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  1. Depends on how criminal the State is.
    At some point to be law abiding means abetting crimes, even murder, and/or being suicidal.
    At some point many States want more than you earn, stealing your savings.
    Some slaves, with enough goodwill, courage and intelligence, successfully escape.

  2. Re: Maybe not the best person to judge. on Steve Jobs Tried To Warn Mark Zuckerberg About Privacy In 2010 (qz.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A PhD in Psychology, Barrie is not a reliable source on medicine or alternative medicine, she is an opportunist, a pyramid climber. I've found a number of technical misstatements in her books. I do think Jobs dallied longer than most average, but it is common, and some people simply say f' it rather than go through the time, pain and expense of risky treatment.

  3. ha,ha - talk about empty headed conspiracy theories It's funny how all the red diaper children and grandchildren go apeshit over Russia without the Soviet Union anymore. you're A. Coward alright

  4. "Facebook has made a horrible mistake"
    "We got caught"
    "we let the mask slip too much"

  5. Re:Lock Him Up! on Facebook Gets Hit With Four Lawsuits Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal (sfgate.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Obama's Russia connection was thru the Clintons. Obama was always more of a Middle East, Muslim and China investment, have to ask his mom about the CIA.

  6. Re:Accidents are unavoidable on Human Driver Could Have Avoided Fatal Uber Crash, Experts Say (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not how engineering works. This was an avoidable accident, in large part due to poor instrumentation.

  7. Re:The cost of development? on Human Driver Could Have Avoided Fatal Uber Crash, Experts Say (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "small sacrifices" like this at least demand full liability. In actuality, normal industrial safety requirements would be all over Uber management for inadequate design, especially since better hardware exists and has existed for decades

  8. Re:This is why I ready /. on Human Driver Could Have Avoided Fatal Uber Crash, Experts Say (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    These stories are just PR on dummies. Liability lawyers and engineers should roll their eyes at the execuses.
    Most be something rigged in the "enabling legislation" if the companies get away with it.

  9. Re:That's video on Human Driver Could Have Avoided Fatal Uber Crash, Experts Say (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The gross failure to use adequate sensors should be immediately recognized in any real or forensic engineering review.

  10. Re:I probably would have hit her on Human Driver Could Have Avoided Fatal Uber Crash, Experts Say (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    A robot car should have supernormal vision, redundant detection capabilities and faster reaction times, not excuses...

  11. Nope, the engineered product needs to be better than humans' performance, e.g. on "sight" and response times. This incident should be immediately recognized as an engineering failure that requires more improvement, not blame shifting to mostly unneeded human. That part is a recipe for disaster, long known in plant operations with far more paid, skilled and trained operators.

    Government policies to limit liability (responsibility) are like policies that allow construction of leaky nuclear plants that blowup occasionally due to poor engineering and operations. e.g. disasters in Soviet Union, Japan.

  12. ... Zuck's not publicly opposed to regulation now. He knows he's been caught, has to "do" or "say" something. His advisors will assure him, sooner or later, Facebook staff, lobbying and lawyers will guide the regulatory apparatus to stifle new competition.

  13. Re:One more reason for skepticism on US Spending Bill Contains CLOUD Act, a Win For Tech and Law Enforcement (axios.com) · · Score: 0

    Yes, simply a growth and extension of police state powers for both govts conspiring against their citizens.

  14. Re:Foreigners in erections, O dear on Facebook Hires Firm To Conduct Forensic Audit of Cambridge Analytica Data (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, it would be nice if someone presented fully verified information on O. That reflects my original statement, "...lack of clarity."
    It sounds like your statements accept a lot of facile "answers" to questions about O that.are.not.fully.verified.information with a variety of excuses and simple assertions.

    Still waiting after all these years.

  15. Re:Foreigners in erections, O dear on Facebook Hires Firm To Conduct Forensic Audit of Cambridge Analytica Data (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Demonstrated it again

  16. Re:Foreigners in erections, O dear on Facebook Hires Firm To Conduct Forensic Audit of Cambridge Analytica Data (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Obamunists don't have much sense of humor over simple truths...

  17. Foreigners in erections, O dear on Facebook Hires Firm To Conduct Forensic Audit of Cambridge Analytica Data (cbsnews.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Not to mention we never really got much clarity on Obama's verifiable native born citizen status, when nominal daddy was from Kenya, when O was functionally an Indonesian citizen as child, O's publisher's bio claimed him as a foreign citizen for 17 years, and O probably claimed himself as a foreign student for financial aid... never mind the forged birth certificate HI provided.

  18. The reach and initimidation power of the British government today just isn't what it was 100 years ago...

  19. Re: The problem wasn't being intrusive on Facebook Suspends Donald Trump's Data Operations Team For Misusing People's Personal Information (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Where I live right now, outside the US, the Maoists still kill a substantial number of people every year, kind of a mafia. Albeit about 1/6th the rate of 30-40 years ago. When still I see the various less advertised flavors in the US, I see red...

  20. the grail on Ford's Badly Needed Plan To Catch Up On Hybrid, Electric Cars (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    ...would be a genuine low emissions, super high efficiency diesel engine under the hydrid package. Good electronics and battery tech mean you could optimize the diesel's operating parameters.

  21. Re:The problem wasn't being intrusive on Facebook Suspends Donald Trump's Data Operations Team For Misusing People's Personal Information (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Various groups ideologically related to Maoist or Soviet origins still exist in the US, long after changes in the mother country.

  22. Perhaps NSA needs to suspend Facebook operations for a few days. Ya know, aiding and abetting known terrorists and Maoist communists, to probably a number of financial frauds, starting with the founder...

    The DC kleptocrats, from DNC-Hill to Sen. Cruz(R) had much more intrusive data operations.

  23. Wikipedia is reknown for it's own politics, biases on YouTube Will Add Information From Wikipedia To Videos About Conspiracies (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    this affects a lot of "science" subjects. e.g. climate and medicine

    You could even call WP a regular pharma ho' or sock puppet.

  24. Re:fcc? on FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites · · Score: 1

    1. I find hard to believe that DoD didn't notice and sent a WTF out to various parties including FCC 2. I smell favoritism. A warning, a fine, regulatory or management oversight would have been "enough" for most players, also there are due process aspects on any alaphabet agency. 3. I wonder about interference - other US players actively tattling or influencing government actions.

  25. life zucks on Facebook Lost Around 2.8 Million US Users Under 25 Last Year (recode.net) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Facebook - a stolen software project, run by a sociopath