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  1. I remember the good old days when 32-bit apps that were "32-bit clean" were the happenin' cool kids.

    And Apple 16 vs. 32-bit messy/clean was a breath of clarity compared to the PC's Eeny Tiny Mini Small Medium Large Huge and Gigundoid memory models (on a computer where 640k was enough ram for anybody.)

  2. Re:There is NO "right to be forgotten" on Google Seeks To Limit 'Right To Be Forgotten' By Claiming It's Journalistic (cjr.org) · · Score: 1

    I was being sarcastic. That, finally, censorship may be safely wielded as long as it is by The People via democratic process!

  3. Re:I'm pretty sure the headline is backwards on Tech Giants Like Amazon and Facebook Should Be Regulated, Disrupted, or Broken Up: Mozilla Foundation (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    A colon *PRECEDES* a list or a more detailed explanation of whatever was immediately before it.

    A colon *PRECEDES* a government virtual weener in regulatory action.

    Slow down, government! Donors to the politicians contemplating forcing a breakup haven't had enough time to financially maneuver to take advantage of a prospective forced breakup yet!

  4. Re:Anything related to Antifa is toast on Trump Signs Law Weakening Shield For Online Services (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's ok. Any law that tangentially severely stifles speech has always been upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court.

  5. It's actually greater knowledge than this on Mark Zuckerberg Denies Knowledge of Non-Consensual Shadow Profiles Facebook Has Been Building of Non-Users For Years · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lujan: I don't have a Facebook account. What does your shadow profile of me say?
    Zuckerberg: Just a sec...it says you enjoy viewing Natalie Portman on Wikibellybutton.
    Lujan: Wtf, I just jer...did that for the first time last night!

  6. It was the liberals who, via the ACLU, defended Nazi rights to march against the outraged more conservative masses in the 1970s and 80s.

    Now they lead the charge for censorship? Huh?

  7. No, the Schroedinger's cat doesn't "got my tongue" on Tech Giants Like Amazon and Facebook Should Be Regulated, Disrupted, or Broken Up: Mozilla Foundation (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    As their capacity to make sense of massive amounts of data grows through advances in artificial intelligence and quantum computing

    Wow! I had no idea quantum computing was ready for prime time!

    I thought it was still a lab experiment of a handful of bits, with nobody sure if it was even working or not.

  8. All who participated in the violent felony are responsible for all deaths as a result. This includes other criminals shot by police or even bystanders accidentally shot by police shooting at the criminal.

    Don't wanna be charged with murder? Don't commit a crime with the risk of death.

  9. Advertising for illegal things like prostitution is illegal when you are part of the operation. Maybe prostitution shouldn't be illegal, but it is, and advertising for it is, and knowingly providing advertising space for it is, too.

    Note it's the participation that is illegal, not the ad itself, which you can reproduce and talk about as long as you are not part of the operation, like a journalist or facebook meme vector.

  10. The Supreme Court has ruled govenment cannot be the arbiter of truth w.r.t. the First Amendment, especially in politics.

  11. Re:There is NO "right to be forgotten" on Google Seeks To Limit 'Right To Be Forgotten' By Claiming It's Journalistic (cjr.org) · · Score: 0

    Europe suffered over 30 million deaths in living memory at the hands of regimes that overrode freedom of speech...and over a hundred million in Russia continue the same.

    What a goof to convince the common man to feel in charge, and that therefore, finally! Censorship can be wielded responsibly!

  12. Can I hate, too? Please? on Canada Has Pulled Off a Brain Heist (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Yay! A truimph validating hatred of Trump by bribing scientists with taxpayer dollars for $350k to $1M a year, minimum 7 years!

  13. Re: Funny on Canada Has Pulled Off a Brain Heist (axios.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    All leftist politicians have very forward-thinking 5 and 10 year plans, conveniently past the next election. They are like the guy daily wearing a sign that the world will end tomorrow...always tomorrow.

  14. Re: go canada on Canada Has Pulled Off a Brain Heist (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    infinite : adj without end. "There were infinite nitpicky anonymous cowards this morning," he observed.

  15. Without pestacides is a cloyingly idiotic stance. If any insects get free on an alien planet, fully exterminsting them as quickly as possible is the name of the game.

    There is no environmentalist issue here. They need to bring pestacides (i.e. budget for it in transition) just in case. Maybe not much, and something that can be powderized and is safe in a contained space, but they need it.

  16. We're working on robot lovers as fast as we can!

  17. Re:Business as usual on Google Workers Urge CEO To Pull Out of Pentagon AI Project (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    This would be to increase analysis thus decreasing collateral damage. That is a good thing (except save that highly accurate stuff might increase a tendency to use it, but I doubt that is their point.)

    A better question is the development of that kind of capability at all, as it makes it easier for a smaller cabal to rule with their robots.

    Of course our government leads the charge in creating a panopticon with little more than a checkbox, "You did bother to get a warrant, right?" to catch a few criminals, and this is dutifully abused by places like China and Russia to spy on and hassle political opponents.

    I'm sure they have no unlogged back end a G. Gordon Liddy type could abuse.

  18. Re:It's an incredible movie, but not a great story on The 50th Anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" · · Score: 1

    In 2001, Hal was distorted by the monolith. In 2010 suddenly he wasn't. No, thanks.

  19. Re:Oh, God, not again! on The 50th Anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" · · Score: 1

    Not something to brag about.

  20. Re: And it's still basically unwatchable. on The 50th Anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" · · Score: 2

    That isn't something to brag about.

    Don't you trolled contrarians need to get back to 4chan or something?

  21. Re:Mass Surveillance, Reef Construction, MitE, on China Lays Claim To Four Great New Inventions That Have Existed Elsewhere Before (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They are good communists. That's why they need to share bikes rather then producing enough for everyone to have one cheaply. This is changing...as they stray from communism.

  22. Re:Just plain propaganda is all... on China Lays Claim To Four Great New Inventions That Have Existed Elsewhere Before (bbc.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Russia wouldn't just claim invention -- they would wait until after someone invented it, then claim they invented it first.

  23. Re:Idiotic on Coffee Requires Cancer Warning, California Judge Rules (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Reminds me of the Great Society v.2.0 where government rewarded law firms that "discovered" idiotic violations of diabilities laws.

    Find a business with a stair railing 2 inches too high or low? $8725 to your firm!

  24. Re:Well, if coffee needs a cancer warning... on Coffee Requires Cancer Warning, California Judge Rules (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The decision to live in a sunny state like California many times over increases your chance of (skin) cancer vs. this.

    "Come to California, and increase your risk in spite of all the regations protecting you!"

  25. Re:numb to actual danagers on Coffee Requires Cancer Warning, California Judge Rules (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Or be driven to other drinks that might be worse, if still highly safe, like soft drinks or diet pop.

    Draining your wallet of $5 for coffee might be more dangerous by making you fractionally poorer.

    A government with its regulatory finger in everything may slow economic progress by making society fractionally closer to a corrupt dictatorship in net effect on investment, thus delaying improvements to length of life a tiny bit.

    Best not to look too deeply into that, though.