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Comment Re:Hey, it's a paycheck..... (Score 1) 38

A PAC with $5m hoping to raise $15m isn't even close to SuperPAC territory. It's like claiming that somebody who can afford a Ford Mustang is rich.

What this vehicle is meant to do is be a political home for people who are concerned about...

Let me translate that into regular English for you. The purpose is to pay a fat salary to the people running it.
They're not trying to achieve anything. They're just trying to be a "political home" for people willing to part with their money.

Comment Re:Well, that's convenient (Score 1) 31

You say there "is" a huge reduction in electricity needed.

However, the words, "is currently working to commercialize this tech" means we, and they, have no idea yet what the energy savings actually will be, if there are any. There may be. There may not be. And if it's more expensive, which remains possible, it doesn't even matter.

Comment Re:Waste of time (Score 1) 123

Just an idiot pretending to be know-y.

Emphasis yours, because you're grasping at straws. You didn't even comprehend the details you're arguing over.

Express consent is never required per the CA law.

Hey moron, it is required if the notice wasn't conspicuous. You were almost there; you got as far as reading the words about conspicuous notice, but then you fell right on your face and said:

The box counts.

No. A checkbox means nothing . It's the same to have a checkbox, or not even disclose it at all. It either has to be conspicuous, or you have to get express consent. A checkbox is the furthest thing from being conspicuous. And a checkbox with details behind a link?! That doesn't even get placed on the scale; there's no argument possible under this law that linked terms are a conspicuous notice. That's the sort of nonsense that can get the lawyer fined for insulting the judge.

Comment Re:Waste of time (Score 3, Informative) 123

You're just pounding the table like an illiterate moron while making false assertions.

It requires clear and conspicuous notice, unless they obtain the customer's express consent. Putting a checkbox with a link to a disclosure is not even close to express consent.

Express consent usually requires putting the notice into it's own form, that you agree to with no other terms attached. That's why in financial or medical settings you're often asked for your signature multiple times; the things requiring express consent you're signing to acknowledge that single thing.

If you don't understand the details, don't pound the table.

Comment Re:Finally (Score 2, Insightful) 24

As somebody who (fairly recently) wrote firmware that generates PAL and NTSC compatible composite video for a microcontroller, I'm gonna call bullshit on this.

They're basically identical, they just use slightly different resolution and timing.

There is nothing in PAL that makes adjustments less useful; Europeans simply misunderstood. They presumed that their technology was more advanced, even though it was the same. Their engineers gave them less and charged more for it, and they responded with righteous appreciation.

Comment Re:They know something (Score 1) 35

They know that forcing random gubermint agencies to change their security systems arbitrarily will give a lot of new opportunities for foreign intelligence agencies to penetrate their systems, but they don't care; foreign gubermints don't vote in France, so they'll take the penalty in order to score a political talking point.

They'll probably blame America, without being willing to even pronounce it, but as an American I'm confident that this will improve our intelligence visibility.

Comment Re:Another reason to avoid Chrome (Score 1) 161

"Browser A uses more memory than Browser B" isn't a sign of leaks, and my tab collection currently includes a few Reddit tabs.

It's an example of what I was talking about above. You're too ignorant of technical details to even include "memory leak" in your vocabulary. You should just say what you mean; it uses more memory for you.

After a few months without a restart, it hasn't grown significantly. Most of my available memory is still free, still available. It isn't leaking at all.

25 years ago that wasn't true, because it was leaky. It would grow and grow and eventually I'd need to restart the browser to recover system performance.

Comment Re:redundancy (Score 1) 92

Yeah, that's not really a thing in LEO where debris clears itself fairly quickly due to atmospheric drag.

I know you already know everything, so when you see a link to wikipedia you don't need to review the information at all before deciding "yer rong!!!," but it may actually be that the entirety of the Kesler Syndrome hypothesis or scenario is based in LEO.

You may want to look into it. (And in general, re-cap with a wikipedia-level source before shouting "yer rong!!!" even though you already know everything. You're welcome.)

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