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  1. Re:Follow the money on 13-Year-Old Linux Dispute Returns As SCO Files New Appeal (theinquirer.net) · · Score: 1

    Who is funding the appeals at this point?

    Probably a certain NBA team.

  2. Swears like a drunken stevedore and is more racist than the day is long.

  3. The epitath on The Rule of Law's tomb stone on Police Unlikely To Win Wider Access To Smartphones Despite FBI Success In San Bernardino Case (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "Parallel Construction"

  4. Doomsday Online on China Proposes Foreign Domain Name Censorship (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If there is an Internet Doomsday Clock, I'd say it reads about three 'til midnight.

    Everywhere you look, on every continent, freedom and privacy are being hunted down, borne upon the cynical horns of terrorism and pederasty.

  5. A Perfect World on Mass Surveillance Silences Minority Opinions: Study · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In a Perfect World, whenever anyone uttered the sickening phrase "If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide", they would forcibly stripped of all their clothing and stuffed inside a glass cube on the public commons until they honestly realized the errors in their 'thinking'.

    A free society is impossible without true privacy.

  6. Here, here! on Romania Jails Ex-Minister Over Microsoft Licenses · · Score: 1

    It should be illegal for governments to use proprietary software in the first place.

    The National Weather Service still uses Flash to loop radar sweeps! What the Serious Fuck?

  7. Re:How is this not win/win on 33,000 Sign Online Petition Promoting Guns At Republican Convention (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously though, the demonetization is fever pitched enough at this point that I really wouldn't be surprised if someone went there to shoot up the place.

    Economists Gone Wild

  8. At what point in your version of history has industrial espionage never been a concern?

    Pre-industrial history of course.

    Oh, please: everyone totally ripped-off the Nez Perce and didn't pay them bead-one.

  9. Bold prediction for 2016 on OLO, World's First Portable 3D Printer Prints On Top Of Smartphones (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    This year will see the first lawsuits against 3D printers (and software) for IP piracy.

    You wouldn't print a car, would you?

  10. Easements are easy on China Is On an Epic Solar Power Binge (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    when done at gun point.

    And Environment Impact is the sound of a rifle butt cracking a skull.

  11. Big Chair, buying off scientists yet again.

  12. Wanted: Kill-bots that only target CEOs.

  13. Re:AVs are back to being actively harmful on McAfee Uses Web Beacons That Can Be Used To Track Users, Serve Advertising · · Score: 1

    Unhappy with being merely ineffective, AV products are back to being actively harmful for the user.

    They're just trying to keep up with (most) OSes.

  14. Switzerland should make Cook an offer: move your entire company here and we will give an inviolable covenant to protect your IP and products from any and all backdoor requests, foreign and domestic.

  15. What can possibly go wr on Within 6 Years, Most Vehicles Will Allow OTA Software Updates (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Ctrl-Alt-Tree

  16. Tepid, pathetic on Obama Nominates Merrick Garland For Supreme Court (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    * White
    * Male
    * Western European descent
    * Sixty-something
    * Former Fed prosecutor
    * Doubtless a practicing Christian


    Way to reach for the ground, POTUS.

  17. If they haven't already on Facebook's 'Closed Silos' Pose Challenges To Open Web · · Score: 1

    If they haven't already, Facebook will start advising folks "The real web is scary for you and all our precious snowflakes! Stay here, behind the razor wire, where you're safe! Now; let's shop for a new car!!"

  18. "Please state the nature of the financial emergency."

  19. Ouroboros on Malvertising Campaign Hits MSN, NY Times, BBC, AOL · · Score: 1

    Adblocker & related tools should change their marketing from 'helping you to block ads' to 'helping you avoid Malware/trojans etc.'...e.g. they should advertise & promote...

    May the circle be unbroken.

  20. Yes, and on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 1

    The FBI by their own admission can't even publicly beg enough competent tech folk to work for them, yet somehow they will be able to keep the stolen iOS code secure while having the high-level chops to correctly remove what they don't want.

  21. Well... on Study: Drones Present Minimal Threat To Aircraft (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Minimal *accidental* threat.

  22. Re:Seems to me there's a deeper story here... on Once Pro-Microsoft, Here Maps Drops Support For Windows 10, Windows Phone (here.com) · · Score: 1

    FTFA: "In the last few months, we made the HERE apps compatible with Windows 10 by using a workaround that will no longer be effective after June 30, 2016. To continue offering the HERE apps for Windows 10 would require us to redevelop the apps from the ground up, a scenario that led to the business decision to remove our apps from the Windows 10 store."

    I wonder what changes on that date that forces a ground up rewrite?

    It starts mapping out Windows 7 installs for destruction.

  23. Re:There's a much easier solution to Trump on Anonymous Declare 'Total War' On Donald Trump, Threaten To 'Dismantle His Campaign' (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Vote on election day; the one day when your voice is heard and counts.

    Not available in all states nor voting machines.

  24. I assume these have a UEFI-type bios. Signed by who's key?

  25. I hope someday true research is done on how that very nasty rumor about Rod Stewart ended up traversing the world several times over before there were even mobile phones, let alone ubiquitous Internet access.