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  1. Re:Freedom of Speech? on Federal Bill Would Criminalize Revenge Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    ++++++++++++++

    (and expressed masterfully well too!)

  2. Re:Jerkfaces Usually Get Their Due on Federal Bill Would Criminalize Revenge Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    My post had several sentences and you want to pick at that one which is ok. But the aggregate point I was making is that "revenge porn" is similar to stalking and exists only to cause emotional distress to the target.

    Are you ok with that point at least?

  3. Re:touch screens in cars, bad idea? on Tesla Model S Has Hidden Ethernet Port, User Runs Firefox On the 17" Screen · · Score: -1, Troll

    +1 insightful. Insightful about you! Millions of cars have touchscreens, you are sample size = 1.

  4. Jerkfaces Usually Get Their Due on Federal Bill Would Criminalize Revenge Porn Websites · · Score: 0

    Rights always get adjusted when they get abused in a way that hurts people consistently.

    And revenge porn only exists with the intent for jerkbags to hurt people emotionally.

    Is there room for this behavior in a world where saying the "N" word, calling gay people words beginning with "F", etc. isn't socially acceptable?

    This is a no-brainer. Revenge porn is an abuse of trust.

  5. Sure the comment was stupid but ... on The Problem With Congress's Scientific Illiterates · · Score: 1

    I'm sure with 438 men and women in Congress, stupid things get said everyday.

    And most of them are 60 or 70 years old and don't understand things like the internet, cell phones and haven't been in college or highschool in 50 some years to know what science is.

    This isn't so surprising that someone would say something very ignorant, but no doubt it happens every day and those people are out in the real world too.

  6. Amazon Bothers Me on Amazon's Fire TV: Is It Worth Game Developers' Time? · · Score: 1

    Who do I trust to stuff like this right? In order ...

    1. Steam
    2. Apple
    *distant dip in confidence from here on *
    3. Microsoft (oddly)
    4. Google (doesn't have user's interests in mind)
    *And now it gets real shaky*
    5. Amazon (doesn't seem to get things "right", hard to explain)
    6. Sony (trust is major factor)
    7. Nintendo (doesn't seem to understand market at all)

  7. Re:Ethical is irrelevant. on NASA Can't Ethically Send Astronauts On One-Way Missions To Deep Space · · Score: 1

    Although this seems more clear proof:

    http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/suicide-squad-mans-japan-s-nuclear-plant-92619

  8. Re:Ethical is irrelevant. on NASA Can't Ethically Send Astronauts On One-Way Missions To Deep Space · · Score: 1

    Possibly this:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1390792/Japan-nuclear-disaster-Dozens-pensioners-prepare-risk-lives-Fukushima-clean-up.html

    But I admit I don't know any of true conclusive link, I remembering hearing this on our "so called news" --- which in modern times doesn't necessarily mean it is true.

    But I have no evidence it was false either ...

  9. Wrong, Expectations Must Change on Vint Cerf: CS Programs Must Change To Adapt To Internet of Things · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The most explosive *recorded* invention in the history of mankind was the printing press.

    And it set Europe on fire.

    But this led to the Renaissance.

    You can't put the genie back in the bottle.

    What is going on now with the internet and mobile devices and communication in general --- like the printing press or like radio or television --- is going to upset the status quo in 57 different ways.

    Embrace these ways, understand how they will be used for good (yes --- if you think citizens are upset, just imagine how upset tyrants and governments are --- people in power hate change) ----

    Communication advances always causes flowers to bloom --- any heartache always looks dumb and old fashioned in a decade of hindsight, because it yields new freedoms and rights that were never expected. If you doubt this, why do civil right continue to grow and governments to ever more tend to the welfare of their people?

  10. Re:Ethical is irrelevant. on NASA Can't Ethically Send Astronauts On One-Way Missions To Deep Space · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Protip: Everyone dies. Was it ethical for your dad and mom to love you and teach you to walk and talk and make you smile with ice cream knowing the inevitable result is your death?

    Death is part of life, a meaningful death is worth living for and the pinnacle of what it means to live.

  11. Re:Ethical is irrelevant. on NASA Can't Ethically Send Astronauts On One-Way Missions To Deep Space · · Score: 1

    Exactly because Japan sent old men into Fukushima's reactor, knowing the risk and offering hefty sums for their descendents.

    If I were 80 years old and in good health, I would volunteer for a one-way trip (colonize Mars, spacewalk on a comet or even the most risky missions like colonize Jupiter).

  12. Re:nope! on Will Cameras Replace Sideview Mirrors On Cars In 2018? · · Score: 1

    > You'll most likely get multiple cameras, stitched views, and more coverage, not less

    Which is why things will inevitable drift towards the "beehive style mirror view". Although it is a bit confusing at first, you can bee seeing all angles at once.

    And it bee far safer for everyone involved.

  13. Do Both! on Will Cameras Replace Sideview Mirrors On Cars In 2018? · · Score: 1

    I think they should do both and get the best of both worlds.

  14. Lies (Sort of ...) ... on App Developers, It's Time For a Reality Check · · Score: 1

    Opportunity is an intangible but sometimes it stares you in the face and you have to answer the door.

