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  1. Attribute to the Individual, but why SO? on Use Code From Stack Overflow? You Must Provide Attribution (stackexchange.com) · · Score: 1

    SO is implicitly claiming rights in the code posted by its users. I'd check their terms of use.

  2. Stop Calling them Anti-Vaxxers!! on Gardasil Cleared of Anti-Vax Nonsense (slate.com) · · Score: 2

    Call them what they really are: Hosts.

  3. Getting Close to Provable Constitutional Violation on NSA Targeted 'The Two Leading' Encryption Chips (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Purposeful, nonconsensual, warrantless, bit manipulation of a private computer, located inside a home (or other constitutionally protected zone of privacy) within the United States is very likely a clear civil rights violation.

    Should this become provable, the NSA won't be able to stay out of Federal Court.

    I would like to trust the NSA (I really would), but J. Edgar Hoover.

    Fool me once....

  4. Taking Facebook to the Next Exploitative Level on Zuckerberg To Build Personal AI For Help At Home and Work (facebook.com) · · Score: 1

    You are going to be training Zuckerberg's AI. You're going to be programming that AI by giving it the guts of who you are.

    Far out.

    This stuff will be gold for marketers.

  5. Freedom of Speech on Go To Jail For Visiting a Web Site? Top Law Prof Talks Up the Idea (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    In America, even a fascist authoritarian gets to have his or her say.

  6. Re:The Four Best Arguments Against Backdoors on Why Governments Lie About Encryption Backdoors (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    The State was after the NAACP's membership lists (among other things). The pretext was barratry, etc., but this was just another ingenious attempt for a racist political establishment to try to hurt an organization seeking racial equality.

    That's what I was trying to convey.

  7. The Four Best Arguments Against Backdoors on Why Governments Lie About Encryption Backdoors (vortex.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    (1) Aldrich Ames;
    (2) Kim Philby;
    (3) J. Edgar Hoover; and
    (4) the State of Alabama (NAACP v. Button).

    Sooner or later the Supreme Court is going to revisit the Fourth Amendment as it relates to wireless communications. Perhaps the feds are trying to shape the course of public opinion in this regard.

  8. Please submit all your sensitive conversations, including sensitive political conversations, to the Department of Privacy. The Department will guarantee your privacy unless subsequently directed otherwise by statute, or court of competent jurisdiction, or lawful executive order. Please be advised that the Government will not be liable for any unauthorized discharge of escrowed private information.

  9. Two Strategies in Play on California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    (1) Provoke attacks against Muslims. This will ensure support. If you get the US to butcher enough innocent families in their "war on terror," you will necessarily get more money and more adherents. If you can provoke a hateful response against Muslims in the United States you are really kicking ass.
    (2) Be as asymmetric as possible. Inflict terror as cheaply as possible. If you spend ten thousand dollars, you can be certain that the United States will spend ten million in response. The United States is very stupid that way. The United States makes the Russian experience in Afghanistan look brilliant.

    WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!

  10. Re:We absolutely should not do nuclear at this tim on Peter Thiel: We Need a New Atomic Age · · Score: 1

    Yes. Democracy. I'm glad we don't live in an authoritarian technocracy ruled by (radioactive) engineers.

  11. Re:We absolutely should not do nuclear at this tim on Peter Thiel: We Need a New Atomic Age · · Score: 1

    Exactly! Thanks for proving my point. We can never agree, and until we can we shouldn't do nuclear fission.

  12. We absolutely should not do nuclear at this time. on Peter Thiel: We Need a New Atomic Age · · Score: 1

    Fukushima is an outrageous mess. Years on, it is still spewing radioactive matter into the environment. The human costs are catastrophic, and continue to be catastrophic.

    The nuclear apologists attempt to excuse Fukushima away, but they can't. Give me a break. Where the is Diablo Canyon located?

    Only a private power company is going to do nuclear in the US, given the Republican Party's hatred of public power. And the Republican Party HATES regulation. Even the numbest-nutted Ayn Rand ideologue can see where this is going.

    Corporations are ideal organizations for creating a huge catastrophe, then folding--leaving the equity (and realized profits) of their investors untouched and all their victims left holding the bag.

    We cannot do nuclear without massive public oversight, including highly-policed and sufficient sureties. We cannot have massive public oversight in the current political environment--it is just unrealistic.

    We can talk later, maybe when the insane Republican Party comes back down to Earth.

  13. Re: Why is this a problem? on Montana Newspaper Plans To Out Anonymous Commenters Retroactively (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Stand up and stand out.

  14. Re:Cost of access is key. on Neil deGrasse Tyson Touches Off Debate With Remarks On Commercial Space (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    aaargh....Thar be PIRATES in them waters, matey. What we needs is protection! Who's going to give it then, eh?

  15. Re:It would be ironic on High Level Coding Language Used To Create New POS Malware (isightpartners.com) · · Score: 1

    Good luck trying to project that moral reasoning onto others.

  16. The game is obvious: "We all did it. You can't punish us all Together, we're too big to fail."

    Naked capitalism.

  17. Data Mining Bonanza on Scandal Erupts In Unregulated Online World of Fantasy Sports · · Score: 1

    With any reasonable data mining, these middlemen will be able to figure out which players are ready to play and which are not. Their customers are not anonymous and their relationship to NFL teams ought to be mappable.

    This ought to provide the principals of these gambling businesses quite an edge in betting on real games.

  18. Re:Saw it last night in 3D on Review: The Martian · · Score: 1

    I read that radiation poisoning (the all natural kind) would be a big issue also.

  19. Re:Labor reduction on Sensor Network Makes Life Easier For Japan's Aging Rice Farmers · · Score: 1

    Wealth comes from a lot of things.

  20. Re:"We're stronger than ever" on Groupon Is Closing Operations In 7 Countries, Laying Off 1,100 · · Score: 1

    It is not snake oil at all, as far as the customer goes. But Groupon's customer isn't the customer of the business. Groupon's customer is the business itself. Their salespeople must persuade the customer-business to (a) give Groupon money; and (b) give their customers discount coupons (at cost to themselves). That can be a very hard sell. That is why Groupon's salespeople are so extremely essential to its survival.

  21. Re:"We're stronger than ever" on Groupon Is Closing Operations In 7 Countries, Laying Off 1,100 · · Score: 2

    Groupon needed WAY more than 10 people to work. You can't forget the salespeople. Groupon was all about getting businesses to sign on the bottom line . Without salespeople to sell the snake oil, it cannot succeed.

  22. If you build it, they will come. on Let's Not Go To Mars · · Score: 1

    Don't go until our AI tech is advanced enough to build a self-sustaining infrastructure. Otherwise, it's a big waste of time and money--and a big risk to human life.

  23. If you can't put up with lies and bullshit... on A Call To RICO Climate Change Science Deniers · · Score: 2

    Freedom of speech is all about listening to other peoples' lies and bullshit.

  24. Re:Stupid people are stupid on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    We don't pay enough money, so the best people don't go into teaching. It's the American way of letting the rest of the world catch up to us.

  25. Embedded Programming on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Introduce Kids In Rural India To Computers? · · Score: 1

    Solar power embedded programming. Start with programming toys. Then on to useful stuff.