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  1. I expect the real answer is much simpler. Trump is entertaining. Trump is controversial. Trump pulls in ratings. So they cover Trump.

  2. Re:That's not how phone numbers are used. on Are Phone Numbers Doomed To Die? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not how phone numbers have been used in a long time. That's why we have all-digit-dialing instead of calling ENglewood 3-1234.

  3. I believe we have another example of... on Are Phone Numbers Doomed To Die? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1
  4. Re:It must be said... on Teen Hacks US Intelligence Chief's Personal Accounts (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    How soon they forget. Actually, it's Johnny Carson and Jack Webb.

  5. I guess I'm not a consumer. I'm okay with that.

  6. Re:Grease can be used as fuel. Why would you dump on ATF Puts Up Surveillance Cameras Around Seattle ... To Catch Illegal Grease Dump (muckrock.com) · · Score: 2

    The nitroglycerin can also be used to make nitrocellulose, and from there to smokeless powder, putting it squarely in the ATF's purview.

  7. Re:The slippery slope becomes (near) literal on ATF Puts Up Surveillance Cameras Around Seattle ... To Catch Illegal Grease Dump (muckrock.com) · · Score: 2

    Lipid terrorism here

    You meant it as a joke, but in fact, it's not. Kitchen grease can be used to make nitroglycerin. Granted, you need to have nitric acid too, and that's probably easier to track.

  8. Re:What the hell is wrong with our politicians? on Marco Rubio: We Need To Add To US Surveillance Programs (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't heard anything about this. Link?

    Gladly. Anybody who hasn't heard about this needs to. http://www.joemygod.com/2015/1...

  9. Re:True artist on David Bowie Dies At Age 69 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There were plenty of pop-acts in every era that Bowie overlapped with, we simply don't remember many of them.

    That's the point. We don't remember them. We do remember him. There's a reason for that.

  10. Re:Crazy talk on Marco Rubio: We Need To Add To US Surveillance Programs (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Miss information? Jeez, she seemed so nice on Hysteria!, too.

  11. Re:What the hell is wrong with our politicians? on Marco Rubio: We Need To Add To US Surveillance Programs (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    If Cruz is a scary blowhard asshole, Trump is a scarier blowhard asshole. When your campaign rallies start employing brownshirt tactics like beating up protestors, you have become legitimately very scary.

  12. Re:Not going to work... on Sony Attempts To Trademark "Let's Play" · · Score: 2

    Trademarks are specific to the thing (and the brand) you're promoting under the mark. "Just do it" wasn't generally used for shoes before. "I'm lovin' it" wasn't generally used for fast food before. I could market a line of shoes with "I'm lovin' it" and McDonald's could not win a case against me as long as I could establish I was not creating confusion with the McDonald's brand. If you're referring to the infamous "Enjoy Cocaine" case, in that case they were not trademarking just "Enjoy", but rather suing on the resemblance to "Enjoy Coca-Cola", including using Coke's font, as a deliberate attempt to link to Coca-Cola.

    But "Let's Play" is already established as a generic term in video games. Sony can't trademark it any more than Nike could trademark "Shoelaces".

  13. Re:It's made of Maple and stained golden oak on German Carpenter's Testicluar Valve Could Mean An On/Off Switch For Sperm · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where do you get "steal wool" from?

    Contraband sheep.

  14. Re:People are People [Re:very resillient for a lab on IBM Union Calls It Quits (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Enforcement and regulation may be needed to tame organizations if they take advantage of lack of enforcement or regulation.

    Of course, that enforcement and regulation will need an organization to be done. I guess that organization will be amazingly free of all these problems.

    They are made up of the same stuff: humans who follow human nature and who need some degree of governance and oversight.

    Provided by...whom? Quis custodiet ispos custodes?

  15. Re:Mental Illness Reporting on Obama Orders Feds To Study Smart Gun Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Any organization or individual bound by HIPAA

    Incorrect. Quoting from Health and Human Services own website on HIPAA: "The HIPAA Privacy Rule establishes national standards to protect individualsâ(TM) medical records and other personal health information and applies to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and those health care providers that conduct certain health care transactions electronically."

    HIPAA is no joke and it's taken very seriously in the healthcare industry because the government can and does levy massive fines every year for violations.

    Indeed they do, and those in the health care industry do take it very seriously, as it applies to them. But not to those outside it.

  16. Re:Mental Illness Reporting on Obama Orders Feds To Study Smart Gun Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    How could a federal database of people with mental health problems (instantly searchable during the background check) possibly be in compliance with HIPAA?

    First off, thanks for getting the acronym right. Second, the answer is "easily". Only doctors, hospitals and similar medical firms, and insurers, and their agents, are bound by HIPAA. It doesn't constrain actions in tracking and sharing health information by anybody else.

  17. Re:The brief puff of black soot... on The Dirty Truth About 'Clean Diesel' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Nitrous Oxide lives in the atmosphere for 114 years. Do your research.

    Do your own. Nitrous Oxide (N2O) is different from Nitrogen Oxides (NOX) and is not part of engine emissions.

  18. Re: Well deserved. on Kid Racks Up $5,900 Bill Playing Jurassic World On Dad's iPad (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    How about Fallout 4? Halo 5? Super Mario Maker? Splatoon? (yes, the NIntendo stuff hooks into Amiibos, but they're hardly necessary)

  19. Re:Unlikely that everyone will be on IPV6 by 2020 on IPv6 Turns 20, Reaches 10 Percent Deployment (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Many or even most will move on, but once the pressure for new IPV4 addresses is off, the rest will probably keep them. I suspect that by 2020, between 30% and 60% of users will be IPV4-only.

    Ignoring the (quite literal) network effects. When the tipping point comes, it'll go to 100% IPv6 very quickly. Everybody will be on IPv6 because that's where everybody else is. Nobody will want to be cut off by being on an IPv4-only address.

  20. Re:The brief puff of black soot... on The Dirty Truth About 'Clean Diesel' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you serious? Yes, NoX is affected by sunlight - it creates ozone. Very unhealthy.

    The OP's point is not that NOx isn't noxious, it's that it isn't persistent. The ozone created by sunlight on NOX is unstable and breaks down quickly. If we stopped pumping NOx into the atmosphere, it and its byproducts would all be gone in a matter of weeks. The same can't be said of CO2.

  21. Re:the difference between Jarvis & Zuckerbot.. on Zuckerberg To Build Personal AI For Help At Home and Work (facebook.com) · · Score: 1

    I know Zuckerberg started Facebook - but does he have any actual coding skills?

    Yes, actually. He not only started Facebook, he wrote the initial version of it himself.

  22. Re:Jarvis or Siri? on Zuckerberg To Build Personal AI For Help At Home and Work (facebook.com) · · Score: 1

    having 'the help' actually embedded in your home is a bit weird and intrusive unless they are amazingly skilled at being deferential and you are somewhat used to the idea

    It's called "having a household staff" and historically has been the standard for those rich enough to have servants.

  23. Re: Well deserved. on Kid Racks Up $5,900 Bill Playing Jurassic World On Dad's iPad (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't even really play any games any more because they ALL bring you to a point where it's "pay or fail".

    I can still find video games that don't do that. Not on my phone, though. Even on consoles and PCs you see this model, but there are still plenty that don't, so it's easy to avoid. The answer isn't "don't game" but rather "don't game on your phone."

  24. "An anonymous reader writes..." on When Hacking Vigilantism Infringes On Free Speech (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, the irony.

  25. Re:Also on Allegations of Data Manipulation At Theranos (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Theranos: The Hands Of Fate

    "I take care of the place while the Mistress is away. It'll be dark soon."