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  1. Re: They also probably weren't expecting threats on GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository (obsceneworks.com) · · Score: 1

    Plus, they're not eligible for welfare anyway.

    That's false. As soon as people seeking asylum in the United States are accepted as refugees they are eligible for public assistance just like any other person, including cash welfare, food assistance, and health coverage. Source.

  2. Re: They also probably weren't expecting threats on GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository (obsceneworks.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Also, asylum seekers are not illegal immigrants. They are following the legal process of claiming asylum from danger. Even if their case is not accepted, they are not breaking the law.

    But the asylum seekers are not the ones being arrested. There is a huge backlog of folks seeking asylum, so many are told they need to wait. But instead of doing that, they go try to cross the border between the ports of entry, illegally. That's when they get arrested.

  3. Re:Sick that this is posted as a story here on GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository (obsceneworks.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they are not.

  4. Re:What about pet waste? on Chile Becomes First Country In Americas To Ban Plastic Bags (ewn.co.za) · · Score: 1

    That's great and all, but where am I supposed to put pet waste? I can't flush litter box bombs down the toilet, because the litter will clog it. (I've tried) Damned if I'm going to use a reuseable bag for that...

    Just do what the homeless do with their own poop in California (which also banned plastic bags): Leave on the streets and sidewalks.

  5. Re:Plastic bags on Chile Becomes First Country In Americas To Ban Plastic Bags (ewn.co.za) · · Score: 1

    Never mind cat poop. What do all the homeless people do with their human poop?

    San Francisco poop map

  6. Poop in the street on Chile Becomes First Country In Americas To Ban Plastic Bags (ewn.co.za) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I guess they don't get the unintended consequences of things like that. When they did that in California, they eliminated the only refuge for the homeless to dispose of their waste in a sanitary manner.

    It's why there's so much human feces all over the streets and sidewalks in San Francisco and San Diego these days. And where the hepatitis outbreaks came from.

  7. I have a feeling Reddit can outlast them.

    HA! Right. Because Reddit has such a clear history of defending their users and their right to post content....

  8. Re:And not just any magnetic field... on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't recall that being mentioned in the article(s) I read earlier about NASA's involvement.

    It's mentioned in this one.

    The latest news regarding the EM Drive, which produces a thrust seemingly from nowhere, comes from Paul March, one of the principal investigators on the EM Drive, and was published on the NASA Spaceflight forum. The post is in reply to an unpublished paper that claims the unaccounted thrust is generated by the Lorentz force between the EM Drive and the Earth’s magnetic field, something that March says his tests prove is not true.
    “I will tell you that we first built and installed a 2nd generation, closed face magnetic damper that reduced the stray magnetic fields in the vacuum chamber by at least an order of magnitude and any Lorentz force interactions it could produce,” commented March in the post on October 28. “And yet the anomalous thrust signals remain...” he added.

  9. Re:Still useful for interplanetary flight? on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Also... inverse square law. If it's based on magnetic fields, and works only barely on Earth, you wouldn't get far away from Earth before it's literally useless.

    Actually, since Earth's magnetic field is a dipole, the inverse square law does not apply. Instead, it would be more like inverse cube law (1/r^3), dying off a lot faster.

  10. Re:And not just any magnetic field... on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    OMG! You guys are idiots! Just use a fucking balloon!

    GEEEEZZZZ!

  11. Re:And not just any magnetic field... on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ... it's the field being created by the planetary body we call Earth. Surprise! No one has ever tested an EM Drive beyond the influence of Earth. If they had, its efficacy would have quickly been dis-proven.

    I thought that the NASA tests already controlled for the influence of magnetic fields (including Earth's), and found none. And according to the summary, these guys were just speculating that it was Earth EM.

  12. Re:so how do you prevent from scanning your plate on Repo Men Scan Billions of License Plates -- For the Government (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, what an idiot you are. You don't know jack shit.

    You're the douchebag idiot that the claimed doing moving around in public is perfectly legal. You failed to make any distinguishing principle.

    So if a company has enough information on a person based on all the pictures they collect from multiple locations, on a constant basis, and can track me everywhere I go and pull enough information together, regardless of how collected, to produce a profile, how is that different from stalking.

    Fucking morons like you are why we can't have nice things. You want corporations and government to have this ability, but when a citizen tries to do it you're all like OMG YOU ARE STALKING ARREST HIM PUT HIM IN GITMO!!!

    What a tool you are. Go crawl back under the rock you came from you shit ass fucker.

  13. Re:so how do you prevent from scanning your plate on Repo Men Scan Billions of License Plates -- For the Government (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Except stalking is illegal. Taking pictures in public locations is not. Not sure how you managed to conflate the two.

