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  1. Re:So forgetting a password on Child Porn Suspect Jailed Indefinitely For Refusing To Decrypt Hard Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you simply forgot the key, the prosecution would be hard pressed to find a telepath that could see that you still remember.

    The fundamental problem they're having is that they really have only suspicion, not evidence.

  2. Re:So forgetting a password on Child Porn Suspect Jailed Indefinitely For Refusing To Decrypt Hard Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Or he said he forgot and since they don't choose to believe that, they interpret it as refusal.

  3. Re:Local maximums = Global minimums on Intel Wants To Eliminate The Headphone Jack And Replace It With USB-C (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Your problem with the jack is more easily solved by a rubber plug without inconveniencing the rest of the world.

    Those two supplemental conductors probably have a better use that would be incompatible with headphones. It seems wasteful to either have people blowing up hardware or to dedicate them forever more to analog audio just to unsolve a long ago solved problem.

  4. Re:Are they talking about cellphones on Intel Wants To Eliminate The Headphone Jack And Replace It With USB-C (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    The jacks on my laptop are color coded.

  5. I wonder if it might attract curious bats?

    One hopes it doesn't drive dogs to attack it. I suppose we'll see.

  6. Supersonic? on Dyson Launches New 'Supersonic' Hair Dryer To Revolutionize Hair Care (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, I suppose blowing all your hair off of your head does simplify styling...

  7. Re:What's happening? on Mitsubishi: We've Been Cheating On Fuel Tests For 25 years (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    But that OK level is well below what we see in countries without environmental regulations. People in China also get Zip, Nada.

  8. Re:What's happening? on Mitsubishi: We've Been Cheating On Fuel Tests For 25 years (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    So if I get lung cancer I'll get a coupon for $0.50 off of a box of cough drops?

  9. Re:I don't see the problem.. on Half Of Americans Think Presidential Nominating System 'Rigged' (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck...

  10. Re:Explicit goal of the Democratic party system. on Half Of Americans Think Presidential Nominating System 'Rigged' (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I am aware of the Supreme court finding that a party has a right to a closed primary but I will need a citation that the Rs and Ds have a special right to public funding for their closed primary.

  11. Re:I don't see the problem.. on Half Of Americans Think Presidential Nominating System 'Rigged' (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The primary is on government property and uses government voting machines. The registration is handled by a government office and is governed by state laws. Gee, why might one conclude that it's a government operation?

  12. Re:And, So What? on Half Of Americans Think Presidential Nominating System 'Rigged' (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Then why was the primary here held at a public school using state owned voting machines?

  13. Re:Explicit goal of the Democratic party system. on Half Of Americans Think Presidential Nominating System 'Rigged' (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    When I voted in the primary, it was at a public school. If you want to hold a private insider's only party, you can pay to hold it in a private venue.

    Or skip the primary entirely and put everyone who throws their hat in the ring on the presidential ballot.

  14. Re:What's happening? on Mitsubishi: We've Been Cheating On Fuel Tests For 25 years (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    As for air pollution, if you have public cities, you end up having to have public regulation of air quality. But that's not the only mechanism either, and it's not a very good one. It would be far better if people actually got compensated for damage caused by air pollution and the polluters were made to pay.

    Yes, if the truth and justice fairy would wave her wand and cause the fair compensation to happen, that would be grand. But apparently corporate interests had her whacked over a century ago, so we need to do it ourselves. Given what court and lawyers cost these days and that the worst of the pollution tends to fall on the poorest citizens, that leaves a regulatory agency as the lest bad way to accomplish it.

  15. Re:That's a funny new definition of "entitlement" on After Netflix Crackdown On Border-Hopping, Canadians Ready To Return To Piracy (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    It does cost something to make a copy, and that's the fair market value.

    Granted, there is also design costs that need to be recovered, but in the case of content (original production cost in that case), that generally happens in the first couple of weeks in the theaters.

  16. Re:hmmmm on Federal Judge Rules Amazon Must Refund Parents Duped By In-App Purchases (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Was that there before or after the plaintiffs incurred the unwanted charges?

  17. Re:That's a funny new definition of "entitlement" on After Netflix Crackdown On Border-Hopping, Canadians Ready To Return To Piracy (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    What if I just copy a Ford, leaving the original on the lot?

  18. Re:That's a funny new definition of "entitlement" on After Netflix Crackdown On Border-Hopping, Canadians Ready To Return To Piracy (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    If someone wants to make a replica of my car, I say go for it.

  19. Re:That's a funny new definition of "entitlement" on After Netflix Crackdown On Border-Hopping, Canadians Ready To Return To Piracy (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    If they haven't made it available to you, then they aren't losing anything if you make a non-destructive copy.

  20. THIS!

    It wouldn't be that hard to allow the parents to disallow any credit card charges from the kid's account. It wouldn't be hard to require the parent login to make any charge. The tablet was explicitly marketed as a kid's edition so they couldn't be unaware that children might use it and you can't claim parents were irresponsible by allowing children to use it.

  21. Re:"Free" market? on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, and he strongly recommended that interference.

  22. Re:Wait until they start making a bit of money on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, the boomers flip-flopped for the most part. With the exception of a few holdouts they're busy raping and pillaging on Wall Street.

  23. There's am app for that on Chinese Security Robot Draws Dalek, Terminator Comparisons (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    here.

  24. Re:"Free" market? on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    In his day, sober didn't just mean not under the influence of alcohol. It meant sensible and practical. Being drunk was just one of many ways a person might not be sober. Many of the dot-bombs were not at all sober even if they never drank. Wall street has had a real lack of sobriety throughout the 21st century.

  25. Re: It's all relative on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    They could except that a portion of that 10% are getting filthy rich from the supercapitalism. Kinda like the U.S. but more extreme.