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  1. Re:Exactly how much info do they want? on FBI Director: Without Compromise on Encryption, Legislation May Be the 'Remedy' (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    They believe everyone else to be inferior to them and so unworthy of the right to keep a secret from them.

  2. Re: How did they ever solve a case on FBI Director: Without Compromise on Encryption, Legislation May Be the 'Remedy' (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    hddyf jfgrk jdgr yyhdy?

    People have been recording things using pen, paper, and private codes and cyphers since before the United States even existed.

    Beyond that, it was and still is harder to get a warrant for a locked drawer than for a smart phone.Encrypting the phone is just restoring the balance.

  3. Re:Before anyone pushes the panic button on Fukushima's Nuclear Signature Found In California Wine (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Read TFA. They were unable to detect anything outside of the noise without destructive testing.

  4. Before anyone pushes the panic button on Fukushima's Nuclear Signature Found In California Wine (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The only real use of this research beyond curiosity is authenticating wine (but only if there's enough that destroying a liter of it is worthwhile). Fukushima created a barely detectable bump compared to the few years before the incident.

    Looking at the graphs in the actual paper, The signature isn't really even visible compared to the spikes after the '50s nuclear tests.

  5. The FDA just needs to shove this up their backside. The almonds have left the barn, no point in closing the door now.

    The products have been known as Soy Milk and Almond Milk for decades now. Pretty much since they were on the market. Trying to force a change now would cause far more confusion than it prevents. I don't know of anyone who doesn't understand that soy milk is a product made from soy beans.

    This is exactly the sort of anal retentive BS that makes people wonder if we should shut down the FDA and start over.

  6. Re:As usual, they are decades late on Microsoft Is Making the Windows Command Line a Lot Better (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The big caviat though is I'll bet a CLI guy has a better chance of success when GUI is the right tool than a GUI guy does if CLI is the right (or only) tool.

    Learning CLI is well worth it.

  7. And it just happened to get done right as GOP representatives became anxious to distance themselves from Trump?

    Don't get me wrong, I think the bill is a good thing. I'm just answering the question "why wasn't this done in the first place?".

    As for the ACA, you do realize it was implemented legislatively, right?

  8. Re:Shortage of pilots willing to work for POOR WAG on The US is Facing a Serious Shortage of Airline Pilots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, as an alternative, I suppose they could ask Earl the janitor to fly the plane but you won't like where that leads. It's that simple, pay what it costs and pass it on or they can fold up and trade Cryptokitties.

    Had the "financial geniuses" running the airlines actually thought about this a year or two ago, they wouldn't be between a rock and a hard place now. Not only was this predictable, it was predicted.

  9. Because it wasn't possible until events of the last few days made a lot of GOP legislators anxious to distance themselves from Trump.

  10. Re:The GOP always stands against the people. on GOP Congressman Introduces Bill To Reinstate Net Neutrality Rules (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Small ISPs (are there any now) don't even have the budget for the hardware required to violate net neutrality.

  11. Re:Not as critical in Canada vs US on Thousands of Patient Records Held for Ransom in Ontario Home Care Data Breach, Attackers Claim (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2

    That's actually why the ACA had a penalty for not being insured. Trump and the GOP did away with that hoping to make it all blow up since they couldn't manage to repeal it properly after trying 85 times.

    In turn, the penalty was a problem because too many red states did their best to make it hard to get coverage.

  12. Re:*GIGGLE* on Unlike Most Millennials, Norway's Are Rich (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Still giggling. None of those very wealthy companies would have a penny to their names but for the labor of the many. Also, they didn't MAKE the oil or iron or coal, minerals or land.

    Collective bargaining is very much a part of a free market. The government in a democratic republic is properly the representative of the people (collective).

  13. Re:cost in America will go up to cover this on China Negotiating For Cheaper Cancer Drugs (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It shouldn't go without saying. Don't let them sweep this under the carpet with their cries of "we CAN'T". They can and they know it. The sooner the general public internalizes that, the sooner the bums can be kicked out via soap, ballot, or ammo box.

  14. Re:Shortage of pilots willing to work for POOR WAG on The US is Facing a Serious Shortage of Airline Pilots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly this. The options are many, all they need to do is pay enough in some form or another to make the expensive training worthwhile or pay for the training while the new employee is on a training salary.

    This is nothing more than the overpaid "financial geniuses" not just cutting expenses to the bone, but cutting out part of the bone too now complaining that it's hard to walk on a broken bone.

    Rather than planting, they ate the seed corn.

  15. Re:Here's a thought: on The US is Facing a Serious Shortage of Airline Pilots (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    On the other hand, while it is half time work, most of your other time is spent somewhere you probably don't really want to be in yet another cookie cutter hotel room with only the contents of your suitcase.

    In other words, a lot like being at work.

  16. Re:Is Slackware usable? on Slackware, Oldest Actively Maintained GNU/Linux Distribution, Turns 25 · · Score: 1

    Install a Linux of your choice. Install Chrome or Firefox. Install VLC.

    Or install Windows, install Chrome, and install VLC.

    Or pay someone to do one of the above.

    Them's your choices.

  17. Re:cost in America will go up to cover this on China Negotiating For Cheaper Cancer Drugs (reuters.com) · · Score: 3

    Let's be more clear. The government CHOOSES not to. There is nothing that fundamentally stops it, just a bit of legislation that could be reversed quickly if the legislature ever decided to put the general welfare ahead of infinite profits for the few.

  18. It doesn't take much to run up a million dollar medical bill if they charge the full rate.

  19. It already does. Don't like your neighbor? Anonymously report their "drug activities" and let the police be your bludgeon.

  20. Re:Subsidies are the solution... on Retiring Worn-Out Wind Turbines Could Cost Billions That Nobody Has (energycentral.com) · · Score: 1

    TFA itself is quite likely industry FUD. Reactions to it here are more likely I hate it because the left likes it.

    Possible exception, some of the ACs could be industry shills.

  21. Re:"I forgot" doesn't fly on Judge Jails Defendent For Failing To Unlock Phones (fox13news.com) · · Score: 1

    But that's not what he said. He said he just bought the phones and he didn't know the code.

  22. Re:"I forgot" doesn't fly on Judge Jails Defendent For Failing To Unlock Phones (fox13news.com) · · Score: 1

    He said he just bought the phones. He also said "I don't know the code", not "I forgot".

    That doesn't sound all that implausible to me. Simply, the judge wanted him in jail, so now with no trial, no conviction, and no finding by a jury of his peers, there he sits. All based on the say-so of a single person.

    That doesn't sound much like rule of law to me.

  23. Re:"misdemeanor amount of marijuana" yielded this? on Judge Jails Defendent For Failing To Unlock Phones (fox13news.com) · · Score: 2

    HOWEVER, what he ACTUALLY said is "I don't know the code".

    Actual story from someone who read TFA, he said he just bought the two phones. Perhaps the person he bought them from was less upstanding than he thought. He may ACTUALLY not know the passwords. He may have never known the passwords or even that there was a password.

    He is now in jail for up to 6 months with no trial pending and without having been found guilty beyond reasonable doubt by a jury of his peers.

  24. Re:someone should called the EFF on Judge Jails Defendent For Failing To Unlock Phones (fox13news.com) · · Score: 1

    The 5th still applies. Interestingly, the Constitution works as if anything against it never existed. So, from the standpoint of the Constitution, the court never demanded the password and so there was no contempt.

  25. Re:Akin to a warrant... on Judge Jails Defendent For Failing To Unlock Phones (fox13news.com) · · Score: 1

    So can a phone in many cases.