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  1. Re:Solution: Don't give your data away on Secret Text In Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access To Email Records (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    "we've evolved to a bizarro state where we must hand over our content to strangers in order for it to be useful to us. "

    Yes. Like the Postal Service. Telephones.

  2. Re:If you didn't vote Libertarian YOU ASKED FOR TH on Secret Text In Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access To Email Records (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    What you said.

  3. Re:R.I.P. Land of the Free on Secret Text In Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access To Email Records (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Time for you to move elsewhere. Freedom and liberty are not given. They are literally, literally fought for, constantly. Lead, follow, or get out of the way. You choose.

  4. Re:R.I.P. Land of the Free on Secret Text In Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access To Email Records (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    The sad thing is that the majority supports this.

    Assent is lacking. We don't remember these violations long enough to keep voting out the weasels.

    As long as they have food on the table, people want dictators.

    By that token, people want anything. Dictators promise anything.

    Look at statistics on popular support for Snowden, for example.

    And his act is entirely misunderstood by so many. What we don't know is infinitely more dangerous than what is admitted to. Our enemies know. We should also

  5. My comment was intended to be figurative; that the industry is driven to smaller and smaller processes, and eventually must, in the instance of silicon, reach unavoidable limits. Intel is looking at new materials, as all others must be, in the drive to minimum process size. And management's answer to engineering's complaint that 'it can't be done yet' is 'try harder'.

    No one I know at Intel is happy. They have, so far, missed the mobile market, are under enormous pressure in every other market, and their most competitive and profitable products serve apparently declining demand.

  6. And you're also thinking literally.

  7. You're still thinking in Silicon. Intel isn't.

  8. And no one i know at Intel is sleeping well, still. They are challenged, and struggling, to keep innovating all the way to the 0.1nm process.

  9. Re:Now we need the same for the C-USA on China Fakes 488 Million Social Media Posts a Year To Deceive Its Citizens (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "the corporate propaganda drive "

    You refer to the Worldwide News Media.

  10. Re:Meanwhile in the USA... on China Fakes 488 Million Social Media Posts a Year To Deceive Its Citizens (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    The differences being that the Chinese government is expecting their campaign to be 0. effective and 1. meaningful.

  11. recurse/
    The sad part is that you replied to that post. /recurse

  12. "A show like sex and the city paints a pretty shallow, incomplete, and unfortunate picture of both sexes"

    I was never under the delusion that TV shows show the truth of anything, especially "Reality TV".

  13. Re:Sounds like they need to break it out by gender on Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not into GoT at all, the gratuitous everything is not for me. If the Sopranos were starting now, I wouldn't watch it either, but I changed. I choose my entertainment sex and violence differently now.

  14. Re:Maybe they just don't like the shows? on Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, I was.

    Because I did. And I'm honest about it.

    Really, it was a current show before anyone thought rating it online was a thing.

  15. Re:Maybe they just don't like the shows? on Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    If you are observant, you realize that men are intended to be victims of feminism.

    Coincidentally, women are also.

  16. Re:Maybe they just don't like the shows? on Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    For the beach houses, of course.

  17. That's White Male Privilege, you insensitive clod.

  18. Re:Bollocks isn't it. on Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    ST:E is so retro it's nearly steampunk. Fabulous just for that. Leave it alone.

  19. I watch a lot of Cupcake Wars, Chopped, and a seemingly infinite stream of Lifetime Movies filmed in either Vancouver or Toronto. With my wife.

    She complains about my before-she-wakes-Saturday-EPL-watching-addiction.

    Men and women are different.

    I, for instance, can watch nearly any movie, so ling as I have a reason other than paying for it or being alone to watch it. So if I am watching movies with my wife I can be sufficiently interested to watch chick flicks, tearjerkers, and formulaic men/women behaving badly. We don't watch swimming pool movies together, I no longer do at all. But she's all in for Battlestar/Star Trek/Star Wars/Marvel/DC anything, as well as Bond/Bourne/anything with Liam Neeson.

    I go to the movie theater for the popcorn, and to be entertained. Ratings mean less when the action is more.

    But on TV, I see plenty of drivel on LMN, etc, and of course Netflix etc. that is rated so low it's presumed to bore my recliner, and surprise, it's at least as entertaining as the highly thought of crap that poses as mainstream.

    Ratings mean very very little and for Sex and the City even less, because, well, SATC is so OLD it is well understood, and anyone wanting to know if it's 'any good' will get lots of opinions, and probably invest in one episode.

    Full disclosure; I watched EVERY episode of SATC, first because it aired right after The Sopranos, and later because it was good enough to finish my evenings with.

  20. Re:Strong enough for a man, made for a woman on Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    "women don't seem to feel the need to go trash-talk shows that are designed to appeal to men"

    Citation please.

  21. Alternatives? on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 1

    CO

    Morphine (chops to all the other psoters, u wun)

    Heroin (redundant, I know)

    A multitude of anesthetics.

    Modern firing squad. Pros: Plenty of volunteers for the squad, trust me on this; no cost, the volunteers willingly undergo training and will provide their own approved ammo. Cons: Outrage from the many who will be offended by this; more outrage from the many who will be outraged by this; rampant misunderstanding of the process.

    Sadly, none of these will be simple to implement:

    - Testing. On animals. This will offend someone.

    - Developing the actual process. This will also offend someone.

    - Defending the practice of capital punishment.

    Is this permissible, that a drug maker should refuse to provide products for legal use? Seems they provide them for off-label uses, which are merely unapproved, not necessarily illegal. But it's their business.

  22. Re: what is the point if you cannot buy the zero on Raspberry Pi Zero Gains Camera Support, Keeps $5 Price (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    As I alluded to earlier, I could Velcro one of these to my Rigidbot, run Octoprint, camera and all, and not be bothered even with a couple of screws to mount a B or 3. Size does matter, sometimes.

  23. Re:Another useless trinket on Raspberry Pi Zero Gains Camera Support, Keeps $5 Price (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Stock enough to survive the evolution.

    Redesign your form factors to survive changes.

    OR design your own.

    You have described the problem micro-sized manufacturers have always had. Just don't rely on injection molding for parts, since you'll be back whining about tooling and iterative design.

  24. Re:Another useless trinket on Raspberry Pi Zero Gains Camera Support, Keeps $5 Price (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Octoprint? Now, with the camera clip, it's all there.

    And you need a Velcro patch for a mount. Seriously, this is elegant.

  25. Re: Change is bad on Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? (go.com) · · Score: 1

    True, but...

    I'm the DR/business continuity guy on the team, and enabling virtual work is key to that, so I have to ensure we have the tools.

    All meetings at work have dial - in. All. Live Meeting is our share, though WebEx is gaining.

    We respond to problems to crisis situations, no coding. And we respond to multiple reporters on a regular basis. Chat solves this when we are virtual.

    And we are virtual weekly, so we are accustomed to that environment.

    We also have a lot of virtual customers...