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  1. Re:Protecting whom? on EU's Law Enforcement Agency Closes 4,500 Websites Peddling Fake Brands (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you are correct for most people, but not everyone. Those who might be mislead also deserve protection under the law, and this is what's happening. It also stops people from knowingly buying fakes from these sites and selling them as the real things in shops, etc. I don't know how anyone can be upset with the law cracking down on counterfeit goods.

  2. Re:Infinite web pages on Ask Slashdot: Has Your Team Ever Succumbed To Hype Driven Development? (daftcode.pl) · · Score: 1

    None of that is mutually exclusive with infinite scrolling websites.

  3. Re:Some of you, remember you voted for this. on Trump To Scrap NASA Climate Research In Crackdown On 'Politicized Science' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    He attacked men for what they did (or their disabilities/etc.), and attacked women for being women. He also said it was fine to sexually assault women if you're famous. He also wants to toughen up on abortion. If you think he's treating men and women equally you really haven't been paying attention. You'd probably not have as many upsets if you looked at the actual arguments and not some superficial appraisal.

  4. So as someone who you agree professionally runs a newspaper, you refuse to accept that they professionally run a newspaper. Brilliant.

    And the fact they see the effects of the very phenomenon denialists deny means they're biased? You are really stretching to sound credible.

  5. Re:Cost? on Tesla Runs an Entire Island on Solar Power (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You are ignoring the costs of maintaining the diesel generators, storage tanks, piping, etc.

  6. His views are not centrist. They are populist. You can tell because they pander to assumed fears in whatever demographic he seeks to embrace. No centrist would have made his comments on climate change, Muslims, etc., but a populist is expected to.

  7. Keep using it. It comes up with more information the longer you use it. The events can be somewhat delayed, sure, but it does more than you seem to think it does...

  8. Re:Going to be one of these stories on Sea Ice In Arctic and Antarctic Is At Record Low Levels This Year (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You really don't understand how measurements work, do you? It's perfectly possible to make incorrect measurements correct by figuring out how they are incorrect and correct the data to bring it into line. If you have 1,000 measurements with a thermometer you know has been precisely 1 degree off, do you throw out all your measurements or adjust them? Also you were the one confused between the difference between sea ice and land ice, so I think it's safe to ignore your bleating, as you demonstrated this is over your head.

  9. Re:If confirmed, does this make it realistic? on Final NASA Eagleworks Paper Confirms Promising EM Drive Results (hacked.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it just implies there is a method of application which is used more than any other. As long as there is one description of an EM drive, there is a "usual" one. It doesn't imply anything about timescales.

  10. Re: it estimates will be worth 250 billion euros on ESA Launches Four Galileo Satellites (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Spain has repeatedly stated that they have no problem with two countries mutually deciding to split and parts thereof entering into the EU. Spain doesn't want one-sided separations getting traction, as that's the separation type they're worried about.

  11. Re:What Hollande says on France To Shut Down All Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2023 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Owned by power companies, supported by government policy, which includes (but is not limited to) partial liability for accidents and guaranteeing energy prices (in some places). Pretending the energy companies gain nothing from governments is slightly bizarre, as it's demonstrably false.

  12. Re:What Hollande says on France To Shut Down All Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2023 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that you are confusing two different things: animals being able to live in the exclusion zone, and bioaccumulation of radioactive particles in animals/plants/fungi that people eat. Animal populations can do fine and still not be safe for people to eat. The two are not at all mutually exclusive.

  13. Re:Can only hope. He has hired smart people on What the Trump Win Means For Tech and Science (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    He doesn't seem have any political philosophies apart from "I'm the best for the job". An ego is not a manifesto.

  14. Re:Can only hope. He has hired smart people on What the Trump Win Means For Tech and Science (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not exactly filling me with confidence. I guess the rich will get richer, and everyone else will get poorer, and the national debt will grow even faster. Yaaay.

  15. Re:Trump says science is a fake on What the Trump Win Means For Tech and Science (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "Demagogue" is not a verb but a noun, and closing coal mines isn't to "satisfy the environmental fetishes of Liberal activists", but "do what we can to ensure our children and their children have a viable world to live in, as pointed out by the entirety of the field of climatology". Keeping jobs for no other reason than simply keeping jobs is not sustainable in the slightest, and impossible to achieve without payoffs to someone (either in the company or in the chain to which the company in question supplies). I'd imagine a generation losing a few thousand jobs is better than every successive generation losing even more jobs than that.

  16. Self-driving cars have been learning from other self-driving cars since the second self-driving car was created. This is the core strength of self-driving cars (they can teach themselves and share their experiences with others), and something that has been exploited since the very beginning.

  17. Re: One joy at a time on Tesla Crash Won't Stop Driverless Car Progress: Renault-Nissan CEO (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of good drivers who simply don't enjoy driving. Discounting them simply because it's convenient or emotionally satisfying doesn't portray you in a rational light.

  18. Most of the troops were not American, and the vast majority of the shipping used to convey the troops to the shore was also not American. That might have something to do with it.

  19. Re:Common Sense and Democracy on UK's Brexit Cannot Pass Without Parliament Approval (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 1

    The feeling of the British people, influenced by a campaign of outright lies. You missed the last part of.

  20. Re: The UK will suffer but won't fail catastrophic on UK's Brexit Cannot Pass Without Parliament Approval (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 1

    The markets and the players within are not basing their actions on anonymous comments. The uncertainty is entirely due to the referendum result and the shit-storm which will happen. The wonderful industries you mentioned are only wonderful because of the strong position they are in, and any change to their situation means you can't simply expect them to continue as they currently are. It's like saying a plane doesn't need wings because it's already flying.

  21. Re:Doomsday Cult on Study Links Human Actions To Specific Arctic Ice Melt (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    What's so difficult to understand about the process of learning?

  22. Re:Details, always details on UK's Brexit Cannot Pass Without Parliament Approval (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 1

    Some details you missed: The referendum was explicitly non-binding, and was performed because the Tory party wanted to steal back some of their voters who were eyeing up UKIP.

  23. Re:Parliament should approve on UK's Brexit Cannot Pass Without Parliament Approval (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 1

    Parliament has sovereignty, not the people. Keep up.

  24. Re: Not Like There's a Law Against It! on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Speak for yourself. Don't excuse your admitted shortcomings by simply assuming "everyone else does it so it's cool to be a dick to strangers". Disgusting.

  25. Re:And I keep coming back to my same question on National Geographic Releases Alarming Climate Change Movie 'Before the Flood' On YouTube (youtube.com) · · Score: 1

    But civilisation as we know it won't survive. We kind of need that. That's the point. The planet will be fine, we will be screwed.