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  1. You think this is funny? on 20 Top Lawyers Were Beaten By Legal AI (hackernoon.com) · · Score: 0

    People will be happy that some lawyers got beaten. I am not. This is how it begins.

    First they came for the lawyers, but I did nothing, for I am not a lawyer ...

    I will NOT welcome the AI-lawyer-beating overlords.

    (Or perhaps it is Al and not AI, with lowercase L. Then: more power to you, AL. Kick their asses.)

  2. Now that was funny. on Worried About Trump iPhone Eavesdroppers? China Recommends a Huawei (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought it was funny. I thought it was velly funny. Just a little playful banter between countries.

  3. Give it or part of his contract? on Google Reportedly Paid Andy Rubin $90 Million After He Allegedly Coerced Sex From Employee (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Did they just give it to hime, or was this part of the contract negotiations when he signed on to the company?

    If the latter, where is the news. If the first I see it before me: He walks out with a carton box with his plant in it. All sad. Head down. And just after door closes behind him, an employee yeslls after him "Hey, Any. You forgot your 90 million doller check." He turns, smiles. Sees that it is the girl who gave that fantastic blowjob.They walk into the sun together. --- Fade to black.

  4. What if it is not sex related? But instead e.g. a drink after work with all the co workers, because it is his birthday?

    Oh and the thing about not dating at work, because it does not work out? Some of them do and I have seen adults not make it and be, like, adult about it.

  5. Re:No, Inexpensive on Tech To Blame For Ever-Growing Car Repair Costs, AAA Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You used to go to your checkup as well. The milage between them has gone up by a factor of 3-4. They also use less gass.

    You can look at repairs. What you should be looking at is the cost of the car over its life. Has that gone up or down when looking at a car of the same price.
    Do not compare models, as they will increase in price over time. Compare it to bit-rot where they keep addding stuff to it. Especially on the cheap cars. They do this, so people after a few years THINK that the car they go after is a cheap one, as that is what it was 5 years ago.

    In Europe you have seen this with the VW Polo. In the beginning a cheap car. Now? Not so much anymore.

  6. Re: And they think that the fine is consequential? on Facebook Fined Maximum Legal Amount For Cambridge Analytica Scandal (deadline.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody can do that. Tgat is why the GDPR has higher fines.

  7. Gamung is pretty interactive, so that already happens. Data minung is also not new. Should I rewrite my script to add "withh 5G" to all patenrs now?

  8. Re:AGAINST Civil Liberties Union on ACLU Demands DHS Disclose Its Use of Facial-Recognition Tech (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I did something stupid in a public place many years ago. My friends laugh at it, but the details have been changed a bit over time.
    The other people who where there and did not know me will most likely have forgotten it or at least have no idea who that idiot was.

    I am sure, at least I hope, that youy have something stupid as well. Just ask your mom, she will know.

    Now imagine that this will be held over your head every time you met somebody. Start telling the story when you are in a job interview. And do not try to sugarcoat it. Tell the facts.
    Tell them more than you would tell a priest at confession.

  9. Graffiti is paint, technically.

    No, it's not.

  10. Serious, but not terrible on Cathay Pacific Data Breach Hits 9.4 Million People (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The main thing is passport number and identity card number. Both can be canceled easy where I am. Yes, it would cost a bit of time and money, but nothing to worry about.

    In Belgium you can call 00800 2123 2123 for free inside Belgium or +32 2 518 2123 if the 0800 number does not work.

    That way the abuse is prevented.
    Companies that use Belgian ID cards will use https://www.checkdoc.be/CheckD... to verify if an ID is valid. If the card is not valid, then the transaction (like opening a bank account, renting a house) will be prevented.

    Belfian ID cards have a chip with information that you can read when you buy a cheap card reader. Reader software is open source : https://eid.belgium.be/en You can compile it yourself. Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, RedHat, CentOS en openSUSE have downloadable packages or it is available in the repos.

    Knowing what to do if yourt identification papers are compromised is a good-to-know thing. And not just the cancel part. What do you need to do afterwards?

  11. Re:Let's play! on Cathay Pacific Data Breach Hits 9.4 Million People (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The only way to win is not to play.

  12. Re:Much Ado about nothing... on China, Russia Are Listening To Trump's Phone Calls, Says NYT Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    He is POTUS. There are no personal things.

  13. So are they sending data to anybody, or are they not?

    The first part you say that they did not looked into it as they did not look at the source.

    The second part you wonder why they give data to Facebook. How do you know that? Either they did not look in depth and you have no idea if data is send to Google or Facebook, or they did a good job and they know data was send to both.

    Ca't have the cake and eat it too.

  14. Re:I don't get it... on Prank Calls Brought ICE Hotline To a Standstill, Internal Emails Show (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because it is a law does not mean it needs to be enforced. Plenty of laws are not enfourced. Otherwise a lot of different people would be in jail.

