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  1. I talked my sister-in-law into returning hers on How To Stop Amazon From Listening To Your Alexa Recordings (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 2

    Told her it was nothing but a potential snooping device of little marginal value.

  2. Selection, Selection, Selection on 2.7 Million Americans Still Get Netflix DVDs in the Mail (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    I have eclectic taste in movies and they're almost never available streaming. I always have a NFLX movie at home ready to watch and the titles will almost certainly never be available streaming.

  3. Meh. I'll stick with Eclipse. on Microsoft and Canonical Launch Visual Studio Code Snap For Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Not this bastard child of Windows and Linux.

  4. INB4 Justin Trudeau on Canada Warming Twice as Fast as the Rest of the World, Report Says (bbc.com) · · Score: -1

    He's full of hot air along with the rest of the world's politicians.

  5. Android = Surveillance Platform on Firefox Lockbox Comes To Android To Ease Password Pain (cnet.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Android is just a surveillance platform for Big Brother. Why pretend otherwise?

  6. Re:The ones I miss and don’t miss on A Eulogy For Every Product Google Has Ruthlessly Killed (145 and Counting) (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know about "glory days" since I still find RSS very useful especially through sites like Feedly or DIY alternatives like FreshRSS

  7. Google Reader on A Eulogy For Every Product Google Has Ruthlessly Killed (145 and Counting) (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm especially bitter about the loss of Google Reader, the RSS news feed aggregator. I got by with so-so replacements for a few years and finally rolled my own with FreshRSS on my home server.

  8. Global warming! We're all gonna die! on Historic, Widespread Flooding Will Continue Through May, NOAA Says (cnn.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh that's right. We're all gonna die anyway. :D

  9. Video here still autoplays:
    https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal....

    This is a technological game of whack-a-mole. Every browser improvement is countered by some new trick. I'll stick with the auto-mute FF extension.

  10. I like my TVs the way I like my toasters... on Samsung is Loading McAfee Antivirus Software On Smart TVs (techspot.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...DUMB

  11. Re:The right to be wrong on Anti-Vaccination Conspiracy Theories Thrive on Amazon (cnn.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And what about the genital mutilation of your son?

  12. Book burnings first... on Anti-Vaccination Conspiracy Theories Thrive on Amazon (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    ...then re-education camps.

  13. Slashdotted again!

  14. Re:Possible bias? on IBM's AI Loses To a Human Debater (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson would have both "lost" in the judgement of any Left Coast audience.

  15. In other news: planes de-iced with hot water on Frozen Train Tracks? Set 'Em on Fire (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1
  16. Yo quiero Telco Bell!

  17. Re:Most Americans don't know what AI is on Americans Want To Regulate AI But Don't Trust Anyone To Do It (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Haven't you heard? Elon Musk says we're "summoning the demon"!

  18. I just wrote a hello world neural network on Americans Want To Regulate AI But Don't Trust Anyone To Do It (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I just wrote a hello world neural network and didn't register it with the government! Did I just commit a felony?

  19. Re:Turn national park management over to the state on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm arguing for the decentralization of national park management. Singling out an isolated example doesn't invalidate the argument for decentralization. What's more, the current Federal shutdown (BTW not the first and not the last) is proof that the Federal government is a single point of failure.

    Interior can turn the *management* of the parks over to the states but keep the parks in a national trust. The fact is that states *love* having national parks because they bring in tourist dollars. Let states manage the parks, let them have some skin in the game.

  20. Turn national park management over to the states on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    And, no, the states *won't* sell off and develop the parks, especially if the management is turned over with lots of strings attached.

  21. Re:Fucking flat-earthers and moon-landing hoaxers on Google CEO Admits Company Must Better Address the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on YouTube (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    Rabid, wild-eyed true-believers like yourself is what bring out the trolls. They don't believe the earth is flat but the love to see you foam at the mouth.

  22. Most flat-earthers don't actually believe the earth is flat and are merely trolling for their own amusement. Climate change deniers ditto.
    Some men just want to watch the world burn.

  23. Here, let us snoop on you to enhance your privacy. on New Firefox Suggests Ways To Get More Out of the Web (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why didn't that come out right?

  24. Re: A modest proposal on FDA Seeks Ban On Menthol Cigarettes To Fight Teen Smoking (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Sure it works. The reason prohibition didn't work with alcohol is because it's easy to make. Tobacco can theoretically be grown at home but good luck with that. It's a notoriously finicky plant.
    As far as "not working" I would argue that alcohol prohibition had positive benefit in the sense that attitudes toward drinking were positively modified. People simply don't drink as much as they did before Prohibition, especially hard liquor.

  25. A modest proposal on FDA Seeks Ban On Menthol Cigarettes To Fight Teen Smoking (npr.org) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Here's a modest proposal: Ban all tobacco products completely.