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  1. really hitting them where it hurts on New York Fines Viacom, Mattel and Hasbro For Tracking Kids Online (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Viacomm 2015 gross earnings $6.18 billion.
    $500,000 fine.

    Mattel 2015 gross earnings $2.8 billion.
    $250,000 fine.

    For an individual earning $100,000 gross income that equates to roughly to $8 and $9 fines respectively*. That will really teach them to think twice about breaking federal law by enabling tracking of children through their sites. What a joke.

    * that's assuming the individual is taxed at the same rate as the corporations. Which they aren't. So the relative amount is even lower.

  2. Re:gasoline == old fashioned?? on Costa Rica Has Gone 76 Straight Days Using 100% Renewable Electricity (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Also solar energy is not renewable because it will one day go supernova.

    Although at that point we will have bigger fish to fry, so to speak.

  3. Re:Another reminder of why wait before buying on Players Seek 'No Man's Sky' Refunds, Sony's Content Director Calls Them Thieves (tweaktown.com) · · Score: 1

    It's almost like the majority of players who put up their hard earned cash for this game aren't wisened old neckbeards like yourself...
    What sort of percentage of monthly income do you think $60 is for a 17 year old?
    I'll give you a hint. It's a significant amount.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMan...
    The Distribution of Ages of No Man's Sky Players
    Sample Size: 1799
    Average Age: 25
    Mode (Most popular age): 17
    Second most popular age: 18
    Third most popular age: 21

  4. Re:Ground crewing issue. on World's Largest Aircraft Crashes Its Second Flight (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's great if you only want to land where a ground vehicle already exists.
    Somewhat limiting requirement though don't you think?

    Although I'm sure you thought of that already down the pub with your napkin.

  5. Re:Unsurprising on How The US Will Likely Respond To Shadow Brokers Leak (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2
  6. Unsurprising on How The US Will Likely Respond To Shadow Brokers Leak (dailydot.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not one of the steps involves questioning whether the NSA should be sitting on these 0-day exploits for their own use for years and leaving their own citizens and companies vulnerable to attack, rather than notifying the owners of the code and getting them patched.

    First order of business is finding out who let the cat out of the bag and getting retribution.

  7. Re:Ain't it wunnerful? on NASA: July 2016 Was Earth's Warmest Month On Record (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    What the actual fuck is up with the comments and moderation on this article.

    I know Climate Change has it's skeptics but this is another level.
    I would pay good money to have access to the IP source of the comments and moderation on this one.

  8. How far in the future can you set the date in that calendar in the screenshot?

    "What day and time is good for you? "

    04/20/2099 works for me thanks.

  9. Re:So they are already using drones on Spies In The Skies: FBI Planes Are Circling US Cities (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    That must be why everyone was already well aware of these activities right?

    Or is this the first most people are hearing about it...

  10. Re:Why do you need an iPad and an app? on TSA Paid $1.4 Million For Randomizer App That Chooses Left Or Right (geek.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope you aren't suggesting that we entrust our security and a lives to just random chance are you??

    We need very sophisticated, very complicated and most importantly very expensive systems to determine which line I need to stand in in order for my loved ones and I to be truly safe.

  11. Re:T.his S.ucks A.lot on TSA's Precheck Registration Program Causing Longer Security Lines (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Where are you getting the beverages that you are carrying on to the airplane that you were not allowed to bring through the TSA checkpoints?

    Paid for at the airport? how were the prices?

  12. Re:I don't want to live in this planet anymore on Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    A gun that looks like an iphone would have stood out like dogs balls in 1991.

  13. If the system allows it.... on 'Flash Crash' Trader Navinder Sarao Faces US Extradition · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "the practice of placing large orders that manipulate the markets and then cancelling or changing them"

    If the market systems allow this behaviour then it is a problem with the system. Whether he is guilty of a crime or not is a separate issue (just because you CAN do something doesn't mean it is legal), but if the system allows it to happen then the system needs to tightened down to stop it.

