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  1. Successful businessmen don't create over a hundred businesses. That's what fly-by-night con artists do to prevent the lawsuits and failures (Trump University? Trump Stakes?) from taking down the few accidental successes (also a good way to funnel/launder money).

  2. Why would I give a crap about what Cook thinks needs to be done?

    How about because he is the CEO of one of America's largest and most successful companies? I suppose you'd rather take economic advice from a senile reality-show host and real estate con-man who had to declare bankruptcy multiple times.

  3. And once that's done, only rides for the elite. The public can go fuck itself!

    Convincing the elite to ride public transit would be quite a trick. Not that I would complain about it; more room on the roads for the rest of us.

  4. I suspect this is not about security at all, but rather about forcing employees (and suppliers and customers) to use IBM's cloud services. If IBM made flash drives, I guarantee the policy would be exactly the opposite.

  5. Male Pattern Baldness on Potential New Cure Found For Baldness (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's called Male Pattern Baldness for a reason. Some of the patterns are common enough to have names ("Widow's Peak", "Friar Tuck"), but some are just weird and random. The "island" thing is probably a pattern rather than a hair transplant, though I agree, he should have just shaved his head (most of us are in denial about some aspect of our appearance).

  6. and Quora and Stack Exchange and (if you're desperate) Yahoo Answers. Seems like Google now wants a piece of the market they abandoned now that others have figured out a way to make it work.

  7. If your argument is "Well it would be legal if it wasn't Trump." or the strawman you initiated with then you are on specious legal and logical grounds.

    If you get hit by a car while crossing the street at a busy intersection, it was probably an accident. But if the driver of that car had made numerous public statements promising to hit you with a car, it was probably NOT an accident.

  8. and yet... on Tech Conferences Moving North as Trump Policies Turn Off Attendees (financialpost.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    and yet, the ban doesn't cover any of the 4 countries where the 9-11 attackers came from (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Lebanon and Egypt). Nor does it cover the countries producing more recent terrorists (Afghanistan & Pakistan). It only seems to cover what the president would call "shithole" countries. But no, you must be right, it's all about terrorism.

  9. It's complicated on US Keeps China, Puts Canada on IP Priority Watch List (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    It's complicated. Copyright term in Canada is life of the author plus 50 years for written works and 50 years from first broadcast or recording for other works. If TOS was broadcast in Canada at the same time as the US, the broadcast would be in the public domain, but the scripts would not be (which would prevent anyone from using them without authorization). Gene Roddenberry didn't die until 1991, so anything written by him would be protected until 2041. That's sooner than in the USA but still 23 years away. The 50 years from broadcast rule would probably only apply to unscripted things like sports broadcasts (IANAL).

  10. NAFTA on US Keeps China, Puts Canada on IP Priority Watch List (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Trump is also currently in the process of renegotiating NAFTA with Canada and is prone to slinging a little mud at his opponents during negotiations (right out of "The Art of the Deal").

  11. "What's a computer?" on Users Don't Want iOS To Merge With MacOS, Apple Chief Tim Cook Says (smh.com.au) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So what he's really saying is that OSX will continue to die from neglect until everyone gets on-board with using a tablet for everything.

  12. Mind your own damn business on Google Is 'Pausing' Work On Allo In Favor 'Chat,' An RCS-Based Messaging Standard (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Some of the new features associated with Chat include read receipts, typing indicators,

    If I want to pretend I didn't get someone's message, that should be my own damn business. Ditto for "typing indicators" which I assume is what insecure people look at to see if someone is typing them a reply (pathetic fools).

  13. SMS will stick around on Google Is 'Pausing' Work On Allo In Favor 'Chat,' An RCS-Based Messaging Standard (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since SMS is baked into the cellphone signaling protocol (and is the last thing still working in an emergency when data and voice are overloaded), I suspect it will be sticking around for a while.

  14. fuzzy math on Finland Is Killing Its Basic Income Experiment (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    So you're saying your tax rate is somewhere between 1% ($10,000 tax on income of $999,999) and 99% ($99,999 tax on income of $100,000)? While I don't doubt that's true, it's also a ridiculously pointless statement.

  15. Counter argument on Data Firm Leaks 48 Million User Profiles it Scraped From Facebook, LinkedIn, Others (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I'm gonna say no, based on the Supreme court case Feist v Rural Telephone Service.

