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  1. Re:Government knows best... on Hillary Clinton Takes Aim At 'Gig Economy' · · Score: 1

    You know, if you take the crime out of drugs they do not end up doing stuff like mugging your family. You end up with functional addicts who can work because they do not have criminal records. You have lower priced drugs because, you know, there is no incentive to smuggle them and raise the price. I could go on but you will only argue. Those that want drugs can get drugs, regardless of what you seem to think. If they could not get drugs then we would not have a "drug problem." The government saying that they are bad is not going to keep people from doing drugs - see the number of druggies for evidence of this.

  2. Re:Free? Who said anything about free? on Hillary Clinton Takes Aim At 'Gig Economy' · · Score: 1

    The government does not give the oil companies money except when they purchase their products.

  3. Re:And who is at the bottom? on Hillary Clinton Takes Aim At 'Gig Economy' · · Score: 1

    That is funny. I just ordered a 640Li (~650hp BMW) and was thinking that it would be awesome to pick people up and drive them around in it as an Uber driver. Alas, I would drive too fast and there is not one single anything in my area for such. Of course it does not help that I am many miles from the nearest podunk town and even further from an actual town that has stuff in it. Neither of which is serviced by Uber (or any other taxi) by the way.

  4. Re: Bad design on Speed-Ups, Small Fixes Earn Good Marks From Ars For Mint 17.2 · · Score: 1

    I will load up a MATE ISO in a VM and take a gander at it. I recently said to hell with it and returned to my Linux roots. Well, technically, I was a Unix man at first really. Well, sort of. Career wise, yes. Ah.. That bastard we call Solaris.

  5. Re:Mechanism? on Cell Phone Radiation Emission Tests Assume Use of Belt Clip · · Score: 1

    I rebut that with Ethiopia. They hardly eat at all and do not live very long either.

  6. Re:Does not really matter. on Cell Phone Radiation Emission Tests Assume Use of Belt Clip · · Score: 1

    welp... Enjoy your lack of children. Not that there was any chance of that. Or, really, any chance that a cellphone is going to heat your nuts up enough to harm them.

  7. Re: Taking a good point and stretching it. on Cell Phone Radiation Emission Tests Assume Use of Belt Clip · · Score: 1

    I read the whole series. It is interesting and the videos are not too too horrific. For a short, 7 month, stint I worked as a chaser at a naval base that housed a detention facility. There were a lot of Marines inside and I was fortunate enough to be on the outside doing inmate transport mostly. They did not have cell phones in their anus. I believe they had been invented but were not even going to fit in goatse's ass. As an aside, I am not sure who told what to whom but I got calls asking me if I wanted a job as a guard in civilian facility. I went and interviewed for a position as a Major and took the tour. They are not the same as those run by the military and I could not, in good conscious, work at one.

  8. Re:Cities with on New Default: Mozilla Temporarily Disables Flash In Firefox · · Score: 1

    Strangely, there is a nice Chinese restaurant in Terre Haute. By nice I mean they had frog legs and I spent three extra days in a hotel room with what was probably food poisoning. Such a nice place too. I went and played at Joe's Pizza and Pickin' Parlor and then meandered off to a bluegrass fest in Columbus. I think it was Columbus at any rate.

  9. Re:People go to museums to see dinosaurs on Facebook's New Chief Security Officer Wants To Set a Date To Kill Flash · · Score: 1

    The Cheat... Where you going to? What you think you're gonna do? The Cheat...

  10. Re:NPAPI vs. PPAPI on Facebook's New Chief Security Officer Wants To Set a Date To Kill Flash · · Score: 1

    Opera and Chrome both use Pepper.

  11. Re:Florida Man on Comcast Launches Streaming Service and Unveils Pricing For 2G Fiber · · Score: 1

    I like the Redneck Riviera. I have some property down in Bay County, a decent sized house with some actual land, that is on the beach and has a great tax rate and was absurdly inexpensive for what it is. (When the Great Flood arrives I will not be there.) It is in Panama City Beach which is where Spring Break got its start and is still a very popular destination for nubile college girls who are wanting to get some experiences. I usually spend a month there as that time is not really all that wonderful in Maine - it has already been winter for six months by then.

    All in all the locals are kind of nice and not entirely stupid. Even if you get out into the rural areas they are not that dumb. They do seem to have some spectacular fuck-ups and an inability to vote rationally though. There is one part of the 6 weeks or so that make up Spring Break where they do go a bit overboard. All the colleges/universities around there get the same break at the same time. They descend on PCB like a horde of locusts. It is beautiful. They call it FAG week, the locals do, because it is Florida, Alabama, and Georgia all coming in at one time. It is spectacular in its own special way.

    The "best" part is that there are no inspection stickers and pretty much anything goes as far as vehicles being on the road. There is a mix of drunken kids on golf carts and even drunker rural gents who are driving very tall platform vehicles with giant tires. Those vehicles pretty much have a flat platform, bus seats, a ladder to get onto it and a railing to keep yourself on top once you get their. They are often used to go out boar hunting (which is another excellent story - I went hunting boar with a battle axe and it was awesome and a successful hunt but I finished it off with a pistol) or even to hunt these little tiny critters that they call deer. I have had to prove to two people, down there, that we get 300# deer on a regular basis here. (My largest tag was 320 pounds dressed and was still very tasty.)

    Anyhow, I have been all over the world. The United States does not have an unusual amount of stupid people compared to the rest of the world. Florida is not really any dumber than any other state. Sure, certain areas attract brighter people but the average does not seem to move much no matter where you go and that includes the mountains of West Virginia (which are beautiful). Those WV mountains are also awesome if you are a musician but, well, I digress even further than I already have.

