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  1. What if the person had said "Hey, man, I might need you to be a driver for a job I'm thinking about doing" and you said "sure, man, I'm up for that" but in the end the guy didn't use you. Is it still conspiracy on your part?

    Presumably there is a difference between being willing to do something and actually doing it. Do we know that Assange actually tried to crack the password, or did he just offer to help?

  2. Re:Wait, you DIDN'T think that was happening? on Amazon Workers Are Listening To What You Tell Alexa (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The only audio clips captured are after somebody says the wakeword "Alexa".

    You hope. It has to listen the entire time, or else it can't hear the word "Alexa". How sure are you that it's not recording the entire time? Or just randomly for this transcribing process regardless of whether the word "Alexa" has been said or not?

  3. Re:Something missing in the head on Measles Cases Top Last Year's Total · · Score: 1

    I see the opposite, actually. I'm old enough that I remember when getting the measles, mumps, or chicken pox was a normal occurrence. Kids stayed home so they didn't infect everyone else until the worst of it passed. I don't remember a panic about people dying from the disease or anything. It was unpleasant, but just a part of growing up.

    If I had kids, I would get them vaccinated because those diseases are no fun and why go through it if you don't have to? Why take the chance of getting complications? But I'm not concerned that we'll end up with a scenario like Stephen King's The Stand if we don't.

  4. Isn't printing paper receipts and storing them in landfills, requiring us to grow more trees to print more paper receipts a form on carbon sequestration?

  5. Re:It's not that surprising on Google Quietly Adds DuckDuckGo as a Search Engine Option for Chrome Users in About 60 Markets (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    https://duck.co/help/results/sources You can get google results by adding !g to your search (or !sp if you want to get google results through startpage.com).

  6. He should lobby to change the rules then if he doesn't like it, not complain about an entity that followed the rules as written.

  7. Re:I've been avoiding it for years on Reddit Users Are the Least Valuable of Any Social Network (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's just a way of limiting quick spam posts. Just lurk for a while and reply to some comments and you'll be fine.

  8. No large drop in ice extent or area? on Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's interesting that there was no large drop in sea ice extent or area this year to match the exceptional warming. The numbers came in around where the last few years have, and much higher than 2016 or 2012.

    Sea Ice Area: https://web.nersc.no/WebData/a...
    Sea Ice Extent: https://web.nersc.no/WebData/a...

  9. crazy idea on Facebook Will Start Fact-Checking Pictures, Videos (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I know this is far, far out there and all, but maybe it should be up to both the people posting the images or videos and/or the people viewing the images or videos to fact-check them. Or not.

  10. Re:Geo location on How Facebook Outs Sex Workers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I use one of those apps that spoofs your GPS coordinates, so it looks like I'm always home. I turn the location services off. I only do this so that my weather app will give me the data for the right location.

    I'm sure that doesn't help 100% of the time, since cell phone companies can triangulate your position based on cell phone towers. If it turns out that FB and other nefarious sites are gobbling up that data, then I may be forced to keep the damn phone off and only turn it on to make a call or text or to see who has been trying to contact me lately.

    This idea that I should tell the world my exact position 24/7 is ludicrous.

  11. Re:Correct summary on Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    but because some of the black people are fed up and fighting back, they're the bad guys

    The ones committing acts of violence are the bad guys as far as I'm concerned. Whatever cause they may believe in.

  12. It's actually linked from the article in the summary, Stormfront used Cloudflare's refusal to punt them from the service as evidence that Cloudflare was run by White Supremacists, so the CEO personally terminated their account for damaging the reputation of Cloudflare.

    I would have had more respect for him if he'd simply come out with a statement that declared that their refusal to drop a website does not imply that they agree with their content, and that in this case they in fact do not.

  13. How many people, like myself, had never heard of The Daily Stormer before? Now I can't not hear about them as service provider after service provider drops them because of their content. If they had simply left them alone, I would still be blissfully ignorant of their website.

    The same logic applies to the anti-protestors at Charlottesville. What could have been a quick blurb about a rally that nobody cared about turned into an absolute shitstorm.

  14. Perhaps they would have been better off just stating what facts they have found and leaving the conclusions to the readers. Maybe a forum on each topic so the readers can hash it out for themselves.

  15. Re:Mirror says ugly on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I really hate that we're trying to keep score like this. Maybe we should try to find a way to lower the number of extremists on all sides? This country is way too divisive politically.

  16. Re:CO2 is good for The plants on 8 In 10 People Now See Climate Change As a 'Catastrophic Risk,' Says Survey (trust.org) · · Score: 1

    According to this page: https://www.kane.co.uk/knowledge-centre/what-are-safe-levels-of-co-and-co2-in-rooms, the maximum allowed workplace exposure limit is 5000ppm, and the hard-limit appears to be 40000ppm. People start reporting drowsiness or bad air at 1000 to 2000ppm.

  17. I'm not the person you're replying to, but, yes, I condemn all threats regardless of party. The division between the two main parties is out of control, but there are still those of us who think politicians from both sides are all a bunch of circus clowns. Having said that, your links are weak examples. I do condemn the dipshit that suggested taking a potshot at Obama in a Facebook post. I also condemn the Secret Service for thinking they can override the open carry laws on a whim. In the Hillary article, I didn't see a threat. Just a suggestion that trying to take guns away from people is a dangerous activity and that she should try it if she doesn't believe it. At least, that's what I get trying to parse Trump-speak. YMMV.

  18. Re:We scientists must improve our reliability. on Popular Belief That Saturated Fat Clogs Up Arteries Is a Myth, Experts Say (independent.ie) · · Score: 1

    The covers might be fake (why the hell do people do this?), but there was a story entitled Another Ice Age in Time Magazine dated June 24, 1974.

    It might have been nice if they had mentioned this.

    FTA: "Whatever the cause of the cooling trend, its effects could be extremely serious, if not catastrophic. Scientists figure that only a 1% decrease in the amount of sunlight hitting the earths surface could tip the climatic balance, and cool the planet enough to send it sliding down the road to another ice age within only a few hundred years."

  19. Re:Side effect of the Fake news in MSM on UW Professor: The Information War Is Real, and We're Losing It (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "Mainstream Media" is a term that has been used for decades, at least. On the other hand, I'd never heard the term "alt-right" before Trump ran for President despite having an interest in reading conspiracy theories and the like that goes back many many years.

  20. Re:Ouch... on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Would you agree that killing civilians with drone strikes with no due process is a bad thing no matter which sitting President orders it?

  21. Re:Guvmint Shutdown on Disease Outbreak Threatens the Future of Good Coffee · · Score: 1

    If I'd known that that's all it would have taken to reduce big government down to size, I'd have engineered a coffee crisis decades ago.

  22. Re:I'd be excited about this movie, except... on Ender's Game Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    What I need to know is: what does the key grip for this movie think about gun control? I am in danger, through my lack of information, of possibly funding someone that I would vehemently disagree with. This cannot be allowed to happen.

  23. Re:Just wondering on Cold Spring Linked To Dramatic Sea Ice Loss · · Score: 1

    There has always been hot and cold weather, strong and weak winds, and dry and wet weather, before and after we started consuming so much oil. I echo those above me, I would really like to see a falsifiable statement somewhere in the theory.