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  1. Re:Next up for debunking on Cracking The Code On Trump Tweets (time.com) · · Score: 2

    What if both of them were shills working for the other side? That would explain a lot.

  2. Re:Thanks Media on Cracking The Code On Trump Tweets (time.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If only someone could find a major News network that would obsessively look for dirt on the Clintons for 20+ years.

    They found plenty of dirt, it wasn't even difficult.

    -An embarrassing lover and witness to their various fraudulent schemes was murdered and they pressured the police to call it a suicide
    -On his last day in office, Bill Clinton pardoned more people that the sum of all previous presidents. The going rate was 300k, paid to one of his family members.
    -The Clintons framed the head of the White House travel office (who was there since Kennedy) to replace him with one of Hilary's cronies
    -Several women who filed complaints of sexual misconduct against Bill Clinton were bullied or threatened until they withdrew their complaints; one of them even had her dog killed, and one recognized a member of Hilary's entourage as the man who told her she could get raped "for real" if she didn't withdraw her complaint
    -She lies all the time. She lied about being rejected from the Marines and NASA for being a woman, but got away with it because there was no proof it didn't happen. She lied about being under sniper fire and got caught that time because there was a video of the "incident".

    The reason you never hear about this is not because it didn't happen or because nobody was looking for it. The reason is that damaging stories about democrat politicians are consistently underplayed by the liberal media which has the biggest market share. The liberals are also good at scrubbing wikipedia. The article about Vince Foster is a fascinating example of that, look at how it constantly got "corrected" to remove the bulk of the case against Clinton.

  3. They made an example on Google Ventures CEO and Founder Bill Maris Is Leaving (recode.net) · · Score: -1

    They say he's leaving on his own, but rumor has it that the guy made the ultimate mistake and paid the price. At Google you can lose billions and be forgiven, but don't you dare use bing to find good porn.

  4. Re:Whiny Fanboy... but he has a point on Suicide Squad Fan Suing Studio For 'False Advertising' Over Lack of Joker Scenes (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    reality dictates that the majority of humanity is uglier than a moldy sack of rusty hammers...

    Maybe you should try traveling outside UK

  5. They're fighting Russian hackers and Russian, American and Israeli spies (APT-s). Read their reports.

    Yeah I'm sure there's a small army of NSA spies hidden in a room somewhere trying to "hack" Poland and steal all that valuable data. They probably sit next to the black ops team that's planning a coup in Cape Verde.

  6. I don't know what is the purpose of the Poland Computer Emergency Response Team. Protecting the local companies who offer cheap IT labor against the Indian hackers who work for the competition?

  7. your excel is broken on Delta Air Lines Grounded Around the World After Computer Outage (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    On one hand, airlines are not swimming in cash so everything requires a tedious business case.

    On the contrary, after going through bankruptcies in recent years and shedding debt, pensions, etc., plus with the current low fuel prices, most airlines are currently swimming in cash.

    what are you talking about? Those companies are public it's easy to see the numbers, stop making shit up based on your faulty guesswork.

    Delta has a book value of *negative* 3 billions, cash flow down 115 millions last year alone. American Airlines is also in dark red, book value negative 700 millions, cash flow down 600 millions. Those are not companies where you can easily get a budget upgrade.

  8. Re:Incompetent IT on Delta Air Lines Grounded Around the World After Computer Outage (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course most travelers would probably choose to fly on a plane sitting on a board resting on two cinder blocks if it would save them $5. So the market gave people what they wanted.

    Most travelers... or their employers! There's a guy I know who spends 14h per week in transit (flight + layover); if the company could put him in the cargo hold to save $5 they'd do it. When there's a plane delay he has to VPN in from the airport (but not the lounge of course). Can you imagine yourself spending an afternoon on those cheap airport plastic seats, debugging an Oracle BPEL workflow via a shaky remote desktop connection while waiting for your flight?

    Karma like this, he was probably a serial killer or a pedophile in his previous life.

  9. Re:Incompetent IT on Delta Air Lines Grounded Around the World After Computer Outage (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Totally agree. On one hand, airlines are not swimming in cash so everything requires a tedious business case. But also it's a fact that many organizations require a major incident before believing those birds of ill omen in IT.

  10. Have you been to Nigeria? The middle class over there is pretty quick to exploit the poor.

    This kind of scam is nothing like Robin Hood, it's all a bunch of Prince John wannabes.

  11. Who needs elections on 32 States Offer Online Voting, But Experts Warn It Isn't Secure (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    just put up a Facebook page and see who gets the more Like. Problem solved.

    It's not like it really matters anymore. Politicians are entertainers nowadays, not decision makers.

  12. Re: Well, no crap on Older Workers Are Better At Adapting To New Technology, Study Finds (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    I figure all the people who can't adapt get weeded out over time.

    In theory. Unless you work in the public sector... but that's a whole different story.

  13. Re:How jokes work on Older Workers Are Better At Adapting To New Technology, Study Finds (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Well before accusing other people of not reading your post, start by reading their posts yourself.

