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  1. Re:Someone grab the popcorn on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    If I only knew what twitter-like company he would move to, now is the time to invest.

    Twitter was largely created by Ashton Kutcher using it, and then other celebs. I.e. it was the cool kids' spot. MySpace was killed by kids switching to cooler facebook. How well will the left's tantrums justifying corporate censorship-as-feature compare to an uncensored twitter clone of the bad boys?

  2. Re:Day 4 executive order. on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Your analogy is silly. The Supreme Court has already delineated speech integral to criminality and, as far as threats go, they have to be exhortations to immediate lawless behavior. "I think soandso should be killed" is ok unless you are leading a crowd or something. This doesn't mean it can't be a red flag for investigation, just that it can't be prosecuted on its own.

    There are many liberals, who spent the past 50 years defending free speech, who are terrified for the future because of people like you, who want to flat out declare hate speech illegal in and of itself. This opens a crack to outlawing other speech, and soon you are like dictatorships, filtering the news "to save the sensibilities of the people", which is an actual argument they use to censor CNN, and now, social media.

  3. Yes...but if fresh strawberries came in in load, there would probably be a stampede.

    Anyway, if I were him and died there, I would want by body bagged and buried inward towards the pole a little with a sign that said, "Do not touch until tech can resurrect me k thx bie."

  4. Re:As a UK Citizen on The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance [Update] (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I love how people get bent out of shape over corporations doing this, when all they care about is putting you into different advertising bins so they can earn a few percent more on ads. Meanwhile they lie back, largely uncaring (if not outright massively liking) government doing far more, creating a panopticon, the type of tool exactly desired and abused by dictators.

    If you want to aavoid dicatorship in the long run, you must prevent the tools of tyrrany from being created in the first place.

  5. Re:As a UK Citizen on The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance [Update] (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the real Troll Trace from South Park coming down the pike -- the inevitable hacking of some government Internet monitoring database, and bam, every site every IP ever accessed pops up.

    Good luck if any government official goes to jail for this 1984-style grotesquerie.

  6. And in 50 to 200 years, you can grow as many manatee as you want in jars and dump a million into the ocean.

    These are only problems from a static viewpoint. A hundred years from now is less predictable than now is from 1900, when a lack of filthy cars meant waking up every morning with a layer of clean, organic, natural horse shit dust on your furniture.

  7. Re:Why, does it work properly now? on Newest Skype For Linux Enables SMS Text Messages From The Desktop (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    IOS has let me do this for years now. But nice work on getting up to 2012 or so, M$

    Ah but does it offer the same features of scanning your messages to sort you into various advertising bins?

    Ah who am I kidding? Of course it does!

  8. Get in the way to get paid to get out of the way on Schools Funded By Gates and Zuckerberg Ordered Closed In Uganda (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    How bizarre. Either

    1. Somebody didn't pay their unofficial participation tax.

    Or

    2. Local resistance to alternative school ahh hahahahaha biting the Kind Hearted in the ass.

    It is, of course, #1.

  9. "Besides the NSA, CIA, FBI, and confederate agent operatives embedded in same for both major parties, that is."

  10. Re:Computer scientists don't understand sociology on Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps the single largest reason for the massive miscalculation of predictions was the vast social pressure against admitting you wanted to vote for Trump. This is why we have secret ballots, to forestall such pressures and threats of retaliation.

  11. If the bit is flipped before being fed into the blockchain...

  12. I remember way back when, when Apple shifted Macs from 68000-based processors to the Power PC. Instantly, the fastest 68000-based Mac was the 68000 emulation mode of the Power PC. And native was faster still.

  13. And when a judge in Europe said "jail or unintertwine", they literally showed how it could be done with no months-long OS reprogramming required and just an uninstall. Imagine that.

    Just like your non-replacable batteries in new cell phones are easily replacable socket batteries, just behind a sticker saying you violate warranty if you do so.

  14. Re:You realize that homeopathic treatments are wat on The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham (vox.com) · · Score: 2

    Gravity cures all diseases if you jump from high enough.

  15. It's years down the road where it becomes a problem.

    Dictatorships seize what was free market infrastructure, and, gosh!, is everything great -- see how great I am, the politician who brought you this!!! Then years down the road, when it gets old, and real competition is killed off, do the failures manifest.

    See Venezuela for a recent example, or Cuba with 50 year old American cars held together with twine, for examples.

    "But as long as there are free markets somewhere on the planet, we can re-buy upgrades!!!"

    Not helping your case any.

  16. Re:Censorship has never improved society on German Minister: Facebook Should Be Treated Like a Media Company Rather Than a Technology Platform (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    As I've said, naive and wrong.

    What's clownishly naive is asserting government control over speech can be wielded...properly.

    All government has to do to wield it safely...is to get most people behind the censorship. Then you get to silence the government's opposition. I mean The People's opposition.

    Oh hell, the opposition to those in power.

    You talk brownshirts beating people up? Where are the modern cameras of today, and the Internet, to keep an eye on them?

    It is the power to censor that got Germany into that mess, officially, and unofficially by beating people up.

  17. Re:NASA NuStar 2012 on China Launches World's First Pulsar Navigation Satellite (ibtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they detected alien signals that can only be found outside the atmosphere from the pulsars, and don't want anyone knowing!

  18. Figured it out in 5th grade on Facebook Puts Deep Learning in the Palm of Your Hand (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook Puts Deep Learning in the Palm of Your Hand

    Nerds have always had deep learning from the palm of their hand.

  19. Solved by 9 am. on Fake Shopping Apps Are Invading the iPhone (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    How to clean this up: Make Apple pay for fraud using fake lookalike apps.

  20. Re:Fox News headline version on Wikipedia's Not as Biased as You Might Think, Say Harvard Researchers (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Fox news was a stroke of business genius -- have a different slant that doesn't make people feel attacked. It worked and shot to popularity.

    The problem with ABC and to a lesser degree CNN is their True Believers refuse to recognize an equal bias on "their side" (to say nothing of NPR.)

    Most bias isn't in fact checking, but the choice of stories to harp on, all day, every day, shouldn't the govrnment do something, wink!

  21. Games with PC versions still don't support KB&M on consoles.

    The controller users just won't have it.

    Had the first Max Payne on both console (son) and PC. The console was unplayable while the PC an FPS delight.

  22. A minor joke character to use when even the Avengers and Fantastic Four can't handle it.

    And now, the sad truth: she has more power than Aquaman for most situations.

  23. Back in the day, black ink used in throwaway printings like pulp paper newspapers and comics was pig blood-based. Cheap was the name of the game.

  24. Re:Isn't this just a regular black hole? on A Naked Black Hole Is Screaming Through the Universe (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    That is due to improperly sufficient wiping.

  25. And then require that every law on the books be read aloud once every 6 years or the law expires.

    I've been advocating law experation without renewal for years. It forces elected legislatures to review previous generations' laws for problems and continued validity.

    It also recognizes the lower weight assigned to simple majority decisions (as opposed to supermajorities).

    If there is too much for the government to do even a cursory review every 5 years, there's too much to expect The People to obey it all.