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  1. Without ads, I don't know when to go to the bathroom.

    When you start peeing all over the sofa. ...is too late.

  2. Re: Misleading headline? on Supreme Court Won't Hear a Lawsuit Over Defamatory Yelp Reviews (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    At best it will be a push as Congress will pay all working workers, as the Constitution requires (all debts are valid) and, based on past history, will pay all furloughed workers for non-work, effectively giving them paid vacation, something essentially all are willing to put up with, even the whiners in news pieces.

    So financially a push but even bloated wasteful government isn't gonna get the full bang for its buck, so a loss.

  3. Re: What about fake positive reviews? on Supreme Court Won't Hear a Lawsuit Over Defamatory Yelp Reviews (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Easily. Turn off their websites, servers, any properties they have. No online activities of any sort. They can come back in 24 months.

    How much money did a connected person pay to their congressman to get the market Yelp serves opened wide up?

  4. Re:Some protection against reviews would be nice on Supreme Court Won't Hear a Lawsuit Over Defamatory Yelp Reviews (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    People are far more likely to run to the computer and give a bad review than a good one. And this is independent of deliberate fraud.

  5. We have a solution: fast-growing plants buried in non-biodegrading landfills. Or used as construction if wood. Hint: "Running out of landfill space" is leftover 1970s innumeracy, and chemical leeching isn't an issue.

  6. Re:This Method is Uses a TON of Energy on Carbon Capture System Turns CO2 Into Electricity and Hydrogen Fuel (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    It works if you can get alternative energy. As usual, energy is the bottleneck. Humanity can do pretty much anything if it can get enough clean energy.

    Distilling seawater in monster distilleries is a cheap solution for fresh water...with enough such energy.

  7. Re:Guilt by fake news on Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right To Be Forgotten' Case (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    When you click on a Google search result, Google knows this because you're actually clicking a hidden Google link that redirects you to the real web site.

    So apparently 15 people follow Nazi Dilbert, but thousands to millions may have clicked on it, most probably wtffing or laughing rather than "right on!"-ing. This is how Google upranks search results by adding in the click rate as part of their uprank algorithm.

    Somebody has a patent on that but I wouldn't be surprised if Google bought it.

  8. Your choices seem to be government control vs. free for all. Although we ar well past this, another choice was the radio patent owners owned the airwaves and could have sold it off.

    That's pretty much what financially covetous government is doing now anyway.

    Heheh the money from the auctions doesn't even go to cover debt spending from years ago, but rather is spend immediately on top of ongoing borrowing.

  9. Re:Not going to happen on Android Q Will Include More Ways For Carriers To SIM Lock Your Phone (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    How well is life in countries where the government owns all the means of prodiction and doles it out to their families and connected supporters?

  10. Re:Not going to happen on Android Q Will Include More Ways For Carriers To SIM Lock Your Phone (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    Why should members of a corporation not have the right to peaceably assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances, including problems with corporate regulation?

    Even if you buy into sophistry that business-relalated activities are "secondary" rights, complaining to government about how they control it is enshrined just as much as complaining about anything else.

  11. Re:Not going to happen on Android Q Will Include More Ways For Carriers To SIM Lock Your Phone (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    Your ignorance of this decision is so profound I suspect you are a troll rather than a garden variety narrative pusher. But just in case...

    1. Corporations are "people" for the purpose of bringing them under direct control of the laws, which apply to people, as a way of shielding owners from responsibility (usually fines) for wrongdoing. The company is responsible, not the manager or owner, and has to pay, but they can't proceed past that boundary. This isn't to say they can't be personally responsible for something egregious, e.g. murder, but regulations.

    2. The Supreme Court ruled the Citizens United issue had nothing to do with corporate speech in the sense of corporations are people (the mistake you continue to make years later) but rather The People carry their rights with them wherever they go, including joining groups defined by Congress to create benefits. Congress may not strip their First Amendment rights as the price of joining a Congressionally-defined group called a "corporation" just to gain those benefits (see 1 above.)

    tl;dr The People in corporations maintain their First Amendment rights to speak, and Citizens United has nothing to do with corporations "speaking as people".

