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Comment Re:adblock and privacy badger (Score 1) 110

Unfortunately, the people with enough money to maintain and promote a credible browser make most of that money from advertising, tracking and other malware

Google makes money by selling adverts and information. It's not actually in Google's interests to allow random websites to mine their customers' data.

Comment Re:Slashdot: "Panic !" Also Slashdot: "Don't Panic (Score 5, Informative) 240

The referenced Washington Post article is based on US government statistics, and if you believe those statistics, I have a bridge to sell you. The

Civil servants have been fired for delivering "bad" numbers. You think the remaining staffers are going to look for things that might make the numbers look bad?

One more thing this administration has corrupted: economic statistics.

Comment Re:If they can't figure out EV (Score 1) 157

A few seconds plugging in? Are you just plugging directly into the output of a nuclear plant?

Are you really that dense? Once you plug in your car in the garage, you don't have to stay with it. You ca go into the house and get on with your life (or slouch in front of the TV, if that's what you want) while your car charges.

Comment Re:Mythbusters (Score 1) 82

But they found it was not possible for anyone to break a glass with just their voice

No. They found that they could not break glass with just a voice, nor did they know anyone who could. Did they test every single person on the planet?

It's not possible to prove a negative. Much of what Mythbusters claimed was that they had proved a negative.

Comment Re:uh yeah that's how it almost always works (Score 3, Insightful) 131

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
-- H.L. Mencken

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