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• Sep 6th, 2020 @ 11:06am

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  on Students, Parents Figure Out School Is Using AI To Grade Exams And Immediately Game The System

  Bit generous calling the dozen or so 'if' statements needed to do that an 'AI;

• May 26th, 2020 @ 6:19am

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  on Banks Get Payout From Equifax Hack While Consumers Still Wait For Compensation

  Citizens United Wins Again - corporations are people, and apparently they're significantly more important than, well, actual people.

• Jan 16th, 2020 @ 2:45am

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  on NSA Surprises Microsoft With A Vulnerability Disclosure Just In Time For Patch Tuesday

  All that tells me is that the NSA has a Win10 exploit that is so powerful and all-encompassing that they don't need any others.

• Oct 24th, 2019 @ 4:06am

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  on After Four Years Of Failing To Bring Its Plan To Completion, UK Government Pulls Out Of Porn Blockade Effort

  They're just waiting till we're out of the EU and no longer have to conform to the laws.

• Aug 13th, 2019 @ 6:04am

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  on UK Moves To Give Regulators Power To Fine Internet Companies 5% Of Revenue If They Can't Wave A Magic Wand And Make Bad Content Disappear

  Pretty sure a strong case could be made that Donald Trumps twitter feed could "seriously impair minors"?

• Aug 6th, 2019 @ 2:47am

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  on St. Louis County Pays Woman $750,000 After Cops Perform A No-Knock Raid, Kill Her Dog... All Over Unpaid Utility Bills

  "... and shouted "fuck you" at him several days earlier."

  And there's the real reason all of this happened.

• Jul 3rd, 2019 @ 2:56am

  Re: Re: Re: Stay in your lane. That being the drive through

  on Boris Johnson, UK's Answer To Trump, Offers A Masterclass In How To Use The Dead Cat Strategy Combined With A Google Bomb

  Bloody hell!

• Jun 21st, 2019 @ 6:02am

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  on UK May Have Finally Ditched Its Absurd Porn Filter Plan

  I'm sure Boris Johnson will handle the situation magnificently! Who am I kidding I'm sure that whatever the worse possible outcome we can collectively imagine for this to be he'll manage to find a way to make it even worse!

• Jun 21st, 2019 @ 3:06am

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  on Dish To Buy Parts of T-Mobile To Save Sprint Merger, But It's Not Likely To Help

  Dish 'could' also announce that they are replacing their board of directors with a herd of talking llama's - possibly as early as next wednesday.

• May 24th, 2019 @ 8:38am

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  on House Dems Start To Wimp Out On Net Neutrality

  They're probably waiting for the lobbying offers to come in and 'help' them write it.

• May 16th, 2019 @ 8:16am

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  on Adobe Warns Users Someone Else Might Sue Them For Using Old Versions Of Photoshop

  Guessing you haven't tried to update to windows 10 then?

• May 16th, 2019 @ 8:11am

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  on Consensus Quietly Builds That 5G Was Overhyped, Rushed To Market

  Don't worry - I'm sure president rumps much trumpeted 6g solves all these issues.

• May 14th, 2019 @ 2:36am

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  on 1.28 Million US Residents Cut The TV Cord Last Quarter

  Clearly they've not made unsubscribing hard enough....

• May 14th, 2019 @ 2:33am

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  on And Scene: Suburban Express To Shut Down In Mere Months

  Ironically, probably about the only place where he could get away with that behaviour would be China, maybe he plans to relocate there...

• May 13th, 2019 @ 7:57am

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  on All Four Major Wireless Carriers Hit With Lawsuits Over Sharing, Selling Location Data

  How's about we get Mr Pai's location data and share it in real time on the web - bet it'll become an issue quickly then!

• May 8th, 2019 @ 7:00am

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  on FBI And Half The World Bust Operators Of A Site That Made The Dark Web Searchable

  So when it comes to dark web marketplaces, much like property, its all down to location, location, location.

• May 8th, 2019 @ 3:14am

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  on Open Source Makes Kodi Add-ons Proliferate -- And Hard To Eradicate

  Personally I'd prefer to see these kinds of technologies restricted to the technically-able, its only when muggles start getting involved do they come to the attention of the powers-that-be.

• Apr 25th, 2019 @ 3:47am

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  on Why The Hell Are States Still Passing ISP-Written Laws Banning Community Broadband?

  "...that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the corporation, by the corporation, for the corporation, shall not perish from the earth."

• Apr 5th, 2019 @ 2:25am

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  on UK Government Misses Another Ship Date On Its Porn Filter

  Hmmm - more filters eh, I think I can see where this is going...

• Mar 28th, 2019 @ 2:58am

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  on New York City Apartment Residents Sue Landlord Over New Smart Locks [Updated]

  To be fair if your area of residence literally has the word 'Hell' in the title you should expect some.... inconveniences?

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