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  1. Re:Live long and Prosper on Update: Possible Active Shooter Reported at YouTube HQ (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Concern troll is obvious.

  2. Re:Arm yourself on Update: Possible Active Shooter Reported at YouTube HQ (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Why didn't they write the word 'militia' twice? They clearly knew it, having used it earlier in the sentence.

    To help you out: "people"

    The only opinion on this that counts is the Supreme Court's. You lose again.

  3. Re:I don’t think it’s possible on Update: Possible Active Shooter Reported at YouTube HQ (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been growing my own for decades, but when I last bought weed, if you asked for $10 worth, you'd be asked to leave.

  4. Re:Tubes, or... on Update: Possible Active Shooter Reported at YouTube HQ (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Bitchtracker.com is looking more and more like a true killer app.

    It will start simply sending you a monthly warning text. Perhaps another when ROI of flowers is high (ovulation). Configurable.

    But once it hits critical mass, it starts issuing yellow and red 'sync' alerts. e.g. Condition Red! We have 80% zip code wide sync bitch, residents of east bumfuck, texas should go fishing immediately and not return until the allclear is given!

  5. Re:Tubes, or... on Update: Possible Active Shooter Reported at YouTube HQ (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The lack of a land registry is a big part of why Greece can't collect taxes. Granting 'not developed' in any meaningful sense.

  6. Re: Tubes, or... on Update: Possible Active Shooter Reported at YouTube HQ (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    High point of life. Taking my 4 year old nephew to the rifle range for the first time. Knew there was going to be idiots protesting that day.

    The boy says to lead asshole: 'I'll give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.' Proudly holding his AIR-15.

    Could have heard a pin drop, then I busted out laughing, couldn't stop for a solid minute.

    You'll never see the day.

  7. Re:Inaccessible, Inexplicable and Brilliant on The 50th Anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, _mostly_ intelligible. So long as you get 'a large amount of written material' to explain it to you.

  8. Re:CA on US Suspects Listening Devices in Washington (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are there still trusted certificate authorities in reach of US laws? I understand where they are, just not why they're still trusted.

    Each cert should be signed by two authorities. One in China, one in the USA...perhaps more than 2.

  9. Feds chasing each other. on US Suspects Listening Devices in Washington (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Homeland security saw the NSA's fake towers. The NSA of course was spying on their natural enemy...the Defense Recon Agency...who were keeping an eye on the DEA, who were trying to intercept and 'tax' CIA's cocaine money (who were already paying a tax to the DRA).

  10. 2k/month now. 10k/month target.

    Tesla could do production shooting into hard anodized aluminum. Safe bet they outsource the fasteners and other high volume stuff.

  11. Re:Man Killed By Flying Aspirin Delivery on The World's Fastest Delivery Drone Takes Off (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    An attempted joke...jokes are funny.

  12. Re:"fast" is a relative term on The World's Fastest Delivery Drone Takes Off (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a fixed wing 'bomber', catapult launched, it drops it's cargo on a parachute. Great for what it was designed for (emergency medicine delivery in the third world). Useless as an urban commercial delivery system.

    Also: Slow, but make it much faster and it's stall speed becomes a practical problem. Means you need to add landing gear. Faster still and you need a paved runway etc.

    As a practical matter, this thing would be more useful, gas powered.

  13. Re:There are already faster drones... on The World's Fastest Delivery Drone Takes Off (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Voyager 1 for the win. Delivering lovely earth bacteria.

  14. Re:The ends do not justify the means ... on Suit To Let Researchers Break Website Rules Wins a Round (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't own data about you. Too bad and all, but that's the state of affairs.

    _If_ Cambridge did anything wrong, the victim was facebook. Who's valuable dataset was accessed without sufficient payment in cash and/or influence.

  15. Re:Do My Followers Follow Me? on Instagram Suddenly Chokes Off Developers As Facebook Chases Privacy (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't get it. When facebook sells that data that's just fine, everything operating as designed. When someone else resells the data or even worse, collects it without paying and then sells it, that's bad.

  16. Re:Do My Followers Follow Me? on Instagram Suddenly Chokes Off Developers As Facebook Chases Privacy (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    slit-nose gaffot slut with MONEY (that they were lucky to get together with in the first place).

  17. Re:Fuckerberg is all about the shekels on Instagram Suddenly Chokes Off Developers As Facebook Chases Privacy (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    So I guess they're back to spidering and scraping?

    If my browser can see it, I can collect it.

    I'm not 'defending this', but restricting the API just moves the activity back to grey areas. Truth: I have, years ago when I could outrageously overcharge for such simple shit, occasionally made a few bucks scraping data. Mostly companies collecting data on their competitors who made upwise website configuration decisions. Not 'hacking' per se, just 'walking' through an open no password 'login' a couple of hundred thousand times.

    Automating web requests to collect all your contacts and scrape all their walls is pretty trivial.

  18. How many times/day do you think your license plate is scanned?

  19. So your saying your in favor of selective law enforcement?

    No fed has gone to prison for trying to turn background checks into de facto registration. Despite a 20 year history of ignoring data retention laws.

  20. You trust them?

    The federal government has been caught multiple time keeping gun background check records. Despite the law specifically forbidding it. They have even been caught retaining database records that federal judges explicitly ordered them to delete...next time they are caught with the database, there's those same records again.

  21. Re:Inaccessible, Inexplicable and Brilliant on The 50th Anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" · · Score: 1

    Some people consider Joyce the greatest Irish author...are you calling his work a failure?

  22. It left the station back when the data was still kept on index cards.

    Poison the well, every chance you get.

  23. Re:It was unwatchable even back then on The 50th Anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It left room for interpretation.

    You can't blame Kubrick for seeing the reactions to Joyce and deciding: 'Incoherence is the key to staying power.' The audience will find what it wants.

  24. Re:And it's still basically unwatchable. on The 50th Anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" · · Score: 0

    The stale eye candy part doesn't age well. But better than the stewardess with the velcro shoes walking in 0 gee.

    That said, in another 50 years, the eye candy in all the Transformers movies etc will be seen as much worse.

  25. It isn't that simple. x86 was not the only processor family, saying it was dominant from day 1 grossly simplifies history.

    While Moore's law was alive an well, nobody could compete with the money in x86. Even when processors were clearly better (Alpha, AMD-64), 'x86' won because they outspent the competition. The next Alpha will be different.