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  1. Re:Book Resale value on Update Your Shelf: BitLit Offers Access To Ebook Versions of Books You Own · · Score: 1

    No no, as the commenter above said, "People arent evil." Noone would actually work around this system, its all hypothetical!

  2. Re:What could possibly go wrong on Update Your Shelf: BitLit Offers Access To Ebook Versions of Books You Own · · Score: 2

    People aren't evil.

    Welcome to the internet! You'll first want to take our new users orientation, where you study such schools of thought as this...

  3. Re:gedit 4 life on Ask Slashdot: Correlation Between Text Editor and Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    Scite is not only generally better, its also cross platform.

  4. Re:Let them drink! on NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks · · Score: 1

    You ever heard the term "Republican in Name Only"?

  5. Re:Good. on Google Starts Removing Search Results After EU Ruling · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but there are also millions of people who posted rather silly posts when drunk as a student, or other minor mistakes, who now have good careers and who want to get rid of some undesirable content about them on the internet.

    Unfortunately, in the real world, decisions have consequences-- and the dangers of allowing historical revisionism far far outweigh the marginal benefits of allowing a frat boy with a record of DUIs to get a "fresh start".

  6. Re:Good. on Google Starts Removing Search Results After EU Ruling · · Score: 1

    Theyre also pretty solid on the censorship and historical revision departments.

    It is easy for any determined person to use the Internet to destroy the average person's reputation

    You commit the action, you gain a reputation. Thats how the world works; society may impose a punitive judgement on you and you may serve your time, but theres no reason that people should magically forget what you did.

    You want to know the easy way to avoid all of this? Dont do scummy things that will give yourself a bad reputation.

  7. Re:Praise the Courts on NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks · · Score: 1

    AFAIK society does not recognize a general right to choose that overrides someone else's right to life. If you recognize the legal personhood of the baby, then that by definition makes any termination of the baby a murder.

  8. Re:Been there, done that. on Google Demos Modular Phone That (Almost) Actually Works · · Score: 1

    The 500mA limit is a thing of the past, and has been for many years. That limit is for devices that have not negotiated higher amperage; its not unusual to see 1.5A charge rates with an android. Not sure what the iPhones hit, but I wouldnt be surprised if they dont get ~1.5-2A as well.

  9. Re:Been there, done that. on Google Demos Modular Phone That (Almost) Actually Works · · Score: 1

    AFAIK there are chargers that can align the phone with magnets-- wont fix the poor charge rate though.

  10. Re:Been there, done that. on Google Demos Modular Phone That (Almost) Actually Works · · Score: 1

    Its also slow and potentially doesnt charge the phone when its in use. Generally Qi charging hits ~700mAh, which is a discharge rate that you can hit on the road with bluetooth / GPS / data.

  11. Re:Anyone else remember... on Google Demos Modular Phone That (Almost) Actually Works · · Score: 1

    Actually 30% bigger, not 100%.

  12. Re:Praise the Courts on NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks · · Score: 1

    So to be clear you are arguing that the act of passing through the birth canal (or a C-Section) is what grants legal personhood? Regardless of whether the child is birthed at 6 months, or 9 months, or 38 weeks?

  13. Re:Let them drink! on NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks · · Score: 1

    They were shot down because it was a regulatory power grab. I wonder if we would have been so fortunate if it were a legislative decision, or if it were the federal government issuing the rule.

  14. Re:Let them drink! on NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I guess believing in governmental boundaries makes me a republican.

  15. Re:Let them drink! on NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bad voting habits are associated with the lower class, and the lower class is likely to vote for measures that are neither sustainable nor healthy for society. So yes, their voting does have an affect on the people around them, and should be regulated.

    Wait, this is starting to sound like a really terrible line of reasoning.

  16. Re:Let them drink! on NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks · · Score: 1

    *I* am paying for *your* poor choices.

    Which is an incredibly good reason to avoid a personal mandate. However, just because we now have mandated healthcare doesnt mean we should throw another terrible idea onto the legislation train; the government really does not have any business mandating what sort of soda I drink, and if its costing you money, thats too damn bad-- thats the fault of the ACA, not the fault of my soda choice.

  17. Re:Let them drink! on NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks · · Score: 1

    I must have missed that definition of "personal liberty".

  18. Re:I lost the password on Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    And unless it is done at the flash memory chip level, they could get an image of the data.

    Im sure they have the hardware to de-solder the flash chip, and get all of the data they want off of it.

  19. Re:I lost the password on Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    Trying to out-clever the FBI when it comes to crypto hardware is not something I would attempt. I feel like you would lose that fight, and they would end up with a duplicate key.

  20. Re:Except, of course, they have to prove you can on Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    Theres no reason they couldnt use a warrant to sieze the server, unless it was out-of-country.

  21. Re:The relevant part on Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    Following this interpretation, data on the drive already exists.

    In before crypto geeks attempt to claim that encrypted data is "just noise" and does not contain actual data.

  22. Re:The relevant part on Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    IANAL, AFAIK, etc etc-- but my understanding is that the 5th has long been held to not protect against the court compelling you to divulge the combination to a safe holding key evidence.

    The argument here seems to be that thats the digital analogue (lol) that we're dealing with here. Even if you were to argue that its a bad ruling-- and as I am not a lawyer, I wont go there-- thats a far cry from "the Soviet Republic of Massachusetts". The guy could have kept his mouth shut and they wouldnt have been able to compel anything.

  23. Re:Lois Lerner Method on Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Except that thats not the ruling, and in your rush to karma-whore you apparently did not read the story. The reality is more nuanced than that, but of course reality gets fewer insightful votes than regurgitating nonsense about authoritarianism.

  24. Re:Except, of course, they have to prove you can on Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    Not only that but a very common piece of forensic gear is a hard drive controller that blocks all write attempts (while reporting back that they were successful).

  25. Re:Except, of course, they have to prove you can on Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data · · Score: 3, Informative

    To prevent BIOS/EFI tinkering, insure that the encryption software double-checks that the system time is within the window (between last successful access and new expiry date) on boot, and destroys the key if the date is outside that window. Same with insuring that the HDD is in the same hardware it originally sat in, destroying the key if the software detects that a series of MAC addys and serial numbers don't match up.

    This wont work, because you do not control the software used to decrypt it. If you are using a standard cipher (and you really, really should be using a standard vetted cipher), they will us their own decryption software that neither cares about certificate expiration nor about the new BIOS on the lab image that theyre using.

    No "time expiring" crypto method that actually works has been devised, most probably because it literally cannot be done in a secure way. The attacker controls the decryption software and the hardware-- not you.