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  1. Because it could be either way.

  2. Only have to lose once... on Researchers Find Antidepressants Increase Risk of Death (medicalxpress.com) · · Score: 1

    Depression is a battle that you only have to lose once. Just having depression can mean fighting thoughts of stepping out in front of a train or wondering if that knife would be sharp enough to cut your wrists before it hurts to stop.

  3. Wow, doing what Google did a year ago. on Cortana Now Reminds You To Do the Things You Promised in Emails (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I am amazed.

  4. Isn't that the opposite? on Stanford Engineers Propose A Technology To Break The Net Neutrality Deadlock (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    I mean, you are literally saying that some traffic will be given precedence by request. That's literally the opposite of treating all traffic equally.

  5. I had Centurylink try to sell me 1M DSL when I moved into an old apartment (a downgrade of about 15M that I had with Centurylink before), so I bit the bullet and got Xfinity internet (no phone, no cable) for about 30M. More than I wanted to spend, but it isn't sucktastic in speeds.

    Still waiting for Google Fiber to move into the neighborhood.

  6. Re:Funny humanity on Class of Large But Very Dim Galaxies Discovered (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't the science behind Dark Matter something that basically does not match the real world? They just hope that it explains away an inconsistency in the overall model. To some scientists, it's really bad science.

  7. Snowden hates Hillary... on 'The Hillary Leaks' - Wikileaks Releases 19,252 Previously Unseen DNC Emails (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 2

    ...because she's stated that she would back prosecuting him if he came back to the USA. (This is one of the few, main points that I disagree with her policy myself, BTW).
    So if Hillary gets elected, he's got at least another four years before he can try to come back under a (possibly) different president.

  8. So they are being obtuse on purpose, right? on Comcast To Offer Pay-As-You-Go TV, Broadband Service (dslreports.com) · · Score: 2

    Because people want ala-carte, not pay as you go. I swear businesses really are trying to be stupid.

  9. Re:The DNC overlords always get their way on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup, she did, because rallies aren't elections. Bernie paid a lot of money to make sure he had tons of people at his rallies. But they didn't show up to vote.

  10. Re: The DNC overlords always get their way on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure how you get beyond 100% unqualified.

    Hillary is corrupt, and a criminal, and a terrible choice. Trump has proposed arming middle eastern despots with nuclear weapons, and is pro-nuclear proliferation. That is how you go beyond 100%.

    And amazingly (really!) not a single shred of evidence, not even a single indictment. Yet somehow she's the criminal, while the Rump is basically a businessman mafioso.

  11. James Comey laid it on thick. on DOJ Will Not File Charges Against Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (politico.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    He was very, very careful in his phrasing (and then large on hyperbole) with what he stated. He claimed two emails carried 'confidential markings' (which was only sorta true) and then switched gears on confidential emails (which is, in fact different). There are maybe 30-40 emails that were sent that had confidential or higher (most were just confidential). So about .006% error rate on humans using email and sent something through email they shouldn't have.

    One of the confidential emails... was to a lawyer and "confidential" in the sense that lawyer-client privileges applied. There were a couple of (C) markings in a few emails, but the top actually didn't have the markings for Confidential/Secret or whatnot. An incredibly huge percentage of emails were marked confidential expo-facto (and by other agencies that tend to try and classify _everything_, including public knowledge of the weather at times).

    James Comey just did a public hatchet job of "selling" that Hillary should have been indicted, then basically admitted he didn't have a case that any competent prosecutor would attempt to take before a judge. Congrats, partisan hack, you pulled the wool over most of the viewers and readers.

  12. Re:Totally justified on Emails Show NSA Rejected Hillary Clinton's Request For Secure Smartphone (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ah yes, when you can't get your own way and get what you want, that totally makes it okay to break the law.

    That's why a police officer who can't get his confession can keep bashing the suspect's head in.

    That's why politicians can sell votes.

    Following the law is for chumps who have no leadership potential.

    You missed the point. She tried to play by the US security apparatuses rules and basically got told to go away, so she did what many people do when your IT department is being stupid and figured out a way to do what she needed so she could do her job.

  13. No. Because it's not just cost. on Ask Slashdot: If Public Transport Was Free, Would You Leave Your Car At Home? · · Score: 1

    It's time and it's inconvenient. Riding a bus and rail system to work and back would turn my 60 minutes of commute time into almost 180 minutes. It disrupts your whole day waking up an extra hour and a half early and you get home late.

    For a while when I had an even longer commute, I was getting up at 5:30am to get home at 8:00pm.

  14. Oh hey! on More Supermassive Black Holes Than We Thought! · · Score: 1

    Isn't that some more mass that they keep trying to foist off on Dark Matter/Energy?

  15. Watched the full video for the Japanese robot? on Japanese and US Piloted Robots To Brawl For National Pride · · Score: 1

    I'll be quite truthful, a lot of it looked like a mockup and didn't actually move functionally. It was a good mock up, but I don't think it is really "real".

  16. Car Theft? Puh-lease... on Louisiana Governor Vetoes License Plate Reader Bill, Citing Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    It is immediately suborned by police to verify if you have your car registered correctly or other 'money making' acts.

