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  1. Re:So they are doing what? on Anonymous Declares War Over Charlie Hebdo Attack · · Score: 1

    However, the law is made, enacted and enforced by individuals. Your point stands that it is different than just killing those you don't like but there are many (myself included) that would say that it's not more legitimate to kill people just because you do it as a gang.

  2. Re:Yes, it is the cause on Google Sees Biggest Search Traffic Drop Since 2009 As Yahoo Gains Ground · · Score: 1

    Should be possible to search the cache. Perhaps an extension?

  3. And remember folks on Asus Wireless Routers Can Be Exploited By Anyone Inside the Network · · Score: 1

    Comcast opening access to your router to people you don't know is nothing to worry about. What could possibly go wrong?

  4. Re:DD-WRT? on Asus Wireless Routers Can Be Exploited By Anyone Inside the Network · · Score: 2

    Exactly. My first assumption is that Tomato or DD-WRT would be safe from this attack but I'd rather hear it from someone who knows for sure. Who knows what drivers, bits of code or low-level firmware are reused between the two? Not me.

  5. Re:They're allowed to have a dud on The Fire Phone Debacle and What It Means For Amazon's Future · · Score: 1

    Amazon does not.

  6. Leon's getting larger.

  7. Re:They're allowed to have a dud on The Fire Phone Debacle and What It Means For Amazon's Future · · Score: 1

    Revenue doesn't mean an awful lot when you're not paying dividends. Sure, it's a metric and you can play with price to earning ratios and whatnot but if you're not putting $$$ in peoples palms, the stock price is really what counts.

  8. Re:Amazon phone is the Apple/Google Frankenstein on The Fire Phone Debacle and What It Means For Amazon's Future · · Score: 2

    I think the Google services thing is a Google restriction. Though Amazon possibly could have got on board with that, it possibly would have locked them out from some of the things they wanted to do with the phone. Google services have really turned into an Apple style lock-down on Android unfortunately.

  9. Re:Amazon phone is the Apple/Google Frankenstein on The Fire Phone Debacle and What It Means For Amazon's Future · · Score: 2

    Amazon have offered it with 1 year of free Prime (that was back when they were also offering them at $200). I guess that's just a sign that they're not doing so well though. That was contract free also.

  10. Fire Phone on The Fire Phone Debacle and What It Means For Amazon's Future · · Score: 1

    The wife likes hers. We did get it at the $200 discount price and she's already an Amazon Prime member though. I think I would find it troublesome

  11. Re:This is how municipal water works already... on Bill Gates Endorses Water From Human Waste · · Score: 1

    Of course, there was the time the US navy connected the sewage pumps on one of their warships up to the City of Portsmouth's potable water supply but that probably doesn't count.

  12. Re:Thanks, assholes on Gun Rights Hacktivists To Fab 3D-Printed Guns At State Capitol · · Score: 1

    The insult you slung while exhibiting your ignorance is most gratifying.

  13. Re:Thanks, assholes on Gun Rights Hacktivists To Fab 3D-Printed Guns At State Capitol · · Score: 1

    Yup. That is what I was getting at.

    Though technically you could buy the lower in Walmart also. They typically sell complete firearms though.

  14. Re:Thanks, assholes on Gun Rights Hacktivists To Fab 3D-Printed Guns At State Capitol · · Score: 1

    Google "polymer lower".

  15. Re:Thanks, assholes on Gun Rights Hacktivists To Fab 3D-Printed Guns At State Capitol · · Score: 1

    Yep. I'm very pro gun but it seems there's a (very) small group of Texans want to crap in everyone's cereal and spoil it for everyone.

  16. Since this is playing in darknet waters, illegality is only likely to be expected. However, I have been playing with the idea of an app that buys random $1 stuff off ebay on either a daily, weekly or ad-hoc basis (Hey, that's less than people spend on cable). I hadn't really considered any issues with legality. The main thing stopping me was I wasn't sure if people would feel comfortable entering their Paypal details.

  17. Likewise... on Who's Responsible When Your Semi-Autonomous Shopping Bot Purchases Drugs Online? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Who's responsible when I point my car, traveling at speed, at a bunch of pedestrians and jump out? There's just no way to know.

  18. Re:Kill-ur-drive contest? on Indiana Court Rules Melted Down Hard Drive Not Destruction of Evidence · · Score: 1

    Here's the thing. dd will overwrite all the available sectors. All the available sectors. If a sector has been moved due to errors detected, it could very well be sitting out there waiting for the right software, hardware or firmware modifications to allow it to be read again. There are also potentially several areas (cache memory, and other things I am not enough of a hard-drive tech wiz to recall) where your data could be stored.

    Secure erase is supposed to erase all the available sectors, all sectors outside of the available sectors and those other places that some of your data could be stored. Best practice is probably to perform a secure erase and a dd (order likely doesn't matter much).

  19. Re:Coming soon to another episode of Ancient Alien on Ancient Planes and Other Claims Spark Controversy at Indian Science Congress · · Score: 1

    And let's not forget the clacks.

  20. Re:This is why we don't have flying cars. on Aircraft Responsible For 2.5% of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions · · Score: 1

    Buses have shitty economy when run empty which is often the case because they need to be available for people who rely on them. Trains are fairly good for specific tasks (typically in transporting people who want to live and work to close to each other about) but lack general purposeness in specific but important areas.

  21. Re:This is why we don't have flying cars. on Aircraft Responsible For 2.5% of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions · · Score: 1

    True. Plus in many cases, the issue with those emissions is that they are being released close to people. Released at altitude, they quickly diffuse to trivial levels.

  22. Re:This is why we don't have flying cars. on Aircraft Responsible For 2.5% of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions · · Score: 1

    Yep. And like I say, we're talking point-to-point. In many cases, a plane will significantly less distance to get from point A to point B as a car would.

  23. Re:This is why we don't have flying cars. on Aircraft Responsible For 2.5% of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions · · Score: 1

    Flying isn't too bad. I once did a quick calculation that put flying a small Cessna at using about 2x the fuel of a regular car for the same point-to-point distance. Most flights are typically hundreds of people so I wouldn't be surprised if it broke even well before having 100 people on a flight. If this were not the case, it wouldn't be so cheap to fly (look at ticket prices. Most of that is services and taxes).

  24. Quick, emergency... on Aircraft Responsible For 2.5% of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Let's have a conference about how to address this issue and fly in all the delegates. And their entourages. Don't forget them limos.

  25. Re:Analog, still better than digital on Vinyl's Revival Is Now a Phenomenon On Both Sides of the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    Wow. There is just so much wrong here...