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  1. Re:Meet the new judge on No Cash For Hate, Say Mainstream Crowdfunding Firms (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Also they're just not offering help in rising the funds, instead of blocking access to funds.

  2. Re:Free speech vs fair trial on No Cash For Hate, Say Mainstream Crowdfunding Firms (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see.

    I really see some restriction of free speech on the first case. Rightful or a precedent opening for further step reductions should be debated.

    Now, fund raising isn't freedom of speech and isn't a necessity for adequate legal representation. These platforms aren't also near monopolies that control the monetary flow around the world.

    Basically, just well done bashing...

  3. Already Failed. on 64-bit Firefox is the New Default on 64-bit Windows (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    After many years of Netscape, Mozilla and Firefox, this year was the last nail in the coffin for me. At some update Firefox simply would run for some time (maybe a couple of minutes, mas a few hours) and silently drop any network access. I was already disappointed with many and frequent crashes, lot of websites that didn't work and so on... but really it got to an all-time low on quality and usability.
    And it's on my work machine, where I don't go to anywhere "strange"...

  4. "This is a slippery slope. Once a website gets removed like this, people will expect the same thing to happen again under similar but perhaps a little less egregious circumstances. Public outrage isn't based on logic and reason, but on emotion and knee-jerk reactions. It's very inconsistent, as well."

    This is what I tried to point. And it usually goes in small steps from cases where it is clearly seen as correct to only one view is accepted.

  5. Re:Fry speech on Google Cancels Domain Registration For Neo-Nazi Website Daily Stormer (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The point is more that this same argument can be used with many other reasonings.

    There's nothing dangerous about recognizing that allowing voice to political dissidents and showing improper information about the Tienanmen square will promote violence and extremism.
    Except this case we applaud google for not taking this instance.

    This may be an absurd hyperbole, but should illustrate the point.

  6. It has been many times on history, it can come back.
    The choice of capitalism and communism was merely to get any two completely opposite views that had been considered crime in some country/culture. Could very well have been any other choices, like condemning pro-jews, pro-muslins, pro-christian, pro-atheist, whatever.
    I really see as problematic censoring even this F-tard, specially by a company with the power this one has...
    On the other hand, his speech is inciting hate and crime...

  7. Re:Fry speech on Google Cancels Domain Registration For Neo-Nazi Website Daily Stormer (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Google or any sufficiently big corporation controlling data flow can be even more dangerous than the government.

  8. It shoudn't be questioned that neo nazi speech is bad, they're the enemy.
    It shoudn't be questioned that capitalist speech is bad, they're the enemy.
    It shoudn't be questioned that comunis speech is bad, they're the enemy.

    We're entering dangerous ground...

  9. Re:Doesn't sound so bad to me. on ATM Hacks in 'More Than a Dozen' European Countries in 2016 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1
  10. Re:physical access to machine? on Security Firm Shows How To Hack a US Voting Machine (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    It solves things like vote copying (carbon copy of the ballot to "prove" who you voted for), counting fraud, vote "interpretation" and some other similar variants, which were common at least here in Brazil before the electronic voting system. Other venues were open with the system used in Brazil, which is very fragile in my humble opinion.
    There are many ways to validate the vote afterwards, but the system must be planned for that. I sincerely hope to never vote on paper again, but our system here needs urgently to the upgraded. Voting machines are overly complex, code isn't open, no way of independent verification of the binary code on the machine during the election, no independent second copy of voting (paper trail, for example).
    I think that the system stands simply because the risk of being outed for compromising it (by someone in the system) is too high.

  11. Re:physical access to machine? on Security Firm Shows How To Hack a US Voting Machine (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Compromise someone in charge of programming the firmware on the machines... Just need the injection in the correct place on the supply chain and one single person compromised.

    Electronic voting is very good, efficient and solves a lot of other fraud possibilities. Also the financial/power gain for compromising the system is extremely high and that should be accounted for in the design phase. A lot of things could be done, but there seems to be lack of interest. Paper trail, independent code memory checksum displayed on machine, proper cryptography on data, open source code.... the list goes on...

