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  1. Wow, you guys are in the past on Following Other Credit Cards, Visa Will Also Stop Requiring Signatures (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Chip and pin is still around in Canada, but the vast majority of the time we just tap the card.

  2. Re:So what happens in a race to the bottom? on Amazon and Walmart Are In An All-Out Price War That Is Terrifying Big Brands (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Almost all top managers at Walmart HQ started in Walmart stores. How many top managers at Amazon started in the fulfillment centers?

    Maybe that's why Walmart is losing.

  3. I mean, you know we have to ask on Interviews: Ask Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor John Goodenough a Question · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is that really your name?

  4. Re:Technically not illegal on Should Journalists Ignore Some Leaked Emails? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    By that logic, Donald Trump has an obligation to report to a police station in any or all of the jurisdictions he's violated hate speech laws in, because he's been broadcasted into those jurisdictions.

  5. Technically not illegal on Should Journalists Ignore Some Leaked Emails? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    If the hacks were sponsored by Russia, and occured on Russian soil, then how is it illegal?

  6. The law disagrees with you.

  7. Trust, but verify on Grieving Father is Begging Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's iPhone (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    If you'll never use the passcode, there is no reason to have it. Asking for it is, ipso facto, reason not to trust you with it. The best solution is for the child to lie to you about the passcode. If you can be trusted, you will never find out about the lie. If you ever do find out they lied, you've proven they were justified.

  8. Why would anyone build new coal plants? on Oregon Set To Become First Coal-Free State (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    There are alternatives available now. There's no excuse to be expanding, or even maintaining, coal fired plants. Put that money into building alternatives.

  9. Dealers cannot die soon enough on Why Car Salesmen Don't Want To Sell Electric Cars · · Score: 2

    Why should they make any profit whatsoever? They're an anachronistic middle man.

  10. Re:Or put another way... on In Battle With Ad Blockers, Ad Industry Fesses Up To Alienating Users (iab.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair

    People give churches billions of dollars a year, too. That doesn't mean prayer works.

  11. The password you can never change on Why Gmail Has Better Security Than Your Bank · · Score: 1

    And the first time a bank gets hacked, everyone's fingerprints are public.

    Not to mention that detecting a live finger is meaningless if you're depending on remote systems not to lie to you.

  12. Re:Government doesn't get it. on Ontario Government Wants To Regulate the Internet · · Score: 1

    But services aren't taxed (I'm not saying they should or shouldn't, i'm just stating a fact).

    Yes they are. Most sales taxes are in fact Goods and Services Taxes.

  13. Re:You dorks on Dealing With 'Advertising Pollution' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You don't get to decide things you don't pay for. The people that pay for things gets to decide them.

    If you ever feel the need to install an ad blocker, you're doing it wrong.

    Hence why CNN doesn't get to decide whether their ads display on the computer I paid for or not.

  14. Re:If a thing is dangerous with drones... on The View From Inside A Fireworks Show · · Score: 1

    What I want doesn't matter one whit. Every asshole is going to have that freedom because there's nothing that can be done about it.

  15. If a thing is dangerous with drones... on The View From Inside A Fireworks Show · · Score: 1

    It's that thing that is dangerous, not the drones. Drones are never going to get any more expensive than they are now. They're only going to get cheaper, more disposable, and harder to trace back to their pilot.

    People are going to do whatever they please with them. If some other activity isn't compatible, then it's that activity we'll have to restrict.

  16. There's a gaping hole in his theory on Author Charles Stross: Is Amazon a Malignant Monopoly, Or Just Plain Evil? · · Score: 2

    Amazon isn't forcing DRM on the publishers. They would be quite happy to let them sell ebooks without it.

    That and the publishers "share" of profits is exactly zero. Anything above that is a market inefficiency.

  17. Good on Curiosity Rover May Have Brought Dozens of Microbes To Mars · · Score: 1

    We should be sending samples there, to try to find one that can thrive. Once we do, spread it liberally over the surface.

  18. The US has always been at war with Eastasia on Former NSA Director: 'We Kill People Based On Metadata' · · Score: 2

    So that's not going to be an improvement.

  19. Even if their security were perfect... on Parents' Privacy Concerns Kill 'Personalized Learning' Initiative · · Score: 1

    Which, of course, it is not, that still leaves the entirely reasonable objection that they have the data for any reason at all. Why should they be trusted with it?

  20. False equivalence on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    The proper comparison would be that if you don't like gay marriage, don't marry someone of the same sex.

  21. You've missed the point on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There's not much you can do about Jobs, Balmer, or Cook being assholes, but we probably can force Mozilla to kick Eich to the curb.

    Now, assholes don't much care about being assholes, but this will make at least some of them think of the future implications of supporting something assholish like Prop 8.

  22. Re:Shouldn't have to run oil by rail on Oil Train Explosion Triggers Evacuation In North Dakota · · Score: 1

    And I did not say we could. I simply said we could stop using that oil.

  23. I've had Cheerios every day for at least a decade on Cheerios To Go GMO-Free · · Score: 1

    But I'll be choosing something else now. Fuck the bioconservatives.

  24. Re: Shouldn't have to run oil by rail on Oil Train Explosion Triggers Evacuation In North Dakota · · Score: 1

    I really doubt there are many people in dorms with 5 digit /. UIDs.

  25. Re:Shouldn't have to run oil by rail on Oil Train Explosion Triggers Evacuation In North Dakota · · Score: 1

    Again, that oil specifically isn't necessary.