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  1. Re: Why does the FBI continue to engage in witchcr on Veteran FBI Employee Accused of Trying To Beat Polygraph, Suspended Without Pay · · Score: 1

    Even in an exceptionally litigious place like the UK there would be no libel case, it is a confidential test conducted by the government. If you don't like what it says about you, don't tell anybody. Easy as pie.

    "You're sacked."
    "Why?"
    "You lied on the polygraph test"

    At that point you've lost your job because someone made a disparaging claim about you that they can't substantiate.

    Sue the fucker.

  2. Re: Why does the FBI continue to engage in witchcr on Veteran FBI Employee Accused of Trying To Beat Polygraph, Suspended Without Pay · · Score: 1

    Surely the correct answer is to sue the shit out of anybody that claims you lied based on polygraph results.

    In the UK it's probably going to be the easiest libel case you'll ever win.

  3. Re:Move and die! on AdBlock Plus Defends Ad Blocking, Applauds Marco Arment · · Score: 1

    Interpret 'webmaster' as 'person that chose what to include in the web page being served by the web server'. That's rarely the actual admin.

  4. Re: Xians hate science as their... on A Wikipedia-Style Tree of Life Emerges · · Score: 1

    I don't use that abbreviation either.

    Exmas? Really? No. Laziness from lazy fuckwits that can't spell.

  5. Re:Xians hate science as their... on A Wikipedia-Style Tree of Life Emerges · · Score: 1

    'ex' ians? Just typing 'Xians' shows what a cunt you are.

    The Christian Science Monitor is always (when I read it) a refreshingly objective and sane publication that talks rationally about science.

  6. Re:A very stupid company in some ways on Nintendo Nixes YouTube Videos of Super Mario Speedruns · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Let's start by acknowledging that piracy is a major issue for companies like Nintendo and that they should do something.

    No. I don't acknowledge that at all. I think they are not harmed at all by piracy, of the traditional or electronic kind.

  7. Re:Speedruns != TAS runs on Nintendo Nixes YouTube Videos of Super Mario Speedruns · · Score: 0

    Jesus christ Nintendo, not only is it stupid that you are removing videos that are literally free advertising for your games, you are removing videos that are completely legit games run on legit consoles.

    ..that are infringing on Nintendo copyrights.

    Don't blame Nintendo for the copyright laws being fucked.

  8. Re:The trouble with ads on Creator of Top iOS Ad Blocker Pulls App After Two Days · · Score: 1

    For those of you around at the beginning, ads were static images, with a hyperlink to the place it was going.

    For those of us around at the beginning, there were no ads.

    It was good.

  9. Re:MMM on Twitter's Tech Lead On Making Software Engineers More Efficient · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but imagine a world in which no other books told that cars have four wheels, why, and how to assure that they're in the corners.

    Ok, it didn't know about ABS, ECUs, automagic gearboxes and electric windows, but MMM still contains core basic insights that people need to understand and learn.

    Then read the material that's followed, that advances the discipline, and learn from that too.

  10. Re:Did he throw a chair? on Microsoft's Satya Nadella Shown Up By Confused Cortana Assistant · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sorry but all these repeated comments on the same subject, when it's never been mentioned before, sound like astroturfing and agenda building.

    Lots of ACs and no named people? Don't trust you. Feels like it's one person trying to push racial division.

  11. Re:What did the question even mean? on Microsoft's Satya Nadella Shown Up By Confused Cortana Assistant · · Score: 1

    I believe the word you're seeking is "jargon".

    You know, that stuff you use every fucking day, that makes your professional speech sound like total nonsense to people that don't work in your domain.

    Did you take an MBA too or just fail the entrance exam?

  12. Re:The Milk Was Most At Risk on Microsoft's Satya Nadella Shown Up By Confused Cortana Assistant · · Score: 1

    "What's the address of Alfred?"
    "Bugger. Tell me Sharon's phone number"
    "Mail my dance competition team for me"

    Yeah, that simple list of people and their details is answering questions and letting me do useful stuff with the information.

  13. Re:If I had a child now on Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After "Bomb" Clock Incident At School · · Score: 1

    Exactly. This is what's so fucking ludicrous about the whole thing.

    If there's genuine fear it's a bomb, then you enact the "oh shit, there's a bomb" process. They didn't, so they didn't think it was a bomb. At which point, what the fuck was the rest of the charade for?

