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  1. Re:This is good on Judge Orders Fairfax Police To Stop Collecting Data From License Plate Readers (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Actually it is not. They have had those since 2011. Here is an old article that gives details on how well they worked:

    "From February 2010 through the end of 2012, license plate readers helped the state police recover 529 stolen vehicles and 751 stolen license plates and arrest 229 wanted persons, Geller said. In one recent high-profile case, she said, the readers were used in investigating a string of arsons on the Eastern Shore last year."

    https://www.nbcsandiego.com/ne...

    These things were awesome and stopped a lot of crime in a short time.

    I am all against facial recognition. But cars aren't people. And driving is a privilege, not a right.

  2. Nice and all but... on Beto O'Rourke's Secret Membership in America's Oldest Hacking Group (reuters.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Robert can't hide he is a CIS white male no matter what nickname he invents for himself. And those are at the bottom in the Oppression Olympics which the Democrats use to pick candidates. Maybe if there were no women or "person of color" running he might have a chance. Slashdot liking him only makes it worse as it is heavily populated by more CIS white males.

  3. That actually sounds interesting on Gab Wants To Add a Comments Section To Everything On the Internet (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't say I've been drawn to Gab (or Twitter for that matter) but having the ability to comment on any site without having to worry about the site censoring it sounds rather awesome actually.

  4. Same thing happened with Netflix and Amy Schumer's show. In that case Netflix removed all show ratings. That these establishments have to retreat from user input keeps making the "trolls" more powerful. Worse yet, removing user interactivity from your online offering is not a good idea generally. Since that Netflix change I stopped watching Netflix though its recommended queue. It quickly started to suck. But watching far less Netflix was not bad for me overall. Hell, I might even cancel my subscription I watch it so little now. Less TV and more money in my pocket.

  5. These aren't REVIEWS. Please stop saying that on 'Captain Marvel' Review Bombers Have Dropped Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating To Lowest Among MCU Movies (comicbook.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    These are "do you plan to see the movie" responses. Actual public movie reviews are only available AFTER the movie is released in theaters. Boring as hell movie trailers and sexist marketing hurt this movie. I imagine this movie will still do well but it will cast a shadow on future Marvel movies (similar to what Last Jedi did to the Solo movie). Someone at Disney needs fired for this mess.

  6. Re:I have a question.... on A Hole Opens Up Under Antarctic Glacier -- Big Enough To Fit Two-Thirds of Manhattan (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why didn't it melt across the expanse instead of just the center? This seems more like geothermal heat, as it is more directed. Climate change heating would have produced channels instead as it would follow currents which would expand across the entire glacier, not just the center.

  7. MIT funding drives. Nothing to see here. on Scientists Create Super-Thin 'Sheet' That Could Charge Our Phones (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    MIT is notorious for these miracle breakthrough news releases about the same time every year. And the miracles, even many years later, never see the light of day. I should start a website detailing them.

  8. People need to RTFA on A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won't Be 'Assembled in USA' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    So, this tiny screw problems is this:

    "20-employee machine shop that Apple’s manufacturing contractor was relying on could produce at most 1,000 screws a day."

    That sounds like a sourcing problem if a shop you try to go through can't produce more than 1K screws a day. That shop should have been producing a hundred times that per day. For 20 people that is 50 screws per day. For an eight hour work day that means, per employee, each screw took close to 10 minutes to make. Were they hand crafting these things?! At half the staff, figuring not everyone is actually producing screws, that is still 5 minutes per screw.

  9. Netflix is run by idiots on Netflix Says It's More Scared of Fortnite and YouTube Than Disney and Amazon (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The company has run on a lucky fluke, being top of streaming when no one else was around, but now competent competition is emerging and they are worrying about markets they aren't even in or have plans to enter. It was nice knowing you Netflix.

  10. Re:AMD has a winner GPU. on Nvidia CEO Trashes AMD's New GPU: 'The Performance Is Lousy' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I like AMD. I support them being competitive. But their new card sucks. They should have went with cheaper memory and getting ray tracing. I'm sure they will get those out in the future but this is just a "well, we needed something to show" card.

  11. Andrew Smith may head the Consumer Protection Bureau, but doesn't personally investigate companies. That is the job of those below him. So the limitation on him investigating companies is meaningless political drivel.

  12. Next: Internet media is a threat to democracy on Attacks on the Media Are a Threat To Democracy, Justin Trudeau Says (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    The big media is suffering from upstarts coming from the internet. To compete they have become them. The result is click bait articles and extremist journalism. All the while the enormous, multi-billion dollar media industry tries to paint itself as some form of victim? Right.

  13. The Orville was already a Star Trek pardody on Star Trek Animated Comedy Series Is In the Works (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    But ended up being a better Star Trek than we have had in a long time.

  14. Amazon sucks at programming on Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Simply reading the instructions the AI was apparently using, according to the article, tells me that whoever created this AI was either (1) a moron or (2) a bigot.

  15. Google is scared of being regulated on Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud Competition (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This is probably their actual main reason for jumping out of this. Their fear of regulation is also why they were so late on informing the public about consumer data leaking out of Google+.

  16. Linus ducks, gets hit in face regardless on Linus Torvalds On Linux's Code of Conduct (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    > But to a large degree also because I don't want to be associated with a lot of the people who complain about excessive political correctness.

    The same people associating you to Nazis are the same people who will always view you as a Nazi no longer what you do Linus. That you think asking them for forgiveness, and pandering to them, will in any way have them stop hating you is a complete waste of your time. You only end up hurting yourself by giving in to their hatred of you.

    Be yourself. Be nice to those who have no bad intentions toward you. Don't ask for forgiveness for not doing anything wrong.

  17. "It's a purely political move. "

    Google only has itself to blame for giving in last year to corporate media news demands on filtering their news results. Same mistake Facebook made. Corporate media news created the "fake news" tag to beat them out and limit new media outlets. Trump has nothing to do with this (although they would love if he would stop using Twitter).

  18. Re:First post... in before... on 'Why Liberal Arts and the Humanities Are as Important as Engineering' (wadhwa.com) · · Score: 1

    That pretty much sums up liberal arts and humanities.

  19. My EFF membership died today on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    ""[Irvine Company] is putting not only immigrants at risk, but invading the privacy of its customers by allowing a third-party to hold onto their data indefinitely,"

    That makes absolutely no sense. EFF has gone full retard. Immigrants are just fine. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, which are very different, may get arrested but that is just a part of them breaking the law they have to deal with daily.

  20. What do you mean by "now"? on AT&T Wants To Settle With FTC To Avoid Unlimited Data Throttling Lawsuit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This fight has been going on for years. All AT&T has been able to do is make it drag out.

  21. Great, Reddit McCarthy puppets have infiltrated Slashdot now.

  22. Ubuntu and Python CoC is about as bad on One Of LLVM's Top Contributors Quits Development Over Code of Conduct, Outreach Program (phoronix.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They actually have this in their CoC:

    "Our open source community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. "

    They follow by saying they condone "reversism's". In other words if you are white male or female you can be openly harassed within the community because you are considered privileged. What the hell has happened to these projects?!

  23. Facebook users are Facebook's product on Facebook Brags That Messenger Has 300,000 Business Bots (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    If you use Facebook, you give them permission to pimp you out to others. You are their product.

  24. Virtue signalling hypocrites on Sci-Fi Is Still Working on Its 'Stale, Male, and Pale' Problem, Says James Cameron (indiewire.com) · · Score: 1

    I love these white males virtue signaling while not stepping out of their position of power. Step down or you are a hypocrite!

  25. How much you want to bet that over half of the denied requests are to spy on the Trump White House and staff?