This coming from a senator who used to wear a satellite dish on his head. I'd like to know if he was collecting data from aliens with that thing.
I think that whatever a politician has worn on his head in the past has now been surpassed by the headwear of one of the current presidential candidates.
All pre-2016 jokes about a politician wearing something ridiculous on their head have now been rendered null and void by reality.
Interesting that the headline says Franken "questioned" Niantic (which sounds like the name of a drug for erectile dysfunction, by the way). In fact, what he did was send them a letter, with these (quite reasonable) questions. In fact, these are issues that are brought up daily by users here on Slashdot:
1. Pokemon GO has stated that it collects a broad array of users' personal information, including but not limited to a user's profile and account information, their precise location data, and information obtained through Cookies and Web Beacons. Can you explain exactly which information collected by Pokemon GO is necessary for the provision or improvement of services? Are there any other purposes for which Pokemon GO collects all of this information? 2. According to reports, Pokemon GO also requests permission to access a number of mobile capabilities, including but not limited to the ability to control vibration on a phone, prevent the phone from sleeping, and find contact accounts on the device. Can you explain exactly which features and capabilities are necessary for Pokemon GO to access for the provision or improvement of services? Are there any other purposes for which Pokemon GO has access to all of these features and capabilities? 3. If, in fact, some of the information collected and/or permissions requested by Pokemon GO are unnecessary for the provision of services, would Niantic consider making this collection/access opf-in, as opposed to requiring a user to opt-out of the collection/access? 4. Pokemon GO has stated that users' information can be shared with The Pokemon Company and "third party service providers". Can you provide a list of current service providers? Does Pokemon GO also share users' information with investors in Pokemon GO? 5. Pokemon GO has further indicated that it shares de-identified and aggregate data with other third parties for a multitude of purposes. Can you more exhaustively describe the purposes for which Pokemon GO would share or sell such data? 6. Can you describe how Niantic ensures parents provide meaningful consent for their child's use ofPokemon GO and thus the collection of their child's personal information? Apart from publicly available privacy policies, how does Niantic inform parents about how their child's information is collected and used? 7. According to reports, signing into Pokemon GO on iOS through a user's Google account gives Niantic full access to an individual's Google account without the user's knowledge. Niantic has since recognized that it erroneously asked for more permissions than it intended. Can you provide an update on any fix Niantic is seeking to correct this mistake? Also, please confirm that Niantic never collected or stored any information it gained access to as a result of this mistake.
Considering the happy horseshit the US Congress has been doing for the past 6 years, I'm not sure this isn't a case of an elected official actually doing his job. Maybe that's why it seems so unusual.
What percentage of homicides and violent crime are related to gang activity? Take Chicago for example as it continuously pops up in the news. I would contend that better mental health care does nothing for them.
I take a broader view of mental health besides just treating pathology. I see it in more holistic terms, that involves poverty, debt, external stress, family life, even nutrition and physical health. People without purpose in life can find purpose.
There's a reason you don't find violent street gangs in Lake Forest or Kenilworth which are as close to downtown Chicago as the far South side. And before the ACs jump in, no, it has nothing to do with the properties of race.
So, you seem to be saying "millennial", except with a lot less words. Are you a 49ers fan? Colin Kaepernick might want to use your argument, he's a jackass too. Not as bad as Carlos Danger or Hillary Clinton , but worse than Chris Brown. yeah Colin should fuck off and so should you. Colin McColonmouth
would you propose the same solutions to preventing suicides as homicides/violent crimes?
Yes. Better mental health care and sensible restrictions on guns.
Not having ready access to a gun might have given some of those suicides a chance to reconsider. A Harvard study says 9 out 10 people who survive a suicide attempt do not go on to die by suicide. But it's pretty hard to survive a pistol shot through the roof of the mouth, you know?. The vast majority of people who attempt suicide by means other than handgun are not successful. The success rate for the gun users is well over 90%.
Regarding homicides and violent crime, you are much more likely to be shot to death in a violent crime than beaten, stabbed, strangled, impaled, poisoned, hatcheted, smothered or thrown out of a window combined. The National Institute of Justice says that nearly 70% of homicides are committed with firearms.
Isn't it a bit misleading to lump 20k+ suicides into that figure since they happened to choose a firearm to do it with?
Not at all. I'm comparing danger. As an American, you're over a thousand times more likely to die from the bullet of a gun held by an American than you are to die from anything ISIS does.
But you bring up a good point about suicide. Americans are thousands of times more likely to be a danger to themselves than they are to have ISIS be a danger to them.
