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  1. Re:delivery service on Amazon Launches 'Flex,' a Crowdsourced Delivery Service · · Score: 1

    I need sunglasses to read writing so White.

    Delivery employees were random people already. Their only special trait is being in their employer's records. Much like Amazon will have.

    Much like USPS/etc, local citizens already had "random access" all along. That may be a shocking realization, much like when I informed entitled, squeamish, cleanworld types that they're constantly swallowing a stream of mucus.

    Would you like to know more about the bottled water you're obviously a patron of?

  2. commentsubjectsaredumb on (Over-)Measuring the Working Man · · Score: 1

    If you skip ahead through the dominoes, the bottom line of increased surveillance is, ultimately, it allows for further squeezing of the working class. That's really what it boils down to.

    Money gravitates outward from Prolekistan, and will continue as their sole export (labor) increasingly "grows on trees".

    I sincerely don't know how to reverse the process.

  3. Re:They're still scumbags on Rare "Healthy" Smokers Lungs Explained · · Score: 1

    I'm especially bitter about #3. Partly because I hate being a puppet (see 5) but also because Fuck Those Guys.

    And gals. Equal opportunity middlefinger here.

    They're content to put whatever they want in it, sell it by any means, and exploit their very clientele as much as the law allows. "Brand loyalty" is a one-way street, they give zero fucks about you. Less, even, except dead customers aren't paying customers. So, again, Fuck Those Guys.

    The remaining reasons stand as turnoffs for tobacco outside the cig industry. Though that gives me enough yield to do it at a social event or something. Recreationally. Like how I drink at the annual party or two.

    But apparently I don't frequent the circles where it's common to sit down in a venerable, leather-scented study and offer your chess guest a pipe with his brandy.

    That's a thing, right?

  4. Re:Energy on The Effort To Create an 'Iron Man' Type Exoskeleton · · Score: 1

    Pumping the pilot's lobster full of a breathable fluid will help, enough to imitate comic books and cartoons and anime. Forces are applied very uniformly.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    This only works up to 15~20G, apparently, since PFCs are denser than you, and will crush your innards (lungs, probably) if you+fluid is swung/impacted hard enough.

    Fluids closer to water's density will work better, but at obscenely greater impacts (assuming the suit is a perfect material that doesn't simply shatter) I'm guessing bones will be the next significant differential. Your skull will move faster than your brain, and pressure/crush it.

  5. Re:Need the ARC reactor on The Effort To Create an 'Iron Man' Type Exoskeleton · · Score: 1

    If I remember my eva the answer is Aliens. Pretty sure I felt disillusioned when I learned that.

  6. comment subjects are dumb on Court Rules Batmobile Is Entitled To Copyright Protection · · Score: 1

    > protection of imaginary property is essential

    k.

    Still pretty sure that it's just a constant stream of sue-happy groups and their skirmishes, poking and jabbing and gouging, occasionally making off with a settlement. Only an idiot would derive a sense of precedent or (LOL) a moral standard from the parasitic fray.

  7. Re:There's an expression for that on Police Program Aims to Pinpoint Those Most Likely to Commit Crimes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    AC isn't just joking. You can pretty much bag people arbitrarily, even before adding this system's scrutiny. I hope the internet has memorized Richeliu's quote by now?
    "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

    http://www.threefeloniesaday.c...

  8. commentsubjectsaredumb on Moot Sells 4chan To 2channel Founder Hiroyuki Nishimura · · Score: 2

    2channel is similar technically, culturally, and even lineage'ly. It's 4chan's big brother. I don't know anything about Nishi, but my impression is that he's the sort who is familiar with the nature of the beast, as opposed to some suit who though buying 4chan would be a great captive (lol) audience.

    Not that I'm saying "why is this news" but it doesn't seem like they should expect any dramatic changes just yet.

  9. commentsubjects are dumb on Nintendo Nixes YouTube Videos of Super Mario Speedruns · · Score: 1

    Goodwill indeed. The suits keep believing they can control the universe, even as steadily-changing conditions/technology shrink their actual grip.

    Down the line, grooming a bigger base will be what matters, harboring loyalty and, yes, good will that makes the phrase "Nintendo" conceptually linked with positive ideas and words in the public consciousness.

  10. Re:Many eyes... on Crash Chrome With 16 Characters · · Score: 2

    I do have to appreciate a rousing game of Troll Solitaire.

  11. commentsubjectsaredumb on Technology Colonialism · · Score: 1

    influence != power, at this nuanced resolution.

    As it is, their factories and contacts aren't quite equipped to assemble physical force. I'd be more nervous (like TFS wants) if they did.

    If a company is doing something utterly out of line, the governments still have the power to demand compliance. If TFS is talking about "influence", control, laws passed, well I have a newsflash pal that shit has been in lobbyist pockets for ages. Industrial tobacco (which isn't very tobacco) burns the country what, billions in healthcare alone? Losses in GDP from inferior workforce, from reduced achievement. And yet the system ticks on, because the money circulates towards those who sustain it.

    Sure, we should fear corporates getting out of control and holding back our/your country, but not because of "sovereign nation behavior". They're plenty happy to fuck us up while shoulder to shoulder with their mother nation.

  12. Re:Killer GMO butterflies causing hurricanes on Wasps Have Injected New Genes Into Butterflies · · Score: 1

    > making minimum wage at McDonalds
    The lucky ones?

    --daysUntilRobocooks;

  13. Re:Killer GMO butterflies causing hurricanes on Wasps Have Injected New Genes Into Butterflies · · Score: 1

    > "nuh-uh"
    Try again.

