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  1. Re:Inform that ass about the "Streisand effect" on Flight-Sim Maker Threatens Legal Action Over Reddit Posts Discussing DRM (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This isn't the UK. So long as you don't make anything up, you're bulletproof against libel.

  2. Ah yes, lines from 1979 by the great physicist, Dan Fogelberg.

  3. Re:Predicted stipulation on Japan May Be First Country To Have Self-Driving Cars (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Takatanobaba is a neighborhood in Tokyo.

  4. Re:What's Bayer's ethics like? on No More 'Miracles From Molecules': Monsanto's Name Is Being Retired (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What's Bayer's ethics like? Will we see any change in "evil" Monsanto?

    Unfortunately the ethics of liberals has not changed. Monsanto's evil will just be globally replaced with "Bayer" on all those websites. The Hollywood stars that the left consults on science policy will start boycotting aspirin.

  5. The Monsanto name was toxified by its intellectual property shenanigans. How does Bayer's record compare?

  6. Re: I don't understand why you tolerate it on Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet another case of being investigated for a crime some messianic DA hoped to find, but couldn't. So they whip up some bullshit, just as with D'Souza and Stewart. When all else fails, they can always fal back on "money laundering," which means transferring money from one place to another without government approval.

    Cut every federal budget item by roughly half. They will then be forced to prioritize and focus on real issues.

  7. Congratulations on being one of the lucky ones. Most chemo patients can't retain any food.

  8. Re:When did they stop using cats? on Apple Unveils macOS 10.14 Mojave With Dark Mode and Finder Photo Tools (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought all the OS X names used Cats. Now are the Deserts?

    Actually the current series is California place names. In focus groups, Mojave won out over Straight Outta Compton and Napa Wildfire Estate Reserve 2018.

  9. Re:PENETRATE MY ASSHOLE on Apple Unveils iOS 12 (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    I can shove an iPhone X almost 75% up my asshole before the vibrating notifications cause acute pain.

    For people like you, there is Do Not Disturb mode. The warden will not hear rings or notification tones from your concealed iPhone.

  10. Re:How about full VMs? on Apple Unveils iOS 12 (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    It would have been nice had they went with virtualization. That way, I can have my work stuff, personal stuff, and my side projects, all on separate VMs/containers...

    And also that way, haters could gripe about everything having to be in the cloud.

  11. Re:Users on Apple Unveils iOS 12 (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    Your Apple computer can also support multiple users, using Unix user directories. iOS devices are for one person.

  12. Re:FTA: Back to normal everyday life on Doctors Hail World First as Woman's Advanced Breast Cancer is Eradicated (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    EVERYBODY is dying. We all need a bucket list.

  13. Re:the future is bleak (if you're male) on Doctors Hail World First as Woman's Advanced Breast Cancer is Eradicated (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually the most common male cancer now has an immune therapy:
    https://www.cancersupportcommu...

  14. Re:What About WWDC? on Doctors Hail World First as Woman's Advanced Breast Cancer is Eradicated (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...instead of continuing to attach leaches to people.

    No, hospital billing departments will continue to exist.

  15. All chemo does is kill off whatever fast-dividing cells it encounters in your body. There are two kinds of fast-dividing cells: cancer and digestive, which is why when you're on chemo you have to give up on the concept of nutrition and hope that the cancer dies before you starve to death.

  16. Re: I don't understand why you tolerate it on Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    In this case, it means "lying to the police", which is quite legitimately illegal.

    Illegal it may certainly be, but an increasing number of ordinary people are taking that risk because this is what happens when you tell the truth to police:
    https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/02...

  17. Re: Ah... on Uber Facing Ban In Turkey After Erdogan Backs Taxis (sbs.com.au) · · Score: 1

    How many teen age girls are on this site?

    This is Slashdot, so obviously not one.

  18. And this has exactly what to do with Uber? on Uber Driver Kills His Passenger (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, there is a point of relevance: because this took place in an Uber, there is a discoverable-in-the-legal-sense record of the route taken at the time of the killing, who was driving, and where they were at the time. This is all information that is not as easy to get from a medallion cab company.

    And in the much more common case of a passenger killing a driver, Uber knows the identity of the passenger too. All medallion cab companies can do when one of their drivers is found dead in an alley is commiserate with the next of kin.

  19. Re:To be fair, Santiago has a point. on California's Efforts To Restrict Elon Musk's Flamethrowers Go Down In Flames (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Just to be safe, California will introduce a solar-powered tank for use by police SWAT teams.

  20. Re:I don't understand why you tolerate it on Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Then why was she NOT CHARGED with insider trading?

  21. Re:"Nice little school you have there..." on California City Tries Universal Basic Income Programs -- Including One Targeting Potential Shooters (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    School shooters, specifically, a demographic that is in the news right now.
    Criminals of the traditional kind are even less likely to be impressed by an offer of $1000 per month. You might even see an increase in crime on "welfare day" as they rip off each other.

  22. "Nice little school you have there..." on California City Tries Universal Basic Income Programs -- Including One Targeting Potential Shooters (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    So those terrorist virgins who hate women and the men who date them would now be getting universal basic income? The $1000 a month would not fix their problem, which is that they desperately want sex with the same women they hate. And no, ordering up hookers is a proposal they have already rejected. They need a mental fix.

    Who the stipend would actually help are scammers who falsely claim to be terrorist virgins.

  23. Re:Some issues... on Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I signed up for Do Not Call years ago when it first came out. At first it was like magic - no spam whatsoever.But gradually, the calls started coming in again. Now it's worse than ever.

  24. Re: I don't understand why you tolerate it on Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    She was investigated for insider trading but they couldn't identify any, so they nailed her on "obstruction of justice," which can mean whatever the DA wants it to mean.

    Meanwhile, Martin Shkreli was never charged with screwing people over as everyone was hoping, but they were able to nail him on another technical securities violation.

  25. For real communications, text has taken over on Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Text has the same immediacy as a voice call, but it doesn't have to interrupt what you're doing. You also know what the caller wants before getting back to that person, which makes spam a lot less common and more easily spoofed.