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  1. Re:Even worse than you think... on Tech Giants Urge Congress To 'Protect Entrepreneurs' From Supreme Court Ruling (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And, why not just use a sales tax service, like TaxCloud to take care of it all for you for $10/month?

    Because TaxCloud hasn't been doing enough to make the existence of its service known to the public.

    Would prefer tax-chain instead of tax-cloud, whatever the fuck that is.

  2. Lol okay. If you have an IP address of "jackson mississippi" sorry, you'll have to VPN to Georgia to buy my shit. LOL whatever dude. Small business will NOT comply ... too hard. The tax bodies will need to meet us halfway if they want their share.

  3. another ad-crunching chip on Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 850 Platform Targeted For Windows 10 PCs (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Great! Just another chip / os combo to process all these adverts, hopefully faster?

  4. No data delivery = no service = prime opportunity to deliver data via "other means" = no theft

    They're just doing what they can to watch / share a sport the entire world loves. Seems like a bunch of nice people to me!

  5. probably about weaponization on White House To Host Tech Giants For AI Meeting (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The military wants these folks to bid on/provide/come up with 'militarization of AI' strategies. Getting white house involved is just a cover-up/deflection strategy to pretend someone in the administration is taking the meeting. Nah, it's a general or admiral or both.

  6. The takeaway here is to read the Terms of Service because most car owners don't do so in any great detail.

    The takeaway here is that ToS should be standard as fuck so everyone only has to read it once. With every company having different terms, how can anyone be expected to read these morose [hardly] legal documents? How about either your ToS and privacy policy is limited to tweet size or everyone uses the same? How about some consumer-centric rhetoric? I personally view the ToS and other customer facing "contracts" as garbage, hostile to the viewer. They might as well just say "we're going to fuck you, either now or later," because that's the current message.

  7. Re:Yes and no on Ask Slashdot: Do We Need a New Word For Hacking? · · Score: 1

    Language is supposed to aid in communicating, not segment the population into elites.

    For some reason I really like this line. Thanks!~

  8. you can always tell on Facebook Will No Longer Allow Third-Party Data For Targeting Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    the first attempt to mitigate isn't hitting where it hurts. If this is their first suggestion, my counter would be zuck goes to federal prison for aiding and abetting and/or 2 billion counts of misdemeanor larceny, and the US enacts global "privacy policy" for companies doing business on US soil. 21st century HIPAA here we go

  9. Re:"Made in China" on China Approves Giant Propaganda Machine To Improve Global Image (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it's already undid. Those 3 little words changed the world. If china wants a better image, be quieter (government) and have easier time to get visas.

    I currently have to bribe some official in another town to go to the embassy for me to bribe a higher up official to get my visa even in line for processing. It's another bribe to get it processed within a month. Certainly not easy or cheap to get to china. Guess its easier if you're an inanimate object.

  10. Re:I'm willing to pay on Google Will Prioritize Stories for Paying News Subscribers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    It seems as though most of what's actually news comes via the Associated Press, so what you're asking for doesn't seem unreasonable. What you get from a magazine or paper just seems to be local stories or editorial content.

    Definitely a fan of the AP. Not a fan of news monetization past the point of paying for journalists. The capitalistic ethics of "fuck the world lets make this quarter the best quarter yet" just seem wrong to me when you're talking about information who's value is built upon trust. If you're going to make a boatload of money from the "news," how am I to trust you to tell me the truth rather than what I want to hear? I would be looking for fact-based non-editorial news. Something like the first 15 minutes of Democracy now but expanded past the 'war and peace report' ... like "today the brooklyn city council voted to kill all the homeless" - just the facts please. I will form my own opinion thank you very much.

  11. Re:I'm willing to pay on Google Will Prioritize Stories for Paying News Subscribers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    but only once. I am not going to pay for multiple newspaper subscriptions. I want a netflix type subscription where I pay one party and I have access to all the news out there.

    Same. Give me an industry standard aggregator that I can query without adverts or tracking mechanisms. Stop giving me fucking blogs in my news feed. This isn't news, its AMPed up garbage chock full of more garbage, likely generated by something like the POMO generator. (http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/)

    Imagine a news feed any real journalist could submit to, just send their JSON object and the aggregator with standard interface. It's like reddit but with journalistic integrity 100% of the time and little/no links to imgur memes. Ahh what a pipe dream. Excuse me, let the onslought of WAHL nosehair trimmer adverts continue, please. I have no idea what I was thinking. You know I need this, you just have to let me know I need this right? Over and over again? Yes, carry on.

