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  1. Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outr on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The only thing remotely proven about Kavanagh is he went to keggers in HS and college.

    And that his behaviour in the face of questioning is unbecoming of a supreme court judge.
    And that not knowing the difference between being "unable to recall" and "denying" means he actually shouldn't be a judge at all, anywhere.

  2. Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outr on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    As far as I'm aware it's not proven yet.

    Irrelevant. If his response to the situation has shown one thing it's that he's not fit to hold the highest position of the supreme court. Hell his actions in the court: Refusing to answer questions, verbally attacking senators, purposely misconstruing the wording of testimonies generally makes him unfit to be a judge, period.

    That he come across as a guilty party madly failing to hide his guilt be it founded or not is merely a bonus.

  3. Re:Saccharin is made from coal on Artificial Sweeteners Are Toxic To Digestive Gut Bacteria, Study Finds (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The artificial sweeterner, Saccharin, is made from coal.

    You're made up of mostly carbon. The shit that is killing the world! Don't even get me started on your radioactivity.

  4. Ironically there won't be balance in the force unless she dies.

  5. Kavanaugh has enough black marks against him that any other President in history would have withdrawn the appointment and found someone less controversial.

    Let's assume for a moment that Kavanaugh is innocent and that all the stories about him is completely fabricated, he still should have his nomination withdrawn.

    Ignoring senators questions, purposefully not answering or dodging questions, misrepresenting witness testimony, and his verbal political attack all make him unfit to sit on many courts, much less on the supreme court.

  6. Re:What about other options on Wide-Scale US Wind Power Could Cause Significant Warming, Study Says (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    You are counting people who died in coal mines?
    Why don't you count the people who died in iron ore mines? Wow, because then you would need to think about "steel", and how much "steel" is used in a nuke.
    And from there we have to count down every aspect in the industrial chain and craftsmen chain.

    Yes. The studies he has clearly read took into account the entire lifecycle cost of the fuel including construction and raw materials needed for fueling and processing.

    E.g. I doubt more than a hand full of idiots (who rejected safety regulations) died in Germany due to installing of roof top solar.

    You can take a handful and multiply it by every year, then multiply it by every country and you'll be there. But I like the way you complain about people who ignored safety regulations. Let's apply your standard to the nuclear industry: Chernobyl isn't a nuclear incident, it's just a handful of people who ignored safety regulations.

    So: how many people die per year in the maintaining and fueling and mining for nuklear power plants? Easy answer: you have no idea!

    Actually he seems to. You on the other hand don't. The death rate for workers in the nuclear industry is the lowest of any of the energy generation industry. The death rate of workers in uranium mines is likewise incredibly low and reallyhelped by the fuckton more power you get out of your mining effort reducing the risk of death and injury by reducing the actual work required.

    _My own safety_ is absolutely not touched by any accident in a mine

    Mine is not touched by a nuclear power plant far off in a distance. You're a truly stupid and irrational idiot.

    If one of them goes boom, especially one of the Belgium ones, e.g. Tiange close to Aachen, then we have to evacuate up to 50million people!!!

    LOL. Get a grip.

    What do you think what kind of impact that will have on the harvests in Europe?

    No seriously get a grip, you're starting to spurt irrational garbage nothing to do with your original claim, especially since you're now ignoring global warming.

    No please call me irrational again, you stupid *******!

    Shit man, AGAIN? Fine. For the 3rd time, You're irrational. And clearly irritable, easily triggered, and don't know how write a sentence since you copied and pasted your password in as the last word.

  7. Re:What about other options on Wide-Scale US Wind Power Could Cause Significant Warming, Study Says (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Man if you're afraid of the outcome of any of those incidents (save for the frist two) then I suggest you never look at any industry ... ever. The number of incidents of that significance would give you a heart attack.

  8. Re: The methane "is then liquified and used to fue on Company That Sucks CO2 From Air Announces a New Methane-Producing Plant (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Planes need the kerosene, and you get a very specific amount of kerosene from oil that doesn't vary to a significant degree between various oils.

    That is wrong on so many levels and ignores the fact that refineries have been doing more than simply distilling fuel for the best part of 20 years. The vast majority of jet fuel these days is created from heavier fractions through hydrocracking. The pre-treating requirements to protect the catalysts in this process results in a cleaner nicer kero than you would get from straight run distilliation anyway.

    You can create jet fuel from pretty much every cracking process though some processes result in a fuel that needs to be further treated ... just as plain old distillation does.

  9. Re:Why should anybody be surprised? on Apple's New Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repair On New MacBook Pros (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    You know what they say about any product named "pro?" It's not for pros

    And Microsoft says Hold My Beer

  10. Re:conspiracy whack jobs seem to run this place no on A Shadowy Op-Ed Campaign Is Now Smearing SpaceX In Space Cities (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You're so focused on the syndication aspect that you missed the fact that the reference in the by-line claims not to have written any of the content. You're complaining about the wrong conspiracy.

  11. You're not a data point in a large set and being singled out and sold to directly, at the same time. It's 100% the latter.

    Not at all. I'm being sold out as a collective group. There's so far been no evidence anywhere that advertising services the likes of Google provide access to a single user. There is however plenty of examples of this practice from the likes of Facebook and other companies that sell data directly rather than just access to aggregated eyeballs in a dataset.

