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  1. Re:Private Members Bills Never Pass on Right To Repair Legislation Is Officially Being Considered In Canada (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Bradmont, you are so correct that this shouldn't even be a news story.

  2. Government Shutdown = Libertarian Utopia? on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this what the Libertarians would create for us all? Trash piles, crumbling everything?

  3. "Defecate spending". I'm sure you meant "deficit", but poop is even funnier.

  4. Re:without a single click on Remove.bg is a Website That Removes Backgrounds from Portraits in Seconds (petapixel.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the tech marketing version of "you can see it from space". (that's how line-of-sight works, duh).

  5. Re:Policy change is not enough after causing damag on Mark Zuckerberg Addresses the Cambridge Analytica Scandal, Says Facebook 'Made Mistakes' in Protecting Data (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    I am neither of those things, not being an American. By seeing this as DEMS vs. GOP you've already put the blinders on, and that's exactly why this is dangerous.

  6. Policy change is not enough after causing damage on Mark Zuckerberg Addresses the Cambridge Analytica Scandal, Says Facebook 'Made Mistakes' in Protecting Data (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    When you have a billion dollars, you have no excuse for not understanding the harm you product can cause. If your product is a car, you're on the hook for failed airbags, or whatever negligent harm your product causes. In the case of THIS SITE, that harm is towards civil society and democracy itself.

    How do you measure that level of damage and liability? And what is the adequate response to what is either epic negligence, or a shadowy sell-out? In either case damage has been done and someone owes us a lot more than a privacy policy change.

  7. Paper ballots in Canada on Bruce Schneier: Our Election Systems Must Be Secured If We Want To Stop Foreign Hackers (schneier.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    In Canada we use standardized paper ballots across the nation. They're counted manually in each poll.

  8. Silencing science on Australia Cuts 110 Climate Scientist Jobs: "The Science is Settled." · · Score: 1

    So, when did Canada's former Prime Minister Stephen Harper move to Australia?

  9. "Software" programs on Brewing Better Charts and Maps · · Score: 3, Funny

    Every time I see an article mentioning "software programs" I cringe. I guess they're different from "hardware programs" or "exercise programs" or you can just call it "software" like everyone else. It reads like someone still uses a typewriter and not one of these fancy new computers using "word processing software programs". *sigh*

  10. What's a "software program" on Judge: Warrantless Airport Seizure of Laptop 'Cannot Be Justified' · · Score: 1, Funny

    "with the assistance of two forensic software programs that organized, expedited, and facilitated the task."

    Oh, a "software program"... As opposed to a hardware program? an exercise program? What's wrong with just calling it "software",

  11. That's like blaming the phone network for telemarketers.

  12. Move to Canada on White House Punts On Petition To Allow Tesla Direct Sales · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Move Tesla to Canada. The rules of NAFTA trump this local dealer baloney.

  13. The single-minded focus on the (tar sands) economy has demonstrated that the current Canadian Government has lost touch with what's important to the Canadian people.

  14. Re:Book on How Heroin Addicts Helped Scientists Link Pesticides and Parkinson's · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I remember in the 70s hearing about the DEA spraying paraquat on fields of weed found in Hawaii as a "tainting" scare tactic. I wonder if there's a connection there too.

  15. Re:Then users will switch to their competitors... on Bell Canada To Collect User Data For Advertising · · Score: 2

    It's BELL MOBILITY, not BELL INTERNET.

  16. Re:I'm a non-degree slacker on Most IT Workers Don't Have STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math) Degrees · · Score: 1

    Yeah, back then I was running a BBS with a C-64, and fiddling around with and Amiga and an Atari-ST. Going into CS meant working on a VT-100 terminal on some mainframe. It seems like a big step backwards, so I never bothered.

  17. Re:Why one Toronto subway driver doesn't like them on New York City Considers Articulated Subway Cars · · Score: 1

    The cars are 300 feet long. That's a lot of barf. (I live in Toronto and have never experienced this). I like these new trains. They're great!

  18. Ads make it free, why break the system? on Longtime Linux Advocate Don Marti Tells Why Targeted Ads are Bad (Video 1 of 2) · · Score: 1

    BYW: CIOs don't buys ads, marketing people do.

  19. Re:Free speech on Canadian Hotel Sues Guest For $95K Over Bad Review, Bed Bugs · · Score: 1

    Fortunately THE TRUTH is a pretty damn good defense for this type of lawsuit.

  20. Re:It all depends... on Ask Slashdot: How To Begin Simple Robotics As a Hobby? · · Score: 1

    Arduino is a good start. The Arduino robot kit is a a better one.

    http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Robot

  21. Seen from space = BS on Growing Public Unrest Leads China To Admit To 'Cancer Villages' · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You can see any surface feature "from space" including the licence plate on my car with the right equipment. I'm so sick of people throwing around this meaningless term.

  22. Evil technology on Saudi Arabia Implements Electronic Tracking System For Women · · Score: 1

    The firm that created this should be shamed (or hacked) out of existence.

  23. Running uphill to coast downhill on Scientists Turn Air Into Petrol · · Score: 1

    ...net energy gain -200%

  24. What have we done!!!?!?! on New HAL Exoskeleton: A Brain-Controlled Full Body Suit To Be Used In Fukushima · · Score: 1

    Now...radioactive cyberzombies.

  25. ALL = American? on All the TV News Since 2009, Now Available At the Internet Archive · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I guess "All the news" need not contain any foreign sources. Disappointing.