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  1. Re:Nothing stopping them from giving more.. on Millionaires: Raise Our Taxes To Address Poverty, Fix Roads (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Not only are you wrong about the donations thing, but you left out Treasury and other government bonds, too.

  2. Re:Specific and Custom Linux on Reports: NVIDIA Launching a Distro of Its Own (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been using the .run installers for a couple years. Works great for me. Takes about 2 minutes, which is plenty fast enough for something I might need to do every other month or so.

  3. Re:Specific and Custom Linux on Reports: NVIDIA Launching a Distro of Its Own (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Who told you that installing nvidia drivers on Linux requires a reboot? Some random Windows user? Or did you make that up yourself just now?

  4. Re:This is big-league ball, kid. on Microsoft Tries Hard To Play Nice With Open Source, But There's an Elephant In the Room · · Score: 1

    What a corrosive attitude. No. Corporate officers are not obligated to take actions they see as immoral or otherwise wrong that would create profit just because it's legal.

    You've evidently never worked for a big corporation. Else you'd know that's *exactly* what corporate officers are obliged to do--make money for the stockholders in any fashion they can legally get away with.

    Don't like it? Change the laws regading corporations and corporate governance.

  5. Re: My data... on BorgBackup 1.0.0 Released (github.com) · · Score: 1

    Surely you can buy Björn Borg socks and underwear in countries other than Sweden...?

  6. Re:Story is BS on Kremlin Falls For Its Own Fake Satellite Imagery (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    I think we can all agree, at the very least, that Ukrainian air traffic controllers did not shoot down that plane.

  7. Re:Story is BS on Kremlin Falls For Its Own Fake Satellite Imagery (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's some good disinfo. I hope they're paying you well for it.

  8. Re:Story is BS on Kremlin Falls For Its Own Fake Satellite Imagery (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    More like, "Fuck the Russian government for giving advanced anti-aircraft tech to a bunch of drunken idiots who managed to hit the wrong plane."

  9. Re:Story is BS on Kremlin Falls For Its Own Fake Satellite Imagery (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    WTF? The only claims I've ever seen to the effect that MH-117 had been shot down by *another plane* have come from the Russians.

    Everybody else says and has been saying all along that it was a Russian-made AA battery, probably used by the rebels after getting it from the Russians. The Dutch investigation appears to confirm this.

  10. Re:Shoot this idiot with a very real bullet. on San Bernadino D.A. Says Shooter's Phone Could Harbor "Cyber Pathogen" (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Then please don't use the
    Imperative, then pretend
    You didn't. Moron.

  11. Re: Stand up! on Another Windows 10 Update Causing Problems (windowsreport.com) · · Score: 1

    Linux is not some magic sauce that makes your hardware invulnerable.

    Smart users and IT people who want to keep their jobs—these folks take backups.

    Stupid users and IT people who don't care about where their house payment will come from—these folks don't.

  12. Re:This has become so common it isn't news anymore on Another Windows 10 Update Causing Problems (windowsreport.com) · · Score: 1

    And just a very few shills posting AC to helpfully point this out to us... Yeah, right.

  13. Re:This has become so common it isn't news anymore on Another Windows 10 Update Causing Problems (windowsreport.com) · · Score: 1

    I multitasked yesterday while upgrading KDE to a new point-release.

    A turning point was reached some months ago in my years-long struggle to get my wife off Windows when she saw me doing updates with YaST and could not believe how fast they were. Now she's on a Mac and still going on whenever she has an update about how Windows updates took her *hours*.

  14. Re:"Merchants can't rely on digital transactions" on Bitcoin's Nightmare Scenario Has Come To Pass · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it has nothing whatsoever to do with the notice that This bill is legal tender for all debts public and private printed on each note, which—coming from a national government—can be presumed to carry the force of law in that nation.

  15. Re:"Merchants can't rely on digital transactions" on Bitcoin's Nightmare Scenario Has Come To Pass · · Score: 0

    So you equate sticking your fingers in your ears and saying, "Lalalalala..." with winning a debate? Thanks for letting us know.

  16. Re: What a crock on Godfather Of Encryption Explains Why Apple Should Help The FBI (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    You're attempting to argue with the point you think I made.

    Alas, that's not the same as the point I actually did make.

  17. -1, Wrong

  18. Re: What a crock on Godfather Of Encryption Explains Why Apple Should Help The FBI (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Harsh, but true, nevertheless.

  19. Re: What a crock on Godfather Of Encryption Explains Why Apple Should Help The FBI (bgr.com) · · Score: 2

    Not to mention that the victims are dead, we already know who killed them, the killers themselves are also dead, and cracking an iPhone is not going to bring any of them back to life.

  20. Re:What a crock on Godfather Of Encryption Explains Why Apple Should Help The FBI (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    So you didn't just fall off a potato wagon, either? Amazing coincidence, that. :)

    It's not even "wrong"--it's *disingenuous* to a degree which resulted in near-instant coffee spatters on my monitor and a "HORSESHIT" tag for the story about 10 seconds later.

  21. Re:So... Which is it? on Guix Gets Grafts: Timely Delivery of Security Updates · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry about your butthurt, but it's not my fault that your devs don't understand how to name things in a fashion that it doesn't require 20 minutes to puzzle out and leave you feeling dissatisfied even then.

  22. Re:Nuke North Korea on Kim To N. Korean Military: Be Ready To Use Nuclear Weapons At Any Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So basically, you want to nuke North Korea because you want to nuke North Korea.

    And you assume that Kim is not a rational actor. That's a big assumption. Especially since he seems to have proved himself quite adept already at removing possible threats to the power that he was born and raised to assume as the scion of a Stalinist dynasty.

    (And I am also an EU citizen, and you most certainly do not speak for me.)

    Thanks for playing!

  23. Re:The silver lining around every (mushroom) cloud on Kim To N. Korean Military: Be Ready To Use Nuclear Weapons At Any Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    The Chinese would much rather maintain their highly profitable trade with this hypothetical island, than continue to prop up Li'l Kim at a huge loss.

    Not to mention that the boys in Beijing are getting *mighty* tired of losing face just so Kim can keep playing the schoolyard bully.

    If the Americans promised not to venture north of the DMZ, the Chinese would likely be quite happy to have SK take over NK any time.

  24. He got the downmod for doing it wrong. What a bunch of noobz we're cursed with, these days. NOW GET OFF MY LAWN.

  25. Mein Herz blütet für Dich... on Maryland Public Buses Record Passengers' Conversations (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If we had competing public transport companies, one could've switched to a privacy-respecting competitor. Alas, MTA holds a monopoly and legislation is the only recourse.

    Poor little diddums has to deal with ebul gummint.

    BAWWWWWWWW.