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  1. Who is to blame? on When AI Botches Your Medical Diagnosis, Who's To Blame? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The medical licensing authority that licensed a machine to practice medicine.

  2. The technique commonly known as "robbing Peter to pay Paul".

  3. Archives of the Invisible Space Goat, Chapter 1, page 37. You would do better proving things exist rather than insisting people prove that things don't exist. Otherwise please provide proof that my citation is not real.

  4. Re:Seriously on Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    To continue your analogy: If you live in the worst part of town, everyone has steel doors and bars in their windows except you, and you have a rolls royce parked in front...

  5. Re: I guess they didn't run that simulation on Arctic Stronghold of World's Seeds Flooded After Permafrost Melts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh wait.... we're trusting the guys who create and sell patented GMO seeds to keep the original seed DNA? What's next, vampires running the blood-bank?

  6. Re:I guess they didn't run that simulation on Arctic Stronghold of World's Seeds Flooded After Permafrost Melts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    This one should go under "typical government incompetence" not "global warming". Next thing you'll know they will have misplaced or mislabeled all the seeds.

  7. Seriously on Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? (time.com) · · Score: 2

    Blaming Russia is one thing, but if your official fucking email is GMAIL OR HOTMAIL and you use it for official party/government correspondence AND you're dumb enough to be phished, then Russia can only take part of the blame.

  8. Re:Don't think Uber will be alone with this on Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You're Willing To Pay (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The gas station has a big sign out front with the price of gas per gallon. The yogurt shop has a sign with the prices on it. I'm not talking about an estimate, I'm talking about a variable price that's kept hidden from you until after you've used the service. It's nobody's fault if you can't add up the prices on a menu or multiply the price per gallon by the number of gallons to fill your tank.

  9. Re:Don't think Uber will be alone with this on Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You're Willing To Pay (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They have every right to charge what the market will bear.

    The customer has the right to know how much it will cost before the transaction occurs.

  10. Re: Heaven forbid on Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago (alternet.org) · · Score: 1

    The original topic is actually about security at Mar-a-Lago if you want to split hairs, pedant. Discussions tend to vary back and forth around a topic, kind of like music. How interesting is a song that repeats the same fucking note? Oh wait, that's rap.

  11. Re:Heaven forbid on Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago (alternet.org) · · Score: 1, Informative

    When the police comes into your house with a warrant I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to lock certain rooms and bar them from going in there. THEY decide what is "personal" and what is "evidence" - not you. In fact if you DO tell them "please don't look in that drawer" that is the FIRST place they're going to look.

    The deleted personal emails were personal only because we have Hillary's word for it... and the toilet at the crackhouse is running not because someone flushed some drugs down there but someone just had to pee right when the door got broken open. The crackhead said so.

  12. Re:Heaven forbid on Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago (alternet.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's more than just the email server. There's the destruction of evidence after getting caught. That alone is a big hint that you knew what you were doing was wrong but did it anyway and now you don't want to get caught.

  13. Re: Working as intended on Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago (alternet.org) · · Score: 2

    Only one way to find out and that is to go do it. Let us know how it went.

  14. Re:Political agenda much? on How the Lights Have Gone Out For the People of Syria (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Convenient also how they just stop when the city is retaken by the government. I bet it's all lit again now but that would contradict the agenda.

  15. That's ok on How the Lights Have Gone Out For the People of Syria (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Keep it running for a few more years and you will see how Assad got all the lights back on.

  16. I wonder if they corrected for on The Older the Doctor, the Higher the Patient Mortality Rate, Study Finds (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    The older the doctor the more specialized they are and the more complicated the patient they receive.... because the easy patients are treated by the junior doctors.

  17. Where in the constitution does it say that the government can't make laws to regulate immigration and enforce those laws? Let me know and I'll move to the US and get my share of free shit too.

  18. What, the constitution says the government can pick and choose which law to enforce and which law to ignore? Where does it say that?

  19. Unicorn farts and faerie dust

  20. breaking election promises

    Can you really fault a guy for breaking promises when he tries to keep them and every single effort is sabotaged by some federal judge? It's almost as if there were some sort of collusion...

  21. Re:Restoring fertility - on Scientists 3D-Print Ovaries To Allow Infertile Mice To Mate and Give Birth (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    And approximately 0% of cervical cancer is believed to be hereditary; rather, it is generally believed to generally be caused by the HPV virus.

    Rubbish. It's a multifactorial process. While HPV is an important factor genetic predisposition is also a factor. Not all women infected with a given carcinogenic strain of HPV develop cancer. So what's the variable? Genetics.

  22. It's different every time, but it's always the same.

  23. Re:Wouldn't it be wonderful if... on WikiLeaks Dump Reveals CIA Malware That Can Sabotage User Software (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Because people aren't stupid enough to give execute privileges to anything that asks for them. You're merely delaying the inevitable. The problem lies between the keyboard and the chair. Most people REFUSE to think. Grandma would rather ask her son to buy her a new laptop than have to read dialog boxes or set file permissions.

  24. Re:please stop them on WikiLeaks Dump Reveals CIA Malware That Can Sabotage User Software (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nobody leaks classified info to the New York Times they just make up the stories. Like the latest one about Assad burning people alive in a crematorium. That's the difference.

  25. Re:It is rather odd... on WikiLeaks Dump Reveals CIA Malware That Can Sabotage User Software (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Because Russia and China state agencies are prohibited by law from using Microsoft products. So they never get hacked this way.