Comment Say goodbye to the endangerment finding (Score 4, Insightful) 34
Just as well no-one is gutting climate policy so the fossil fuel industry can shit all over everything.
Comment Re:"ByteDance's Seedance 2 Criticized" (Score 2) 52
>Should we criticize guns for all the school massacres ? BAD GUNS !
Why, yes we should.
Comment Re:Prosecute what? (Score 4, Insightful) 66
Current administration policy seems to be shoot first
Submission + - Cory Doctorow on Tariffs and the DMCA in Canada (pluralistic.net)
devnulljapan writes: In 2012, Canada passed anti-circumvention law Bill C-11 , cut'n'pasted from the US DMCA, in return for aces to US markets without tariffs. Trump has tariffed Canada anyway, so Cory Doctorow suggests it sounds like like a good idea to ditch Bill C-11 and turn Canada into a Disenshittification Nation and go into business disenshittifying America's defective tech products.
Comment Re:Censorship (Score 1) 83
So are they going to bring back the leftist censorship of conservative speech?
It's nice that you see the conflation between conservative speech and nazi rhetoric & hate speech. You're so close to getting it.
Comment Re:Big deal : no spyware for me, thanks. (Score 2) 74
Last time I looked, they were the only ones making laptops without those goddawful shiny glossy screens (been using Thinkpads since IBM's T21).
First thing I do is format and install the OS of my choice anyway. Not that that excuses preloading crapware on their machines.
I do need a new laptop though -- would love some recommendations for Linux-friendly brands.
Comment Re:Explain to me like I'm 5 (Score 1) 257
This is not a chicken/egg problem. This is now a known scientific fact. The Beginning of the universe, according to this information, must have had an observer.
"You're very clever, young man, very clever- but it's turtles all the way down!"
Comment Re:OK lets be real (Score 1) 621
So, his father set up having local cops handcuff his kid? Did he use the Force to compel them to do that? Vulcan Mind meld? Regular old hypnotism? Regardless of whether this kid is a genius or a regular kid, the reactions of the school and the police were completely OTT.
Comment Re:Of course the Republicans will fight this (Score 2) 62
Republicans don't have as much sway in the UK as you seem to think.
Comment evildoers? (Score 1) 495
He really said "evildoers"? What is this, September 12th 2001?
Comment Re:Serves them right (Score 1) 160
If you don't follow the law you will get in trouble.
If you were to change the word driving to drilling or perhaps had pharmaceutical companies say "the FDA is subject to delays so we decided to sell out drug anyway" would Uber supporters say "thats ok - regulations are stupid!"
Unfortunately the answer is "probably"
Comment Used to be everywhere in the UK (Score 1) 320
There was one at the top of my street when I was a kid.
Comment "Pirates" (Score 1) 437
Love the OTT emotive designation --- so paying for content but not being happy about being given a piss-poor selection for the same cost is piracy now is it?
Comment Re:Right. (Score 3, Interesting) 282
It is a very good way to stop anyone talking about what was actually in all the released internal documents though. While the media's been all over this stupid N. Korea angle, where are the reports about the actual scandals in the released documents?
Comment Re:You want a family friendly internet? (Score 1) 294
"free from pornography, gambling, extreme violence and other content inappropriate for children"
And I want a user friendly internet, free from governments, corporations, extreme advertising and other content inappropriate for ANYONE.
Cameron, please, for sanity's sake: Stop talking. Or, better, stop breathing.
Sure wish I had some mod points to give you today.
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