    I've been evacuated from my home because of a suspect IED that looked like a battery with two wires sticking out of it, and that turned out to be a battery with two wires out of it. There was a level of uncertainty, so the "oh shit, there's possibly a bomb" process kicked straight in, we stood around gossiping, the bomb disposal squad turned up, had a chuckle and let us go back home.

    Another day a bomb went off, killed some people and broke the school windows. Later that day, we all went to lessons in the undamaged buildings.

    Those fuckwits in Irvine clearly have serious issues, and I don't mean young Ahmed.

  14. Re:Like a grownup on Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After "Bomb" Clock Incident At School · · Score: 1

    How about a heads-up to the teacher the day before? "Hey teacher, I'm going to bring in a science experiment tomorrow." Did it never occur to them that bringing in a breadboard with wires hanging off it might cause some concerns?

    Really? You expect a 14 year old to submit a health and safety certificate request in advance, educate the teachers on what a fucking clock looks like and beg permission to please do science, pretty please, awww go on?

    No, I think the student did nothing wrong, acted perfectly reasonably in taking a home-made clock in to school, should have had no expectation that people would over-react and try and hang him for it, and was shamefully treated.

  15. Re:That's not a bomb, it's a clock! on Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After "Bomb" Clock Incident At School · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's the one. The one in which a stupid fuckwit did something stupid with a cup of coffee and decided it must be someone else's fault.

    It's a fucking hot liquid. She knew that. She was stupid. She didn't deserve to get burned, but she sure as shit didn't deserve to win a lawsuit about it.

  16. Re:Yes, especially in Boston. on Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After "Bomb" Clock Incident At School · · Score: 1

    The Boston motive was to promote the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie.

    What, you're pretending that doesn't immediately cause "citizens to feel threatened, unsafe, and concerned" ?

  17. Re:Stupid people are stupid on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    Soon, you'll have Muslim-looking people getting shot for carrying a cane or other round-ish piece of wood. Oh, wait, that already happened in the UK http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

    How the fuck does a white man born in Scotland look Muslim, and what the fuck does his death in 1999 have to do with anything Islamic?

    Pushing a dodgy agenda much?

  18. Re:Um... on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 1

    I'd separate the gender imbalance issues with marital failure from the sexual use of electro-mechanical devices.

    It's possible to fuck a machine and have a healthy happy sexual relationship and still not be married. Millions of women already do this.

  19. Re:I think her arguments are flawed. on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 1

    If however a sexbots are sentient, even to a limited degree then making them is nothing more than sexual slavery.

    What if their reward sensors value human semen as the greatest reward they can earn, and their sentience combines with self determination to choose to acquire it?

    Is that still slavery? If your sexbot wakes you up and jumps on board because they want your semen, is that still slavery? At which point is the man being raped by a robot, and can you still claim the robot is the slave?

    This is why robot ethicists are important, to apply multi-disciplinary techniques to identify, understand and provide insight on this sort of question. "Ban sexbots" does not however imply that's what's happened on this occasion.

  20. Re:Why? Sexbots could be great! on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 1

    That'll be why all those vibrator using women treat men as the wasted space around a dick they could be thrusting deep inside them.

    Or maybe people can differentiate between electromechanicals objects of pleasure and people. Maybe.

  21. Re: makes no sense to me on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't you have to be a bisexual tranny to be a gay lesbian?

  22. Re:Predicable do-gooder medling. on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 2

    With sexbots though, there is no female push for them.

    Erm. 52% of women in the UK responded to a Durex sex survey indicating that they use vibrators.

    There's a whole market segment going under 'fucking machine'.

    There's female demand in this space, trust me.

  23. Re:They get my Lucy Lu Bot... on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But until AI really gets good, sexbots are only going to appeal to the tiny minority of men who are already using Real Dolls. No threat to society as a whole.

    Over half of the women in the UK already own a sexbot, I'm not sure AI is all that necessary.

  24. Re:very wrong summary on YouTube 'Dancing Baby' Copyright Ruling Sets Pre-Trial Fair Use Guideline · · Score: 1

    I do run a youtube channel and I do have content removed due to inaccurate automated checks performed on behalf of the cunts in the music industry.

    The DMCA does not at any point get involved or invoked in this process.

    So no, I have no idea how you know he doesn't run a youtube channel. Do tell us?

  25. Re:Seriously? on YouTube 'Dancing Baby' Copyright Ruling Sets Pre-Trial Fair Use Guideline · · Score: 2

    No. Fair use does not excuse copyright infringement, because fair use does not infringe copyright.

    To use your analogy, if it's self defense then it isn't murder. Self defense is not an excuse for murder.