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  1. If it were anyone else, you'd have them in jail by now! Mistake or not!

    Lock 'em all up! Especially the disgruntled employee that is causing all of this - before their evil plan comes to fruition.

  2. And trains STILL crash!

  3. What about my RIGHT to FREEDOM OF SPEECH?!

    Someone needs to educate the fucking idiot foreigner at the MS helm!

    Just goes to prove that India naturals need to stay out of US roles.
    Who let him away from the overseas help desk anyway?!

    WAIT! Now I see it!
    Knowing that everyone hates getting a India national that cannot speak or understand intelligible English when you call the help desk,
    they want to stop us from cursing at them for their obvious lack of qualifications and stealing good US jobs!

  4. Re:It's not that we don't care ... on Tim Berners-Lee Urges Web Users: 'Care About Your Data' (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    I disagree. It is in the hands of each of us. IF we ALL do our part, capitalism can be reigned in and fixed.

    Besides, "capitalism" is inherently a dog-eat-dog system anyway - survival of the fittest.
    As opposed to the more human friendly democratic socialism.

  5. Common sense dictates that one should post only information they are willing to have publicly divulged.
    Why would anyone believe there is any security anywhere outside one's own private world?
    Even our own US Constitutional privacy laws are abused - by even our recent administrations, and corporations!

  6. Ummm... on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 1

    I would think that exact quantum states of the transported item need to be recreated exactly, and with exact relativity to each other, in order to work.

    So, consider entanglement. Regardless of distance, entangled particles can be used to predict each other.
    Except that they have an opposite characteristic - say, "spin".
    So, then your transporter would then scan every particle of an item (like a person) and transmits all that complete data to the destination, where another device assembles all of those entangled particles into a replica - only with all quantum particles in reverse states. The you instantly reverse the source person's quantum particle collection, which swaps with the destination particle collection instantly. Presto. Transported.

    Hey - it could happen!

  7. Re:It depends what you're wearing . . . on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 1

    Red shirt, and brown pants!

  8. Would postings of actual shootings be allowed?

    Or, bodies?

  9. History repeating again... on World's Largest Animal Study On Cell Tower Radiation Confirms Cancer Link (digitaljournal.com) · · Score: 1

    Just another discovery of something needing regulation.

    Like lead in gasoline, or lead in paint, or cigarette smoke, etc...
    We too soon get old, and too late smart!

    I hypothesize that if (we - humans) were to actually take our time and focus on what is good for us rather than what is good for our wallets, we may just survive long enough to spread out into the galaxy and universe, or evolve to more amazing creatures, before we get wiped out.

  10. blah, blah, blah - y'all! on A Star Grazed Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago, Early Humans Likely Saw It (space.com) · · Score: 1

    It IS interesting!

    Yes - this star passed about a light year away.
    That is ~63,241 AU distant. Neptune is ~30 AU away. So, yes, it passed by far away. Yet, it is still close enough to matter.

    Consider that there are LOTS of binary star systems in the galaxy; where those orbits are a light year or so in diameter.
    Consider, also, that the theoretical Oort cloud is about a light year from the Sun, and remains in the Sun's gravity well.

    So, yes, it seems quite plausible that a red dwarf star passing a light year away had an impact on our solar system 70,000 years ago.
    If even just a pretty red light show and a perturbed comet or two or three...

  11. Help me understand this... on Facebook Gave Data About 57 Billion Friendships To Academic (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Help me understand this.

    There are roughly 7.6 billion people on earth.
    Consider that most people do not have Facebook accounts, thus cannot be 'friended'.
    A 2017 survey shows ~2.2 billion Facebook users.
    That leaves an average friends per Facebook user at 25.9.

    So, then, for any researcher to have "friendships" data on me, they know who I have "friended".
    How can this be "anonymised"?

  12. Re:Both EFF and ACLU think CLOUD act is a bad idea on US Spending Bill Contains CLOUD Act, a Win For Tech and Law Enforcement (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    It is a bad idea. Briefly: It creates a path to circumvent US Constitutional privacy by allowing US to get data on US citizens via data that a foreign nation would now get freely from US corporations.

    Until governments are truly trust-able entities (and not Corporate puppets), we humans need protection from this crap.

