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  1. No even if you add all nuclear accidents and add dropped nuclear bombs on top for shits and giggles, coal power production not only have killed more people but has released more radioactive radiation as well.

  2. Re: There *is* an easy line to draw on Should Regulators Force Facebook To Ship a 'Start Over' Button For Users? (hunterwalk.com) · · Score: 1

    Not if you are an EU citizen. Then it is deleted.

  3. Re:There *is* an easy line to draw on Should Regulators Force Facebook To Ship a 'Start Over' Button For Users? (hunterwalk.com) · · Score: 1

    The EU already drew it. I must have an explicit opt in for all data collection, with a complete explanation of everything they're going to do with it. If they violate either the set of data they said they're going to collect, or do something with it they said they wouldn't, they're liable for massive fines.

    Further, I should be able to see all data that they've collected on me on request.

    Further, I should be able to demand they delete all data they hold on me.

    That's a pretty clear line, and a pretty reasonable one.

    Just because Facebook offers to delete all of your personal data upon account closure, does not mean that they will. If I had to guess, your data just gets moved to some obscure, internal server somewhere away from the public view. If you think otherwise, I have a 100 year old bridge in great condition to sell you.

    That is what they would do if it was just forced on them by consumer pressure. Since it is legally enforced, they do have to delete it. They also had to undo integration with WhatsApp because you are not allowed to buy personal data from other companies, including when you buy the entire company.

  4. Re:So on Cable TV's Password-Sharing Crackdown Is Coming (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Is anybody using YouTube TV? How is it for $35 a month? I only feel moderately bad about streaming shows without commercial...

    Why, are is there something wrong with you?

    I avoid products I see advertised, so by avoiding adverts I am doing the advertisers a favour as I would be more hostile towards them and active avoid their products if the ad wasn't blocked.

  5. Re:Didn't Netflix solve this? on Cable TV's Password-Sharing Crackdown Is Coming (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    No Netflix just caused it all over again. Can't buy less than 3 parallel screens or 5 if i want 4K, so unless I share my password, I would not only be paying for crap that I don't want, I wouldn't even be using it.

  6. Re:alternative medicine on Apple Seems To Have Forgotten About the Whole 'It Just Works' Thing (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It just might work(TM)

    -Steve Jobs

    In my experience "It just never worked"

    I thought it was because Apple devices hated me, but now other people share my experience.

  7. Re:Good, but will it pass? on 'There Will Be a [Senate] Vote' To Reinstate Net Neutrality, Schumer Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Now we find out exactly how unified the GOP is. Spoiler: They're not unified at all. If it's a simple majority I think Ajit Pai is going to have his ass handed to him by Congress, and rightly so.

    You assume the Democrats are unified. Not so long ago most democrats were also either actively ignoring net neutrality or against it.

  8. Do you have a smartphone ?

    Yeah, but it comes with a portable charger that I own, and don't need to loan from someone in order for my phone to be useful.

  9. Re:Well Damm, there goes my life on Tesla Is Prohibiting Commercial Drivers From Using Its Supercharger Stations (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What about my Uber business? I don't have a charger at home guys but I got to Uber to eat!

    Ehmm. Get a job and stop working for organized crime?

    Or if you like to continue doing crime and working for organized crime, have you considered selling drugs?

  10. Re:Easy on Ask Slashdot: What's The Worst IT-Related Joke You've Ever Heard? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nah.... You do not have enough memory: Microsoft Bob..

  11. Re:Obviously, it has transcended right past us. on Predictive Keyboard Tries To Write a New Harry Potter Chapter (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Sounds like typical fanfic to me. Maybe we really have achieved artificial intelligence.

    "Not so handsome now", thought Harry as he dipped Hermione in hot source. The Death Eaters were dead now, and Harry was starting to get hungry.

  12. "Not so handsome now" on Predictive Keyboard Tries To Write a New Harry Potter Chapter (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "Not so handsome now", thought Harry as he dipped Hermione in hot source...

    What is this, slashdot trolling?

  13. Re:Patent? on Norway Becomes First Country To Switch Off FM Radio (thelocal.no) · · Score: 1

    An analog FM signal slowly fades over distance. A digital radio signal is fine one moment, than nothing, and the nothing happens at a much closer range.

    You mean an FM signal gradually fills with static.

    Actually you dont get silence with DAB. You get loud pops and UIiiiiuah sounds. That are infinitely more annoying than white static. Though I believe Norway actually has DAB2 which has error-detection so it might turn to silence instead.

