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  1. Re:Jailbreak vs Unlock on Startup Uses Radiation Fear To Map Cellphone Coverage · · Score: 2

    Jailbreaking allows app freedom, unlocking allows SIM freedom.

    FTFY

  2. Re:I'm sorry, but on Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping In October · · Score: 1

    Maybe this thing could be good for hackability and we could put another distro on it, like maybe a close Maemo relative?

  3. Re:If this can happen ... on Site Copies Content and Uses the DMCA to Take Down the Original Articles · · Score: 1

    I remember there are some penalties for false DMCA claims under certain situations (pretty much never enforced but they do exist), could people outside the US be subject to these?

  4. From my experience on Supercomputer Designer Asked To Improve Robo-Bugs · · Score: 1

    See if there are any motor-sailplane control algorithms you can copy, and don't fly them unless the wind is very still.

  5. Re:Quick, someone trademark the term "Time Machine on Games Workshop Bullies Author Over Use of the Words 'Space Marine' · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Also relevant:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_marine#History

    Read it quick before Games Workshop defaces the page!

  6. CODE LEAKED on "We the People" API To Be Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    function process_petition($num_votes)
    {
    if ($num_votes>=30000)
        {
        $response=make_polite("Fuck You");
        return $response;
        }
    else
        {
        return NULL;
        }
    }

    //this is actually all of the code except the make_polite function and some HTTP request handling

  7. Re:Brilliant! on Blimps To Help Protect Washington DC From Air Attack · · Score: 0

    It isn't produced this way though, the helium from nuclear fission just escapes and floats out into space like any other helium that isn't stored (and that which is stored but passes through the solid walls of the container).

  8. Re:Why not use hydrogen? on Blimps To Help Protect Washington DC From Air Attack · · Score: 1

    These things are almost entirely made of cloth, probably with a couple hundred pounds of metal on board, packaged tightly together. Fly one over an open field and it will be fine.

  9. Re:Having worked for the company who wrote the SW. on Blimps To Help Protect Washington DC From Air Attack · · Score: 1

    Good thing no plane will ever be hijacked again. They'll either make it to the destination or explode before anyone knows there's a problem.

  10. Re:Balloons? on Blimps To Help Protect Washington DC From Air Attack · · Score: 1

    *Cessna and a kite are both fixed wing aircraft. Balloons are aircraft too.

  11. Re:Balloons? on Blimps To Help Protect Washington DC From Air Attack · · Score: 1

    Meh it's playing with words. An aerostat is still a blimp, and a blimp is still a balloon, just as a Cessna and a kite are both aircraft.

    If it had a rigid frame it could even be a zeppelin and an aerostat at the same time.

  12. Re:well the bad news is on Blimps To Help Protect Washington DC From Air Attack · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Judge Dredd is a real thing, but he's a semi-autonomous flying robot and he has a lot less respect for due process than the fictional character...

  13. Re:Scary Blimps on Blimps To Help Protect Washington DC From Air Attack · · Score: 1

    Haha thought the same thing. But is the white and shiny word of Mirror's Edge that much less bad because it doesn't look evil?

  14. Re:Why not use hydrogen? on Blimps To Help Protect Washington DC From Air Attack · · Score: 1

    If an ignition source is then added.

    Keeping the proportions away from the danger zone is not hard, blimps don't catch fire so easily when they aren't painted with rocket fuel, and if they do and nobody's around...so what?

  15. Re:Brilliant! on Blimps To Help Protect Washington DC From Air Attack · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Helium is also in short supply and absolutely non-renewable, hydrogen would be a big improvement.

    But +1 for the hot air suggestion :-P

  16. Re:Privacy And Sin on HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History · · Score: 1

    What they take from us through government is nothing compared to what they could with just a fair bit less government.

  17. Something I've been thinking for a while on Leaked: Obama's Rules For Assassinating American Citizens · · Score: 1

    When do these drone assassinations cross the line into genocide against the people of the Afghanistan/Pakistan border region?

  18. Re:Wrong on New Largest Known Prime Number: 2^57,885,161-1 · · Score: 1

    And this is better than something remotely useful like Folding@home in what way?

  19. Re:Inaccuracy is a big problem on HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History · · Score: 1

    It's too bad that pursuing a considerable damage reward can't be afforded in terms of time or money by the people who would suffer from having an inaccurately bad credit report.

  20. Re:Data Protection Laws Needed on HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History · · Score: 1

    It's legal and doesn't require any security systems to be breached. The company has your salary information, there are no laws in place to keep them from giving that information to anyone they choose, currently it's protected only out of self-interest. For example, currently many companies will give out your salary information (among other things such as HR reports) to other companies calling about ex-employees as part of a background check.

    That's not to say it's meaningfully less wrong, though. Just that the gap between morality and legality is much greater in this case than the hacking scenario.

  21. Re:It's their information if you gave it to them on HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History · · Score: 1

    One of my first thoughts was that it would be interesting for a company's employees to pool their resources and purchase a report on everyone at the company they work for, for themselves.

  22. Re:It's their information if you gave it to them on HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History · · Score: 1

    Good luck defining it as economic duress in court. The supposed existence of free choice where economic duress exists is what supports the illusion of meritocracy and freedom that keeps capitalist systems stable.

  23. Re:It's their information if you gave it to them on HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History · · Score: 1

    If you've been unemployed for 2 years you'd be very lucky to get an interview, unless you took that time to get a new education for a new career.

  24. Re:It's their information if you gave it to them on HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History · · Score: 1

    Not sure but I wouldn't settle for it, I'd discuss what I want altered and have them print up a new contract.

  25. Re:Privacy And Sin on HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History · · Score: 1

    To be fair, objectivism and libertarianism aren't the same thing, although there is a major overlap...but yeah it's nothing new, they've always put corporate and personal freedom on exactly the same level, that is, in sane people talk, to allow corporations to walk all over people through economic power. However economic power is not a real thing to libertarians so no problem exists to them.