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Comment It's not a mystery (Score 1) 269

A good portion of the voting populace "informs" themselves by switching channels and soaking up whatever the media is feeding them. It's very easy to become blindsided from the real issues by network ratings, paid-for advertising and just plain old lies.

You have to do some footwork to educate yourself because the elections always come down to one thing: Which end of the sh#t sandwich do you want to take a bite from? There has never a "perfect" choice. People are lazy, don't want to do the work and rely on network television to make their choices for them. That's how it works. Both sides know it and capitalize on it.

Comment Re:ah, yes (Score 2) 535

republicans. is there anything you DON'T fuck up?

Speaking of fucking.. There is far too much sodomy of the taxpayer going on to actually use the term "republican" or "democrat". That would imply there was actually some sort of representation present for their constituent base.

We need a better name for what we have but "Right/Left Leaning Corporate Bill Smuggling Mercenary" is a bit of a mouthful.

Comment Balance (Score 1) 533

A healthy passion for something includes a well-balanced diet of other activities not related to your passion. Any place wanting to hire otherwise is only going to get a sociopath. That said, it's frustrating and time consuming to get a pile of resumes where most are such an impossible fit, they could not have possibly read the posting. You tend to get a little "over specific" next time you list just to weed out more of the static.

Comment Re:Be Thankful (Score 3, Insightful) 209

Ask if anyone thought Objective C or Java were going to be important programming languages on phones in 2005?

Java is indeed a resource hog, but I think it's ubiquity was already embedded in the ARM platform long before 2005 - actually pretty much a given for mobile development. Objective C is much more of a surprise. Had it not been for the advent of "iphone apps" I think it would have remained relegated to the cubicles of NeXt geeks. The syntax is simply too obsucre (manufactured to obscure it's underpinnings) to attract sane developers already invested it other popular high level languages.

Submission + - Cable Lobbyists Now Authoring Bills in Kansas (arstechnica.com)

sl4shd0rk writes: Normally, bills up for Senate debate are authored by lawmakers. In Kansas however, it appears Lobbyists may now be allowed to author bills as [PDF Warning]this onewas submitted by John Federico... head of a lobbyist group with members such as Comcast, Cox, Eagle Communications, and Time Warner Cable. The bill was introduced this week, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and scheduled for discussion for Tuesday of next week.

Comment Re:WTF (Score 4, Insightful) 96

As for why a 3rd party had the passwords, I think Yahoo need to be quite a bit more forthcoming and explain this.

Quite feasible that yahoo had nothing to do with it:
Jimbob creates account on somecrackablesite.com using jimbob@yahoo.com email address. somecrackablesite.com gets cracked and attacker gets DB dump which contains username/email/pass for jimbob. Attacker assumes jimbob used same password for both sites and gains access to yahoo account. This is why using the same password for multiple sites is a big no-no.

Comment News flash (Score 1, Interesting) 247

Yes, it's true. Some professions are dominated by men, some by women. Nature made it that way. People should be allowed to go into whatever profession they desire without being hindered by some asshole with a sexist complex (of either gender). If they can't cut it, they should be let go like anyone else without screaming "discrimination".

That said, I think more men should be allowed to go backstage to compete at lingerie shows,

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