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  1. Re:Bumper in Saskatchewan on Unsent Text On Mobile Counts As a Will, Australian Court Finds (abc.net.au) · · Score: 2

    That is more clear. An unsent draft is just that -- an unapproved, unreleased draft.

    You'd have to magically know he intended to send it but died in the process, or had told someone "you can find it in the drafts folder".

    Until then, it can't be construed as validated precisely because of its context, regardless of its qualifying content.

  2. ALERT ALERT ALERT LAUNCH ALL RUSSIA SHILLS!!!

    Claim it is US corporate interests against Russia company; failure imminent. Redirect rhetoric to: If this were Germany or UK or Israel it would be no big deal, so why for friend Russia?

  3. Microsoft apparently reports all you do backbto their servers, where they no doubt have a deal to let the government examine it without warrant because of the 3rd party doctrine. Thus there will be no antitrust as this is too valuable.

  4. Stop playing Warcraft on North Korean Hackers Stole U.S.-South Korean Military Plans, Lawmaker Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    plan to remove the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, referred to as a "decapitation" plan

    "Hey fatass! I know how you can lose 10 pounds real quick!"

  5. Re:So, back on topic on 'Sooty Birds' Reveal Hidden US Air Pollution (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    And the horse shit dust, too. People don't realize how much cleaner the air is now.

  6. Re:truth in advertising on Ask Slashdot: Is Deliberately Misleading People On the Internet Free Speech? · · Score: 1

    "on the internet" matters when it's an issue of Bob lying to sell a widget on Amazon. If Bob was in a store selling widgets, the fraud is clear. If Bob is effectively anonymous and Amazon is the seller, with Bob's referral code, once the product arrives and the fraud is detected, taking action against Bob is almost impossible.

    It's not about "legal" but "enforceable". They are different, but related.

    Amazon gets no pass in this situation -- go after them. Safe harbor laws protect against copyright infringement as long as the web site removes violations when notified in a timely manner.

    There is no such thing AFAIK to protect against sales, and sure as hell not against snake oil frauds.

  7. Re:Wrong headline on How Comcast is Shortchanging Customers In Vermont (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it should read:

    Comcast says its first amendment free speech is being violated, but nevermind that, we won't present that argument. Rather, here's some rhetoric from a kind-hearted public-spirited regulator what's wrong with that guy he's sweeeeeeeet!

    I'm fine with stories that present both sides, but this is flat-out bullshit. Which would also be a more accurate headline.

  8. Re:She is not the only victim here. on Cyberstalking Suspect Arrested After VPN Providers Shared Logs With the FBI (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    No, "we as a society" decided no such thing. We punish people in jail, and execute murderers. You can rephrase those things, but they are vengeance nevertheless.

  9. Re:Or you could just... on Scientists Race To Create Synthetic Blood in the Wake of Mass Tragedies (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a new meme floating around that the number of gun deaths in the US is just now passing the number of war deaths. This Is Bad. Or Something.

    Nevermind that most of these are suicides, not murder. (Still an issue, but not the Big Scary they intend rhetorically.)

    Nevermind that the US has had very few war deaths compared to its population size compared to basically every other country.

    Nevermind that most countries lost those lives because of dictatorship, whose first order of business is outlawing guns and free speech, going hand in hand arresting political opponents and publishers on trumped up charges. Men appearing in the middle of the night to disappear you? Wish real hard.

    By the terms of the Second Amendment, any death comparison involving guns must include deaths due to loss of freedom.

    The logical conclusion, as Spock would say? Get lost, mass murderous Europe, Asia, and Africa. You have literally negative proof gun control saves net lives the past 200+ years of the US' existence.

    Before the inevitable downmod by the censorious who have had their noses snapped, read my .sig.

  10. Re:Slow down, scientists on Scientists Race To Create Synthetic Blood in the Wake of Mass Tragedies (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Holy cow! What a great idea -- synthetic and alternatives to human blood! If only someone had thought to start research on it centuries ago!

    Why did no one think of this??? It's obvious we can use it...in hindsight.

    Talk about Captain Obvious. Duh to all of us, all humanity!

  11. 6 hours? More importantly can you run a country on 3 hours of sleep?

  12. People will now be hearing all kinds of "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra", finally realizing how much of what we say is in phrases and not words.

    Ahh, their eyes open; their sails unfurl.

  13. Re: Other Nobel prizes on The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, inspire is evident in that it is not given to the deceased.

    However, they must show significant accomplishment so as to he a good bet. Of course, regression to the mean usually means that's the only truly major accomplishment. That's why guys like Newton and Einstein with multiple major accomplishments stand out like a sore thumb.

  14. Re:An easy solution on The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobel was upset Dynamite was being used in war and not just for peaceful purposes like mining and hogging out cliff faces for roads.

    Cheney's Haliburton's primary business model is predicated on the existence of ongoing wars, wars that it may supply all non-direct combat logistics. If its "in the rear with the gear", it seems like they want their finger in it.

  15. Re:Nobels in Science Seem OK, It's Peace... on The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    It was the "Yay Geo. W. is gone!" prize. Regardless of how much Obama may have wanted to join in in that international slap in the face to Bush, he should have declined it as it is beneath the office of the president to do so.

  16. Re:Depends on what you do with each half on When You Split the Brain, Do You Split the Person? (aeon.co) · · Score: 2

    If they took half my brain and transplanted it to a new body, which one would be me?

    Whichever side stayed inside, scared to ask out a girl.

    I'm sorry, that was mean of me. Of my mean lobe.

  17. I think it is closer to a Genius Grant in that respect. Guy is dead so he won't be doing any more work.

  18. Publishers were required to allow three free articles per day which Google indexed so that they appeared in searches for a particular topic or keyword. Opting out of the FCF feature was detrimental because it demoted a publisher's ranking on Google Search and Google News.

    Wait wait hold on a sec. I thought Google played innocent on rankings by claiming it was all algorithms.

  19. This assumes the super-universe simulating us has physics even remotely like ours. It could be trivial to perform uncounted gooleplex operations a second. Indeed, a cosmic speed limit sounds suspiciously like something one might add to a universe to prevent control over everything.

  20. Re:Russian "donations" to the Clinton Foundation? on What Isn't Telegram Saying About Its Connections To the Kremlin? (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    The guy who stood up to a coup in Russia had difficutly winning?

    Only against dictator wannabees trying to cheat, maybe.

  21. Re:Beware Propaganda on What Isn't Telegram Saying About Its Connections To the Kremlin? (theoutline.com) · · Score: 0

    Better Translation: Russian schills tout Hillary will start a war with Putin. Now that she lost, somebody else is pushing it. Leave Puty alone!!!

  22. I thought the EU required basic protections of things like free speech, in addition to granting Brussels the power to regulate eggplant purpleness!

  23. Re:Time for Finesse on AT&T Seeks Supreme Court Review On Net Neutrality Rule (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If the ISPs would, in their contract with me, the home consumer, clearly call out that their speed for me was a lie, and that they are going to crappify my Netflix connection unless Netflix give them a cut of what I pay Netflix, then fine.

    Until then, regulate away!

  24. Re:Revoke their corporate charters. on AT&T Seeks Supreme Court Review On Net Neutrality Rule (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Uh, you are confusing capitalism with communism. Corporations don't exist for serving the public but for harvesting it.

    Still no difference, except that communism does a much better job of leaving fields unplantable for next season.

  25. Re:Revoke their corporate charters. on AT&T Seeks Supreme Court Review On Net Neutrality Rule (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes but there are factions benefitting from knowingly letting you misinterpret the "hacking".