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  1. Re:Keep this story in mind on MasterCard Fined $648 Million for High EU Card Fees (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see why it'd surprise anyone since many places in America don't take Amex.

  2. Re:Um... yeah, that's a huge part of the point on Richard Stallman Says Linux Code Contributions Can't Be Rescinded (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    freedom

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. The GPL is about control, not freedom.

  3. Re:Only a month? on Hackers Stole Customer Credit Cards in Newegg Data Breach (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I can occasionally find things cheaper on NewEgg. HGST drives tend to always be cheaper on NewEgg, plus I don't have to pay sales tax through NewEgg.

  4. Re: Past performance is an indicator of what? on Linux Foundation Celebrates Microsoft's GitHub Acquisition (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!

  5. Re:Picnic is already broken. on Microsoft Adds Post-Quantum Cryptography To an OpenVPN Fork (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    How do honeypots factor into this?

  6. Not french enough on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    All the suggested words & phrases need to have at least 65% more letters that aren't pronounced.

  7. Short answer: No on Could We Reduce Data Breaches With Better Open Source Funding? (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 0

    Longer answer: hahahahaha, no.

  8. The title is a false premise on Apple Seems To Have Forgotten About the Whole 'It Just Works' Thing (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple stuff never "just worked". So nothing has changed.

  9. When equality is seen as sexism on The First Women in Tech Didn't Leave -- Men Pushed Them Out (wsj.com) · · Score: 0

    Men test each other all the time. Men challenge each other all the time. You can call it gatekeeping if you want, but the fact is men have done it to each other for a long time. Women join men, and they don't want to be treated equally. They want to get special treatment. Equality is seen as sexism. It's only benevolent sexism that's seen as equality.

  10. Re: #MeeToo Crowd will appeal until on Judge Dismisses Lawsuit That Claims Google Paid Female Employees Less Than Male Colleagues (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The drumhead trials started well before the #Metoo movement. It just wasn't as widely broadcast. In the past it led to men being killed due to mere accusation. The Title IX cases provide a long list of drumhead trials.

    Look at cases like Brian Banks, Duke Lacrosse, Hofstra, Jackie, and Mattress girls for starters.
    It's funny how so many people who push the "listen and believe" crap will turn around and use the Salem witch trials as an example of women being persecuted, when the reason for the trials were from people "listening and believing".

  11. Do it for every .gov and .mil range too. And if you can tell what ranges belong to the corporate offices for ISPs that oppose net neutrality, do it to those ranges as well.

  12. Women and feminists will almost certainly never be able to get women to get rid of hypergamy. They wanted to get rid of gender roles, and the more that happens, the more panicked women get.

  13. Re:It's because of social justice activism on Google Hit With Gender Pay Discrimination Lawsuit (axios.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How well did it go for the last person who criticized google with their name attached?

  14. Re:More "Women are the primary victims of war" on Google Conducted Hollywood 'Interventions' To Change Look of Computer Scientists (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean the keypunch girls? I respect what they did, but it's a bit of a stretch to call them programmers. They transcribed instructions from the actual programmers to punch cards. They were transcribers, not programmers.

  15. More "Women are the primary victims of war" on Google Conducted Hollywood 'Interventions' To Change Look of Computer Scientists (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Based on our research, one of the reasons girls and underrepresented minorities are not pursuing computer science is because of the negative perception of computer scientists and the relevance of the field beyond coding."

    Funny how no one cared about the stereotypes men would face for being so nerdy/geeky/whatever when computers weren't as profitable or such a big part of society.

  16. I have both MPC and VLC. I primarily use VLC, but some files for some reason it chokes on, and MPC doesn't have that problem with them.

  17. This does not help improve my view of her on Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's Ex-CEO, Says She's Looking 'Forward To Using Gmail Again' · · Score: 1

    Admitting to having a hand in designing GMail? That does not impress me.

  18. Re: No-one wants nicer on Imzy, the Kinder and Gentler Reddit By Ex Employee, Is Shutting Down (imzy.com) · · Score: 1

    Well they did say people in a general sense, and not hockey fans...

  19. Re:Always verify user input and external data on Malicious Subtitles Threaten VLC, Kodi and Popcorn Time Users, Researchers Warn (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    At least you didn't share a link to some sort of crazy porn.

  20. Insufficient apology on LinkedIn Apologizes For Trying To Connect Everyone In Real Life (vocativ.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll accept their apology when the company shuts down and the senior management is fitted with cement shoes and goes for a swim in the middle of the Atlantic.

  21. Re:It's called a "web browser" on The Kodi Development Team Wants To Be Legitimate and Bring DRM To the Platform. (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    When I was looking at adding YouTube, I kept seeing people talking about the plugin having problems. Did they actually fix that? That's the reason I went for the solution I did since it'd get what I wanted, even if it wasn't the ideal setup.

  22. Re:It's called a "web browser" on The Kodi Development Team Wants To Be Legitimate and Bring DRM To the Platform. (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    YouTube at least works well enough on Kodi using the Chrome Launcher add-in to run Chrome in kiosk mode. The interface seems to work logically enough with my Harmony remote. It isn't perfect, but close enough it doesn't bother me. Maybe it's just close enough to my configuration with my Kodi skin (forget which one, I'm at work right now) that while it might be a touch off, it's not enough to bother me. The two issues I have are that occasionally Chrome just decides that it wants to somehow lose part of its cache or my cookies, so while it'll say I'm signed into my YouTube account, all of a sudden it'll show my subscriptions but not playlists. That's only happened once or twice in the past year, year and a half I've had it set up (I think that's the right timeframe) and I fixed it by just manually launching chrome, clearing cache, and re-signing in. The other little nuisance is that when I hit exit to close out of it, instead of bringing it back to home (which is where I have the shortcut set) it drops me into the add-ins menu and I have to manually return to home.

  23. What they should've done is pass a law so that drivers can't be held legally responsible or sued for injuries distracted smartphone users suffer.

  24. How do I turn two sets of 4 rocks into 44 rocks?

    Two options would be a sledgehammer or a jackhammer. So division, kinda? Not concatenation, but you could use them to physically turn two sets of 4 rocks into 44 rocks.

  25. Re:I did on Labor Department Sues Oracle For Paying White Men More (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    It started out as the gender wage gap, but what it means is constantly changing depending on who is having what conversation since it's bullshit. The original claim is that women make 74-77 cents on the dollar for for every job compared to men. Unfortunately, that number is all men averaged against all women. When this is pointed out, there's handwaiving and accusations of misogyny. That is what the gender pay gap is. Any other definition is a deflection. It also ignores childless women outearning men in the same age bracket. They also ignore cases where women are paid 25 times more (not 25 percent more, 25 times more) than men in the same line of work.