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  1. Re:End of Petroleum Taxes on US Utilities Have Finally Realized Electric Cars May Save Them (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You think taxes on fuel OR tires. The people that decide hear taxes on fuel AND tires.

  2. Re:Enough! on Apple Bans Iran from the App Store (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    In Perl? We are lucky that we are able to use the letter 'e'.

  3. Re:Tough to apply to all ends of the spectrum on Daily Dose of Violent Video Games Causes 'No Significant Changes' In Behavior, Study Finds (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you look at these individuals, you will get into what is causation and what is correlation. Mass murderers and rapists have existed for a long time. There was this guy who killed 25% of the world population (Cain).

    It would be obvious that a person with a violent streak will be more interested in a violent game. The thing is if he then will be more or less likely to commit the crimes. For all we know, he will be satisfied with the artificial killing. Could be that he now wants to experience the real thing.

    Just replace sex with violence and you should come to the same outcome, but somehow we do not.

  4. What about female nipples? Because a lot of people seem to think they are not intended for little children. What about sex? Advertising?

    I find it hard to believe that when we look at one thing, it does have no significant impact on us and when we look at something else, it does.

    "But we know that violence in a game is fake and violence in reality is bad, because of outside influences." Good, I do think that we can make good judgement about female nipples as well.So we should allow that on daytime tv, right? And the same can be said about marketing, so all the marketing companies in the world can close shop.

    Because I really can not believe that it works on just violence we see, but not on anything else. If violence does not create violent people then rape-porn (Yes, I wen there.) will not create rapists and a female nipple on TV will not cause the destruction of humanity.Either that, or violent games DO influence people. It is either both or neither. Can't have the cake and eat it, too.

  5. Re:Not that shocking on The 600+ Companies PayPal Shares Your Data With (schneier.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I work in the financial industry in Brussels, Belgium and we do not share customer information with banks or anybody else.

    e.g. you go into a store and open a credit to buy a TV. The person working for Seller will put in the data on our platform.No sharing of personal data is going on.

    With another partner, we had to make a secondary company where we BOTH where partners, just so we could share the data.

    The third parties we work together with will get very limited data. Basically just a name, address and phone number and they better not do anything else with it, or else. Yes, that is marketing.

    Sharing it with 600 companies? Seems extremely high to me. Especially for a financial company. What they need to share is very well regulated up to the wazoo. Stricter regulations are coming. (I believe in May) and they will overturn the current Belgian law and turn it into a European law.

    Seriously, 600 is a shitload. We deal with plenty more companies and we have about 4 we share data with and that is strictly regulated.

  6. Is he married? on No, Space Did Not Permanently Alter 7 Percent of Scott Kelly's DNA (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    If so, is it to Charleze Theron? Because then we might start to get worried.

  7. Ate you living in Bali? No? Then stop deciding what they should do. It is their life, not yours.

  8. Re: RSS for the masses? on Digg Reader To Shut Down This Month -- Latest RSS Service To Bite the Dust (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I use RSS for three things.
    1) auto download of tv shows via tprrents
    2) seeing what new videos there are on channels on Youtube without logging in.
    3) sites like /. For the lastone I made my own webpage with several other channels.

  9. not prostate. I must read gooder.

  10. Re:Encyclopedias are secondary sources, which cite on Wikipedia Had No Idea YouTube Was Going To Use It To Fact-Check Conspiracy Theories (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Whatever is in an encyclopedia came from somewhere else, so you cite the source. It would be dumb to cite "Encyclopedia Britannica says that a study by Harvard says that ...". Just cite the study directly rather than indirectly.

    I wish they did the same at /. instead of quoting a blog that points to a reddit post quoting a tweet with a link to a facebook page citing an opinion based on /. post .

  11. Re: Correction on Demand For Programmers Hits Full Boil as US Job Market Simmers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

  12. Re: Let Google tell us about the other side too... on Google Will Ban All Cryptocurrency-related Advertising (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It is like the sheppard who kills the wolf and tells the herd it is for their interest. Some will indeed live longer before being brought to the slsughter house. The sheppard did it for himself. Correlation is not causation.

  13. At least she did not smoke a joint. on SEC Charges Theranos, CEO Elizabeth Holmes With 'Massive Fraud' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    That would result in much more. I wonder what rich person she pissed of that they even went after her.

