Comment Re:Totalitarian (Score 1) 420
this orange troll will not leave voluntarily he's already laying the ground work for his challenge of the results
Comment Re:Can't win (Score 1) 28
BY THE POWER OF GREYSKULL!!
Submission + - China To Use Coronavirus App To Track How Much Its Citizens Sleep, Drink & S (vice.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A city in China has proposed making a color-coded coronavirus tracking app a permanent fixture for residents, allowing authorities to track how much citizens exercise, sleep, drink, and smoke. The app would give each resident a color-coded score of between 0 and 100 and would then be used to permit or deny entry to public buildings or allow the use of public transport. The proposal, made by officials in the eastern China city of Hangzhou late last week, has been met with an unprecedented wave of criticism: Citizens claim it would become part of Beijing’s already-dystopian surveillance system that is used to monitor and track an increasing amount of citizens’ online and offline activities.
Back in February, the Chinese government introduced a mandatory tracking app to combat the spread of the coronavirus. The app, which was developed jointly by Chinese tech giants Tencent and Alibaba, gives each user a green, yellow, or red status depending on where they've traveled or whether they have been in contact with confirmed cases. The app has been downloaded over a billion times and users’ codes have been scanned over 9 billion times, according to Tencent. The Chinese government claimed it helped stop the spread of coronavirus within China. But an investigation by the New York Times found that health data collected by the app was being shared with local police officials without the users’ explicit permission. Now, officials in Hangzhou’s Health Commission want to repurpose the app to make it a permanent fixture for the city’s residents.
Back in February, the Chinese government introduced a mandatory tracking app to combat the spread of the coronavirus. The app, which was developed jointly by Chinese tech giants Tencent and Alibaba, gives each user a green, yellow, or red status depending on where they've traveled or whether they have been in contact with confirmed cases. The app has been downloaded over a billion times and users’ codes have been scanned over 9 billion times, according to Tencent. The Chinese government claimed it helped stop the spread of coronavirus within China. But an investigation by the New York Times found that health data collected by the app was being shared with local police officials without the users’ explicit permission. Now, officials in Hangzhou’s Health Commission want to repurpose the app to make it a permanent fixture for the city’s residents.
Comment Re:Fucking idiots (Score 2) 1532
Reconciliation was used a few times during the Bush administration to pass tax cuts. The ACA was not the first use of reconciliation to pass something other than a budget, not by a long shot.
Comment Slashdot has grown up (Score 4, Funny) 608
Ten years ago the comments to this story would have been riddled with crude, misogynistic jokes. In fact, I wonder if the story was meant to elicit such a response from Slashdot. Congrats on rising above, everyone.
Comment econ 101 for slashdot (Score 5, Funny) 123
But EA is a "job creator", so those tax breaks "trickle down" to the hoi polloi in the form of jobs.
Comment Vixie Cron (Score 0, Flamebait) 63
Didn't Paul Vixie write cron? Well, if he did, then he has no credibility in my book, because cron is a flaming piece of shit.
Give me Microsoft Task Scheduler any day of the week, Paul Vixie.
"Vixie" doesn't even sound like his real name.
Comment lobbying and online poker (Score 4, Insightful) 379
The online poker industry is young yet and has not had time to establish a strong lobby in Washington, DC. Once they do, it will become a respectable, job-creating industry run by innovators that make this economy strong... and these sorts of stories will disappear.
Comment Re:You? Why TF should they care about YOU? (Score 3, Interesting) 221
You know, that's all true. The only people who do believe that the parties are equally bad (geminidomino) don't actually pay attention to politics.
Comment Re:What do they exepect? (Score 1) 238
what if they're home on youtube because there simply aren't jobs available? Not sure what industry you're in, but in mine, if you're over 50 and unemployed right now, you are screwed.
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Comment Re:What do they exepect? (Score 5, Insightful) 238
IBM is entitled to all the handouts they want - it's only the unemployed and welfare mothers that aren't entitled to handouts. Christ are you some kind of socialist?
Comment Re:To compute what? (Score 1) 238
are they actually brute forcing it, though? I always figured they had different, secret means of attacking the ciphertext. Possible ways that were designed into the algorithm to begin with... so it isn't so much a matter of brute computing power.
Comment Re:Obstruction of justice (Score 1) 597
that is a good question - it seems like prosecutors are also complicit in the "circling of the wagons" - they also seem to make an effort to protect bad or dishonest cops, and I don't understand why.
Comment A few bad apples (Score 5, Insightful) 597
A few bad apples making the other 1% look bad...
seriously, why do cops always circle the wagons to protect dishonest cops?
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