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  1. Re:Amazing over-reaction of the left, like 8 years on The Internet Archive Is Building a Canadian Copy To Protect Itself From Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So you are advocating equality of the outcomes, not just equality of opportunity?

  2. Re:Amazing over-reaction of the left, like 8 years on The Internet Archive Is Building a Canadian Copy To Protect Itself From Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    >>if you are financially secure

    Any further specification is superfluous and agenda-driven.

  3. I personally don't like absolutes like "Trump is after me". Instead I like to think in abstracts, like "Lizard people are after me". This makes practicing op-sec more entertaining, and coincidentally would also make me safe against Trump.

  4. If Stellaris taught me anything, is that most effective way to absorb upcoming civilization into my Galactic Lizard Empire is to build secret world government, harmonize policies across countries, establish puppet world government and then have it "voluntarily" join my empire as a a fresh source of slaves.

    Canada too will have mas surveillance because lizard people decided so.

  5. Yes, because thug-enforced safe spaces and opinions that are too traumatizing to be allowed for discussion is so much better.

    SJW-left has much bigger problem with freedom of speech than this.

  6. Just because you are paranoid, doesn't mean that nobody is after you.

  7. Re:Phishing on Study: Most Students Can't Spot Fake News (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Pedantic correction: You get speared by spear phishing. You probably were thinking about Jesus, he got nailed.

  8. Re:Modern kids are retarded (literally) on Study: Most Students Can't Spot Fake News (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Please don't spoil vitriol with your reasonableness. Complaining about young people is older than recorded history, as such it is (literally) cornerstone of our civilization.

  9. Re:False decisiveness. on Trump: I'll Ditch TPP Trade Deal on Day One of My Presidency (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I expect Trump to be worse than his base expects, but better than the melting down, hysterical media and left cries about.

    How quickly we normalize. My thought after reading this was "I can live with the lack of Nuclear Armageddon".

  10. Re:try again... on China To Build a Solar Plant In Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    That's nothing. In Russia even 100% of the dead are in favor of Putin.

  11. Re:Hint: Trump Hates the Media. Therefore... on Trump Names Two Opponents of Net Neutrality To Oversee FCC Transition Team (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I am 100% pro-NN, but I am willing to consider that I could be misinformed. My premise is that without NN large monopolies will build walled gardens and will make it cost-prohibitive to venture outside of these.

  12. Re:Maybe we should mimic civil engineering on Slashdot Asks: Are You Ashamed of Your Code? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Software shouldn't crash all the time, it is just that we tolerate that a lot more than collapsed buildings. Software used to be "stuff with computers" but now it is everywhere, so the approach must change.

  13. Why is Trump taking pro-media stance? The same media conglomerates that attacked him relentlessly now get to further consolidate and lock in their stranglehold.

  14. Lesson of this story - don't buy from Google on Google Bans Hundreds Of Pixel Phone Resellers From Their Google Accounts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If you are using any of digital services by Google and don't want to lose them, then don't buy from Google, because if they don't like how/why you do something they will ban you from their platform.

    In other news, it is time to anti-trust them.

  15. Why are you still complaining about RHEL? Just use CentOS.

  16. Re: Finally on Why Automation Won't Displace Human Workers (diginomica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, it doesn't depend. Most people are not creative in any way or form and you don't need creativity in routine situations. Most of what we consider a job today also does not require creativity. Sure, creative, knowledgeable and smart people will find jobs in post-automation world. This is maybe 10% of population, what the rest of 90% of population would do? Starve to death? It used to be service, but we killed that culture in the Western world - very few have a cleaner, cook, live-in nanny, butler and so on.

  17. Re:green hippie bullshit on Tesla 'Easter Egg' Makes the World's Fastest Car Even Faster (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    How much is that in football fields?

  18. Re:green hippie bullshit on Tesla 'Easter Egg' Makes the World's Fastest Car Even Faster (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I am into racing, and current model Teslas are still lousy sport cars. Yes, it is very, very fast for short bursts. Then battery overheats and it is no longer fast.

    Second consideration is stopping power - Tesla doesn't have matching stopping power to go with its acceleration. So even if battery overheating is eventually solved, sport cars will out-stop Tesla.

    Third consideration is turning dynamics. Tesla can handle unimpressive 0.8g lateral, while these sport cars can handle up to 1.2g. Higher lateral grip means you could take corners faster.

    So Tesla vs. Supercar race look something like this: Tesla is leading up until first corner, then get passed, then overheats and is left behind with the minivans.

  19. Tarnished legacy on James Clapper, US Director of National Intelligence, Has Resigned (thehill.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Keeping this guy around and failing to reign in data collection excesses is a stain on Obama's legacy.

  20. Easter egg? on Tesla 'Easter Egg' Makes the World's Fastest Car Even Faster (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    >>>"the owners will have to figure out how to enable it"

    I think these guys forgot that they are not designing a video game. How about Easter Egg car payments, with Tesla having to figure how to get the cash?

  21. Re:"I disapprove of what you say... on Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Why are you a progressive? Seriously.

    Big picture stuff, like getting to Mars and so on. Self-interest and markets will take us only so far.

  22. Re:Twitter is now arbiter of truth on Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    This is meaningless distinction. Discussions over Twitter are very much in a public space. Pretty much by definition.

  23. Re:"I disapprove of what you say... on Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As a progressive, for quite some time I watched in horror as Left turned deeply Regressive. They have no idea that censorship apparatus that they are building will be quickly turned on them.

  24. Twitter is now arbiter of truth on Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Whatever you think of alt-right (hopefully, not too well), this move by Twitter establishes itself as an arbiter of norms and values.

    As a nation we value our freedom of speech. We tolerate even the likes of Westboro Church. We tolerate this because unless deplorable people have the right to speak freely, there could be no freedom of speech. It must be that absolute. Unfortunately, it was made clear that Twitter doesn't share our national values.

  25. Re:So "gamification" plus access everywhere? on In 5 Years, Games Experience Will Move From Discrete To Indiscrete, Says EA CEO (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It is intentional mistake, as EA CEO is getting hard just thinking about per-play fees and streaming.