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  1. Don't care that it is gone... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Feel About the End Of Google+ ? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    But I am really tired of google killing off services. Even if few people use it, it can really screw over those who do. For a company trying to break into corporate (G Suite) this kind of thing seems to happen all to often.

  2. Re-purposing mannequins on New App Gives Free Movie Tickets To People Who Watch 15 Minutes of Ads (indiewire.com) · · Score: 1

    Now we know where all those heads can go when all the stores are shutting down.

  3. This is litteraly worm crap right? And they purchased undeveloped residential plots, and are making massive piles of this stuff? Compost stinks. I bet if this went up next door while you were trying to sell your house the value would drop 30%. How locally do they sell their worms and compost?

    They were then selling all this stuff for a profit right? I didn't read anything that said they were a non-profit. So we are now demonizing the city for protecting neighborhoods from a corporation who are making crap (literally) to sell for a profit.... whats the problem?

  4. is coal getting more expensive because of technology or regulation? it seems dishonest to compare technologies using modified numbers.

  5. Temporary problem on Amazon Closing All of Its 87 Pop-Up Stores As Its Retail Strategy Shifts (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    This is the problem with all these new companies. They drop things they start all the time without any form of commitment. My office uses google suite and have been left in the lurch because they have suddenly decided to end a service. Nothing builds confidence like uncertainty!

  6. If someone is going to violate this policy on US Army Assures Public That Robot Tanks Adhere To AI Murder Policy (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    If someone is going to violate this policy I would really hope it is on our side, and not theirs

  7. huh my joke was that bad, eh?

  8. Facebook doesn't stop vaccinations, parents do.

  9. Extra info on Report Finds Widespread Contamination at Nation's Coal Ash Sites (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Here is a link to a website by the company that did this report https://ashtracker.org/ Cool stuff.

  10. Re:It's about preservation on More People Bought Physical CDs and Vinyl Than Songs on iTunes Last Year (bgr.com) · · Score: -1

    CDs get lost, burn up in fires, get scratch, lots of things happen. streaming services generally are a much better way to preserve the files.

  11. Get with the times on More People Bought Physical CDs and Vinyl Than Songs on iTunes Last Year (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    No one uses iTunes anymore, its gone the way of CDs. And with modern technology, rightly so. There is no reason why music is so expensive when so many people want to play and there is nothing in the way of distribution anymore. The most you would need to pay for a reasonable setup for music is probably a few thousand dollars to make something half way decent that is good enough for most people.

  12. Re:Canary service? on Cloudflare Expands Its Government Warrant Canaries (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Back in 2016 Reddit did this in their transparency report, does that mean it was illegally done? (the surveillance canary, not the service thing)

  13. Canary service? on Cloudflare Expands Its Government Warrant Canaries (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone know if there is a canary service, I mean I have a horrible memory. I'd never notice if they took something out of the site. Also, what are the limits to this? Could they have a page with say 500,000 lines of stuff saying "The government has never asked for information about company XYZ" and updating it for every customer. Or have a personalized page that only displays information in the customer portal such as "The government has never asked about you"?

  14. Re:Such a stupid trend on Huawei Unveils the Mate X, a Foldable 5G Smartphone That Costs $2,600 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree with the not lasting 3 years, but if it did....

    as for the usability, I think this is a great idea, a mobile tablet. Nothing like when you are waiting for something to be able to pull a nice sized tablet out of your pocket. Now if we could get it to fold 4x or something like that... It's the future in my opinion.

  15. Re:Such a stupid trend on Huawei Unveils the Mate X, a Foldable 5G Smartphone That Costs $2,600 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The average person spends 3.5 hours / day on a smart phone. If this phone lasts you for 3 years that is somewhere around 0.50 / hour. Not bad IMO.

  16. On the inside it isn't bad, its protected, kinda like those old flip phones.

  17. In order to flex like this I can guarantee they do not have anything nearly as protective as glass on that screen. I would much rather have mine on the inside where it is protected with a smaller glass-shielded screen on the outside.

  18. My lawyer is a dick. He often tell us things like "send him a check for xx and if he cashes it he can't do anything" and a lot of other skivvy practices. I wouldn't doubt they would go for this. Besides if they sue more money for them right?

  19. If only we could get some politicians to undergo this procedure...

  20. Glad to see we are improving on this. No methodology listed, no demographics listed other than some vague information at the end of the report. This reads like half of the global warming papers out there.

  21. Re:The Technology Is Already Being Used Negatively on 'This Person Does Not Exist' Website Uses AI To Create Realistic Yet Horrifying Faces (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    Why wouldn't they just leave the images out? I go on several news sites where it is difficult to find the article's author's image

  22. China sorter? on Smart Cat Shelter Uses AI To Let Strays Inside, Keep Dogs Out (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    The next stage is installing these outside of restraints to sort for cat, dog, squirrel, etc.....

  23. Sounds like I need to go into business with a algorithm that simply undercuts all of them by a penny.

  24. False equivalency? You were concerned about the nuclear waste getting into the water. If you put the plastic into the space that the oil in then the oil would be getting into the water instead of the plastic, right? As for why we don't pump the oil back in, we take oil out to make it more accessible and to process it. injecting oil back into the ground doesn't make sense because you would have to pull it out to use it. Old plastic that can't easily be reused wouldn't need to be pulled out again. Just throw it back into the ground and you wouldn't need to worry about it. If you are worried that it would damage the environment, I can't image it would be more damaging to crude, or even to the instability of having the open space. We could even pump the oil out through displacement by putting the plastic into the ground, that way we can guarantee to remove waste from the environment.