  12. Re:Decisions, decisons on Comcast Launches Streaming Service and Unveils Pricing For 2G Fiber · · Score: 1

    The router never changes the stream from analog to digital. MOdulate and DEModulate. Thus it is not a MODEM.

    *whistles innocently*

  13. Re:Decisions, decisons on Comcast Launches Streaming Service and Unveils Pricing For 2G Fiber · · Score: 1

    This is recursive and should stop before someone pokes an eye out. ;)

  14. Re: Greeks surrender: no restructuring on European Agreement Sets Up Third Greek Bailout · · Score: 1

    I believe that one of the South American countries did so. They took the credit hit and just kept on keeping on and actually are still coming out of it quite well as I understand it. For the life of me I can not recall the name.

    Anyhow, I do not have a tinfoil hat nor am I insinuating anything but has it occurred to anyone else that this whole EU and Greece thing seems incredibly scripted?

  15. Re:Of course we should poke. on The Cure Culture: Our Obsession With Cures That Are 'Just Around the Corner' · · Score: 1

    I tend to agree. I have learned more by poking computers, as an example, than I have ever learned by way of formal education. (I am not kidding and I have a great deal of formal education.) Poking has led to all sorts of things.

    In this case poking means tampering with DNA which could (will?) replicate in offspring. This will, in turn, spread out exponentially. This could be bad... That does not, of course, mean we should not do it nor should we listen to me as I am not well educated on the subject. I do have a layman's understanding, I suppose, but am not qualified to opine. I am truly just asking because I do not know.

  16. Re:We don't know everything yet. Deal with it. on The Cure Culture: Our Obsession With Cures That Are 'Just Around the Corner' · · Score: 1

    BTW, maybe the diagnosis that YOU are looking for is "hypochondria".

    Oh shit! Should I see my doctor? Is it treatable?!? Am I going to die?

  17. Re:This is bullshit. on The Cure Culture: Our Obsession With Cures That Are 'Just Around the Corner' · · Score: 1

    We just added two letters to the DNA sequence. Are you sure we should be poking about in there before we have a better understanding? This is not me being negative or dismissive. I truly do not know.

  18. Re: Good questions on The Cure Culture: Our Obsession With Cures That Are 'Just Around the Corner' · · Score: 1

    My understanding is, and this is from a medical doctor, that most diseases are likely not curable but are, instead, managed. There may be some suppressive medicine to alleviate the symptoms or even negate symptoms entirely. They do not, however, cure anything and may well never cure anything even with genetic manipulation. Things that would kill you are now manageable and that may well be as far as we are going to get in the foreseeable future.

  19. Re:Theology is better than those on University of Toronto: Anti-vaccine Homeopathy Course Is Fine · · Score: 1

    Dr. of Philosophical Math is considered the highest degree one can get in mathematics. My Ph.D is in Applied Mathematics so, really, what do I know? ;)

  20. Re:Pharma pricing incoming in 3...2...1... on Taking the Lawyers Out of the Loop · · Score: 1

    You have free access to a physical and cyber law library at your local state library and maybe at your district court. You may need to schedule a time for computer use. Printing is not free and they are usually segregated machines which do not allow one to email the results of their searches. Bring a notebook or pay the $0.10 per page I suppose.

  21. Re:How does it hurt academic research? on Google Applies For Patents That Touch On Fundamental AI Concepts · · Score: 1

    You said it was illegal. It is not. It may be but it depends on the circumstances. You can not use it for anything to make a profit or give it away but you can use it and make it. Both are things you claimed were not able to be done.

  22. Re:Disable Java == Broken Websites on First Java 0-Day In 2 Years Exploited By Pawn Storm Hackers · · Score: 1

    Speaking of talking out of one's ass... I do not recall a time when the majority of sites required Java to render their pages properly. In fact, Java has pretty much nothing to do with page rendering. Perhaps you do not know what you are talking about...

  23. Re:Disable Java == Broken Websites on First Java 0-Day In 2 Years Exploited By Pawn Storm Hackers · · Score: 1

    They do not just keep your money if you have no access to the web interface. "no access to your money." No, you still have access. You just do not have it with your computer if you do not use their Java applet in some cases. You can still visit them or, sometimes, use an app on a phone or even just use your little plastic card to get access to your money.

  24. Re:Disable Java == Broken Websites on First Java 0-Day In 2 Years Exploited By Pawn Storm Hackers · · Score: 1

    Both are 20 years old this year. I think LiveScript changed to JavaScript in 1997 though. I too have no idea why they went and made the name so close as Java was already out and applets were already in use when LiveScript changed their name to JavaScript. The oft cited "fact" that Java was made for coffee makers is not true either. (It was for cable television. It was too complex for interactive television at the time.)

  25. Re:The root is still Java on First Java 0-Day In 2 Years Exploited By Pawn Storm Hackers · · Score: 1

    I can not recall the last time I saw an applet, servlet. or JaveServer Page... My banks, all of them, have never used Java ever, ever, ever... I do tend to use smaller banks and, mostly, credit unions so that may have something to do with it. They have used JavaScript but most of that devolves to pain HTML if there is no JavaScript enabled.

    What is odd, and an aside, is the number of low UIDs that seemingly are conflating Java and JavaScript. I would, and do, think that they have seen this conversation enough to know the difference even if they are not programmers or web developers. It seems that this is not something that is ever going to end until one of the two goes away. Java is 20 years old this year and JavaScript showed up in Netscape 2.0 also in 1995. It seems unlikely that either of them will be going anywhere in the immediate future.