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  1. Re:Seems reasonable on FAA Allows AIG To Use Drones For Insurance Inspections · · Score: 1

    Because the ease of using drones allows them to spy on and harass everyone, including those with valid claims, those who live in the same house / nearby but aren't involved in the claim, etc.

  2. Re:Only 30 meters on Bell Labs Fighting To Get More Bandwidth Out of Copper · · Score: 1

    This is exactly what it's for: apartment buildings. There are lots of places around the US where DSL is on-prem, and it's supposedly cheaper than fiber or running ethernet.

    30 meters isn't long enough to handle your typical apartment complex, let alone a single row of units.
    There are NOT "lots of places around the US where DSL is on-prem".

  3. Re:Hero? on The Courage of Bystanders Who Press "Record" · · Score: 1

    Killing the goon would be heroic.

  4. Re:It's Microsoft vs. Google... on Patent Case Could Shift Power Balance In Tech Industry · · Score: 1

    No sane lawyer would do this, and no competent judge would allow it.

  5. Re:Patent fees are always RAND... on Patent Case Could Shift Power Balance In Tech Industry · · Score: 1

    You just made me very sad. Where do clever, informed tech people talk endlessly about news nowadays?

    I place my head in the toilet, my nose a millimeter from the water, and I converse with the pipes.

  6. Re:Why is that important news? on Windows 10 Successor Codenamed 'Redstone,' Targeting 2016 Launch · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows Live. The only Windows with DirectX 12.1.
    Only $9.99 per month per device. Includes 60 minutes of Skype credit, a bunch of storage you'll never fill up on a good service you won't use because it isn't called Dropbox, and you have to log into your Microsoft account to do anything. No, your Microsoft account. Your email address you don't use. No, not that one. Look, do you have an Xbox? It used to be called Hotmail but we don't call it that anymore. It's the one you use to view on Outlook. No, not at work, on outlook.com. Yes, even though your address ends in hotmail.com.

  7. Re:Hmm on Windows 10 Successor Codenamed 'Redstone,' Targeting 2016 Launch · · Score: 1

    The core installation is great if you're only running MS services and programs. But a lot of 3rd party shit is useless without a GUI.
    I'm not going to run a core instance AND a GUI instance to maintain compatibility with that 3rd party shit. I'm going to run the GUI version and count on one hand the number of times the GUI impacted me in a negative way. Even on the rare occasion when the GUI is hit with a security issue and the core isn't, there are still other patches affecting the core that same day, so a reboot is still scheduled.

  8. Re:Lets encrypt on Google Let Root Certificate For Gmail Expire · · Score: 1

    Yup. Renewing is backwards. Reissue new every time.

  9. Re:Proprietary formats suck. on Google Rolls Out VP9 Encoding For YouTube · · Score: 1

    If you want to group them, then:

    VP9 competes with (and loses to) h.264.
    VP10 will compete with (and lose to) h.265.

    h.265 is "current gen". h.264 is "last gen".
    Wedge in VP9 and 10 wherever you want.

    You can easily play 4K h.264 files via CPU decoding if they're encoded sanely.
    You can fail to play 1080p h.264 files via CPU or GPU decoding if they're encoded crazily.

  10. Re:Web sites on Popular Android Package Uses Just XOR -- and That's Not the Worst Part · · Score: 1

    Read USER reviews, and only read the 2, 3, and 4 star reviews. The 1s and 5s are propaganda.

  11. Re:Software does not belong in cars on EFF Fighting Automakers Over Whether You Own Your Car · · Score: 1

    His farm didn't have horses, as far as I know.
    As for fucking them, husbandry practices are more akin to hand jobs and turkey basters. But if you like to do it the hard way, more power to you.

  12. Re:c'mon on Al Franken Urges FBI To Prosecute "Revenge Porn" · · Score: 1

    In cases where there was no consent you don't need extra laws to protect people.

  13. Re:c'mon on Al Franken Urges FBI To Prosecute "Revenge Porn" · · Score: 1

    You're comparing nude pictures taken and given to someone with consent to sexual assault?
    Nope.

  14. Re:c'mon on Al Franken Urges FBI To Prosecute "Revenge Porn" · · Score: 1, Insightful

    As with most of these "issues", it's not about equality. It's about raising a major stink about a minor thing in order to get "support" (attention, votes, money, etc.).

  15. Re:Bring Back Aero Glass on The Most Highly Voted Requests In Windows 10 Feedback Pool · · Score: 1

    Luna.

  16. Re:Software does not belong in cars on EFF Fighting Automakers Over Whether You Own Your Car · · Score: 1

    Yeah! We should all be hand-cranking our cars and working the choke to control the fuel-air mixture!

  17. Re:The future of console games on Sony Buys, Shuts Down OnLive · · Score: 1

    Valve doesn't control that, the publishers do.
    And Valve says a lot of fucking things they never deliver on, why would you trust an age-old quote?

  18. Re:Contradiction in article summary on Why More 'Star Wars' Actors Don't Become Stars · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, it's The Joker.

