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  1. They should just go ahead and terminate all of IEs, Edges and other crap.
    Make life easier for all of us.
    Replace them with "Google Chrome Downloader", that's all their browsers do nowdays anyway.

  2. Source on Bangkok Fights Air Pollution With Water-Spraying Drones (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Treat it at a source, instead of trying to contain the symptoms.

    https://earthobservatory.nasa....

    Put some political pressure on Cambodia, as well as at its own citizens and other nations around, to stop fucking doing this every year, instead of trying to simulate rainy season.. to appear as they are actually doing something.

    At the time of writing this, the pm2.5 particles are at 180 Link .. so obviously this little PR stunt ain't cutting it.

  3. Re:Devil's adocate on Oracle Systematically Underpaid Thousands of Women, Lawsuit Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    > This is Oracle. They're dicks. About everything. Fuck them they're most likely guilty of this.

    Just because people shit on Oracle usually, and not now, does not mean this is valid.

    Google is dicks too, MS too, Amazon too. Everything they do, is for their own profit bottom line aka "they're dicks".

    You should've been rated "offtopic", because them being dicks have nothing to do with most probably false lawsuits.

    Wage gap because of gender exclusively is a myth. Wage gap do exist of course, but there are many reasons for it... saying that gender is a reason, is fucking stupid.

  4. US Gov got shut down, so magnetic field is failing, like those SSL certs... soon the earth will implode.

  5. People keep mentioning it because the "philosophy" kept it from interfering with other components and did the work just good.
    The lack of it was what kept Windows from not working.

    And now, this lack of philosophy spread to Linux.

  6. An entity trying to rake in as much money as it can. What a shocker!

    Or is it a shocker because all y'all commoners were bullshitted into thinking how everybody is or is supposed to be an angel/fairy when it comes to morality, and then every now and again you hear news such as this (don't worry, next month you'll read about amazon or whatever other company, football player, or politician) ?

    You go and be moral, pay up. They'll take that money, and run to Bermuda with it. And be sure to teach your offsprings to give as much as they can too, so their kids can go to Bermuda as well.

  7. Force behind "1984" on Amazon Says 100 Million Alexa Devices Have Been Sold (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not corporations, governments, churches or whatever.

    It's the people themselves that are primary cause behind privacy erosion, big brother spy camera-on-every-corner societies.

    Corporations, governments and churches are happy to assist though, because that's what we have them for.. to cater to our desires and needs, and apparently... most people desire and need a spy device inside their houses.

  8. Re:They live in RVs? Those are the lucky ones on Two Miles From Facebook's Headquarters, Working Poor Live In Trailers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    > It pains me to admit this, but the fact that America--the wealthiest nation on Earth--has a growing number of homeless people with full-time jobs is perhaps an indication that it's time to admit that capitalism failed, and it did so more or less the way communists predicted

    No, it doesn't pain you, you're happy. There are people like you walking around more and more, romancing socialism. Hopefully you didn't pay your professors to brainwash you like that. But you did, didn't you ?

    But you're also wrong. Which is a good thing for all of us. "America" or the rest of the world, is not failing, at least not 'capitalism'. The fact that fucking west coast is shit, does not mean the America, Capitalism or let's say... Norway, Germany or China is shit. It's "Sillicon Valley" that's failing.
    Take your head out of your ass and stop romancing socialism, say "fuck you" to your professors, say "I won't do what you tell me". Be a rebel.

  9. Why on Tumblr Porn Vanishes Today · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't even know what tumblr is, some picture sharing site or some nonsense like that ?

    But .. perhaps slightly offtopic... why do these companies allow SJW to run/ruin their businesses ? I've been hearing similar stuff all the time in the past 4-5 years.

    Why so hard to say, fuck off ?

    It would appear that most people are actually sane, so why try to please these fascist lunatics that want to dictate ?

  10. Re:Yes, we can imagine on Former Edge Browser Intern Alleges Google Sabotaged Microsoft's Browser (ycombinator.com) · · Score: 1

    > rubbing Microsoft's nose in the dirt over 15+ year old mistake

    Right. Mistakes that slowed down progress of technology for the sake of Microsoft dominance and greed. Fuck Microsoft forever for the irreversible damage they caused to the world, and their stupid browser that slows down if somebody puts a hidden div in the page.

    And fuck anybody that defends such ultimate expression of evil that just change their face now because they realize they can't just blatantly bully everybody around them anymore.

    Google, same shit, but nowhere near what Microsoft was doing to literally extinguish all innovation for the sake of ultimate dominance.

  11. Re:I can live with a 1996 cellphone... on Could You Live Without a Smartphone For a Year? (techtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah you just need a backpack to carry it around.