    It doesn't matter what is your intent. When you make a joke that is so lame that people don't even get that it's a joke, then it's not a joke, it's garbage.

  14. How jokes work on Older Workers Are Better At Adapting To New Technology, Study Finds (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't get it. When the guy said "what are books?", it was a joke. Maybe not the joke of the year, but a joke by any standard. When you replied to that joke "thanks for proving his point", that wasn't remotely funny. That didn't even had the appearance of a joke, which explains the reaction of the other guy (and mine).

    Jokes are a social contract that you can't enforce unilaterally; if people don't understand your jokes it means you're not funny, full stop. There's no higher authority you can appeal to.

    Here's a pro tip. The further down the chain you are in a chain of jokes, the more clever and spectacular you have to be to avoid sounding like you're trying to coattail someone else's joke. Leave the third or fourth levels to experts until you've mastered the art of humor.

  15. Re:Generations on Older Workers Are Better At Adapting To New Technology, Study Finds (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Totally agree. My mom is in her late sixties and she's more aware of popular apps on smartphones than me. She watches streaming videos on sites I didn't know existed, buys stuff on eBay and etsy, even gets in "polite" flame wars on twitter.

    I was a kid when she got her first microwave. I was in high school when the family got our first computer. Now she doesn't even tell me when she buys a new tablet.

  16. Re: Generations on Older Workers Are Better At Adapting To New Technology, Study Finds (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems you need to learn what a "joke" is

    I'm not the only one Coward. That's what I did, and you whooshed on it.

    Can you explain your "joke" that seems to have a fairly high whoosh factor? Maybe it's more difficult to understand it for people who are not one of the voices in your head.

  17. Re: Well, no crap on Older Workers Are Better At Adapting To New Technology, Study Finds (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Spot on. One of the guys at work used to oil hard disks for a living. That's how old he is. Lately we changed our build scripts and got rid of grunt and bower, just switched everything to straight npm, and in a team of twenty he was the fastest to catch up and one of the few who was not bitching about npm and remembering the "good old days" of having a Gruntfile.

  18. Re:Why lock the car? on Car Thieves Arrested After Using Laptop and Malware To Steal More Than 30 Jeeps (abc13.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Old shit cars get stolen all the time. Not because the thieves wil get a fortune out of it or because they're on special order from foreign billionaires. They get stolen because they're easy to steal and/or can be useful in the commission of other crimes.

    There's this guy who specializes in insurance scams. Lets say you're stuck with a lease on a Prius that you'd love to get rid of, and you just can't find a moron to take it. For $250 that guy will steal an old Pontiac Sunbird or some other piece of garbage, and will ram it in your Prius in a way that ensures it's totaled. Problem solved. If there's two Sunbirds side by side, and one of them has a club, guess which one he's going to steal.

  19. Re:Why lock the car? on Car Thieves Arrested After Using Laptop and Malware To Steal More Than 30 Jeeps (abc13.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    The improbable sight of a big bearded guy in a black leather jacket getting out of his car with a heavy chain in his hand, made them change their minds very swiftly.

    I guess they were not into the bear and cub thing

  20. the purpose of the club is not to prevent theft, it's to make other cars that have no clubs more enticing for potential joyride-type thieves. Ot's like having a rottweiler in your backyard; people who badly want your Faberge eggs collection will deal with it, but junkies looking for pawnable items will skip your house.

  21. It's called Peer Firewalling, it's the latest trend in cybersecurity. One adds the firewall rules, the other handles the "firewall-cmd --reload" calls.

  22. Re:Its an excuse on North Korea Hopes To Plant Flag On The Moon Within 10 Years (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Its an excuse to test lots of long range missiles incapable of carrying large and heavy warheads

  23. Re:That is impossible. on Popular BitTorrent Search Engine Site Torrentz.eu Mysteriously Disappears (softpedia.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Something just does not become impossible. if something impossible does exist then you'd be able to see it.. if somebody for example made something impossible it actually is not impossible because it had succeeded via the person's own intent. but if that person had covered up the intent well that is still not impossible because we already know something impossible cannot exist.

    "His weapon flails wildly at any or all targets, the truth. his theory placed with humble intentions cannot be understood until someone proves him wrong"

    What in the fuck is wrong with you?

    Those are actually lyrics from a Ke$ha song.

  24. Don't you find that whole torrent thing a bit labor intensive, while for $10/month you can get a gold-plated download experience on easynews?

  25. The factual accuracy of a claim is not influenced by the person claiming it nor by the manner through which it is conveyed.

    - AC

    That's correct. But the odds that a claim is accurate are lower when it's made by someone with zero credibility. That's the real issue.

    Here's an example to help you understand. If Kanye West was to hand me a roll of toilet paper on which he has scribbled down in his own excrement a series of numbers that he claims to be four thousands decimals of pi, I would probably not believe him. It doesn't mean pi has less than four thousand decimals, it just means I don't think they've been written down by Kanye West on a roll of toilet paper.