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  1. Re:So global warming started... on Global Warming Started 180 Years Ago Near Beginning of Industrial Revolution, Says Study (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    It is because we burned all that that we sit here with 2016 technology not dying of different diseases and injuries and infections and feeding many multiples of people per acre than they did.

    I have no desire to slow this progress. We would literally, and I mean literally, be better off in the year 2100 or 2300 with risen seas and 2100 or 2300 tech than lower seas and 2050 or 2200 tech.

    People in the mid 1800s slamming on the brakes, leaving us with year 1890 or 1930 tech would be no friend to humanity.

    And no, you can't have your cake and it too. Business doesn't care why it is hobbled. Hundreds of century long economic experiments showed that over the same time period.

  2. They don"t, but uninvolved (in the crime) people further downstream do have the right to take a picture and publish.

    In the US, anyway.

  3. Type 50 wpm or 200 scenarios mashed per minute on PlayStation 3 Games Are Coming To PC (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Screw this shit. 99% of PC games are already console games, ported. Stupid button-mashing idiocy.

    Who the hell is sitting in design rooms slamming their fists on the table demanding people switch buttons to mash every second, half-second, quarter second? Faster faster faster! Mash, switch, mash!

  4. Re: Confused on Activists Call For General Strike On the Tor Network (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That reads like a gross oversimplification. For what it's worth, SJWs were responsible for the Magna Carta, various freedom leaning constitutions, women's suffrage, and the end of wide scale slavery, among many other things.

    Fair enough. All of that was working for freedom, more power to them.

    But at least some of modern SJWism is devoted to censorship. Rather than work for freedom, they seek to twist government power to oppress and carve out space for their favored factions.

    It is terrifying a whole generation is being raised to think offending people is damaging, and therefore government may censor. It may take another 40 years before this gets approved by a more sympathetic supreme court. But there goes freedom as protecting the people, used as justification for censorship in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, will be enshrined as a valued principle in the United States.

  5. Thank god they have a Republican governor who will veto this anti-freedom, anti-capitalist, entrenched-interest, rent-seeking law!!!

    Republican Governor Charlie Baker signed the law, which specifically bans ride-sharing services from passing those costs on to their drivers or riders.

    Oh.

    How does not passing on costs work, anyway? This is an accounting gimmick as they take it out of what they charge the drivers for app use. This just prevents it from being called out as a line item. Which should impact freedom of speech.

    Sue for it.

  6. Re:What grudge? The editor's? on Has WikiLeaks Morphed Into A Malware Hub? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    It is of concern to know who received what malware. Is it generic spam or meme forwarding, or targeted social engineering against particular officials?

    Still, they could remove links and replace it with a pointer to a malware db they create, for anyone so interested.

  7. Re:Oh please on 100 Unofficial Mods Released for 'No Man's Sky' (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Did it fix alt-tab in and out of fullscreen?

    Did it let you build a host of robots to fend off drones? It is clear these drones are a grey goo scenario in progress with dozens covering every square mile of quadrillions of planets.

    Fighting that is the real game.

  8. Now this is honest -- unlimited but with video throttling, more for no video throttling. You accept a known agreement which also recognizes the reality.

    Compare vs. sneakily extorting some of what you pay Netflix or they will crapify your Netflix, contrary to their agreement.

  9. Wait, what about Mouse? on Malware Infected All Eddie Bauer Stores In US, Canada (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 0

    Thank god for Slashdotters they aren't a big and tall store!

  10. STOPPPPPPP! on Has The NSF Automated Coding with ExCAPE? (adtmag.com) · · Score: 1

    The joke's on you! This is just another of the latest and greatest, for ever and ever frameworks to re-implement everything in. Another latest and greatest, for ever and ever framework, no need for anything more, ever, we really mean it this time, will come along again shortly.

    I've been through about 10 of them during my quarter century career.

  11. Re:dream on on Will New Battery Technologies Smash The Old Order? (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Have a 1600 megawatt tater battery?

  12. I will wait until the lines shorten on Skype For Windows Phone Will Stop Working in 2017 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Killing a popular app because it is too expensive for your niche (i.e. "me too" phone) product means good luck, niche.

    You serve no purpose.

  13. and then allowed attackers to take full control of the device.

    Who's playing my Pokemon Go?!?

  14. Re: Waiting for next ---FBI--- story here. on Irish Court Orders Alleged Silk Road Admin To Be Extradited To US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Car autpilots are core as it gets for news for nerds. Go elsewhere.

  15. Re:Does this ever happen the other way? on Irish Court Orders Alleged Silk Road Admin To Be Extradited To US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting. However the article does not mention if she was acting under official instruction or had gone rogue. If the administration pushed this kind of thing, they should properly take a black eye, but not give up underlings.

  16. Re:So no more soveriegn countries then ? on Irish Court Orders Alleged Silk Road Admin To Be Extradited To US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    He also was selling into the US. You no more get to do that than you get to lob rockets across a border and get away with it.

    Now if that crime was not also illegal in Ireland, you may have a case.

  17. Re: Proof of China's Superiority... on China Starts Developing Hybrid Hypersonic Spaceplane (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Information in China may want to be free, but good luck staying out of jail.

    There is no reason to be happy China stole ideas.

  18. Re:Even plenty of Americans do... on US Seizure of Kim Dotcom's Assets Will Stand, Says Appeals Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The object is asserted to be obviously used in, or gotten from, criminal activity. Like a knife plunged into someone's back, it is seized.

    That is the theory. The flaw is the ease with which government can seize things with little actual justification. A wad of cash gets seized because, like the stacked books in the original Ghostbusters, no person would actually do it that way. So it must be crime cash.

    This is wrong. Now throw in the police get to keep and use that cash (or sales from seized stuff) for its own operations, and you have the exact problem the founding fathers sought to prevent -- people in power abusing laws to their own financial benefit.

    That it is their day job benefitting rather than their personal accounts is of little difference to the people harmed.

  19. Hours or days vs. nanoseconds to spy on Microsoft Disables RC4 In Internet Explorer 11 and Edge (winbeta.org) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It was pointless at this point. Security agencies don't need to waste "hours or days" decrypting weak schemes when they can just use provided backdoors anyway.

  20. "Is it 'The Joker' or just 'Joker'?" Kim asked. on Suicide Squad Fan Suing Studio For 'False Advertising' Over Lack of Joker Scenes (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    For that matter, I feel like suing because the Joker was in the movie.

  21. This is not a joke -- other countries is one thing, but the high seas must remain free and open to trade according to international treaty and convention and laws of the sea.

    And that means sailing inside the 12 mile military limits on these artificial islands, which are expressly not recognized as granting economic or military exclusion.

  22. Serving griefers paying customer fodder on Car Thieves Arrested After Using Laptop and Malware To Steal More Than 30 Jeeps (abc13.com) · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of Ultima Online where locks on your house were useless against thief characters.

  23. It only fails if you turn it on on NASA Celebrates Curiosity's Fourth Year On Mars With a Game (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The virtual rover's wheels crack and break if they slam hard against rocks

    Really? That's the best wheel your NASA money could come up with?

  24. Re:Illusions on Researchers Discover How To Fool Tesla's Autopilot System (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed it is illegal. Saying this is a flaw with their system is like saying a Russian or Chinese guy who runs out and leaps on your hood for an insurance scam is a flaw in the driver.

  25. Prohibit television broadcasts, too.

    Why? Those don't show any sports, either.