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  1. I Wrote Her --Did You? on US Anti-Encryption Law Is So 'Braindead' It Will Outlaw File Compression (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Please share your views here, too.
    http://www.feinstein.senate.go...

  2. America Favors People Who Don't Work on After 150 Years, the American Productivity Miracle Is 'Over' (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, not the welfare recipients. American laws and tax structures favors people who have money, use people to their, and game the system.

    Just a though experiment:
    A person works to make $100; they can expect to end up with $70 in their paycheck.
    If someone's rich relative gives them $100, they get $80.
    What utter bullshit. The person doing nothing gets more, and they procreate, breeding more people who provide no benefit.

  3. Obsoleting Their Early Adopters Woudn't Be Good. on Slashdot Asks: It's Been a Year Since Apple Watch Release, What's Your Thought On It? · · Score: 1

    I should think that the people who actually bought their first watches, had fear in the back of their minds that their watch would be quickly obsoleted.

    So, Apple's best coarse of actions would be seed demand for an update first, on media sites, such as this one. Then they can be the heros by updating their watch.

  4. Take that, you, you Americans! on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 2

    That will teach you believing in the U.S. Constitution or the Bill of Rights, or anything our founding fathers fought and died for.

  5. Agressive VS Non-Agressive on VR Tested by NFL To Confront Sexism and Racism (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    You select people based on their level of aggression, and then you are surprised when they act within their nature, and behave aggressively?
    Now, you want to try to change their nature?

    And where are the Geek Stadiums?

  6. Legal Politics Needs Encryption on Senate Bill Draft Would Prohibit Unbreakable Encryption (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    How would our political process function if one party knew what the other party would do next?

  7. LOL! Not Fallin' for it. on Cyber Commander Says It's 'Not Realistic' To Shut Down Internet (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, not going to buy into it. Just like there was no domestic spying. The government has no off switch, until the use it.

  8. Thank You on PayPal Pulls North Carolina Plan After Transgender Bathroom Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When I started my transition in 1990, I would have never imagined such support and solidarity. Thank you Pay Pal.

  9. Nothing Kapersky States Should Be Trusted on We Live In The Dark Ages of Internet Security, Says Kaspersky Labs CEO · · Score: 0

    Wasn't it Kapersky who stated something to the effect that people don't need privacy?

  10. His Son Wanted Privacy on Grieving Father is Begging Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's iPhone (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    More sleds for the top of the slippery slope.

  11. Re:Thank God : P on Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I am sorry. The quote was, "they had to..."

  12. Thank God : P on Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    "It was such a good way to kill people, we had to make it work somehow," Jame Burke, speaking about the mounted knight.
    Seems fitting here, too.

  13. Would have bothered me when Ubuntu mattered on Confirmed: Microsoft and Canonical Partner To Bring Ubuntu To Windows 10 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, at least it didn't happen to Mint.

    I actually have an official Ubuntu install CD from a time before they deployed Unity, and from before a time they had not lost their heart and soul.

  14. I cannot Trust Anything About This on Police Unlikely To Win Wider Access To Smartphones Despite FBI Success In San Bernardino Case (latimes.com) · · Score: 2

    I cannot trust the US Government had not already opened the phone when they raised is as a fulcrum in a war against personal privacy.
    I cannot trust the US Government successfully opened the phone, because they were in no position to admit they could not.
    I cannot trust the US Government did not state they opened the phone, to wait for a better political climate, meaning after the next inevitable terrorist attack, to push their agenda forward.

    I cannot trust the US Government because they lied to the American people, and went ahead with the Total Information Awareness program--even after they were told not to.

    People, we have three serious problems:
    Firstly, there are terrorists in the world, who do nothing more than than soldiers who strike against civilian targets.
    Secondly, we have people in power using unpolitical tested methods to gain information, and therefor power, with no checks and balances.
    Lastly, and no one seems to be talking about this: it is impossible for any information to collected and observed--and not be used in a partisan way.

  15. Corporate Welfare - Bannana Republic on AT&T Wants $100 Million From California Taxpayers For Aging DSL (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Without taxpayers money, ATT&T might not pull through : P

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  16. Car Lobbies at Work on NJ Legislator Proposes Fine For Walking While Phone-Distracted (philly.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow! Lobbying really works, doesn't it.

  17. There're Only Cellphone Devs? on More Devs Now Use OS X Than Linux, Says Survey (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't understand. Where did all the other devs go, the ones who write notebook and desktop applications, where work gets done?

  18. Should every self-driving car pass the same test humans do?

    What will happen if everyone has self-driving cars, and our GPS system goes out?

    Who will be the first one to die in a driverless car?

    So you don't enjoy driving?

    How do motorcycles fit in in a world of self-driving cars?

    How many people will be made unemployed by self-driving cars, buses, and trucks?

  19. Maturing Towards Thier Profit Margin on Netflix CEO Says Blocking Proxy Services Is Maturation of Internet TV (mobilesyrup.com) · · Score: 1

    What bullshit!

  20. Buses are Not the Best Answer on Why Buses Need To Be More Dangerous · · Score: 1

    Firstly: High Speed + No Seatbelts = Death. The lack of speed isn't the biggest problems with buses.

    Buses are noisy, with rattling windows and diesel engine rumbling. They are more expensive transportation than cars. They don't go everywhere you need to go. It's hard to bring groceries on them. For a half hour at a time, you are in a box where you can't drink, eat, or go to the bathroom.

    Besides city buses, I've taken highway buses like Greyhound, in which your knees touch the seat in front of you.

    I think that it's a better strategy for the masses to mandate smaller vehicles, and make things safer for pedestrians and bicyclists. We need smaller vehicles like electric bikes, scooters, skateboards, even Segways.

  21. Were the Republicans Wrong? on US Projected To Lead the World In New Solar Installations This Year (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That's strange. If the Republicans could be wrong about solar, then maybe they could be wrong about global warming, or the environment, even.

  22. They are just dumping all of the effort of those who worked to make Firefox popular.

    BTW, do you remember when Firefox was a 4mb download, and not just the downloader?

  23. Proof positive that any jackass with money can run for president, even a racist, classist, piece of shit like trump.

  24. Congressman David Jolly, Please take a note: on New Legislation Would Ban US Government From Purchasing Apple Products (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Go Fuck Yourself, sir.