat a Try, New Survey Reveals (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    why not? i am sure the "gmo = scary" crowd will be against.

  6. How do you Store a 5gb MRI image on Researchers Suggest Using Blockchain For Electronic Health Records (hbr.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In a 256 bit hash? I'd love to know. Block chain can verify data - that is it. Tired of dipshits selling the latest buzz word when they have no idea what it is. Block chain is ledger, not a fucking database.

  7. my theory is the VC firms have bought up the property around these tech hubs and recoup their money easily via rent.

  8. Re:Five bucks says they get sued on Open Source Car-Hacking Tool Successfully Crowdfunded (kickstarter.com) · · Score: 2

    More cut and dry than that. Touch the ECU and they'll void the entire warranty.

  9. Wait, people thought they were secure? on Are Your Slack Conversations Really Private and Secure? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    Slack has no end-to-end crypto - it isn't generating keypairs for messages on an individual basis - so what idiot thought that the conversations could be private? You can download and search prior messages - indicating that - duh - anyone could do so.

  10. Re: Live by the cloud, on GitLab Says It Found Lost Data On a Staging Server (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    While we don't self host, we have two independent git repositories - Bitbucket and Github. the probability of both disappearing over night is pretty slim.

  11. elizabeth holmes should be in jail on Arizona Plans To Sue Theranos Over Faulty Blood Tests (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    She blatantly endangered lives with Silicon Valley bullshit fake tests. It is criminal that she isn't rotting in a jail cell for fake test results.

  12. Re: Wikileaks is purely insane on WikiLeaks Threatens To Publish Twitter Users' Personal Info (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck. Brain fart.

  13. Wikileaks is purely insane on WikiLeaks Threatens To Publish Twitter Users' Personal Info (usatoday.com) · · Score: -1

    I get dumping documents from government agencies. Though, their motives are a bit bizarre at times. Disclosing hundreds of thousands of addresses of private citizens? What does that help? When will Wikipedia disclose those types of details on everyone within Wikipedia? Oh that is right, Wikipedia believes they can be opaque in operation, not transparent like they expect everyone else to be.

  14. Congrats on your latest OS being 14 months old. Certainly a point to brag about.

  15. Why would they do it for free? on Apple Will Charge You $69 To Replace a Lost AirPod (macrumors.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I lose a pen, I don't expect Bic to give me a new one for free.

  16. Why? on SourceForge Introduces HTTPS Support For Project Websites (sourceforge.net) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Source forge is incredibly annoying to use, and git/github/bitbucket have all pretty much become the ubiquitous tools for hosting projects on. If I find an OS project on SoureForge, I assume it is long since abandoned.

  17. So "Real News" runs with the fake news story on False Porn-on-CNN Report Shows How Quickly Fake News Spreads (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    What does that say about "real news" that they didn't due the due diligence to actually discover if the reports were legitimate? Just that "real news" is just as much bullshit as "fake news."

  18. Re:So right after their value gets depressed? on Oracle Buys Dyn DNS Provider (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You do realize M&A usually takes months, at times a year+ to complete? This was in the works long before the DDoS attack.

  19. Quick, not fast on Tesla 'Easter Egg' Makes the World's Fastest Car Even Faster (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    These stupid articles always bring up hyper car speeds. The tesla is stupid quick to 60mph, but once you get to 60mph it fades quite fast. Over 60 and it will be clowned by anything. Additionally comparing it to cars that can run endless laps on a track is pointless. But continue on with the Musk dick sucking

  20. Re:Xcode is superior, go away on Microsoft is Bringing Visual Studio To Mac (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Like idiots claiming XCode has no issues? Agree.

  21. Re:Xcode is superior, go away on Microsoft is Bringing Visual Studio To Mac (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Sure thing buddy. Add to the list the lack of support for refactoring Swift code. Language has been out two years now and they still don't support BASIC functionality of an IDE.

  22. Re:Xcode is superior, go away on Microsoft is Bringing Visual Studio To Mac (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    XCode is just buggy as all get out though. It has progressively gotten less stable. The IDE is fantastic, but it has so many issues. Doing Swift 2.3 it is pointing out Swift 3.0 "errors." Functionality just doesn't work (downloading provisioning profiles via Settings). They haven't been maintaining it quality wise as it once was.

  23. Fantastic on Microsoft is Bringing Visual Studio To Mac (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Been doing .NET forever and with .NET Core running on macOS now, this is welcome news. Visual Studio Code is nice, but it isn't the solution full Visual Studio is. With full blown Visual Studio, .NET Core, Docker, I won't even need to run VMs anymore on my macbook to get work done.

  24. They are worried about cheap H1B's vanishing on Silicon Valley Investors Call For California To Secede From the US After Trump Win (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Trump would throw a wrench into their cheap labor and displacing jobs. Threatens their business models.

  25. Break through study: stress causes health problems on Health Anxiety May Increase Risk of Heart Disease, Research Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Congrats on rediscovering what everyone already fucking knew.