    Not that GP was perfect, either.

  14. Re:Wait what? on Appeals Court Bans Features From Older Samsung Phones · · Score: 1

    Slide to unlock was prior art anyway. As in doors since, what, the 15th century?

    Then there's the youtube of that oldass soft-toggles UI video with examples of binary taps, switches, etc. but also sliders. I think it might've been on /., even.

  15. Re:Haters gonna hate. on Apple's First Android App, Move To iOS, Is Getting Killed With One-Star Reviews · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm IT in the local school district, which has plentiful amount of mac. I looked up the current power cable for macbook airs on a whim; I was morbidly curious about how much apple charges for one.

    I'm not sure why Apple put a rating system into their own site's products. Especially when it ends up like this.

    Pages of people with appleIDs, and pages of their handwritten, one-star reviews.

  16. Re:I don't see what's important about internal sto on Apple's 16GB IPhone 6S Is a Serious Strategic Mistake · · Score: 1

    Consider the frequent cases where internal storage is full or behavior compromises made, and the value rapidly rebounds.

  17. Re:all good? on Followup: Library Board Unanimously Supports TOR Relay · · Score: 1

    That is awesome. Which is all there really is to say on the matter.

    I wonder if there's deadman/canary ideas we should thank them for.

  18. Re:Ban People on Followup: Library Board Unanimously Supports TOR Relay · · Score: 1

    COMPUTAS IS OF THE DEVIL. YOU HEA' ME? THE DEVIL, BOBBY SIMS.

    filter filter filter filter filter filter filter filter filter filter filter filter filter filter filter filter

  19. commentsubjectsaredumb on Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After "Bomb" Clock Incident At School · · Score: 1

    The thick-skinned, trollfag part of me instantly suggests detecting a subtle jab at the other involved party.

    My actual conscious thought says it's really just damage control about the overall "message" in the air. And while it may be a bit ham-fisted, I can't deny the positive direction it attempts.

    > The Irving Independent School District sent an email ... asking to: "immediately report any suspicious items and / or suspicious behavior."
    Yeah, here's the thing, you've just proven the Powers That Be have shitty judgement and we need to resort to our own. Now people will hesitate to report. I admit that the hesitation is A Bad Thing, but you've encouraged it. And I use that phrasing because I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt. I'm generously assuming you're not a lot of kneejerky fuckwits that leap all over the brown kid with an eastern name.

  20. Re:The allegations are meritless on Twitter Sued For Scanning Direct Messages · · Score: 1

    It's the 21st century, accusation slinging is probably your national sport. +20 points if you get someone fired before conviction, +50 before investigation, rape claims is -10 for using a handicap. Any campaign finished without greasing the palms of LEOs/lawyers/judges gets your final score a 3x difficulty modifier.

  21. Re:That's ridiculous on Law Professor: Genetic Engineering Is (Probably) Protected By the First Amendment · · Score: 1

    The shout DOES have protection.

    The protection does NOT supersede the "endangering human life" offense. The government (criminal system) CAN suppress that dangerous offense; the speech only happens to be suppressed incidentally.

    The question, then, is whether the "engineering of superAIDs" falls under these or other suppress'able terms. Some rogue group can easily be construed as "endangering human life", but consider engineering done in quarantine, for the sake of cure research.

    Unfortunately, leaning on these terms as the pass-fail mechanism means drifting towards human judgement, arbitrary interpretation, and basically bullshit. Ideally, everything is codified and not subject to an arbiter's whims. I wish the SJWs would get that.

  22. Re:This is madness on YouTube 'Dancing Baby' Copyright Ruling Sets Pre-Trial Fair Use Guideline · · Score: 1

    Even if everything was True Original Thought, imaginary property just isn't a practical idea in any dimension where data is a contagion. To control an idea, everywhere in the universe at once, forever, needs a word beyond "laughable" to describe the logistics. Not that I'm contrary to incentivized creators - I'll support a working model. As soon as we have one.

    I hadn't even realized that Everything Is A Remix Anyway. Now I have. Irreversibly. Contagion, you know. It's a more philosophical thought, though, to point out how all ideas "came from something else". I prefer to stop earlier, at "Forget should or shouldn't - imaginary property can't work."

  23. Re:Seriously? on YouTube 'Dancing Baby' Copyright Ruling Sets Pre-Trial Fair Use Guideline · · Score: 1

    I almost bit my mouth bloody when I read that quip.

    Fuck you in every orifice with rusty garden tools, the lot of you. You're already willing to take the time to (wrongfully) file claims, aren't you? Oh wait, you're just sending out automated bots, automated takedowns, and probably automated C&Ds and settlement demands. Because fuck users, fuck commoners, I've got the hammer and will use it as much as I possibly can, moderation be damned.

    And will throw a bitchy lobbyist fit if a court suggests I sometimes can't.

  24. Re:65 years old on Nintendo Names Tatsumi Kimishima As New President · · Score: 1

    I'm in Zorin's boat. Millennials are so jaded about the money they're handing over that it doesn't even register as an offense, just "how it is". The expectation of zero return is so long past fact that it's taken for granted. We don't say "scam" because that word is associated with less than perfect certainty.

  25. commentsubjectsaredumb on Sharebeast, the Largest US-based Filesharing Service, Has Its Domain Seized · · Score: 1

    > responsible for the leaks of thousands of songs
    So shut down the Internet.

    The associative chain of causality is but a tool for the powers that be to leverage at will.