  14. Re:An actual climatologist told me ... on Extreme Winter Weather In the US Linked To a Warming Arctic (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Please let everybody out of jail. Crimes have happend before and will happen again. No reason to do anything.
    Yes, this includes rape and murder.

  15. Re:In the end on Extreme Winter Weather In the US Linked To a Warming Arctic (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like Monty Pyton.

    (Storms, wild fires, hurricanes.)

    "It is nothing. It is but a l;ight breeze. Come back!! We will call the discussion a draw."

  16. Re:this surprises someone? on 'Women At Microsoft Are Sexualized By Their Male Managers,' Lawsuit Alleges (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The most sexist jokes that went around at one company where send by women. They where openly talking about the looks of co workers.

    The one case against a male manager was dropped after it became clear there was no case and it was just because she was getting fired.

    I am not saying things never happen anywhere, but to abuse the system has been very easy to do, so there will be individuals (not want to call them women, they are more like female dogs) who will abuse it. Sad for the women who ARE harrassed and do not try to speak up.

  17. Re:This is just the start on YouTube Will Add Information From Wikipedia To Videos About Conspiracies (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It is a public platform owned by a private company. Just like your local store has to abide by certain laws of e.g. access. I can not deny access to e.g. Jews or women or gays or even people at random.

    That said, I can get exceptions for individuals or individual groups for specific reasons. That would almost always come by interrupting the operation of the business.

    As what they do is part of their business (posting videos and have people make comments) it is more like saying "People come in at 06:00 and buy all the bread. Now others do not have any bread anymore." You can not just ban those people from your store. It could be possible after due process, but you might have a hard time making your case.

  18. Re:What liberal bias on Wikipedia? on YouTube Will Add Information From Wikipedia To Videos About Conspiracies (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If you are at right side at the end of a line, everything else is left. The same goes with the other side.

  19. Re:An Unlikely Tribute... on Stephen Hawking, Who Examined the Universe and Explained Black Holes, Dies at 76 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    He even stated at one point that one of his ideas was wrong. I can not even accept I am wrong when I am lost and drive in the not-correct direction.

  20. Re:Stephen Hawking will never die. on Stephen Hawking, Who Examined the Universe and Explained Black Holes, Dies at 76 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What does an old Apple device have to do with all this?

  21. Re: Show me some G force god damnit! on UFO Disclosure Group Releases Newest Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet UFO Encounter Video (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wanted to verify your claim, but found no data on the subject. Ergo : you are right.

  22. Not an alternative to adresses on Google's New 'Plus Codes' Are An Open Source, Global Alternative To Street Addresses (9to5google.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Adresses are used for more than people to drive to. Adresses are used to send packages to people. Adresses can be PO boxes and can include apprtment numbers, so there is a difference between a person who lives on the 2nd floor and somebody on the 3rd floor. There are plenty of places where the code will be useless and an adress will be needed.

    Besides meaning a location, in many places an adress is also a legal part of other things, like the location of an address. You can not just replace the adress with a pluscode on your legal company letters in many countries.

    Then there are the places that not even HAVE an address, so there is nothing to replace.

    What it is is an alternative to the Geographic coordinate system

    This does not mean it is a bad thing or useless, but it is NOT an alternative to adresses. If anything it complements it, not replaces it.

    And then there is Geocoding that started in 1960.

  23. Re: I dunno about anyone else on How Your Returns Are Used Against You At Best Buy, Other Retailers (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I know of an outsource callcenter where they suddenly noticed one person trying to ge refunds and extra money by complaining to several unrelated companies.
    So yes, there is a difference between use and abuse. When I see a movie or tv show where they say to wear a dress, but leave the label intact so they can return it, that is abuse.

  24. Re: British rail system had a solution to this... on New York's Subway Is Slow Because They Slowed Down the Trains After A 1995 Accident · · Score: 1

    The problem is social, not technical and is called "short term profit".

  25. The package manager should be under the admins conyrol. That might sometimes be the user, but not always.
    Imagine a pc for the kids who a 6 pr mom who 96. Small but important difference to make it clear there is a difference to people who are not the stanard IT crowd.