  12. And the one thing thalidomide proved was pushing it into pregnant women should be done with more care.

    When the down side is death of middle-aged people from cancer and heart disease, the precautionary principle is trivially more murderous than World War II.

    But deaths in front of the camera weigh more than millions of early deaths but-for inventions that were slowed down by regulation.

    The math is brutal.

  13. In 500 years everyone will have 37.5 penii and vajayjays, all aligned for one 4 hour ejaculation.

    Every prediction in that is probably an underestimate.

  14. Dictatorships ape capitalist freedom by giving people who make it look good on the world stage upgraded living conditions for their families. This applies to science and athletics.

    This guy was geeked until the blowback that embarrassed the same system that minutes before was to reward him.

  15. Re:Bigger fines will get attention on Russia Tries To Force Facebook, Twitter To Relocate Servers To Russia (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Russia wants the servers so it can spy better.

    There is nothing noble going on here, assuming GDPR is noble.

  16. Shutting off Internet is so 2016 on We'll Likely See a Rise in Internet Blackouts in 2019 (newamerica.org) · · Score: 1

    Neo-Venezuela: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge the Internet?

    Morpheus-China: No, Venezuela. I'm trying to tell you, when you're ready, you won't have to because we've built for you a system like in Black Mirror where everyone get a citizen rating and if they get too uppity, they can't get loans or rent.

  17. Re:That's not a mistake on AI is Sending People To Jail -- and Getting it Wrong (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Which demonstrates another problem with AI partitioning algorithms. If 99% of Congress is criminal, an algorithm that blanket assigns criminality 100% of the time is perforce 99% accurate.

  18. Re:London has done this for years on Paris Will Make Public Transportation Free for Kids (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    Note to future historians who may be reading this discussion: at the current moment, there's still some work to do on personal air drones with robotic control and coordination to fly people around big cities, which is why there is so much hot air about subways and so on.

    As such, as with time capsules, you are probably more interested in the ads in the back of the newspapers we include than the headlines on the front, the stuff we think is important. So here are some contemporary ads. Burger King currently has a sale on 10 chicken nuggets for $1. McDonald's responded with their 2 for $5 from a choice of 10 McNuggets, Big Mac, Quarter Pounder, and Filet O'Fish.

    Yes, you can get 2 x 10 = 20 McNuggets for $5, but order it as 2x10 rather than 20 because 20 McNuggets is its own separate thing, and they may try to idiotically charge you the higher normal price, which is like $6.80.

  19. The real question is are there more on the way, delayed by some years or decades, that can be redirected to smash into Earth if whatever this is reports back and we are not liked?

    Given the ease with which memeplexes control vast swaths of humanity with dictatorship, hmmmm...

  20. We have nuclear powered ion drives (electricity accelerates ions much faster than chemical rockets, so need much less mass.)

  21. Actually, nobody is posting anything. They are submitting, and electronically at that.

  22. Nope, you are an idiot.

    1) Typing a degree is really had on most keyboards. Everyone recognizes "C" as Celsius unless used in a much different context
    2) Are you fucking serious?
    3) Every physicist will drop the "in a vacuum" part because it is understood.

    Quit trying to sound smart when you are just trying to me a pedant and failing badly.

    He is just trying to b e a pedant.

  23. Actually hammers became powered by water or animals, then steam, then gas, then electricity, and now are controlled by computers and robots if useful.

    So...yeah.

  24. Imagine! on Netflix Says It Has 10 Percent of All TV Time In the US (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They'd have more if they got Buffy and House back.

  25. Rule of Acquisition 354 on Verizon Blames School Text Provider In Dispute Over 'Spam' Fee (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Verizon is a Ferenghi seeking money. The texts you get you pay for with your phone.

    This is like cable companies glomming onto your Netflix fee through back channels even though they charge you directly for your network use and promise you a level of service.