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  1. Trump got in to office by being lucky enough to run against Hillary Clinton. A huge part of the FULL electorate (Dems and Republicans) would vote for a ticket of Kim Jong-Un with Mahmood Ahmedinejad just to keep someone named Clinton out of the white house..

    Democrats voted in overwhelming numbers for a full out Socialist over Clinton.

  2. You can do better on Malaysia Air Is First Airline to Track Fleet With Satellites (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    How about: "This was all a false flag to get airline companies to use Satellite tracking systems, brought on by big-tech"? What ever happened to creative conspiracy?

    *sigh*

  3. Also unsurprising, misleading statistics on Despite Well Known Risks, Survey Finds Most People Use Smartphones While Driving (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    TFA claims that 9 out of 10 people are using a cell phone while driving, but how many of those are using the two we would consider safe?

    1. Phone calls: Voice assist means you don't need to take your eyes off the road to dial, and you surely don't to talk. I don't believe the hand waiving stereotypes fit for conversations while driving. At least as a generalization.

    2. Maps: As with phone calls, once you plug in the directions there is no need to take your eyes off the road. "Turn left in one mile", "Turn left in 1/2 mile", etc...

    There are other aspects of a phone which are certainly distractions and require screen time, but using the two apps mentioned is no more of a distraction than having a conversation with a passenger in the car. People can be morons with those uses, but lumping all users into the same "evil" basket is foolish.

  4. Not really on The Woman Whose Phone 'Misdiagnosed HIV' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that is that giving people technology does not make them smarter. While certainly tech can be used for the purposes of education, it can not replace education. This is a chronic problem with people of all sorts. People in power want an ignorant populace because they are easier to control. People sitting in a different country with education can't understand why their magic bullets never hit a target. Lastly, the ignorant populace does not know any better and nobody will educate them.

    The only people innocent are the ignorant masses.

  5. Oldie but Goodie on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    2001 Space Odyssey. "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."

  6. Liability, I would not buy stock. on Apple Has a Secret Team Working On Non-Invasive Diabetes Sensors (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    It's one thing to have Apple Watch or FitBit misread your heart rate as happens with tattoos. It's quite another to misread blood sugar and let someone go into shock or worse.

    Most people with diabetes that I know are concerned with the inaccuracy of the home kits which works with blood. What do you think happens if they have to sign a EULA giving indemnity to Apple? They won't buy it, and honestly neither would I.

    Honestly, we need to see if the tech actually goes anywhere. Then we'll have to wait for the first bad incident due to the tech. My guess? It'll be like an Apple watch. A few people will use it, and not the ones who rely on it.

  7. Aviator guides are not the same things as design specifications, which use Mp/h as the guide. Again, the exception is the Navy who uses knots for specifications. Knots and Km/h are conversions on land based crafts, which is an easy thing to do when you know Mp/h.

  8. Liar. You being able to find conversions does not mean that is how the specs are written. Specs on all US Aircraft, except Navy, are released and spec'd for Mp/h and range is given in Miles then converted to Kilometers. Range for Navy aircraft are given in Nautical Miles, but Mp/h first and conversions to Knots and Km/h. I have worked around the industry since the early 80s dumbass. Go try to look smart at a Junior high where people may believe you.

  9. And management? on McDonald's Is Now Accepting Snapchats As Job Applications (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Will be using an okaycupid clone. Swipe left for candidates you dislike, swipe right to hire. The new motto? "U dserv a brak 2day".

  10. Re:BS - This is thoughtcrime on Should The FBI Have Arrested 'The Hacker Who Hacked No One'? (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of those I mentioned have built in key logging. The same is true with other common tools like sudo and Tripwire. Before posting again, fix your ignorance.

  11. The reason is that Law can not be arbitrary. Baseball bat manufacturers _KNOW_ that what they produce is used for crime. Hammer manufacturers _KNOW_ that tools they produce are used for crime. Knife manufacturers _KNOW_ that the instruments they produced are used for crime.

    Singling out one of those manufacturers because criminals think they are cooler than the other manufacturers is an arbitrary act and has no basis in law.

    Try really really hard to use logic and reason instead of the run of the mill bullshit appeal to emotion.

  12. FTFY on Electric Vertical Take-Off Aircraft Successfully Tested By DARPA (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    So that we know how that compares to a boat? (knots)

    No, so that we know how that compares to other aircraft. NAVAL Airspeed has been measured in knots since well before you were a gleam in your parents' eyes.

    Naval aircraft is an exception, other aircraft traditionally use MP/h and KM/h.

  13. Re: No, not really on Senate Confirms Neil Gorsuch To Supreme Court (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Every single politician pushing for slave ownership was on the Left, they are called Democrats. The Democrats pushed Jim Crow laws, filibustered the civil rights act, cheated the Indians on treaties, etc.. etc.. etc.. Lincoln was the first "Republican", a party who was pro human rights and anti-Slavery.

    Facts are fun.

  14. Re: Enlighten us please! on Senate Confirms Neil Gorsuch To Supreme Court (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Because your complaint is only valid if there are better systems, and there are not. The only working Socialist systems rely on the non-Socialist (US mostly, but also the UK and France) systems for protection, and even then only worked when they were closed to immigration. Even then, the majority of people were locked into their social status and try like hell to leave to make a better life for themselves. I work with plenty of Finish people who sure as hell didn't come from Utopia as leftists in this country like to claim.

    There are no better systems, but if the Governments of Capitalist systems behaved as they should (regulatory to defend against monopoly and prosecute wrong doing) the problems you describe would not occur (or would not occur for long). Instead of demanding the Government behave as it should, morons demand they move to communism or socialism (which is the same thing, but less violent).