The takeaway message for you here should be that including your anti-gun political message in with your "ISIS is not a real threat" message led to a distraction from, and dilution of, your intended message. Introducing politics into discussions does that, every single time.
You worry about your message and let me worry about mine.
Americans with guns killed around 13,000 Americans last year, not 35,000. Please don't exaggerate.
You're right. I was looking at the statistics from 2013, not 2015.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2013, there were 73,505 nonfatal firearm injuries (23.23 per 100,000 U.S. citizens);[2] 11,208 homicides (3.5 per 100,000);[3] 21,175 suicides;[4] 505 deaths due to accidental/negligent discharge of a firearm; and 281 deaths due to firearms-use with "undetermined intent",[4] for a total of 33,636 deaths due to "Injury by firearms",[4]
Thanks for reminding me. I didn't mean to limit "Americans killing Americans with guns" to just crime. I should have added accidental shootings.
Fact is, Americans with guns put a lot of holes in Americans. Way more than any other developed nation. There is a bigger danger of accidentally getting killed with a gun than getting killed by ISIS.
As a gun owner for 35 years, I can tell you that if it's loaded and you pull the trigger, a gun will do something.
Those 25k+ people who commit suicide every year while pointing a gun at themselves and pulling the trigger could not have committed suicide by putting a finger to their temple and shouting BANG!
He's adding in all accidental gun deaths and suicides, which are overwhelmingly done using guns because it's fast and (presumed) less painful.
I cited the number as "Americans killing Americans with guns". Why wouldn't you include suicides in that?
The point is, ISIS is one of the least dangerous things in the United States. More people die from toenail fungus than by ISIS. You're TEN TIMES more likely to die while on a luxury cruise than you are from ISIS.
For instance, you and your ability to spew vile bullshit endlessly, about how horrible your country is, while you rape it of it's fruits bought by the sacrifices of those greater than you.
Are you kidding? I think the US is a great country with great people. It never stopped being great. I don't see it as horrible at all. I revere the sacrifice made by those greater than myself, including my father, a first-generation Italian-American who fought with Merrill's Marauders in the China-Burma theater in WWII (and was awarded a Bronze Star), right down to the janitors and sanitation workers who have more dangerous jobs than cops. There's no place I'd rather live and raise my family. From Chicago (where I'm from) to Connecticut, California, right down to Houston, Texas where I'm writing this now, the people of the United States are just terrific.
Were there justice, you would be hanging from a fucking lamp post by your scrawny, unwashed neck, rotting like the foul piece of shit that you are.
Cops also saved tens of thousands of people like you, and keeps the rabble from overrunning our suburban house and shooting you in the fucking head. Go fuck yourself.
I don't live in the suburbs, and the rabble has already overrun my house.
Plus, cops get paid well, have great benefits and get to retire at 45, so excuse me if I don't break out my tiny violin. Oh yeah, and being a cop is a safer job than driving a beer truck, being a garbage man or a school janitor. We canonize cops way too much in this country.
ISIS (and other terrorist groups) killed 19 Americans last year. Total. Cops killed 1,125 Americans last year (it's actually a higher number, since the US gov't doesn't keep track of Americans killed by cops).
Americans with guns killed over 35,000 Americans last year.
But ISIS is used as the excuse to take away people's rights.
I can portray some 15th century Italian named Mona all I want.
Only because I'm pretty sure the copyright has run out. But these days, you can never be sure. Maybe Time Warner bought up the rights to all daVinci's work and has gotten the copyright extended.
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That's right. We are all Donald Trump, but with fewer Eastern European hookers.
Chill, brother. It's a long weekend, the last of the summer. Take a break from your social justice cause and have a little fun.
http://www.cnet.com/news/trump...
I think that whatever a politician has worn on his head in the past has now been surpassed by the headwear of one of the current presidential candidates.
All pre-2016 jokes about a politician wearing something ridiculous on their head have now been rendered null and void by reality.
Interesting that the headline says Franken "questioned" Niantic (which sounds like the name of a drug for erectile dysfunction, by the way). In fact, what he did was send them a letter, with these (quite reasonable) questions. In fact, these are issues that are brought up daily by users here on Slashdot:
Considering the happy horseshit the US Congress has been doing for the past 6 years, I'm not sure this isn't a case of an elected official actually doing his job. Maybe that's why it seems so unusual.
Oh, and here's the full text of Franken's letter:
http://www.franken.senate.gov/...
