Comment Re:Good (Score 2) 140
Also, if he would've bought bitcoin last year, he would actually be able to afford himself a graphics card.
Comment Logged into Google Maps? (Score 1) 42
So my car will be permanently logged into Google Maps?
Comment Re:Ifixit (Score 4, Insightful) 99
Thanks. Reading a Slashdot post about a CNET story about iFixit article feels ridiculous.
Comment Re:Let's be honest.... (Score 1) 34
... the purpose here is toralitarian tracking of literally every transaction possible.
Black market will switch to USD in a heartbeat. There goes your totalitarian control.
Comment Re:Do some calculations for me, Slashdot (Score 2) 267
How much of the earth would you have to cover in solar panels in order to do a solar-powered version of this for the entire production of humanity's food?
5.4 times the amount of crop land:
https://youtu.be/ISAKc9gpGjw?t...
Comment Re:Encryption good, people bad (Score 1) 61
It's more like we have to make app developers figure out how to do their background tasks without having to access any/most data, which would stay encrypted and unavailable to the app while the phone is locked.
Comment Re:Ugh, it's an app-connected test. (Score 1) 61
Well that will work great in the future when testing will be required for you to take a flight or go pretty much anywhere.
1. By a home test
2. Put it in you rectum
3. Test negative
4. Get results automatically uploaded
5. ???
6. Profit!
Comment Re:Yeah right (Score 1) 190
But he would only impact other people who also chose not to vaccinate, so...
Comment Wake me up when (Score 1) 207
... they implement hardware virtualization, so I can actually get work done on those "Pro" machines.
Comment 1984 (Score 1) 93
So now each time you google "1984", the first links will be to some comic series.
Submission + - Facebook Can't Seem to do Anything About 'Stop the Steal' Groups (vice.com)
An anonymous reader writes: On Thursday night, Facebook announced it had activated “break glass” measures to try to quell the spread of disinformation, which has been supercharged by the lies being spread by President Donald Trump and his allies. The unprecedented move may have been triggered by Facebook’s decision hours earlier to shut down a viral group called “Stop the Steal” that had racked up 360,000 in the space of 24 hours. The group was spreading disinformation, advocating for gun violence, and organizing real-world protests. But the impact of Facebook’s moves has been negligible.
A VICE News investigation, using the Facebook-owned analytics tool CrowdTangle, found at least three active groups on Facebook using variations of the Stop the Steal name, all of which have tens of thousands of followers and all of which are sharing the same disinformation as the original group. The biggest group identified is called “StoptheSteal” which has almost 70,000 members. The next biggest is called “Stop the Steal 2.0” with 40,000 followers. Finally, a group with an identical name — “Stop the Steal” — has 25,800 members. By allowing the original group to grow so quickly, and to such a scale before removing it, Facebook could have inadvertently made the situation even worse, Ciaran O’Connor, an analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, told VICE News. “The challenge in managing copycat groups is that there is additional potential for voter fraud disinformation and threats of violence among communities who may be motivated for further action given the removal of the original group, particularly around possible mobilization at election centers.”
A VICE News investigation, using the Facebook-owned analytics tool CrowdTangle, found at least three active groups on Facebook using variations of the Stop the Steal name, all of which have tens of thousands of followers and all of which are sharing the same disinformation as the original group. The biggest group identified is called “StoptheSteal” which has almost 70,000 members. The next biggest is called “Stop the Steal 2.0” with 40,000 followers. Finally, a group with an identical name — “Stop the Steal” — has 25,800 members. By allowing the original group to grow so quickly, and to such a scale before removing it, Facebook could have inadvertently made the situation even worse, Ciaran O’Connor, an analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, told VICE News. “The challenge in managing copycat groups is that there is additional potential for voter fraud disinformation and threats of violence among communities who may be motivated for further action given the removal of the original group, particularly around possible mobilization at election centers.”
Comment Dr Zoidberg discovers new organ (Score 2) 52
- Now open your mouth and show me that prostate of yours! No, no, not that mouth!
- Can I have a human doctor????
- I'm an expert on humans!
Comment Re:OK, I'll play... (Score 1) 838
If Trump dies from this the whole world will be a better place.
That's only true if he is not replaced by something worse.
Also being against Turd Sandwich is not the same as being for Giant Douche.
Comment Re:Airbnb (Score 1) 38
Hmm, if I had to choose between that and Hertz...
Comment Re: Value? What Value? We did it because we could (Score 1) 70
You are right, BlackRock != BlackStone. But BlackRock was spun off from BlackStone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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