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  1. dealing with bots. on Senate Democrat Floats First Serious Proposals For Regulating Big Tech (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Sites have lots of ways of detecting bots.
    It's gone far past the old (a couple years old) systems.
    Anything that fails gets labeled a bot. There needs to be allowance for people to get their bot status rescinded, but if they don't they might as well be bots.
    Unlike the US constitution, you're a bot until you prove otherwise.
    prefixing posts with "Posted by a bot:" will rip the teeth out of most fake news, and other BS.

  2. Junk mail filters work on Facebook Will Harass You Mercilessly If You Try To Break Up (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't added facebook to my filters, they don't both me that much, but I've consigned several sites to my dust bin.
    Thunderbird has levels of filtering: junk mail folder, or straight to the trash.

  3. Absolutely! on Should Developers Abandon Agile? (ronjeffries.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because most don't actually do agile.

  4. The developers weren't consulted?
    What a childish, idiotic, egocentric attitude. This is business. Github is not a nonprofit.
    From the beginning, Git support of MS has been poor. I'd say this is well deserved.

  5. not really new news on Hot-Air Dryers Suck In Nasty Bathroom Bacteria, Shoot Them At Your Hands (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Various studies have been published on this in the past few years.
    The "sanitary" air driers are anything but. The more powerful they are the worse they are.
    A little wasteful, but paper is better. If people wouldn't use far more than is necessary to dry their hands it would be less wasteful.
    The small waste of paper is far less that one what's used to treat one person's infection.
    Pay me now, or pay me later. Paper towels are less wasteful.

  6. Re:Jeez Louise, give it up already :{ on Motorola's Modular Smartphone Dream Is Too Young To Die (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL! dead on!

  7. Re:USA always using protectionist practices on US Calls Broadcom's Bid For Qualcomm a National Security Risk (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you read why?
    This isn't protectionist. It's national defense. MILITARY!
    DOD over rules all

  8. This is news? on Apple Moves To Store iCloud Keys in China, Raising Human Rights Fears (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The move was announced months ago. "to comply with new laws there."
    Apple could either play or go home, they decided to play.

  9. Re:What did you expect? on Trump Administration Wants To Fire 248 Forecasters At the National Weather Service (fortune.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There are two sides to military waste.
    The bloated programs that are kept alive by both military bureaucracy and congressional political issues.
    And then there's absolute waste. It takes an act of congress for the military to buy almost anything, literally. So, instead of buying, they lease. The leases cost far more. Sometimes far, far more. But, they can schedule the payments so congressional action is not required. The military is a business, and this is no way to run a business. Congress is the board of directors, and they need to be taken out of the day to day decision system. No successful business can run that way.

  10. Re:What did you expect? on Trump Administration Wants To Fire 248 Forecasters At the National Weather Service (fortune.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The Indian's have had nukes for over a decade.
    Be more worried about ISIS.

  11. cherry picking data on 'Sinking' Pacific Nation Tuvalu Is Actually Getting Bigger (phys.org) · · Score: 0

    Build up in sediment beaches is not sustainable land.
    Literally here today, gone tomorrow (well sometime soon in the future).
    Totally bogus conclusion.
    This is a new twist on climate denial.
    If the authors are so confident they should be buying land in Tuvalu, everyone there is trying to sell to get out.
    the story is BULL$#1T

  12. Re:Not asteroids, nukes, or climatastrophy? on AIs Have Replaced Aliens As Our Greatest World Destroying Fear (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I personally find AI and aliens to be much less threatening than physical destruction... but truly the most fearsome of all is FUNDAMENTALISM in any of its forms.

    Amen ;-)

  13. Long before any of the above mentioned.
    The book, it's sequels, and a movie.
    book by Dennis Feltham Jones, 1966
    movie 1970

    Not a new theme.

  14. Never going to happen.
    I wouldn't be surprised if it's illegal.

  15. Re:"Publisher Says" ... nuff said on Cloudflare Is Liable For Pirate Sites and Has No Safe Harbor, Publisher Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    You beat me to the punch.
    The story is total BULL$#1T.

    Amusing reference to Nunes. His "blockbuster" turned out to be toilet fish.

  16. The sad state of manufacturers on OnePlus Is Again Sending User Data To a Chinese Company Without User Consent (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    I was looking at a OnePlus phone when I bought a different one. They have good features at a very good price. But I prefer dealing with a non Chinese company that has their phones made in China, than a Chinese company. I am so glad of the choice I made.
    No, I didn't buy an Apple, Samsung, Google, or Motorola. I bought a different well made off brand, and will not advertise for them.

  17. Time to sue on iPhone X Purchase Leads To Police, Battering Ram, and Handcuffs (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wrongful arrest, and a laundry list of other complaints,
    This is SO blatant, it will settle out of court, for a lot of money.

  18. This is totally theoretical. There is no implementation on silicon.
    Until someone does this on a chip it's meaningless, and as others have pointed out, the solution isn't new.

  19. It's changed software developement massively on 20 Years Later, Has Open Source Changed the World? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Boost, openSSL, GDAL, POCO, the list goes on
    tools of the trade
    know them, use them, or your carrier is toast.

  20. BULL$#1T and misdirection on A Popular Sugar Additive May Have Fueled the Spread of Two Superbugs (latimes.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Trehalose may have contributed to the problem, just maybe.
    Saying overuse of antibiotics is not the primary cause is a raft of shit.
    The author obviously has an agenda.
    the article isn't worth the electricity it cost to light up my screen.

  21. It's called VM now on Trump Administration Calls For Government IT To Adopt Cloud Services (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Too late.
    Perhaps you've noticed how many things are served by AWS, or cloudflare
    They're already on your lawn.
    And, you've probably let them on.

  22. Brought to you by congress on Trump Administration Calls For Government IT To Adopt Cloud Services (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    US government procurement is a NIGHTMARE!
    It literally takes an act of congress to buy almost anything.
    By moving it to cloud service. It's a service contract.
    What Amazon, or whoever else gets certified, does to maintain the service is their problem (expense).
    Congress has painted the US government into a corner. Since the government can't buy anything, service contracts are the only way.
    Regardless of my other opinions of trump, this is a reasonable business decision.

  23. Re:Lying Liars Lie, Film at 11. on FCC Chair Ajit Pai Falsely Claims Killing Net Neutrality Will Help Sick and Disabled People (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Every civilized country on earth has national health care.
    Except the US.
    The US ranks below Costa Rica in health care.
    We're about to fall below Cuba.

    your other claims are specious.

  24. Re:Lying Liars Lie, Film at 11. on FCC Chair Ajit Pai Falsely Claims Killing Net Neutrality Will Help Sick and Disabled People (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually it has been a front page story on CNN, NSNBC, others.
    It doesn't help that hardly anyone actually reads the real news now.
    There has been tons of outrage. It's falling on deaf ears.
    This is the era of Trump. Public opinion doesn't matter. Truth doesn't matter.
    It's an agenda.
    The only hope is that it will be reversed, as soon as possible.

  25. ROFL
    too bad I used my mod points today.
    I'd mod you up for funny.