    The court found that information alone without a minimum of original creativity cannot be protected by copyright. In the case appealed, Feist had copied information from Rural's telephone listings to include in its own, after Rural had refused to license the information. Rural sued for copyright infringement. The Court ruled that information contained in Rural's phone directory was not copyrightable and that therefore no infringement existed.

  16. Wait for Crypto crash on Sony PlayStation 5 Unlikely To Arrive Until 2020: Gizmodo (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they're waiting for the cryptocurrency bubble to pop so that GPUs drop in price.

  17. Jury is still out. on Canada Has Pulled Off a Brain Heist (axios.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Under Trump, the economy is booming. Under Dubya, we squandered trillions on stupid counter-productive wars, and the economy imploded.

    Dubya was a well-meaning but simple man who was lead astray by some truly evil men (Rumsfeld & Cheney). Trump is evil and stupid but most of all egocentric, which has thus far mostly prevented him from getting the assistance he needs to accomplish very much.

    We're only 17 months into the Trump era. At this point in Dubya's reign he hadn't even invaded Iraq yet. Spanky's trade war with China is already slowing the economy. If we make it to 2020 (or God forbid 2024) without invading both Iran and North Korea, THEN I'll agree that he's a better president than Dubya (though still not a better person).

  18. Re:Salad Greens? on Scientists Harvest First Vegetables in Antarctic Greenhouse (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    If I had a high-tech indoor grow-op on a lawless continent thousands of miles from the nearest police, I would definitely not use it for salad greens.

  19. Killing is evil. on Google Workers Urge CEO To Pull Out of Pentagon AI Project (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A targeting system for weapons is intended to kill people. Killing people is inherently evil, even if it may occasionally be necessary as "the lesser of two evils". This is not a partisan issue; it should be blindingly obvious to anyone with a moral compass.

  20. Apple is also developing iPhone displays that curve inward gradually from top to bottom, one of the people familiar with the situation said.

    Wow! A handset with a convex face so your check doesn't press into the screen/keypad! Just like the Nexus S from 2010 (and pretty much every phone prior to touchscreens). I hope they are granted a patent for this truly revolutionary new idea.

  21. Re:Society's wealth is the business of The People. on ACLU Urges Cities To Build Public Broadband To Protect Net Neutrality (thehill.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why should government be in business?

    Because private business has refused to supply a necessary public service.

    There needs to be a Separation of Business and State.

    You are free to use a private internet service (or buy bottled water from the store to flush your toilet) if you so desire. Those of us that feel the State is better suited to provide those services will utilize them.

    After all, this whole problem has arisen from the fact that State's have chosen winners and losers, and thereby granted monopolies over communication infrastructure.

    There are a limited number of available frequencies and places to put utility poles. This is the very definition of a Natural Monopoly which the State can choose to either heavily regulate or own to serve the public good.

  22. Re:Oh Gawd, another Trumptrum on President Trump Slams Amazon For 'Causing Tremendous Loss To the United States' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that all you've got? Several members of Trump's inner circle (including his son-in-law) have already be caught using personal email accounts for classified information. Trump hasn't done that himself, but that's only because he doesn't use email (140 characters is the limit of his attention span).

  23. Neither on Apple Announces New $299 iPad With Pencil Support For Schools (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Neither, they're going to spend the money buying assault rifles and weapons training for teachers. Because there's no way that could go wrong.

  24. No, kids loose pencils because they are very small in two of their three dimensions, meaning they can slip through a tiny hole in a pocket or backpack or even pencil-case (the thing specifically designed to store them). To make matters worse, they are also round (a design flaw Apple could have fixed but didn't) so that when they are inevitably dropped, they will roll away and roll under things or into cracks between things or down more holes.

  25. Re:local hack = Seth Rich on More Evidence Ties Alleged DNC Hacker Guccifer 2.0 To Russian Intelligence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, Seth Rich hacked the DNC, not the Russians. He also hacked the Ukrainian power station, the Brexit vote, the French election, and poisoned an ex-KGB agent and his daughter in the UK. Most of it after he "killed himself". Anytime the MSM says Russians did something, it was really the ghost of super-hacker Seth Rich.