    I was quite surprised to be pulled over by a cop a few years ago and told that my registration was expired. Especially surprising because my car had it's proper stickers and I'd just finished registering it a few weeks prior.

    But apparently the local county DMV records that the city PD was using were out of date, so he thought I was using illegal stickers or some crap. So to say that they only use these licence plate readers for catching 'stolen cars' is pretty much a bald faced lie.

    They'll use it every which way they can and "catch" all the criminals, damn their privacy.

  17. Feature that didn't work out of the box? on Microsoft Announces Xbox One Backward Compatibility · · Score: 1

    Somehow I expect that it was always supposed to be backwards compatible and it hit a horrible programming schedule snag.

  18. Re:So... on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    How about all them deleted emails?

    Yawn.

    I am pretty liberal and I can hardly imagine voting Republican again for a while, but even I cannot understand why the email thing isn't a bigger deal. I guess that is because I am not a lawyer. From what I can tell, deleting potential evidence that you even think might be subpoenaed later is a crime. A pretty serious one. And the Republicans have been threatening to subpoena for those records since the scandal started.

    This doesn't seem like some little transgression to me. I think the Benghazi nonsense is just that, nonsense. But the email deletions literally seem like a jail-able offense to me. And honestly I think they should be. As far as I can tell the only reason she isn't in more trouble is because Eric Holder is a very political attorney general.

    I would love for someone to convince me this isn't a big deal, and considering the media doesn't cover this more I am probably just wrong about how bad it is. I thought the email scandal was ridiculous when it was just about using her private server, but the second she admitted to deleting the emails things just became far less trivial.

    You mean after actually giving the State Department the emails that were work pertinent? People seem to think that no one has seen 'any' of her emails, but that actually isn't the case.

    The Republicans would love to access to every email she had at that point. They would find *something* so that they could splash more mud on her. Because they are terrified of Hillary Clinton as president canidate.

  19. Re:Then ID would be required on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 1

    There are times when you do have to have ID, such as during curfews. People usually don't get hassled for it, but if a cop finds you out after curfew you can be in violation of the law.

  20. Re:And blocked in court in 3, 2, 1 . . . on As Big As Net Neutrality? FCC Kills State-Imposed Internet Monopolies · · Score: 0

    As a constitutional matter, municipalities do not have any independent existence; they are organs of the state governments. Municipal governments only have whatever powers states choose to give them, and the federal government may not commandeer a state government. So if a state chooses to deny its municipalities the authority to sell Internet access (or sell it below a certain price), then no declaration from the FCC can give the municipality that power, nor require the state to give a municipality that power.

    So, all this vote means is the FCC majority has decided to waste a bunch of taxpayer dollars losing a lawsuit.

    Just like states are only part of the country? States were abusing their authority to disbar municipalities due to business buying their votes. A very monopolistic action. They should actually go all RICO on them and throw their boards of directors in jail.

  21. Re: And don'tforget the tax dodging on Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook Press WA For $40M For New UW CS Building · · Score: 1

    These companies follow the tax code as written/enforced. If you don't like the revenues the current tax code generates, rewrite the tax code - but don't be surprised if they seek out a new location with lower taxes.

    That's when you make sure you add a rule that even if you leave (ie. headquarter in another country) that you still have to pay an equal tax here or that foreign country.

    I believe this is the current thought and idea to implement.

  22. Why exempt MMOs that have been abaondoned? on DMCA Exemption Campaign Would Let Fans Run Abandoned Games · · Score: 1

    There are several MMOs that no longer have servers at all, ie. being essentially abandoned. Do those worlds not deserve to be preserved for posterity or for game enthusiasts?

    Exempting MMOs across the board from this process seems short-sighted.

  23. Real vs. Imaginary. on Obama Proposes One-Time Tax On $2 Trillion US Companies Hold Overseas · · Score: 2

    This 14% to 19% is closer to the USA's 'real' tax rate, which has so many loopholes that it's actually lower than most of the developed world.

    People love to harp on the fact that the USA's corporate tax rate is so high, but it truth with all the political rewriting of the corporate tax rate its fairly low.

    And then you have companies like Apple doing their all out best to not pay taxes at all.

    The last is what Obama is trying to remove. And Republicans/Fox News and it's handlers are going to try their level best to sell the American People that this is a bad thing to fairly tax the poor super-corporations that get away with bloody murder.

  24. Re:Well, duh on Sony Hack Reveals MPAA's Big '$80 Million' Settlement With Hotfile Was a Lie · · Score: 4, Interesting

    1/ MPAA / RIAA lie - news at 10
    2/ PR statements are bullshit - news at 10

    Where's the surprise here?

    Actually, if they report this as part of their stockholder's meeting/information about the state of their company, I think it's quite illegal. As in the Feds can come in and start checking your books for other 'hundred million dollars lies'.

    (Sorry, did not mean to post anonymously).

  25. What use new features if account recovery is bad? on Skype Unveils Preview of Live English-To-Spanish Translator · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter how many new features they add if their account recovery is so broken that the owners can't get control of their own account. Most people don't want to make a replacement account as a solution.

    I mean, you really expect someone to remember what year you made a skype account? And (not or) the first five contacts on your contact list?