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  1. Re:Best Practice on Most GDPR Emails Unnecessary and Some Illegal, Say Experts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No, screw them for being unethical leeches from the get-go.

  2. Re:Some context on People Hate Canada's New 'Amber Alert' System (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    For shits and giggles I looked it up, Google says there's 1439.5 miles between Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch and the Vatican.

  3. Re:Shameful on People Hate Canada's New 'Amber Alert' System (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    By your logic, due to the prevalence of airplanes and travel to other countries, whenever a child goes missing anywhere in the world, all cell phones in the entire world needs to scream out an Amber Alert to their owners.

  4. Re:"imminent safety threats" on People Hate Canada's New 'Amber Alert' System (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    But where's your limit for getting the word out?

    Child missing, check.
    Escaped convict, check.
    Drunk driver on the freeway, check.
    Ghost driver on the freeway, check.
    Crash on the freeway, find alternate route, check.
    Heavy traffic, find alternate route, check.
    Big sale on diapers at Wal-Mart, check.

    A missing child is terrifying - for that child and that child's immediate family. The rest of the alerts or on Catastrophic Disaster level for an entire area, not a single household.

  5. Re: Some context on People Hate Canada's New 'Amber Alert' System (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Well, technically Greenland falls under Danish government now that you mention it.

  6. Re:No opt-out is evil on People Hate Canada's New 'Amber Alert' System (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2

    I'm curious, though.

    Say someone is kidnapped two days before their 18th birthday. Still a child, so the entire country goes into a panic.

    Then two days later it's said child's birthday. They're now a legal adult. Does the country relax because there's no child in danger anymore?

  7. 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

    OR you have a decent job that has caused you to think you can have a life of supreme luxury, ending up with bills on REALLY expensive things rather than duct-taped-together rust buckets?

  8. Re:Some context on People Hate Canada's New 'Amber Alert' System (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2

    In my home country of Denmark you can't go 870 miles in any direction from any point in the country without ending up in another country altogether.

    Or the ocean.

    I suspect this is true for a lot of the smaller European countries, though I can't be bothered to pull up a bunch of maps to check for certain.

  9. Re:You need ALL OF IT on In Virtual Reality, How Much Body Do You Need? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    TL;DR:

    Full dive or go home.

  10. Re:Anybody hear "Yarry"? on 'Yanny vs. Laurel' Reveals Flaws In How We Listen To Audio (theproaudiofiles.com) · · Score: 1

    Okay, serious question. Is W not considered a consonant in English? I know you have issues with how to classify Y, but W?

  11. Re:They should make them misdemeanors on California High Schooler Changes Grades After Phishing Teachers, Gets 14 Felonies for His Efforts (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Talented hacker becomes talented security programmer.
    Talented thief becomes talented locksmith.
    Talented stalker becomes talented (private) investigator.
    Talented rapist becomes ... I dunno, talented father?

  12. Re:Sadiq Khan is an inbred moron. on London Plans To Ban Junk Food Advertising On Public Transport (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    You're right, he didn't use the exact words "Get used to it".

    He used the words "part and parcel of life in a big city".

    https://www.standard.co.uk/new...

  13. This is what is commonly known as "nitpicking" and "completely missing the point".

  14. Seamlessly? Other than the change in voice, dialect, and quite possibly awareness of how far in the reservation the bot got?

    And if there's a call service employee sitting ready to seamlessly take over, knowing how far the bot got ... why are we using a bot in the first place instead of the call service employee?

  15. Re:Cloud saves are flawed on Nintendo Switch Online Service Will Launch With 20 NES Games, Cloud Saves, More (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you link a source for those 5 GB save games?

  16. Re:Game of the week on If Fortnite Were a Website, It Would Rival Reddit and Amazon (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So it's like Bomberman on the SNES, but with more players?

  17. Re:No evidence it was done by the "cure" on 'Biohacker' Who Injected Himself With DIY Herpes Treatment Found Dead (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Are there no drugs, poisons, or other bad-things that can take a while to kill a person after initial injection?

  18. Re:Darwin award nominee? on 'Biohacker' Who Injected Himself With DIY Herpes Treatment Found Dead (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Because nothing but drowning has ever killed a man that was found face down in the water.

  19. Re:Necessity is the mother of invention on Ask Slashdot: Is the World Better Or Worse Because of Security Tech? · · Score: 1

    A good example would be the Melissa virus which, IIRC, started out as a proof-of-concept that accidentally got loose.

  20. I don't care about sales, eps and growth.

    I care about hard drive reliability.

  21. Re:what's the plan for moral choice? on Self-Driving Cars' Shortcomings Revealed in DMV Reports (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    It is going to run a damned lot of steering scenarios, pick the one with the smallest projected casualty, and save a log of its calculations for the inevitable trial.

    Trust me, the car is perfectly capable of seeing options you as a driver cannot, simply because a CPU runs faster than a human brain for mathematical computations.

  22. Re:As opposed to.... on Lightning Struck Her Home. Then Her Brain Implant Stopped Working. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Or be aware that a nearby lightning strike can fry their implant, and if they feel ANYTHING remotely similar to their old symptoms during or after a thunderstorm to seek medical help immediately instead of writing it off as nerves, being tired or whatever.

  23. Re:Libeling me JustAnotherOldDouche? on How Reliable Are 10TB and 12TB Hard Drives? Backblaze Publishes Q1 2018 Hard Drive Reliability (zdnet.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Tell us how you really feel.

  24. Re:long term. on Tesla Earnings Show Record Revenues With Record Losses (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Amazon forged into semi-explored territory: Everyone wants to buy stuff, the question was how much and how willingly they'd do it online.

    Tesla is forging into semi-explored territory: Everyone wants to have cars, the question is how willingly they'll buy electric cars with a reasonably high degree of automation.

  25. Re: Self defense isn't a 'wrong'. on Hacktivists, Tech Giants Protest Georgia's 'Hack-Back' Bill (threatpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This bill is essentially having you walk through a crowded square, blindfolded, and if someone grabs your butt you're allowed to pull out a pair of uzis and start firing at random.

    Yes, I feel that is an accurate description of hacking back against a network of zombie machines owned, often unwittingly, by innocent people around the world.