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  1. Re:Ohh my goodness what is next on Amazon Wants You To Turn Your Fire Tablet Into a Portable Echo (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Can I turn a toaster into a true lover

    Do NOT use your appliances as lovers. It only ends in tears.

  2. Re:And if you optout it just makes you even more o on Facebook, Google, and Microsoft Use Design To Trick You Into Handing Over Your Data, Report Warns (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    How can an ad you aren't seeing target you?

    Targets are often missed.

  3. Ask a Bedouin whether undressing in the heat of the desert is smart.

    Arrakis can be hostile without your stillsuit.

  4. Re: That is surprising on 'Digital Key' Standard Uses Your Phone To Unlock Your Car (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    even after I push the button to turn it off, before I get out, my right hand reaches over near the steering wheel to grab the keys.

    I'm on my first keyless car too. It still distresses me to close the locked car door after exiting without a set of keys in my hand. I ALWAYS looked at my keys as I closed the door and I never locked my keys in the car. But then, when I get to about 15 mph I still reach toward the console to shift into second even though it's been probably a decade since I've driven a manual transmission.

  5. Re: That is surprising on 'Digital Key' Standard Uses Your Phone To Unlock Your Car (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    "If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you?" Because, they probably would.

    Wouldn't you? If I'm standing on a bridge and everyone starts throwing themselves into the water, I'll probably assume that there's something motivating them. Doubly so if my friends are jumping, because I know my friends to be rational people. No matter where I am, if "everyone" begins fleeing, I'll probably flee too.

  6. Re:Solution to overpopulation? on Urgent Needs To Prepare For Manmade Virus Attacks, Says US Government Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Hello, Adolf!

    The nice thing about a final solution is that you only have to use it once. If we could get these libtards to let go of their "the impoverished are people too" nonsense, we'd be in business.

  7. Re:And just to be sure on Ex-CIA Employee Charged In Major Leak of Agency Hacking Tools (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    it could be sheer torture, depending on which works they read.

    His biggest success was "A Bard's Tale." WAY ahead of its time.

  8. Just drink from the cup...

    You reckless soda-slurper! Drinking soda without a straw will make you lose all your teeth. Every one. Straws are soda PPE.

  9. Re:And just to be sure on Ex-CIA Employee Charged In Major Leak of Agency Hacking Tools (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    That three layers of protection were breached would support that hypothesis.

    All three layers used the same password he used for Netflix. At least that's what I'm assuming.

    Seems like somebody competent could encrypt their stash with one password and make the cracking time essentially infinite. What went wrong here? The Time article doesn't mention any protection.

  10. Re: How exciting on Android Messages Will Now Let You Send Texts From Your Computer (www.blog.google) · · Score: 1

    There was a number of open SMS gateways, completely free, unauthenticated and anonymous.

    I just sent a text from https://voice.google.com/ and it worked fine. Not anonymous, but free SMS. I'm certain I'm missing something here.

  11. Re:Health condition? on WHO Classifies 'Gaming Disorder' as Mental Health Condition (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Or would you have been better off in a society that took a more parental approach to you specifically?

    Like one that said that I'd have to hit a breathalyzer 4 times a day for a year if I wanted to see my kids? That was a fine place for me to start. Never been arrested or accused of a crime, not even neglect, just accurately described to the court as a drunk by Mrs. gnick #1.

  12. Re:Health condition? on WHO Classifies 'Gaming Disorder' as Mental Health Condition (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the cure for your disease is "just stop doing it", then is it really a health condition?

    I drank so much over about 5 years that my liver failed and damn near killed me. That takes dedicated drinking to the level of mental illness. When I was in the hospital being rescued from liver failure, I would have kept drinking if I could have figured out how to get alcohol into the hospital. The drinking resumed when I was discharged. Is mental illness manifesting as suicidally self-destructive behavior a health condition? I think so.

    It's been almost 3 years since I "just stopped", but until you've been there you can't appreciate how difficult "just stopping" can be. For one, alcohol withdrawals are a bitch and weaning off requires control that most alcoholics don't have.

    Victim of my own choices? Sure. Just like every other suicide.

  13. Re:Yes, I would like to file a complaint . . . on Facebook May Ban Bad Businesses From Advertising (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm aware of shadow profiles. The question I'm asking is whether they've been caught associating shadow profiles with names and selling the data. I'm not aware of that happening.

