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  1. PC Mag article from 2025 on Alaska Airlines Trials Virtual Reality On Some Flights (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Following passenger resistance to mandatory VR headsets, the US Airlines Association and the Pilots and Flight Attendants Union have succeeded in their petition to the TSA, NTSA and Federal Air Marshals that all passengers additionally be gagged and duct-taped to their seats.

    As a safety, weight, power and cost-saving measure, the switch that turns off the fasten seatbelt sign, is being removed from all aircraft. Diapers can be ordered at the time of reservation for a $30 charge, or purchased at check-in for $100, or $300 at the gate. If a ticket does not allow changes, fasting is recommended before flying.

    In unrelated news, due to the short duration of trans-continental and trans-oceanic flights, there will be no food or beverage services, according to airline spokesrobots.

  2. This is why on Chinese President Xi Jinping Says Internet Must Be 'Clean and Righteous' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    China will have periodic revolutions and will never be a front-rank country, Western angst notwithstanding.

  3. There goes net neutrality on Facebook Bans Sites That Host Blueprints of 3D-Printed Guns (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Goodbyeeee

  4. Artificial Intelligence? on Google Begins Rolling Out Android Pie To Select Handsets (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Whenever I see "AI", I think of Clippy and spellcheckers that mangle what I type.

  5. Once the testing is done, and the results sent out, all data should be deleted. There should be nothing to share in the first place.

  6. Still waiting.... on Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why do we never see reports that steak is being processed to taste like tofu?

  7. Microsoft Announces Extension of Licenses on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 To Support True UTC-Compliant Leap Second (thurrott.com) · · Score: 0

    Microsoft today announced that existing licenses and support agreements will be extended at no additional cost.

    Government spokesmen welcomed this generous gesture and hailed the effectiveness of the President's negotiating skills with the Seattle company.

  8. Are Millenians really poorer? on Unlike Most Millennials, Norway's Are Rich (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Are you parents really richer?

    What codes were followed building their houses? Energy-efficient insulation, appliances, HVAC, windows? Lead-free paint?

    Did their cars run on reformulated gas? Did they have EGRs, air bags, catalytic converters, gas mileage requirements? Did they used solvent-free paint?

    Was their power produced by coal, without scrubbers or NOx reduction?

    DId they have subsdised Affordable Care? DId they have anything better than aspirin?

    Did they have internet, GPS, surveillance cameras, NSA, bitcoin, war on drugs?

    DId they pay higher taxes? Did they have 90% fewer pages of tax code? Did they have to pay for bloated college administrations? Did they have to pay for the TSA, ICE, EPA, DOE, SNAP, etc?

    Were they able to fight multiple wars by running up the national debt? DId they have a local SWAT team?

    What was the minimum wage?

    Stop whining, millennials, you have got all this stuff in lieu of cash.

  9. Bastiat and O'Rourke on US Forces Smartphone Giant ZTE To Fire Its CEO, Leadership Team (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will. -- Frederic Bastiat

    When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke

  10. The self-governing monopoly trade union known as the AMA will see to it that this software never enters the public domain. The beach houses and Ferraris of featherbedded radiologists should never come under threat.

  11. I won't cum in your mouth on Some Recycling Is Now Being Re-Routed To Landfills (wral.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    and we are running out of landfill space.

  12. Like tobacco farmers on Ask Slashdot: Can a City Really Sue an Oil Company For Climate Change? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    We all know how the tobacco farmers were made to pay for growing their toxic product, and driven into bankruptcy,

  13. Once more, with emphasis on Estonia To Become the World's First Free Public Transport Nation (citylab.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    There is no such thing as free.

    (This is not to say that it is not cost-effective to bother with collecting a user fee.)

  14. Re:Yeah, but it's not enough profit on Could Algorithms Be Better at Picking the Next Big Blockbuster Than Studio Execs? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    There was no executive involvement in Batman v Superman? One set of studio execs got it right, and one set got it wrong. So 50%. Still, neither knows until after the fact.

    If you asked a third set to pick between the two, they would have 50% chance of being right.

    If AI has a 51% ratio, it is better. I look forward to headlines predicting the end of studio executive jobs.

  15. Re:Constitutional Intent on A Mass of Copyrighted Works Will Soon Enter the Public Domain (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Good point.

  16. Constitutional Intent on A Mass of Copyrighted Works Will Soon Enter the Public Domain (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Article I Section 8. Clause 8 â" Patent and Copyright Clause of the Constitution. [The Congress shall have power] âoeTo promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.â

    In order to maximize "progress of science and useful arts", the Constitutional requirement of "limited times" must be optimized. Note that that progress applies to the nation as a whole, and not to the authors and inventors.

    Zero time obviously has no benefit. Infinite time may have some benefit, but less than something between nothing and perpetuity.

    So what is the optimum? I contend that it is something considerably shorter than the current duration. And that just because other regimes choose poorly, does not mean the US has to follow suit. Congress should show some evidence before legislating.

  17. Revocation or Denial of Passport on Chinese Journalist Banned From Flying, Buying Property Due To 'Social Credit Score' (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    https://www.irs.gov/businesses...

    Starting January 22, 2018, passengers with a driver's license issued by a state that is still not compliant with the REAL ID Act (and has not been granted an extension) will need to show an alternative form of acceptable identification for domestic air travel to board their flight.

  18. So manually typing in a URL is criminal?

  19. I would remind these (and all other companies), that you are innocent until proven guilty.

    "We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." â" Benjamin Franklin

  20. Re:Google rapidly self-destructing. U.S. gov viole on Google Workers Urge CEO To Pull Out of Pentagon AI Project (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Where in the Constitution does it allow the USA government to be the world police?

    Congress has not the guts to issue a declaration of war since Pearl Harbor.

    All three branches of government have abdicated their responsibility to oversee a military-industrial complex run amuck.

    What next? Sending troops and predators to the Mexican border?

  21. Re:Tariffs Aren't The Way To Do This on US' Proposed China Tariffs Would Target Robotics, Satellites (engadget.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Taxes are not the problem. The problem is spending. Government spend must be reined in, particularly spending which is not for the common good, i.e. entitlements.

    If spending is reduced, the taxes and borrowing will take care of themselves.

  22. Nothing of value was lost on European Commission Says It Will Cancel All 300,000 UK-Owned .EU Domains (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Unless you domain was pee.eu

  23. Re:Climate Change is real. on Sea Level Rise in the SF Bay Area Just Got a Lot More Dire (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    All I ask is that you to verify your claim with the same diligence and rigor that was taken in verifying the existence of climate change.

    Also with the method you propose to do the mitigating.

  24. Re:Climate Change is real. on Sea Level Rise in the SF Bay Area Just Got a Lot More Dire (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Given that climate change is real, first make a sensible scientific and economic case that "solving" it is the best option.

  25. P. J. O'Rourke on US Calls Broadcom's Bid For Qualcomm a National Security Risk (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."

    -- P. J. O'Rourke