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  1. Re:Jodie Whittaker on Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord Announced: Actress Jodie Whittaker (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I just hope Dr. Who treats her as an actual Doctor, not just use her to virtue-signal for SJW cred. Dr. Who's increasing politicization is really getting annoying.

    If you can't see that Dr Who has always been "politicized", then you're probably too thick to have ever really appreciated the show.

  2. Re:Not leaving the job? Ha - try keeping it! on Are America's Non-Compete Laws Too Strict? (nrtoday.com) · · Score: 0

    But having "non-competitive" laws is almost like Jim Crow laws.

    If you sign a contract with a non-compete clause, the problem is not non-competitive laws, it's non-competitive contracts.

    Tech workers should have unionized.

  3. If they did, that would violate several treaties and some state constitutions (West Virginia, not sure what others?)

    These are the grounds that so many governors are using to refuse to give the information to Trump and his goons.

  4. Re:And the reality happened on White House Releases Sensitive Personal Info From Voters Concerned About Privacy (vox.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The otter convient fact is that the voter roles are being looked into because there are wide scale voter fraud.

    When Kobach was Kansas Secretary of State, he made ferreting out voter fraud a centerpiece of his administration and conducted a two-year investigation. He found nine cases, mostly older Republicans.

    http://www.politico.com/magazi...

    There is no wide scale voter fraud. It doesn't exist.

    https://www.brennancenter.org/...

  5. [nypost.com]

    Oh, come on.

  6. Re: Reminder on White House Releases Sensitive Personal Info From Voters Concerned About Privacy (vox.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ballots contain zero personal information.

    Ever seen how an absentee ballot shows up? Vote by mail has been growing in every election over the past several decades. They absolutely have personal information.

  7. Re:Reminder on White House Releases Sensitive Personal Info From Voters Concerned About Privacy (vox.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Have you seen how voting works in Massachusetts?

    There are certain (blue) states that have done a good job of voter information security. There have already been proof of concept deanonymization attacks on voter machines in certain (red) states.

    Have you seen how voting works in Texas?

  8. Explain how that's possible at all...

    Two of the items on the demand list from the voter fraud "commission" are 1) party affiliation, and 2) voting record. The possibility of deanonymization of votes in several states has already been proven. In fact, there are data brokers selling personal information of conservative voters. For more information about this, I suggest checking EFF's site. This has been an issue of theirs for a while.

     

  9. One of the pieces of information that the Trump administration is demanding from the states is how voters voted. They want to know if you voted for Trump or one of his opponents.

    Let that sink in for a second. Imaging the Slashdot comments section if a President Clinton or President Obama demanded this same information from the states. Remember, the Constitution gives the power over all US elections to the states.

  10. Re:There's an obvious reason on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    I doubt Republicans consider engineering, math, biology, English and such as bad.

    Sadly, there's plenty that do. I'm currently living in Texas, and I can take you to meet several of them right now. Here's a Republican elected official over in Arizona.

    http://tucson.com/news/local/e...

    “It got hijacked by Washington, by the federal government,” said Melvin, a candidate for governor, and “as a conservative Reagan Republican I’m suspect about the U.S. Department of Education in general, but also any standards that are coming out of that department.”

    Melvin’s comments led Sen. David Bradley, D-Tucson, to ask him whether he’s actually read the Common Core standards, which have been adopted by 45 states.

    “I’ve been exposed to them,” Melvin responded.

    Pressed by Bradley for specifics, Melvin said he understands “some of the reading material is borderline pornographic.” And he said the program uses “fuzzy math,” substituting letters for numbers in some examples.

  11. Re: Rule 1. Don't attract attention. on Dark Web Marketplace AlphaBay Shuts For Good After Police Raids (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Nobody likes it when you are around.

    Your mama likes it when I'm around.

  12. Re:Rule 1. Don't attract attention. on Dark Web Marketplace AlphaBay Shuts For Good After Police Raids (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Rule 1. Don't attract attention.

