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  1. Vlad tells us so! on Russia Admits To Blocking Millions of IP Addresses (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    We don't need no stinking First Amendment! Vlad knows what we should be permitted to see!

  2. Re: Meh on Elon Musk's Alleged Email To Employees on Tesla's Big Picture (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mass production (making all parts within exacting tolerances so they can be swapped, as opposed to being custom fit together in the end product) and the assembly line are the twin juggernauts of modern manufacturing, working hand in hand.

    However, his statement for needless 10x improvement on the formet smacks more of justification FUD for delays than any real need.

  3. You shouldn't have to buy your freedom every year for your land.

    Taxing income or imports and exports s taxing economic activity. Taxing non-activity smacks of South Africa putting a head tax on everyone to force bushmen to get jobs in the diamond mines to pay it.

  4. Re:How about NO sales tax? on Supreme Court Set To Hear Landmark Online Sales Tax Case (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually if you want to help unemployment, encouraging luxury items, which are the least mass produced, if not outright custom, is the best bang for your buck.

    Ironically, throwing it at poor people for them to spend is the worst choice, as they mostly buy the cheapest, most mass-produced things of all, the kind of thinsgs the least likely to induce new hires in response to increased demand.

    But hey, class warfare.

  5. Re:Humble (Ajit) Pie on California Bill Would Restore, Strengthen Net Neutrality Protections (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    The parties are on opposite sides of the political philosophy so important to them in other contexts.

    For that matter, had the Obama rules remained in place, and some state come up with Trump's rules, and tried indignany to roll them out, well, I doubt the dems would be bleating for states' rights, and the republicans for federal domination.

  6. Pee you on Why New York City Stopped Building Subways (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    Fat hobos got too lazy to go down stairs to pee, so more subways not needed.

  7. Well that statement says nothing about whether who you are calling is being charged in addition to their monthly rate to make sure your particular call to them doesn't suck.

    So he doesn't mind degraded service to you, independent of what you pay, after all.

  8. Re:Good! Follow the rules or fuck off on Russia Begins Blocking Telegram Messenger (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Silicon Valley doesn't get a pass because they are currently the 'hot thing'. No one is exempt from rules and regulations.

    To quote the Russian Ambassador to the UK when giving an award to James Bond for saving Silicon Valley from Max Zoren, "After all, where would Russian computers be without it?"

    Learn your own history, Russian!

  9. Re:And nothing about sulfur? on Carbon Dioxide From Ships at Sea To Be Regulated For First Time (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    So don't stop the way ships run.

  10. Re:And nothing about sulfur? on Carbon Dioxide From Ships at Sea To Be Regulated For First Time (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I heard there's a clever guy in California who has designed a plane that can fly downwind faster than the wind. He just needs a few million...

  11. He goes on to lament the lack of "true listening" between tech and law enforcement, saying that "the leaders of the tech companies don't see the darkness the FBI sees," such as terrorism and organized crime.

    You colossally ignorant savage, you see tiny issues like terrorism and organized crime and don't see the darkness George Orwell, the Founding Fathers, and many others saw -- a boot stepping on a human face, forever.

    Billions continue to live in despotism as their leaders use the tech you want for "crime" to catch and punish any challengers to their power.

    Both Russia and China have leaders currently consolidating power for the long term, at least partly because of the lack of crypto government can't get into.

    Thou impious fool.

  12. So is an American reading your trolling supposed to slap his face like Curly and go "Woo woo woo woo woo woo" and start punching things randomly?

  13. Re:Fucking SWAT team on Jailed Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Sneaks Online, Threatens More 'Swats' (kansas.com) · · Score: 1

    They may be lying about the motions the man made, but discovering he had no gun afterwards does not imply a cop should psychically know this when the guy makes a motion towarss his waste.

    Perhaps the training could be improved. Perhaps the cop was lying. But magically knowing there isn't a gun in his pocket isn't a realistic condition, nor is risking one's life on the off chance the sudden movement is innocuous.

    There are plenty of videos where cops get shot because even with full training.

