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  1. Other news on EU's Top Court Rules That Uber Is a Transportation Company (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    In other news.. water is wet.

  2. I didn't bitch about the content. Where the hell did you get that? I bitched about the tracking.

  3. Re: All part of the marketing strategy... on Apple Seems To Have Forgotten About the Whole 'It Just Works' Thing (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's up to the developer how many devices they make their app compatible with, same as on iphone.

  4. Re:alternative medicine on Apple Seems To Have Forgotten About the Whole 'It Just Works' Thing (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    The terrible Apple formatting is the icing on the cake. Really, you could have just typed anything with quotes around it and it would have made the point.

  5. So don't talk about the elephant in the room. Got it.

  6. The pedophile part is Facebook feeling like they are entitled to help themselves to tracking pictures of our faces, even if we don't choose to participate. Agreed, it is an exaggeration but still, this practice is very, very, creepy. Maybe it's more like having someone on your block that peers through the blinds with binoculars and logs all the neighbor's comings and goings in a black notebook times A BILLION, but still I think most people got the idea. The 'molested before' part is the fact that Facebook doesn't care whether you want your face there or not, they have already proceeded to track your face, figure out who you are (whether you have a Facebook account or not) and log your comings and goings and everything they can discern about you before they have the 'kindness' to tell you about it. This with the added bonus that there is no way to know about it at all if you aren't participating. Actually not that I write it all out I'm feeling like I didn't exaggerate all that much and you just aren't fully appreciating how creepy the whole practice is.

  7. Did I say I used it? What word in my post led you to believe that? Was it 'boys' ?

  8. This is kind of like a pedophile saying he'll only feel up boys that have been abused already anyway.

  9. Re:How very Google of them on Tesla Is Prohibiting Commercial Drivers From Using Its Supercharger Stations (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if that happens, you will still need at least 30 mins for a fill. Once there are that many chargers and they only take 10 mins for a fill then that will make EVs usable for most people.

  10. Re:How very Google of them on Tesla Is Prohibiting Commercial Drivers From Using Its Supercharger Stations (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No, there are enough gas stations everywhere that it's pretty difficult for that to happen. Sure, if someone is going to be stupid and drive through when their tank is 1/8 full, it will happen. But it's easy not to do that.

  11. Re:How very Google of them on Tesla Is Prohibiting Commercial Drivers From Using Its Supercharger Stations (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Routinely using a fast charger would be as painful as having to drive to a gas station and pump gas.

    Personally I don't find it as painful as having a car that takes hours to fill.. Even if it is in my garage. Because that introduces a risk at some point that I will need my car and it won't be charged. That's bad enough with a phone.

  12. Re: Grasp on Reality, really? on Artificial Intelligence Is Killing the Uncanny Valley and Our Grasp On Reality (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Personally I would think the 'real' god would be more pissed about the people belonging to the other 80% of religions in the world (and therefore worshiping someone other than him) as opposed to the people that did not choose to participate.

  13. This is so 'Person of Interest'.

  14. Usually you're a total asshole, Anonymous Coward; but that was totally classy!

  15. Re:One of the things which I like of my country on Almost 100 Million People a Year 'Forced To Choose Between Food and Healthcare' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    How long can American capitalism last? Companies can't hoard wealth forever.

  16. A person would have to be crazy to have something done that isn't approved by the FDA.

  17. Single payer countries reject many of those drugs because they are just designer versions of something that exists already with no additional benefit. The ones they deem to be good get paid for. No one seems to put the blame on Apple for paying more on taxes than they can legally get away with, why put the blame on a country that has found the correct way to negotiate for drugs?

  18. My wife has has cancer twice, and the week after diagnosis got all the scans she needed and was on treatment. We didn't have to go bankrupt, which would have surely happened the second time. Sure they might not ask for an MRI when an ultrasound will do, but that just makes good fiscal sense.

  19. Re:Easy way to cap malpractice payouts. on Almost 100 Million People a Year 'Forced To Choose Between Food and Healthcare' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Why don't you just be happy that women who plan to get pregnant are paying for treatment if you get prostate cancer? It works both ways.

  20. Re:How to buy "green"... on Almost 45 Million Tons of E-waste Discarded Last Year (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You're suggesting I spend $500 more on a monitor just to get multiple ports? The one I bought works fine, why would anyone in their right mind do that?

  21. Wow, spy work just got really, really easy hey?

  22. Re: It's a problemtunity on Robots Are Being Used To Shoo Away Homeless People In San Francisco (qz.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes because none of them would suffer their whole lives from fetal alcohol syndrome or anything.

  23. Sadly, on Robots Are Being Used To Shoo Away Homeless People In San Francisco (qz.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is probably just the beginning.

  24. Re:How to buy "green"... on Almost 45 Million Tons of E-waste Discarded Last Year (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I paid $80 for my last monitor, didn't see any in that price range with multiple ports. If there was one I would have selected it.

  25. Re:How to buy "green"... on Almost 45 Million Tons of E-waste Discarded Last Year (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    And if I need to use a USB-C adapter, or a system with an actual VGA port?