    Unless of course those the exploit it regularly with impunity don't want it closed...

  14. Are you a member of any loyalty card schemes? You don't need to be asked if you use on of those when paying with cash or otherwise.

  15. Act of "god" vs act of man. on Study: Drones Present Minimal Threat To Aircraft (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    " the research doesn't include the possibility of someone maliciously trying to hit an aircraft."

    Herein lies the crux of the issue.

    People generally are willing to accept act of "god" type incidents (bird strike, bad weather etc.) at levels of risk much higher than act of man type incidents (acts of terrorism etc.).

  16. a bodyguard of lies on Rubber Tanks and Sonic Trucks: the Ghost Army of World War II (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    From the first line in TFA:
    Winston Churchill once told Joseph Stalin “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies”

    Certainly explains a lot about how the truth is handled in the War on Terror.

  17. Re:All the proof we need on Scientists Have Spotted the Signs of Flowing Water On Mars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Basically they are a passenger on the titanic saying "This ship can't be sinking, my end just rose 200 feet!".

    --credit to a meme image I saw a while back:
    http://d.justpo.st/media/image...

  18. Re:Plea agreement = legalized extortion on Bitcoin Trader Agrees To Work For Police In Plea Agreement · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Fuck this guy" because he is guilty....Do you know he is guilty by any other means than his pleading guilty?

    Isn't the whole point of GPs comment that this could be YOU that was brought in on false charges (but maybe enough circumstantial evidence to make a full blown trial risky, or at the very least very expensive), they throw every possible charge at you so that you are forced to "admit" to a crime you didn't commit so as not to risk being completely ruined?

    Then YOU are the guy that everyone is saying "fuck him, he's a real criminal" to.

  19. Re:Apologies from more than just Assange? on Bolivia Demands Assange Apologize For Deliberately False Leaks To the US · · Score: 1

    If he was risking the life of a head of state then the US was happy to risk his life to apprehend him no?

    Perhaps Assange should ask Obama for an apology.

  20. Re:Change of venue on Snowden Reportedly In Talks To Return To US To Face Trial · · Score: 1

    Not a terrible idea from Snowdens point of view.

    But why would the US even consider agreeing to this?

    Snowden wants to come home, so him having to live in exile is a punishment itself for the time being, so why wouldn't the US just wait him out until they can get their grubby hands on him.

  21. Re:Have seen this several times as reviwer... on What Happens When Nobody Proofreads an Academic Paper · · Score: 0

    There are two types of reviewers: The valuable ones that actually read a paper and try to understand it, and the worthless ones that look at title, abstract and who wrote it (usually easy to find out even in anonymous review). The first type catches these things, the second does not and quite often lets bad papers in and keeps good papers out. The second type is much more common.

    Or to put it short: Peer review is broken, as there is no quality control in most cases.

    Reviewed that for you.

  22. Re:I am going to live in the dumbest home on What People Want From Smart Homes · · Score: 1

    Manifesto or beard?

  23. Semantics on The Airplane of the Future May Not Have Windows · · Score: 1

    For the passenger is there really any difference between windows and walls made of transparent polymers?

  24. Re:Summary on Leaked Documents Reveal Behind-the-Scenes Ebola Vaccine Issues · · Score: 2

    So you are suggesting that if a death row inmate agrees to be a guinea pig, then actually survives whatever nasties they are injected with, then they should be allowed to live?

    Does your master plan include releasing the survivors from jail completely then? or just downgraded from death row to life in prison?

    The alternative is they keep getting tested with nasties until they do eventualy die.

    Which of these do you think is going to be an acceptable outcome to everyone?

  25. Re:Biggest motivation? on White House Wants Ideas For "Bootstrapping a Solar System Civilization" · · Score: 5, Funny

    The only problem with that is that their descendents will then come back in 200 years and beat our descendents in all the sports we invented.