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  1. Re:people spend more time in its app than in Faceb on Pokemon Go Becomes Biggest Mobile Game In US History (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    since when is that a bad thing?

    i'm all for anything that pulls people away from facebook, even if it means every so often one wanders off a cliff looking for a pokemon.

    Arizona reporting in: just lost another one...
    http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/1...

  2. Re:Americans getting exercise finally on Pokemon Go Becomes Biggest Mobile Game In US History (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Pokémon Go is the best social space for thugs since Craigslist.

  3. Actually the robot worked perfectly on Parents Upset After Their Boy Was 'Knocked Down and Run Over' By A Security Robot (abc7news.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It detected that he was Asian, so it didn't shoot.

  4. Re:It's Heartbreaking you're not in Jail on Clinton: It's 'Heartbreaking' When IT Workers Must Train H-1B Replacements (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    What would be more amusing is if she lost her security clearance, for forever. That and/or being heartbroken by having to train her replacement (and because I am evil, I'd go for that being Trump).

    Her husband would be glad to train her replacement.

  5. Re: What's a mile? on New Dwarf Planet Discovered In Outer Solar System (seeker.com) · · Score: 0

    Butthurt much, fatso nerdo? Sports are here to stay. They're immensely popular and athletes are admired. Gey over it.

    We think of the US as being sports-minded, but that comment referenced a fan rowdiness problem that is far worse in Europe. We have no experience with hordes of brawling fans who take over entire trains and trash airline flights.

  6. Re: U.S. Legal system on Kentucky Anonymous Member Indicted Three Years After FBI Raid (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    You have to be a one-percenter just to run, or curry favor with one-percenters. Given this choice, I would rather have an independent rich individual be the candidate. As nerds, can we dream of an Elon Musk administration?

  7. Re: U.S. Legal system on Kentucky Anonymous Member Indicted Three Years After FBI Raid (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I like what Gary Johnson has to say. Unfortunately, he's not saying it to very many people.

  8. More peaceful traffic stops on Uber Investor Suggests Addressing Police Killings With an App (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    This app will reduce the potential violence associated with searching your car for cash to steal. Instead, it will just funnel your checking account balance to the police. A trained Animal Control officer will be dispatched to your home address to shoot the dog.

  9. Re:The vote is on November 8th on EFF Delivers 210,000 Signatures Opposing Trans-Pacific Partnership (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    To get anything actually accomplished, an outsider president must be accompanied by an outsider Congress. Vote for whichever of your local candidates has the least corporate support.

  10. Re: U.S. Legal system on Kentucky Anonymous Member Indicted Three Years After FBI Raid (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is why so many of us are voting for outsider candidates this year.

  11. "Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes actually stated "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." "

    And he was right. It's just not a good idea for governments to make such decisions for us.

  12. What's wrong with eugenics?

    Sexual selection, choosing the genes you want in your children, is normal and moral. Having the government pick out the DNA you should have is eugenics.

  13. Re:Don't like bats? on Insect-Devouring Bats Now Welcomed in New York (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    What has people spooked about bats and rabies is while you definitely know if you in danger from a dog bite, bat bites are often not easy to detect.

  14. Re: Walmart mentality on Amazon's Chinese Counterfeit Problem Is Getting Worse (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm old enough to remember when Japanese mass-market products had the same "cheap junk produced by teeming millions" reputation that Chinese gear has now, with the perception that undercutting on price was cheating somehow. Building an industrial society from scratch costs a lot, and it's inevitable that Chinese export prices will have to rise. China is already responding to that just as Japan did, by moving toward the upscale ends of their markets.

  15. "-have you actually looked at the lists of side effects that medications aiming at the brain can have? "

    When I look at the trashing of our Constitutional rights the War On Drugs has given us, I think society would be far better off with that list of medical side effects. It's a scientific problem; let's do the science, and solve it.

  16. The ratings website would be named Rotten Ramen on Wannabe Prime Minister Andrea Leadsom Thinks Websites Should Be Rated Like Films (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It would assign a stars rating and a big red percentage of good reviews number to each rated site. Underneath would be a list of links to authoritative reviews in publications like the Greater Southeast Duluth Shopping Cart Advertiser, plus many counterparts in random foreign villages. In the spirit of adventure, about half the links clicked on would lead to comically snarky 404 pages.

  17. I'm not suggesting that crime committed by addicts be excused, but that addiction itself be classified as a medical problem and not a police matter. Get heroin and quietly nod off into the hereafter - not a crime. Knock over a liquor store to support your habit - same crime it is now.

    The advantage of medicalization is that by studying what goes on in the brains of addicts we will be able to derive medications that attack the addiction process itself. Smokers, fatties, and grandmothers who reflexively sluice every Social Security payment into the local casino will line up to be cured. Whether druggies do so or not is up to them.

  18. Re:so is snipping police officers on Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, almost no city budget is capable of such military-grade purchases. To afford Pentagon-level weapons suites, the police had to be granted to power to steal cash and property from people without the legal action that was traditionally required. For you foreign Slashdotters out there it may seem incredible that US police can do this, but they can.

  19. Re:Yeah, right on Fair Use Threatens Innovation, Copyright Holders Warn (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    If the finest minds in Hollywood weren't too busy on the anti-GMO and antivax picket lines to understand the term 'heat death of the universe' they would be lobbying for this as the new IP expiration date.

  20. Re: IF YOU UPHOLD FAIR USE! on Fair Use Threatens Innovation, Copyright Holders Warn (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    What's Strine for 'whoosh', mate?

  21. Re:Major Colvin on Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Addiction is a much larger problem than just drugs. What's your law enforcement solution to food addiction?

  22. Re:Major Colvin on Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's time we started treating addiction, to anything, as a medical problem. Our first attempt to treat addiction as a crime was the Nineteenth Amendment. When that didn't work, instead of trying a new approach to addiction we have been doubling down on the same failed solution.

  23. Re:so is snipping police officers on Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What inspired this cycle of violence was a problem even more basic than the race angle: the steady drift to more militarized law enforcement. What just happened was another step on this road. In the eyes of the police now, we're all burka-clad Fallujans.

    Coming soon - the first purpose-built dog shooting robot.

  24. How I would fix the police malpractice problem on Baton Rouge Police Database Hacked In Retaliation For Killing of Alton Sterling (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Let every legal settlement in these cases come directly out of the police pension fund. We would see the bad cops being fragged by the good ones.

  25. Re:It is Their Site on Facebook Decides Which Killings We're Allowed to See · · Score: 2

    It is Their Site. So they make Their rules.
    Based on their business model.

    So how does it benefit Facebook's business model to be reading a discussion thread in which half the videos have been replaced by "Video removed for some mysterious reason"?