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Comment Re:Just like a slashdot poll (Score 1) 602

. Any way you look at it, the only reason to wish to post anonymously is to avoid some form of repercussion

Why do you say that like it was a bad thing? You might as well say I use the steering wheel while driving to avoid the "repercussion" of wrapping around a tree. Except in this case the repercussions brought on by an increasingly nosy government/private watchdog/church/employer whatever can be far, far worse than that.

Comment Re:People weren't aware of this? (Score 1) 1252

no, if someone is making money by providing service from state to state it IS interstate commerce. It's not a wild card, its critical to have separate states that need to fall under one umbrella.

DO you want California being able to force a charge for goods or services that go to your state from a port in CA? Hmm, this goes to Texas? they get to pay a 'dumbass Texas' fee. Going to Oregon? oh, well no fee for them.

Don't be angry at that clause, it's needed. Be angry at the people who want to use it without needing warrants.

Comment Re:AI first (Score 1) 979

100 years ago we were promised an age of new enlightenment while washing machines, dish washers, vacuum cleaners and other then-cutting edge devices took over all the manual labor that dominated work at that time. Women were supposed to be able to ignore housework and concentrate on childrearing and other higher social activities.

Yes, this has happened - we no longer need someone spending all their time on housework.

Did that happen? No, the industrial capitalists just found new ways to put us (and now our wives too, who are no longer required for housework thanks to all these appliances) to work for their own insatiable greed. Men and women now work side by side in gigantic cube farms while children rot in day care or roam the streets with little to no guidance from the more experienced members of society.

What country are you living in where women (or men, even - or do you think that women shouldn't be allowed to work?) are forced to work? This is ultimately a choice. People could still live on 1 income, whilst having a standard of living better than the past. But people choose to work, for better standards, because no one wants to live like it was 1900. It's still common for someone to take time off in order to look after their children. That some people choose not to is not a technological issue.

And please - you should go experience what conditions are like in most other countries. Yes, you're so oppressed working in an office, and then going home every evening.

Yes, when change happens, there will still be Daily Mail luddites whining about how it was better in the past when men had the money and women were stuck in the home. But personally I'd rather have the future.

Idle

Canadian Blood Services Promotes Pseudoscience 219

trianglecat writes "The not-for-profit agency Canadian Blood Services has a section of their website based on the Japanese cultural belief of ketsueki-gata, which claims that a person's blood group determines or predicts their personality type. Disappointing for a self-proclaimed 'science-based' organization. The Ottawa Skeptics, based in the nation's capital, appear to be taking some action."
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Brian Eno Releases Second iPhone App 196

Brian Eno, or as he is known to many in my office, "God," has released his second iPhone App. A followup to Bloom, this one is called Trope and supposedly creates darker music. You create music by drawing shapes on the iPhone's screen.

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