  14. soooo, let's be clear here, you, in Europe, can order contact lenses, that you have no data from the eye doctor for?

    The 'prescription' is the technical data the eye doctor gives you based on your eye/lens geometry. If you don't have that data, what are you getting in your contact lens?

    You sound like a fucking moron.

    You can get a prescription, but unlike the US, it is not mandatory, and is a non issue.

  15. Re:Who cares? on Contact Lens Startup Hubble Sold Lenses With a Fake Prescription From a Made-up Doctor (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Seriously? It's not like someone is going to get high on contact lenses and go commit crimes.

    In "nanny-state" Europe, no perscription are needed for contact lenses... Only in "free" America is that kind of corporate-welfare needed to keep doctors feed.

  16. Re:Doubtful on Star Wars: The Last Jedi Has Critics In Raptures (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering the utter embarrassment that the last one was I highly doubt these "critics" can tell the difference between a movie and a steaming pile of shite.

    Considering how praised the last one was by audiences, maybe these critics are just pandering to what qualifies as movie goers these days... Then again, though I suspect this movie to suck, but am tempted to watch it anyway, because there aren't really all that many options that are any better.

  17. Re:Ad on Star Wars: The Last Jedi Has Critics In Raptures (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They say it moves the universe forwards and is better than the last one.

    Most movies are better than the last one. Is specially when it comes to world building, as episode 7 had fuck all.

  18. Ad on Star Wars: The Last Jedi Has Critics In Raptures (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    The reviews I saw from good critics say it is perfectly okay, but not particularly good.

    So, this "story" just references the positive one and blurbs them?

  19. Re:Huh - a subject I'm entirely divided on on Apple's Alleged Throttling of Older iPhones With Degraded Batteries Causes Controversy (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Never heard of "sudden death" syndrome. The biggest problem with Android devices a few years old is that they stop getting security patches. All the one I have had, or anyone I know have work fine though.

  20. Re:... and also think of ... on The Environmental Cost of Internet Porn (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    My "takeaway" from the article is the opposite: The energy used by internet porn is completely negligible. They used scary analogies like "11,000 light bulbs", but since this is something used regularly by BILLIONS of people,

    Apparently by more than 14 billion people, or twice as many as there are currently alive on Earth. With interstellar porn-service I am surprised it doesn't use MORE power.

  21. Re:Huh - a subject I'm entirely divided on on Apple's Alleged Throttling of Older iPhones With Degraded Batteries Causes Controversy (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    If any of what you wrote was remotely true it would happen with other phones. Instead Android phones just get shorter and shorter lives but has the same performance.

  22. Re: Interpreter flaws, not language flaws! on Did Programming Language Flaws Create Insecure Apps? (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    He was talking about speed of development. Not speed of the program. And while speed of development is highly desirable. It is not a quality of the end product

  23. Does not matter what he thinks, what the license itself says is what matters in a court of law.

    If he's the only copyright holder, the decision to sue or not is entirely in his hands. Nobody else would have a right to sue.

    Wasn't there a case recently where one company sued the other for violating the GPL? But the company suing was not a copyright holder but they were allowed to sue anyway, because they were a competitor.

  24. Re:Why is any of this notable? on Almost All Bronze Age Artifacts Were Made From Meteorite Iron (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    I would expect this would be also cause the root myths behind many religions are lore.
    Tell me if this story sounds familiar.
    Nobody peasant or at best low level nobility, wandering the wilderness, then out of the sky came the indestructible weapon, or from a magical rock a wonderful weapon is found.

    Compared to bronze a weapon made from Iron would seem nearly magical, combine that they had found it from a rock that had flew from the sky.

    Depends on the iron. The earliest iron age weapon were inferior to bronze weapons, but were just much much cheaper as iron is significantly more abundant. Not until practices were establish to get some accidental consistency in carbon levels did the quality improve, but when the carbon levels are consistent in iron tools we tend to call it steel (though all ancient iron tools and weapons are "technically" steel of varying quality).

  25. Re:Germany and the EU on Volkswagen Executive Sentenced To Maximum Prison Term For His Role In Dieselgate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Notice Germany and the EU hasn't done a damn thing. And no, "fines" don't count. These people all have plenty of money. Shame on the EU.

    I notice you don't read non-fake news. Because they have been fined, and criminal proceeding are under way, even in Germany.