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  1. Re:REALLY THOUSANDS !!! on US Congressmen Reveal Thousands of Facebook Ads Bought By Russian Trolls (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    $46k?? Latest numbers I heard were closer to half a billion!

  2. Which was it? on Apple Scraps $1 Billion Irish Data Center Over Planning Delays (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it having to pay Ireland taxes, or that the GDPR applies to all data in an EU datacenter? They announced they're building another (specified as EU) datacenter in Denmark, but maybe that's smaller? I know FB moved it's operations from a Irish datacenter for non-EU residents recently.

  3. Re:Said it already once today: I'd hang up on Google Executive Addresses Horrifying Reaction To Uncanny AI Tech (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Technology famously never expands beyond it's inventor's initial goal.

  4. Re:Said it already once today: I'd hang up on Google Executive Addresses Horrifying Reaction To Uncanny AI Tech (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If I wanted to make a prank call to set up an appointment, I could just call your business myself.

    Yeah, and that's childish and takes up your resources. Much the same way that you could handwrite a prank letter/ad and send it. However, once you could mass send "prank" emails (chain mail and ads) things got very different very fast.

    I see this as making mass phone calls (more of a) thing. Yay, a need for a better spam filter on your phone.

  5. Re:Entitled on Young Chinese Are Sick of Working Long Hours (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you have a source on this? It's plausible, sure. But I do like having sources.

  6. And maybe Google shouldn't be allowed to do something just because it helps their AI development? Certainly, if I'm putting forth effort in generating their corpus, I want compensation.

  7. Which is totally different than being recorded by the owners of the 3rd world [racist shit deleted] script readers [how?]

    In that Google is subject to US laws

  8. Re:Entitled on Young Chinese Are Sick of Working Long Hours (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    The parents of "typical millennials" worked 40 hours a week.

  9. Re:Legal gambling ahead, stop drinking already! on Researchers Say a Breathalyzer Has Flaws, Casting Doubt On Countless Convictions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Lets be real, police officers are not fond of paperwork and they will only test you if they have good reason

    Catching a sufficient number of violators is one way for them to ensure promotions. Which kinda makes sense... after all if Officer X caught 100 bad guys and Officer Y caught 2, it does make Officer X look better at his job (all other things being equal.)

    There are also rumors of quotas.

  10. I'm not sure if it's required throughout the US (it varies state by state). However, I think you can request it throughout the US.

  11. Re:Drives jobs to China on ZTE Shuts Down Main Business Operations After US Ban (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The US is like a 3rd world country now where politics drive trade decisions rather than rules.

    I'm a little confused. Keeping important industries in the US (not allowing foreign ownership) is a rule (and so is allowing Budweiser to be bought). It's also what every other country (inc. China) does.

  12. 1984-level phrasing. on Trump Administration Approves 10 New Drone Projects Around the Country (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Normally, it's the private companies that win contracts, and the governments giving them out. Even when it's a federal grant to a city, it's not usually phrased as "winning". In public-private partnerships like this, it would almost always be "FedEx wins [X], and will be doing so in conjunction/cooperation with Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority"

    Feels like when Trump instructed his Trump U teachers to say "congratulations" whenever some one signed up for a class, instead of "thanks for your business" or similar.

  13. Re:what if Extraterrestrials landed on Congress Is Quietly Nudging NASA To Look for Aliens (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 0

    I'm not sure how ETs would make either governments or religions obsolete. Military I can understand (doomsday machine) and police as well (oracle like crime solving). But utopias have rules, which require governments to set them.

  14. Re:If you're dumb enough to sign up on Connected Cars Don't Necessarily Disconnect Previous Owners When Resold (thedrive.com) · · Score: 0

    Because they sold it to a dealer. It's reasonable to expect the dealer to wipe it. Also, it's not their data. The person who bought the car was able to be spied on. It's an insane invasion of their privacy.

  15. Re:I get his frustration completely .... on Tesla Stock Plunged After Elon Musk's 'Bizarre' Conference Call (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    Also true. Again, the fine print didn't stop the government from (successfully) claiming it was a giant fraud.

    Frankly, AA deserved to sink for the shit they enabled at Enron and beyond in that era.

  16. Re:I get his frustration completely .... on Tesla Stock Plunged After Elon Musk's 'Bizarre' Conference Call (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    As I understand it, the accounting bullshit was put in footnotes, and thus "disclosed". But all the investment banks were making so much cash of Enron their analysts were told (or hinted at) not to rock the boat.

    Either way, it was pretty iffy.

  17. Re:Yes and no on Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    There's always a risk that you're going to blow up if you climb in a rocket. If you don't want to accept that risk, don't climb in there.

    I tried something similar with my replacement of "airbags" with "metal shrapnel bags". I explained the ballast helped steering, and looked cool. And I pointed out that cars have inherit risks. People still refuse to install them.</car_analogy>

  18. Laws and regulations can be good or bad. A lot of people think that the GDPR is a good law, and that it improves the world. That doesn't mean its supports want arbitrary more laws beyond that.

  19. Re:Golden State Killer and how this is related on Ticketmaster Hopes To Speed Up Event Access By Scanning Your Face (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    that case, privately collected data was used for "good", but it won't always be government entities (see China)

    While I tend to agree with most of your points, China is a government entity. Even most of their nominally corporate actors are de facto government entities.

  20. Re:Given the choice on Tesla Stock Plunged After Elon Musk's 'Bizarre' Conference Call (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The price spikes because there is a large demand for the shares, not a supply crunch. That is, people have to choose between (A) Buying back the shares or (B) Lawsuits and other things attacking their assets, maybe resulting in prison time. Therefore, there are a lot of very motivated buyers.

  21. Re:I get his frustration completely .... on Tesla Stock Plunged After Elon Musk's 'Bizarre' Conference Call (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Enron's profit and loss looked fine. It wasn't irrational exuberance, it was cooking the books. (In disputably legal ways that resulted in a lot of lawsuits.)

  22. Re:I get his frustration completely .... on Tesla Stock Plunged After Elon Musk's 'Bizarre' Conference Call (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah. "How many people are opting out of their reservations over the 3 year wait for their car" is just a bullshit question.

  23. Re:Given the choice on Tesla Stock Plunged After Elon Musk's 'Bizarre' Conference Call (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    It could be true, but most of the value of TSLA then is in financial obligations not the value of the company. So once it spikes, I'd imagine it plummets.

  24. gun purchase records are purged after a short period.

    Citation needed. I didn't think gun purchases records were ever purged in the US.

  25. I assume, nonsense on 'Biology Will Be the Next Big Computing Platform' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    . As Megan Molteni writes, "all these analogies to the computing industry are more than just wordplay." Rather, they offer a language for understanding the complex world of Crispr

    So that means all those analogies to the computing industry are like "the CPU is the brain of the computer" and "the internet is a series of tubes."