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  1. You realize that Chinese society is a great big computer game where the high-level players are unbeatable?

  2. Re:investment out of window on Aston Martin Will Make Old Cars Electric So They Don't Get Banned From Cities (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    great way to ruin your investment by making the car near worthless.

    I think a car is the worst investment anyway if you want sell it with profit. The value of a car is in the fun to drive it, and in the freedom of having an independent long distance transport capability. Electrification of a historical machine might be a great idea, but that is up to the owner. Not everyone will like it.

  3. only independent choice on Google, Mozilla, and Opera React To Microsoft's Embrace of Chromium (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    This just increases the importance of Mozilla's role as the only independent choice.

    Funny, all the modern anti-features of Firefox seem to be put there because they are partly owned by Google and other third parties. They are definitely not there because they listened to the actual users of Firefox, nor did they listen to their original mission to build a lean, standards compliant and extensible browser. It is quite standards compliant, but not exactly lean and "extensible" is quite an interesting word if you disable the entire extension ecosystem.

  4. Re:Quick! We found a terrorist! on The Secret Service Wants To Test Facial Recognition Around the White House (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it will be the opposite. I think that the president himself is always recognised as good guy by the system. If you want to do something bad in China, wear a mask of the president and all recognition will probably stop. If you want to do something bad near the white house, wear a mask of the president (or his head of staff) and the system will fail. Off course, this only has an effect if the human guards are fired because of trust in this system.

  5. Those ones. If no one cares about the service, it must be a huge lot of lost sales.

  6. They have been trying very hard to support all the standards

    Then why do I have the feeling I'm back in the browser war? As a web developer, I recall that you first made your site standards compliant, and then made it work in IE as well. Then came Firefox (it was a great browser in those days), and finally Microsoft started adhering to some standards as well. Nowadays, I have the feeling we are back in the browser war again. I wouldn't know who Microsoft is fighting this time, but again I have to make my sites standards compliant first, and then "fix" them for Internet Explorer and Edge.

    So if this new browser has the standards compliance of chromium, it cannot come soon enough.

  7. Re:Are we sure this is "exclusionary in practice"? on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    I do not believe using card is exclusionary...

    Except for

    • People who can't read
    • Mentally ill people
    • People who are discriminated anyway, like homeless
  8. Re:Run the company by referendum? on Google Workers Sign Letter Seeking End To China Search Project (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Employees? Please think of the shareholders!

  9. I don't think your 2 cents will buy a lot of robots. But then again, it's black Friday. Robots are quite expensive and humans are again dispensable, just like in the eighteenth century. Back then, special machines had been developed to clean chimneys, but little boys were cheaper...

  10. Re:unlike music? on Food Taste 'Not Protected By Copyright,' EU Court Rules (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    There is a difference between taste and music. Music is more comparable to the composition of the food (which can be objectively determined), whereas taste is more comparable to the enjoyment of music. The enjoyment of music cannot be copyrighted (yet).

  11. Ah, sorry, my fault

  12. The following overview says where France stands with respect to upload filters and link tax. Yes, France is among the worst in Europe. The French attack the press with full force.

  13. Re:Some in the EU understand on Three European Countries Block Tax On Tech Giants (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    But the main reason is tax avoidance.

  14. Re:But.. on Chinese President Vows To Boost Intellectual Property Protection (afr.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There is copyright, patent law, etc. But "intellectual property" is just a term coined by people who want it to be a general system to forbid unpaid thoughts. The more people repeat it, the more people think it actually exists. It does not.

  15. But.. on Chinese President Vows To Boost Intellectual Property Protection (afr.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's a good thing that there is no such thing as "Intellectual Property".

  16. We already had that in our history. After that, they changed the day-change to midnight. A religious problem arose from that: on which of the two days was Christ born? That is why we have two Christmas days (and two Easter days).

  17. Re:DST all year round for the win on Daylight Saving Time is Super Unpopular. Here Are the Countries Trying To Ditch It. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    While it may be easier, it is the wrong thing to do. It is a dirty quick-fix for a totally different problem. The problem is that those business hours are wrong for the current time zone. Don't cripple that by changing the time zone.

  18. The link only points to a page demanding (not requesting) access to my device. Is there an accessible link?

  19. Re:And as usual on Humanity Has Wiped Out 60% of Animal Populations Since 1970 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I have eaten insects, but not mosquitoes. The insects I ate did not taste bad at all. Likewise, I expect a snake to have a lot of muscles, so snakes could taste good as well. Rattlesnakes are not exactly local food, so I did not try those either.

  20. Re:And as usual on Humanity Has Wiped Out 60% of Animal Populations Since 1970 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually, no.

    The Dodo was named "walgvogel" ("disgusting bird") by the Dutch because its flesh tasted awful. They wiped out the entire species because it was so easy (it feared no predators) and, er, just because.

  21. It's in the little green link after the large title.

  22. Re:You think this is funny? on 20 Top Lawyers Were Beaten By Legal AI (hackernoon.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    First they came for the lawyers, but I did nothing, for I am not a lawyer ...

    • Then they came for lobbyists, but I did nothing, for I am not a lobbyist.
    • Then they came for advertisers, but I did nothing, for I am not an advertiser
    • Then they came for real people, and we said "stop there".
  23. blocks cookies and storage access from third-party trackers

    Seriously, why didn't they do this 20 years ago? Did they really have to wait until their last user has switched?

  24. Not your freedom. Your lack of it. You are the product and this is just a corporation negotiating your price with other corporations. Don't expect a phone to come without Google tax and give you a choice.

  25. Those values include providing access to information, freedom of expression, user privacy, and how to exploit them.

    There, fixed that for you.