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  1. Re: Legal is relative to jurisdiction on Ask Slashdot: How Is It Even Legal For Websites To Gather And Sell Users' Data? · · Score: 1

    You forgot to add that the privacy act was written by Hon Andrew Little, Minister Responsible for the GCSB.

  2. How bizarre. There's a lot of hatred happening over an article that details nothing much happened. I am yet to see anything that we should be getting upset solely with Huwawei for. From a slightly historical view it wasn't that long ago that people were screaming at Japan for stealing trade secrets. This just looks like someone stirring the China hatred pot. Not your country, not your rules, and if you don't like it then don't buy the product (or manufacture there). Really, this entire story should be marked troll.

  3. Re: plagued by semi freezing multple pcs on KDE Plasma 5.15 Released (kde.org) · · Score: 1

    Try changing your c state to 1 in bios. I have had a few problems with that freezing the computer in the past.

  4. KDE Neon on KDE Plasma 5.15 Released (kde.org) · · Score: 2

    Got to say I am enjoying it! Thanks KDE.

  5. Different set of problems arise on Facebook Now Lets Everyone Unsend Messages For 10 Minutes (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    A problem with recindable messages is that someone can post something threatening or false and then remove it after the person or people had seen it. Facebook can remove it, your brain can't. This will probably lead to a whole new set of problems.

  6. That isn't what the U.N. says at all on 'The World Might Actually Run Out of People' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I call bullshit(PDF alert). Page 9 says that there is a 27% that the population could stabilise or begin to fall by 2100. In three decades it looks more like a 5% chance.

  7. Re: Wrong Question: One word too many. on Is It Time To Ditch Google Analytics? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Posteo is good. It is also the only service I have used that refused to send if the connection was not encrypted the whole way through (although, you have to turn that on).

  8. Re: too deep on Well Water Likely Available Across Mars (behindtheblack.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would we drill? Why not cover an area and heat it with a solar mirror?

  9. Re: I don't believe a word from the medical idio on New US Experiments Aim To Create Gene-Edited Human Embryos (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    A/S/L = Age/Sex/Location last time I used it.

  10. Re: Ooh! Ooh! I know! on How Many .com Domain Names Are Unused? (singaporedatacompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I put this down to a bug, but weirdly I managed to buy linux.net a couple of months back even though it was already registered.

  11. Correction? on Amid Chaos Venezuelans Struggle To Find The Truth, Online (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They can be from panicked citizens, the opposition or the government.

    That should probably read 'a government'.

  12. Seems like the war on Assange is ramping up again on 'This Time It's Russia's Emails Getting Leaked' (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Think of it as WikiLeaks, but without Julian Assange's aversion to posting Russian secrets."
    That might be a good tactic.

  13. Re: Absolutely no evidence on FBI Arrests Trump Associate Roger Stone Over His Communications With WikiLeaks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump isn't the target. The target is the safety and security of the U.S.

    For all we know Trump may never be charged as Meuller finds nothing that he can be charged with or (I am unsure whether this works in American law) it is not in the public interest to charge him. Either way, Meuller needs to conclude his job within the confines of the law and then give a result.

  14. Yes, I too have noticed a lowering of dispute. For instance, Meullers famous silence broke over the Buzzfeed report.

  15. Re: So, central Americans like latin music on Spotify Data Shows How Music Preferences Change With Latitude · · Score: 1

    Anecdotally, Canadians seem to be quite close to New Zealand and Australians. Latitude, race or commonwealth....I don't know.

  16. Re: Then use Signal. on Zuckerberg Plans To Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Signal does have video calls on my phone but not on my desktop (debian based).

  17. Re: Good example of what is wrong on Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right To Be Forgotten' Case (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That would depend on how much insurance pays out on things like kidneys. One of the side effects of helmet laws was a drop in organ availability.

  18. Re: It's not AI!!! on AI is Sending People To Jail -- and Getting it Wrong (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, if there was a super intelligent AI posting to /. that is probably exactly what it would say.

  19. Re: It's not AI!!! on AI is Sending People To Jail -- and Getting it Wrong (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    "Don't call humans intelligent! They think via a simple input-processing-output model just like a simple algorithm I can scribble on a napkin in five seconds!"

    I think I've spotted the AI!

  20. Re: How France understands computer use on Google Fined $57 Million By French Data Privacy Body For Failing To Comply With EU's GDPR Regulations (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a fine, not a tax. If Google wishes to operate within the E.U. then they have to obey the laws of the E.U.

  21. Re: London has done this for years on Paris Will Make Public Transportation Free for Kids (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    I dont think the French are rude. We just dont understand the rules. For instance, when you enter a shop you greet the shopkeeper. If you dont, they think you have been rude.

  22. Re: Not Global Warming's fault that PG&E cause on Is California's PG&E The First Climate Change Bankruptcy? (marketscreener.com) · · Score: 1

    The major flaw in that argument is that it happened under a for profit system.

  23. Re: A couple of good ideas on Mark Zuckerberg's Mentor 'Shocked and Disappointed' -- But He Has a Plan (time.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't really get why he goes for subsidies either. The removal of them would be more to my liking. No more H-1Bs, no more tax breaks, reasearch incentives, etc....These are all subsidies.

  24. Re:Subsidies? on Mark Zuckerberg's Mentor 'Shocked and Disappointed' -- But He Has a Plan (time.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just read it.....apparently he doesn't mean that at all.

    "The government already subsidizes energy exploration, agriculture and other economic activities that the country considers to be a priority, and it is not crazy to imagine that civically responsible social media may be essential to the future of the country. The subsidies might come in the form of research funding, capital for startups, tax breaks and the like."

  25. Without reading the book, he might be referring to the removal of government subsidies such as tax breaks, etc...