  15. Re:BS - This is thoughtcrime on Should The FBI Have Arrested 'The Hacker Who Hacked No One'? (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    The crime in the case you describe is being an accessory to burglary, not selling tools.

  16. BS - This is thoughtcrime on Should The FBI Have Arrested 'The Hacker Who Hacked No One'? (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If this person is guilty of developing a remote admin tool, then so are the developers of SSH, Citrix Desktop developers, Microsoft Remote Desktop developers, VMware developers, VNC developers, Oracle SGD developers, Apple remote control services, and any other remote admin tool or tool that could be used for remote admin. All of those tools are developed to avoid people seeing what you are doing, all are configurable ports to avoid detection, etc.. Ask any developer or security expert if those tools can be used for hacking, and the answer is "YES" across the board.

    The EFF should have stopped when they said it would have a chilling effect. It does, because this would make "not hacking" but developing a certain type of tool a crime.

    Now had the guy actually used the tools to commit a crime, he should be charged with a crime.

    This is no different than charging a gun manufacturer with murder because a gang member killed someone with a gun made by the manufacturer. This is tyrannical authoritarianism, plain and simple.

  17. No, not really on Senate Confirms Neil Gorsuch To Supreme Court (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Judges who believe that law is only what society perceives it to be at the moment are the activist judges. The overwhelming majority of those people have been leftists. Telltale signs are things like believing in a "living" Constitution. Such a claim requires ignoring not just the Federalist and anti-Federalist papers for history, but the US Constitution itself (Article 5).

    These are the same "activist" judges that have been consistently overturned, even by other judges that lean left, including those on the Supreme Court.

    I'm going to bet that you can find some Judges on the Right who meet the same criteria, but they are far more rare. They would tend to be the extreme Religious types, who don't last long due to Article I in the Bill of Rights.

  18. Enlighten us please! on Senate Confirms Neil Gorsuch To Supreme Court (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Lenin killed an estimated 15 million Russians, Stalin is estimated to kill between 40 and 50 million Russians, Mao killed between 50 and 80 million Chinese, Pol Pot killed an estimated 2 million Cambodians, Castro killed an estimated million, and on and on and on. Those are Leaders^Wevil shitlords that KILLED THEIR OWN PEOPLE! Simple source here. If you can't understand why the numbers are big ranges, there is only so much estimating you can do from mass graves.

    If you believe that those Communists are better, or even "not so bad" prove it! Have the intestinal fortitude to commit to your beliefs! Go be a communist. If you live for twenty or so years, come back and tell us how great it is. People from those countries today do everything they can to get out, I'm sure there are people happy to switch countries with you.

  19. Re:Bidirectional problem on Google Tackles Fake News With Global Fact-Checking Rollout (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Even more current conspiracies are Hillary's emails, the Trump leaks which we recently found were unmasked (possibly illegal) and possibly leaked by Susan Rice. Both of those were called right wing conspiracies. Both of those were found to have a good amount of truth to them, with Comey taking over as prosecutor and claiming he could not prosecute Hilary and the latter still under investigation.

    Conspiracy theories and "Fake News" have turned out to be "things people don't want you to know" quite often.

  20. Re:You are fake news on Google Tackles Fake News With Global Fact-Checking Rollout (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    As I said above, I never exonerated Fox. I simply said that they at least portray the left and allow them on shows making them not as bad as the two shows which are pure leftist propaganda. CNN and MSNBC will not have a Conservative on their show. They may cherry pick some video but there is never a debate, it's always leftist talk.

    Fair point about OJ, but it's a bit harder to demonstrate as Youtube was not around back then.

  21. Re:Pure Rubbish, Troll on Google Tackles Fake News With Global Fact-Checking Rollout (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    You are confusing the US Constitution as a whole with the Electoral College. Instead of watching TV shows, how about actually reading what the Founders thought in the Federalist Papers. Outside of being afraid to be wrong and learning history that is.

  22. Re:Pure Rubbish, Troll on Google Tackles Fake News With Global Fact-Checking Rollout (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that you admitting you were lying? Hmm, I don't see any type of retraction or correction to your statements. Being caught lying in a story about "fake news" has to be embarrassing.

  23. Re:Rule Change when it's in his best interest? on Senate Confirms Neil Gorsuch To Supreme Court (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because the Republicans were keeping a nominee from being confirmed just like how they stole the seat from Garland.

    Circuit Court Judges. Yet the Republicans passed the majority of nominees without any problem. You should at least consider the possibility that the few (it was more than one) being held up were of particular concern. Instead of changing nominees, as Schumer demanded the Republicans do, they changed the rules and packed courts with additional judges. (The DC Circuit gained 3 more judges)

    The Democrats are the last people allowed to bitch about it when they introduced bypassing cloture when it suited their needs. Reap what you sew sound familiar? If it suits their interests they can introduce a rule change to require cloture on both all Judges again. I certainly hope that the Senate moves back in that direction, but have no hopes that the Democrats want such a thing.

    Schumer also forgot about demanding President Bush not dare introduce a Supreme Court nominee in his last 18 months in office. Then got upset after President Obama did exactly that and could not get a hearing on his candidate. You know what they say, "Karma is a b**ch!".

  24. Dang it, I always do something like that. How could I have left that one out! *mumbles something about a decimal point*

  25. And just to make sure we over all the bases in flames, SH is better than CSH and VI is better than EMACS.

    BURN IT DOWN!