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  1. It's not a non-problem. on Congress Passes BOTS Act To Ban Ticket-Buying Software (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Scalpers are a problem and things like this help solve it.

    Add the DMCA's anti-circumvention provision and scalpers are going to have a lot of bad days ahead.

  2. You're 100% wrong. on Congress Passes BOTS Act To Ban Ticket-Buying Software (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They only exist for lack of sufficient punishment.

    Make it a huge enough pain to be one, and things will sort out for the better.

  3. There is a problem, and it's enabling scalpers. on Congress Passes BOTS Act To Ban Ticket-Buying Software (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Better to punish scalpers than to enable them.

  4. Go Singapore on the scalpers instead. on Congress Passes BOTS Act To Ban Ticket-Buying Software (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Make it a royal PITA to be one of those middlemen.

    Face value is the worth of the ticket, anything else just outs a libertarian.

  5. You can lose again. on Congress Passes BOTS Act To Ban Ticket-Buying Software (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    As I read this, if I pay a thousand Amazon Turk users a buck a piece to buy the tickets, I'm good again. Whether the layer is a robot or a hubot doesn't really matter in the end.

    Then you get the anticircumvention provisions of the DMCA and it won't matter how. The fact that you were circumventing the law was enough.

  6. Which still locks out a lot of people. on Congress Passes BOTS Act To Ban Ticket-Buying Software (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Better to go all Singapore on the scalpers.

  7. No thanks. on Congress Passes BOTS Act To Ban Ticket-Buying Software (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Just *bleep* scalpers dead and make the cost of it too high to continue.

    The ticket's worth is its face value, no ifs and buts.

  8. Then apply the DMCA to address it on Congress Passes BOTS Act To Ban Ticket-Buying Software (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Bring in the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA and smack scalpers silly.

  9. Needs some anticircumvention. on Congress Passes BOTS Act To Ban Ticket-Buying Software (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Stop the scalpers cold when all their attempts are covered as "circumvention".

  10. Thank you, Globalization! on US Life Expectancy Declines For the First Time Since 1993 (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Guess what else got passed in the early 1990's?

  11. In other words, people who hate US citizens on Tech Billionaires Award Top Scientists $25 Million In 'Breakthrough' Prizes (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Donors for the Breakthrough Prize included [H1-b supporters], [hell-hole family], [other un-American individuals]....

  12. The worst of Treacherous Computing + carriers. on Microsoft Wants To Enable Cellular PCs, But Will Carriers Bite? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    All that Microsoft wants to do is shove TC in a device when people really don't want it.

  13. Apparently Microsoft hasn't gotten the memo about restrictions not being wanted, so they keep on trying to do it?

  14. In other words, people who hate US citizens on Tech Billionaires Award Top Scientists $25 Million In 'Breakthrough' Prizes (fortune.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Donors for the Breakthrough Prize included [H1-b supporters], [hell-hole family], [other un-American individuals]

  15. Oh, they do it when it suits leftist causes. on Of 8 Tech Companies, Only Twitter Says It Would Refuse To Help Build Muslim Registry For Trump (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Twitter data for surveillance purposes. Period.

    They're fine with surveillance and harassment of anyone who dares speak unapproved speech - which usually means truth or conservative values.

  16. Oh, they do it when it suits leftist causes. on Of 8 Tech Companies, Only Twitter Says It Would Refuse To Help Build Muslim Registry For Trump (theintercept.com) · · Score: 0

    Twitter data for surveillance purposes. Period

    They're fine with surveillance and harassment of anyone who dares speak unapproved speech - which usually means truth or conservative values.

  17. Such as citizens out of work due to H1b abuse? on Facebook Commits Millions to Help Silicon Valley's Have-Nots (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook's support of guest workers helped create the problem.

    Perhaps if they were a bit more pro-citizen, they'd not have a problem in Silicon Valley.

  18. Then I'll just have to opt out of Watson. on Stephen Hawking: Automation and AI Is Going To Decimate Middle Class Jobs (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    We've reached a point where AI in medical diagnosis is more accurate then human doctors.

    Non-Watson-based citation needed.

    I wonder what the (snark-free) medical symbol would be for communicating "AI Not Authorized for Medical Treatment/Human Treatment Only". I'd be more than happy to have one on me until AI is a strict companion, not a replacement.

  19. Some inconvenient truth for you on Stephen Hawking: Automation and AI Is Going To Decimate Middle Class Jobs (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the technology called "AI" took over about every old job and destroyed more jobs than it created.

  20. Read Dune to see our future. on Stephen Hawking: Automation and AI Is Going To Decimate Middle Class Jobs (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Specifically the part about the Butlerian Jihad, where Ludd's beliefs win on a massive scale.

    Then question why you even supported automation as a replacement, not as a companion.

  21. Obama's statistical fuckery. on Stephen Hawking: Automation and AI Is Going To Decimate Middle Class Jobs (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Obama got more people to work than anyone else ever.

    Foreigners and diversity candidates. The rest fell out and are on assistance programs.

  22. It's a lost cause for America, anyway.

    Only for leftists bent on screeching "Hate! Bigotry! Shut up!". For the rest of us, it represents a second Reagan-like morning in America.

    bigotry and misandry and globalism.

    All things that the left teaches, and to do so violently towards non-leftists.

    Besides, nationalism isn't a bad thing after all.

    Rome burned and people still live there.

    Unchecked moral decay caused Rome to burn.

    Evangelical Christians get their way

    The country is more than just Liberty University. On the other hand, it'd be nice to see university rioters get the Gov. Reagan treatment again.

  23. Unlike the others thinking it's all OK. on Stephen Hawking: Automation and AI Is Going To Decimate Middle Class Jobs (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike the prior eras, there are not enough new jobs to replace the old jobs in the time needed to train or retrain.

    Economics cannot explain away this one.

  24. For propaganda definitions of "real news". on Reuters Built An Algorithm That Can Identify Real News On Twitter (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    If this was as good as it supposed to be, it'd put nearly everyone at Reuters out of a job. Their primary product is fake news.

    The only thing this will do is use natural language to identify narrative-breaking articles before they can gain traction with the public.

  25. Re:Ah, the "We hate the US" platform? on Jolla's Sailfish OS Now Certified as Russian Government's First 'Android Alternative' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they hate the US for making a phone that is a deliberate PITA to import.