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  1. Damage to Whom? on House Committee: Edward Snowden's Leaks Did 'Tremendous Damage' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    To the Unconstitutional and Illegal actions of the NSA against American citizens in our own country?

    To the terrorist creating Saudis, Yemenis, and Pakistanis who continue to create terrorism worldwide today but pretend to be our "allies"?

    Look, I knew directly about what they were doing since the 1980s. Your gorvernment is still lying to you, and still ignoring the US Constitution.

  2. Re:How accurate is Forrester? on Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Not that I am disagreeing with the basic premise, but out of curiosity, what was Forrester's prediction in 2011 for today (2016)? Would just like to score their track record.

    Very accurate. Fax machines have replaced all need for printing, and we all use jetpacks to get to work nowadays.

  3. Top cut is computer programmers - stop H1-Bs on Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The major decrease in the top 10 of jobs forecast was for Computer Programmers.

    Obviously we need to cease issuing H1-B visas for anyone with that occupation.

    Today.

  4. Was kind of done with the Internet, anyway on Someone Is Learning How To Take Down the Internet, Warns Bruce Schneier (schneier.com) · · Score: 1

    Ready to move on to the 40 Gbps backbone 100 Gbps fast Internet 3 and leave all you civilians behind to complain why we can't do better.

  5. More proof the US is a 3rd world nation on New EU Rules Promise 100Mbps Broadband and Free Wi-Fi For All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We will spend the next 20 years arguing why we can't do the same, and bribing politicians to do nothing, while the EU does it in 3.

  6. Wow.

    There really is a sucker born every minute.

    Level 23 Valiant

    Nothing paid. Ever.

  7. Under TPP corporations can sue to overturn on New York Fines Viacom, Mattel and Hasbro For Tracking Kids Online (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    TPP is Evil and wants to track your kids and do unspeakable things to them.

    Here endeth the lesson.

  8. GPS with full spectra is accurate to 0.1 meters

    You're not using full spectra.

    As to deets on in-building, there are tons of scientific papers on this, grandpa.

  9. And, actually, we can infer location inside buildings too. You'd be surprised how much. This is why China doesn't want you catching Pokemon near their sensitive areas. Even the existence of Faraday cages can be located via the impact of them.

  10. You must live in a very remote area that only one cell tower can "see" it.

  11. Google can extrapolate it

    You'd be surprised

  12. We can locate you within a meter based on cell tower logs, actually

    Even with your flip-phone

    Even when you think it's "off"

  13. Technically, we subscribe to many treaties, like the LOTS Geneva Accords etc, all of which we routinely violate, so I give you that.

    And then there is Breathing While Black, as you reference, which we execute American citizens for, so, good point.

    That said, we should still pardon Snowden before we pretend that he died in a freak accident that we had nothing to do with.

  14. If Snowden has done things since leaving the US, they are still subject to other actions.

    Besides, since we frequently remotely execute even American citizens in other countries for lesser actions, pardoning Snowden might make him easier to target when we do break international law to execute him.

  15. Re:Canadians are a minority? on Apple's Response To Diversity Criticism: 'We Had a Canadian' Onstage at iPhone 7 Event (mic.com) · · Score: 1

    technically, they are. They even invite me to the minority breakfasts on campus, so we must be a minority.

  16. For Apple thinking having Canadians was diversity.

  17. If we cared we would have isolated Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Pakistan. Or glassed them over.

    It's obvious we don't care.

  18. Re:Because it's unnecessarily complex on Digital Wallets Have Yet To Catch On, JPMorgan Executive Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    your phone can be lost or stolen. Cash ftw!

  19. Only idiots use electronic wallets on smartphones on Digital Wallets Have Yet To Catch On, JPMorgan Executive Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't say I'm surprised.

    Give me cash any day of the week.

  20. When will the Irish ministers be fired? on 'Paying Taxes Is a Lot Better Than Phony Corporate Courage, Apple' (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    When will the government ministers in Ireland who set up this massive tax giveaway to Apple be jailed or fired?

    That's the question we should be asking.

    Remember: if Apple gets a sweetheart deal, your taxes and all the taxes on their competitors, go up.

    There is no magic funding fairy building your roads, seaports, and other things.

  21. Re:I can't wait for the future! on Smartphones Can Steal 3D Printing Plans By Listening To The Printer (fedscoop.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually, some of the parts of that plane you use are, in fact, built on a 3D printer.

    So, to quote someone "you're soaking in it".

    Or, to the point, you're flying in a plane built partially with 3D printed parts.

    Keep up, it's 2016, not 1996.

  22. Stop giving away our intel on Smartphones Can Steal 3D Printing Plans By Listening To The Printer (fedscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, next thing I know you'll let N Korea know we have defences against them

  23. Burrito at 12 o'clock high! on Alphabet Partners With Chipotle To Deliver Burritos Using Drones (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Take cover! INCOMING!

    Seriously, dropped from height, that's a violation of the Geneva Conventions.

  24. Won't work in the South on Airbnb Unveils Changes To Address Racial Discrimination (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Just saying.

    They'll be polite, they'll say it was a mistake, and they'll continue to be racist.

  25. Check their major donors list on University of California Hires India-Based IT Outsourcer, Lays Off Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    There's your reason.

    Kickbacks.