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    San Francisco Uses Computer Algorithm to Dismiss 9,362 Marijuana Convictions

    i don't care what people ingest so long as they are responsible for the results. that includes long term health care and near term things like broken bones from falls or whatever impairment leads to. once anyone becomes my burden i become the boss. at least i strongly feel that it should work...
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    Boeing 787-9 Twin Jet Dreamliner Hits Top Speed of 801 MPH

    i hear you can reach mach1 if enough people jump in to beat this particular horse to death
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    Radeon 7 Will Have Day One Linux Support

    i just built a 2950x threadripper system with a radeon 590 in it last week. i'm using it for a workstation and virtualization host of some other development environments. support via mesa has been great as far as i can tell. Valve has done a great job with it-just-runs windows games. i even have...
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    Mobile Apps Track Your Movements and Its All for Sale

    this is why i look forward to the Librem 5 - https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
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    Microsoft Edge Development Will Be Based on the Chromium Open Source Project

    nothing on iOS is NOT webkit if it's a browser. Apple does not allow 3rd party rendering engines. they suck. Firefox on Android i've found to be pretty damn good
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    Quake Champions Dumps Loot Boxes for a Battle Pass

    i'd still be playing it if it wasn't dog-ass slow to load. when i'm working and i just want to quickly blow off some steam or distract myself i want to get in, frag, get out. but damn that game is a slow loader
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    Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Turns down UK Parliament Request to be Interviewed

    zuckbook can dive off a cliff, but i can't blame him. i'd have no interest in such a thing either. it's too much of a show - not enough of an actual problem-solving exercise
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    Chinese Intelligence Officers Conspired to Steal Aviation Turbofan Engine Technology

    i get really sick of these dicks reinforcing the "sneaky" stereotype
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    685 Million Users Exposed to XSS Attacks Due to Flaws in Branch.io Service

    MAN I LOVE THE DECENTRALIZED IDEA BEHIND THE INTERNET! LET'S CENTRALIZE EVERYTHING THROUGH GATEWAYS... **ahem**
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    Mozilla Kills Live Bookmarks, RSS Feed Subscriptions in Firefox 64

    as a programmer i'm happy to see this sort of decision-making. when you're refactoring code and you run into some old crusty corner of the codebase... it's really nice to be able to weigh the cost of development against a priority like usage. plus - shrinking the codebase? excellent! if you...
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    Chrome 70 Adds Support for Shape Detection and Web Authentication

    you're funny. they can already do that if you use Chrome. i think we all know the answer to this
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    Hyper-V Quick Create Feature Makes Creating Ubuntu Virtual Machines Easier

    cool! now when Windows wants to reboot for updates, i get to cycle my linux machines too! .... ZZzzz
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    Google Will Continue Hiding "WWW" but Not "M" in Chrome 70

    i say this as someone who has been in the field for a little over 20 years and has no particular love for 'www' - leave the url the fuck alone. there is no good reason to alter The Truth in a subtractive manner. you want to paint it green? put a lock *next* to it? cool. but leave the damn url...
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    Microsoft Edge Now Available on iOS and Android

    ^^ this. all browsers on iOS are a bad joke. Apple does not allow 3rd party rendering engines, so really you're getting a wrapper around webview or whatever they call it. basically pick the least invasive/creepy one - likely Firefox. and i thought i read a while back that IE on Android where...
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    National Clean Our Your Computer Day

    dang i would clean my computer but i got hungry and now i have no more tide pods left :(
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    Android Users 15 Times More Likely to Judge iPhone Owners Negatively

    am i missing a sarc tag? read receipts have never been acceptable to me in any decade or century now that i think about it (looking at you outlook/exchange). seriously, it just feels like a total asshole thing to me. or creeper
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    Facebook is Planning an Assault on YouTube

    oh that's easy! i 100% know that i don't want it to be facebook! there is a zero percent chance i would touch that. granted, it's like choosing between getting ram-rodded by the CIA instead of the NSA but still - there's something more slimey about facebook.
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    High-Speed Broadband to Be Legal Right for UK Homes and Businesses

    clarifying that your distinction on "protected" is beside the point with a little dash of highlighting your defeatism
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    High-Speed Broadband to Be Legal Right for UK Homes and Businesses

    isn't protected by others? eh. unless we are solitary, we all rely on the morals, ethics, competence, etc of those around us. all the 'having' or 'protecting' in the world isn't going to stop an asshole from running you over in his car because he had a bad day.
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    High-Speed Broadband to Be Legal Right for UK Homes and Businesses