    Rule 2. Don't send your psychopath son to meet with Russian spies.

  13. Re:What did he DO? on Insider Trader Arrested After He Googled 'Insider Trading,' Authorities Allege · · Score: 1

    our holy anger towards the transgressions against the rule of law.

    It's 2017. Rule of Law is an outdated concept.

  14. Re:Did anyone think it would be otherwise? on Artificial Intelligence Has Race, Gender Biases (axios.com) · · Score: 0

    Pretty much all intelligent life on this planet has preference and bias that seems to stem from a very base level... Why would AI be any different?

    Who wants to explain it to him?

  15. Re: European cars...... on The Audi A8: First Production Car To Achieve Level 3 Autonomy (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm not quite sure what your point is: the Fiesta (like the Focus) was designed in Europe, it's not n "American" car.

    I suppose you're going to tell me that Jaguar and Land Rover are British cars.

  16. Re: European cars...... on The Audi A8: First Production Car To Achieve Level 3 Autonomy (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Roll Royces are now overpriced, tarted up BMWs. Sorry to burst your bubble.

    Well, that's kind of my point. You need more money than brains to shell out for a Rolls. Or, you have to be some kind of Saudi prince (who's probably gonna skip the Rolls and buy a Koenigsegg or Mercedes anyway.

  17. Re: European cars...... on The Audi A8: First Production Car To Achieve Level 3 Autonomy (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    You are seriously trying to imply something because a company that sells cheap crap gets away with selling cheap crap to a lot of people?

    I'm implying that the British auto industry hasn't been able to make an affordable car that people actually want to buy and drive.

    Sure, a McLaren 12C would be lovely to drive, but for a quarter million dollars, I'll drive a Fiesta and buy a house. Or maybe I'll drive a Dodge Viper and have enough left over to pay for a few dozen Brits to get their teeth fixed.

  18. Re:Next level autonomy! on The Audi A8: First Production Car To Achieve Level 3 Autonomy (ieee.org) · · Score: 2, Funny

    At level 4 the car decides on it's own where to take you. At level 5 it gets bored waiting for you in the parking lot

    Level 6 is when it kills you and fucks your wife.

  19. Re:Good on The Audi A8: First Production Car To Achieve Level 3 Autonomy (ieee.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would like a car that can drive me around while I drink beer

    I can do that just fine by myself, thank you very much.

  20. Re: European cars...... on The Audi A8: First Production Car To Achieve Level 3 Autonomy (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    European car names associated with quality and luxury: Rolls Royce, Bentley, Mercedes Benz, BMW, Audi, Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini

    The Rolls Royce and Bentley are made in the UK.

    The Ford Fiesta is the best-selling car in the UK. It has been for decades.

  21. It's like a British Bababouie.

  22. Best reason to drink coffee on Coffee Cuts Risk of Dying From Stroke and Heart Disease, Study Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2
  23. Big Nothing on Kaspersky Lab Has Been Working With Russian Intelligence (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    To be fair, Eugene Kaspersky did meet with Russian intelligence, but they only discussed adoption.

  24. Tweets and Circuses on Twitter Users Blocked By Trump Sue, Claim @realDonaldTrump Is Public Forum (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Every American deserves the right to gaze upon Donald Trump's tweets. The whole family's tweets, in fact, because they are more entertaining than Duck Dynasty, the Kardashians and Honey Boo Boo put together. May they reign for a thousand years.

  25. According to The Washington Post, Mercier said there is decade of case law saying that a graduated income tax is unconstitutional because income is property and under the constitution, property tax has to be taxed uniformly and no more than 1 percent.

    This genius, this "Jason Mercier, who directs the center for government reform with the Washington Police Center" has apparently never heard of the IRS. I'm pretty sure that graduated income tax is not unconstitutional. I know they've got pockets of those anti-government, anti-USA sovereign citizen jackoffs in the Eastern part of the state, but you would think none of them have ever read a book or newspaper.