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  1. Culture spilling out of Google on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So Google is a cesspool of intolerant groupthink that does not tolerate dissent. Big deal. Many companies are like that.

    However, Google 'controls' big chunk of the Internet. If this start spilling out, they quite likely could poison a lot. This particular boil is too close to jugular to be safe.

  2. Re:VP of Diversity, Integrity & Governance... on Google Engineer's Leaked 'Gender Diversity' Essay Draws Massive Response (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Talk about a useless position.

    It is reasonable to assume that VP of Diversity would be a diversity hire.

  3. Unbelievable. Soon it will be a crime to point out that females have vaginas and males have penises.

  4. Why is this news? on Intel's Upcoming Coffee Lake CPUs Won't Work With Today's Motherboards (pcworld.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Intel, for as long as I remember, needlessly changed sockets.

  5. Re:Ads on the Internet != Other mediums on P&G Cuts More Than $100 Million In 'Largely Ineffective' Digital Ads (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The good news is that stories like this show we may be seeing the beginning of the end of the whole Internet advertising scam.

    Have you considered implications of this statement? Advertising right now keeps the lights on. Without it, the days of Free Content are over.

  6. Re:Perhaps he can recover some dignity... on Sean Spicer Resigns as White House Press Secretary After Objecting To Scaramucci Hire (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If I was looking for someone to lie through his teeth in front of a camera, basically if I was in need of communications director, Spicer would be very top of my list.

    Basically, ideal fit for finance, oil and gas, telecommunications, social media, airlines sectors.

  7. Re:Perhaps he can recover some dignity... on Sean Spicer Resigns as White House Press Secretary After Objecting To Scaramucci Hire (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Spicer works in communications in politics. Integrity is not part of the job description.

  8. Re:Great. More glassholes on Google Glass Makes an Official Return (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I do not see any similarities and your attempts to draw analogies are logically flawed. Your encryption does not take away anything from me. You recording me and uploading it to data aggregators takes away my privacy.

  9. Re:Great. More glassholes on Google Glass Makes an Official Return (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I understand that your intentions are benign, this still doesn't change the fact that you are doing harm to me. Your memories stay in your skull, they are never extracted, aggregated, passed through pattern-recognition and attribution algorithms and then distributed as data points in the giant database.

    That is, if you happen to pass me on the the street, and you don't know me, you will never know I was there. Even if you know me, unless something memorable happened, you will quickly forget it happened. If you pass me on the street, and you happen to be recording with your glasshole, you and anyone with access to the feed (so Google and anyone willing to pay or subpoena) can know I was there and this information unlikely to ever go away.

  10. Re:Great. More glassholes on Google Glass Makes an Official Return (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you believe that this is unavoidable, have you considered societal implications of always being recorded?

  11. Re:Tin foil hat on Google Glass Makes an Official Return (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You really don't know me if you think I'd have any problems with being seen as an asshole. Fuck you, and you are wrong here on attribution.

  12. Re:Great. More glassholes on Google Glass Makes an Official Return (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I think your comparison is deeply flawed. Better analogy is signing you up for Facebook and posting into your timeline against your will.
    I am opposed to pervasive surveillance, by wearing Google glass around me you are removing that choice from me.

  13. Re:Great. More glassholes on Google Glass Makes an Official Return (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter what your intentions are, the end result is that you are uploading videos of me to the data aggregator. Celebrities have to deal with paparazzi following them everywhere they go. They get compensated for this by high earning potential and other perks of fame. Glassholes are equivalent to these paparazzi, only I don't get paid for the hassle.

  14. Re:Great. More glassholes on Google Glass Makes an Official Return (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Privacy is dead and I should move on you say? OK. I would move on, but I got distracted by watching your sex tapes. She is faking it.

  15. Re:It's the future! on Google Glass Makes an Official Return (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You can beat them, refuse to be early adopter and tech will die in a cradle.

  16. More fiber in the diet on Google Fiber Is Losing Its Second CEO in Less Than a Year (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Clearly, they need more fiber in their diet to stop the runs.

  17. Great. More glassholes on Google Glass Makes an Official Return (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This is exactly what we needed, more glassholes continuously uploading video feed to the largest data aggregator company in the world that has facial recognition, geo location, reads our email, and knows about our web searches.

  18. Re:The desktop is dead, long live the workstation! on 'Windows 10 Is Failing Us' (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    I will second this. Win10 is surprisingly good mobile OS. Almost every decision that makes Win10 a dog on desktop was made for mobile. For example, live tiles are very useful on mobile. I don't want to open full app to see weather, 2x long live tile gives me sufficient summary.

  19. Re: Only LUDDITES hate apps. on Popular Chrome Extension Sold To New Dev Who Immediately Turns It Into Adware (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I don't think you understand how trolling works. Your response only encourages more nonsense like OP.

  20. I wonder about Christmas Island specific content. on Reddit Is Testing Country-Specific Home Pages That Highlight 'Geo Popular' Content (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder what Christmas Island specific content would end up looking like. A bit of a stretch?

  21. Re:Side Effects on Biologists Use Gene Editing To Store Movies In DNA (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    It is likely possible (but we don't yet know how) change your reflexive responses. For example, change your stress response to cough instead of sweating. It is unlikely you can be specific enough to encode complex linguistic message in such reflexive response. The issue is that while we might understand language, the way it is encoded is unique to each individual - it is higher function. So to make someone spontaneously burst into Rickroll would also require making rickroll into reflexive response.

    If you are set to do this, the only likely avenue is to change impulse control and then increase predisposition to liking rickroll-like songs. However, there is no guarantee that it will end up rickroll, and not something else, and that behavior would be present every time. It will likely end up working like Turret, but with verses.

  22. Re:Side Effects on Biologists Use Gene Editing To Store Movies In DNA (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2

    On this note, what would be really interesting is inserting malware into your own genes, so when someone attempt to analyze your DNA it wipe the system.

    I bet no genetic analysis software sanitizes input. What is DNA code for "=-1; DROP ALL TABLES; --"? As soon as I finish editing, I am going on a crime spree!

  23. Re:Side Effects on Biologists Use Gene Editing To Store Movies In DNA (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Chances of this happening is about equal to mp4 file accidentally turning into a worm or malware. Possible, but only if you subscribe to multiverse theory.

  24. Re:Three different sources, three different units on Iceberg the Size of Delaware, Among Biggest Ever Recorded, Snaps Off Antarctica (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    I know, if only they reported using consistent units - football fields.

  25. Re:A photon is not an "object" on First Object Teleported From Earth To Orbit (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    the photon objects.

    We looked into that, but couldn't determine where exactly this objection came from.