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  1. They need individual warrants in Canada too on Supreme Court Agrees To Decide Major Privacy Case On Cellphone Data (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Both in Canada and the US, the Constitutions preclude these unwarranted searches and seizures of people who just happen to be in the vicinity (many many miles) of a cell tower, or a fake cell tower in this case.

    And the lies that they exclude your information if you're not the target have been proven over and over again.

  2. Oh, please, the Cold War III has been a while on Putin Now Argues Russia Could've Been Framed For Election Meddling By The CIA (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Putin can pretend all he wants, but this Cold War III has been going on for years.

    The sad part is those who would become Russia's sheep. Makes me sick.

  3. More than half of US GDP is ignoring Trump on Trump Announces US Withdrawal From Paris Climate Accord (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    We've rerouted around the damaged person.

    Paris Accord is in effect. It save all the states which have joined it large amounts of money and makes our industry and commerce and even residential consumers more efficient and paying less for energy than the deadender states that Comrade Trump and his Russians represent.

    Which is why we green capitalists will crush you. We pay less for more efficient production, more efficient data centers, and our utility bills are small while our output is huge.

    Enjoy your whale oil and kerosene and coal, deadenders. Hope your buggy whips work.

  4. Sounds like a system and database design fault on British Airways IT Outage Caused By Contractor Who Accidentally Switched off Power (independent.ie) · · Score: 2

    Have they never heard of multiple servers with the ability to handle server down events for one machine?

  5. Re:What cars *DON'T* cheat? on Germany Detects Emissions Cheat Software In Audi Models (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Electric cars, for the most part. If you fill them up at work or home using solar or wind, they have zero emissions. If you fill them up from a commercial source that includes coal, they are still slightly better than fossil fuel cars, due to the actual operation of the vehicles themselves. Which is part of why electric cars, in general, require half the expense for repairs and maintenance.

  6. More like all the Trailers gave away the movie on Movie Studios Are Blaming Rotten Tomatoes For Killing Movies No One Wants To See (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, stop giving out all the fun parts in the trailers for the movie.

  7. This is moronic on Trump Announces US Withdrawal From Paris Climate Accord (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Now we're as stupid as Syria.

  8. You spelled British Empire wrong on The US Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Who do you think got us to shift off whale oil and wood steamers to coal?

    That stuff stays in the atmosphere for 100-400 years, you know. Not the main CO2, but the other parts.

  9. This is just a rotation scheme. They take the US elections hacking team, which successfully disabled up to 50 percent of all voting in key counties in swing states (hint: use paper ballots, vote by mail, and non-networked optical scanners if you don't want to be hacked), and rotate them to the Ukranian, EU hacking team, while replacing the US team with the ones hacking the EU and Ukraine.

    Keeps them on their toes.

    No, you don't live in a Democracy.

  10. Who Will Think Of The Bots? on Man Fined $4,000 For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts on Facebook (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who will think of the bots this will dramatically impact?

    When Russian bots dream, they dream of oil burning sheep.

    Think on them, before you fine too much.

    Vast herds of Russian bots might go hungry, unable to pay their fines.

    Will you help them?

  11. It's only deadender states not complying on Elon Musk Joins CEOs Calling For US To Stay in Paris Climate Deal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Face it, the reason that there is an impact is that the states which became more efficient and invest in renewable energy now have cheaper energy and more efficient manufacturing and commercial and residential uses.

    Which is why we win.

    Not being in the accord just means we outcompete you more and we create even more jobs than you do.

    Being out of the accord hurts you, not us. My bills are getting cheaper, while yours are going up, because of a lack of investment on your part in energy efficiency and expensive fossil fuel energy instead of cheaper renewable energy.

  12. Mar-a-Lago does this all the time on Top Defense Contractor Left Sensitive Pentagon Files on Amazon Server With No Password (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    Why should the gander have different rules than the Russian goose?

    That said, the NSA toolkit originally was from a cloud store that should never have been let outside of the secure net.

  13. Will it "work" on British Airways? on Microsoft's Looking To Reboot Mobile with New Software and Hardware: Sources (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering if it will work on British Airways, as well as their reservations and booking systems do.

    (end sarcasm)

  14. Why would I want any of this?

    I already have non-wired heating cooling in my house and I don't need my IoT fridge to spy on me while pretending it doesn't.

  15. Re:How is this news? on Amazon's Drive-Up Grocery Stores Are Now Open To the Public In Seattle (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This is in the Cloud.

    That's Seattle for ya.

    No, it's sunny this week. No clouds.

  16. there are tons of grocery stores all over Seattle. This is just two.

    Most offer this kind of service already. They even deliver it to your homes at a preset time, which is what that Amazon Fresh does.

  17. The main problems are that all our methods for creating the raw input, natural gas, involve vast amounts of leakage of this greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, and it's fairly destructive. Then the method quoted does not show high enough efficiency to be cost effective.

  18. The leaks are coming from INSIDE the WH on US Intelligence Community Has Lost Credibility Due To Leaks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    All your Russia are belong to Trump henchmen

  19. Too p3rv3 for most people on T-Mobile's 'Digits' Program Revamps the Phone Number (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We said stop tracking us.

    And we meant it.

  20. Shiny makes feel good!

    Pretend to self shiny is for health, not to be toy!

  21. What is this Reddit thing you go on about? on Imzy, the Kinder and Gentler Reddit By Ex Employee, Is Shutting Down (imzy.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, are you guys still around? Is this where all the old USE*NET trolls went?

  22. Not fun? on 'Coding Is Not Fun, It's Technically and Ethically Complex' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmmm. If you're in a field in which you don't find a lot of what you do to be fun, perhaps you should investigate others.

    Definitely don't pursue a PhD in Computing Science or Data Science. You might get through a Masters with that attitude, but, even if every second is not a fun-filled circus of joy, you might not be doing this as a career, but as a job.

    We don't need people who do it as a job.

    Unless you're a COBOL coder, we need those.

  23. Short answer: Putin did this, China finished it on Did China Hack The CIA In A Massive Intelligence Breach From 2010 To 2012? (ibtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike all you on the civvy side, we've been in Cold War II for quite a while.

    And now we are on to Cold War III.

    Hope you feel happy about outing all the NATO operatives for your masters in China and Russia.

    Must make you feel proud.

  24. Last dying gasps of fossil fuels on America's Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster and More Efficient (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Starting this model year, more than half of the world will end all fossil fuel vehicle incentives and start rolling out cheaper all-electric and electric hybrid (80 percent electric in normal operations) cars, trucks, and SUVs.

    You had time to adapt and get higher mpg, but you wasted it on speed. An electric turbine can accelerate full out with no lag.

  25. Which is why the workers at all the auto plants are in unions.