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  1. Since the lawsuit will be filed by the federal government (plus, ADA rights can't be signed away), that seems a trivial objection. And the feds need all the good publicity they can get right now.

    Maybe two boat payments!

  2. In fact, in some circumstances, when minors are involved, one can be required to go to the police with nothing but that claim, and face jail time if they don't. Teachers, for example, face brutal punishment if they ignore signs that student is being molested. Doctors, too. Even if the student themselves doesn't actually say something.

  3. My attorney is glad to hear it. He's an expert in ADA compliance, and he has a boat payment to make.

  4. Re:Hide out in the Ecuadorian embassy on A Hacker 'Hero' Has Been Banned From Cyber Conferences After Decades Of Inappropriate Behavior (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Those who idolized him before mostly idolize him even more now. Those that see that as a problem already hated him.

  5. Re:Lies, damn lies, statistics on Companies Wake Up To the Problem of Bullies At Work (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    For example, if you go into work every day and have your boss yell at you saying that you are a f***ing idiot and can't do anything right, I would classify that boss as a bully.

    Unless, of course, you are an idiot, having sex, and can't do anything right (including the sex you're having).

    Aside from that unlikely circumstance, yeah, this guy's a delicate snowflake incapable of functioning as an adult.

  6. Re:Lies, damn lies, statistics on Companies Wake Up To the Problem of Bullies At Work (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I gotta agree. You can get whatever results you want if you redefine words enough.

    "100% of those surveyed reported being paid their wages, which Prof Dumbass defined as child pornography."

  7. Re:Step 0 on Elon Musk's 'Scientific Method' (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    His genius is in securing the subsidies, which does require some serious smarts to keep it going as long as he has across as many industries as he has, and money from investors, which requires little more than a glib smile and a firm handshake.

  8. Re:Step 0 on Elon Musk's 'Scientific Method' (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    And billions in taxpayer subsidies. The only thing he's ever done without subsidies was PayPal, and even that required a certain flexibility on the part of financial regulators.

  9. Step 0 on Elon Musk's 'Scientific Method' (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Get billions of dollars in taxpayer funded subsidies for something that nobody in their right mind would invest their own money in.

  10. Re:too many streaming platforms on Amazon Is Making a 'Lord of the Rings' Prequel Series (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    And when that happens (and it will), I'll still have seen nothing.

    Because I won't be bothering.

  11. Re:Silmarillion? on Amazon Is Making a 'Lord of the Rings' Prequel Series (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Personally, I'd rather see "Gollum: The Early Years." When he's hiding in the case, with no light. Hopefully, while he's going through a mute phase.

    Because the black filler between the commercials sounds more interesting than this.

  12. " . . . its system will block the upload process."

    Given that revenge porn is a crime in an increasing number of places, shouldn't be include "and notify the police of the attempt"? Does it even notify the user of the attempt?

    What are the terms of service on these uploads? Do they include the clause that says "and we can change these TOS any time we want, to anything we want, and there's nothing you can do about it"?

  13. Clinical paranoia is often treatable.

    You aren't that important.

  14. So all highlights are biased on Jimmy Wales' WikiTribune is Already Biased (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    And he supports this claim by providing highlights. Thus proving himself biased, resulting in his being sucked into the Recursion Vortex forever.

    Move along, people, there's nothing to see here.

  15. Re:New house style? on Amazon Key Puts Deliveries -- And Delivery People -- In Your Home (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The apartment complex I live in has four fairly large mailboxes for packages. The mailman just leave they key in your mailbox. I would imagine it wouldn't be all that hard to adapt such a system to other delivery services, too.

    On the other hand, it's a hell of a lot easier to just have stuff delivered to work. Like everybody else that works here does.

    This is (for me, at any rate) the most pointless service Amazon has ever come up with.

  16. Appraisals are a industry older than any of these luxury brands,

    So are bribes, extortion and threats. Who you going to believe, some buy the eBay hired as an authenticator whose credentials rely on their claim that the manufacturer says they're competent, or the manufacturer, saying they're not?

  17. And next year on eBay Launches Authentication Service To Combat Counterfeit High-End Goods (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    we'll be hearing how some manufacturers are using this system to block sale of used goods.

  18. Gee, do I want to be sent to a Siberian Gulag or a Nazi concentration camp?

    In some movies, there are no good guys, or even so-so guys. There are only evil masterminds intent on genetically modifying human beings into the perfect slaves.

  19. Re:I'd be a lot more impressed on Google Announces $1 Billion Job Training and Education Program (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    He also does regular podcasts call "The Way I Heard It", and has an internet video thing called "Returning the Favor." But the foundation is a big deal to him, and deserving of a lot more support than it gets.

  20. I'd be a lot more impressed on Google Announces $1 Billion Job Training and Education Program (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    if they donated 1% of that to the Mike Rowe Foundation.

  21. Re:What Could Possibly Go Wrong?! on Amazon Is Reportedly Building a Doorbell That Lets Drivers Into Your House (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The apartment complex I live in has boxes for package deliveries. They drop the key in your mail box. Not available to Amazon, though.

  22. Re:What Could Possibly Go Wrong?! on Amazon Is Reportedly Building a Doorbell That Lets Drivers Into Your House (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's easier to have stuff shipped to here at work. I don't know of a single coworker who has stuff delivered to their home.

  23. Re:What other OS can we use instead? on Windows 10 Update Removes Windows Media Player (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    If the TSA is running Windows, it shouldn't be a problem at all.

  24. Re:What other OS can we use instead? on Windows 10 Update Removes Windows Media Player (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    But I can run the software I need to run to, say, do my job, so I can have a place to live, and food to eat.

    Given the choice between being Microsoft's bitch, and being cold, hungry and living in a cardboard box, I think I'll take being Microsoft's bitch.

    Enjoy your cardboard box.

  25. Re:The problem isn't Russian ads influencing elect on Google Uncovers Russia-Bought Ads On YouTube, Gmail and Other Platforms (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They're sore losers because they lost, and they're sore about it. The only reasons the Republicans aren't sore losers right now is that they didn't lose. Had they lost, they'd be the sore losers, and they'd want to change who gets to manipulate the voters instead.

    There's no difference between Republicans and Democrats any more. They only thing any of them want is to go through our pockets for loose change they missed last time.