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  1. What information that would require them to hire a DPO? If they would be required to hire one, I sure as fuck don't want to deal with them because no soap on this planet is worth handing over pretty much any and all of my personal data.

  2. At the very least you now have a tool to see which companies consider the privacy of their customers some pesky nuisance that they try to avoid at all cost.

  3. Re:The same NASA that used the shuttle boosters? on Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    You CANNOT detach them safely before they burn out, that's the problem. The boosters provide nearly all the thrust at liftoff and actually very far into the flight. They burn at 100% thrust and will continue to do so for as long as there is fuel. No way to shut them off. No way to control their thrust.

    There was exactly one phase where this is a problem. From T0 when they ignite to T120 when they're burned out and are jettisoned. That's correct. Other than those 2 minutes, they're no problem at all...

    And no, you could not throttle the F1s of the Saturn V S-IC. They ran at 100%, no other option. But you could turn them off. That alone made them heaps safer. Actually, the center F1 was routinely turned off during ascent.

  4. Re:Pish Posh on China Plans $47 Billion Fund To Boost Its Semiconductor Industry (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    Christian de Castries, Dien Bien Phu, 1954

  5. Re: good for china on China Plans $47 Billion Fund To Boost Its Semiconductor Industry (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    You lost me at those last two sentences, if anything the tertiary sector, i.e. services, requires a local customer base, able and willing to spend money on a service, i.e. something you probably could do yourself in most cases.

    How is this a hallmark of an economy where you have very few people with disposable income?

  6. Re:good for china on China Plans $47 Billion Fund To Boost Its Semiconductor Industry (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem here is that the rhetoric is required for politicians to get elected. It would seem logical for politicians to move towards the center because they try to cater to voters on the other side of their fence, knowing that they will get the votes from their side anyway, but that doesn't take primaries into account. Primaries mean that only the most radical and most insane ones actually have a chance to run for an office because in primaries, you will primarily see the fringe voters go to support "their" candidate.

    And then you're sitting in an election with two complete lunatics to choose from, so you pick the one that is at least not as completely insane as the other one.

  7. But as you might have noticed it's possible for new parties to actually emerge and play a role in the political setup of the country. Try that in the US.

  8. Those kinds of jobs being lost is a gain for humanity.

  9. Re:Strawman on Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly how many times was this a problem for the shuttle? Oh that's right, zero.

    More often than you heard about it. Fortunately all but one of those cases turned out ok. I wish I could tell you more, but STS-51-L would have been an abort candidate about 20 seconds before the explosion. The problem was that there was no option for abort at this phase in the flight. All we could do was sit tight, bite our nails and hope, as usual. Went good a dozen times before, didn't work itself out this time.

    There was no abort for any Shuttle flights from T0 to T120. Fly or blow. That there has been only one loss makes me almost believe that there is a god.

  10. Re: Scanning a ticket is never the slowdown on Ticketmaster Hopes To Speed Up Event Access By Scanning Your Face (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    But getting loaded before the event and then making a mess inside is a-ok?

    You have strange laws.

  11. Re:I hope more people will do this on 'Biohacker' Who Injected Himself With DIY Herpes Treatment Found Dead (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    The next step would be to do a sensible trial series. "Curing" something in a single incident means jack shit. Otherwise the pizza I had yesterday is a perfect cure for headaches because I had a headache before I ate the pizza but it was gone by the time I was done eating.

  12. The same NASA that used the shuttle boosters? on Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You know, the solid-fuel booster rockets on the shuttle that cannot be shut down once started? That's the NASA that is now so concerned over security problems?

    Von Braun, back in the 60s, already knew that you cannot really man-rate those things exactly because you have zero control over them once they went off. And they now have a problem with "security concerns"?

    I smell a government agency having a problem with seeing their last reason to exist vanish.

  13. Re:Taxes and control on Earth's Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach Highest Point In 800,000 Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Been said a million times before: CO2 is not a pollutant. It's needed for plants to grow. The current CO2 levels are so low it's amazing plants survive at all. We'd be much better off if CO2 levels tripled from current levels.

    That's fine and dandy for you and your fellow plants, but we higher life forms are dependent on high oxygen and low carbon dioxide levels to survive.

  14. Re:Could these readings be skewed? on Earth's Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach Highest Point In 800,000 Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You do know that we have only one atmosphere, not separate ones for first, second and third world countries, yes?

    And emissions don't give a damn about the artificial borders humans draw on the ground.

  15. Re:800,000 years is short on Earth's Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach Highest Point In 800,000 Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The plant can and has been way warmer than currently. Yes. But during none of these times human tried to survive on it, that's gonna be a new one.

  16. Re:Getting out of hand on Earth's Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach Highest Point In 800,000 Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    That may be great for you, but what are we higher lifeforms that aren't capable of photosynthesis supposed to do?

  17. When you die in a sensory deprivation tank on 'Biohacker' Who Injected Himself With DIY Herpes Treatment Found Dead (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    So ... he died of boredom?

  18. Re:I hope more people will do this on 'Biohacker' Who Injected Himself With DIY Herpes Treatment Found Dead (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually I'm more in favor of him injecting himself with a cure he created himself than him repairing his own car. The former can only kill himself, a faulty car with shot brakes can well kill innocent bystanders who had nothing to do with him not knowing what he's doing.

    Where I draw the line is when he tries to convince others that his quackery has any merit. Which this person didn't, as far as I can tell, so it's absolutely ok in my books.

    Your body is yours. It's about the last thing you still really own. If there is anything on the planet you should be allowed to do whatever you want with, it's your body.

  19. And we still run into the problem on Forty Years of Spam Email (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Ads are still a problem of the net. Yes, I said ads. Because what the fuck is spam other than that? Whether the junk litters your inbox or your browser real estate, what exactly is the difference?

    A spam filter and an ad filter are essentially doing the same, getting rid of unwanted junk nobody asked for.

  20. Re:Godzilla Threshold on Forty Years of Spam Email (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    But unlike lawyers, great radioactive lizards and old ones, marketeers have no reason to exist.

  21. Re:If all you do about it is filter ... on Forty Years of Spam Email (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Running your own domain isn't even needed, just register a few free mail addresses with different freemail providers. That way you also get to learn what freemail providers sell your address to which spammers.

  22. This already assumes that this tourist only comes because there is an AirBnB available and would not have stayed in a hotel, which now is lacking that revenue. Revenue that is also far higher taxed (and not only because, let's face it, a lot of AirBnB income never makes it onto a tax sheet).

    But that doesn't even affect rents. It's simply fewer supplied apartments for rent with a demand that remains the same. How AirBnB affects the local economy aside of apartment renting, if at all, doesn't even enter the equation.

  23. Re:What drives up prices... on Airbnb Drives Up Rent Costs In Manhattan and Brooklyn, Report Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What allowed you to have that successful career?

  24. Re:Greenshot on Windows 10 Is Finally Getting An Improved Screenshot Tool (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Didn't Apple copyright having an experience on a computer yet?

    Personally I am pretty glad if I don't have an experience with my computer and instead get it to work properly.

  25. Re:Jesus appeared to me in a vision on Windows 10 Is Finally Getting An Improved Screenshot Tool (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    I really command your worship of your Mexican gardener, but at least learn how to properly pronounce his name, dammit.