  14. Re:Cops investigating themselves on Jailed Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Sneaks Online, Threatens More 'Swats' (kansas.com) · · Score: 2

    This is not true. While the cops may be stretching the truth or outright lying, it is reasonable to suspect someone reaching towards their wasteband to be potentially going for a gun, especially one unseen on the other side of the body that cannot be seen, or a pocket, or a waistband, mayne covered by a shirt.

    More Monday morning quarterbacking. The error here is definitely the false swat and maybe the cops, but if so, not because of what you said.

  15. Re:They kicked me out anyway on Yahoo's New Privacy Policy Allows Data-Sharing With Verizon (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Aol is pushing a recovery ph number, still optional. I presume they are lying and that the real reason is so they can tie together disparate tracking databases.

  16. it's probably useful to remember what happened when Draper tried splitting California into six states. He ultimately turned in 1.3 million signatures for a ballot measure in 2014, "only to see nearly half of them disqualified.

    Ballot attempts are poisoned by those who oppose them who deliberately turn in fraudulent signatures. So you overshoot to try to compensate.

    50%, though. That is one mighty effort. I have to assume it was by people who don't want a net gain of 2 senators for the Republicans as the population gets more accurate and plentiful representation.

  17. Re:Will the tables turn? on Trade War Or Not, China is Closing the Gap on US in Technology IP Race (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The nations that are most economically free, meaning they can respond to market demands without kowtowing to officials are the ones at the top.

    As China becomes economically freer, they should take this lead.

  18. Don't crush my groove, man! on Google is Testing Self-Destructing Emails in New Gmail (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    "In fact, the only place it won't be destroyed is in our databases we give access to government! You have nothing to hide, repeal the 4th now!"

  19. Re:Counterfeit screen? on Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In reality, fake parts are often run off on the exact same assembly lines, usually in 3rd world countries, but using inferior metal and material.

    These can fail, which have in the case of jet engine parts.

    Big companies include in their contracts that this shall not be done with their assembly lines, and often track fakes by real part number for sale on the Internet.

    Is a cheaper screen not UL? Or is the issue him pretending it is an Apple one? What about the claim, "It is just as good!"

    Most will side with him, though ironically will change position with something like Uber driving. Huh.

  20. Re:Oh right, the power question on A Coal Power Plant is Being Reopened For Blockchain Mining (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    The left has a ban rationale for dams! (Fish, moving people, flooding archaeology, flooding spoor moss owl noots), wind (whackabird, noise, nimby), solar (nimby, birds bursting into flames, noots)

    Wait, what was the subject again?

  21. Re:God damn it on A Coal Power Plant is Being Reopened For Blockchain Mining (cnet.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Are not coal plants heavily regulated for filters? It may release more CO2, but that isn't "polluting the hell" out of anything.

  22. Like, say, of Natalie Portman? on The Personality Traits That Put You At Risk For Smartphone Addiction (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a similar test to see if you use the media platform Slashdot:

    1. Do you masturbate chronically?
    2. Do you play computer games chronically?
    3. Are you over 300 lbs.?

  23. Re:Netflix will just build its own Cannes on Netflix Pulls Out of Cannes Following Rule Change (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    The Oscars were for the express purpose of drumming up interest in movies to sell more tickets, which profits studios and theaters both. Cannes, too.

    Letting Netflix in just benefits Netflix as it is both studio and a single "theater".

    You are seeing a collision of the reality of awards shows vs. the surface fiction of "recognizing a superb job". It never really has been the latter.

    Surprise! Snubs are not really snubs.

  24. He crashed into something. Even if the AI got confused because of crappy lines, it should have detected a big old barrier there. Would it assram a stopped car? It should have item detectors scanning for its likely paths (as well as escape routes) so it knows where not to drive and where it can swerve if necessary.

    Apparently it can't even tell if it needs to swerve to avoid something stopped.

  25. Re: Free speech doesn't mean only the speech you on Reddit Continues To Protect Racist Language In Favor of Free Speech (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    We're currently witnessing the bizarre spectacle of the owner of a giant media company sheepishly explaining to elected congressmen why he's failing to censor unpopular viewpoints those in power favor censored.