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  1. Re:Time to take nuclear seriously.... on Study Links Human Actions To Specific Arctic Ice Melt (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    You realize the incidence rate of hurricanes in the area has significantly dropped in recent years.

  2. Re:small, beneficial global warming and CO2... on Study Links Human Actions To Specific Arctic Ice Melt (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    What about the disasters prevented by the change in climate? How many people didn't die?

  3. Re: Humans are a virus on Study Links Human Actions To Specific Arctic Ice Melt (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    It increases the population relative to adopting two from an overpopulated region.

  4. Re: Muh Rights on Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users By Race (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    Some are offended at being called African-American, since as far as they're concerned, they have no ties to Africa.

  5. Re:Trying to weasel out by splitting hairs on Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users By Race (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    Housing is a very small portion of advertising, just because it is possible for this option to be used in an illegal way that doesn't make the option itself illegal.

  6. Re:Muh Rights on Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users By Race (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    To extend your example, this is more like going to a predominantly white male university CS department and posting that you're looking for a programmer.

  7. Re:Muh Rights on Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users By Race (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm not so sure there is a law on the books about this. The ads themselves (presumably) do not specify a preference, the law cited doesn't say anything about the distribution of ads being racially biased.

    If there were such a law, it would likely be illegal to do a wide variety of targeted advertising that doesn't directly reference race.

  8. Re:My first business did something like this on City ISP Makes Broadband Free Because State Law Prohibits Selling Access (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Except in this case the installation is already done and the banned part is selling it as a service.

  9. Re:But Republicans believe local... on City ISP Makes Broadband Free Because State Law Prohibits Selling Access (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering the local government is stepping in to provide a temporary solution to a problem caused by a more distant government, in this case at least, yes local government is best.

  10. You say that like the other two are a significant improvement.

  11. The vaccinations do not give immunity to everyone that gets them. Also, some people are unable to get them for medical reasons.

  12. Re:Man, I hate to defend MS . . . BUT . . . on Patriots Coach Bill Belichick on Microsoft Surface: 'I Just Can't Take It Anymore' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that they wouldn't be allowed to use the open source app.

  13. I would guess that the NFL IT team's only responsibility is checking the devices to make sure they haven't been tampered with. Configuration and testing is likely each team's responsibility in the few hours they have before game time.

  14. Re:This rant left me feeling...deflated on Patriots Coach Bill Belichick on Microsoft Surface: 'I Just Can't Take It Anymore' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Standing out in the open is one of the better ways to spy without being caught. If you look like you're doing something wrong, people will pay more attention.

  15. Because the people that make the rules and the decisions play golf with the people that own certain teams.

  16. Re:I'm with Snowden on CIA Prepping For Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    They're trying to hide that they started performing cyber strikes a couple weeks ago.

  17. Works great until the day the car needs to be scrapped, then suddenly you have a revolution on your hands.

  18. The GP's example was of one where the malicious input was from someone other than the driver.

  19. Re:The fringe cases are still going to be hard on When Mercedes-Benz Starts Selling Self-Driving Cars, It Will Prioritize Driver's Safety Over Pedestrian's (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    If everyone is following the laws of the road, an accident would be pretty unlikely. The problem is that this is rarely the case.

  20. Re:As a Verizon subscriber... on Verizon Is Now Selling Unlimited Data In 30-Minute Increments (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Usually it's legal because they put in fine print clarifying what they mean by unlimited.

  21. Hillary, if Trump were elected everyone would be watching too closely and would call him on it.

  22. Re: Can we see this evidence? on Top Democrats Request FBI Investigation of Trump Campaign Ties To Russia Over Hacking (politico.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    You left out the part where the emails got subpoenaed.

  23. Re:Never again. on Class Action Lawsuit Grows Over iPhone 6 Plus 'Touch Disease' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Successive failures in new phones would be rare, successive failures in phones that already failed once and got sent back are probably considerably more common.

  24. Re:Never again. on Class Action Lawsuit Grows Over iPhone 6 Plus 'Touch Disease' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, all but one of each of their phones were previously destroyed by someone else and sent back.

  25. Re:I'd argue that 40% figure... on 40 Percent of Organizations Store Admin Passwords In Word Documents, Says Survey (esecurityplanet.com) · · Score: 1

    Sticky notes on the monitor are for user passwords, the admin password has to be stored somewhere it can be accessed remotely...