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  1. Re:Massive conspiracy on IRS Lost Emails of 6 More Employees Under Investigation · · Score: 1

    Ben is the guy who made the Youtube video that caused the uprisings and the murder of the ambassador. Right?

  2. Re:Whelp... on Chinese-Built Cars Are Coming To the US Next Year · · Score: 1

    That's just because Tesla is still an Elon Musk hobby project. It's not nearly as much fun having a whole building full of purchasing agents as it is having shops full of cool machines.

  3. Re:I'll buy anything from China except food on Chinese-Built Cars Are Coming To the US Next Year · · Score: 1

    It's documented fact that birds shit more on red cars than any other color.

  4. Re:Bets, anyone? on Chinese-Built Cars Are Coming To the US Next Year · · Score: 1

    I remember replacing the entire distributor on my old '72 beetle and I definitely didn't have a timing light at the time. Old one was German with vacuum advance, new one was from Brazil with centrifugal advance.

  5. Re:Bets, anyone? on Chinese-Built Cars Are Coming To the US Next Year · · Score: 1

    Pontiac isn't even a car brand anymore.

  6. Re:Ack! I'll take muh 1080p monitor thank you. on 4K Monitors: Not Now, But Soon · · Score: 1

    You don't need lower case, you read slower than 10 cps, and you've got a storeroom in back with shelves of rolls of yellow pulpy paper? And the recyclers call frequently?

  7. Re:lost mail on Congressman Asks NSA To Provide Metadata For "Lost" IRS Emails · · Score: 1

    What makes you think anybody in government wants email to be un-loseable?

  8. Re:Special prosecutor on Congressman Asks NSA To Provide Metadata For "Lost" IRS Emails · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A Special Prosecutor would have to be appointed by a member of 'The Most Transparent Administration.' That ain't gonna happen.

    We can hope for change, though.

  9. Re:Isn't Samsung the largest UNIX vendor? *grin* on One Developer's Experience With Real Life Bitrot Under HFS+ · · Score: 1

    Linux stands for 'we didn't allow Linus to call it Freax.' Nothing more.

  10. Re:Isn't Samsung the largest UNIX vendor? *grin* on One Developer's Experience With Real Life Bitrot Under HFS+ · · Score: 1

    UNIX is a brand name, and POSIX is a standard to meet. Just like an appliance might be UL Certified, an OS might be POSIX compliant.

    The trademark of the UNIX brand name is owned by a whole separate group.

  11. Re:Isn't Samsung the largest UNIX vendor? *grin* on One Developer's Experience With Real Life Bitrot Under HFS+ · · Score: 1

    But is Mach UNIX? I don't mean 'POSIX compliant' because Windows NT 4.0 is POSIX compliant.

    I have several UNIX license plates. They are officially licensed and sold (or were sold) by The Open Group.

    Saying that Apple pimps off UNIX to produce their closed-source candyland binaries isn't really 'The UNIX Way' no matter how much it's one of Apple's new 'Altivec Unit' bullshit bullet points.

  12. Re:Backup? on One Developer's Experience With Real Life Bitrot Under HFS+ · · Score: 1

    only modified files get pushed into a giant tree of hard links,

    Wouldn't that mean that files modified by a corrupt filesystem would be the first candidates for backing up?

  13. Re:Everyone's Personal Email Server on After Non-Profit Application Furor, IRS Says It's Lost 2 Years Of Lerner's Email · · Score: 1

    doesn't even work as a science fiction scenario.

    It might in a Phillip K Dick scenario. Maybe an Ellison.

  14. Re:Fuck taxis on California Regulators Tell Ride-Shares No Airport Runs · · Score: 1

    Or you could be like Google, and buy a nearby Federal Airport (with fuel discounts!!)

  15. Re:Apple is a wealth extraction engine on Apple To Be Investigated By the EU Over Tax Affairs · · Score: 1

    Political Economy is much bigger than Marx. He had contemporaries even in that same period whose writings and observations are at least as relevant.

    All that Marx inspired was a significant uprising of rabble. Also, political economists describe reality. They don't define it.

  16. Re:It's about time on Apple To Be Investigated By the EU Over Tax Affairs · · Score: 1

    These days writing a web page gets considered 'coding' by some people. Let it go.

  17. Re:scamming their competition & taxpayers on Uber Demonstrations Snarl Traffic In London, Madrid, Berlin · · Score: 1

    Uber is scamming other taxi companies (and taxpayers)...

    And taxpayers?

    Because Uber is breaking the government imposed monopoly that all taxpayers gleefully pay for??

  18. The Cab Drivers Are Blocking Traffic? on Uber Demonstrations Snarl Traffic In London, Madrid, Berlin · · Score: 2

    Simple Solution:

    Take away their licenses. Re-issue them to somebody else who doesn't break the law by blocking traffic.

  19. Re:Good on Parents Mobilize Against States' Student Data Mining · · Score: 2

    The feedback loop can be closer than 'data' being gathered by giant bureaucracies and then directives sent down to the teachers in the schools. For instance, good teachers can pay attention to the specific children they are charged with teaching. Which happens a lot, let's not cut down the good effort our teachers make. The feedback loop should be at a micro scale, not a macro scale. Politicians shouldn't be in the loop at all, unless by 'politicians' it is meant elected School Board Members.

  20. Re:Nyet, tvarish - Snowden IS patriot. on Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden Would Not Get a Fair Trial – and Kerry Is Wrong · · Score: 1

    Cut out the Colonel Klink impressions. This isn't Hogan's Heroes.

  21. Re:prosecutions are done on law in place at the ti on Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden Would Not Get a Fair Trial – and Kerry Is Wrong · · Score: 1

    You might have to say that about most of the rest of the world, then. The NSA is not chartered, at least publicly, to spy on everyone outside the US, including the heads of government of our Allies.

  22. Re:prosecutions are done on law in place at the ti on Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden Would Not Get a Fair Trial – and Kerry Is Wrong · · Score: 2

    Right. The NSA isn't chartered as a counter-intelligence operation, with the task of spying on adversaries. It's mission is to spy at the deepest level on the heads of state of our Allies. Not just spies, and not just agencies in idenitified enemy countries.

    Your Realpolitik sucks, dude. Maybe you should go read another Tom Clancy novel.

    There aren't any 'Old Sayings' from the Game of Thrones. It's a modern work, not a classical work. But you said 'this isn't Star Trek' so to a limited degree, you appear to base yourself in reality, not drugstore Fiction thrillers.

  23. Re:Come on home Ed! on Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden Would Not Get a Fair Trial – and Kerry Is Wrong · · Score: 1

    He was an Assistant Professor, right? Not even an Associate. Or was he just a Constitutional Law Lecturer? Are there any interesting peer-reviewed articles on Constitutional Law he wrote that we can read?

  24. Re:Ellsberg got a fair trial on Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden Would Not Get a Fair Trial – and Kerry Is Wrong · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Snowden would be prosecuted & sentenced. We would all be pissed off. Some cities would even have public protests. Then Snowden would get locked in a cell. Things would gradually cool down. Uh, whatever happened to ol' Ed?

    *crickets*

  25. Re:Why does it still looks like a car? on Is Google CEO's "Tiny Bubble Car" Yahoo CEO's "Little Bubble Car"? · · Score: 1

    So they can barf on each other, rather than on their own lap? Or is it only the half of the people facing backward who do all the barfing?

    Hmm, why not be really creative and have the passengers stand on their heads?