  19. Re:See nothing that says this is x86 on Microsoft Announces Surface 3 Tablet · · Score: 1, Insightful

    They aren't really fast. They say that every fucking time and it's a pathetic joke every fucking time, just like with their integrated graphics.
    Put up or shut up - benchmarks of the new x7 Atom please. (Oh wait, there are none, because Intel only wants sites to regurgitate their PR and slides comparing them to fucking phone CPUs.)

  20. Re:See nothing that says this is x86 on Microsoft Announces Surface 3 Tablet · · Score: -1, Troll

    Atoms are faaaar too slow even for a grandma machine.

  21. Re:How did they get caught? on Silk Road Investigators Charged With Stealing Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Every transaction is public on the block chain.
    It's traced to your wallet.
    If the wallet(s) you received those bitcoins were ever implicated in a crime anyone cared to investigate, your wallet would then be implicated as well, as well as any wallet you sent coins to later.

    All major exchanges are tapped by the feds. When you or someone you sent bitcoins to, tries to exchange them for fiat currency the feds know about it. Fiat currency transactions off the block chain involve personally-traceable information - names, addresses, accounts, etc. They they track you down like any other fraudulent transaction and bag you up and cart you off.

    Super Secret Bitcoin Group runs a drug ring.

    ---ALL THE BELOW IS PUBLIC INFORMATION---
    Person A uses it and gets bitcoins for selling drugs.
    Person A sends bitcoins to Person B and Person C for whatever.
    Person B and Person C sends bitcoins to Person D and Person E for whatever.
    Person D sends you bitcoins for cash.
    You send bitcoins to Person F, Person G, Person H, Person I. ...
    Person X sends bitcoins to an exchange.
    ---ALL THE ABOVE IS PUBLIC INFORMATION---

    The exchange sends USD to John Doe, paypal user dick@butts.com, bank account #99999999, whateverthefuckelse.

    Super Secret Bitcoin Group is busted by the feds, legally or not.
    The feds raid their shit and know that the wallets of person A contain drug money.
    The feds follow the coins through all wallets.
    The feds see the coins hit the wallet of a known exchange.
    The feds get info about the Person X.
    Person X cries like a bitch when the feds visit him, and explains each transaction involving Person X-1.
    Repeat until you hit Person D, who rolls on your ass faster than a downhill taquito.

    End game - you're fucked if they CARE about fucking you. All of the shit you do on the blockchain is POINTLESS since it's ALL PUBLIC.

  22. Re:How did they get caught? on Silk Road Investigators Charged With Stealing Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Exactly. If it's so traceable, then where are the arrest warrants for the cryptolocker extortionists who brazenly made at least two police departments and a NJ school district, among many other targets, pay ransom money in bitcoin?

    It's traceable. The authorities in Russia and China don't give a shit.
    If someone in the US was pulling this shit on a target the US government gave a shit about, they'd be locked up in a matter of days.

  23. Re:How did they get caught? on Silk Road Investigators Charged With Stealing Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    You can't mix or churn bitcoins on the bitcoin network without it being traced wallet to wallet to the ultimate destination. This is the entire design of the bitcoin blockchain.

    You can do this off the network using some random service, but you then have to trust the service and all others using it. If one user gets targeted by a TLA then all users are targeted by a TLA once the TLA hits the service.

    All major exchanges that convert bitcoin to fiat currency have been tapped by said TLAs. Secure money laundering and tax evasion only using bitcoin are not possible in the US and most of Europe.
    You can launder money and avoid taxes using other methods as well as bitcoin, but the bitcoin piece is completely pointless as everything done on the block chain is trivially traceable to the ultimate destination wallet.
    If you sell bitcoin to an exchange for USD, that exchange has been tapped by the feds and they'll be on your ass directly.
    If you sell bitcoin to some chump for cash USD, that chump will be holding the bag when he goes to use them (exchanging for USD, real-world services, etc.). That chump will roll on you the instant he's put in a room with the feds, gets a letter from the IRS, etc.
    If you mix bitcoins via some service, the service can simply take them and disappear off the internet leaving you with nothing. The service can attract high-profile targets doing worse things than you and getting more federal attention than you. That attention is then extended to you because you both used the same mixing service. Now a pot-dealer is under scrutiny for being affiliated with a service used by a terrorist buying nuclear material.

    Bitcoin does nothing new for money laundering or tax evasion. Bitcoin is PUBLIC.

  24. Re:What stops people from bypassing Amazon? on Amazon Launches 'Home Services' For Repair, Installation, and Other Work · · Score: 1

    They could do it like those travel sites and not tell you the name of the company until you've booked the service.

  25. So What on Poverty May Affect the Growth of Children's Brains · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So what? Are the poor entitled to brains of a specific size?
    Will the government be passing out brains? Will the bottom of society become dependent on welfare brains? Will the middle class ultimately have to pay for all of it while still suffering from diminutive brain size compared to the upper class? Will the top 1% control 99% of grey matter?