    Sure, many startup dreams are irrational and almost no one is going to end being a billionaire, but if you have an approach to a problem that few others see and are willing to accept the risks ... GO FOR IT!

    Or live a life of wondering "what if"?

    Few people as a percent are suited to take the risks of a startup company, but when you are young the risks are the most easy to handle and if you fail, just go get a "real" job. Or work on your startup at night, work a real job during the day.

    Live life saying you tried and gave it your all for an interesting idea! You might lose, but even moderate success in a small business is a lot of money.

  15. Backup cameras are nice but on Department of Transportation Makes Rear View Cameras Mandatory · · Score: 1

    1) Cars should make beeping noises in reverse just like trucks

    2) Cars should have backup sonar/radar/sensor to detect pedestrians and other cars

    My car has a backup camera and I usually use it, but sometimes I'm not looking at it when backing up and instead using mirrors.

    The point being, a backup camera doesn't mean you are necessarily looking at the screen --- especially when you don't think there is anything behind you to worry about.

  16. Been twenty five years on Why Darmok Is a Good Star Trek: TNG Episode · · Score: 2

    Some of these episodes are from over 25 years ago.

    Although Star Trek TNG was outstanding, the real problem is that there hasn't been much high quality science fiction TV series in the last 25 years.

  17. This is an enhancement on Gameover Malware Targets Job Seekers · · Score: 1

    Monster.com is mostly robot email spam hell with equally useless job listings.

    So this is just builds character and makes the site more intriguing and entertaining, kind of like how adding a Wookie makes a Star Wars bar scene more fun.

  18. Surely you jest ... on Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "at some point we're going to end up with a civilization like in Star Trek TNG"

    First --- I wish, that would be an incredible and ideal future.

    But society is based on power and control, both in government and private industry.

    Government and private industry simply isn't going to say "Dear commoners, robots will do everything and you don't need to work and you get a free ride" --- will never happen!

    And --- even if it did, look at what people with too much time on hands do to this world: crime, gangs, terrorists, cults, drug users --- most of societies ills are AVOIDED by making these people have jobs so they don't have free time.

    I'd love to get to a Star Trek TNG future, but the vast majority of the populace isn't going to start creating and researching or coding solutions to the world's problems in their spare time, which is why it won't work. And the power and authority would never support a free ride of "their creations" or their use of their power.

  19. > "If I can type the exploit into the address bar and I need no more than autohotkey to download their entire god damned database then that's not a hack"

    Quit being a weeny and go do it!

    Then you can be cell-mates with weev, and everyone can point fingers at you and laugh.

    ["Yout honor, I didn't burn down that house, it was the house being made of wood that was unsafe because fires occur in nature ..."]

  20. Watch It Succeed on Sony Announces Virtual Reality Headset For PS4 · · Score: 2

    Most gut instinct thoughts of this can think of 8-9 good reasons to not have faith in Sony's ability to do this.

    But this gut instinct thought Facebook would be gone years ago, that the Wii would fail in the previous console generation and that Microsoft Office would have been made irrelevant years ago.

    Sony has plenty of experience and desire to succeed in this area and is good at hardware and programming specs --- and this is exactly the kind of technology they could probably "get right" and have plenty of motivation to want to do it.

  21. It's Totally False on The Era of Facebook Is an Anomaly · · Score: 1

    Society naturally gravitates towards monopolies.

    Why: A default answer is easy, because it requires no decision making.

    Fragmentation has never been the natural state of anything just like "nature abhors a vacuum".

    This is why your electric company, gas company, phone company, cable company are one monopolies.

    Also think of E-Bay (what is alternative?), Amazon.com (what is alternative?), or how companies standardize on Microsoft Office and Windows and how schools standardize around iPads.

    I am more offended by the idea of someone working at Microsoft trying to have a cultural thought --- from a place devoid of the concept of higher cultural thought and beauty.

  22. I'm concerned. on Transformer-Style Scooter Lets You Ride Your Briefcase To Work · · Score: 1

    The discouraging thing is the one guy in the entire world who owns one of these contraptions is taking the train!!!

  23. Re:Conflict of interest? on Elon Musk Addresses New Jersey's Tesla Store Ban · · Score: 2

    "I don't see why a dealership would rather sell a gasoline car rather than an electric car."

    A dealership has management and sales people that currently exist, so by default they excel at selling what they know: the gas cars.

    An unconscious bias, but it is a huge one.

    Would you want a Microsoft guy as a salesman for Apple or Linux solutions? He'd probably steer people towards Windows-based solutions because it is what he knows and is comfortable with.

    Likewise, a non-dedicated electric car dealership will likely just by habit steer people to gas cars because they are not super-knowledgeable of the product because they are not exclusively dedicated to it.

  24. The real benefit is ... on Stanford Bioengineer Develops a 50-cent Paper Microscope · · Score: 1

    Take this technology and make 50 cent eyeglasses for children in third world countries.

    This idea is on to something!

  25. Isn't it funny on Mass. Legislature Strikes Back: Upskirt Photos Now Officially a Misdemeanor · · Score: 1

    ... that in the USA, jury nullification is fringe religious organization.

    Probably in cahoots with the ones that always like to point out that income taxes are unconstitutional or the ones that assert you don't even need to file a tax return.

    A lot of good it did for Wesley Snipes ...