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  1. Why bother serving sentence? on Man Gets 10 Years For VoIP Hacking · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The one thing I don't understand is why have him actually serve his sentence? Doesn't this just cost people more money in the end. It may be worth while to have him stay until he has re-payed the $1 million, assuming he even has the ability to re-pay the money but why not just deport him right away.

  2. Re:Let the Reader/Consumer Decide If It Works on Will Amazon Put Advertisements In eBooks? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Did you read the comment? It specifically said that it would be okay if they leave option A and option B open to let people decide. That way you will be able to continue having your ad-free books and others, who wish not to pay or pay a lower fee can read their ad-laden books.

  3. Re:walking directions (beta): use caution on Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues · · Score: 1

    Same thing on my Android phone. Can anyone confirm that it doesn't state it on a Blackberry?

  4. Re:But people getting tasered aren't usually tranq on Testing the Safety of Tasers On Meth-Addled Sheep · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ya seriously, I totally agree. This is not real world, it is junk science. Tasers have killed people. I think that is clear enough to say that they should be categorized as potentially lethal force. It doesn't matter if you are on meth, cocaine, have previous heart conditions or they just taze you 10 times.

  5. Re:Nothing new on IOC Orders Blogger To Take Down Video · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Vancouver was supposed to do that with a portion of the village to go as low-cost housing but last I heard the new plan is to sell it as expensive condo's.

  6. Re:What are you doing here? on Univ. Help Desk Staffer Extorts Over Copyright Violations · · Score: 1

    What about downloading legal software from legal places? Say using Ubuntu's torrent link? This is legal, isn't virus infected and actually could be useful or required for course work.

  7. Seems like a difficult task to stay removed? on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 1

    Couldn't Google just rewrite their bots to not broadcast Googlebot as the useragent? Fake it as Firefox or something. I'm sure something similar to this has been argued in court but can a website on the open internet now allow itself to be indexed?

  8. What the hell... on Comcast's New Throttling Plan Uses Trigger Conditions, Not Silent Blocking · · Score: 1

    What the hell is the point of having download/upload speeds if you can't utilize them.

  9. Who owns the patents? on Car Glass Rules Could Impair Cell, GPS and Radio Signals In CA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My question is, who owns the rights to this technology they are going to enforce everyone to have?

  10. Re: Licensed books on Company Uses DMCA To Take Down Second-Hand Software · · Score: 1

    What makes you think they are a native English speaker?

  11. Re:Perfect bug repellent? on Universal "Death Stench" Repels Bugs of All Types · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well I think you would have to leave it around for it to start rotting, I assume most people clean up the squashed roach after they squash it.

  12. Re:Had any scary interviews? on How To Hire a Hacker · · Score: 1

    That does not mean communism. No. It means to use all features of the natural structure called "graph" as opposed to a simple "tree".

    That sounds like anarchism. And please, I do not mean chaos.

  13. Re:Do they need to map the entire brain on Can We Build a Human Brain Into a Microchip? · · Score: 1

    First off, it's been said that people only use 10% of their actual brain power. So 1 billion neurons probably isn't far off from what we would use anyway.

    This is 100% false.

  14. Why is this bad? on Bell Starts Hijacking NX Domain Queries · · Score: 1

    Don't get me wrong. I don't like this practice. But I do not know what the technical issues are with doing this. Are there security concerns? How does it break stuff? Also, does anyone know if complaints have been filed with the CRTC or if this practice is contrary to CRTC rules?

  15. Re:it was only a matter of time on Real-World Consequences of Social Networking Posts · · Score: 1

    Don't you know that in our ultra-PC society that if you do not like a minority you must be racist?

    You are very correct. Not liking a minority for the sake of that person/group being a minority is prejudice. Not liking someone that happens to be part of a minority group is not racist.

  16. Re:Fix in minutes? on Undercover Cameras Catch PC Repair Scams, Privacy Violations · · Score: 1

    Is it possible to plug in an IDE cable backwards? I thought they were cut at two corners to prevent this?

  17. Who gets to read it? on 'Vanish' Makes Sensitive Data Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    I am confused so hopefully someone can shed some light. They say there is no need to swap public keys with the person you are writing the message to. Does this mean anyone with the tool in Firefox can decode your message? Is there some way to specify who the reading parties are? That I am a little confused about and couldn't find any info about it in the articles. Hopefully someone can clear it up.

  18. Re:How long will peak rates be around for? on Consumers May Find Smart Appliances a Dumb Idea · · Score: 1

    With "cognitive dissonance" the data isn't erased or ignored. The individual with competing goals/ideals and reality will go out of there way to justify their reality to their goals/ideals.

  19. Re:I wish... on Pandora Stabilizes, No Longer Completely Free · · Score: 1

    They have geolocation software that blocks IP addresses from outside the US. A while ago I tried some free US proxies and I think they were blocked as well. I am sure there is probably other ways around them blocking people outside the US and I would be very welcome to suggestions.

  20. Re:Cost per transaction? on Pandora Stabilizes, No Longer Completely Free · · Score: 1

    Now only if it were available outside the US.

  21. Cost per transaction? on Pandora Stabilizes, No Longer Completely Free · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A thought about this. I know that the rates charged by credit card companies to process a transaction tend to be very high. Does anyone know how the pricing structure works? How much of the final transaction will actually be paid to Pandora?

  22. I wish... on Pandora Stabilizes, No Longer Completely Free · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Pandora was available in Canada.

  23. Re:Editions on We Rent Movies, So Why Not Textbooks? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Last time I checked (which was yesterday) my local library carried both a wide range of music and movies.

  24. Re:Why stop there.. on Professor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Sharing Drone Plans With Students · · Score: 1

    I don't think you can be sentenced for that if they were allowed to work on a project. It wasn't their responsibility to confirm that the contract their employer/teacher had signed had stipulations on certain foreign nationals working on the project.

  25. More distribution is needed. on Open Source Facing a Difficult Battle For Cloud Relevance · · Score: 1

    Personally I see could computing as a form of distributed computing. The current infrastructure given by Google, Amazon, etc. I do not see as very distributed since they run a few huge data centers. If they are taken offline then that is a major hit to the overall infrastructure. What I envision as cloud computing is that everyones computer using the cloud acts as a node in the whole infrastructure. Serving pieces of applications and data that reside on the cloud. I have mentioned this idea before and someone made similarities to a giant botnet or I see it as similar to a torrent network. Anyways the current infrasturture given above is not what I envision as cloud computing infrastructure, more of a giant hosting infrastructure.