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  1. Re: This whole administration on EPA Proposes Rule Change That Would Let Power Plants Release More Toxic Pollution (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    In other words, ban from political participation factions that won't agree to what we want.

    Strange democracy you have there.

  2. The untrammeled vigor with which one faction is going at the President in a hateful attempt to remove him from office using any justification they can dig up, in violation of the spirit of the 4th Amendment, designed to forbid using the mechanics of government to hurt your political enemies, is very disturbing.

    Oh wait. That was the Republicans against Bill Clinton.

    They brought this on themselves. And it is just as wrong when it strays from the core issue.

  3. Re:Btw the court records show they knew illegal on EPA Proposes Rule Change That Would Let Power Plants Release More Toxic Pollution (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    PROTIP: Don't use PROTIP

  4. Google creates drive. Picture pages move to it. Ugly white on gray, hard to read.

    Eat my shorts, Google.

  5. Re: There's no such country as Kurdistan on Google Erases Kurdistan From Maps in Compliance With Turkish Government (kurdistan24.net) · · Score: 1

    Their fake asses deserve their own Google maps.

  6. Re:Business Model on Sears, the 125-Year-Old Iconic Retailer, Has 24 Hours To Survive (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    About 8 years ago I went by a Sears in the week before Christmas at about 7 pm. There were a few dozen cars around the side entrance, but the vast majority of parking space was empty.

    No A Christmas Story here anymore.

    Marshall Fields was even worse.

  7. Speaking of which, can't these coins be tracked and if someone tries to cash them out, there's your thief?

  8. There's hundreds of billions if not over a trillion you could use for "the poor", cutting from elsewhere in the budget before this.

  9. Re:Latency on 'Sending Astronauts To Mars Would be Stupid' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Also you're far less likely to piss off any natives, who, let's be honest, have far superior technology.

  10. Re:Battlefield Earth on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Good Books You Read This Year? · · Score: 1

    I read Battlefield Earth out of morbid curiosity. It was horrible.

    The first third of so corresponds to the movie, and... Oh, and there's a guy named "Arsebogger" in it.

    Now I wanna read it! >:-(

  11. Re:I read non-fiction mostly ... on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Good Books You Read This Year? · · Score: 2

    The only thing more irritating than those who say you should read Rand are those who say you shouldn't.

  12. Why does the client need to know where everyone behind walls are? They had this issue literally decades ago with Quake and similar. You got a hacked driver and could see through walls. One card reseller even boasted about it as an official option briefly until blowback made them cancel it.

    It also wastes network, a bottleneck for games having truly massive fights.

    Just don't send the info. Send shooting data if it goes visible just nothing else beyond a small hysteresis for the client prediction if it looks like the other guy may pop into view.

  13. Re:Some people don't need a DNA test on What Happens After Surprising DNA Test Results? (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    It'a obvious from the face Chelsea is Bill's daughter. The real question is does Hillary know Chelsea is not her daughter?

  14. Center of empire has moved on to China, which is more economically free than the US and Europe, who have spent the last 75 years making the business climate an effective simulation of a corrupt country where business must pay corrupt officials to get out of the way.

  15. Re:THERE WAS NO ELECTION MEDDLING on US Treasury Sanctions 16 Russians For Hacking, Election Meddling (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, deliberately spreading false statements in an effort to sway voters one way or another sounds like election meddling to me -- trying to add votes is called fraud, not meddling.

    And who is the anointed judge of which statements are true, and which are false?

    You, presumably.

    Political speech is the most protected of all, even lies, lest the government, i.e. those with armed police behind them, become the Arbiters of Truth.

    The question here is you don't know which troll posts are foreign government-placed on myriad sites.

  16. Re: So let's apply the same legal standards to Hil on US Treasury Sanctions 16 Russians For Hacking, Election Meddling (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You are correct. A good chunk of the Constitution revolves around stopping the powerful from siccing the power of government onto their opponents.

    Since we're loving "But they did it!" arguments, the Republicans dragged on the Whitewater investigation to try to ultimately remove Clinton for a "process crime", that they cry is unfair now. Luckily, they didn't remove him for something unrelated to the original investigation. I.e. didn't successfully use the final step to "get" their political enemy, the real motivation.

    And for a stupid reason of infidelity, said reason now also being misused on Trump, but just desserts for Republicans.

    Nobody will learn from this because nobody did learn from it last time.

  17. Re:Dyson made $5 billion, after 5,127 prototypes on Giant Trap Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean Isn't Working (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    What he got right is, "Look! A little tornado! Watch it go 'round!" And idiots bought it so much all other retail makers copied it.

    Don't see that idiotic, inferior stuff in hotels where they use real vacuums.

  18. Doofus and dingus on France Will Tax Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon In New Year (qz.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You fools! This won't be used to reduce the borrowing even a little bit. It will just be spent and the same amount of borrowing will occur!

    Quit blaming companies when the problem is your voracious spending and voting habits!

  19. It did seem like they were looking for idiots who might rush the state, not mass killers.

  20. Isn't this what your emergency contact is for? So they can contact your dad or brother and tell them you've dropped off the face of the earth, go to his house to see if he's dead in front of the computer, pantsdown.

  21. The entire purpose of Facebook is to collect and sell your data, and nothing Zuckerberg has ever done supports the conclusion that privacy is the 'foundation' of Facebook.

    Not quite nothing. The advantage it gave over MySpace that let it overwhelm it was that you could limit views to your friends.

  22. Re:Accidentally on Purpose on Facebook Says A Bug May Have Exposed The Unposted Photos Of Millions Of Users (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 2

    Journalists should follow the money, for people looking to sell fb short, or waiting for it to drop as a buying opportunity.

    I first realized this when, the same week Taser went public, suddenly there was a big story about tasers killing people.

  23. Good for the gander on Google Pledges To Hold Off On Selling Facial Recognition Technology (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The cat is out of the bag. The only safe thing for the future of humanity is to let the people have access to panopticon technology so they can track their politicians with it, too. Otherwise just some secret cabal inside a billion dollar NSA building will have it, with "emergency" access that doesn't require logging, you know, for emergencies.

    Assuming it really bothers to automatically log anything uncorruptibly for later review by security clearence'd elected members of Congress, that is.

  24. Interesting, but this isn't the first 3D printed body part to convincingly mimic the real thing.

  25. Re:Thank you very much on Russian State TV Shows Off 'Robot' That's Actually a Man In a Robot Suit (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm honestly waiting for a large, naked foot to stomp me.

    This isn't a deviant porn site.