    So you're saying stalking an individual can be prosecuted, but mass stalking is perfectly okay. Got it.

  14. Re:Of course on Are Two Spaces After a Period Better Than One? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't change. I'd just write a perl script for when I was sending off a manuscript.

    Oh, I guess I didn't mention that the publisher only accepts manuscripts in MS Word format. Writing a perl script to edit a set of Word docs would be ... challenging.

  15. Re:Of course on Are Two Spaces After a Period Better Than One? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Also reminds me of something that happened to a friend doing his math thesis. Iff. The editor changed every occurrence to "if".

    OMG, that's hilarious. Copy editors are a real PITA, that's for sure.

  16. Re:Of course on Are Two Spaces After a Period Better Than One? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I have always used 2 spaces after a period. It was the way I learned typing and it seemed to me to make text more readable.

    That was a problem for the publisher when I wrote my first book. The copy editors wiped out all the extra spaces at the end of sentences. Publishers do no want manuscripts with more than one space after a period. Period.

    It was a really tough habit to break. But it only took writing 2 books to do it.

  17. Re:Chain of Crash [Re:That's the least of it] on Google Chrome is Freezing Intermittently With the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, Users Say (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Surprised that no one has mentioned Brave. Fast, functional, and built-in ad and tracker blocking.

  18. A better idea would be to use blockchain as the trusted authority. It's decentralized, consensus-based, and simpler to implement than installing "trusted CA" certs all over the place.

  19. Re:Another Google metadata sink? on Starting Today, Google Chrome Will Show Warnings for Non-Logged SSL Certificates (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Also what about locally signed certificates, using a corporate or Intranet CA, that's installed on all computers that might use those certs?

    That was, at one point, considered a best practice, but I assume this'll break that.

    This, from TFA (I know, right?): "Google engineers have also added a Chrome policy flag that allows sysadmins to disable the CT log-checking behavior in instances Chrome is deployed inside an intranet."

  20. Re:Drug company advertising on YouTube Is Removing Some Nootropics Channels (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Its funny you post this in support of the supplement industry who more than pharmaceutical companies fund & lobby politicians to maintain their ability to peddle snake oil with no evidence of efficacy. On the other hand actual medicine is subject to rigorous testing to both ensure safety and efficacy.

    If you want to complain about the pharmaceutical you should be complaining about the trend lately for predatory pricing and massive price increases.

    The pharmaceutical industry is guilty on all counts. But that's off-topic for this discussion, which is the pharmaceutical industry's stranglehold on advertiser-supported media.

    But since you went there, let's point out that it's so disingenuous of you to claim that I'm supporting the supplement industry (I did not), that they lobby more than pharmaceutical companies (laughably wrong), AND defend the pharmaceutical company's supposedly "rigorous testing" that I can only conclude you are employed by or shilling for those pharmaceutical companies.

    Pharmaceutical contributions VS. Supplement manufacturers. Also, Drug lobby second to NONE

    As far as that "rigorous testing"? Yea, it turns out, pharmaceutical companies are fond of only publishing clinical trials that have positive results, while failing to publish trials that show no efficacy or bad side-effects.

  21. Re:Drug company advertising on YouTube Is Removing Some Nootropics Channels (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's easy to cry "Muh corporations!"

    I have a better explanation. Nutropics is a dangerous quack scam patterned after similar quack scams that have plagued the public since recorded history.

    But they aren't banning all the videos, only some. Why? Well, maybe because some pharmaceutical companies would like to get in on the scam with their patents for them.

  22. Drug company advertising on YouTube Is Removing Some Nootropics Channels (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is why ad-supported media can never address the harms caused by the pharmaceutical industry and the very powerful pharmaceutical lobby in the US. All those advertising dollars influence the stories covered, the news promoted, and the videos allowed to be distributed on platforms.

  23. What they didn't tell you about were the "humans" they hired to review videos: Pee Wee Herman, Bruce Paddock, Mark Salling, and a group of former Catholic priests from San Polo.

  24. Re: Mod parent up on Former FCC Broadband Panel Chair Arrested For Fraud (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow you don't even know who Charles Ortel is! LOL

  25. Re:What a cynic... on Former FCC Broadband Panel Chair Arrested For Fraud (dslreports.com) · · Score: 0

    ... to believe that we couldn't ever put someone honest in charge. It must be that they hide everything better.

    To do that, you would need the ability to put someone in charge that was not interested in the job. Honest people do not do well in a political environment, because what the people value there is the ability to be two-faced and an accomplished back-stabber.