120864878 comment Comment Privacy nightmare (Score 1) 52 by BPinard on Friday December 13, 2019 @10:29AM (#59515756) Attached to: Microsoft Reveals New Windows Logo, Office Icons Windows these days is a total nightmare from a privacy standpoint... but, hey, at least we will have new icons, right?
120864652 comment Comment Tax mother nature (Score 1) 91 by BPinard on Friday December 13, 2019 @10:25AM (#59515746) Attached to: Australia's Bushfires Have Emitted 250m Tonnes of CO2, Almost Half of Country's Annual Emissions Mother Nature is really the biggest emitter of CO2.
120655694 comment Comment uh, wake up. (Score 1) 80 by BPinard on Saturday December 07, 2019 @01:56PM (#59495456) Attached to: How Fake News Is Still Fooling Facebook's Fact-Checking Systems it's not "fooling their algorithms", facebook promotes fake news on purpose.
120469420 comment Comment Facebook is evil. (Score 1) 79 by BPinard on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @08:49PM (#59482674) Attached to: Facebook Gives Workers a Chatbot to Appease That Prying Uncle Delete your profile. Boycott Facebook-owned properties such as Instagram, and, most importantly, educate your friends and family on the dangers of facebook.
120439962 comment Comment Nature... (Score 1) 26 by BPinard on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @02:13AM (#59479274) Attached to: Can We Save Coral Reefs Using Underwater Loudspeakers? Maybe, you know, leave them alone.
120439928 comment Comment Re: Mercy me (Score 1) 279 by BPinard on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @02:13AM (#59479266) Attached to: Public Libraries Drop Overdue Book Fines To Alleviate Inequity State the source for your allegation.
120439840 comment Comment Hmmmmn (Score 1) 53 by BPinard on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @02:10AM (#59479258) Attached to: 'Massive Issues' Reported For Google's Indexing of JavaScript Content Seems that google has been so busy trying to influence politics that itâ(TM)s search business is beginning to suffer. Good.
120439678 comment Comment Nope (Score 1) 50 by BPinard on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @02:06AM (#59479252) Attached to: Would You Pay Someone $40 To Keep You Focused on Work? I am already focused on my job because I love doing it.
119911060 comment Comment Re:so wrong (Score 1) 62 by BPinard on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @09:25AM (#59456504) Attached to: The California DMV Is Making $50 Million a Year Selling Drivers' Personal Info When a large company says they don't "sell" data, the truth is much worse. They GIVE it away.
119910952 comment Comment More of the same (Score 1) 44 by BPinard on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @09:22AM (#59456496) Attached to: Google Addresses Complaints of Sub-4K Image Quality On Stadia More lies, misdirection, and excuses from big G.
119604914 comment Comment big brother gone berserk (Score 2) 57 by BPinard on Friday November 22, 2019 @01:11AM (#59441588) Attached to: Finland Has an App Showing Shopping's True Carbon Footprint very scary stuff. creditors combined with climate delusion equals an irresistible control scheme....
118908582 comment Comment Disgusting... (Score 1) 67 by BPinard on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @12:06AM (#59405620) Attached to: Google's Secret 'Project Nightingale' Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans That this "Catholic" health organization teams up with such an evil company is truly saddening.
118385734 comment Comment I like it (Score 2) 245 by BPinard on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:27AM (#59365642) Attached to: Text Editor Releases 'Free Uyghur' Edition, Gets Swamped With Chinese Spam Makes me wanna donate just for doing that.
117583422 comment Comment RIP (Score 2) 54 by BPinard on Friday October 18, 2019 @12:38PM (#59322434) Attached to: Oracle Co-CEO Mark Hurd Passes Away Rest in Peace!
117583364 comment Comment Re:Spyware? (Score 1) 78 by BPinard on Friday October 18, 2019 @12:37PM (#59322430) Attached to: Google Hardware Chief Says He Does Not Know Why Pixel 4 Smartphone With Snapdragon 855 Processor Can't Support 4K Video Recordin Hmmm.