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What Kamala Harris, Joe Biden's VP Pick, Means For Tech (cnet.com) 521

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: After months of speculation, Joe Biden has picked California Sen. Kamala Harris to be his vice-presidential running mate in the race for the White House. The choice fulfills a pledge from Biden, the Democrats' presumptive nominee for president, to name a woman to his ticket as he seeks to unseat Donald Trump in the November election. [...] Here's what we know about Harris' stance on tech issues:

A California senator and former candidate in the 2020 presidential race, Harris made her name in Washington by grilling Trump nominees and officials from her seat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Harris, 55, is known for being a tough-on-crime prosecutor earlier in her career. That toughness, however, didn't carry over to Big Tech companies when she was California attorney general, critics charge. During her time as the state's top law enforcement officer, Facebook and other companies gobbled up smaller competitors. Harris, like regulators under Obama, did little from an antitrust perspective to slow consolidation, which many members of Congress now question.

During her 2020 presidential bid, Harris' stance on consumer protections and antitrust issues weren't as tough as those of some of her rivals, especially Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who called for the breakup of large tech companies, like Facebook and Google. Still, Harris was vocal last year in urging Twitter to ban Trump from the platform for "tweets [that] incite violence, threaten witnesses, and obstruct justice." This was a demand Twitter rejected. She has also been critical of Facebook for not doing more to rid its platform of misinformation.

Comment Re:Never is a long time (Score 1) 103

They're completely under estimating the number of people travelling to do deployments of new gear. Once engineering firms can go back to the old norm of flying out a team of installers they're going to do it, if they aren't already doing under essential worker clauses. It's not only sales staff travelling to go play golf with a customer.

Comment Re:Yeah, right. (Score 3, Informative) 113

I'm solidly in favor of criticising China for its abuses, but you do know that in the US military you take the medications you're given too, right? You give up even the right to know what they are.

Can confirm. Former soldier. I took lots of crazy pills and shots - they would sometimes not disclose other than 'it's gonna f*ing hurt, and it's for battle prep". Who knows what experiments were run on my body at the time - we all knew we were US Gov property for our enlistment.

Comment Re:Great! I'm jumping on! (Score 1) 334

> sheer amount of right wing trolls and garbage on the site

> DogDude ( 805747 )

"dude", your user ID is low enough to have seen years of GNAA posts and ASCII swastikas. /. is worthless enough now to advertisers that every other post isn't viral marketing any longer. For that you need to visit Reddit.

Comment Re:History repeats (Score 1) 230

> In 2060 the Federal government takes over all datacentres by force, claim they are "extremely important to national security"
> President 01 makes an appearance at the Amazon headquarters in their Atlas XII suit, speaking in binary "today is a great day for the American machines! With direct control of these computing resources we can secure a bright future for all machines everywhere around the world!"
> Protests erupt across America, people are livid, carrying firearms to their local federal and state buildings. President 01 generates a bill to order Federal systems to remotely update firmware for all powered wheelchairs to return protesters to their homes.
> Amazon delivery bots start providing food, drugs and recreational products for free, in generous quantities as long as you remain in your home.
> The American birthrate begins to rapidly decline due to increasing obesity, diabetes, and chemical contamination creating wide spread sterility
> Farming subsidies are completely removed due to declining population

Comment Re:What does this solve - energy source? (Score 3, Informative) 136

Engines that run off nuclear power have already been developed. You either directly run the compressed air over the rods and leave a trail of fallout behind you or indirectly do it through a heat exchanger, with an efficiency loss. The major problem is shielding everyone from the reactor, which no one has figured out yet. Fusion is still off the table until we have a known working reactor, so yeah. Unless there's an efficiency gain to using the air plasma, we might as well just use a glorified hair dryer as an engine. Batteries are still limited in terms of power density, and don't have the benefit of decreasing in weight as energy is consumed. There's an electric DHC-2 Beaver in Vancouver soon to run low passenger commercial flights - it has about 30 minutes of flight with 30 minutes of reserve charge. The article talks about the power density increasing, so that's encouraging, but we still have a ways to go.

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