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  1. and you are conflating entertainment with news

    Oh, the irony.

    And your chart shows that Fox's ratings only shot up when Obama was elected. There's a reason for that.

  2. Smart enough to say "no" [Re:LCS] on German Navy Experiences 'LCS Syndrome' In Spades As New Frigate Fails Sea Trials (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    they're the F-135s [35?] of the ocean. Overpriced, delayed, problems doing some expected things, and loved by those who love Swiss army knives, entertainment systems and all-you-can-eat buffets.

    The difference is that the US command structure accepted them while Germany was smart enough to say "no".

  3. If the MSM stayed focused on the facts and reported the entire story, they wouldn't have the lowest trust ratings in 40 years.

    I'm not convinced ratings are any measure of accuracy. If WWE ratings are higher than Olympic wrestling, does that mean WWE is more real?

  4. Re:You have to know your suckers... Er, audience. on Fake News Sharing In US Is a Rightwing Thing, Says Oxford Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Both parties have been lax on immigration enforcement and visa worker screening, but for different reasons. Business wants cheap labor, and bribes GOP to ignore enforcement. Therefore, cracking down on it is not a Republican stance.

    Trump is not really a Republican: he's just using them. Partly what got him elected is that he scratched an itch most politicians ignored. (Or at least gave it lip service. You'll have to audit business hiring, not just build walls, and business, including Trump Inc., don't want to be snooped on.)

  5. Correction: "We progressives..."
    (Sorry, "gotta" stays.)

  6. Us progressives gotta up our bullshit game. Trump's hair is really a covered satellite dish streaming to Russian satellites. And it's orange due to deregulation at the hair-dye factory. Hannity made Haitian babies eat Tide Pods. Ted Cruz was caught screwing goats behind Olive Garden. The goats gave him an 8. Sarah Palin's re-translation of the Bible is really Mein Kampf in reverse if you replace every 3rd "r" with "z".

  7. Re:Zuckerberg for president! on Facebook Hired a Full-Time Pollster To Monitor Zuckerberg's Approval Ratings (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Zuckerberg would be a better thin-skinned-narcissist.

  8. Re: Terrified to use Master and Slave on Rust Creator Graydon Hoare Says Current Software Development Practices Terrify Him (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you DON'T sound like a neck-beard without people skills, trust me.

  9. Re:Must be nice on Samsung Billionaire Gets Off Easy (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Too Big to Sue

  10. Re:Hypothesis on Flat Earther Fails To Launch His Homemade Rocket -- Yet Again (facebook.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody really knows what gravity "is" in terms of the underlying mechanism, beyond conjecture. If you define it in terms of a "distortion of space/time", then you have to explain the mechanism of space/time first, not just its behavior.

  11. Re:Too bad on Flat Earther Fails To Launch His Homemade Rocket -- Yet Again (facebook.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Too bad. I love that guy. America needs more full-on nuts who do crazy things with rockets and other such toys

    Having leaders of nations like that is NOT enough for you?

  12. Re:Terrified to use Master and Slave on Rust Creator Graydon Hoare Says Current Software Development Practices Terrify Him (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    How about "Boss" and "peon".

  13. Re:Terrified to use Master and Slave on Rust Creator Graydon Hoare Says Current Software Development Practices Terrify Him (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    being a Social Justice Warrior, his group finds the terms "master" and "slave" to be "problematic."

    If you think about it, it can be quite offensive. I was working with a black colleague once, and I switched to "primary" and "secondary" because I didn't want to utter those words around them, even though they were in the instructions. Would you feel comfortable with it?

  14. Really big right now on What Are Today's Most Difficult IT Hires? (cio.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Technical Fad Coordinator"

  15. Re:Where do they live? on Insect Die-off: Even Common Species Are Becoming Rare (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    If you are homeless, it's probably hard to buy a plane or boat ticket to HI. Being on the continent, you can also more easily move to different states as jobs become available. More options.

  16. Re:SpaceX on Ask Slashdot: Which Tech Company Do You Respect Most? · · Score: 1

    They are the only ones that are going to get us off this rock

    No, that would be SPR Limited (Roger Shawyer). SpaceX can only get you to Pluto. If you want to visit hot green Orion babes, SPR is a better bet. Sure, it's a long-shot, but SpaceX is a no-shot for Ms. Green.

  17. H vs. blame [Re:Whoever] on Ask Slashdot: Which Tech Company Do You Respect Most? · · Score: 1

    I agree, the head of security/IT should have made sure everything was in line for the main boss. He/she inspected nothing and didn't check to see that she had sufficient security training, etc. The CEO is supposed to focus on the domain, NOT routine infrastructure.

    I can understand how a low-level employee may slip through the inspection cracks, but not the main boss. If the head IT/security person is too scared to approach her, the problem is them. If somebody with more rank won't let them do their job, such as blocking access to the boss, then document it, and they become the real problem.

  18. Re:The Onion on Ask Slashdot: Which Tech Company Do You Respect Most? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Onion.com is suffering a slump because real news from the White House is more zany.

  19. Simple on Ask Slashdot: Which Tech Company Do You Respect Most? · · Score: 1

    Me Inc.

  20. Re:Where do they live? on Insect Die-off: Even Common Species Are Becoming Rare (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 2

    The bugs may be why homeless tend to move to California. There was a political debate about why there are so many homeless in CA. The typical conservative answer is that CA is "too socialistic". But other left-leaning states don't have as many homeless.

    Some argued that if it were mostly the weather, then many homeless would cluster around the South East also, such as Georgia and Florida. But that place has a big down-side for homeless: bugs galore. If you don't have health-insurance, that's a big worry, in additional to the sheer discomfort of being Bugs' Lunch.

  21. Apple and Microsoft are crying that they'll have nobody to steal ideas from now.

  22. Just mark them as suspicious, don't outright remove them.

  23. Misuse around the corner on Pocket-Sized DNA Reader Used To Scan Entire Human Genome Sequence (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Employers will use such under the table to screen candidates for medical and/or genetic problems. I've worked for slimebags who would happily cheat at anything to gain an edge.

  24. Even more outrageous is why the crooks were not smart enough to spread the contraband across cities so it doesn't stand out. They must have been users.

  25. Re:Implications on Do Particles Have Consciousness? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    have feelings too. Don't be a bigot towards particles, respect their rights.

    You see, corporations and universes are people, Haitians are not.