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  1. Wait, wouldn't the 4th on Samsung To Launch Refurbished Galaxy Note 7 in South Korea On July 7 (yonhapnews.co.kr) · · Score: 1

    be better?

  2. Wow, not nearly good enough. on California May Restore Broadband Privacy Rules Killed By Congress and Trump (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It should be illegal to access any of that information without a warrant, period.

  3. Re:I have a suggestion on Study Finds Yoga Works As Well As Physical Therapy For Back Pain (time.com) · · Score: 1

    They should take away all the "breathing in energy" bullshit and find out what the movements are doing in hard, physical science and then copy it...wait that would just be physical therapy actually. What a coincidence.

    Breathing correctly is the most important part of yoga, and the reasons for this are well-known to the medical community. You could research the topic, or just do it and see for yourself why it's obviously true.

    Movement is actually very complicated. Moving say, just your arm from point a to point b in a given position, isn't simple at all. We're not robots. There's almost an infinite number of internal variations available to any given movement, and some of that variation is even linked to your autonomic system. If you practice yoga long enough to "get" it, you'll feel parts of your brain grow, the ones that govern movement and proprioception. This gain in control and awareness, which is one of the many things breathing helps with, can be even more important than the gains you get in strength and flexibility. For rehab (and here, I'm talking from experience) yoga can be vastly superior to "standard" physical therapy. And breathing is very much the centerpiece of successful yoga practice.

  4. This was all predicted decades ago by many futurist writers, but what they didn't foresee is the greed of the 1% saying no we want it all screw everyone else. That's what all this global far right movement is all about. the rich trying to get the commoner to kill each other off, reduce burden on natural resources. It's the 1% form of population reduction.

    Everyone keeps saying this problem caused by greed, but that's a very defeatist position since people are no more or less greedy than they've always been. It also takes focus away from the real cause, which is plain and simple government failure which we have the power to fix.

  5. In 40 years....

    1. People will work 50-60 hours a week if they want a job. 2. Most other people will work at call, via apps that will post x number of people needed for said task. It will be cheap work. No benefits. People will fight for it. More niche work will follow the Rover & Uber app model. Workers will be able to take jobs, earn reps. And hirers will post listing that will require a certain rep/xp level.

    It will suck....

    We will have transitioned to the neo-Feudalism economy.

    The economic term is actually "neo-liberalism".

  6. Oh give me a break. on What Happens When Software Companies Are Liable For Security Vulnerabilities? (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even with the move toward more agile development and DevOps, vulnerabilities continue to take off

    Last time I checked, both of those fads tend to harm security, not help it.

  7. Re:Freedom? Choice? on Studio-Defying VidAngel Launches New Video-Filtering Platform (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    "Let directors create what they want, and let viewers watch how they want in their own home. That kind of philosophy respects the views of both parties."

    The directors/writers/etc don't put language, nudity and violence just for the fun of annoying special snowflakes like yourself. It's part of the characters, part of the experience, part of the story. If you remove things, it's not worth your time.

    I hate extreme violence, gore and horror movies in general. So I don't watch horror movies. See how easy that was? Now do the same.

    Usually the term "snowflake" is used by conservatives, so I'm kind of confused. They love censoring that shit, not just for the people who want it, but for everyone. And you want to dictate how people watch entertainment in their own home. That sure sounds conservative to me.

    I think you need to re-check the party line and get back in it. You're definitely supposed to be for censorship, especially nudity.

    Remember the towering moral outrage over Janet Jackson's boob? It gave conservatives everywhere a case of the vapours. They cried like, well, triggered little snowflakes.

  8. These people don't make enough money? Please! It's just another handout.

    You're kidding, right?

    Defense spending is supposed to be a handout to tech industry.

  9. Re:Queue Outrage...But why? on Japan Passes Controversial 'Anti-Conspiracy' Bill (privateinternetaccess.com) · · Score: 2

    If the Japanese want to do this, why is it my business? I don't live there and I'm not planning to go there anytime soon. They are not out obviously committing violations of basic human rights... Let them argue their own laws and elect the politicians they wish to pass them, my opinion doesn't matter.

    "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King

  10. Editor Fail on US Spy Satellite Buzzes ISS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The fly-by was made by a dedicated group of ground-based observers who continued to track the satellite

    No it wasn't.

    after it reach outer space.

    Wow.

  11. Re:Nice leftist echo chamber you got here on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Typical Vox article, where "pro-Trump" = "racist". Continuing to deny even the remotest possibility that Hillary! was just too corrupt for many people to swallow, and that she is indicative of the political elite orchestrating the presidential election.

    Bernie was never meant to be a real threat to Hillary! but the D constituents are just as fed up with the 1% as anyone else. Even without those carefully crafted primary rules, Bernie almost got out of control. The R side of the equation didn't have those rules in place, so Jeb did get displaced. That left Trump-the-outsider running against Hillary!-the-corrupt, and that's why he won.

    It seems to me that even progressive publications like Vox would see through what's going on here. It's no longer (only) progressive vs. conservative. This is a different battle, orthogonal to the first one: it's the political elite pulling the levers behind the scenes, vs. actually having control of your own government.

    You may personally support (or not support) Trump for other reasons, but he was definitely race-baiting.

