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Solar eclipse 2017: Spectacle set to grip US public
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Classifying more people as employees, major potential impacts on employment.
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Apple putting new datacenter in Iowa.
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Recent research tells us how the crew of the Hunley died.
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Whoops, turns out that the execs of MegaUpload aren't the real criminals here...
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'Self-driving' lorries to be tested on UK roads
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
'Self-driving' lorries to be tested on UK roads
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41038220can't be any worse than the majority of drivers on the roads here....
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Whoops, turns out that the execs of MegaUpload aren't the real criminals here...
Good. This whole thing was a massive overreach by the US at the behest of the media companies.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Whoops, turns out that the execs of MegaUpload aren't the real criminals here...
That's not what they said - but they did say the government was likely/was acting as outside their jurisdiction.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
'Self-driving' lorries to be tested on UK roads
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41038220However, human drivers will still steer all the lorries in the convoy.
That seems like a bad idea. Now you have a driver who can't see much because they are up the arse of the truck in front of them.
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Whoops, turns out that the execs of MegaUpload aren't the real criminals here...
That's not what they said - but they did say the government was likely/was acting as outside their jurisdiction.
Yes, that means they were criminals.
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@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Whoops, turns out that the execs of MegaUpload aren't the real criminals here...
That's not what they said - but they did say the government was likely/was acting as outside their jurisdiction.
Yes, that means they were criminals.
But it doesn't excuse the criminals they were chasing - just lets them possibly go free since the gov't didn't follow proper procedure.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
'Self-driving' lorries to be tested on UK roads
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41038220According to TRL, other trials have seen improvements in fuel economy of between 4% and 10%.
That's actually pretty substantial for these types of trucks. I'll be impressed if those numbers are maintained over the life of the trial.
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Whoops, turns out that the execs of MegaUpload aren't the real criminals here...
That's not what they said - but they did say the government was likely/was acting as outside their jurisdiction.
Yes, that means they were criminals.
But it doesn't excuse the criminals they were chasing - just lets them possibly go free since the gov't didn't follow proper procedure.
No one has yet proven these people are criminals either.
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Whoops, turns out that the execs of MegaUpload aren't the real criminals here...
That's not what they said - but they did say the government was likely/was acting as outside their jurisdiction.
Yes, that means they were criminals.
But it doesn't excuse the criminals they were chasing - just lets them possibly go free since the gov't didn't follow proper procedure.
Not sure we can call these criminals... maybe accused?
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@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Whoops, turns out that the execs of MegaUpload aren't the real criminals here...
That's not what they said - but they did say the government was likely/was acting as outside their jurisdiction.
Yes, that means they were criminals.
But it doesn't excuse the criminals they were chasing - just lets them possibly go free since the gov't didn't follow proper procedure.
No one has yet proven these people are criminals either.
Nor is it in any way likely. There is nothing overtly criminal that they've been accused of and that they are being hunted BY people who need to break the law to come up with ways to get them suggests that they are not criminals. It doesn't make it so, but it suggests it. Bad people go after the good guys, good people go after the bad guys.
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Whoops, turns out that the execs of MegaUpload aren't the real criminals here...
That's not what they said - but they did say the government was likely/was acting as outside their jurisdiction.
Yes, that means they were criminals.
But it doesn't excuse the criminals they were chasing - just lets them possibly go free since the gov't didn't follow proper procedure.
Not sure we can call these criminals... maybe accused?
Accused... by foreign governments. I'm not sure they even fall into the generally accepted "accused" category. Like, I accuse the NZ government of having just done something criminal - but you don't report them as "accused criminals" just because I said it, their own government has to do it.
