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  1. Re: No thanks on How Long Will It Take Streaming To Dominate the Music Business? · · Score: 1

    But not supporting an industry that tries hard to destroy the free internet is.

  2. Re:not windows on Microsoft Unveils Nokia 215, a $29 Phone With Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Looking from the icons it's just a series 40 phone. If I want something like that I'm better off with a second hand Symbian device for a price even below $29. My old Nokia E51 and E72 still function well if I would need such a device.

  3. Re:Im surprised they don't already on Netflix Denies There Was a Policy Change With VPNs · · Score: 1

    Too much hassle. If the copyright maffia doesn't want my money, fine, then I'll just torrent the movies and series.

  4. Re:i heard that Sony hack was insiders on US Slaps Sanctions On North Korea After Sony Cyberattack · · Score: 1

    "I am not making any of this up. Can I work for the State Department now?"

    No, you're honest so you're not qualified.

  5. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on Unofficial WhatsApp Library Gets End To End Encryption Before Official Clients · · Score: 1

    At least not better encrypted than Whatsapp did before it started with this.

    Did anyone analyse these implementations? Are they cryptographically sound?

  6. Re:should five per cent appear to small on 2015 Means EU Tax Increase On Cloud Storage, E-books and Smartphone Applications · · Score: 1

    Please let us "defend" ourselves. And please also don't bother us with participating in all those wars of aggression you want to fight. If you want to support the Kiev coup regime or arm ISIS while they ware fighting Assad please leave us out and take it up directly with Putin and Assad.

  7. Re:They used the wrong windows on Microsoft Files a Copyright Infringement Lawsuit For Activating Pirated Software · · Score: 1

    Not quite true, I do run Linux servers on that windows 7 machine with VirtualBox.

  8. Re:Doesn't matter even if the publishers win... on French Publishers Prepare Lawsuit Against Adblock Plus · · Score: 1

    "I am willing to bet that the fraction of AdBlock users that turn on the feature where some ads are allowed does not exceed 1%."

    That's why they made the option opt-out: it is on by default. Most posters here probably know or can find out themselves how to switch it off, but they are guessing (hoping?) most won't.

  9. They used the wrong windows on Microsoft Files a Copyright Infringement Lawsuit For Activating Pirated Software · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The windows 7 I installed was pre-activated when I downloaded it from the Pirate Bay. Much easier. I don't know if I could legally downgrade from the windows 8 the system had preinstalled but piracy was so easy that I didn't bother to find out.

  10. Re:America, land of the free... on Ask Slashdot: Can a Felon Work In IT? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't know about other EU countries, but in The Netherlands employers can ask for a "declaration about the behaviour" of the applicant. That's a document the government issues, and the employer has to indicate what kind of possibly sensitive things the job requires, like working with children, working with large sums of money, with sensitive/secret information or with dangerous substances. If you're convicted for hild abuse you still can get such a document for working in a bank, but not for a job in childcare (and in childcare the employer is required to ask for such a declaration). If you're convicted for bank fraud the opposite, you are still alowed to work with children.

    That's all most employers can ask, and most won't ask it because if they indicate the job does not require to work with anything like that the declaration will always be given and it's a waste of money and effort. Employers can ask beyond this of course, but I've never eard of it happening and I even think you are legally alowed to lie, the same like an employer isn't alowed to ask if you're pregnant but if he does and you lie a court will not alow the contract to be broken for that.

  11. Re:Global jurisdiction on Google Told To Expand Right To Be Forgotten · · Score: 2

    Well, it's not that different from me (non-US citizen) receiving DMCA requests. If I mail them back that I don't care about laws that are not valid in my country some Americans seem unable to understand why I refuse to take action.

  12. Re:This is clearly futile... on Google Told To Expand Right To Be Forgotten · · Score: 1

    I guess the prosecutor losing his job for making a mistake would be the biggest news. People get arrested for child porn all the time, but prosecutors personally feeling the consequences of their invalid actions - now that would be big news.

  13. Re:Land of the Free on Berlin's Digital Exiles: Where Tech Activists Go To Escape the NSA · · Score: 2

    It IS already happening in the USA.

  14. Re:Google is just creating an entry... on Google Changes 'To Fight Piracy' By Highlighting Legal Sites · · Score: 2

    Yes, I'm also switching to more privacy-friendly search engines. It can go quickly - remember AltaVista when Google came up?

    That new search engine has to be in a free country however. The US gives in too quickly when bribes, I mean campaign money, is offered by media companies.

  15. Re:So really what's happening is that... on Google Changes 'To Fight Piracy' By Highlighting Legal Sites · · Score: 2

    Yes, a browser plugin that removes the first boxed ad results would be sufficient (for now).

  16. Re:Maybe fighting piracy on Google Changes 'To Fight Piracy' By Highlighting Legal Sites · · Score: 2

    Fortunately The Pirate Bay has its own search function. As have most other torrent and warez sites.

  17. "The United States will resist all efforts to give "any person, entity or nation" control of the Internet"

    Unless the Holy Copyright or Holy Patents are at stake of course. Then the US will (ab)use all its power to force their wiew down everyone's throat.

  18. Re:News at 11. on Four Dutch Uberpop Taxi Drivers Arrested, Fined · · Score: 1

    The money doesn't expire, it is written on the card. That was done as an insurance against network failures. That's why when the first cards got hacked the saldo could be increased with a RFID writer. The card does expire after several years though.

    Creditcards are generally seldom used in The Netherlands because our own banking cards charge much less costs. Don't expect to be able to pay with a credit card in most shops, especially outside the tourist areas. Cash is king.

  19. Re:I'm sorry on Four Dutch Uberpop Taxi Drivers Arrested, Fined · · Score: 1

    For some bankers and other money-grabbing "managers" I would say it is far to little.

  20. Re: I'm sorry on Four Dutch Uberpop Taxi Drivers Arrested, Fined · · Score: 2

    Ah, the followers of fuhrer Geert Wilders are reporting in. For the non-Dutch readers, his main (and nearly only) party program is that everything that goes wrong is the muslims fault.

  21. Re:Not the feature I wanted. on WhatsApp's Next Version To Include VoIP Calls and Recording · · Score: 1

    The big advantage of the phone-only model is that it keeps Whatsapp nearly spamfree and it prevents conversations where people with complete keyboards outtype me too much and then complain I can't keep up with their typing.

  22. Re:Features coming to Windows Phone in 2017 on WhatsApp's Next Version To Include VoIP Calls and Recording · · Score: 1

    Assuming windows phone is still around in 2017. Which is a big IF.

  23. Re:It's not the money its the surveillance on WhatsApp's Next Version To Include VoIP Calls and Recording · · Score: 1

    Stickers? I think you are confusing it with Viber.

  24. Re:A bit of a straw-man on Co-Founder of PayPal Peter Thiel: Society Is Hostile To Science and Technology · · Score: 1

    Then don't use that primitive system of credit cards and pay cash. Added advantage is that you can't be spied uppon by a money trail.

  25. Re:Scientists don't *NEED* to be trusted! on Scientists Seen As Competent But Not Trusted By Americans · · Score: 1

    Not everyone is a strict follower of Popper.