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Comment Re:Safer? (Score 1) 40

HEIC is worthless because it's illegal to implement unless you get permission. Maybe in 20 years it'll be usable.

Don't like that fact? Then we need to find and support (oh no, and be?) political candidates who oppose software patents.

You shouldn't need anyone's permission to write a computer program. It's infuriating.

Comment Re:Summary ... (Score 1) 267

Sure, a couple of codgers might keel over in march, but they were probably gonna die soon anyway.

Fuck you dude. You have a problem and the only way you can think of to solve that problem is to move the clocks twice a year despite evidence that it hurts others. Fuck you. YOU are not that special. Get over yourself.

Comment Re:Implies to me (Score 1) 89

What this signals to me is that whatever you type in to an AI chat panel is a public document that can be shared with the government, and it will be if the owners decide to do it for whatever reason.

Um, that has been true for this website since it was founded. I am mildly surprised that you are only now realizing this is true for AI chatbots too.

Comment Re:100 abuses + 1 million arrests + 20,000 murders (Score 1) 127

Who is making mindless rants about Flock? People who have never felt threatened by crime and maybe some fucked up weirdos who are either casual criminals or secretly aspire to be ones.

Thank you for showing us that your lens is cracked.

Pervasive surveillance is antithetical to a Free Society. Period.

Comment Re:the internet has world-wide propagation range (Score 1) 199

Weird. Communications just aren't all that important to you. *shrug*

Let's hope you never have a need for communications. Actually, since you do not want anyone else to have it either, I hope for ALL of us that a dire emergency where communication would save lives never happens.

I can agree that in non-emergencies, AM radio is an utter waste. I can agree that emergencies where major infrastructure is not terribly impacted, AM radio is a waste. If even one bomb gets dropped, you would be VERY glad for AM radio. The amount of infrastructure it needs is so minimal that a singular individual could stand up a station with minimal infrastructure. A shame all of the Radio Shacks are gone now. Makes it slightly more difficult to set up an AM transmitter.

Comment Re:Damn... (Score 1) 55

America had a republic until Lincolns' War of Northern Aggression.

Oh look, it's the hipster maggot come along to tell us all how great slavery was.

Look bro, have you ever heard this saying:

"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"

It was indeed, the War of Northern Aggression. The reasoning by the North was valid, the path taken was not. That should be fixed first. Centralized power is the ill that is killing the USA right now.

Since some people are unable to think clearly, what I am saying is that Slavery absolutely *IS* bad; however, the ends do not justify the means.

Comment Re:If they are thermally efficient enough (Score 1) 122

There is not a single aspect of this were the idea is actually good. All it does is tickle the imagination of the clueless. And that is exactly why it gets pushed.

In space, the enraged proletariat will not be able to smash the satellite with pitchforks and rocks. That is why compute in space is so desirable: YOU can't stop it.

AI will be your personal government enforced monitor. Say, "hi" to Big Brother, in space.

Comment Re:Itâ(TM)s just not working out (Score 1) 53

If we ever again have even remotely sane management

Sadly, not in our lifetime. We are too old. The fascists have won. We will be a failed State like Russia or the various governments in Africa, or India... holy fuck. The entire world is corrupt and failed. :(

Billions claim to follow a religion of Love, Peace, and Truth and still allow this shit. Hypocrites... or just REALLY dumb people who can be led to believe that up is down etc.

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