To be fair, sending a communications satellite into space is new, untested technology and there are bound to be some mishaps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Maybe Elon didn't use enough Reardon Metal this time, but the next Falcon 9 will be self-driving, definitely.
The editors were worried that people would think it was a story about Donald Trump.
I take a broader view of mental health besides just treating pathology. I see it in more holistic terms, that involves poverty, debt, external stress, family life, even nutrition and physical health. People without purpose in life can find purpose.
There's a reason you don't find violent street gangs in Lake Forest or Kenilworth which are as close to downtown Chicago as the far South side. And before the ACs jump in, no, it has nothing to do with the properties of race.
Nah, that's not a laptop. Now THIS is a laptop.
http://www.laptopjoy.com/wp-co...
When did Skip Bayless get on Slashdot?
Yes. Better mental health care and sensible restrictions on guns.
Not having ready access to a gun might have given some of those suicides a chance to reconsider. A Harvard study says 9 out 10 people who survive a suicide attempt do not go on to die by suicide. But it's pretty hard to survive a pistol shot through the roof of the mouth, you know?. The vast majority of people who attempt suicide by means other than handgun are not successful. The success rate for the gun users is well over 90%.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/m...
Regarding homicides and violent crime, you are much more likely to be shot to death in a violent crime than beaten, stabbed, strangled, impaled, poisoned, hatcheted, smothered or thrown out of a window combined. The National Institute of Justice says that nearly 70% of homicides are committed with firearms.
http://www.nij.gov/topics/crim...
Of course the signal comes from Earth. Where do you think the aliens come from? Don't you guys watch the History Channel?
https://youtu.be/QA_Dw71Satc
Not at all. I'm comparing danger. As an American, you're over a thousand times more likely to die from the bullet of a gun held by an American than you are to die from anything ISIS does.
But you bring up a good point about suicide. Americans are thousands of times more likely to be a danger to themselves than they are to have ISIS be a danger to them.
So why all the fuss?
Sorry, as I said, my statistics were from 2013 (see citation above).
You worry about your message and let me worry about mine.
You're right. I was looking at the statistics from 2013, not 2015.
Thanks for reminding me. I didn't mean to limit "Americans killing Americans with guns" to just crime. I should have added accidental shootings.
Fact is, Americans with guns put a lot of holes in Americans. Way more than any other developed nation. There is a bigger danger of accidentally getting killed with a gun than getting killed by ISIS.
The average police salary in the US is $56,810. They can retire after 20 years at 50% of their salary
As a gun owner for 35 years, I can tell you that if it's loaded and you pull the trigger, a gun will do something.
Those 25k+ people who commit suicide every year while pointing a gun at themselves and pulling the trigger could not have committed suicide by putting a finger to their temple and shouting BANG!
Yes, it includes them. There were four Americans killed in Afghanistan and two Americans killed in Iraq in 2015.
I cited the number as "Americans killing Americans with guns". Why wouldn't you include suicides in that?
The point is, ISIS is one of the least dangerous things in the United States. More people die from toenail fungus than by ISIS. You're TEN TIMES more likely to die while on a luxury cruise than you are from ISIS.
Are you kidding? I think the US is a great country with great people. It never stopped being great. I don't see it as horrible at all. I revere the sacrifice made by those greater than myself, including my father, a first-generation Italian-American who fought with Merrill's Marauders in the China-Burma theater in WWII (and was awarded a Bronze Star), right down to the janitors and sanitation workers who have more dangerous jobs than cops. There's no place I'd rather live and raise my family. From Chicago (where I'm from) to Connecticut, California, right down to Houston, Texas where I'm writing this now, the people of the United States are just terrific.
You're a Trump supporter, aren't you?
I don't live in the suburbs, and the rabble has already overrun my house.
Plus, cops get paid well, have great benefits and get to retire at 45, so excuse me if I don't break out my tiny violin. Oh yeah, and being a cop is a safer job than driving a beer truck, being a garbage man or a school janitor. We canonize cops way too much in this country.
http://time.com/4326676/danger...
ISIS (and other terrorist groups) killed 19 Americans last year. Total. Cops killed 1,125 Americans last year (it's actually a higher number, since the US gov't doesn't keep track of Americans killed by cops).
Americans with guns killed over 35,000 Americans last year.
But ISIS is used as the excuse to take away people's rights.
Only because I'm pretty sure the copyright has run out. But these days, you can never be sure. Maybe Time Warner bought up the rights to all daVinci's work and has gotten the copyright extended.