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  1. Re:**note - they don't have to be sitting in the E on New Service Blocks EU Users So Companies Can Save Thousands on GDPR Compliance (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    They have been sending strongly worded letters to, say, North Korea for some time. This will be precisely as effective.

  2. Re:**note - they don't have to be sitting in the E on New Service Blocks EU Users So Companies Can Save Thousands on GDPR Compliance (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    As an example. We have a specific enumeratured right in the constitution permitting us to bear arms. So I am sitting in a coffee shop in, say, Berlin, with my Navy Colt in a holster on my hip. Do you think my rights are protected?

  3. Re:**note - they don't have to be sitting in the E on New Service Blocks EU Users So Companies Can Save Thousands on GDPR Compliance (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They aren't protected AT ALL. Unless you want to try to invade the US to enforce your rules, you can call all the cops you want, file some diplomatic grievances, quote some EU law, and they will laugh at you.

          EU people are always on about the US trying to police the world. Well, this is the EU trying to enforce their laws globally. We tell the Chinese to piss off and they have *real* power. The EU is a bunch of backwater corrupotocrats trying to replicate the USSR who have no power whatsoever, and depend on us for both endless streams of money and for subsidizing their defense (in some cases because we don't trust them to have any power themselves, Germany being a repeat offender). You have NO control and the people that are currently paying their fines are doing it semi-voluntarily - it's extortion and designed to be.

      If push comes to shove, US companies will tell you to piss off and there's not one damn thing you can do about it.

  4. Re:EU needs to be careful... on New Service Blocks EU Users So Companies Can Save Thousands on GDPR Compliance (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    That's great, I think the world would be a better place if the EU walled itself off and didn't interact with the free world.

  5. Re:Surprised it wasn't already a requirement on Placing Election Ads On Google Will Require a Government ID (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Unfortunately, they can still *vote* in many areas, legally or not, and many proposals to require ID have been rejected.

  6. Re:I get his frustration completely .... on Tesla Stock Plunged After Elon Musk's 'Bizarre' Conference Call (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    Don't omit the masterful use of loopholes and exploiting every possible government subsidy, extracting lots of working capital from the US Treasury, or effectively subsidizing his activities.

  7. Re:Waste of money on NASA Launches a New Mission To Mars (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The latter, I think...

  8. Re:Somebody explain the hate in the comments on California To Become First US State Mandating Solar On New Homes (ocregister.com) · · Score: 1

    Because people don't like being told what to do, particularly when they live in a country where such things are designed to be nearly impossible.

  9. It would be a wonderful world on 60-Year-Old Maths Problem Partly Solved By Amateur (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If we could cure people of this stupid Europhilia affectations - "maths", for Christ's sake? Yes, TOS was on The Guardian, but the summary is for a largely US audience.

        I guess it makes everyone feel sophisticated, while they suck on their 2-quart bottle of Mountain Dew in their mom's basement.

  10. Re:"did not have the computing power" on The Longest Straight Path You Could Travel On Water Without Hitting Land (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what I thought, too, any reasonable algorithm would bang through that in a managable time on any modern processor.

  11. Re:We are doomed, no point in reducing emissions on Can We Fight Climate Change With Carbon-Absorbing Rocks? (indiatimes.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the sort of sociopath nutcase we used to ignore as a lunatic, but now we treat him like a rational human being. He is a *social scientist*, he knows no more about facts than the bored housewives who cheer such stupidity on "The View" as if they were a collection of Einsteins.

        Bloody hell, does *no one* see how divergently crazy they are getting?

  12. Re:Wait a minute on Trump Administration Plans To Freeze Obama-Era Fuel Standards (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny how quickly things change. Also, for more than half a century, claiming that the Russians were interfering in our government was the rankest form of witch hunt, McCarthyism, and a terrible miscarriage of those so accused. Then, mysteriously, starting on the morning of Nov 9, 2016, there were Russians behind every tree and manipulating the electorate and the candidates like puppets, with responsibility for everything wrong with the world. And Vlad Putin, which we once heralded as a progressive leader and a guy we could "reset" our relations from the bellicose old days, was an unstoppable demon.

        Odd indeed.

  13. Re:[...]strike against California[...] on Trump Administration Plans To Freeze Obama-Era Fuel Standards (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The Commerce Clause has been bastardized to mean almost anything, so a slight additional bastardization to lower gas prices seems like a pretty good idea.

  14. Re: Nobel Peace Prize Winner on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I won't bother when the PP is a spew ofnonsense, which is by definition irrefutable (since it contains only emotional venting).

  15. Re:Nobel Peace Prize Winner on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The sad thing is that you probably really believe this.

  16. Re: One of Europe's major goals... on Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course. This is the home of self-hating American talk, they all pump each other up talking about how terrible it all is, while living in the lap of incomprehensible wealth, and feeling guilty about it.

  17. Re:You've seen too many hollywood movies on Hacking a Satellite is Surprisingly Easy (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    IP spoofing will get you exactly fucking nowhere, because the command/TLM link doesn't use IP protocols, or anything like them, even for commercial satellites.

          TFS is the biggest pile of bullshit I have seen in a very long time, and the TFA is even worse. It is far beyond merely ridiculous.

              Brett

  18. Re:Computer says no on Pornhub Hasn't Been Actively Enforcing Its Deepfake Ban (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    "Technical Demo". Very good.

    You used to read Playboy for the articles, right?

  19. Re:Who's coordinating this? on NYT: Lynchings Around the World are Linked To Facebook Posts (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Because everybody in media was perfectly fine with Facebook's extensive data mining operation, and with politicians' exploitation of it for electoral manipulation, as long as it was used for their chosen candidates. It became a problem when Trump used it even more extensively and more successfully.

  20. Re:The problem is lack of real minimum wage on Many Amazon Warehouse Workers are on Food Stamps (theintercept.com) · · Score: 0

    Sadly. so many idiots don't understand the phrase "cost of employment" or "supply and demand". See also: Venezuela

  21. Got to hand it to IKEA on Scientists Create Robots That Can Assemble IKEA Furniture For You (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Those Swedish guys really know how to give you almost all the parts you need to make a bookcase!

  22. Single-blade razors give very poor shaves and have far too much tendency to cut. Be honest - because at my age I have gone from "safety razors" to injectors to two-and 3- blade cartridges and the difference in ease and safety is absurdly clear.

  23. Re:If nw subterranean. construction is so hard on Why New York City Stopped Building Subways (citylab.com) · · Score: 2

    It put North Haverbrook on the map!

  24. Re:Could have been stricter on Carbon Dioxide From Ships at Sea To Be Regulated For First Time (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Of course the shipbuilding countries were OK with it - everybody has to retrofit their ships, or buy new ones, and the extra buried profit can be arbitrarily high, because they *have no choice, by fiat*.

            Of course, this will also increase costs for basic good, like an extremely regressive tax, increasing the gap from rich too poor. Well done!

  25. Re:Let's put this in perspective on ULA Is Livestreaming An Atlas V Rocket Launch (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    And your point would be what, exactly? To launch a payload that can go on a moderately-sized rocket on the most capable rocket ever made, just to you would find it more "cool", for some reason?

            The interesting and important end of the rocket is in the nose, not the tail.