Comment: Re:A third of them should be fired. (Score 0) 117
Reporter: "How many people work in your company?"
CEO: "Oh, about half."
Yea, the numbers got a little better after we made the floggings mandatory...
Comment: Re:What? (Score 3, Funny) 117
Bullshit. I've been working from home for a while and it's very relaxing. You can dress very, VERY casually, for example. I attended many a meetings while sitting butt-naked in a cozy chair. You can have a beer or whatever (I don't drink alcohol, though), you can pet the cat (I do) and so on and so forth.
While you probably make many excellent points, I only managed to read so far as the part about being butt-nekkid, rubbin' pussy all day...
Hell yea! Where do I sign up??
Comment: Re:Question- How did scammers do this? (Score 3, Funny) 340
Um. No. My phone works just fine. I also disconnected the line which should have terminated the call immediate, but the scammer was still talking when I reconnected the line. (I figure they were using some override built into the POTS.)
...Which is precisely why man invented the airhorn.
Next time those bastards grab your line and won't let go, give them a really, really fucking loud reason to.
Comment: Re:Sounds familiar (Score 5, Insightful) 340
His main takeaway: they were 'Stone Age' when it came to their tech know-how."
So they're exactly like Norton, McAfee, and CA?
How did this get modded 'Funny?'
That shit ain't funny, it's fucking Insightful.
Comment: Re:Politicians are scumbags (Score 0) 180
After all I have read about this "class" of people, I can reach no other conclusion. Same goes for the politicians hired-hands... the bureaucrats.
You are under the illusion that there are people who are not scumbags. How quaint.
Just because you and everyone you know is a scumbag, doesn't mean we all are.
Comment: Spacemen Have no Nationality (Score 1) 341
by
CanHasDIY
(#40103865)
Attached to: NASA To Future Lunar Explorers: Don't Mess With Our Moon Stuff
This shit is stupid (not the preservation of historic achievement part, rather the cries of nationalism).
Do we (humans) really think that the brave folks who will, eventually, risk life and limb to establish human settlements off-world will give a single fuck about Earthbound politics? Yea, 'cause, you know, when the lives of every colonist depend on things like functioning oxygen scrubbers, they're really going to care what the politicians of Nations X and Y have to say about each other.
I posit that future spacemen will have no nationality, but rather an allegiance to their colony - as it should be. Allowing Terran politics to influence space exploration and colonization is a sure-fire way to ensure that it will never be a successful endeavor.
Politicians - fucking up otherwise brilliant ideas since 2000 BCE.
Do we (humans) really think that the brave folks who will, eventually, risk life and limb to establish human settlements off-world will give a single fuck about Earthbound politics? Yea, 'cause, you know, when the lives of every colonist depend on things like functioning oxygen scrubbers, they're really going to care what the politicians of Nations X and Y have to say about each other.
I posit that future spacemen will have no nationality, but rather an allegiance to their colony - as it should be. Allowing Terran politics to influence space exploration and colonization is a sure-fire way to ensure that it will never be a successful endeavor.
Politicians - fucking up otherwise brilliant ideas since 2000 BCE.
Comment: Re:Cool moment in history (Score 2) 341
by
CanHasDIY
(#40103755)
Attached to: NASA To Future Lunar Explorers: Don't Mess With Our Moon Stuff
Anyone else think it's pretty cool that we've reached a point in history...
We haven't. This is merely a case of wishful thinking and pre-emptive ass-covering.
Comment: DIY, Baby! (Score 1) 139
OK, so maybe it won't fit your particular application, but I have in the past built my own multitouch table using an old LCD monitor, a couple of USB webcams, some clear acrylic, and a bit of hacker ingenuity.
If you are tempted to go the DIY route, Community Core Vision a good place to start.
Happeh hacking!
If you are tempted to go the DIY route, Community Core Vision a good place to start.
Happeh hacking!
Comment: Re:A move to a decentralized scheme would be great (Score 1) 55
It's pretty clear that the large CAs are more interesting in leveraging their status to make money than actually proving a secure service..
At some point you must reconcile that with a commercial company, the bottom line is more important than everything else.
FTFY
Comment: Re:Scanning versus storage (Score 1) 294
Doesn't matter.
Where I live, it very much does - the state Supreme Court, just last year, handed down a ruling that a traffic violation is tied to the person who committed it, not the vehicle it was committed in, and thus pretty much invalidated most if not all red light cameras in the state. Makes sense, since inanimate objects are, by definition, incapable of criminal activity of their own volition. Not to mention the due process violations that occur with mailing citations to property owners.
If you live someplace where the law believes your stuff can commit crimes (and thus, blame you because it's your stuff), that really sucks for you. I mean that honestly, no
The red light camera cases have established that the owner of the car is responsible for the conduct of whoever they loan the car to. This is just an extension of the court cases that allowed the owner of a gun be charged as an accomplice in a crime where the gun was used.
So, if someone steals your car/gun, and uses it to commit a crime, you get punished too? That's bullshit, man.