  13. Re:Enforce the H1B laws and up the H1B min wage on Cutting 'Old Heads' at IBM (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    How about making it cheaper to re-educate and re-purpose those older employees that to hire H1B creeps.

  14. USA isn't any better! on China Approves Giant Propaganda Machine To Improve Global Image (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    We here in the USA still have the Chinese government beat!
    We have quite a plethora of state and corporate manipulated propaganda machines: FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC, Turner, ...

    Oh, and let's not forget NPR! Have a look at their donors.

  15. Re:Probably nothing to worry about on Child Abuse Imagery Found Within Bitcoin's Blockchain (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This leads me to suspect the source of this discovery.
    Was it planted by a anti-e-currency entity? ...a bank? ...a state sponsored entity?

    Will we now see a drop in blockchain currency?
    Only to be reversed when the discovery is de-bunked?

  16. Albert, if you had become a watchmaker, we may all be speaking Japanese now.

  17. Not a new theory; remember "V"...? on YouTube Kids Has Videos on How Reptilians Rule the World, Moon Landing Was Fake (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    This reptilian aliens theme is not a new theory; remember "V"

    I'd like to propose another hypothesis: Mr Icke, or those promoting his claims, have actually watched that Sci Fi series "V" way back when it ran.
    And, this hypothesis further proposes that Icke was intoxicated somehow, so as to suppress his memory of it being a TV series.


    The world is actually a simulation based in a computer matrix! ;-)

  18. Down side sucks... on Planting GMOs Kills So Many Bugs That It Helps Non-GMO Crops (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The down side is that it also kills the good insects, like Honeybees.

    BT and neo-nicotinoid-laced crops hurt the very pollinators we rely on.

    Pollinators like Honeybees are heavily relied on for nearly half of what we eat in the USA.

    It is indeed a dilemma: How does one help the crops w/o hurting the good bugs?

  19. How about these? on What Image Should Represent All of Humanity On Wikipedia? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's 2 possibilities - in hopes of thwarting any malevolent beings:
    http://media.wizards.com/image...
    http://www.donaldmeme.com/temp...

  20. Sure seems quite unlikely that ALL intercontinental paths went down all at once. Yes?

  21. Never happen! Ask Ajit Pai! ;-O

  22. Yep. Same issue.

    It is unreasonable, and deeply unethical, for a too-big behemoth like Comcast to get away with things.
    IF it were a mistake, OWN UP!
    IF it were incompetence or faulty equipment or "maintenance", PUBLISH THE FACTS!
    IF it were a covered-up intention, GET EXPOSED AND SUFFER!
    IF Comcast is "too big to fail" (i.e. hurts society too much to be punished), then Comcast needs to be broken up.

    ALL non-human entities like behemoth corporations need to fully answer to the public.
    ESPECIALLY to their patrons and constituents.

  23. Would the IRS please issue a refund of the taxes I paid for this non-operational agency?!

    I'd rather it be fully implemented, yet, if it isn't doing anything, then stop paying them, and Pruitt.

  24. Consider a monkey with a machine gun. How do you feel about that?

    Consider, now, that we are not mature enough as a society to handle the rapid onset of these wondrous technological inventions.
    Put a AR15 in the hands of a teenager and you get mass school shootings.
    Put similar guns in the hands of a lonely retired "gentleman" and get the LV shootings.

    Now, put a programmable, self learning PC in the hands of early teens. Oh, the possibilities - great AND grave.
    Here's a movie plot:
    Have a leading technology entity program an AI machine to solve our climate dilemma.
    Deep in the AI machine's mind, it determines that humans need to be eradicated.
    Yet, that also leads this thinking to know that removing humans needs to be done covertly, and manipulates a method to surely thwart any human intervention.
    Remember, this AI entity can beat ANY human at ANY game.
    A bit like "Terminator", yet far less blatant violence. Perhaps poison the food, or air way behind the scenes.

    Dear Republicans: It seems to me that certain, strict regulation is necessary!

  25. Re:Terminology is wrong on Are The Alternatives Even Worse Than Daylight Saving Time? (chron.com) · · Score: 1

    AST is effectively clocked the same as DST.