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  1. Re:I don't want software making decisions for me.. on Firefox To Block Auto-Playing Audio Starting March 2019 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure the built-in audio mixer in Win10 lets you control volume per app.

  2. Re:How do they "force" you to unlock your phone? on Highest Court In Indiana Set To Decide If You Can Be Forced To Unlock Your Phone (eff.org) · · Score: 2

    The legal term is "compel" not "force".
    It basically amounts to: "Do this thing or face legal trouble".

  3. There are already several cases where you can be compelled to to divulge your passwords or crypto keys:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  4. Re:Calm down and think on The Robot Revolution Will Be Worse For Men · · Score: 1

    you seem angry, need a hug?

  5. Re: Yeah, dominante male professions on The Robot Revolution Will Be Worse For Men · · Score: 1

    Here in Asia, I just watched a dozen 46 floor highrises go up in 10 months. No robots or exotic automation. Just lots & lots of workers, some good engineers, and - most importantly - the political will for it to happen.

    Also loads of corruption, inhumane working conditions and a disrgard for workplace safety.

    but apart from that, good going!

  6. Re:"for once" on The Robot Revolution Will Be Worse For Men · · Score: 1

    For once, bwcause, you know, women are banned from those jobs or something.

    I'm 40 and never once in my lifetime has it been illegal for a woman to do a job in my lifetime. At 40 I'm at the age where whatever experience I've had is AVERAGE.

    Stop pretending it's 1950.

    Several jobs in the military are still exclusively male, by law.

  7. Re:Addendum = SELF-ACTUALIZATION... apk on Twitter Might Punish Users Who Tweet 'Learn To Code' At Laid-Off Journalists (reason.com) · · Score: 1

    So. Changed your meds again, did they?

  8. Because he apparently doesn't like dudes who work with Communication & Information Systems.

  9. Re: baaa baaaaa baaaaaa on Record Number of Americans See Climate Change As a Current Threat (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Every older measurement technique is laced with subjectivity.

    Incorrect, Anonymous Coward. By examining annual layers in ice cores, as well as studying the decay of Uranium from U238 to U234 we can very accurately measure the length of past ice ages.

    There have been very rapid changes in the past that match today.

    Also incorrect - The current rate of change is unprecedented.

    I'm overwhelmed by the huge amounts of verifiable evidence to support your claims you guys are both posting.

  10. Re:Headline should be : on Record Number of Americans See Climate Change As a Current Threat (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    how edgy

  11. Re: Revenge against Hillary on Julian Assange Launches Legal Challenge Against Trump Administration (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    And you didn't answer the question.
    How does it affect you which gender someone wants to live as and be treated as?

  12. Re: Revenge against Hillary on Julian Assange Launches Legal Challenge Against Trump Administration (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I very clear;y and specifically said biological sex because you dim bulbs have destroyed the meaning of the word gender. Since I will not debate your corruption of once well understood terms I intentionally used terms you can not refute.

    Chelsea Manning is a guy. His biological sex is male. No amount of surgery, hormones or clothing can change his biological sex.

    I am not squeamish. That is you projecting. I am capable of telling a penis from a vagina. I can also easily tell when someone is having severe psychological misfunction and needs psychological help, not surgery and hormones.

    The suicide rate for post operation trans is off the charts. If being the other faux-gender was what they really needed and would fix all their problems why do they suicide at such a high rate? Way above any other group.

    Hint: it is because they are fucking broken and their brokenness comes out as gender confusion but they are still broken afterwards and kill the selves because what they thought was a magic bullet turned out to be just a bullet. Bang. Dead trans.

    You seem to care a lot about something that doesn't affect you in the slightest.
    If some person born as a male wants to live and be treated as a female, how does that affect you in the least?

  13. Elaborate plz

  14. Re:Reminds me of an 18 year old on Happy 18th Birthday, Wikipedia (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    uBlock's element zapper takes care of the banner no problem,

  15. Yeah have fun getting raped by the FCC about that.

  16. Re:Doesn't happen in the UK either. on AT&T, Dish, Comcast All Raising Cable TV Rates To Counter Cord-Cutting (dallasnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I feel like you are referencing something, but I don't get it.

  17. Re:Doesn't happen in the UK either. on AT&T, Dish, Comcast All Raising Cable TV Rates To Counter Cord-Cutting (dallasnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't always matter, at least in this country you pay a "media license", which means just the fact you have access to the internet (or even just own a radio) means you gotta pay up; because you are technically paying for the content you could potentially recieve, and since the national TV station here also streams a lot of content (Pretty much all the content produced by themselves) you gotta pay up just for having internet.

  18. Re:For the price and quality of cable on AT&T, Dish, Comcast All Raising Cable TV Rates To Counter Cord-Cutting (dallasnews.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a lot of good content free over the air. We have a Tivo and record most of what we watch to skip over commercials we're not interested in. There is no way to degrade that.

    Sure there is, all TV now a days is digital. So encode the TV signal in a proprietary format (to prevent clever opensource solutions), make it part of your proprietary format that commercial blocks are marked as unskippable by the TiVo.

  19. Re:Doesn't happen in the UK either. on AT&T, Dish, Comcast All Raising Cable TV Rates To Counter Cord-Cutting (dallasnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Those vans actually exist (Or existed anyway), old school picture tube TVs put out a lot of RF and you could pretty uniquely identify the type of radiation as coming from a TV.

    Accuracy was no higher than the antenna on your scanning gear, so if you were checking single family houses you could pretty easily scan to see if the family had a TV running. For large multi-family housing estates, you were pretty much boned though, best you could do was come to a conclusion that one of the several appartments in your reception cone had a TV, which is not very useful if you wanna send out invoices.

    Also, I doubt the technique would work with modern flatscreen TVs since those don't have large RF sources. Although with most modern "Smart "TVs having WiFi and Bluetooth support (No idea why, but they do), you could just pull MAC addresses out of the air and even more uniquely identify people's TVs.

  20. Insightful joke on Monarch Butterfly Numbers Plummet 86 Percent In California (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Something something The Venture Bros

  21. ...yes. What else would they be doing? Do you expect an AI system to somehow involve the researchers imbuing a computer with some kind of magical electronic soul?

  22. Oh I see, you're one of those guys.

  23. Re:Apologies from NH on The FTC Says It Will Investigate Loot Boxes (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    you're so adorably delusional.

  24. Re: Obligatory "YouTube has ads?" on YouTube is Testing Having Two Skippable Ads Back-To-Back (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's my network, I'm in charge of which bits land on my network.

  25. Re: The adults of this civilization on Man Pleads Guilty To Swatting Attack That Led To Death of Kansas Man (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative