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Turo (then Relayrides) partned with GM to allow you to rent your own vehicle out while you were at work or anywhere, so it's not science fiction, it was done back in 2012 and the c…

Wait until they figure out regular people can just use photoshop to hand make photorealistic depictions and regular CAD software to make gun parts. Better license computer use, too…

Long ago, Canonical did some shady stuff with the now-deprecated apt-key "net-update" signing validation for updating of GnuPG keys over the network, an exclusive Ubuntu "feature" …

If you cannot tolerate “Russian bots” or “Chinese bots,” then you do not truly stand for free speech. It really is that simple. Free speech, by definition, exists to protect speech…

If your country shuts off internet access they are probably going to jam bluetooth and wifi at any large demonstration, too.

This isn't new at all - MajorBBS/Worldgroup had a module called Hoteleconference that did this, which if I remember correctly, you could do "world building" to design rooms, descri…

That's not the point. The point is making Ukraine pay off the defense contractors rather than the American taxpayers. Trump made a campaign promise to end the war, and was overwhel…

The Century of the Self documentary by Adam Curtis does an incredible job of covering that and is well-worth the watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04 https://en.wikip…

I wonder how many people went to icq.com and first provided their phone number thinking it was mandatory, then realized there was a "Login with password link", then went back, put …

We have natural gas running into the building but not for the residents. All the first floor commercial tenants, and the hallways have the luxury of forced air. Just the apartment …

This building opened 11 years ago and I've been a tenant since then. The HVAC is 2013. Each floor has ~20 apartments and each floor connects to a rooftop unit. The hallways are for…

It's one step better than people turning their stoves on. And hilariously, if too many people artificially heat their apartments, it actually crashes the system somehow because if …

I live in an old furniture factory converted into lofts. LEED certified of course, with mini splits instead of forced air in each unit. This is in the midwest. For the past 11 year…

Precisely.

I was replying to yours and took issue with what seemed to be a dismissal of allegations based on where or how these allegations are communicated. My understanding of these specifi…

A person who is more concerned about the source or origin of potential evidence rather than weighing the merits on the content itself isn't engaging in a good faith discussion.

Genetic fallacies don't help yours.

SCOTUS has already ruled that for first amendment purposes, if the government hires a contractor to censor, it is still censoring and violating the first amendment. The FBI does no…

They've been shown to follow the law in jurisdictions where it's lawful for the government to censor citizens' speech. What you're missing is it's ILLEGAL and UNCONSTITUTIONAL to d…

The people hacking this and those behind the reddit blackout are not interested in preventing censorship or government collusion for these activities.. in fact, I would argue thats…

I did watch it. Mehdi Hassan found two errors in the entire body of work: One acronym (Taibbi wrote CIS when it was supposed to be CISA), and one date that he got wrong. Then he ha…

Two minor and inconsequential errors that he owned up to even before the segment aired. This is a particularly stupid gotcha given that CIS was the government contractor working fo…

So I have to beg? A programmer so busy coding a high-demand bleeding edge IRC client all the kids are using that needs to resort to manual e-mail to distribute licenses to the peop…

The original license terms never specified an end and the need of an "extension" or renewal when I bought this software in 97. Like any other software company that have done simila…

What's wrong with asking first and letting the web operator opt in? The gist of your argument is if I go up and try to pick your pocket but say my intentions are only to help you f…