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Comment Re:Fascists can die in a fire (Score 1) 99

Check out economic fascism/corporatism, which seems to be very relevant for Google and Amazon. The gist is that huge coroprations cooperate with the state(s). Google itself doesn't have to be 'fascist', but if the state involved is, then Google is a contributer to a fascist system. China comes to mind, clearly a fascist/corporative state. IBM's cooperation with nazi Germany is a historical example.

Corporations should not be evil ("Don't be evil", Google's old slogan), but they are as long as they support dictatorships just to make a buck. This goes for almost all multinationals, not just Google and Amazon. It's not as if Egypt and UAE invented their own monitoring HW and SW. They purchased it from us to suppress their own citizens.

BTW, one might argue that mega-corps are 'fascist and or dictatorships' by design. They certainly aren't run as democracies, but have their 'strong man/führer' who runs the show, all in pursuit of the mighty dollar.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Can one live without Google? (medium.com) 2

hanifbbz writes: When Cambridge Analytica scandal came about, many people started closing their Facebook account. I was wondering how can one do that with Facebook's rival Google. Lately there has been an email circulating at Google where its employees ask the CEO to pull out of a defence program where AI is being weaponised. Google gathers much more information that Facebook and it might be much harder to quit mainly because of it convince but also because the alternatives are not that smart or cost more. In this article I gathered some thoughts but I'm wondering if the Slashdot community can come up with a solution for a google-free lifestyle?

Comment 5G and "always online" netbooks as a threat? (Score 2) 175

5G is coming soon with big promises about speed and availability. Always-online netbooks is a thing already. Maybe the next generation netbooks will use a non-Intel CPU to save both production costs and power?

If people replace their PCs with a new Internet-enabled device(netbook, glorified cell phone, or something entirely new), sales of Intel CPUs will drop. A lot. It may be the death of both Intel CPUs and Windows OS.

All hail Android? All hail ARM?

Comment Re: Easy to do for Net Energy Exporting countries (Score 1) 192

Transportation related CO2 emissions are the greatest single source of climate change. Makes sense to tax fossil fuel cars and subsidize EVs.
(The rest of you comment is irrelevant to this discussion.)

Transportation is not the greatest single source in the US.
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissio...

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