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  1. The Berne Convention was accepted September 1886. That's over 131 years.

  2. We need an XX prize. First one "mission accomplished" gets $50 million prize. Tired of supporting NASA inefficiencies and politics. $50m + 10% overheads, and that's all.

    We need to industrialize space first, but NASA isn't the way.

  3. Re:Special instructions. on Amazon Will Now Deliver Packages To the Trunk of Your Car (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice work when you can collect two paychecks:
    First check from Amazon, second check FBI/NSA/drug cartel/....

  4. more likely you're a f'g Maoist or Stalinist or other authoritarian ecoterrorist

  5. secret agents vs Man on EPA Proposes Limits To Science Used In Rulemaking (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    So you prefer secret trials with no peer review to enslave millions or billions of people ?

  6. U haters, hos and bots on YouTube Says Computers Helped It Pull Down Millions of Objectionable Videos Last Quarter (recode.net) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Mostly this means Youtube is a Conservative-Libertarian-TeaParty-Trump hater and an RIAA/MPAA ho and bot network.

  7. new scam, er on Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Gavin needs a new scam, er sugar daddy, er grant, since the Gorebal Worming one is looking so thin now...

  8. suspicious promo codes... on Amazon Has a Top-Secret Plan to Build Home Robots (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Should have been more suspicious about that promo code, CIAFBIFSB

  9. His candor doesn't make the foulness of his predatory actions ok.

    His abuses of abusive laws are not ok. An "et tu" defense that others do it doesn't make it ok.

  10. Re:Patent thief is caught; has to pay owner. on Apple Must Pay Patent Troll More Than $500 Million In iMessage Case (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Tyler is a parasite problem. The middle of nowhere profiting off the Federal Courthouse for about 170 years.

  11. Re:Patents are broken. on Apple Must Pay Patent Troll More Than $500 Million In iMessage Case (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Also Tyler TX is a corrupt East Texas hick town founded on the Federal courthouse. Their economy has been funded to varying degrees on this sh--. Tyler even has some vicious traffic traps to fill the coffers since they spent all the oil money.

  12. anything to do with Zuck, I'd watch my wallet, my back, my security status, my junk mail, and maybe my kids...

  13. upright citizens, saving food on 'Big Brother' In India Requires Fingerprint Scans For Food, Phones, Finances (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    scan 1.3 billion, edit the list, unlisted or nonlisted save some wasted food...
    make that 1.25 billion....

    start a war, or announce new taxes and onerous collection, listen for protests, edit the list,
    make that 1.24 billion....
    give extra food to supporters
    make that 1.31 billion....

    see how that works ?

  14. Re: Xenophobes gonna xenophobe on Trump Says He Wants Skilled Migrants But Creates New Hurdles (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    which is pretty hilarious as trump marries foreigners and has had a lot of anchor babies with them.

    Not anchor babies. Trump is a natura lborn citizen, Trumps marries them, and gets their residency visas.

  15. long anticipated AI "glitch" on To Protect AI From Attacks, Show It Fake Data (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    The rogue robocop, ED-209, with defective AI, "put the gun down..."
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    After the video of Uber's pedestrian rundown , this Robocop scene seems a little more worrisome...

  16. You mean Uber could be bankrupted if they tried to take it to court. Tried in the daily press could have been extremely ugly.

  17. Re:scripted conversation on Baidu Shows Off Its Instant Pocket Translator (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    China is at least 50 yrs behind and has not even caught up with the translators on Star Trek...

  18. is that the new enchanced version with the Robo-Cop routines to whack old homeless ladies pushing their cart or bicycle across the street....

  19. Arbitrary termination, common employee failings, and MS pocketing account balances are pretty negative business reasons alright.

  20. TOS is not an excuse to break laws. Facebook's seeming invincibility or suspension of reality is ending.

  21. spoken like a large shareholder....

  22. Re:Why though? on Nvidia Suspends Self-Driving Car Tests in Wake of Uber Crash (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    are you a troll or just that stupid as well as ignorant and illiterate that you have not read or understood any comments of the past week+?

  23. Re:Uber's responsibility but Nvidia's publicity on Nvidia Suspends Self-Driving Car Tests in Wake of Uber Crash (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Nvidia managment has finally woken up to the criminal and civil liability side with nonexistent internal engineering standards and product safety standards...

  24. Besides, he doesn't speak their languages...

  25. Re: Just before I turn off my computer... on Ask Slashdot: Can FOSS Help In the Fight Against Climate Change? · · Score: 1

    Probably the tired, old, boned stations data that they keep "adjusting" up and cherry picked urban hot sites, vs geological time intervals...