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  1. Re:Tribe's don't deserve subsidies on Court Blocks FCC's Attempt To Take a Broadband Subsidy Away From Tribal Areas (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you saying you are anti immigrant, even legally? How is it that my family, not even having had lived here before, is doing just fine but those who spent their whole life in America are unable to enjoy the same benefits I supposedly have over them? Oh right, because they are willfully not a member of the US government, unless it suits them and they can receive things for free.

  2. The people with least life experience on Fewer Than Half of Young Americans Are Positive About Capitalism (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It makes sense younger people would be susceptible to bad ideas and in particular people that say everything should be free. Hell I'd take everything free if I believed someone it was possible. Still these people have no experience, things that are too good to be true often are. And hell at that young age people are voting democrat solely because America is a democracy and democrat sounds similar.

  3. Re:Tribe's don't deserve subsidies on Court Blocks FCC's Attempt To Take a Broadband Subsidy Away From Tribal Areas (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish I had trillions of dollars but my pockets don't feel that full. Besides my family is not even from America. Get off your high horse and realize the past had war, now even has war, but right now it's run by the most just nation who happen to have the strongest weapons. If the U.S. was not a forgiving and merciful nation then wars would still result taking their land after winning.

  4. Re:Tribe's don't deserve subsidies on Court Blocks FCC's Attempt To Take a Broadband Subsidy Away From Tribal Areas (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    "Pinching." Really? This was hundreds of years ago. I guess everyone should just feel bad for what people 10 generations ago did right? Despite the fact tribes now live in the richest country in the world, are free of war, and don't even pay for the price to do so. Instead they distribute their money to their people. But apparently free money doesn't exactly make people work very hard so they are stuck in a rut. America used to belong to British also, maybe we should just give it back to the British because we "pinched" it from them when it belonged to them.

  5. So anyone looking for someone talented for the position to fit your specific company now has half of the amount of talent to choose from and perhaps much less if their field is a male dominated field. How is this even being considered?

  6. Tribe's don't deserve subsidies on Court Blocks FCC's Attempt To Take a Broadband Subsidy Away From Tribal Areas (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Tribes govern themselves, pay no taxes, and actually charge tribal taxes (sometimes higher than US taxes) to any business that is on their land. Yet they still want the benefits from the US government without paying for any of them. They already get the benefit of the army protecting the nation, without the U.S. around 70 years ago their tribal nation would have been taken over again. Their members break any law they want on tribal land because they have basically no law enforcement or jails and the second a tribe member wants to collect welfare that they paid no taxes for they can still get it. Maybe if they didn't use their tax and casino money to simply pay straight cash out to their tribe members then they could afford subsidizing quality programs themselves.

  7. Cancel your subcription on MoviePass Will Increase Price, Limit Availability of New Movies (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This weekend MoviePass didn't work at all. Tried every movie at the theater I always go to and it said something along the lines of this movie is not available for every single movie. Just cancel. If it's not available even the one time in the past month that I went to the movies then what's the point of having it. Why would I ever plan my schedule around availability that they choose for me and isn't listed anywhere.

  8. I read this "NYT is trying to influence politics" on Facebook Has Identified Ongoing Political Influence Campaign (nytimes.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I was like.. duhhhh

  9. Printed guns are here. They are freely available. Anyone can make a gun.. They could before also with a little know-how... or just steal one. Fighting this is going to be like fighting movie downloading... It's happening at some level, but most people won't be affected by it. Just deal with it, this is no big deal.

  10. Had they started using a windows is back in 2006, it's security would be no longer supported as well. If they can operate on Linux and are familiar, and I can't see why they would spend the money to change. I imagine they use them for basic tasks like email, typing word docs, excel sheets, and printing and not much else. In that case the free version will trump windows every time.

  11. Match Confidence Levels on Google Executive Warns of Face ID Bias (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    They are reporting this as if the false positives are either matches or not match. In reality, there are associated levels of confidence, and a match is likely anything more than 95% confidence. Less light means there is more similar data in a photo. What they really need to do is run a different confidence level on faces that reflect less light. Maybe even run a completely separate facial recognition algorithm so the accuracy of the better data is not muddying the confidence levels of the worse data.

  12. This could make senses for multiplayer games that rely heavily on always online anyways, both creating a fair playing field graphics wise and hopefully making them impossible to hack. I would be concerned about ping causing some issues in how the game feels to the player however.

  13. Didn't feel like capacity was the issue on How Amazon Scrambled To Fix Prime Day Glitches (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The whole site worked for me but I couldn't checkout. It didn't seem like a server capacity issue to me.

  14. Tried buying something all day on How Amazon Scrambled To Fix Prime Day Glitches (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know about anyone else but I couldn't buy anything for a solid 5 hours or more, checking intermittently, because it wouldn't let me checkout. I did see a lot of Amazon dogs though.. like a lot..

  15. Less safe.. great argument.... on FBI Director: Without Compromise on Encryption, Legislation May Be the 'Remedy' (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "People are less safe as a result of it." People are less safe by leaving their room every day. Some things are just expected to be "less safe" but we do them because we want to be more than prisoners.

  16. Exactly how much info do they want? on FBI Director: Without Compromise on Encryption, Legislation May Be the 'Remedy' (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    They can track who you contacted, when you sent something, any time a dollar changes hand, any item you send in physical mail, but for some reason ease dropping on conversations in iMessage, Line or Whatsapp is the biggest obstacle they have? If anything they should be able to do the same police work they always have but even better now that they are collecting a ton of meta data and other various digital information about a subject.

  17. If you tether your phone you could use the extra pixels. People shouldn't have to be forced a certain quality when they can chose their GB limit also. Is charter say "unlimited internet, as long as we tailor it to minimize data" That's just silly. Charge for what people need, don't limit everyone's quality.

  18. Finally California does something right in it's government, assuming the full regulations are as clear as are stated in the summary. Take those exact words and make it federal law.

  19. Re:What does T-Mobile get out of this? on T-Mobile and Sprint Ask For Merger Approval (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Forgot to mention a large amount of high interest rate debt.

  20. What does T-Mobile get out of this? on T-Mobile and Sprint Ask For Merger Approval (axios.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    They get a horrible brand name, horrible network, terrible spectrum on a different frequency with less propagation and less building penetration that Sprint's lease of will expire in 10 years or so. I guess as long as they dissolve sprint completely and just take their subscribers it might not be horrible.

  21. So it's turning into a community college? on University of Chicago To Stop Requiring ACT and SAT Scores For Prospective Undergraduates (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Taking and passing a ln SAT test sure does cost a lotbof money /s

  22. Re:They just charge instead on Comcast Says It Isn't Throttling Heavy Internet Users Anymore (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe your kids don't purchase games then or watch videos because a single game can be 100 GB. A couple hours a day of streaming video racks up of ton of usage as well and if you are watching 4K video you can use it all up in a week.

  23. They just charge instead on Comcast Says It Isn't Throttling Heavy Internet Users Anymore (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Forcing people to self throttle or give Comcast a huge profit. Just hope you don't have to reformat your computer and download a few games or you get close to the 1TB limit rather quickly. Sure it's probably enough for one person, but if you have 2 kids who watch videos and download games for their PC or consoles then you run up against the limit every month.

  24. All the people who lot their jobs to automation will have to do something...

  25. I don't know anything about Chinese trademark but if it's anything like the U.S. trademarks you basically just pay a fee and anyone can get one. I don't get why people think getting a trademark is some sort of payoff.