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Comment Re: Lazy B (Score 1) 57

Union can't protect workers who don't follow safety standards. That tells us that nobody was checking up to make sure they did because it might affect the bottom line, which in turn tells us it was management's fault and had nothing at all to do with any unions.

We already knew this because of all the cost cutting crap Boing has done over the years. Notably, they shifted a lot of production to contractors on whom they never checked up.

Comment Re: But arguably not a security risk (Score 1) 123

"forbidding it to everybody is clearly not a matter of national security. If it was, they would forbid ALL actors (e.g. facebook, google etc...) to gather data and sell it to everybody which, they do."

All national social media services are known to be part of PRISM. They are literally part of the panopticon. Therefore they are essentially defense contractors. What they sell and to whom is probably under a lot more scrutiny than you think. Anyone buying that data and trusting it to be accurate is as dumb as those who believe that Facebook targets their advertising accurately. That is to say, spectacularly.

Comment Re: Is China covered by the US constitution? (Score 1) 123

It doesn't have to say it anywhere in practice. What matters is what has been done historically, we call that precedent.

The precedent is for the 1A to apply to humans everywhere, but only to US corporations.

There is ample precedent for doing basically anything in the name of national security as well, so good luck with your argument. Normally you're not even allowed to know about it (See: National Security Letters - wait, you don't GET to see those...)

Comment Re: Not the worst mobile OS (Score 1) 76

"And they were big into phones early on. They just couldn't figure out the interface."

I had an HTC Raphael 110 and the problem was not the interface, it was the lack of reliability. The phone would often get into a state where you had to reboot before you could make a call, it would occasionally reboot itself...

Comment Re:Since when has ANY "carbon offset" been real? (Score 1) 69

The scientific theory of carbon offsets is sound. The problem isn't in the idea of them, it's in the execution, which is either backed up (or not) by governments. The governments are in the pockets of Big Oil, so they don't enforce these agreements. Every time a corporation claims it's going to offset its carbon and doesn't, that's obviously fraud, and an executive should go to prison for it. And equally, the corporation should be fined more than it made through sales which would not have occurred without the fraud. Anything less is not a deterrent. The government creates the corporations (it grants them a charter, without which they do not exist) and then it fails to enforce their behavior.

It is still better to have carbon taxes instead and spend the proceeds on bioremediation including carbon fixing. But they would just have loopholes for the taxes, because the root problem is crony capitalism.

Comment Re:Oil companies are scum (Score 1) 69

While what you said is true, the same people who are shouting this are still, driving to work, and other fossil fuel related demands. They're not going to give it up, they're waiting for someone else to fix the problem

I don't have the ability to put in rail, and I still have to get to work. Fuck you for blaming this on me when I need to survive, and I have spent hours and hours in advocacy of superior solutions even though the typical response is mockery.

Comment Re:Marketing (Score 1) 36

1. Some apps work offline, but that doesn't work if they are webpages. I use my compass app when I am far from any cell tower.

https://developer.ibm.com/tuto...

2. Many apps use on-device databases, credentials, or other local storage.

https://developer.mozilla.org/...
Space is limited, to be fair, but if more storage were commonly needed that could no doubt be arranged.

3. Many apps use the camera, microphone, tilt sensor, or neural engine.

The browser supports 3/4 of those devices.

4. Users feel secure seeing a dedicated icon on their screen and less secure about searching for a website and then remembering their login and password.

The browser manages logins and passwords.

Comment Re: Rules for thee but not for me (Score 1, Insightful) 44

"This is the taboo question that no none is allowed to ask, because everyone already knows the answer, and the answer is not the evil racist white man."

In fact that often IS the answer. Nations were destroyed with colonialism, and racism was literally invented to excuse it. Many have also been deliberately suppressed since through various foul means including sanctions, backing coups, and outright assassination. That answer is the real taboo, especially if you ask the governments responsible.

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