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  1. Re:Regulatory enviornment is only a small factor on When It Comes To China, Google's Experience Still Says It All (backchannel.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Intellectual property" is an stupid "invention" that has gone too far and is reducing inventiveness. The Chinese are wise to ignore that bullshit.

  2. Re:Theory vs. Practice (Re:reciprocity) on When It Comes To China, Google's Experience Still Says It All (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Economy is not a science, it's a series of ideologies.

  3. Re:reciprocity on When It Comes To China, Google's Experience Still Says It All (backchannel.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    > It is unfair competition

    Weeeh, mommy! They don't agree with my ideology!

  4. At the last company I worked that required that I used "base01", "base02", etc. etc. for password with "base" a fixed part. Worked flawlessly, it defeated all checks on the reuse of passwords.

  5. Not every athlete grew up in a septic tank like the Americans and some Europeans. Some do have a fully trained immune system.

  6. > Given all of Brazil's problems, was hosting the Olympics such a good idea?

    Of course not, it wastes a lot of money that they arenever going to get back. In democratic countries in Europe where they asked the population they always said "NO" to politicians trying to get their moment of fame when organizing a big sporting event with someone else's money.

  7. Re:Not like they didn't have time on Snowden Questions WikiLeaks' Methods of Releasing Leaks (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he sees that "collateral damage" as an extra bonus? BTW, since when did the US government ever care about "collateral damage" in one of their many illegal wars or executions by drone?

  8. Re:I think it's pretty obvious on Snowden Questions WikiLeaks' Methods of Releasing Leaks (pcworld.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    And unfortunately they edited out the names of the traitors who sold theyr countries to the US, preventing them being fired / put in jail / beheaded, what they deserved.

  9. Re:I think it's pretty obvious on Snowden Questions WikiLeaks' Methods of Releasing Leaks (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps such a photo would be a god thich so president Trump would be forced to reform the draconian US laws against prostitution.

  10. Re:In a country far far away on Microsoft To Disable Policies In Windows 10 Pro With Anniversary Update (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    O well, run it in a Virtualbox container then.

  11. Re:how can it be a new feature on Android's New Feature Can Share Your Exact Location In Emergency Situation (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    It is an update to the Google Play Services, which are still updated for Android 2.3: see http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/g... for the current versions.

  12. Re:A tax-exempt non-profit organization .... on 'DNC Hacker' Unmasked: He Really Works for Russia, Researchers Say (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    They tried to keep Trump out but they failed.

  13. Re:Netflix has a unique and obvious strategy. on Slashdot Asks: What's Next For Netflix? (500ish.com) · · Score: 1

    For most parts of the world, it is: give them only part of what they want (incomplete series) and only if they don't travel to another country.

    The Pirate Bay beats Netflix on all fronts. I downloaded even a very watchable Star Trek Beyond via TPB yesterday, let Netflix beat that!

  14. Maybe he writes from an Amarican POV on Kurzweil Argues Technology Improves The World, Compares DNA to Code (geekwire.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    > ry taking a train trip across the United States, or Europe or Asia or anywhere in the world. Ninety-nine percent of the land is not used... we don't want to use it because you don't want to be out in the boondocks if you don't have people to work and play with.

    Hah, try that in most of Europe: building a house in an area not appointed to housing even if you own the land. The police will be very quickly to tell you that is not allowed and if you don't remove the building yourself the state will do it for you and send you the bill (unless you are very rich and influential). In The Netherlands there is even hassle about people owning vacation houses who live there permanantly (which is not allowed but sometimes ignored by the local authorities).

    Many people here have no choice but to live in a city.

  15. Re:Why would Putin fear Clinton? on Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    > Trump can't even run a business

    That's why your bank account is so much larger than his?

  16. Re:Why would Putin fear Clinton? on Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    He probably expects to be able to do buisiness with Trump, while Hillary might start yet another war in the Ukraine, Syria or Turkey (or in all of them).

  17. Re:Wow, open source is a disaster on Cyanogen Inc. Reportedly Fires OS Development Arm, Switches To Apps (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean like windows phone 7, 7.8, 8, 8,1, 10? Yeah, closed source does much better in dumping software indeed.

  18. What's so howly about a contract then? It's just a piece of paper anyway.

  19. Those countries that don't accept "protection" by the US are quickly confronted with a "regime change". Unless they have nuclear weapons and delivery systems of course, that's why North Korea is developing both now.

  20. Re: Legal Defense Fund? on Feds Seize KickassTorrents Domains and Arrest Owner In Poland (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That mostly should not have existed in the first place.

  21. Re:They did this twice before on Brazil Judge Orders Phone Carriers To Block WhatsApp Message App (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah well, the Brasilian supreme court has removed the block already.

  22. And Erdogan has already mentioned Hitler as an example to be admired...

  23. In the UK, ministers have to be a member of the parliament too. In most parliamentary systems they can be outsiders, members of the coalition of parties that forms the government and usually has a majority in parliament.

    The US system, with a directly choosen president, results in practice always in a 2-party system. So does a district voting system like the UK has. In a parliamentary system where one person = one vote, smaller parties can have some influence too if they are required for a majority.

  24. They did this twice before on Brazil Judge Orders Phone Carriers To Block WhatsApp Message App (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And every time it got overruled by a higher judge a few days later. Is this still the same idiot judge as before or is it another one this time? I can't find the name of the judge that ordered the other 2 blocks.

  25. Re:So much for rule of law on Jill Stein Pledges To Pardon Snowden and Appoint Him To Her Cabinet (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 2

    A presidential pardon is also rule of law if the congress passed it. And further I think your post shows the same "befehl ist befehl" mentality that didn't work as an excuse in the Nurenberg trials.