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  1. Modded this down yesterday as fake on Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Sadly, it isn't fake.

    Sigh.

    This is disgusting.

  2. A year of work by the GRU down the drain on Sweden Accidentally Leaks Personal Details of Nearly All Citizens (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 2

    Seriously, Russia had been trying to do this for a year, and then Sweden goes and does it for them.

    All those wasted hacker hours.

    Sigh.

  3. We need to trust bust not just cable and wifi providers - and get rid of non-compete agreements and municipal-exclusion provisions - but also trust bust banks and phone companies.

    All of them.

    With zero payouts to the top execs on the dissolution of their anti-capitalist combines.

  4. Just ignore the toddler playing with trucks in the front yard, there is no such task force.

    guy can't even staff 4/5ths of his positions, he's that clueless

  5. Slackers on EU Court to Rule On 'Right to Be Forgotten' Outside Europe (wsj.com) · · Score: 0

    Canada's Supreme Court has already ruled that Canadian Constitutional Rights apply worldwide.

    Only slackers would do something less. Like the US, who can't even make their own stuff.

    Expect the EU court to rule that the EU Right to be forgotten applies worldwide, including in China, Russia, and other third world countries like the USA.

    (p.s. how's toddler Don doing today?)

  6. Re:If it's unladen on New Research Shows Humans Could Outrun T. Rex · · Score: 1

    is it an African or European T.Rex?

    Pangean

  7. Your mother rode T-rex on New Research Shows Humans Could Outrun T. Rex · · Score: 1

    Well, your mother rode a T-rex sidesaddle!

  8. Re:Temporary on US Increases Number of H-2B Visas By 15,000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Anon's don't have the ability to claim burden of proof. They don't exist. In fact, most people can only see your post if I reply to it.

    Try reading some of Abraham Lincoln's writings sometimes before you spout on about taxes.

  9. Zero power charge iPhone on Apple's Risky Balancing Act With the Next iPhone (macworld.com) · · Score: 1

    They're faced with the contradictory desires of consumers both to make things bigger - Boomers, Gamers, and Twinks - and to make them low power and smaller - Zero Gens, Music Lovers, and Fashionistas.

    Thing is, the tech exists to do both. We can power cell phones from incidental power from local wireless now, and have foldable bendable waterproof bioelectric screens we grow.

    The question is, which side will win.

    I figure they'll do both. You can get a Star Trek communicator "wallet" phone that unfolds, or a comm badge phone that beeps. They'll probably act as if you have to buy both, but you don't.

  10. It's not like the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Washington Post, New York Times, and media in China have noted that 39 US states were hacked.

    Oh.

    Wait.

    Paper mail-in ballots with non-networked optical scanners and audit trails. Only tech that works. Or use paper and pencil with same day registration.

  11. Re:Temporary on US Increases Number of H-2B Visas By 15,000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    It's a shame that instead of explaining your position, you squander the opportunity by instead putting forth a useless denunciation.

    It's a shame they don't have the Internet, Wikipedia, or any of the libraries of the world where you live

  12. Re:Temporary on US Increases Number of H-2B Visas By 15,000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Since when was the income tax ever said to be only temporary?

    it's a shame you never took civics in high school, or even history

  13. Temporary on US Increases Number of H-2B Visas By 15,000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Just like the income tax was temporary.

    Face it, this is your new floor.

  14. Re:The UK is going much further to censor the net on China's Censors Can Now Erase Images Mid-Transmission (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    That's The Doctor, n00b

  15. Text messages appeared to be unaffected on China's Censors Can Now Erase Images Mid-Transmission (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you sure?

    Don't count on it.

    And you thought AI was your friend ...

  16. Re:Already have 100 Gbps Internet3 on Comcast Says Should Be Able To Create Internet Fast Lanes For Self-Driving Cars (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Yep.

    And hands up who wants their automotive safety to depend on a Comcast Internet connection?

    OK, heart surgery under way.

    Scalpel check

    (2 hours later)

    What do you mean it's reached it's data cap and it's buffering? This patient is going to die!

  17. Russia is a rouge nation on Hacks 'Probably Compromised' UK Industry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously.

    (sorry, just wanted to misspell rogue)

  18. Already have 100 Gbps Internet3 on Comcast Says Should Be Able To Create Internet Fast Lanes For Self-Driving Cars (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Why should we use slower Comcast lanes in medicine?

  19. Re: Violation of Canadian and EU rights on US Appeals Court Upholds Nondisclosure Rules For Surveillance Orders (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    In other words, Canada and the EU want to force their laws on the rest of the world. If the US did the same thing, Slashdot readers would throw a fit about it. But because it's Canada and the EU forcing their laws on everyone else, Slashdot readers are okay with it.

    Someone has to take over global leadership while the US is out of it. Ain't gonna be Russia.

    Pax Europa, Pax Canadiana

  20. Violation of Canadian and EU rights on US Appeals Court Upholds Nondisclosure Rules For Surveillance Orders (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just a note that this is still (as upheld by the Canadian Supreme Court and the EU) a violation of their citizens rights to privacy worldwide.

    Besides, everyone knows the US is the sick man of NATO. Can't even afford healthcare for their citizens. Sad.

  21. Linux and roll your own PCs on PC Shipments Hit the Lowest Level In a Decade (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Look, there's no reason to freak.

    Ask yourself about the CPU and GPU sales instead. How many motherboards are shipping?

    Boxes don't matter. There's no value added anymore.

    Besides, where I am we're all just rolling blade servers. PCs are for last decade.

  22. I don't think you understand how the EU hiring process tends to work. To you it's inconceivable that it would involve so much bureaucracy and paperwork.

    I'm not sure that word means what you think it means.

    It's the EU.

    Not the US.

    Things are different.

  23. They have this thing called fines.

    Like the billions of Euros in fines they issued to various US firms doing business in the EU who violated privacy laws.

    Corporations tend to notice those.

    As to "who searched" it's an auditable event and it's usually something brought on when they deny someone a position.

  24. presidential government communication actually on Twitter Users Blocked By Trump Sue, Claim @realDonaldTrump Is Public Forum (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    maybe the WH should turn the video back on.

    we need snaps for the #WinterIsHere snap filter

  25. Wealth is not Income on Seattle City Council Unanimously Approves Income Tax For the Rich (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    The difference is that you can have a high income and be in debt, or you can have assets which grow.

    Most stocks aren't counted as income. This would not tax them. If you work for a startup, most of your compensation is in stocks, so you won't be paying this tax, even if you sell them.

    It's a shame how little economics people understand.