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  1. Re:Anti-complaint complaint. on The Battle Between LTE and Wi-Fi May Have Left LTE-U Out In the Cold (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    dammit! stupid keyboard keys! why can't i make a simple edit to my comment?! this is bullshit! you're welcome in advance, slashdot. ;)

  2. Anti-complaint complaint. on The Battle Between LTE and Wi-Fi May Have Left LTE-U Out In the Cold (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, all you jerks who claim that "complaining accomplishes nothing"? YOU'RE WELCOME. ;)

  3. I haven't dismissed their findings, I'm simply saying that any conclusion drawn from this data is premature, aside from the conclusion that some people on the internet are assholes.

  4. Opportunity missed on The Guardian Publishes Comment Abuse Stats, Invites Debate On Moderation (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What they failed to do was publish articles written by one gender/race under the alias of the opposing gender/race, serving it to part of the internet and seeing if there is a difference in the number of negative responses. They also didn't track the geographic region of the originating blocked posts. No conclusions can be taken from these numbers besides, "some people on the internet are assholes" which we already knew for a certainty thanks to the youtube comment sections.

  5. Time for compulsory disclosure on Zero-Days Doubled In 2015, More Companies Hiding Breach Data, Says Symantec (csoonline.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It seems to be in the interest of the general good that companies be legally compelled to disclose when they have been breached as well as the extent of the breach. If nothing else, this will enhance the "Free Market" by driving people away from companies that are irresponsible.

    Therefore, I predict a number of marionettes-err-congress critters-err-politicians will be against this idea.

  6. Re:You can call for gang rape of Sarah Palin thoug on Top Tech Firms Urged To Step Up Online Abuse Fightback (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Azealia Banks a black woman can say anything she wants under these new rules.

    A lot of popular people, including Azealia Banks can say whatever they want not because of what they are but because they drive traffic to Twitter. Twitter is a business and that's all they really care about, never forget that.

  7. The real reason why on Tiger Numbers Rise For First Time In a Century (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    If Tiger Woods had 26 mistresses, how many mistresses do you think actual tigers have?! ;)

  8. How transparent! on Apple Patent Filing Points To a Keyboard With No Keys (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    They are obviously trying to trick Steve Jobs (who openly loathed physical buttons) into coming back to life. The joke's on Apple because Steve already had himself reincarnated as a cow in India.

  9. Re:Tor exit node on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1

    there were no hackers in that movie, only actors. it's a little something we call "fiction".

  10. Re:Tor exit node on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    He is a hacker. Goes by the name "Zero Cool"

    A hacker wouldn't have chosen that name because "Zero Cool" is equivalent to "Not Cool".

  11. two steps backward. on New Bipedal Robot Demoed by Google X Company (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What I don't understand is why Alphabet is selling off Boston Dynamics. Boston Dynamics is lightyears ahead of this little robot and they even got out of their military contract. So why sell Boston Dynamics just to regress to this bot?!

  12. head of diversity? on VR Tested by NFL To Confront Sexism and Racism (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    if you are seeking to have diversity occur then you are actively discriminating based on a prejudice which results in racism, sexism, ageism, etc. everyone needs to stop this "diversity" bullshit and hire people based on their qualifications.

  13. the patent office isn't going to check this database and after a patent it approved, it (sadly) requires more than just prior art to have the patent invalidated. the patent system is borked but this isn't the solution.

  14. I speak for the internet when I ask: on IBM's Watson AI Implanted Into a Robot, Evolves, Can Now Sense Emotions (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful
  15. That reminds me of an incident in the UK back in 2011. Where one guy called his friend a "mutter" (mother's boy) but autocorrect wrote "nutter" and so the guy stabbed his friend 104 times. I don't blame the technology, in fact, I think it was dead-on.

  16. DMCA, section 1201.e

    (e) Law Enforcement, Intelligence, and Other Government Activities.—
    This section does not prohibit any lawfully authorized investigative, protective, information security, or intelligence activity of an officer, agent, or employee of the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State, or a person acting pursuant to a contract with the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State. For purposes of this subsection, the term “information security” means activities carried out in order to identify and address the vulnerabilities of a government computer, computer system, or computer network.

  17. Re:DMCA Violation? on Apple Won't Sue FBI To Reveal Hack Used To Unlock Seized iPhone (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    law enforcement is exempted from most laws, including the DMCA, dummy.
    see subsection "(e) Law Enforcement, Intelligence, and Other Government Activities." which is literally right above subsection "(f) Reverse Engineering."

  18. You were warned on Adobe Patches Flash Zero-Day Exploited By Magnitude Exploit Kit (securityweek.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    You have been warned repeatedly that you Flash and Java plugins/addons/extensions are insecure and that you should uninstall them. Therefore, if you still have Flash or Java installed and you get compromised because of it, you only have yourself to blame.

  19. classic burn on Monster Black Holes May Lurk All Around Us (yahoo.com) · · Score: 0

    The giant, with an estimated mass 17 billion times that of our Sun, was discovered in a relative desert, astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, wrote in the journal Nature.

    so, they found your mom, eh? ;)

  20. Re:Err on the side of caution on White House Redirects $589M In Funds To Fight Zika Virus (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Take not just the money from Ebola, take the lesson: don't let something this virulent get away from us.

    except Ebola virus was extremely virulent and deadly whereas the Zika virus is neither of those.

  21. Re:other side of the fence on Researchers Keep Pig Heart Beating In Baboon Belly For 2 Years (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Did anyone ask the baboon's opinion on having a pig's heart pointlessly stuck in his stomach?

    I hope you stay firmly attached to your high-horse when you given the option between having a pig's heart and dying.

  22. Intel's chips are simply too expensive to use in anything that isn't running Windows. This is already failed venture, just like their smartphone efforts.

  23. upgrade over the stopgap on The White House Finally Got Color Printers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    the previous stopgap measure was temperamental and made strange sounds.

  24. women in India on US Won't Say How Many H-1B Workers Are Female (computerworld.com) · · Score: 0

    One of India's issues is that women are treated like second class citizens. I would be very surprised if even 1% of H-1B workers were female.

  25. Re:Watching Paint Dry on Steam Hacker Says More Vulnerabilities Will Be Found (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    i know, right? all i could think was "finally, a game i can win against all the 14-year-olds who torment me! \o/"