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  1. Re:Silly name on DuckDuckGo Denies Using Fingerprinting To Track Its Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    How about Qwant? Anyone have any yea/nay votes for that as an alternative?

  2. Re:I think browsers allowing fingerprinting on DuckDuckGo Denies Using Fingerprinting To Track Its Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    "fingerprinting" is just a catch all for various bits of information that can be combined to uniquely identify a browser. There's nothing specific to enable or disable, unless you want your browser to decline such information as window size, content-types accepted, etc. You know, now that I say that maybe it would work just fine.

  3. Re:It's been a long running story on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Beyond this I would say the park service ought to engage in the minimal expense of putting in wilderness trails for individuals and (non-commercial) small groups to use for hiking/backpacking because putting in trails and asking even those low impact users to stay on them reduces total impact.

    Is there a specific park or parks you have in mind? From what I have seen they already do what you said. I used to do a lot of mountain biking and quickly learned to check the maps to make sure any trails I used were not restricted to hiking, and there were a lot of them in wilderness areas.

  4. Re:20-40 terabytes? on The Billion-Dollar Bet on the Future of Magnetic Storage (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I can think of a few uses which might benefit from more storage per disk, such as medical imagery or over the network backup services like Backblaze.

  5. Re:Score! on Washington Could Become the First State To Compost the Dead (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    They can pry my nutrients out of my cold dead hands.

  6. Re:Uh, What About the Bones? on Washington Could Become the First State To Compost the Dead (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Even with cremation the bones still have to be ground up, probably this process involves a similar step at the end.

  7. Re:Easier way to handle this... on Washington Could Become the First State To Compost the Dead (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    This doesn't work, believe me I know. The cops will still find it no matter how much trash you pile on it.

  8. Re:Authorized Devices Indeed on USB Type-C Authentication Program Launched (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this is just a rehash of the attempts to prevent folks from using unwanted (from content provider's view) playing/recording devices.

  9. Since Huawei makes so much telecom equipment it makes a kind of sense to be leery of that, but why all the attention given to the phones? There are dozens of other Chinese phone makers, and none of those are mentioned.

  10. Re:The real reason on Why Huawei Gives the US and Its Allies Security Nightmares (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this is a factor in their efforts to make if very hard to root their phones.

  11. Re: Goodbye Sears on Sears, the 125-Year-Old Iconic Retailer, Has 24 Hours To Survive (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Right, they spent billions over the last decade or so on stock buyback programs. I wonder what Sears would be like today if they had invested that money into staying competitive?

  12. Re:France, Germany, the Netherlands and Canada on 'The Language of Capitalism Isn't Just Annoying, It's Dangerous' (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    False. "France...seem[s] to be doing fine" is EXACTLY what the parent claimed. And the Yellow Vests would indeed disagree, based on what many of them have actually said. The truth or falsehood of their beliefs is not relevant to my statement, which is they would disagree with parent's statement.

  13. Re:France, Germany, the Netherlands and Canada on 'The Language of Capitalism Isn't Just Annoying, It's Dangerous' (theoutline.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The Yellow Vests seem to disagree with you that France is doing fine. But true enough that US interference in other countries is a big factor in our refugee "crisis." Look at how we made of mess of Honduras recently.

  14. With all due respect :), TFS should have stated as such (it uses the word "report"), or linked to something less vitriolic like the New York Post article TFA mentions. But you are right that the parent's criticisms are off base.

  15. Re:Article Only Half Hits the Point.... on Hospital Prices Are About To Go Public in the US (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    They are typically "not for profit" which is technically a bit different than a non-profit. I forget which, but when I worked for a hospital they said there was one class of insurance which would cover the higher prices, so they had to keep the upper level or else forego some small percentage of their revenue. True though, most people who have huge piled up medical bills don't' realize until it is too late that they can negotiate a greatly reduced sum just by calling the hospital.

  16. Re:"Insurance" isn't what the US has on Hospital Prices Are About To Go Public in the US (ajc.com) · · Score: 2

    It hasn't been insurance for a long time. "Health care plan" might be more accurate. Insurance is just a form of gambling, in order to hedge against unlikely events. If something is a certainty, it becomes a payment plan, since the premiums will just include the inevitable costs. That's why car warranties do not cover brake pads, oil changes, etc. Those are certainties. There are things like catastrophic coverage which are more like real insurance. That's interesting about the private side of UK health care, I'd like to learn more about it if you have any good links around.

  17. Re:Time to stop on Hospital Prices Are About To Go Public in the US (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    The real price is whatever is paid. If you are the typical insurance policy holder, the real price might be $10. This whole proposal is confusing to me because I don't see where a patient would make a decision based on this price list, since insurance pays it anyway in most cases. In cases where insurance does not cover a particular procedure, the prices are crystal clear and consumers do indeed shop around.

  18. Re:Algos != intelligence, artificial or otherwise. on Artificial General Intelligence is Nowhere Close To Being a Reality (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I made no claim that I was 100% rational. So he'll have to keep looking, there's plenty of fish in the sea.

  19. Re:Algos != intelligence, artificial or otherwise. on Artificial General Intelligence is Nowhere Close To Being a Reality (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    The rock does indeed qualify. There is no wholly objective to do anything at all, ultimately all is subjective. So the rock represents a 100% rational intelligence. Until we add in an irrational drive to do something like survive, achieve the reward, etc. it will do nothing.

  20. Re:"Tourism"? on Whale Shark Tourism Harms Coral Reefs (asianscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    The locals are incredibly poor

    Citation needed. Of course, "incredibly" is subjective anyway. But apparently wealthy enough to start feeding whale sharks 50 tons of shrimps annually. Similar things happen in other places, regardless of the relative poverty of the local residents. But my point was, the paper doesn't specify whether the damage is due to direct human output like trash or boat exhaust, or just the perpetual presence of the whale sharks, it seems to be the latter.

  21. "Tourism"? on Whale Shark Tourism Harms Coral Reefs (asianscientist.com) · · Score: 1
    I'm not sure, others will have a more informed opinion surely, but it seems from what I read that the problem isn't tourism, it is:

    This unusual aggregation [of whale sharks] is maintained by the local tourism association feeding the whale sharks with up to 50 tons of shrimps annually.

  22. Re:Latency on 'Sending Astronauts To Mars Would be Stupid' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly, the current robot has to be paranoid since there are so few of them. If we actually had the technology and resources to send a human to Mars, we could likely send tens of thousands of robots.

  23. This whole thing is just a misunderstanding of what the location permission on the smart phone does (and does not). You can bet your sweet bippy pretty much everyone does some sort of IP location based correlation. That's why you should never give your Ip address out on the Internet. Try opting out of that.

  24. Re:Lack of divine foresight on Emergence of Lab-Grown Meat Poses New Questions for Religious Leaders (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    the thiests aren't cocky about it.

    Your ignorance of human history reveals you must be one of the aliens in question.

  25. Re:Lack of divine foresight on Emergence of Lab-Grown Meat Poses New Questions for Religious Leaders (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The term is "gentiliens"