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  1. This originates in Belgian Royal depravity on Apple Cracks Down Further On Cobalt Supplier in Congo as Child Labor Persists (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    All of this goes back to the Belgian Prince treating the Congo as his personal slave state, literally chopping the hands off of small children and women to enforce slavery in his mines and rubber plantations.

    We're just continuing the tradition.

    Just like the South.

  2. I claim prior art on IBM Gets a Patent On 'Out-of-Office' Email Messages -- In 2017 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In the 1970s I had a message system check my status and post a reply to any posts on what became email that were "addressed" to me, stating that I was out of office or whatever my status had changed to.

    This was back when we used cameras to take pics of the vending machines in the basement. It was a long way to walk if there was no coke in the machine.

    IBM is using my creation. And probably that of thousands of us, which means it's in Common Use and not patentable.

  3. It's called the power switch.

    Then it's really shutdown.

    No power, no updates.

  4. Seriously, who would work there? on NSA Risks Talent Exodus Amid Morale Slump, Trump Fears (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    You know your top level boss will throw you under the boss for his foreign controller.

    America has no idea how many have died because of such top level outings.

    Died.

    Not lost jobs.

    Died.

  5. This is shade on Radio Is the Worst Place To Listen To Music, Says Jay Z (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    He's just jealous Seattle would rather listen to Icelandic music than some old grandpa who can't sing his way out of a compostable paper bag and that we won't listen to songs from old guys who cheat on their wives.

    Tough.

    I buy my music direct from the musicians. Then they get half the cut.

  6. Re:aww poor little flower on Female Engineer Sues Tesla, Describing a Culture Of 'Pervasive Harassment' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Technically, that's illegal.

    it doesn't matter if it's customary.

    And in a lawsuit, illegal actions are ... (wait for it) ... illegal.

    News flash: you're no longer in a frat at Stanford.

  7. At least the robot can go down stairs, and has bigger hands.

    And probably a larger brain.

  8. Re:Which Is Great on Questioning The Privacy Policies Of Data-Collecting Cars (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    which part of State Constitution didn't you get?

  9. WA has constitutional privacy protections on Questioning The Privacy Policies Of Data-Collecting Cars (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Data collected by a car can't be used without a prior individual court order to do so in this state.

    Just saying.

  10. Sounds Fair on Studios Push for $50 Early Home Movie Rentals (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    50 cents is about right.

  11. this applies to all EU and Canadian citizens too on Amazon Argues That Alexa Is Protected By the First Amendment in a Murder Trial (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Under the treaties that the US signed with the EU and with Canada, this applies to all such recordings - even in the US or stored in the US - of any conversations of citizens of the EU and of Canada.

    Next time, don't sign treaties which overrule laws passed by Congress.

  12. Bet this paper was written by cats on Owning a Cat Does Not Lead To Mental Illness, Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Tricksy they are, yes

  13. Told you to pay that bill on US Homeland Security Employees Locked Out of Computer Networks (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Next time listen

  14. Re:Just go down the hall on University Offers Course To Help Sniff Out and Refute 'Bullshit' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Find the Gender Studies classroom. You've hit the mother-load of bullshit.

    Um, dude, I think you're confused. Are you referring to Intellectual Hall? Women's studies is way on the other side of campus. Past the fusion reactor.

  15. I love this course on University Offers Course To Help Sniff Out and Refute 'Bullshit' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The best part of this course is their extremely useful advice: Don't Read The Comments

    Basically, it's verify, don't trust, and realize the biases of your sources, establishing trust chains.

  16. My female colleagues and friends agree on Former Engineer Says Uber Is a Nightmare of Sexism; CEO Orders Urgent Investigation (susanjfowler.com) · · Score: 1

    I have heard this from so many women scientists, systems engineers, and other IT specialists who are female.

    There is a problem.

    My key ROI on this is:

    1. Stop using the old boys network, your frat buddies, to find recruits. Set a goal of 50 percent promotions, 50 percent board position candidates, and 50 percent new hires being female.

    2. If you think having one woman in the after hours drinking means you're diverse - you're wrong.

    3. If you're female, stop undercutting other women when they have ideas. Most groups won't hear a woman's idea unless at least two women agree with the idea. If a male steals credit for the idea, call it out right there. Don't wait for a "good moment to bring it up". There is no good moment.

    4. If you find 1-3 impossible, then you're just pretending you're a real business.

  17. Re:"Robot Tax"? on EU Moves To Bring In AI Laws, But Rejects Robot Tax Proposal (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep Taxes?

    Hey, sounds fair to me. If they don't like it, they can move back to Mars.

  18. Robots should pay the top rate on EU Moves To Bring In AI Laws, But Rejects Robot Tax Proposal (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    And corporations should pay twice that

  19. Actually, isn't that a religion there? on 70 Percent of Young Swedish Men Are Video Pirates, Study Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Fairly sure I saw a documentary on The Norden (the series is on YouTube) and one episode was about Religion, in which a US Baptist minister went to various Northern European countries. One was Sweden and he met one of the church members of the Data Sharing Religion, who believed that copying data and streaming was a sacred act.

  20. There is only one question on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 0

    And that question is, Do You Punch Nazis?

    There is only one answer.

    And that answer is Yes.

  21. Verify, Don't Trust on EU Privacy Watchdogs Seek Assurances on US Data Transfer Pact (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Fun fact: even though we have Data Privacy pacts with both the EU and Canada, we violate them each and every day.

    According to the pacts, privacy laws that are required in the EU and Canada are also supposed to apply to all nationals from those countries while they are in the US and its territories.

    But.

    They're not.

    We are spying on you.

    We just lie that we're not.

    (mind you, this is now being used the other way, so Deep State that, Golden Boy)

  22. Big Brother would never use this to listen in on you.

    Big Brother cares only that you can get radio FM signals on your cellphone.

    We have always been at war with AM-Asia.

  23. Under the new EU and other nations (e.g. Canada/Mexico/Japan/China) requirements, all-electric busses are required in all markets for all fleets.

    The average cost to fuel (electricity) such fleets is 1/10th to 1/20th the cost of an equivalent diesel bus. The maintenance is, on average, about half that of a diesel bus.

    There are some deviations from this: very rural areas need to set up either battery swap or rapid charge stations, which are easily fueled with wind and solar. However, almost all fleet bus lines operate in urban centers, where this is not a problem.

    One drawback: this cuts pollution in urban centers dramatically. In some places in the Western US, pollution from trucks, bus, and cars is up to 40 percent of all pollution.

  24. What could possibly go wrong (*MySpace*).

  25. Told you not to remove the climate change data on US National Weather Service Suffered 'Catastrophic' Outage; Website Stopped Sending Forecasts, Warnings (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    But, no, you said, it's safe you said.

    Right.

    Sure.