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Comment Not serving me (Score 1) 259

Tapatalk is one of the most common, and seems to me to prove this point:

The mobile app you are being offered doesn't improve your experience as much as it does the app publisher's revenue. Apps will capture your data, contacts, and history on your mobile when better than your browser.

Apps will act as gateways for other apps, eventually leading to downloading something nasty without your knowledge, or masquerading as something benign.

Apps will force you into a mobile view, like it or not. Good for the site, bad when your mobile is a 10" tablet that shows you a fabulous desktop render.

I abandon them 100% of the time, so far.

Comment Re:Insurance Costs (Score 1) 252

With a self-driving car, it's not them driving it. It's the car. Just like when you;re in it, except they leave trash on the floor.

Self-driving cars take Uber to a new level - no driver, no unavailability. You're not the driver, so why does your Uber client need one? No unavailability except for when you have a scheduled trip (coming home from a concert...).

The only needed human intervention is refueling. Until they self-park on your charging mat, or park and hit the charging plug.

Maybe you don't really buy a car alone. Buy into a consortium, several other 'owners' nearby, so if you want to run out for a pizza you can either have it deliverd by Uber or ask for a local car and get out of the house for a bit.

Did you hear that, Amazon? Skip drones. Figure out self-driving car consortiums. Uber + shared self-deriving vehicles + Jet Amazon home delivery Amazon at all.

Comment Re: Obama's Justice Dept. will get right on it (Score 2) 434

"He was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell on July 5, 1989, to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines, and 1,200 hours of community service. North performed some of his community service within Potomac Gardens, a public housing project in Southeast Washington, D.C."

Are you arguing his unjust conviction was fair?

I'm not even sure his fine was returned, but no matter, he did his community service.

Comment Re:What bothers me (Score 1) 434

Actually the FRA does bar her from federal employment, if she is found in violation. 18 USC 2071:

"Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals,
removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years,
or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. "

I'm betting 'office' does not include the office of President, but that Supreme Court hearing would be worth the popcorn to go watch.

Comment Re:What bothers me (Score 1) 434

The Federal Records Act doesn't permit even accidental deletion. Records are to be archived, without exception. In email, this means that deletion only impacts the readable and usable record, all must be preserved.

And if you know anything about email servers that are authorized for federal use, actual complete deletion is nontrivial.

Comment Re:What bothers me (Score 1) 434

And this is what we're reduced to. Prima facie evidence of criminal activity, and the justification for failure to prosecute is either that it would be unseemly for the bureaucracy, still controlled by the political party of whom the guilty party is still not only a member, but campaigning for the highest elective office in the land under their banner,to so so, because that party would successfully argue that the opposition was using this plainly and clearly criminal activity to discredit and defeat the guilty party.

And it does not matter why the opposition would work for this person's conviction. She is guilty. Anyone who does not already know this is either uninterested or unwilling to examine the plain facts.

Hillary Rodham Clinton violated the Federal Records Act, repeatedly, That is obvious on inspection. To argue otherwise is to ignore the evidence or choose to refuse to take the only proper actions.

Comment Re:What bothers me (Score 1) 434

On the one hand, this is entirely proper. The intelligence community should not become the civil investigation arm of the government,.

On the other hand, this leaves most of the nation open to blackmail or extortion. But that is the bargain with intelligence agencies. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

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