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  1. app suspensions also went up, by more than 66%

    So from 3 to 5?

    More like from 700,000 to about 1,150,000. Of course the real question is how long they stayed in the Play Store before being removed.

  2. Re:Not impressed on Microsoft Brings AI-Powered Background Blurring To Skype (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    If they an teach AI to identify ugly people and blur their faces, we can talk.

    But then we can't see your face.

  3. Re:OK, you lost me... on 'The World Might Actually Run Out of People' (wired.com) · · Score: 1
    https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CCPR/Pages/Membership.aspx

    The Human Rights Committee is composed of 18 independent experts who are persons of high moral character and recognized competence in the field of human rights.

    Members are elected for a term of four years by States parties in accordance with articles 28 to 39 of the Covenant. Members serve in their personal capacity and may be re-elected if nominated.

    IOW Sudan can't be a member of the HRC - and for that matter, nobody from Sudan is.

  4. Previous prediction on 'The World Might Actually Run Out of People' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    In The Big Shift (2013), Ibbitson and Bricker claimed that Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party of Canada would win the 2015 election and open up a new political era as a dominant party,

  5. Re:OK, you lost me... on 'The World Might Actually Run Out of People' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Most trusted world authorities - the UN?! The same UN that puts Sudan on the "Human Rights Committee"?

    Is "Lying through your rotten teeth" a human right where you come from?

  6. Re:OK, you lost me... on 'The World Might Actually Run Out of People' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Face it, the UN is an anti-Semitic joke.

    And the reason you don't like the UN is that they don't take that serious like you do.

  7. Re:OK, you lost me... on 'The World Might Actually Run Out of People' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Imagine inviting Russia into NATO because they're one of the worst offenders actively involved in finding a solution. Not a bad idea, right?

    I'm sure Trump would think so.

  8. Re:Count me out! on Digital License Plates Are Now Allowed in Michigan (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
  9. So facts become something other than facts if [people I disagree with] post them?

    If they are indeed fact, you could post from some other source that sole reason for existence isn't to spread the opposite of facts. Until then, no facts for you, Nazi.

  10. Re:This is great! on Apple's Security Expert Joined the ACLU To Tackle 'Authoritarian Fever' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Errm, that article starts with a lie: "Last week, the NRA kept defending gun rights" - not if you aren't white. Or more to the point: not if you aren't a gun maker.

    The rights they are defending are available to nonwhites as well

    But they aren't defending them when it's about non-whites using them. Might as well just push sales of guns like they are supposed to as the marketing arm of gun makers, instead of bringing racism to the mix.

  11. Flat sales are definitely not good.

    Flat sales are far better than the falling sales of the competition. Esp. in China: https://www.gizmochina.com/201...

  12. Expect a $60 repair kit from iFixit soon.

  13. Re:This is great! on Apple's Security Expert Joined the ACLU To Tackle 'Authoritarian Fever' (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Authoritarianism is actually a problem now at the ACLU:

    https://www.theatlantic.com/id...

    Errm, that article starts with a lie: "Last week, the NRA kept defending gun rights" - not if you aren't white. Or more to the point: not if you aren't a gun maker.

  14. Do facts matter,

    They do - that's why Breitbart doesn't.

  15. Maybe it'll move to sponsorships, with the content producer talking about the product or having product placement.

    You mean like they already do on Netflix? Bought any Eggo recently without realizing why? Watched "Love" and felt the urge to take an Uber over competing services?

  16. NoScript and AdBlock get rid of the ads for free, just sayin'.

    So how does that help against the blatant product placement in Netflix shows?

  17. Ahh the sweet narrow mindedness of the apple worshiper, basking in the glow of the RDF.

    So I'm narrow minded because you can't prove me wrong. Poor snowflake.

  18. Now we only have to wait for 4000 years to see if it worked.

    Just use the banana ray from The Orville on it.

  19. Re:Thanks for the help on Is California's PG&E The First Climate Change Bankruptcy? (marketscreener.com) · · Score: 1

    That's ridiculous. Every power line in the country uses uninsulated power conductors. The problem here is the overgrowth of trees. Chainsaw up!

    Which is the only sane thing to do anyway - usually the overgrowth "only" causes shorts and/or damage the lines, always requiring repairs. In this case they also caused a wild fire.

  20. Heck, it scientists don't find what they expected, some fudge the numbers to get the desired results - and then don't mention what they had expected not to raise suspicion of their behavior.

  21. If you find exactly what you expected, you don't feel the need to even mention that. The only exception is experimental findings that confirm Relativity exactly as expected - because mentioning that is what is expected (by the public mostly) for traditional reasons.

  22. Aren't Apple in various ways assisting and helping the U.S. government?

    Yeah, the laws say they have to.

    And, for that matter. the data collecting companies you want to defend as being better than Apple gladly do the same, - without protesting against putting backdoors into their products, like Apple has repeatedly done.

  23. Thats a small part of the reason. Instead of cheerleading for apple please read and educate yourself. https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/28/the-downfall-of-the-walled-garden-heres-why-iad-failed/

    After the first couple of of paragraphs reaptedly confirmed what I wrote I quit reading - why don't you quote the "real" reason?

  24. Re:Because I am not getting my 30% on Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls For Laws To Tackle 'Shadow Economy' of Data Firms (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for telling us the official views of your employer Facebook. Or is it Google?

  25. Yes - and that ruling has nothing to do with the costs that Apple pays relative to others.

    Nobody said it did, liar boy. It just proves you defending a bunch of criminals, who you all but admitted pay you for posting here.