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  1. Re:Wikipedia = another NSA operation on A Third of Wikipedia Discussions Are Stuck in Forever Beefs (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're saying here that the NSA runs and controls Wikipedia because some people make edits that you find statist.

    If you weren't a trolling coward, there would be many easy ways to show you are incorrect, but no anonymous commentator deserves such a courtesy.

  2. By allowing the data to flow out of the US they could spy on it all with slightly less violation of the constitutional rights of citizens. It is doubtful they were unaware of this occurrence and probably lauded the new signal to noise it provided.

  3. Re:Content on YouTube Gets 1.8 Billion Logged-in Viewers Monthly (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    What the music industry deems fair, and what is actually fair to the artist, and fair to YouTube, and fair to the end user are very different things. If you think the difficulty here is google not giving enough compensation directly to the artists, you are no paying enough attention to the RIAA and why people call them an organized crime ring.

  4. The saddest part about this... on New Bill In Congress Would Bypass the Fourth Amendment, Hand Your Data To Police (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    The average American will applaud them for this Constitutional weakening.

  5. Re:Here's a realistic answer on Slashdot Asks: What Do People Misunderstand or Underappreciate About Apple? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    "Apple does an outstanding job of maintaining margins without resorting to selling a bewildering array of phones at all price points in a desperate attempt to gain market share."

    Correct, however, instead they sell used phones and older models that accomplish exactly the same thing. The iPhone C was an attempt at down-market and it failed. So instead they sell old, refurbished and used stock to people. Down market is an older phone used or not.

  6. Re:So lets do some Math. on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you deliberately ignoring the overdose rate in West Virginia vs the rest of the country? These numbers indicate widespread abuse, not a small town where every single person in the town takes two pills daily and there is nothing to write about.

  7. Re:Astrophotography on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? · · Score: 1

    youre saying that Photoshop is the only software that can lighten an image? I don't believe you are accurate in your assessment.

  8. Re:Wealth distribution on Researchers Find That One Person Likely Drove Bitcoin From $150 to $1,000 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It is a little known fact that all crime up until Bitcoin was generated was done is fiat currency controlled by the government, at least after the gold standard made it illegal to own gold.

  9. So Microsoft is too stupid to know they needed to have edge work for their demo? You're suggesting this locked down browser was a surprise to the presenter? How could they have prevented this? By making Edge not locked down perhaps?

  10. So they weren't aware that their demo relied on features which were locked down?

  11. Re:A few? 10 just off the top of my head on How Does Microsoft Avoid Being the Next IBM? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    silverlight has a strong future i hear. MS is putting their full weight behind the web with it.

  12. Re: Clear logical fallacy on Ray Kurzweil Explains Why Technology Won't Eliminate Human Jobs (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    You are shifting the goal posts here by trying to neuter the definition.

    AI: the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.

    learning, playing and winning Go does this; learning to identify a cat by watching youtube videos does this; learning to drive by playing GTA V does this. People learn to drive and vehicles are learning to drive. Just because the AI doesn't know how to trim your hedges or bang your wife yet does not make it non AI. My nephew doesn't know how to trim bushes yet. He's young though, maybe at some point he will be tasked with learning.

    The fact that a machine learned the rules of Go, is by definition AI.

  13. Re: No compelling reason to upgrade on Apple's Latest Products Get Rare Mixed-Bag Reviews, Muted Reception (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    i had that on my palm pre eight years ago.

  14. I didn't demand shit...

    You are demanding that the library stock the book you want to read, that you want others to read. You want that book on their shelves because that increases the chances of it being read.

    I am saying that you aren't the ethical arbiter of what should be read, heard or seen, nor should you be. The US government is not the ethical arbiter, nor should they be. Google is not the ethical arbiter nor should they be. No one has to get the book out of the library if they don't want to. What you are doing is applauding that it is being censored so that the book can't be in the library because then people can't make the decision to decide for themselves if they want to read it. You can spin it any way you want to what you are applauding is a controlled conversation by censoring the narratives that you find offensive. You are suggesting that freedom of speech is not threatened because sideloading which works today is fine. When we don't have the right to sideload, and we don't have the right to apps that offend in the play store what do you suggest then? Do you also support taking away the rights on a linux machine or windows machine or mac to prevent offensive forums or apps or web pages?

    If my ability to make a statement is defined by a chat app in the play store i haven't got much to say. By your micro

  15. Re:Not really true on Can An Individual Still Resist The Spread of Technology? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    AC you should tone down your hostility and trolling.

