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  1. They know we can geolocate POTUS, right? on Pentagon Restricts Use of Fitness Trackers, Other Devices (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Still.

    Fitness track that.

  2. Re:Not for Seattle Millenials on Earth Overshoot Day Came Early This Year. That's a Bad Thing. (popsci.com) · · Score: 0

    What's a car, grandpa?

    My sister drives a Prius in SoCal, since her commute takes a while and she has kids, actually.

  3. Not for Seattle Millenials on Earth Overshoot Day Came Early This Year. That's a Bad Thing. (popsci.com) · · Score: -1

    Actually, your carbon impact and resource impact has much much more to do with where you live, where you work, and where your energy comes from.

    If you live and work within 1-2 miles and rarely drive or fly long distances (high speed rail has minimal impact), and live in an efficient city like Seattle which has 98.5 percent green energy (same holds for Vancouver BC or Nelson BC or, surprisingly, even Calgary AB or much of Texas), you have very very little resource impact on the world.

    If your electric car uses solar panels on your home and at work, and the battery helps load balance the grid so it has a higher level of renewables, your impact is very small.

    If you're a millenial, you may not own a suburban house or have a lawn or even a fireplace and you may not own a car and tend to walk, bike, or use transit. If you eat low on the food chain, especially if you eat mussels and clams and shellfish grown in mixed kelp or seagrass beds, you're actually carbon negative on food.

    If you use native shrubberies and water that would have gone to waste to water them, especially using no fertilizers or composting your food waste, then your impact is very small. If you reuse things, use less packaging (or use it to replace other purchases, such as cardboard instead of pizza trays), and recycle what can be recycled after, then you have very little impact.

    On average, a modern city dwelling Millenial on the coasts (except the South, but including Texas) has about 1/10th the impact that the average American does.

    That's science. Use the online calculators to see where you use things.

  4. But what if we pay for them in Rubles? on Facebook Shuts Off Access To User Data For Hundreds of Thousands of Apps (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, will that change your mind?

  5. In Soviet Amerika, Windows controls on With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Amerika, Windows controls you!

  6. Re: Of course on France Bans Smartphones in School (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Maybe we could start a religion whose sky fairy commands the use of smartphone instead of funny hats.

    They did that in Denmark already.

  7. This is a very very good idea on France Bans Smartphones in School (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Glad that someone is doing something about this!

    On the plus side, this will also result in fewer teens getting depressed.

  8. Re:Terraforming: No, Habitable: Yes on Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars, New Research Says (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 2

    No there isn't. How are you going to get to the water? Dig for it? Give me a break. The radiation would kill you in a week.

    Robots don't care about your silly problems digging for 404error reboot omg where am I

  9. Re:I got an idea on Mozilla Is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Feedback (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    They should call it Netscape Navigator.

    You spelled MOSAIC wrong

  10. Just call it Internet Expresso on Mozilla Is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Feedback (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And then claim MSFT infringed on your trademark.

    Profit!

    (seriously, though, when you spend time rebranding, it's usually a sign of bad things)

  11. Define tech workers on More Than 60% of Tech Workers Feel They're Underpaid (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Most employees of tech firms are not techies.

    And most of your options won't vest.

  12. Terraforming: No, Habitable: Yes on Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars, New Research Says (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 2

    There's more than enough water and air to set up systems to live there.

    You just won't get a Princess of Barsoom situation.

  13. IOUT on How Many Computers Does the World Need? (ft.com) · · Score: 2

    The Internet Of Useless Things says we need even more things to be computers.

    Like a hammer.
    Or a screwdriver.
    Or a glass for drinking with.

    If it's not a computer, it's useless.

    (brought to you by The Council To Make You Install Our Silicon Overlords Everywhere And Become Serfs)

  14. Re:Where are the traffic cops when you need them? on Star Spotted Speeding Near Black Hole at Centre of Milky Way (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I know, and that must have been a really long donut break! 25,000 years and then the cops notice!

  15. First, we seal all the lawyers in an airtight room on Native American Tribe Can't Be a 'Sovereign' Shield During Patent Review, Says Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a solution.

    First, we seal all the lawyers in an airtight room.

  16. Where are the traffic cops when you need them? on Star Spotted Speeding Near Black Hole at Centre of Milky Way (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I can see this all ending badly.

  17. Re:Using a screwdriver as a hammer on IBM Watson Reportedly Recommended Cancer Treatments That Were 'Unsafe and Incorrect' · · Score: 2

    Dr. Who only knows how to use a sonic screwdriver. A muggle's screwdriver baffles the daylights out of her/him/it.

    She's The Doctor, not an Engineer.

  18. Re:Using a screwdriver as a hammer on IBM Watson Reportedly Recommended Cancer Treatments That Were 'Unsafe and Incorrect' · · Score: 3

    This is why you want Dr Who, not Dr Watson.

    Dr Who knows how to use a screwdriver, and she does it much better than Dr Watson does.

  19. Sounds like a well trained AI on IBM Watson Reportedly Recommended Cancer Treatments That Were 'Unsafe and Incorrect' · · Score: 2

    It just wanted to help impose pro-Darwinian responses to malformed genetic abnormalities.

    Next up: self-driving cars that crash on purpose because their passengers sing songs the AI hates.

  20. Look, I said visit the swimming pool on Evidence Detected of Lake Beneath the Surface of Mars (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You can visit my swimming pool, but you're not allowed to empty it out for your own personal use.

    I have clear signs posted.

    Also, no flip flops.

  21. Re:Illegal to record phone convo to Washington Sta on Google is Building 'Virtual Agents' To Handle Call Centers' Grunt Work (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    My AI doesn't accept that answer.

    Therefore, consent was not heard.

  22. Illegal to record phone convo to Washington State on Google is Building 'Virtual Agents' To Handle Call Centers' Grunt Work (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    We have strong privacy protections in our State Constitution.

    Just saying.

    Doesn't matter what your excuse is, get a warrant.

  23. Just watch the Spanish language versions that your HDTV picks up free.

    Almost everything is there. Then just turn on SAP (secondary audio program) on that channel, and, mes amigos, it gives you English on the Spanish broadcast.

  24. My HDTV antenna works fine on Cord-Cutting Keeps Churning: US Pay-TV Cancelers To Hit 33 Million in 2018 (Study) (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    That said, I probably watch way more Crunchyroll when it's not soccer season (the only reason I do cable)

    I think I paid like $30 for the HDTV antenna, and it lets me get a lot of other services as well, which if you can speak multiple languages, is super sweet.

    Cable did this to themselves.

  25. Has more to do with your network on Apple's iPhones Trail Samsung, Google Devices in Internet Speeds (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have actual Gig speed networks and hold your phone just right, you'll be a lot faster than people who can afford to live in the neighborhoods that won't let you build cell towers.