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  1. Expect the cars to get vandalized on Ford Patents Driverless Police Car That Ambushes Lawbreakers Using AI (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The article doesn't mention if they are fireproof and bulletproof. Cash register justice will provoke a violent and justifiable response.

  2. Hopefully Amazon focuses on low hanging fruit on Amazon's Push Into Healthcare Just Cost the Industry $30 Billion In Market Cap (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unnecessary tests and pharmaceuticals. Doctors use unnecessary tests to protect themselves from lawsuits. Then there's the medication problem.

    the-myth-of-drug-expiration-dates
      The government needs an independent lab to determine the expiry dates, not big pharma.

    drug-firms-shipped-208-million-pain-pills-to-west-virginia-town

    drug-company-payments-mirror-doctors-brand-name-prescribing

    I also have to wonder if doctors prescribe drugs as the easy solution instead telling the patient to make lifestyle choices.

  3. Where does the ocean plastic come from? 10 Rivers on Plastic Pollution Is Killing Coral Reefs, 4-Year Study Finds (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just 10 rivers carry 90% of plastic polluting the oceans

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

  4. Re:stopping video autoplay? on Chrome 64 Released With Stronger Popup Blocker, Spectre Mitigations (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    What plugin? This is an html5 issue.

  5. Re:Msmash's boner is used to cut off sick kids on Facebook VP Says Company Won't Use Experts To Fix Fake News Because It is Worried About Criticism (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Impeachment(bringing of charges) does not remove the President. Just ask Bill Clinton. The Senate would have do a trial after impeachment, and good luck getting 2/3s there for conviction.

    What would be the "high crimes and misdemeanors" to start the impeachment process?

  6. Time for Apple & Google to move to Austin on Apple and Google Are Rerouting Their Employee Buses as Attacks Resume (mashable.com) · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Thanks, GWB & all that followed on Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions (npr.org) · · Score: 1
    Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?

    The ethanol lobby beat Obama, Trump and all the congresses since enactment.

  8. Fake news. Ford has a plan, money throwers don't on Ford is Throwing $11 Billion at Its Electric Car Problem (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Throwing money at a problem is a solution from people who have either run out of ideas or don't want to cede control to others.

  9. Court invoked so-called dormant commerce clause? on US Supreme Court Will Revisit Ruling On Collecting Internet Sales Tax (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
    The commerce clause has been anything but dormant since 1942. The courts have consistently ruled that Congress can regulate pretty much anything and everything because of the commerce clause.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  10. Rand Paul plans to filibuster in the Senate on House Passes Bill To Renew NSA Internet Spying Tool (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
    https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/10...

    Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is prepared to filibuster the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is up for a vote in the House to authorize a six-year extension, in an effort to get warrant requirement for Americans.

    “My worry is that they also collect information on millions of Americans, and I don’t want that database to be searched without a warrant,” “I will filibuster and do whatever to stop that,” he added.

    In the event that protections were included for U.S. citizens’ private information, Paul said he would support reauthorizing Section 702.

  11. This should be for ALL government regulations on Senate Will Force Vote On Overturning Net Neutrality Repeal (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
    Force elected officials to do their job. Congress has been a pack of cowards for the past few dozen years not wanting to be held accountable for actually doing their job by voting on important issues.

    Good luck getting the House to take up this issue.

  12. Is an application addiction, not a phone addiction on Apple Should Address Youth Phone Addiction, Say Two Large Investors (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    People are addicted to their social media apps, not the hardware.

  13. First Astronaut officially reprimanded by NASA on John Young, Legendary Astronaut, Dies at Age 87 (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1
    https://twitter.com/DrRiley_Wr...

    That’s valuable zero gravity space research for the future of mankind, right there.

  14. Air Force airlines still operates at least 6 747s on US Airlines No Longer Operate the Boeing 747 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    4 x E-4B
    2 x VC-25

  15. That's called Chutzpah on Obama Warns Against Irresponsible Social Media Use (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
    Let us not forget Obama created a cocoon of his own, branding conservatives "bitter clingers," denying the IRS scandal, and presenting misinformation about the attack in Benghazi, Libya. And there was that disastrous Iran deal...

    Trump may be dividing America worse than Obama did, but that doesn't mean Obama was guiltless.

  16. Do Uber drivers want sick people in their car? on Cities With Uber Have Lower Rates Of Ambulance Usage (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Would you want someone with a communicable disease in your back seat? Do you want to be the next passenger?

  17. This missile is an SS18. It can hit DC or New York on After Two Months of Quiet, North Korea Launches Another Ballistic Missile (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
    With that the NORKS don't need to miniaturize the warhead. The SS18 is a massive missile.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

  18. The ruling needs to address all location tracking on Justices Ponder Need For Warrant For Cellphone Tower Data (apnews.com) · · Score: 1
    The case centers around a person's cellphone tower location logs, but the broader issue is the government's access to tracking data no matter its collection process. These days location data comes from many sources including facial recognition, license plate readers and smart tags. In the future it will probably include drones and driverless vehicles.

    The ruling needs to say that a warrant is required for the government to access location data, no matter who or how it was collected.

  19. The Czechs should auction him off on Russia and The US Fight Over Who Gets To Extradite A Hacker (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Extradition ebay. See how badly they want him.

  20. Google and Facebook are part of the problem on Bipartisan US Election Group Issues Security Tips (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Their political partisanship and profit motive should call into question any contributions they make.

  21. Net Neutrality includes ideas, not just bandwidth on 'We Are Disappointed': Tech Companies Speak Up Against the FCC's Plan To Kill Net Neutrality (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1
    https://www.bloomberg.com/view...

    Meanwhile, our experience of the internet is increasingly controlled by a handful of firms, most especially Google and Facebook. The argument for regulating these companies as public utilities is arguably at least as strong as the argument for thus regulating ISPs, and very possibly much stronger; while cable monopolies may have local dominance, none of them has the ability that Google and Facebook have to unilaterally shape what Americans see, hear, and read.

    In other words, we already live in the walled garden that activists worry about, and the walls are getting higher every day.

  22. Why Is Twitter endorsing a Homophobic Hate-Monger on Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1
    Curiously, while white supremacist Richard Spencer was de-certified, Kevin Spacey, Harvey Weinstein, Bill Clinton, Al Franken, Dan Rather, and Louis Farrakhan all still have their blue checkmarks.

    Regarding that last fellow, as Liel Leibovitz of Tablet asks, if Twitter is judging verified users’ offline behavior, “Why Is Twitter Endorsing Anti-Semitic, Homophobic Hate-Monger Louis Farrakhan?”

  23. Google has more than this Missouri AG on Why Google Should Be Afraid of a Missouri Republican's Google Probe (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    More money, more time, more experience and more patience. Google only needs to wait for another AG to come along who drops the case for the right campaign contribution.

  24. Re:Why was the FBI brought in? on Student Charged By FBI For Hacking His Grades More Than 90 times (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    My point is the FBI's computer crimes folks should be working on major league crimes that are too big for state and local law enforcement.