  15. How credit monitoring is done in Belgium on Yahoo To Pay $50 Million, Offer Credit Monitoring For Massive Security Breach (go.com) · · Score: 2

    In Belgium, if you take a credit or a loan or a debitcard or anything similar, it will be mentioned at the National Bank. The only one who has full access to all information is yourself.
    Banks and credit companies have partial access to the information. What they see is the total amount the (potential) monthly payment and if there is a issue with more than 3 payments.
    Nobody else has access to it.

    So if you open e.g. a credit card, what they will do is see your data. Add up the monthly payments already there plus the one it would be if the current card would be maxed out.
    Deduct some fixed things for living and what you said you paid for e.g. rent.

    Some example. Say you earn 1.000 and you pay 500 in rent and have a debit card where the max pay would be 100. Living cost is e.g.350.
    1000-500-100-350=950 That leaves 50 for the other new loan. That would be a card of e.g. 1000. A card of 1500 would be 75 per month (if used) So a 1000 card it is.

    If the company gives you the 1500 and you are unable to pay, the risk is 100% for the bank/credit company.

    So people will unlikely have several cards. It even happens that people who buy a house, will have to close their cards to get the mortgage from the bank.

    And if you did not pay 3 months in a row, it will be mentioned and no loans for the period you ow that loan plus one year.
    I have seen people who forgot to pay 30 EUR and where unable to get a mortgage because of it. That while they earned plenty to easily pay it back, but no bank would dare to touch it, because those people just could say 'I am unable to pay' and there would be very little the bank can do about that, besides asking to please pay.

    I have seen court rulings where people did not had to pay they maxed out 10.000 EUR card because the company fucked up.

    So not only do only credit institutions to see the info (the companies where you get a tv on 0% loan work together with credit companies who handle the credit.) and not e.g. your landlord, but it is directed to keep credits and loans handle it.

    Yes, people loose their jobs and things change. In Belgium we can not look into the future yet.

  16. Re: Who dafuq approved this? on Feds Shut Down Self-Driving School Bus Pilot In Florida · · Score: 1

    Text in the mirror explaining how a mirror works.

  17. Re:how about they make phones repairable on Motorola Becomes First Smartphone Company To Sell DIY Repair Kits To Its Customers (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Size and cost. Even look at a car. There are many places where they do not use screws, but glue and "christmas trees". The cost isn not only about the price of the screws, but the price of the productiong.

    Pusing somethiong in (with or without glue) is a much cheaper process than screwing it in.Amd the screws will need some sort of glue as well, most likely, to prevent unscrewing.

    Putting two Lego blocks together is easy. Putting two MeccanoM/a> pieces together is harder.

  18. To me the advantage of the search bar was clear all the time if I was typing in a search item or a url.

    "example.com" is not the same as "example.com/?query=example.com". It was also much easier to see what the search engine was. If I needed to do a whole bunch of e.g. image searches, I selected that and did not need to type it each time.

  19. What if I want to search for "google world dominance" and not for "world dominance" at the search engine google.

  20. Please shave and cut your hair on Richard Stallman Announces GNU Kind Communication Guidelines (gnu.org) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    because I am offended by your beard.
    Shows that you have no interest in caring about what others think of you. And if that is the case, why should I care if people are butthurt by my way of talking?

    (Yes, it is an attempt to a lame joke. And it is funny, because it is true and I have too much karma anyway.)

  21. Re:It's called a dehumidifier. on A Device That Can Pull Drinking Water From the Air Just Won the Latest XPrize (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    If we need more water, can't we just get it from the North and South pole? It isn't doing anything there, right?

  22. By using the @, many people wil not use it.

    People want to type "search item" nor "google search item" Not use captials to make "Google Search Item" And "@google search item" is even worse. And that is just on Qwerty keyboards. There @ is pretty easy. On Azerty the @ is ALT-GR+2. Alt-GR is the ALT bnutton on the right, so you need two hands to type it.

    I really miss the time where we had a URL and a place for the search engine on all browsers.

  23. Re:Raise taxes and pay competitive rates on White House Wants To Borrow Tech Workers From Google and Amazon, Says Report (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    So should the Whitehouse use VI or Emacs?

  24. The advantage of borrowing them is that the people who pay them can influence them, as they are not under contract of POTUS.
    This way they do not have to pay the White House via bank transfers, but do the things they want directly.

    Banks are Wallstreet, so he is avoiding influence of Wallstreet. He is following up on his promises.

    And communism was people getting paid. WORKERS of the world unite. Just a pity there never was any country with communism as it was intended.

  25. Re:Scummy on Now Apps Can Track You Even After You Uninstall Them (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The same way they are draining the swamp?