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  1. Re:Do any normal people use Twitter? on Why Twitter Can't Even Protect Tech CEOs From Getting Hacked (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    1. Marketers (including tech company execs promoting their companies)
    2. Extreme leftists (including ISIS)
    3. Hackers (trying to exploit the above two groups)
    4. LUDDITES

  2. This. Star Trek Continues is actually better than the original series.

    Wrong
    Nothing is better that TOS.

  3. Re: Scifi fans are generally a little more creativ on CBS/Paramount Sets Phasers To Kill On Star Trek Fan-Fiction With New Guidelines (audioholics.com) · · Score: 1

    How come this didn't get modded up!?!

  4. Re:we're poor little sheep on Dell Stops Selling Android Tablets (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    then I guess I'll just have to buy whatever Dell wants to sell me now, even if it is Microsoft crap that no one wants.

    We knew you'd come along eventually...

  5. I love the summaries here at /.
    They get better every day!

    Elizabeth Warren, an American academic and member of the Democratic Party

    This is like saying "Paul Ryan, an American academic and member of the Republican Party"

  6. Re:Is it leaked or is it not yet leaked? on 2 Million-Person Terror Database Leaked Online (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    My suggestion for the LGBT community is to look at the Libertarian Party, which views rights not as only for specific"Groups" but as absolutes for individuals.

    That is as likely as a Sanders fanatic voting for Trump.

  7. Re:Is it leaked or is it not yet leaked? on 2 Million-Person Terror Database Leaked Online (thestack.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If you had two brain cells to rub together you would understand that in international affairs, a country, or "power" that has the ability to maintain or increase its sphere of influence, will always do so. Would you prefer a power vacuum filled by some other power besides the US? Think about that.

    The government of the USA does that, as does any other government that has that ability.

    Sure, you can put moral judgements on what the US has done, but if you do, please add every other government or "power" that has done the same, such as Russia, the USSR, Germany, Japan, China, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Aztecs, etc, etc

    And no, I'm in no way apologizing for any of the "bad things" the US has done, and continues to do, but in the grand scheme of history in the last 200 years, the US has been on the right side of things more often than not.

    So, to conclude, fuck the right off.

  8. in the lights and on the social media? on Facebook Tweaks Its Newsfeed To Better Showcase Posts From Friends Instead Of Publishers (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    It is worth pointing out that these events have happened in the lights of Facebook launching its own publishing network called Instant Articles on the social media and encouraging publishers to directly publish on its platform instead of their respective websites.

    More interesting use of the English language...

  9. Re:Unless you screen like the Israelis on Istanbul Attack: A Grim Reminder Of Why Airports Are Easy Targets (firstpost.com) · · Score: 2

    You might want to think about this possibility, that certain things are allowed to happen.
    Think about who benefits from the increase in FEAR.

  10. Re:Could have occurred anywhere... on Istanbul Attack: A Grim Reminder Of Why Airports Are Easy Targets (firstpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The vast majority of Muslim terrorism targets other Muslims.

  11. Re:The TSA increases the risk. on Istanbul Attack: A Grim Reminder Of Why Airports Are Easy Targets (firstpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You've made the best point in this whole discussion.

  12. Humanity will be unable to live without AI on Satya Nadella Explores How Humans and AI Can Work Together To Solve Society's Greatest Challenges (geekwire.com) · · Score: 2

    As human civilization gets increasingly complex and reliant on computers to manage and maintain the things that allow us to exist in this First World, there will come a time when human civilization will have to us AI just to "maintain course"

  13. no undo harm (that leaves out alleged MS software)

    What are you talking about?
    Ctrl-Z saves me every time!

  14. The summary says:

    But he admits that this will require "a bold and ambition approach that goes beyond anything that can be achieved through incremental improvements to current technology," he wrote.

    But the article says:

    Doing so, however, requires a bold and ambitious approach

    It's interesting that you needed to change ambitious to ambition.
    Why?

  15. Re:Is SF as degenerate as it sounds? on Airbnb Has Sued Its Hometown Of San Francisco (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Keep this in mind:
    There is so much wealth/money in SF its a joke.

  16. Pure Malware on Microsoft To Make Saying No To Windows 10 Update Easier (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft also will revert to making clicking on the Red X at the corner of the Windows 10 update box dismiss the update, rather than initiate it, as it has done for the past several weeks.

    Nothing more, nothing less...

  17. Isn't it interesting how it works out that way.

  18. Re:Now who is laughing? on US Customs Wants To Know Travelers' Social Media Account Names (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    This is actually true.

  19. Re:Isn't email address sufficient? on US Customs Wants To Know Travelers' Social Media Account Names (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    What does Winston Smith do in 1984?
    Doesn't he has to stand in a certain part of his apartment so the omnivision can't see him?

    Were almost there.

  20. Will be interesting on Google Partners With LyricFind To Display Songs Lyrics In Search Results (billboard.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    when Google has so much power over what we can search for and the results that we get, that they will be able to(at first) subtly modify things, whether its song lyrics or news or opionions, etc;
    Wait, they are already doing that...

  21. Re:AIs don't have G-force limits on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The airframes can't take 8G either.

    So they'll use the techniques BMW used to mass-produce the i3 to make carbon fiber drones that can take even more. Taking the pilot out of the equation saves volume that lets you make the craft smaller, and then you benefit from square-cube law instead of getting fucked by it.

    The same reason sending humans to Mars is ridiculous.
    Send machines controlled by humans.

  22. Re:REALLY BAD NEWS on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You always wanted to be the pet of a world dominating AI, didn't you...?

  23. The Matrix on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This right here is one reason why I couldn't stand the last two Matrix films, especially the last one when the machines make it to ZION and have the big battle with the guys in the mechs.

    Even in a contrived reality like The Matrix films/Comic, the machines would have laid waste to ZION in about, oh... two or there minutes, tops.

  24. I can't wait for Trump to get elected so paradise on earth can break out.
    It will be tremendous.

  25. The summary headline is:
    "In the Aftermath Of Brexit, Brits Google About Irish Passport, Meaning Of EU, and Why it All Happened"

    Wouldn't it have made more sense to have "google" lowercase, and leave out the "About".
    Something like this:
    "In the Aftermath Of Brexit, Brits google Irish Passport, Meaning Of EU, and Why it All Happened"