  14. Re:Yes, I would like to file a complaint . . . on Facebook May Ban Bad Businesses From Advertising (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    ...selling data about folks who are not associated with their business.

    Is there any evidence that they've sold data linked to names of non-users? That would be super-shady, but I haven't heard of them doing that.

  15. Re:Billion? on Chile Becomes First Country In Americas To Ban Plastic Bags (ewn.co.za) · · Score: 1

    According to Oxford dictionary, a billion is now a thousand million in both British and real English.

  16. Re:Sucks if you have a popular name. on Company Takes Over Well-Known OSS Developer's Name Because the Domain Was Free · · Score: 2

    Just if Microsoft tried to sue MikeRowe.com Because the actor MikeRowe phonically is similar.

    They did sue Mike Rowe, but not the celebrity and not MikeRowe.com. It was a student who registered MikeRoweSoft.com.

  17. Re:I'm shocked on SpaceX Delays Plans To Send Space Tourists To Circle Moon (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...but you think a way to get NOWHERE will have a market? Beyond novelty?

    Nearly every vacation I've ever taken has ended in the same place it started. Sometimes those trips are just to go take in a view. People go to the Grand Canyon & Carlsbad Caverns all the time and they're just big holes in the ground. Why is making a trip to see one of those so different than wanting to see the Earth from a distance?

  18. Re:Amazon should be responsible on Judge Rules Amazon Isn't Liable For Damages Caused By a Hoverboard It Sold (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    IANAL, but it seems to me that Walgreen's would be responsible for their brand of vitamin but not the others. It would be responsible of them to play their part in a recall, but I don't know why they'd be on the hook for a QC fail at Dead Russian brand vitamins.

  19. murder as in: kill against their will

    murder:

    the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought

    You could make an argument that there's some universal law against killing, so it's all murder. Or you could argue that not even stoning adulterers is murder, since it follows the law. Either way, it doesn't mean what you said it means.

  20. If you're called before your maker when you die to be held accountable for the choices you made in your life, playing the "but whattabout" game isn't going to help you.

    I'm literally more concerned about the location of my towel than I am about answering to my maker. And I'm pretty certain that I know where my towel is.

    Not really trying to shift blame. Trying to do an honest accounting of how many deaths I'm responsible for. If the aircraft gun kills one person, it's easy to blame the pilot. Or to blame the guy that ordered the pilot to fire. The blame attributed to one of the guys who helped design one of the maintenance components would be pretty minimal, but I acknowledge non-zero. The specific explosive I helped with may not even be used in the nukes that'll wipe out DPRK, but IMO the crime's in the intent.

  21. Re:But Don't Worry on Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work To Grow Exponentially (theintercept.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Have you ever worked for the DoD as a contractor?

    Ex-DoE contractor, centered around weapons. I did some analysis of explosive material for reliability concerns, did a lot of work on defeating improvised nukes, and did some work on a large-bore aircraft gun. I feel better about the work I do now, but I don't feel like my DoE work was unethical. The explosive in question could one day be used to detonate a nuke and kill a bunch of people; the aircraft gun could claim victims. I bear non-zero responsibility for those deaths. Making the call on whether a killing is ethical or not is out of my hands, but I accepted that. If you want to damn me, you also have to damn the people pulling the trigger, the people ordering those people around, and the tax-payers that aren't doing everything in their power to stop it.

  22. Re:But Don't Worry on Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work To Grow Exponentially (theintercept.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is all military work unethical? There's a lot of it and it employs a bunch of people.

  23. Re: Mimicry - no, it's cheating. on DeepMind Used YouTube Videos To Train Game-Beating Atari Bot (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    no amount of videos can make you automatically finish some games unless you are up to the required skills/reflexes

    AI skills impress me. Here it sounds like the primary skill is mimicry, but others exist. AI reflexes should be up to almost any task.

  24. Re: Mimicry - no, it's cheating. on DeepMind Used YouTube Videos To Train Game-Beating Atari Bot (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    ...computer needs pen and paper...

    That's one way to implement optical storage.

  25. If supporting the military is evil, then we have a ton of evil Americans. At least they're making some kind of effort to review the ethics of their actions even though their conclusions might not match yours.