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Comment Re:Until Google comes clean (Score 5, Insightful) 114

Until they come clean on what they're mining from your activities, I'd stay away from it.

What's to "come clean" about? Their privacy policy says they aggregate information about you from all your uses of their services. There you go. That's it. What else do you want to know? What they'll use it for? For providing you services, and for selling ads which they display to you.

Seems pretty obvious and straightforward to me.

(Disclosure: It's not really relevant to the content of my comment, but I'm a Google employee. I'm not, however, a Google spokesperson. The above is my own words and opinions only.)

Comment Re:Moving information for Freedom.... (Score 1) 502

You can also plead no contest, which has the same result as pleading guilty, but without admitting guilt.

As for the point about Microsoft not being a defendant, you're right that third parties don't have the same options... but they also don't have the same justification for refusal, since compliance will not implicate them in anything, unless, of course, it would implicate them in something else, in which case they can negotiate a deal for qualified immunity.

Comment Re:Bottom line (Score 1) 44

You try so desperately to connect those two unrelated concepts; apparently under the belief that you can force them into association by repetition alone. I would point out to you that there were actually people from the original occupy (wall st.) movement who actually wanted to run against President Lawnchair but I don't expect that would slow you down any.

No no, the desperation is 100% on your end, I assure you.

You say that as if you could support it, yet so far you have been wholly unable to.

I would be genuinely interested in knowing why you are so sure of this.(that orders of magnitude more information exists than would be needful to demonstrate "high crimes and misdemeanors")

Strong correlation with consciousness during the previous 6 years, I suppose.

That is a strange way to say "because I believe it to be such".

So, then, ~35% of the public - or 80%+ of your own party - supporting impeachment are sufficient in your mind to venture down this road? Not many people would ordinarily consider such a group to be an accurate assessment of "the public".

Your continued desperation to attach ownership of the GOP to me is. . .quaint.

You pretending that the Tea Party is anything more than an only-slightly-more radical and slightly-less-informed - and somewhat-differently-funded - branch of the GOP is ... amusing.

The only numbers that are going to matter are the results of the November elections.

So if enough people vote against their own interests in the 2014 elections, we can then spend millions (if not billions) of dollars on an impeachment that has no chance of removing the POTUS? That should about do it for a good long time for the conservative movement, right there.

What I did was still more than you have done to attempt to fill in your cavernous gaps of knowledge.

Oh, OW! Oh, that hurts! Oh, the suffering! Imma go cry now.

It appears you are trying to make a case that you read some small part of my comment. Would you like a biscuit or a bone in reward?

Comment Re:Invisible Hand of the Market (Score 0) 122

You honestly think the auto industry is a free market? There are tons of morons around here who like to throw around that term but don't seem to have any idea what it means. I fail to think of a single industry with any real pull in the American market place that isn't run through at least a few government regulatory entities.

Silly AC - The corporation IS the Government. And unless you crawled out from under Atlas' rock. Corporations will not tolerate the free market.

Comment Re:depends on what you're doing (Score 1) 402

You essentially are required to install cygwin on all windows computers before they become marginally useful.

You have a point. I wrote a menu system in Windows Shell once, just for the experience. Had a headache for days afterwards. That is one twisted language. I've heard about powershell, but never bothered with it. If you're going to do any reasonable amount of scripting, cygwin is invaluable.

Comment depends on what you're doing (Score 5, Interesting) 402

Sorry if this is stating the obvious, but if you're a programmer who does lots of editing on a few machines, then pick the editor that best fits the job.

However, as an admin, I have long ago standardized on VI for the simple reason that it's included by default on every single *nix variant out there. (At least, in my experience.)

My cunning strategy breaks down with Windows, though. Notepad is so nasty to use that I find myself installing textpad or cygwin on the machines where I do most of my work.

Comment Re:same as vote by mail... NOT! (Score 1) 190

One advantage of vote-by-mail is that any large-scale fraud (enough to tip an election) takes quite a bit resources and people
One advantage of on-line voting is that minimal resource and people (e.g., as small as one person) can likely perpetrate such an action.

Two people can keep a secret (if one of them is dead). This is the difference.

Comment Re:What's changed? (Score 1) 190

Online voting is better than paper, when online comes with crypto. There is no attack type possible with online voting that's impossible with paper. The difference is in the details and maybe the ease. But when anonymous voting is abolished, there is no room for "fraud", just intimidation, and intimidation is low in the US.

It'd be hard to make an online system any worse than our current paper system.

Comment Re:Market will bubble will pop before then (Score 4, Insightful) 122

While I agree that Tesla stock is *cough* optimistically valued, they are a growth company that cannot be fairly compared to a mature value company like Ford or GM. I wouldn't be surprised at volatility but I think bubble is way too strong a term.

If they slashed their R&D budget as documented in TFA they could be profitable. I'd argue that their aggressive R&D spend predicts steep revenue growth over the next several years.

Comment Re:More like "We don't want to hire milennials" (Score 1) 120

I learned that you're either successful or work 45 hours a week.

Success can be measured by more than just money. I measure it by the metric "quality of life". And that requires me to have a life besides working when I can actually spend the money I earn.

I mean, why bother earning it if you have no time to spend it?

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