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mg1982on Apple CEO Tim Cook to donate his fortune to charity

I don't understand the psychology of making billions of the backs of the grotesquely underpaid and over-worked masses (Foxconn suicides [1] and illegally mined tin [2] for example) and then turning around and saying 'oh, this is too much for one person - here, you have it.' If you want to help people or even just preserve the environment, why not start with what you have direct control and responsibility over in the first place.

Fucking billionaires [https://youtu.be/iko4s3CfBi0?t=44s]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides [2] http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-02-13/apple-supply...

mg1982on Germanwings plane crash: Co-pilot 'wanted to destroy plane'

I'm struck by how these pilots (chilling in itself that it's happened enough times to count as its own group) are described as being suicidal. While technically true, it detracts from the greater truth that they are mass-murderers. If someone shot up a mall and killed 150 people then ate a bullet, would we describe them as suicidal?

I don't have a greater point I suppose, but it seems worth thinking about. Except, perhaps-- how do you go about 'screening' for inclination to mass-murder?

mg1982on $1B TSA Behavioral Screening Program Slammed as Ineffective Junk Science

I'm just going to say this out loud since no-else has: A BILLLLLION DOLLARS! A billion! One. BILLION. Dollars.

Aghhhh!

I'd have done it for half that.

mg1982on Chinese Activists under DDoS

Shouldn't it be just anti-ddos or ddos-protection? I read anti-ddos-protetion to mean that they're against the things that protect against ddos. Which they're not.

mg1982on A shrinking Firefox faces endangered species status

They forked webkit, actually, and use something called Blink.

Check this out for a good summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

mg1982on What happens to your brain when you stop eating sugar

Do you want an ice pack, 'cause you just got burned...

mg1982on In the Documentary 'GTFO', Female Video-Gamers Fight Back

I think you're missing the point in context - it's this way for everyone and the objection is that (this group of) women have assembled their special victims group because they think either they're the only ones affected or it's somehow manifestly worse that they are. But they're not complaining about the behaviour, but that womyn are being targeted (by the patriarchy rape culture misogyny etc etc).

mg1982on Newest version of uTorrent has Bitcoin mining offer during install

Me too! Abandoned utorrent when it started with ads; every release since seems to be a new low. Hopefully this'll penetrate their user base enough to make them take stock because it seems like they've basically got away with crapifying a once-great client.

How low can they go? Find out when you download v3.4.3 - utorrent with "visual ad enhancement"* brought to you by Superfish!

mg1982on Canadian Charged for Not Unlocking Smartphone at Canadian Border

http://www.lawfareblog.com/2011/07/what-ben-franklin-really-...

Interesting, thanks!

mg1982on VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases

I agree. I actually rolled back to the previous version since there's an extension that works perfectly for this that is broken by the new version. Check it out:

http://vlcsrposplugin.sourceforge.net/

Just like to add my thanks to the vlc guys. I've been using it for 15 years and it's a true credit to the foss movement.