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  1. Re:Another excuse . . . on NJ Legislator Proposes Fine For Walking While Phone-Distracted (philly.com) · · Score: 2

    Are you envisioning an Al Capone-style take down?

    "It is true, Your Honor and the Jury, that we cannot prove Mugs Malone strangled forty three people, ran extortion rackets in the Tri-City Area, and regularly raped chimpanzees, but what we can prove is that this murdering monkey raping gangster did willfully and with ill intent cross Main Street on no less than three occasions while texting on his iPhone!"

  2. Re:remember kids... on iPhone 7s May Sport Curved Glass and AMOLED Display (bgr.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If keyboards on phones were as important as some make them out to be, Blackberry would be selling millions of units a year.

  3. Re:The Truth Is Far Out There on iPhone 7s May Sport Curved Glass and AMOLED Display (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    You had me at bacon

  4. Re: " the father of the anti-vaccine movement" LO on Tribeca Film Festival, Robert De Niro Pull Anti-Vaccination Film · · Score: 3, Insightful

    First of all, demonstrate your claim. Produce the numbers,

    Otherwise it's just an anonymous guy on the Internet making claims with absolutely no evidence.

  5. Re: In other words... on Tribeca Film Festival, Robert De Niro Pull Anti-Vaccination Film · · Score: 1, Informative

    His study was a joke, so bad that even a fifth grader could see it was designed to prove him the answer he wanted.

    But oh no, it's all Big Pharma...

  6. Re:Diversity of opinion is not tolerated on Tribeca Film Festival, Robert De Niro Pull Anti-Vaccination Film · · Score: 4, Insightful

    De Niro was perfectly free to show the bloody film at Tribeca. It would have discredited his film festival, and damaged him pretty badly in the process.

    Freedom of expression is not freedom from consequences. If you want to show a film defending a man whose self-serving actions has lead to harm and death, then go to it. But you'll be rightfully condemned for it, and may even suffer damage to your own reputation.

  7. Re:Diversity of opinion is not tolerated on Tribeca Film Festival, Robert De Niro Pull Anti-Vaccination Film · · Score: 0

    Just fuck off. Promoting psuedo-scientific crap is not being an individual, it's not laudable, it's a sign that you are an idiot at best, or, like Wakefield, a con artist taking advantage of idiots.

  8. Re: Health care advice from movie actors? on Tribeca Film Festival, Robert De Niro Pull Anti-Vaccination Film · · Score: 1, Troll

    Jesus fucking Christ. The guy was caught with a faked study that he was using to try to promote his own alternative to MMR. Let's be clear. MMR does not cause autism. There never was a link, just a faked study that Wakefield and some equally disgusting lawyers promoted.

    And no vaccine is given to an infant, you fucking retard, and the rest is just ignorant blather literally made up.

  9. Re:In other words... on Tribeca Film Festival, Robert De Niro Pull Anti-Vaccination Film · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The fact is that Wakefield's con cost lives. There have been a resurgence in childhood diseases that were all but gone when I was a kid. This isn't someone defending Bernie Madoff, this if someone offering aid and comfort to an individual who happily perpetuated a medical con that hurt and killed innocent children and still is doing so for his own material benefit.

    At this point I honestly don't give a fuck about whether Wakefield's supporters are grieving parents or not. Grief is not a license for propagating a lie.

  10. Re:In other words... on Tribeca Film Festival, Robert De Niro Pull Anti-Vaccination Film · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think the mere fact that someone did anything to defend that charlatan demonstrates just how out of touch with reality the antivaxxers remain.

  11. Re:Teh on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, don't blame me. I voted for Kodos!

  12. Re:Teh on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you imagine how hard a life the Pron family has!!!???

  13. Re:L2Program, L2DB on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No fucking shit. I'm trying to imagine how a text field isn't either quoted or escaped, or better paramerized, but realizing that's what has happened here, I'm also wondering just how vulnerable these systems must be to injection attacks.

    First order of business, fire your developer with extreme prejudice.

  14. Re:Fine Tuning on Netflix's US Catalog Has Shrunk by More Than 2,500 Titles in Less Than 2.5 Years · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The only counterpoint I have to that is that judging by the way content holders have rolled out streaming thus far, that day is far off.

  15. Re:The counter strategy... on Have a Political Bumper Sticker? The FBI Might Be Snapping Photos of You (muckrock.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's because the only time anyone will notice the bumper sticker on your front bumper is when you're about to mow them down.

    "Ah, he's against fossil fuels. That's kind of.... Aggghhhhh!"

  16. Re:Fine Tuning on Netflix's US Catalog Has Shrunk by More Than 2,500 Titles in Less Than 2.5 Years · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's pretty clear that Netflix's vision in the long run is to essentially become a television network on its own. I expect that while the actual number of titles will fall, the number of first run series will rise.

  17. Re:One of the problems of public companies... on Starboard Launches Proxy Fight To Remove Entire Yahoo Board (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    The fact is that Jerry Yang fucked the company up royally when it spurned Microsoft's advances. While I think Marissa hasn't helped, and in some ways may have made things worse (particularly in the employee morale department), she took on an impossible task. Yahoo has literally been a financial Titanic, slowly raking itself along the iceberg and taking on water ever since. Right now it's worth more dead than alive, but soon enough it won't be worth jack shit either way.

  18. Re: What if it had supported "social justice"? on Microsoft's 'Teen Girl' AI Experiment Becomes a 'Neo-Nazi Sex Robot' · · Score: 1, Funny

    There hasn't been a draft since the Vietnam War. WTF are you even talking about?

  19. Re:Nothing to see here on Microsoft's 'Teen Girl' AI Experiment Becomes a 'Neo-Nazi Sex Robot' · · Score: 2

    "They"? Who is "they"? Be specific. What percentage of women get pissed off if you call them a "woman"? Is it 5%? 2%? 80%? And how exactly did you arrive at this figure?

  20. Re:What if it had supported "social justice"? on Microsoft's 'Teen Girl' AI Experiment Becomes a 'Neo-Nazi Sex Robot' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, it would have been quite a controversy if the bot had said things like "Women and men are equal" or "Blacks are not inferior."

  21. Re:4chan trolling? on Microsoft's 'Teen Girl' AI Experiment Becomes a 'Neo-Nazi Sex Robot' · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it was reading Slashdot.

  22. But US authorities can when they crack into these backdoors.

  23. They're running fine. No worse than vista. If they need a bit more RAM, that's in the budget

  24. What matters is what your Congress critter thinks.

  25. Re:Here's a solution... on Apple Worries Spy Technology Has Been Secretly Added To Computer Servers It Buys (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So you can buy Chinese components and be hacked by the PRC.

    Unless you're fabricating everything, and writing you're own microcode, there's always a chance someone is going to slip a backdoor in somewhere.