Comment Re:Coming to a neck near you ... (Score 1) 71
Just put a QR code on your arm that looks like Jesus.
Comment The worst reviews on Amazon (Score 5, Insightful) 116
"I have to give this book one star because I ordered it and it never arrived on time even though Amazon said it left the facility six days before it was supposed to get here!"
"This book is typical LIBTARD crap and if you buy it you're a stupid egghead."
"I haven't read a book in five years so when this book came out I decided to buy it. This isn't the book I thought I was ordering, this is crap written by a different guy with a similar name! Buyer beware!"
Is it really that hard to get a computer to pick these out?
Comment Only for VZW/ATT (Score 1) 272
Are you a subscriber to either Verizon Wireless or AT&T? They're about the only ones wanting to go that path - and remain on it.
On the other hand, Sprint and T-Mobile will at least offer non/very-lightly metered data plans. With them, sanity prevails.
Comment AT&T/Verizon don't do unlimited (Score 1) 272
If you want anything close to unlimited (without a legacy plan), Sprint and T-Mobile are your only options.
Comment That went well with Nortel (Score 1) 27
After letting the Chinese walk out with everything from Nortel, Huawei now exists a PRC government-backed entity.
Comment This is why you don't use staffing agency labor. (Score 1) 96
When you cut corners with the very people responsible for your IT infrastructure, things like this will happen. Treat them well, even hire them directly, things like this tend not to happen.
Unfortunately, the UK is rife with this kind of corner-cutting.
Comment Mod Parent Down, Apple Excuse. (Score 1) 99
How about recognizing that if a product isn't perfect, that criticism is valid? That handwave doesn't work.
Comment Re:Nuclear Power? (Score 1) 419
I'm guessing the people who lauched it didn't anticipate that it would land in a cave on a comet when they were deciding whether to go with off-the-shelf solar panels or a brick of strontium-90- which is pretty expensive stuff.
Comment A lie of the highest order (Score 1) 546
- He didn't bring the documents into Russia. He left them with reporters
The only sources of that statement are individuals that were involved with the incident.
Comment Re:Two questions need to be asked (Score 1) 546
Because he is the one that arrogantly ignored the democratic process, stole a massive store of intelligence documents, incompetently encrypted them, and made them available for friend and foe alike, and then fled to be among Americas adversaries. Surely you must see some room for assigning culpability to him?
Our own government "ignored the democratic process". Even the author of the Patriot Act says the NSA is abusing the law by collecting (i.e. stealing) such a large amount of their citizens' private information.
The NSA didn't make the documents available to China and Russia. Snowden did.
You're overlooking the fact that the NSA and its allies are the ones who made Snowden available to Russia in the first place.
You mean the copies of the phone records of many, but not all, Americans? That was repeatedly authorized, including by courts.
Once again, I refer you to the author of the Patriot Act, who says: "No public court has ever upheld document collection that is remotely close to the dragnet at issue. . . . The administration therefore admits that its bulk collection is unprecedented."
CONGRESS. Snowden could have gone to CONGRESS. He didn't.
If he was that naive, he'd be spending the rest of his life in solitary confinement, and we'd still be in the dark.
Comment All forms of contingent employment, incl. MSP's (Score 1) 135
You're the first to go and the least likely to be treated with any respect.
Comment That was a lockstep cleansing due to GamerGate (Score 1) 474
FARK.com went through a similar "cleansing" a while back, again motivated by the desire for advertising revenue. I moved to IMGUR as an alternative to FARK.
That was done with a few other sites in an attempt to contain the GamerGate controversy. It failed.
Comment Re:Did they have an engineer check the statics? (Score 1) 107
I just hope they have a good QA department examine the .STL file for the bridge and find any unanticipated flaws.
Comment The SJW sector of Reddit cant help but harass here (Score 1) 474
For those coming from the SJW-friendly sectors of Reddit (such as SRS,Ghazi):
Quit trying to harass the non-SJW population while you're still behind.
Reddit Removes Communities To Address Harassment, Users Respond 474
New submitter sethstorm writes: As a change to their community management, Reddit administrators have banned multiple communities (known as subreddits) in a bid to remove harassment. In response, users have responded in different ways — some have pointed out the bias of Reddit admins for leaving known harassers alone such as those in the "SRS" subreddit, others have attempted to re-create the banned subreddit "FatPeopleHate", and many have gone to overwhelm Voat (a competitor).
