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  1. Re:To be fair? on Target Ignored Signs of Data Breach · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe they're just fucking idiots, with an IT department that either is utterly inept or had been so marginalized by MBA morons and sociopaths.

  2. Re:Okay, now I can say it. And be happy. on Google and Microsoft Both Want To Stop Dual-Boot Windows/Android Device · · Score: 2

    Where do Zuckerberg and Ellison fit into this Lucasian demonology?

  3. Re:Is this really worth worrying about? on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    For various medical reasons, not every child can have particular vaccines, so these children are put at risk when herd immunity is compromised.

  4. Re:Shunning on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    The state doesn't own them either, but until they are the age of majority, the courts have a longstanding obligation to assure their safety.

    If you don't like it, leave.

  5. Re:Shunning on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    You don't own your kids, period. If you endanger them, the courts will take charge. Not vaccinating them is endangering them.

  6. Re:Shunning on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    The courts order children to undergo other medical care even where the parents object. Why are vaccinations any different?

  7. Re:Autism Schmautism on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    ACtually, there are plenty of cases when parents and guardians have had their rights over their children stripped. REad up on JW's and blood transfusions.

    Your children are not your property. You are entrusted with your well being, until such time as you demonstrate that you cannot be trusted in this manner.

  8. Re:Apps on VLC Finally Launches App For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    It might work for PCs, but as we can see, the whole thing has failed for RT. The market share is so infinitesimal that even giving it away with methods to say, install it on Nexus 7, probably are doomed to failure.

  9. Re:Shunning on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    Some kids cannot have the vaccines. Herd immunity protects them from this diseases. What's your solution for those kids? Force them to live in a bubble?

    The solution is simple. Charge any parents or guardians who refuse vaccinations for their children without a medical reason with child abuse. Seize the children. Vaccinate the children.

  10. Re:Autism Schmautism on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 2

    How is it you have the brains to learn to read and write, but in other respects appear to be an ignorant halfwit?

  11. Re:A bit of common sense maybe? on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: -1

    Individual liberty doesn't give you the right to do things that directly endanger those around you. The old maxim "you're right to swing your fist ends at my nose" applies here. These fucking morons are endangering a wider population; compromising herd immunity which means that minority, who for a variety of medical reasons, cannot have the vaccine, are now at much higher risk of illness.

    Frankly, I think anyone who, without permission of a doctor, who doesn't get their kids vaccinated should be charged with child abuse. We don't let Jehovah's Witnesses deprive their children of life saving blood transfusions, so why would we allow some antivaxxer nut compromise their childrens' safety?

  12. Re:People need to realize... on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    The problem was no one had the balls to haul him into court, and then into jail. They allowed him to walk away from it; discredited yes, but unpunished in any substantive way, probably because of the culpability of some of his peers in allowing their names to show up on his fake study.

  13. Re:Obvious Answer on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Fuck it. Just ban their kids from attending public schools, daycares and the like. If they want to endanger their kids, they should not be permitted to endanger anyone else's.

  14. Re:RMS was right on Replicant OS Developers Find Backdoor In Samsung Galaxy Devices · · Score: 1

    If I don't personally assemble the bits on punchcards by hand, I don't trust anything! I figure I should have my trusted JVM ready to go in about forty years...

  15. Re:Apps on VLC Finally Launches App For Windows 8 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No one said Microsoft actually knew how to gain market share. The old tools of threatening OEMs with a fate worse than death don't work any more, so Redmond is a bit of a fish out of water.

  16. Re:Windows Store on Microsoft Dumping License Fees For Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    Because Microsoft aping competitors' tactics years behind them has worked so well of late.

  17. Re:Now we have an answer to the 20TB backup questi on 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But that NAS is likely sitting at your location, which means if it gets burned down by insane meth heads or swallowed by a sinkhole, you're good and screwed.

    For my business, I use DFS that replicates our shared drives at all three locations, so I feel fairly confident that an almost up-to-date mirror of the data is being held at two other locations, all of which are separated by a lot of miles. Coupled with offsite backup, I feel the business data is secure.

    At the moment my personal data is on Dropbox, with my absolutely confidential data in a Truecrypt container. Still, Dropbox is kind of expensive for the 7 or 8gb of data I'd like to store, so I will definitely be considering Google's offering. Since both work the same, at least for the PC versions, in that each computer has a full copy of the data, if Google goes offline or pulls the plug, I still have my multiple copies sitting around.

  18. Re:Yeah, you can totally trust your data... on 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month · · Score: 1

    If they can mine my TrueCrypt container, then they're doing something amazing.

  19. Re:How remote is remote? on Replicant OS Developers Find Backdoor In Samsung Galaxy Devices · · Score: 2, Funny

    How remote is remote? Are we talking over the internet/sms or are we talking if you control a cell tower?

    Yes

  20. Re:I'm tired of Tim and his WWW centric bubble on As the Web Turns 25, Sir Tim Berners-Lee Calls For A Web Magna Carta · · Score: 1

    Um, SGML dates back to the 1960s.

  21. Re:Established by convention on IAU To Uwingu: You Can't Name That Martian Crater Either · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I have no idea who this Uwingu is, and don't fucking care. They have no international recognition that I'm aware of, and thus have no particular right to name anything.

    If they're so keen on names, let them name their own underpants.

  22. Re:I have no sympathy for that asshole ! on Senator Accuses CIA of Snooping On Intelligence Committee Computers · · Score: 2

    Her cause, so far as I can tell, is to stop Federal spooks from spying on her. It does not appear to be stopping Federal spooks from spying on anybody beyond the rarefied circles of Congress.

  23. Re:Who are you? on Interviews: Ask Larry Augustin What You Will · · Score: 1

    Amen. I have no idea who this guy is, so I can't imagine any other question to ask him.

  24. Re:I have no sympathy for that asshole ! on Senator Accuses CIA of Snooping On Intelligence Committee Computers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't think it's at all out of order to take some pleasure in one of the most-pro NSA people in Congress being hoisted by her own petard. Is it wrong to take pleasure from the chickens coming home to roost for Feinstein... well maybe a little, but I just can't help myself.

  25. Re:It's a she, not a he on Senator Accuses CIA of Snooping On Intelligence Committee Computers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No shit! Congress happily gave Federal agencies powers to spy on virtually every human being on the planet, so they can fucking well live on the same sphere we do.

    Don't feel so great when the shoe is on the other foot, eh, Feinstein? Well, a big "fuck you" from the rest of the world.