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  1. Fuck Zillow on Zillow Drops Complaint Against Blogger After Backlash Over Copyright Claim (geekwire.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't give a fuck about their bullshit excuses. Zillow can go fuck itself. I will actively discourage people from using their site.

  2. Better idea. on US Senators Seek Military Ban on Kaspersky Lab Products Amid FBI Probe (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why not just cut to the heart of the issue and impose a ban on Microsoft products?

  3. Re:A word to the wise: on Hacks Raise Fear Over NSA's Hold on Cyberweapons (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should make shields instead of knives.

  4. Re:A word to the wise: on Hacks Raise Fear Over NSA's Hold on Cyberweapons (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Things that can only be used to defend and help their common man.

  5. A word to the wise: on Hacks Raise Fear Over NSA's Hold on Cyberweapons (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Never create a weapon that you wouldn't want to fall into the hands of your worst enemy.

  6. holy shit dude, try to condense your thoughts into a small logical compact form. i'm not reading your stream of consciousness posts.

  7. Re:For those keeping track... on Vulnerability Discovered In Latest Ubuntu Distributions, Users Advised To Update (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 1

    Major or minor is irrelevant. What's relevant here is the design or rather the lack thereof. I could argue the specifics but I don't think you have looked at the code. If you actually want to know more about the design of systemd, here's a basic explanation of how it's core works.

  8. Re:19,354 cities in the US,yep on Mayors of 7,400 Cities Vow To Meet Obama's Climate Commitments (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The Democrats are good at losing, and being sore losers at the same time.

    Far-right Republicans like you are by far the sorest winners in all of history. You guys can't go a day without bringing up the 2016 presidential election or Hillary Clinton. Victory was yours, your guy is now in the White House and yet you cry about it every fucking day (including your guy!) like everyone ignored the election results! Honestly, I cannot figure out if you guys are insecure about winning the election or if you more an more people are waking up from comas that slipped into after the election.

  9. Re:The Art Of The Empty Gesture on Mayors of 7,400 Cities Vow To Meet Obama's Climate Commitments (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    I wonder if these cities ALSO plan to funnel billions of dollars to third world slush funds, which was the real goal of the Paris accords.

    You do realize the the penalties were always voluntary and that each country sets it's own goals, right? There was never going to be any money going anywhere, you rat-swindler.

  10. All you do is claim what people cannot do. You greatly underestimate your common man.

  11. Windows is not the way. on London Metropolitan Police's 18,000 Windows XP PCs Is a Disaster Waiting To Happen (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm sorry but if you are serious about security and long-term stability (decades) then Windows isn't the way. Sure, no OS is perfect but that doesn't means you should choose to drink raw sewage because filtered water isn't really pure water. Honestly, they should be using some minimal version of FreeBSD with an minimalistic or possibly text interface. Progress is good but only if you are heading in the right direction.

  12. Perhaps you should take your own advice.

    Look, we've got to recognize that you can't make everyone happy. The world isn't fair nor perfect.

    So suck it up and comply with federal regulations. :)

  13. Re:Where is this terror over terrorism coming from on US Imposes Stricter Security Screenings At Foreign Airports, But Won't Expand Laptop Ban Yet (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    When the fuck are voters going to grow up and realize it's not something anyone should worry about?

    Honestly, it's when the media stops showing stories about it all the time. We're pretty screwed for the foreseeable future on this issue.

  14. I'm not posting sarcastically.

    I wish you were.

    I sympathize with the differently-abled -- I really and truly do! -- but the economic well-being of an Uber driver trumps your claim to universal access

    I sympathize with you differently-empathetic -- I really and truly do! -- but the social well-being of the nation trumps your bullshit claim to being an asshole.

    By complaining about equal access, you're fucking up someone's life.

    Yeah, how can the disabled be so selfish as to demand equal opportunities!

    Drink chloroform. -_-

  15. Facebook's crime: banning racist posters on Facebook's Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men From Hate Speech But Not Black Children (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    Didi Delgado, whose post stating that “white people are racist” was deleted, has been banned from Facebook so often that she has set up an account on another service called Patreon, where she posts the content that Facebook suppressed. In May, she deplored the increasingly common Facebook censorship of black activists in an article for Medium titled “Mark Zuckerberg Hates Black People.”

    You don't have to be white to be a racist.

  16. If you are unhappy with how facebook is conducting itself then by all means, stop using it. There has never been a need to use facebook and it's causing you distress then you shouldn't be using it.

  17. Re:This has already been proven bunk on Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage May Be Hurting Workers, Report Finds (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    For the restaurant/service industry there's also been an increase in the number of illegals hired and paid even less than before under the table.

    Sounds like somebody needs to hold them liable.

  18. ISPs should go with nuclear option. on More Than 40 ISPs Across the Country Tell Chairman Pai to Not Repeal Network Neutrality (eff.org) · · Score: 2

    Begin by blocking all political donation sites to all the congress critters that support the repeal of net neutrality. That's a fun start but you can take it to some weird extremes.

  19. Re:For those keeping track... on Vulnerability Discovered In Latest Ubuntu Distributions, Users Advised To Update (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That graph is the infant graph of every project

    Sure... except that systemd has been around for seven years. It's not maturing because it's always expanding.

    They need help.

    I agree, they are rudderless boat that runs into other projects and absorbs them. What they need is vision but the project leaders are blind mice in a maze with no finish line. I cannot help them because they will not accept one of their ideas being rejected.

    What are YOU doing to help them? There's 617 things you could be working on.

    I've been writing a properly designed replacement to dislodge systemd. It's portable, superior but most importantly it follows the UNIX design philosophy. However, I will not be an enabler of those who work on systemd by cleaning up their messes for the next 30 years.

    Open source software is evolutionary and systemd too will go the way of the dinosaurs.

  20. Google needs to move all of its servers out of Canada and leave completely because this shit is no good for anyone. The Canadian Supreme Court just fucked up big time.

  21. HR is the problem. on A New Kind of Tech Job Emphasizes Skills, Not a College Degree (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The real problem here is that HR is not interested in hiring based on skills, even if you provide them with the opportunity. Their interest is purely on a resume of checkboxes for the position. These checkboxes always include "X years job experience or a degree in XYZ" and then a list of software you may work with no matter how little. The problem with this is that you cannot get experience if nobody will hire you, so you are stuck with "must have a degree" for entering the the field. HR always insists on the perfect candidate and until you retrain/fire those fools, you won't solve this problem.

  22. Re:Need to begin carbon extraction. on Sweden Passes Bill To Become Carbon Neutral By 2045 (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    If slowing down CO2 production does turn out to help, then maybe we aren't doomed. I'm going for the more hopeful scenario.

    Hope will not stop the laws of physics. You'll see things my way, just give it time.

  23. For those keeping track... on Vulnerability Discovered In Latest Ubuntu Distributions, Users Advised To Update (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 2, Funny
  24. Re:Distinction without difference on President Trump Attacks Amazon, Incorrectly Claiming That It Owns The Washington Post For Tax Purposes (recode.net) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bezos is likely to have purchased WaPo with tax-considerations paying at least a partial role — the other big concern, no doubt, was to save money on lobbying, by flat-out owning the biggest loudspeaker in the capital.

    Actually, he was testing the Amazon Echo in beta to see if it would subscribe to their newspaper and in the most literal sense Alexa did "buy a copy of The Washington Post." ;)