    If you're fine being advertised to

    I will always be advertised to. The collection of data only changes how targetted that advertisement is, and again that happens on aggregated datasets.

    are you also fine having non-advertisers, anyone that wants to rent/buy/borrow/steal that data seeing it?

    Define "it". Companies which collect information in a database and sell the database I'm not fine with. That is selling the person, and NOT being a datapoint in some set. It is the difference between Facebook saying "here's the user profile for thegarbz", and Google saying "send me the advert I'll show it on your behalf to all people who were in Paris over Christmas"

    You might not care about what you do now, but let's say weed is outlawed in your state and the guvmunt suddenly has use for all that location data you've been sending them for the past few years. By putting 100% of your personal data online for the taking, you are pre-selling out your civil liberties. So have fun with that.

    If I lived in a 3rd world shithole that retrospectively applied laws and then persecuted people in a witchhunt then I have far bigger problems than Google knowing I visted some dude on a street corner.

    Also why is it all or nothing with you people. Even the dumbest of idiots don't put 100% of their data online.

  12. Re: Buy into our business model. on Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Giving Up Your Data For Better Services is 'a Bunch of Bunk' (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    No I cannot.

    You cannot. I can. Google has a lovely form you can fill out to remove your presence under the EU laws.

  13. Then Google must give it away for free, because the information is leaking out.

    [Citation required]

  14. Re: Buy into our business model. on Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Giving Up Your Data For Better Services is 'a Bunch of Bunk' (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty impressive word-twisting

    Not at all. It's a very important distinction. The kind of distinction that makes a person want to use a VPN when on the Verizon network so their data isn't "sold", but has not problem having locations services enabled on Android.

    Selling data and aggregating it to sell access have two incredibly different privacy implications. It's why I have different levels of trust for the siphon of Google vs the telemetry of Microsoft.

    However, you're likely quite wrong not only in spirit; the odds that Google hasn't sold raw metadata to various governments is less than nill.

    Who cares, the FBI is watching you masturbate through your webcam right now. And I'm providing just as much evidence to this statement as you are.

  15. All parties involved have it in their vested interest to deny this.

    Bloomberg have vested interest to provide more than a computer animation too.

  16. China been doing this for years and it's only just coming out.

    China has been allegedly doing this for years, and unless Bloomberg actually provide some concrete sources nothing has changed in all these years, it's still only alleged.

  17. Re:We need more drones taken down on Senate Passes Bill That Lets the Government Destroy Private Drones (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Typical American. The answer is always a gun.

  18. Re: Yeah, I am a trump supporter... on New Yorkers Sue Trump and FEMA To Stop Presidential Alert (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Democrats are FAR worse.

    The other side always is.

  19. Re:Meanwhile Apple gets $9B/year from Google on Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Giving Up Your Data For Better Services is 'a Bunch of Bunk' (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not out of the ordinary. Apple maps gets its traffic data source from third parties too which among other things collect it by crowd sourcing location information.

    In other news, my hands are clean. I only paid to have that person killed. I didn't do it myself.

  20. I'm glad to be a datapoint. Being a person opens me up to being singled out and sold directly. Being a datapoint in some large set is quite irrelevant to me on a personal level.

  21. This is just it. Google provide services using a wealth of collected and monitored data. Apple can sit on it's high horse while offering you features gained from this data provided by third parties all while claiming that you don't need to give up your privacy.

    Or maybe people believe that Apple Maps just knows traffic due to Inference Engine 2.0 or some shit like that.

  22. Re:Buy into our business model. on Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Giving Up Your Data For Better Services is 'a Bunch of Bunk' (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    but your data is sold to compensate for it.

    No it's not. Google has never sold anyone's data, much like Coke doesn't sell recipes for fizzy drinks and Apple doesn't sell engineering drawings.

    Google sells access. Access to your eyeballs and access to aggregated statistics.

  23. If the car is fully autonomous without a monitoring driver, each of those disengament incidents would translate into an accident.

    Not necessarily. Disengagement can occur when someone see something unexpected. For example, the case of the flipped Uber the driver disagreeing with the car and causing the disengagement directly led to the accident. I also can't find the source of it, but I remember seeing a report a while back talking about things like disengagement being required when the car suddenly stopped unexpectedly and the driver took over until the situation could be analysed... which happened a few seconds later when a cyclist shot out of the blind spot that the LiDAR could none the less see.

    Disengagements are a concern, but saying that without the driver they would translate to an accident is completely false.

  24. Re:Where's the problem in this case? on Police Use Fitbit Data To Charge 90-Year-Old Man In Stepdaughter's Killing (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    My beer glass wasn't listed as a crime fighting device either, but that didn't stop them lifting my prints from the glass disproving my story that I had never been at the house.

    *Note did not happen, but just reitterating your comment that the tech here is not special in any way.

  25. Re:Portable Docked Mode on Nintendo Plans New Version of Switch Next Year (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Right now, when in portable mode, the SoC is underclocked in order to improve battery life, but it renders at 720p (for the 720p screen) and framerate is noticeably worse in many games (Doom and Xenoblade at least).

    That is not universal and highly dependent on the game. Specifically the new release of Cities Skylines quickly becomes unplayable while docked, but actually performs okay in portable mode thanks to the reduced graphics requirements.