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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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      @dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

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      @black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:

      https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/white-house-wants-to-end-social-security-numbers-as-a-national-id/

      Interesting since SS# specifically are not an ID at all.

      Yet they're used as such all the time.... because people are dumb and ignore what said items actual use is supposed to be fore.

      it's not the people.. its the companies the people are doing business with that are basically forcing the use of SSN#.

      Which will be unaffected by the fake change proposed.

      What were they proposing that we move to?

      Not using SSN as the national ID. Which we don't do currently. So they are proposing "no change."

      That's over stating it. It's correct to say it's not a national ID, the federal government doesn't recognize it as a national ID, but MANY institutions do use it as a primary basis of identification of a person.

      It's not overstating it. It is stating it exactly correctly. You are tacking on a red herring. Yes, many companies use it as a broken ID, but what does that have to do with the price of milk? That's not what the government was discussing.

      Sure it is, they are just using the wrong words - they are talking about it incorrectly, but that is their goal.

      Businesses have glomed onto this thing called a SSN# and have decided to use it as a unique person identifier. It has become a defacto national ID.

      it would be more accurate for these people to say - since business has adobted our SSN# as a defacto national ID, and clearly this is a bad thing, we need to kill the SSN# system and move to something else that the business industry can glom onto, and this time we'll think about it and find something that hopefully will be a more secure solution.

      This quote from you, right here. This is where they got you to defend them. They made a claim of inaction, you came back and decided that they actually had a good goal. This is what I mean by you defending them. They say they will do nothing, you say that they intend to do good things that they never said that they would do.

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      • Reid CooperR
        Reid Cooper
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        GM has a new platform for building autonomous trucks and military vehicles. This is some really cool looking stuff.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
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          Asphalt helps batteries charge more quickly
          http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41523653

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          • DanpD
            Danp
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            http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/ralphie-may-last-comic-standing-comedian-dead-at-45-w507670

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
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              California fires: Deadly wildfires sweep through wine country
              http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41559875

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              • DanpD
                Danp
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                North Korea hackers steal US-South Korea war plans

                http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41565281

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller
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                  Catalan leader seeks independence talks
                  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41574172

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                  • black3dynamiteB
                    black3dynamite
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                    McDonald's Rick and Morty Szechuan sauce stunt backfires
                    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41543636

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                    • momurdaM
                      momurda @black3dynamite
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                      @black3dynamite
                      "We want terrible tasting sauce loaded with hfcs instead of Szechuan sauce."

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                      • RojoLocoR
                        RojoLoco @black3dynamite
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                        @black3dynamite Ha! Fandom defeats the big corporation!

                        edit: R&M clip for context:
                        Youtube Video

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                        • coliverC
                          coliver @black3dynamite
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                          @black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:

                          McDonald's Rick and Morty Szechuan sauce stunt backfires
                          http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41543636

                          It was probably the remaining stock from 1998.

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                          • coliverC
                            coliver
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                            https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/trumps-doj-tries-to-rebrand-weakened-encryption-as-responsible-encryption/

                            "Responsible" Encryption. Wow...

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                            • RojoLocoR
                              RojoLoco @coliver
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                              @coliver What's that? The president and all government officials are a bunch of self-serving morons?

                              I already knew that. I keep looking to the sky in order to see the N Korean missile headed my way because of some ridiculous twitter post the Fucktard-In-Chief posted. Because when I see the shit's about to go down, I'm going out with a bang.

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                              • DustinB3403D
                                DustinB3403 @coliver
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                                @coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/trumps-doj-tries-to-rebrand-weakened-encryption-as-responsible-encryption/

                                "Responsible" Encryption. Wow...

                                What the hell... how dumb are these people? Responsible Encryption is encryption that the US Government can't break just because they want to.

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                                • momurdaM
                                  momurda @RojoLoco
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                                  @rojoloco I would prefer going 'out with a bong'.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller
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                                    Australia skydiving: Three dead after 'mid-air collision'
                                    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-41607101

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                                      https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/pumping-liquid-metal-at-1400c-opens-the-door-for-better-solar-thermal-systems/

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                                      • mlnewsM
                                        mlnews
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                                        Turning CO2 into stone...

                                        https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/first-facility-grabs-co₂-from-the-air-and-stores-it-underground/

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                                          mlnews
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                                          Futurama leaving Netflix to go to Hulu.

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                                          • travisdh1T
                                            travisdh1 @mlnews
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                                            @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                            Futurama leaving Netflix to go to Hulu.

                                            Boo, hisss!

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