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  1. Re:Opt-in is acceptable for this on Verizon Up Offers Rewards in Exchange For Customers' Personal Information (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    It is still exhibitionism if you expose yourself to willing observers. It follows that this is still a violation of privacy even if you give permission.

  2. Opt-in is acceptable for this on Verizon Up Offers Rewards in Exchange For Customers' Personal Information (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    While this program is a horrible violation of privacy, as long as the entire program is opt-in it is acceptable.

  3. Re:Scoville who? on How NASA Kept the ISS Flying While Harvey Hit Mission Control (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    That way readers know who the Holy fucking Mary he is.

    This rule, like many others, don't apply to Trump.

  4. Re:More competition is good on AMD Releases Ryzen PRO Processors Worldwide, 8-Core Ryzen Threadripper 1900X (techradar.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, I am also using laptop. It is plugged in 99% of the time. Even on the plane you now have power outlets to charge your electronics.

  5. More competition is good on AMD Releases Ryzen PRO Processors Worldwide, 8-Core Ryzen Threadripper 1900X (techradar.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    More competition is good, Intel pretty much sat on their hands for the last long while. In my workstation I really don't care if it is 200W or 10W CPU, but I do care how long I have to wait for something to compute.

  6. Re:Sure it is on Tech is the Most Lucrative Career: LinkedIn Study (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    At least until you turn 50.

    The best paid developers with most job security are ones maintaining critical legacy systems written in Cobol and Fortran.

  7. Do they still randomly confiscate your accounts? on PayPal Debuts a Credit Card That Offers 2% Cash Back (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Do they still randomly confiscate contents of your accounts? I guess since this is a credit card product, now they will also have an ability to max the credit card for you.

  8. I don't always code, but when I code I write assembly code directly in binary.

  9. Re:Obviously 'R' is for 'Racist' on Coders In Wealthy and Developing Countries Lean on Different Programming Languages (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This is no forking joking matter, don't dongle it up.

  10. This has not stopped dirty console peasants in the past.

  11. I control my PC and its drivers. Insofar as you know, I only use a controller and nothing else is connected to it. I even post on /. with a controller. If you load anything trying to look at my drivers, you will be looking at the inside of VM.

  12. At least in case of Valve/PC, any crossplay will quickly turn into massacre. For example, in FPS keyboard and mouse players of moderate skill would dominate competition-level console players. The same would hold in RTS or any other game where skill element revolves around player control.

  13. Re:The Muslim Brotherhood on Facebook Pages Spreading Fake News Won't Be Able To Buy Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Are we also going to get 'beheading' button next to 'like'?

  14. Re:Assuming there are no repeats on A User Archived Nearly 2 Million Gigabytes of Porn to Test Amazon's 'Unlimited' Cloud Storage (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Fortunately, there are rarely surprise endings.

  15. Re:Every morning on We Can't Stop Checking the News Either. Welcome to the New FOMO (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless you woke up due to a bright flash, checking for #1 is irrelevant.

  16. Next Apple project - flailing around on Apple Puts Brakes on Self-driving Car Project, Report Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Next Apple project - flailing around and reheating Job's leftover ideas. They need someone with vision or accept that they are a commodity supplier.

  17. Re:Odd PR move in the wake of what's coming on Mozilla Testing an Opt-Out System For Firefox Telemetry Collection (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    The next day after telemetry collection goes live:

    Firefox now renders porn 1000% faster using 50% less memory and supports up to 999 tabs. Every other feature was removed.

  18. Internet of Legally Screwed on Sonos Says Users Must Accept New Privacy Policy Or Devices May Cease To Function (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Internet of Things moved to Internet of Insecure Things and now to Internet of Legally Screwed Things.

    Why would anyone buy IoT after this is a mystery.

  19. Re:How older people are treated on People Start Hating Their Jobs at Age 35, Study Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I live outside CA, and have not experienced this. Cult of youth is not everywhere.

  20. Something fishy going on on A Global Fish War is Coming, Warns US Coast Guard (usni.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Something fishy going on here, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

  21. Re:20 Years to use a simple feature? on E-Commerce To Evolve Next Month As Amazon Loses the 1-Click Patent (thirtybees.com) · · Score: 1

    Your are in violation of my patent on shitposting on /. Cease and desist.

  22. Re:Purpose on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It also has 'the' article in there somewhere. Really? Even for you, taking 6 words out of entire article out of context is low mark.

    Try reading what actual scientists in the field say about this .

  23. Re:Purpose on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    He wrote that women are less able to deal with stress, and thus there are fewer of them in stressful jobs. That's clearly saying that women are less capable of handling stress. He even proposes reducing stress as a way to mitigate this reduced capability.

    This is again creative re-interpretation of what was said. Did you skip reading the entire paragraph where he goes about populations and demographics.

    What was actually said, backed by published literature, that on average women are less willing to deal with stressful environments and as a results make a choice to work in less stressful environments.

    What puzzles me is massive opposition to Google paper from feminists. How is less stress, more flexible hours, and so on bad for anyone? This paper basically states "Less slave-driving will get more women in tech". We can't have less slave-driving, right?

  24. Re:Purpose on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This guy takes the conclusion from them that women are inherently less capable than the men.

    The article did no such thing. You will have to stretch definition of 'capable' in unusual ways to make such claim. To summarize the article, it states that men on average are more focused on status while women are more focused on relationships. Neither of these would fit traditional definition of capable.

  25. Re:Purpose on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Reasonable discussion looks something like this:
    Your conclusions are based on faulty data, study A and B was debunked by X, Y, and Z.

    This is not what happened.

    What happened is approximately like this:
    Personal insults. Outright lies. Straw man take downs.

    Even your response, reasonably civil, assumes that James Damore only cited Wikipedia. This is not the case. He cited peer reviewed articles from respectable journals.
    I understand actually reading what he wrote might end up getting you expelled from your social group, but you can still do it in secret. This way you won't sound quite as misinformed to anyone who read the article.