  12. As a synesthetes, I have always seen the concept of humanity as red. The flag of Nippon should do nicely.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan#/media/File:Flag_of_Japan.svg

  13. Re:Boot on a face on What Image Should Represent All of Humanity On Wikipedia? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    a 'Boot on a face'. It sums up most of history marvelously.

    This was exactly the first thought that popped in there. (img below)

    http://allnewspipeline.com/ima...

  14. Let's add emoji to label instead of fixing all the dumb errors that happen 99% of the time. https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/g...

  15. is anyone else bored with this topic? The people in power do whatever they want, and when they're writing the history books they're going to say americans were overjoyed at the prospect of the usa government attempting to coup the internet with regulations or lack thereof. Same story, different headline. Yawn.

  16. OSX is free, make a fucking virtual machine.

  17. Re:Dear Tim Cook: Fuck You on Slashdot Asks: What Do People Misunderstand or Underappreciate About Apple? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1
    A thoughtful post AC. I would add 'individualist' to our list of cultural monikers, because wanton selfishness is the name of the game.

    There are things like making sure that we're running our [U.S.] operations on 100% renewable energy, because we don't want to leave the earth worse than we found it.

    Ha, imagine that. How about doing something truly remarkable and making sure your USERS only use renewable energy for their devices? Wait, fuck that, why not MAKE some renewable energy? Want to create a lot of renewable energy all at once? Open source your shit. The industry will be electric about it i'm quite sure. You can put a haptic thermal turbine in the apple watch to make it draw heat from the host wrist to make power, of course you'd have to invent it first. I'm quite sure you already have the patent.

  18. Re:wiki leaks? on Lawsuits Threaten Infosec Research -- Just When We Need it Most (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    okay ... see below... if I make secsleaks.org, what would be a cool "bounty" model? Maybe a kickstarter for leaks? Have a payout scale on the verifiable data, based on the gravitas of the info. Anything to move good info away from fucking blogs.

  19. Re:SECSLEAKS.ORG on Lawsuits Threaten Infosec Research -- Just When We Need it Most (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Not only clever but funny. As long as we're doing it for the lulz.

  20. How about wiki-sec? Anon white-hat dumping ground.

  21. Re:Maybe the Amiricans won't mind on The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course you'd have to buy one of these untenable pieces of shit for it to be your car. Also cars of today sell your data, they just don't have ad-delivery systems yet.

  22. Ah, so steal to save time? Gee, there's sound logic for you. I'll remember that when I'm shoplifting. I mean, why waste time at a register. You slowpokes better get out of my way on the freeway too. Speed limits are for time wasters, I'll be doing 130MPH in the time-saving lane.

    Not what I'm saying, but if you wanna go there, there's some real world consequences waiting for you doing those dangerous things. This guy owns a license to the software he wants, having a little anarchic reading of the sales agreement, a workaround to arbitrary capitalism if you will, could be useful, especially when cost to duplicate is essentially nil thus relative currency value being nil, i.e. no robbery taking place. Would you interpret making your own clothes as stealing from clothing companies? Or growing vegetables as stealing from the grocery? Ignoring the speed limit is certainly stealing from your fellow travelers, affecting everyone you pass who has to either now gawk at or swerve to avoid you. Duplicating deprecated software is like a xerox machine with no paper.

    Why is everyone so keen on wasting everyone else's time?

    If everyone was actually keen on saving time, the time-warping mind-suck known as social media, wouldn't exist.

    This seems to be what you're stuck on, and I agree with your sentiment. I was merely commenting on how boring the article was and that the boringness is now reaching out and affecting people unnecessarily. I'm saying this guy is a dick, so much so that his dickishness has been extended to the realm of the headline when it should have been confined to his general space. What's there to learn from the article other than some guy is being a dick to microsoft? Anyone who cares already knew microsoft update to windows 10 had its consequences - and they should pay for their mistakes - but what's one guy's vendetta going to do for the millions of affected grammas who suddenly had to call their grandkids and ask them who the fuck is cortana?

  23. This awful example of litigious american society is showing a sincere lack of respect for the company of microsoft on the part of the plaintiff. If he cares so little for them so as to sue them, why not just pirate the software? Everyone is saved tons of time. Hey guy, I got a windows 7 variant you can use. Why is everyone so keen on wasting everyone else's time? Sure, the point of a subpoena is to waste someone's time, but now this waste has leaked over to the "news" and now the potential for time-wastage is exponential, affecting me, ergo its not okay! Let me be the one to say ... fuck dick man.

  24. hope on Would You Fear Alien Life or Welcome It? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    my hope is that the assholes on earth don't shoot them or exploit them once we find them. My fears for for the safety of the aliens.

  25. Can anyone name a better paid media player? I certainly cannot.