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  1. Re:Huh? on Hackers' Shutdown of 'The Interview' Confirms Coding Is a Superpower · · Score: 4, Informative

    The threat that stopped the movie from being released was the claim of blowing up theaters. Why would the theater chains who backed out care about Sony's data being leaked?

  2. Re:Intercepting encrypted communications! OMG! on Researchers Discover SS7 Flaw, Allowing Total Access To Any Cell Phone, Anywhere · · Score: 1

    Since you assign God-like powers to the NSA, give up now because nothing is secure.

    Subverting standards and products is not having a God-like power. It's well within the means of a nation-state agency with an unlimited black budget. Their own documents even prove this.

  3. Re:More like on Hackers' Shutdown of 'The Interview' Confirms Coding Is a Superpower · · Score: 1

    Sony was going to release it up until all the major theater chains said they wouldn't show it. It's sort of hard to release a movie into theaters when none of them will show it.

  4. Re:Screw them on Hackers' Shutdown of 'The Interview' Confirms Coding Is a Superpower · · Score: 3, Funny

    Have pigs sprouted wings and started flying in your universe?

  5. Re:So, let me get this straight: on Hackers' Shutdown of 'The Interview' Confirms Coding Is a Superpower · · Score: 2

    And posting to pastebin is now "coding" apparently.

  6. Re:Superpower on Hackers' Shutdown of 'The Interview' Confirms Coding Is a Superpower · · Score: 1

    How dare you! Posting to pastebin is coding!!!

  7. Re:What the fuck on Hackers' Shutdown of 'The Interview' Confirms Coding Is a Superpower · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nothing. This is just unadulterated clickbait.

  8. Re:Screw them on Hackers' Shutdown of 'The Interview' Confirms Coding Is a Superpower · · Score: 1

    Other than straight to video there is no where to release it to. Most of the theater chains in the US backed away from it.

  9. Re:hyperbole much? on Hackers' Shutdown of 'The Interview' Confirms Coding Is a Superpower · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly. Sony was going to press forward with the release regardless of the intrusion. What shutdown the movie was the pastebin threat that caused a bunch of theater chains to shit themselves.

  10. Re:Land of the free on Reaction To the Sony Hack Is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid' · · Score: 1

    Again, you've not actually contradicted me. Subsidiaries are subject to the laws and courts of the country under which they've incorporated. In the case of Sony Pictures that is the US.

  11. Re:Land of the free on Reaction To the Sony Hack Is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid' · · Score: 1

    Hahaha. That's gotta be one of the dumbest things I've ever read. Sony Pictures is a US corporation precisely because of its country of incorporation. The country you incorporate in is the country under which law you are subject to.

    You aren't really dumb enough to think being a subsidiary of an international company means that the subsidiary isn't subject to the laws of the country it's incorporated in, do you?

  12. Re:Land of the free on Reaction To the Sony Hack Is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid' · · Score: 2

    And that contradicts anything I said, how? A US corporation, Sony Pictures, is still subject to US laws and courts. It being the subsidiary of an international company doesn't change that.

  13. Re:Land of the free on Reaction To the Sony Hack Is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid' · · Score: 1

    Sony Pictures is. It's incorporated in California.

  14. Re:Land of the free on Reaction To the Sony Hack Is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid' · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, Sony Pictures Digital Productions, Inc. was a subsidiary incorporated in California as entity CA468715. And last time I checked, California was a US state.

  15. Re:Land of the free on Reaction To the Sony Hack Is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid' · · Score: 1

    Sony Pictures is a US subsidiary. Sony the parent has plenty of US-based subsidiaries.

  16. Re:FFS on Navy Develops a Shark Drone For Surveillance · · Score: 2

    samzenpus isn't even fully literate in his native language. So... probably not.

  17. Re:Yeah right. on Skype Unveils Preview of Live English-To-Spanish Translator · · Score: 1

    No it's just genuinely poor in general. I tried idioms even in langauges like Spanish and many were poorly translated. I then tried translating English idioms to other languages and then back to English and they were almost always mangled as well.

  18. Re:It's required on Verizon "End-to-End" Encrypted Calling Includes Law Enforcement Backdoor · · Score: 1

    They are providing end-to-end encryption. They probably just control the keys.

  19. Re:It's required on Verizon "End-to-End" Encrypted Calling Includes Law Enforcement Backdoor · · Score: 1

    Why would they need one if either or both the random number generator is weak or the encryption algorithm is vulnerable to cryptanalysis?

  20. Re:Yeah right. on Skype Unveils Preview of Live English-To-Spanish Translator · · Score: 1

    Even Google Translate gets almost all of them right, and will translate idioms directly into a corresponding idiom in the target language.

    No, actually it gets most of them wrong. I ran a number of Japanese idioms and proverbs and more than 95% of them were hilariously badly translated.

  21. Re:Alternative? on Google Earth API Will Be Retired On December 12, 2015 · · Score: 1

    Java - it's way nicer for actually providing a precise, fast, rich client experience in the browser,

    The only thing the Java applet platform is "nicer" at is providing a huge security hole in your system to be exploited. Java applets are ugly, slow and horrendous to use.

  22. Re:Over to you, SCOTUS on Congress Passes Bill Allowing Warrantless Forfeiture of Private Communications · · Score: 1

    He wouldn't have voteoed it regardless of the margin. He's basically Dubya II.

  23. Re:Over to you, SCOTUS on Congress Passes Bill Allowing Warrantless Forfeiture of Private Communications · · Score: 2

    Plenty of contemporaries said that the Patriot Act would to lead all the things it has. That you're ignorant of them does not mean they didn't exist. The ACLU was all over trying to fight against it due to all its onerous provisions. Michael Moore, love him or hate him, was all over it at the time in his film Fahrenheit 9/11. But at the time many of these criticisms were shot down as being overreactions.

  24. Re:Not sure who to cheer for on Fraud Bots Cost Advertisers $6 Billion · · Score: 2

    If and only if they also do not visit the site. Not being willing to spend money does not equal worthless as their time has worth.

    People waste time on lots of things they think are worthless. Spending time to do something doesn't mean you give it worth.

  25. Re:Not sure who to cheer for on Fraud Bots Cost Advertisers $6 Billion · · Score: 1

    It's not bullshit. If people are unwilling to spend any amount of money on something that means it has no financial value to them. Thus by definition it would be "worthless".