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  1. this reminds me of on 'Call For a Ban On Child Sex Robots' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    this reminds me of calls to ban pornography that portrays underage, fictional characters years ago. Looks like and is are two different things. How do you even deal with that when the character "looks" a certain age but is canonically older e.g. Bart and Lisa Simpson who appear to be pre-teens but are canonically born in the early 80's making them canonically in their mid-30's today? The makers need only include a disclaimer that the robot is a replica of a character who is canonically older. This is all exceedingly stupid though....

  2. Re:what TUMBLR really is.... on Tumblr's Unclear Future Shows That There's No Money in Internet Culture (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    Same could be said for the entirety of the internet. There's even a whole song about it!

  3. who cares about the porn? on Tumblr's Unclear Future Shows That There's No Money in Internet Culture (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    clearly the user wants it there or they wouldn't be following the person who posted it. Also, no one is naive enough to associate the ads in tumblr timelines with the content in the timelines in the same way no one associates ads on twitter or facebook with the racism and abuse that is often posted on those platforms

  4. Re:Even if there was hacking.... on Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    sidenote: remember right before election day when Trump said that if he lost, then the system really was rigged? What did he mean by that? Given this information, it sounds like he knew Russia was interfering to the point that if he lost, something bigger must have rigged it against him

  5. Re:Even if there was hacking.... on Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    If there was collusion or if interference affected outcome, I say we have a special election this november and hit reset. Yes, we could remove him from office, but as far as I am concerned, removing a cheater from office and installing his party who cheated their way in is equally invalid. Let the people decide!

  6. I meant more than that. Something that keeps track of how much ink the cartridge is used and "breaks" as soon as the cartridge hits its limit so no refill will work.

  7. Not a loss for them per se, just expect DRM on your printer cartridges soon. If you break it, expect to get slapped with a DMCA suit

  8. how many boomers, or as I call them, old people will castigate us for what they perceive to be our wanton spending habits when the reality is that the only reason my husband and I could afford a home was because we graduated without student debt (him, scholarship, me, rich parents who paid 100% of my tuition). Of our friends and acquaintances in our peer group +/-5 our age, exactly 5 own homes, the rest just get by renting. Instead of blaming us because we like coffee and avocado toast, maybe step back and realize that the entire system has been stacked against us by your generation. If I didn't have loved ones who are boomers or older, I'd say I can't wait for you all to die so my generation will finally prosper.

  9. Re:Anti-Trust on Microsoft Browser Usage Drops 50% As Chrome Soars (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    because that's totally not fair when microsoft pushes Edge ads to you if you have chrome installed? http://www.pcworld.com/article...

  10. he shouldn't worry about that on Peter Thiel Thinks There's Not Enough Sex In Silicon Valley (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    because he should go fuck himself!

  11. Re:People are still struggling with the concept on Alexa and Google Assistant Have a Problem: People Aren't Sticking With Voice Apps They Try (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Was your phone connected to your car's mic or a bluetooth headset or were you shouting in hopes that the phone's internal mic would hear you well? In my car, my phone is tied into the car's system via android auto (and formerly apple carplay). Recently though I saw a person who had a mounted iphone on their dash that they were typing out a text with their arm extended while (thankfully) stopped at a light. I also see a fair amount of people typing out texts looking down at their phones as they're driving 70+mph https://slashdot.org/comments.... the interstate

  12. People are still struggling with the concept on Alexa and Google Assistant Have a Problem: People Aren't Sticking With Voice Apps They Try (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I still see people on iphones texting and driving when they could just use "hey siri" to send a text instead. People build all this technology, but no one really teaches anyone how to use it or what it can really do and how it can help them, so it's nothing more than a novelty to the majority of users.

  13. who the fuck leaves a laptop in a car overnight? Take it inside!!

  14. Re:Wish custom ROM devs wouldn't forget tablets on Do Android Users Still Use Custom Roms? (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    Possibly ignorant question (I am not an expert in this at all so please don't judge), but will we ever get to the point where we have generic Android distros that can be installed on and used with any device, like a Linux distro?

  15. Wish custom ROM devs wouldn't forget tablets on Do Android Users Still Use Custom Roms? (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    I would have used a custom ROM on my old and current samsung tablets, but ROM devs never seem to have releases supporting tablet hardware, only phones

  16. Re:Chrome is smarter than that. on Latest Adobe Acrobat Reader Update Silently Installs Chrome Extension (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    A lot of people would never see the request. A lot of people ignore sync errors and requests for extension permissions in chrome because it bury's them where users don't look or don't notice.

  17. Re:Wikileaks on WikiLeaks Threatens To Publish Twitter Users' Personal Info (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the gay saudis they outed to their government because they dared seek asylum from persecution/capital punishment for being gay

  18. Re:Wikileaks on WikiLeaks Threatens To Publish Twitter Users' Personal Info (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    they're a nakedly partisan organization. They sell/sold anti-Hillary merch, tweeted out "hillary is terminally ill" conspiracy theories, and don't like leaks that damage Trump and Russia. Not only that, they release information even if it puts innocent peoples' lives at risk. That is not behavior of an ethical, pro-transparency organization. They have no integrity. It's all about Julian Assange and how he can get in the spotlight

  19. So Alexa activates when you say "Alexa" on TV News Broadcast Accidentally Activates Alexa, Initiates Orders (cw6sandiego.com) · · Score: 1

    how's that working out for all the people who live with someone named Alexa?

  20. Re:all bout nothin on 'Radioactive Boy Scout' Reportedly Passes Away At Age 39 (harpers.org) · · Score: 1

    He died this year at 39. Article said he was ~15 when this happened. That would have been ~20 years between exposure and symptoms, not 30 and would have taken place in around 1995, which the article actually cites as the time period. Just correcting your math

  21. Re:Steve Bannon, not a racist? on Steve Bannon Suggests Having Too Many Asian Tech CEOs Undermines 'Civic Society' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    no one says there are too many white CEOs. They say there are too few non-white CEOs. Stop trying to portray diversity as inherently racist. No one is saying white people should not be CEOs, just that there should be more non-white CEOs. More non-white CEOs does not mean less white CEOs

  22. Re:all bout nothin on 'Radioactive Boy Scout' Reportedly Passes Away At Age 39 (harpers.org) · · Score: 1

    1995 was 20 years ago, not 30

  23. probably useless on Hotspot Vigilantes Are Trying to Beam the Internet To Julian Assange (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I always assumed that limited his access meant limited access to a physical computer or smartphone, not severing the connection.

  24. Re:Does anybody ... on Assange Internet Link Cut By State Actor, Claims Wikileaks (rt.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't. This wouldn't make any sense. Wikileaks is more than just assange. What good does cutting off his and only his internet do? At best it's ineffective, at worst it's self-defeating because it lends credence to him.

  25. Re:Official Google Chrome repo issues on Debian on Chrome 54 Arrives With YouTube Flash Embed Rewriting To HTML5 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I have found that updates overwrites the google-chrome.list file with a bad copy. I had to set an hourly cronjob to put the [arch=amd64] back in