    People with our without cell phones are just as likely to step over your dying body lying on the pavement. Anecdotal but true:

    Las Vegas outside the Bellagio I'm walking and stop to watch the fountains. Next to me an older (mid to late 60s it looked like) man drops to the ground and lies there not making a sound. Three people he was with stand there staring and not helping. I ask if anyone knows him.If anyone is with him etc. Finally a girl fesses up, but wouldn't answer questions on if he had a history of stroke or heart attack (probably hired for the weekend or some side action). I check for breathing and opened up his shirt collar. and a few buttons revealing several incisions around the heart and along the arteries on his neck.

    At this point people are literally stepping over him because he is blocking the sidewalk. I asked for anyone to please call 911 to get help there because his breathing was very faint and he couldn't speak or answer questions. Guess how many people were willing to call 911, zero... I dug through my bag and found my phone booted it up and made the call wasting the time it took to boot the phone (which at that point was a long time) Finally help arrived handed me some syringes to inject him with and that is when I stepped back not being a Dr. They took it from there.

    Your simplistic anger and logic here is bullshit. Thousands of people on that sidewalk could give shit if the man lived or died. That is a fact. Most of the world is uncaring if able to get away with it. So before you call someone a cold uncaring luddite who should join your self congratulatory "community" you should come to grip with reality. People will step over your dying body if they can get away with it. Hoping someone else puts forth the effort.

  16. Get out of here anonymous coward! /s

    Who brings logic to an ignorance battle? (thank you for pointing out the double standards at play here) Warning be careful people will start calling you a nazi for defending free speech and the right of others to have opinions that don't match theirs or yours.

  17. This is very simple stuff. Most people can figure it out by grade school:

    Defending free speech is not defending the asshat on the other end, but their right to say their asshat things.

    If you can't understand why that is different, then please go sit at the kids table until you are ready for the adult world. I don't agree with your simplistic nickelodeon logic, but I will defend to the death your right to spit out ignorant comments like the one I found childishly naive.

  18. This isn't a SPAM or Troll filter. This is limiting the spectrum of acceptable opinion.

    It is simple... If you don't want to be harassed by trolls don't install the application, don't open it up and create an account and read it. Don't want to be annoyed by someones opinion? Don't install the app. What you are supporting is that the book that is offensive is banned from the library. Once you are supportive of those bannings/censorings/limits on free speech then you are no better than book burners or those that seek to control your topics of discussion. Frankly I don't trsut you or the government to decide for me or anyone what is appropriate. The government is not the arbiter of what is correct speech. You are not the arbiter of what should be said, or who has the right to say it or where they have the right to congregate and speak. Yet here you are applauding the censoring of an app you never had install or open or use. How exactly does the app affect you if you don't use it? (it doesn't and it can't) You choose to read or ignore. Instead you took the route that others should decide what application you can use or what you can read. There is no good side to your argument. Thank you for tellng others what they shouldn't be able to install and read. All in the name of not wanting to be trolled or offended. Hope that works out well for you when you need to say something less than popular.

    The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. ~ Noam Chomsky

  19. This is the same as it has always been. People need to endure the idiots or give up free speech. you can't have both.

  20. People would also complain about the phone being $20 more for having the more expensive charger.

    If you complain that a 10 dollar charger adds costs to your 1000 iPhone you have issues bigger than this.

  21. Re:Is grey text compulsory too? on Google Publicly Releases Internal Developer Documentation Style Guide (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Please stop wasting pixels with this gibberish.

  22. Re:I live in an alternate universe on Kit Kat Accused of Copying Atari Game Breakout (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Berenstain bears, not Berenstein bears.

    Also, The game Breakout was developed and coded by Steve Wozniak. Steve Jobs lied to him about the contract value and had Wozniak develop the game and gave him a small cut which he thought was half the project value but it was not. That was a point of friction between the two Steves.

  23. Re:and it comes down to this on AI Factory Boss Will Tell Workers and Robots How To Work Together (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Metal fever or robosexual?

  24. Re:"and a product" on The Inside Story of the Lily Drone's Collapse (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    maybe possible to build, but not in their price range, or the size of the package it came with with a level of flight time that was even remotely useful.

  25. Re:...and some typical engineer hubris on The Inside Story of the Lily Drone's Collapse (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably it was an investor demanding that they couldn't make money off of open source and mandating a change to closed source. 3DR did similar to placate investors and autodesk, and it mostly shot themselves in the foot.