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Comment Re:Walmart, E-bay, Amazon (Score 1) 272

Most businesses have 100% control of themselves. Including the burrito truck I'm looking at outside now. Are they a monopoly?

Yes. Inside their truck, they're a total monopoly.

As is the cash money inside the Monopoly game box. Literally a monopoly.

Try using that cash anywhere, won't work. Maybe passable in Canada due to the pretty colors.

Comment Unfair, so unfair - Alex Baldwin voice (Score 1) 354

>> A site that 'vouches for, editorializes, recommends, or promotes' user posts -- see, for instance, Twitter trending topics -- would also become liability for them."

If it's just statistics, I'm not seeing how a side column of "Twitter Trending Topics" fits any of those verbs.
Like, here's a side list of topics that are getting the most posts and replies.
As opposed to, say, a curated list of things that have been checked out somehow.

And that's not even touching cases when Trump himself is "trending"--safe bet he's been ok with that. ;-)

Comment Re:Makes his mental limits clear (Score 1) 354

>> 2 meters

I needed to go find a conversion website for this "m" stuff, but that's about 6.562 feet.
Isn't it just easier to say 6 feet?
Plus, I'm pretty sure "m" is part of this "metric" system. Not sure if that'll work. Besides, I've heard the French use metric. The French!

Comment armchair QB (Score 1) 431

Citizen calls in an "person walking around, armed with rifle of some sort".
Cops roll up and see a stormtrooper holding a fake blaster (or whatever it's called.)
Cops giggle and keep on rolling. Give thumbs up. Don't even stop.
Perp holds up a convenience store using this credible "cover", and people are shot, injured, or y'know, die.
City gets sued by everyone, not to mention some people don't get to live anymore.

Jethro in the parking lot "it's just a toy", therefore it's just a toy, yeah?

Comment Re:Invading privacy? (Score 1) 677

You are required to register your vehicle and display proof of that registration in the open. Then you chose to drive that vehicle onto SOMEONE ELSE's property. That property owner decided to capture that information that you are legally required to display, in the open, and sell it.

Sounds pretty shitty of them, I agree. But then you have the right to not drive onto someone else's property.

Comment Re: Invading privacy? (Score 1) 677

Hehehh... Your laughably smug reply is not nearly enough to mask the fact that you're simply and irrecoverably wrong, and we're all pretty sure you know it.

You own a vehicle and you register it with the state. No one's had a problem with that for many decades. It's actually done a lot of good for us as a society. Now you decide to drive around, in public, onto a commercial vendor's property, and they take public pics and sell that to anyone who believes that data is of value.

The fact that only recently the technology exists for any idiot to capture, distribute, process, analyze, and act upon this otherwise public volunteered information doesn't mean that something that's been going on for many decades is now suddenly wrong. Obscurity is not security. The sudden removal of obscurity doesn't mean that the lack of security or the lack of commonly understood disclosure is now suddenly the problem. Can't believe a slashdot reader would have to be reminded of that. I guess mall owners are now going to have to post "voluntary entry onto these premises provides consent to be photographed". So thanks. Another sign. Or maybe you're an attorney.

Comment It's what Zuck DIDN'T say (Score 1) 326

He didn't say that FB cares about people, he just said that the level of "care" a provider shows its users, is not at all connected to whether or not the provider charges users directly.

The only "care" the user or the provider need to show is that which is spelled out in the ToS.

Beyond that, Apple cares that people keep buying, and FB cares that people keep connecting. How is this a problem?

Comment Re:Free speech does not exclude laws (Score 1) 108

Hey, asshole. Read this. *emphasis mine)

CONGRESS shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Wow... Hilarious that your rude response proves MY point and opposes your own.

Let's see if you can follow this. I'll try one more time. More slowly this time... See if you can keep up.

  • -- The First Amendment prohibits the GOVERNMENT from restricting your speech. About ANYTHING.
  • -- (With some well-defined exceptions) it doesn't matter WHAT that speech is about.
  • -- It has nothing to do with the government only restricting speech about or against the government.
  • -- It has nothing to do about trash talking the government.
  • -- It's about government not being able to restrict your speech in general.

If you still can't grasp the important difference between your error and the truth, try XKCD's take on the subject. And then maybe go back to high school, cuz it's obvious you missed a few days.

In other words, if you're going to be smug, first be correct.

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