    Race-baiting has been a serious problem in American politics for a very long time. Slinging "leftist" at those that point it out hurts our ability to talk about it and try to deal with it.

    And here is the other major arc of democracy, if that book doesn't depress you enough.

  12. I won't be buying any of those for my business, since Hell will freeze over before I use Windows 10.

  13. Re:If they want to prevent terrorism maybe on Theresa May Says UK Will 'Tear Up' Human Rights Laws If Needed For Terror Fight (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Non-sense.

    Muslim commit terror attacks on other Muslims even more than they do non-Muslims.

    Hint: it has just the tiniest bit to do with Islam's perfect example. You know, a man who was himself a murderer, a rapist, a slave owner and trader.

    Blame the religion if you want, but that hot mess in the Middle East is definitely and completely our fault.

    Maybe you'll care enough to dig and gradually lose your ignorance of history, just like I did, with growing horror.

    And if you do, I'm sorry.

  14. Re:Just proves democrats aren't that smart on The Public Is Growing Tired of Trump's Tweets, Says Voter Survey (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    One might be tempted to think these Democrat responders care more about the international standing of their country than than the political advantage of their party. And one would most likely be wrong. Instead they are likely responding "too much" as a simple anti-Trump knee-jerk rather than considering how much damage his tweets are doing to his administration and the Republican party in general. That would be "not that smart."

    Wow, really? I think-that-person-is-thinking-that-way-so-they're-dumb.

    Sounds like you're the one doing the knee-jerk there.

    Why don't you post with your real account so you can be modded the troll that you are.

  15. Everyone seems to agree this is unfair on AT&T Uses Forced Arbitration To Overcharge Customers, Senators Say (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    and yet we have a major ideology saying that government is bad if it tries to stop big business abuse, and if you disagree, you're a "liberal".

  16. Ignored for the same reason so much public "art" on The Hidden Ways That Architecture Affects How You Feel (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    lands squarely in eyesore territory.

  17. If they want to prevent terrorism maybe on Theresa May Says UK Will 'Tear Up' Human Rights Laws If Needed For Terror Fight (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    they should start talking about its cause.

    Hint: it has just the tiniest bit to do with the West's foreign policy.

  18. Re:and a unicorn could've flown out my ass last ni on A Lake On Mars May Once Have Teemed With Life (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that too complicated for you?

    Don't be a jackass.

  19. Re:Just proves democrats aren't that smart on The Public Is Growing Tired of Trump's Tweets, Says Voter Survey (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump keeps making a fool of himself. Why would anyone opposed to his agenda want to muzzle him? Even with both feet in his mouth, he keeps proving that his mental faculties are questionable, that he doesn't understand how the real world works. and that Republicans nominated and elected the worst-qualified president in history.

    The Saudis are now laughing at how easily he was manipulated.

    Even William Henry Harrison, the 9th president, had a better first 100 days in office, and he died after one month.

    Sorry, but how does being tired of Trump's tweets automatically make you any of the following?

    1. a democrat
    2. want to muzzle anybody
    3. not that smart

    Why does everything have to be partisan politics?

  20. Are they suggesting that Harvard students should be housed in California prisons?

    That wouldn't be a bad idea. A 1978 documentary, Scared Straight!, had a group of juvenile delinquents meet harden convicts who scared the crap out of them to convince that a life of crime doesn't pay. Such an experience for the graduating class of Harvard might convince future Wall Street traders and politicians to be more ethical in their dealings.

    Aside from a few very rare exceptions, that class of people doesn't go to jail even for really huge crimes. If you've been awake at all for the last 35 years you'd know this.

  21. Dog Whistle Politics on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Books You Wish You Had Read Earlier? · · Score: 1

    Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial AppealsHave Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class

    I didn't understand politics at all or think that racism was still a thing until I read this.

  22. Maybe the public has grown tired of the reporting on The Public Is Growing Tired of Trump's Tweets, Says Voter Survey (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    of said tweets.

    I would be pleased as punch if I never had to listen to another story about a tweet from anyone, ever.

  23. and a unicorn could've flown out my ass last night on A Lake On Mars May Once Have Teemed With Life (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm about as tired of reading news about what might have been on Mars as I am hearing about how a new battery technology "might" increase energy density by a factor of ten.

    Decades of this crap. Show me hard evidence of live (or fossilized) microbes, or give it a rest.

  24. Re:No on Can Older IT Workers 'Navigate' Ageism? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't. Younger people can work much, much longer hours than you. That's just a fact. People slow down as they age. Experience is overrated. If I'm running a business I need 1 experienced guy to watch 10 code monkeys, 4 guys from real universities and the 1 guy from MIT that does the hard bits.

    Coding isn't like shoveling coal, and if you ever developed yourself or cluefully managed other developers you'd know this. "If I'm running a business"... no you're not - I bet you're not even in the industry.

    A talented, experienced developer totally blows the inexperienced ones out of the water in terms of raw productivity.

  25. I am a little surprised at how open Europeans are to their own form of religious zealotry compared to Americans-- which comes in the pursuing vague notions of privacy and competition without regard to practicality....

    An American calling Europeans religious zealots... wow, that's rich.

    And how is "I don't want my ISP to sell my browsing history" in any way vague, or impractical?