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  1. Re:Never forget... on Yahoo Issues Its First Transparency Report · · Score: 1

    Has nothing to do with you and everything to do with the fact that you can be compelled to act and cant tell anyone about it. Its not 'you' we lack trust in, but the fact remains you can be turned at any second and there is nothing anyone can do to stop it.

  2. Re:Never forget... on Yahoo Issues Its First Transparency Report · · Score: 1

    Has nothing to do with respecting user privacy. RIght now all the internet companies are pissed off at the NSA because they have hurt online trust. They dont give a shit about privacy. Its all about the lost dollars from people NOT using services due to known, ubiquitous NSA spying.

  3. Re:Another Fail on Can Even Apple Make a Watch Insanely Smart? · · Score: 1

    Yep, these watches are going no where fast. They need to be cheap, and last for days.

  4. Re:Real racism is pre-coloring crime on Could Technology Create Modern-Day 'Leper Colonies'? · · Score: 1

    Dude, people get dragged out of their cars EVERY SINGLE DAY. The cops in Detroit are telling people dont stop on flashing reds at night anymore, just yield, its not safe to linger. I had one guy throw something at the front of my Bronco to try and get me to stop so i could get robbed by his buddies lurking in the alley. You are a fool.

  5. Re:WE HAVE MET THE NME AND THEY ARE NSA on John Gilmore Analyzes NSA Obstruction of Crypto In IPSEC · · Score: 1

    The NSAs entire job is separating signal from noise. Bad plan.

  6. Re:From the summary on Indiana Man Gets 8 Months For Teaching How To Beat Polygraph Tests · · Score: 1

    What difference is that exactly?

  7. Re:MTBF? on California Legislature Approves Trial Program For Electronic Plates · · Score: 1

    Cars are effectively immortal in CA. Your car will look great with 150,000 miles on it.

  8. Re:Obviously a killer asteroid on Lowell Observatory Pushes To Name an Asteroid "Trayvon" · · Score: 1

    IN the U.S. there is absolutely nothing illegal about following someone you think may be engaged in criminal activity. It is considered a citizen's duty.

  9. Re:What is Bruce Schneier's game? on Schneier: The US Government Has Betrayed the Internet, We Need To Take It Back · · Score: 1

    We arent talking about making money. Open Source's point is not MONEY. Its about making sure we have free and available building blocks to create an information society.

  10. Re:Toy? on Man Killed By His Own Radio-Controlled Helicopter In Brooklyn · · Score: 1

    Im sorry you cant imagine uses for personal drones beyond a 'toy'. Also, you are a fool for referring to a gun as a toy. Its not , its a specialized tool.

  11. Re:Copywritten? on Martin Luther King Jr's Children In Court Over MLK IP · · Score: 1

    Interesting, thank you.

  12. Re:I have a dream on Martin Luther King Jr's Children In Court Over MLK IP · · Score: 1

    We already do it with trademarks. Kleenex and Xerox are what made me think along those lines.

  13. Re:Days of Battery? on Samsung Unveils Galaxy Gear Smartwatch · · Score: 1

    Lets be realistic. Battery tech isnt going anywhere fast, so we are stuck at process shrinks to save power. Days of power is a feasible, near term goal.

  14. Fire Sale on Samsung Unveils Galaxy Gear Smartwatch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cant wait until this thing tanks and I can pick one up for cheap. This thing was made as a hedge in case anyone else came out with a watch, at least Samsung would be poised to compete. I believe wearable computers are in our future, just not in this very obvious form. Give me something that looks like a real watch, with DAYS of battery, and useful functions that dont require a larger device to run it all the time.

  15. Re:Copywritten? on Martin Luther King Jr's Children In Court Over MLK IP · · Score: 0

    YOU DONT NEED TO REGISTER FOR SOMETHING TO BE COPYRIGHTED. The instant your ideas are put into a fixed form, its copyrighted. Every picture you have ever taken is copyrighted to you. You only need to register if you plan on suing.

  16. Re:I have a dream on Martin Luther King Jr's Children In Court Over MLK IP · · Score: 2

    I disagree. Once a work has reached a certain cultural ubiquity, there is no point in continued copyright protection. The song 'Happy Birthday' is my go-to example. The song has such an incredibly high cultural penetration that society is harmed more then it is helped by perpetuating its protection.

  17. Re:I have a dream on Martin Luther King Jr's Children In Court Over MLK IP · · Score: 2

    Copyright status is granted the INSTANT your ideas hit a fixed form. You dont need to do anything for it to be granted.

  18. Re:like different users? on Apple Receives Patent For Accessing Sets of Apps With Different Passcodes · · Score: 2

    Its a permission list, nothing more. Walk up to a machine on my network, and as a guest you have limited access to my network. Enter some credentials and you get full access to my network. Please explain how this patent is different from that process.

  19. Re:Tough, Apple on Patent Suit Leads To 500,000 Annoyed Software Users · · Score: 4, Informative

    Its also that every address will be globally unique, so no more NAT traversal, which is what a lot of this 'innovation' covers. Its not 'just' more address space, its a fundamental shift.

  20. Re:No need for cameras. on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 1

    Indeed, all this talk of cameras is dumb and pointless. Machine vision is expensive, radios are CPU are cheap. The road will be embedded with transmitters that tell the car the parameters for this particular stretch of road.

  21. Re:What good is tor on Feds Seek Prison For Man Who Taught How To Beat a Polygraph · · Score: 4, Informative

    I wish more people understood how deep this rabbit hole goes. They can see the entire net. If you use public infrastructure, they can see it.

  22. Re:the future on Skype: Has Microsoft's $8.5B Spending Paid Off Yet? Can It Ever? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No we wont. We have had video conferencing in the hands of everyday people for over a decade now, with the last 5 years seeing huge penetration. No one is using it.

  23. Re:If by "looking good", you mean "looking like iO on Inside OS X Mavericks · · Score: 1

    Why?

  24. Re:AirDrop on Inside OS X Mavericks · · Score: 1

    The option to drop infrastructure wifi to go ad-hoc would be a MUCH better solution. AS it is now, im dropping all Apple gear after this, Im not going ot support a company that continuously obsoletes products. I am so tired of my pocket computer being an island. Im tired of not being able to share files between my tablet and phone.

  25. Re:If by "looking good", you mean "looking like iO on Inside OS X Mavericks · · Score: 1

    I guess i dont understand why they are hidden in the first place. THis is the sort of tweak that should default to standard behavior and have an option to make them go away if desired.