    "protected" is pretty critical to that. you have human rights whether or not they are protected. you may end up dead, destitute, or imprisoned, but you have them. the mechanisms that the govt comes up with to keep ITSELF from stomping on your rights are pretty hilarious. they are also set up to...
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    High-Speed Broadband to Be Legal Right for UK Homes and Businesses

    i see the word "right" getting flogged again. while the sentiment is good, there are no rights that must be provided by others - if your right forces others to provide you service i'm pretty sure that's slavery or indentured servitude. that being said, back here in the U S of A i think that...
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    Okami HD Will Be Locked at 30fps

    this just tells me it was programmed through-and-through as a console game - hard pass. i've given console ports a chance in the past and i rarely enjoy them. they just feel too much like a console game. there's nothing wrong with console games... on consoles.
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    Easy Does It – The Case for Lowering The Difficulty

    i'm gonna say it - it won't be popular with some. the wussification continues...
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    Firefox Add-On Armageddon Arrives

    if you've never messed with uMatrix... oh man it's glorious
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    Paradise Papers: Apple’s Secret Tax Bolthole Revealed

    this may be naive, but it seems like The Fairtax would deal with this pretty well. all taxes are only on finished new product and at the point of sale collected at that time. online sales i'm not sure about - i would hope collected in the country of the customer.
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    Paradise Papers: Apple’s Secret Tax Bolthole Revealed

    you know that story about the frog and the scorpion? we know what corporations are. it's hard to argue that they don't exist for the benefit of their shareholders. you can say that and not come off as batshit crazy. they are the scorpion. expecting them to act differently than their fundamental...
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    Paradise Papers: Apple’s Secret Tax Bolthole Revealed

    sure i'm disgusted. but until we go Jeffersonian on it and replenish the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots, we are operating within a broken system. that being said i do think we need to step outside the broken law because i don't think a broken machine can fix itself. especially an...
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    Paradise Papers: Apple’s Secret Tax Bolthole Revealed

    i don't care for multi-national entities, but that's a gut feeling and not something i've evaluated heavily. that being said, there are laws and unless Apple is violating laws, everyone should stfu. i also look at laws as the the programming language of legal discourse. i don't think there is...
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    Ford Using HoloLens for Car Design

    in my experience the vast hordes of executive level humanity cannot visualize for shit. it quite literally has to be in front of them. i've had many occasions from multiple bosses where i get the weak-ass excuse of "i'm a visual person". no, you're not. you cannot visualize. what you want to do...
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    Find My iPhone Will Get You in Jail

    if i go to jail for 15 years for that... when i get out i'm going back to jail for murder
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    Tech Companies Consider Penalties for Humans Who Vent Anger at Virtual Assistants

    yeah i'd do another thing i might not do in real life, execute you. bye bye service. i know when i'm communicating with a human or communicating with a machine. they are idiots imo if they think i am blurring the lines and coarsening overall.
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    Corsair Labor Day Sale - 15% off NEW gear w/ LABORDAY17

    perfect timing! my g930 wireless headphones have been driving me batshit crazy turning on and off when when plugged in. it was going for 70% off while playing Quake Champions just now. Thanks for the head's up! new headphones on the way
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    Password Policies of 40 Popular Online Services Analyzed

    good! i don't want obnoxious password requirements. i also don't need them to give me my baby bottle and wipe my butt. if i want a crappy password on some random site because i need one to learn about how big goldfish grow in sewer systems, then i'll use a crappy password.
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    AMD Reveals EPYC 7000 Server CPUs

    ... and this is one of the reasons i completely kicked MSSQL to the curb for postgresql after over a decade of experience with MSSQL. that and postgresql is awesome. but seriously, who needs to be wasting productive thought cycles on licensing crap? and no, i don't want to hear about support...
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    Over 15,000 Fraudulent PayPal Certificates Issued to Phishing Sites

    ok got the answer by reading, haha. i'm torn on this issue. there is definitely fraudulent misrepresentation of the content of the site. using paypal's logos, acting like paypal, etc. but to me with this issue, i think that's where the fraud ends. i could be wrong and could be convinced...
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    Over 15,000 Fraudulent PayPal Certificates Issued to Phishing Sites

    i'm curious what you mean by "implying it is from PayPal". you mean a typo-squatter or near-squat type of domain that looks like paypal.com but isnt? edit: i see the linked article that specifically uses a paypal example. i'm going to read that now!
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    AMD's Ryzen Will Really Like a Newer Linux Kernel

    just a head's up - when you said "of the Linux distributions I follow, none of them have as of yet provided anything official newer than the 4.8 Kernel" - vanilla Fedora 25 is up to kernel version 4.9.11. get to following! ;)
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    6950 Owners: Was Your Unlock Successful?

    unlocked my asus (the stock 810mhz model) on the first try. i had never done this to a video card, so this may sound noobish but i'll report it anyway - after the unlock, my drivers took a dump. it appears they recovered, but i reinstalled them anyway. i have not maxxed this thing out...
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    new machine, mysterious lock-ups

    glad to hear that. since i did a reinstall and stayed away from those forceware drivers (6.66 i thiuk. not sure) my machine has been rock-solid. i love it
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