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  1. clickbait on Do Businesses Really Need to Hire CS Majors? (cio.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Clickbait aimed at the hard of thinking

    When a headline asks a question, the sensible answer is always a resounding No.

  2. Happening for years on Fake News 'Crowding Out' Real News (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It is only becoming a problem because they are unable to control the internet like they've controlled the mass market media for decades.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  3. A triumph of style over substance, that manages to obscure the meaning every single icon.

  4. A clear as mud ... on Native American Tribe Can't Be a 'Sovereign' Shield During Patent Review, Says Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The summary is about as clear as mud, and the underlying story seems to be deliberate obfuscation

  5. One example of their incompetence

    https://www.manchestereveningn...

  6. Not putting America first on Trump Slams EU Over $5 Billion Fine on Google (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... because International trade is not a zero sum game, trade barriers harm American interests. Then I don't expect his base to understand that, but they will understand the mass unemployment that is coming their way as a result of his and your ignorance of Economics 101.

    While the targets, such as the EU, Japan, the rest world with trade more with each other.

    EU signs its biggest free trade deal with Japan

  7. Re:EU has always been tough on US companies. on Trump Slams EU Over $5 Billion Fine on Google (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That is because US companies have a habit of breaking EU laws and believing they should get away with it in Europe because, well, they get away with it in the US.

    That is frankly a very stupid reasoning.

  8. Philipp Budeiki on Saudi Arabia Bans 47 Games In Response To Two Child Suicides (ign.com) · · Score: 1

    While there is some hysteria surrounding this and the fact it is unfathomable doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

    There will always psychopaths that will seek to exploit these things for their own sick reasons.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/...

  9. Some of these people are imprisoned purely for the purpose of becoming organ donors for the new elite.

    https://edition.cnn.com/2016/0...

    https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

  10. Re:Charitable status is valued in the UK on Elon Musk's Team Is Talking With Thai Officials for Cave Rescue (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't think you were, I was merely following up your words for the purpose of clarity & transparency over their status.

  11. Charitable status is valued in the UK on Elon Musk's Team Is Talking With Thai Officials for Cave Rescue (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    In the UK we have a long tradition rescue organisations being charitable supported and these are generally well supported financially by the public. The bulk of our lifeboats are provided a charity the RNLI, many reserve crews are volunteers. We have many volunteer Mountain, Inland water & Cave Rescue teams.

  12. Re:What can Musk offer? on Elon Musk's Team Is Talking With Thai Officials for Cave Rescue (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Cave diving rescue is a very rarefied skill.

    Cave diving is extremely dangerous activity. It is far more dangerous than sport or commercial scuba diving. It requires much more skill and experience. It requires planning, guide line laying, logistic placement of air supplies. It is highly specialised.

    While the Thia SEALs are undoubtedly highly trained and brave; cave diving requires a rare combination of extremely demand skills and mental strength. If you run into trouble, surfacing is just not an option.

    The British Cave Rescue team involved in this has published some factual press releases about their activity.

    https://www.caverescue.org.uk/...

  13. It is said ... on UK Launches National Dashcam Database For Snitching On Bad Drivers (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    that most drivers considered themselves above average.

    However I can't help noticing when watching dashcam videos on youtube from Russia and America, that they are by far the best drivers in the developed world when it comes to performing spectacular feats of epic failure in the shit driving caught on cam videos.

    We are pretty boring by comparison.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  14. Carbon neutral fuels on Splitting Water For Fuel While Removing CO2 From the Air (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If renewable energy such as off-shore wind farms were used we could achieve carbon neutral hydro-carbon fuel, we could even pump the spare fuel into natural crude oil reservoirs for carbon capture.

    We get to keep our gas guzzlers with a clear conscience.

  15. Insurance on Google Doubles Down on Linux and Open Source (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You're right to suggest this is a direct consequence, but is more like to be insurance for Google to stop Microsoft screwing them over decisions.

    The rest of use might as well walk on by, the idea of open source being about communities is long gone.

  16. except ... on Uber Granted Short-Term License To Operate In London (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Uber have been forced to comply with the existing rules during this probation period. A primary concern was that any crimes reported to Uber concerning their drivers need to be forward to Police and not to Tfl as issues. Their driver all need to be properly licences as private hire drivers, which is different to public hire, the famous London black cabs that can be flagged down.

  17. Galactic star hoping ... on We May Be All Alone In the Known Universe, a New Oxford Study Suggests (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    While star hoping within the Milky Way is beyond our current technology and engineering, it does seem plausible with generational ships. What we know about physics and the limits imposed by c, suggest that travelling between Galaxies is not.

  18. Lunatics on world stage on Blogger Stabbed To Death After Internet Abuse Seminar (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There is also the case of the guy that flew from New Zealand to the US to attack teenage girl, and was shot.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/wor...

  19. When a company can ... on Intel CEO Brian Krzanich Resigns Over Relationship With Employee (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It is staggering that any company thinks it has any right to interfere in personal private relationships. When they can exercise control over your sex life ..., Used to be a criticism leveled at religion. This would be laughed at in Europe

  20. The Right to Breed on Nearly Half the Patents on Marine Genes Belong To Just One Company (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why am I reminded of this:

    The Right to Read by Richard Stallman

    This article appeared in the February 1997 issue of Communications of the ACM (Volume 40, Number 2).

    https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...

  21. That is because the moguls that control the UK media want it that way and why they've spent two decades lying every day about the EU.

  22. Re:Watching Zuckie squirm. on European Lawmakers Asked Mark Zuckerberg Why They Shouldn't Break Up Facebook (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The EU regulator were on the ball compared to the staggering ignorance of the US senators.

  23. Only in American on Amazon Is Banning People For Making Too Many Returns (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    This wouldn't be tolerated in the UK (or wider EU which all have similar regulation). We have distance selling regulations built into consumer rights. I do find it very odd that so many American posters seem prepared to bend over for Corporate rights over.

    On the whole these regulations do favour the good companies and I've never had any issue with Amazon UK, but no end of trouble with ebay suppliers and ebay ignorance of consumer law.

    https://www.which.co.uk/consum...

  24. A gullibility test on Reporter Shares Experience of Visiting a Flat Earth Convention (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Flat earth belief has become the latest gullibility test, it is no different from the badly spelt 419 emails. The ideas are deliberately bad to attract only the most gullible and easily fooled people. The scammers don't want to waste their time on people that figure out the scam late in the game.

    https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.c...

  25. My assistance dino, was excluded from the venue.