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  1. " I am told I'll have better service or experience using their browser "

    It's comments like these that are dropped all the time by companies because it is legal to make claims that cannot be proven in advertising in the US. You should not be able to make claims like this unless you can prove it in a court of law. Doesn't Japan have laws against weasel claims in advertising?

  2. Chrome runs like absolute shit and has a lot of bugs these last few years.

  3. Its shit like this that kept us in the PC stone ages for decades. Only when we started accepting a little pain from losing backwards compatibility that we could move forward. Your plugins are not that important.

  4. " But according to the CEO, because flagging hate speech is so complex, he estimates it could take five to 10 years to create adequate A.I.

    This is either a Bill Gates "640k is all you will ever need" moment or this is trotted out there to make predictive analytics seem like they are far away in the future. A team of two could probably flag hate speech at Facebook with a few days work--if you are naive enough to think they don't already have models running in production.

  5. Re:Social media on Don't Give Away Historic Details About Yourself (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    "centralised knowledge about you is usually a bad thing for you."

    People learned to harness this to promote ideas about them that were beneficial. Facts and reality do not matter much, and that is not hard to see. However, people still seem shocked when a person promotes themselves as an expert or amazing person and gain titles and money as a reward for that reputation--even though they are not that great. Trump is an extreme prime example of this. He is a master self-promoter that played and continues to play the media like a fiddle--they just can't admit it to solve their problem.

  6. Re:Social media on Don't Give Away Historic Details About Yourself (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    "roll back the technology clock by 20 years"

    Does this entail getting on Facebook?

  7. Re:Social media on Don't Give Away Historic Details About Yourself (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Email is too difficult to use for a lot of people. Hence the rise of social media. It is just an app that makes communicating easier. Unfortunately Facebook focused on and magnified the worst parts of human nature to drive adoption and engagement.

  8. Re:Much as I hate to say it on Backpage Founders Charged With Money Laundering, Aiding Prostitution (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If you despise Trump then he has been successful in winning you over. He thrives on people despising him. The guy is literally a genius at self-promotion and marketing. Way above the talents of anyone in those fields.

  9. Re:Much as I hate to say it on Backpage Founders Charged With Money Laundering, Aiding Prostitution (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "Though I am a bit surprised how much power evangelicals wield in 2018,"

    It is easy to grok. You have mega-churches with pastors who are very politically involved, with parishioners who will gladly accept being told who to vote for, in fact they expect it. All of them vote religiously (sort of a pun). So when you are a politician you count on these people because their vote can swing a county or state and all you have to do is gain the support of one person to lock down hundreds or thousands of solid votes. This is typically reserved for republicans/conservatives but the pastors dangle this power over everyone's head and it is certainly not exclusive to them. Pure gold for a politician.

  10. Re:Not sure how to feel on Backpage Founders Charged With Money Laundering, Aiding Prostitution (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    There are no do-gooders here. Political entities are always on the hunt for justification of their existence. If people stopped committing crime today, tomorrow would not be pretty as law enforcement and government in general thrashed around looking for the next boogie man.

  11. Re:Due Process Just Means the Process that is Due on Backpage Founders Charged With Money Laundering, Aiding Prostitution (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "Juries don't always pay attention."

    Then society (jurors) have decided that the crimes you are accused of by the government are not that important. This is the role of the jury and is really our only hope of a decent judicial system. Juries are allowed to free anyone they wish for any reason. Judges and the judicial system in general totally lose their shit when the jury does this and juries are often berated by judges for not ruling the way they were told to rule. The really cool thing about our western judicial system is that citizens are allowed to ignore the law when in a jury box. Thank god.

  12. #MeToo

    You have been preliminarily injuncted.

  13. Next week we learn how criminals are using Facebook ads to launder money. Everything is illegal.

  14. Seizure. Not just for epileptics--law enforcement uses it to get paid. It is considered a civil matter. Even if you win your case you still have to sue to get your shit back.

  15. Re:Brilliant job morons on Backpage Founders Charged With Money Laundering, Aiding Prostitution (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "Now it's much worse for everybody, don't be surprised if violent crime goes up."

    Win for law enforcement and government. They get more stuff to protect us from and justify their existence.

  16. "There are laws against false advertising"

    You really have to bone something up or be an underdog to garner that charge. It is pretty much laissez-faire for advertising in America.

  17. Re: Prison society on Backpage Founders Charged With Money Laundering, Aiding Prostitution (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    The world has always been 'freedom for those with the most power to restrict the freedom of lesser people.

    Fixed that for you.
    No matter the failings, American freedom is unique. I know that disgusts you but it is a fact that can be easily proven. I wonder why people in forums get so worked up in their hate of American principles and values that, despite the interference from the people who ignore and complain about them, continue to live on. So pessimistic, and it is really getting old. To people like you there is nothing good in the world.

  18. Re:Mixed up bullsnot on Backpage Founders Charged With Money Laundering, Aiding Prostitution (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah. People typically work out sexual frustrations by stuffing food down their neck.

  19. Re:Backpage Charges on Backpage Founders Charged With Money Laundering, Aiding Prostitution (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They will be heros in prison.

  20. Re:Um, duh. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stream/Capture Video? · · Score: 1

    Drops the mic.

  21. Re:Um, duh. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stream/Capture Video? · · Score: 1

    You are just a dumbass with no knowledge of the domain so I can see why the question made no sense to you. I have always hated fucks like you that drone on clarifying questions in forums to everyone's expense while you increase your post count and gutter-whore for karma when it was obvious to everyone what the question was getting at.

  22. Re:Um, duh. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stream/Capture Video? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately I had to trudge through being called Creimer and everything else to find this comment. When you google video editing you have to swim through a sea of absolute shit and fake free software. This helped a lot. I never ran across OpenShot or shotcut in my searches I was accused of not running.

  23. Re:It's All Google's Fault on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    "Would you want a brain surgeon who had to pause an operation while he checked something in google?"

    Already happening. I watched a brain surgeon back out of a procedure because he could not make a decision after opening the patient and having fished a probe into her brain. He was clamoring for AI to make the decision for him. He decided to back out and risk attempting the procedure again after talking with the patient...but he was really dismayed by the fact that we have the data to create the AI that could have helped him make a better decision but that we just are not there yet (regulatory concerns over data, etc..).

  24. Re:Management's Perception Problem on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    Everybody else's job is easy.....comeon'

  25. Re:Management's Perception Problem on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    This sounds like a technique for getting the business to officially wave off the data loss before thinking things through. Someone knows how corporate legal departments work.