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  1. Re:Who's coordinating this? on NYT: Lynchings Around the World are Linked To Facebook Posts (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Journalism is subject to fads.

    Man! You're not kidding!

  2. Re:For what it's worth... on Doctors Tried To Lower $148K Cancer Drug Cost; Makers Tripled Its Price (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter that high prices are the norm. They are covering, merger, marketing, and lobbying costs much more than actual R&D.

  3. Re:For what it's worth... on Doctors Tried To Lower $148K Cancer Drug Cost; Makers Tripled Its Price (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Janssen and Phamacyclics partnered with Johnson and Johnson to market the drug, then they got acquired by Abbvie

    I see. So the high price is paying for the acquisition. That's normal, I guess. After all, this is a very closed market and expenses do have to be recovered somehow.

  4. Re:Right to remove on Palantir Knows Everything About You (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Totally inadequate. You can only verify what they let you see. But it would help if the individual had real subpoena power over their own data. We have to at least make the flow go both ways.

  5. Re:The system is broken on Audit Approved of Facebook Policies, Even After Cambridge Analytica Leak (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, a law giving us the power of subpoena to our own data and how/where/when it was acquired sounds fair to me. Hey, we're just *filing for discovery*.

  6. Re:Right to remove on Palantir Knows Everything About You (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, to make sure, you would have to run the entire facility through a shredder, along with every device that ever connected to them through their WAN port. For the staff, you'll need a flashy thingy. That should buy you some time until the next guy pops up.

  7. Re:See, told you so on Users Don't Want iOS To Merge With MacOS, Apple Chief Tim Cook Says (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Yes, I find that design utterly fascinating. There has to be a reason...

  8. Re:Right to remove on Palantir Knows Everything About You (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I am interested to see how you would enforce that.

  9. Re: If only on The 'Terms and Conditions' Reckoning Is Coming (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I understand them perfectly. It couldn't be more obvious:

    Everything you say and do can and will be used against you

    What is there not to understand? Why would anyone give them the benefit of the doubt?

    You won't stop the data flow. So, just make sure if flows symmetrically in all directions and make sure to punish the people who try to use it against you. If nobody has the advantage, it's all good.

  10. Re:Democrats and Republicans now both interfering on Democratic Party Files Suit Alleging Russia, the Trump Campaign, and WikiLeaks Conspired To Disrupt the 2016 Election (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Democrats and Republicans...

    They are not opposing teams, they are a tag team. And the entire show is being run as a professional wrestling match. Try to shock the people with scandal, and they won't notice the corruption. And it works! Between them they get 98.6% of the vote every time. And the funny thing is that everybody blames them for winning, instead of looking at themselves for playing along and selling their souls in a political 'get rich quick' scheme. Nothing has changed over the millenniums

  11. But that circus clown has inadvertently ripped the mask off the thoroughly corrupt establishment. We should all be thanking him for exposing them for what they are.

    This is so true, but the reaction only shows people digging in their heels, not trying to correct the problem, thus the democrats' theatrics, which unfortunately are winning strategy for them. *As the pendulum swings* is the soap opera of the ages. Meanwhile the balance in Congress will remain roughly the same, plus or minus a few percentage points. The voters stick to their party like barnacles. If you thinks it's crazy now, remember how the republican voters were prepared if Trump lost! Elections are based on scandal, not merit, going back to Adams vs. Jefferson.

  12. Seems THAT was the major impediment to the Dem party and it was from within, not external sources.

    That's the purpose of the lawsuit and this whole Russia drama, to divert attention away, not from Hillary's emails, but the DNC's, which could very plausibly reveal criminal intent. And, the diversion is working for the most part.

  13. And this lawsuit is the ultimate in projection and chutzpah. Oh well, more power to 'em if they win.

  14. And finance is coming from where? on Marissa Mayer is Back (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, it's all good. If people want to keep giving her money, that's their business. I'm sure some of them will do well.

  15. Re:The sound of "AI" hype dying on Autonomous Boats Will Be On the Market Sooner Than Self-Driving Cars (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Let us face it: driving cars was one of those things which seemed easy for a computer to do but which has turned out to be very hard and probably impossible to do safely.

    Just goes to show that cars and people don't mix.

  16. This is totally the future!

    Yeah well, as long as it stays there, we have nothing to worry about.

  17. Blade liberation

    I'm free!!

  18. It was the first accident fatality ever of a Southwest passenger. The other accident killed a kid in a car outside the airport fence. Not too bad for an airline that has been operating for 47 years.

  19. Re:Best endorsement ever on Iran Bans State Bodies From Using Telegram App, Khamenei Shuts Account (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    What's up with uTox? Decentralized seems to be the way to go.

  20. We can hope for one thing on Iran Bans State Bodies From Using Telegram App, Khamenei Shuts Account (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    That their attempts to block are at least as futile as they are in Russia.

  21. "futile attempt to block" on Russia Admits To Blocking Millions of IP Addresses (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Music to my ears!

  22. Re:What Bonzai Buddy and Facebook Has in Common on Facebook Admits To Tracking Users, Non-Users Off-Site (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Facebook is labeled as a life-essential service.

    By whom??

  23. Voters guilty!

    Of criminal government...

  24. you don't need no steenking ballot on Investor Tim Draper Pushes Ballot Measure Splitting California Into 3 States (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    San Andreas will do all the work for you.

  25. Re:Or maybe we could cut out the middle man here.. on 'High Definition Vinyl' Is Coming As Early As Next Year (pitchfork.com) · · Score: 1

    Minidisc was viable, and very durable. DRM killed it.