  12. Re:It's OK, USA on Europe -- not the US or China -- Publishes the Most AI Research Papers (qz.com) · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Only Approved Conspiracy Theories Are Allowed on Google CEO Admits Company Must Better Address the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on YouTube (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    > Except of course that those "alternative" platforms will very quickly get shut down with brand new "hate speech" laws. Look what they did to everything from Torrent sites to emulated games sites.

    There are more torrent sites now than ever in history of internet, and more people are "pirating" than ever.

    You just need to host them outside the authoritarian reach (US/EU), say .. in Switzerland or couple dozen other countries that don't give a shit about it.

  14. Build a (fire)wall around china on China To Force Changes To 20 Popular Games, Ban 9 Including Fortnite and PUBG (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Cut them off. Spare them the trouble of sifting through content and them deciding what should be allowed and what not. Maybe their citizens start rebelling then, but probably not, so just keep it up.

  15. Build your own. on What is the Future of Office Spaces? (weforum.org) · · Score: 1

    How about building your own office in your house, or close to your house ?

    The biggest drawback for people working from home is distraction ... so "make" your own office in such a way that will prevent you being distracted.
    Maybe even rent an space couple kilometers away from your house ?

    If not possible, then the next thing would be having multiple offices that "house" people with same jobs, instead of one huge working space... with or without cubicles.

    Programmers usually don't mind sitting opposite another programmer, but opposite sales and marketing and other people that generate noise, walk around, etc..

    So many options. Why open space ? That's the worst...

  16. So in case of google, we call "getting hacked" as "data leak" or was this a feature that got discovered magically ?

  17. EV are the future on VW Says the Next Generation of Combustion Cars Will Be Its Last (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    When they solve the refilling problem.

    I'm not trolling, i'm just voicing my opinion of them so downvote if you have to.. but idea of not being able to "charge" my car within 3 minutes is a problem.
    Also, I don't know how car batteries work, but my tank doesn't loose capacity after 8 years of putting LPG or fossil fuels in it.

  18. Food chain adapting on Google Has a Plan To Eliminate Mosquitoes Around the World (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    If you eliminate one thing out of the equation, the whole system will self modify to adapt to that change. It's not like taking one life form out of food chain will destroy the universe. If things were that fragile as removing mosquitos from existence, the world will end. If things were like that, we would never evolve to this point to begin with. Nature changes and adapts, old things die, new gets born, new dies, surface heats up, freezes, floods, dries up, and everything else in between.

    Only a human can be so arrogant to immediately assume that he has the power to destroy all of that.

  19. Re:$12 billion farm bailout on Trump Suggests US Could Slap 10 Percent Tax On iPhones, Laptops From China (cnbc.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    > There was a time when America and its people cared about others across the world, just because it was the right thing to do

    Like dropped a nuclear bomb on Japanese children, women and men, after the WW2 ended ?
    BR

  20. > plus guns. Mental illness plus guns.

    - Fix (or at least TALK about it, TRY) mental illness issue, healthy population - no more killings.
    - Ban guns - people use pressure cookers, pipe bombs, etc.

    Reality is, you just don't like guns because that's something people on the right like. You just want to see them fucked up, you don't really about kids dying, gang members shooting each other, etc. If you did, you would be trying to fix the real issue at hand, not this "ban guns" nonsense.

    Dislcaimer: Not an American; never had a gun; everybody that identifies as "right" or "left" is a retard;

  21. Exotic Keyboards on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Keyboard Do You Use With Your Computer and Why? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I just wish laptop people would stop inventing new stuff just for the sake of it.

    Every time I buy a laptop, there's some retarded stuff going on ... last one I bought (low end) was Lenovo Ideapad 310. They put the shift key AFTER the arrow key up. It's like UI/UX people in web design, just making changes for the sake of it.

    Check this out:
    https://www.waresphere.com/sto...

    Takes quite a while to adapt.

  22. Finally proof those pesky Russians are hacking the America and it's freedom.
    Chinese ? Well... they all the same kind.

  23. Re:State and country violations abound! on The DEA and ICE Are Hiding Surveillance Cameras In Streetlights (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    They've been "violating" rules and laws forever, just now its known.

    What you'all gonna do about it ? Nothing.

    There's a big club, and you're not in it.

    We'll be reading similar article in 2 years time.

  24. Re:Take care of the homeless on San Francisco Passes a First-of-its-Kind Tax on Big Businesses To Help the Homeless (recode.net) · · Score: 1
  25. Re: Capitalism bad. on Alaska's Universal Basic Income Doesn't Increase Unemployment (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    > If CompanyX is worth $40 billion and I own half of it's stock, I "have" $20 billion ... but I am never going to see that money, let alone spend it. I don't have $20 billion in bills shoved into a piggy-bank; I have $20 billion in assets which are actively involved in actually doing things in the real world. Money at that level isn't money; it's control.

    If you can sell it, you do. You make it sound like you're same as the bum that lives in a cardboard box.