  12. Re:Frist to come must shut power down on Dutchman Dies in Tesla Crash; Firefighters Feared Electrocution (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "We know a lot about electric cars, but there are always going to be cases where something unexpected happens," Boer said. "There are going to be educational moments."

    They may have procedures in place, but are still uncertain. Also certainly not that many accidents with electric cars take place yet for the procedures to be really known by heart.

    Therefore some new training and updated procedures will be needed...

  13. Frist to come must shut power down on Dutchman Dies in Tesla Crash; Firefighters Feared Electrocution (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Ops, batt power don't shut down...
    Some new training and updated procedures will be needed...

  14. Re:"The reason for the order was not known" on Brazil Judge Orders Phone Carriers To Block WhatsApp Message App (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    From a Brazilian news, the order was to offer a backdoor to the encrypted messages and/or to redirect the messages to the authorities before encryption.
    http://tecnologia.uol.com.br/n...

  15. Re:With Experience of Similar Incidents... on Tesla: Model X Accident Caused By Driver Error, Not Autopilot (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I would consider something similar. You would expect the diver to hit the brake. If the brake stays at 0 and the accelerator goes to 100%, likely user fault. If the brakes are not at 0%, certainly sensor fault.

  16. Overruled on Brazilian Judge Shuts Down WhatsApp In Brazil · · Score: 1

    Already overruled.
    http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/m...

    A higher level judge ordered the ban to be lifted, stating (google translate, just being lazy...):
    "in light of constitutional principles, it does not seem reasonable that millions of users be affected as a result of the company's inertia in providing information for the justice"
    also:
    "You can always, respected the conviction of the authority identified as constraining, raise the amount of the fine to a sufficient level to inhibit any resistance"

    It's a bad ruling from a single judge that pleases the ones executing the order and, therefore, wasn't questioned.

  17. Re:Back in the old days on Value of University Degree Continues To Decline (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    I really think there should exist a mod like "+1 disagree"...
    Not exactly for the OP, but I ran across that multiple times. It's hard to hit insightful or informative because what's written is completely wrong according to my view, but brings important points for the debate. Even trolls could do that eventually...

    Now, about the OP, he is mostly right, the bachelor degree is nowadays somewhat equivalent to the high school degree some 20 years back...

  18. Re:It'd be hilareous if not so sad... on Japan To Restart Nuclear Power Tomorrow After Energy Prices Soar · · Score: 1

    Except here, where it's really hot and we need air conditioning, peak hours are near sunset, with people getting home and turning on the AC...
    Well, 80% of our energy is still hydro, which is pretty fast. I guess solar is a good point anyway here, with hydro providing background and peak...
    Also, wind power here has the very disappointing property of having peak production exactly at the peak demand, when sun is going down...
    Can anyone explain me why we're building that crap oil and gas plants the cost more than solar and wind here?

  19. Re:Yes, this needs to stop, but... "Help yourself" on Santander To Track Customer Location Via Mobiles and Tablets · · Score: 1

    Except if your bank requires you using an app for the token generation.... Like one I use, I need to open the app on my phone to access their website on my PC. Not to mention that the two banks I use refuse to open the website on a mobile device. Just pop something like "security extensions not found". Their securities extension can hog my i7 with 8GB, so I imagine my phone....

  20. Re:More like 2-5% loss on How Tesla Batteries Will Force Home Wiring To Go Low Voltage · · Score: 1

    Indeed. As power increases, the efficiency easily goes over 98%.

  21. Re:Business problem != technology problem on Ask Slashdot: Version Control For Non-Developers? · · Score: 1

    We've been using TortoiseSVN and SVN for some time here with a very good success for non SW development areas.

    We've been using it with hardware schematics and layouts, as well as product documentation, with various levels of people using. Just don't forget to set "needs lock" as a default property, since most files are binary.

    Also, we have a IT infrastructure team that uses SVN themselves, so we don't need to worry about servers and our products have software and we use it for sw/fw as well. So we (sw/fw developers) act as first-level support.

  22. Re:Children are not property. on Mississippi - the Nation's Leader In Vaccination Rates · · Score: 1

    In some countries it's a crime to refuse to vaccinate the children. That's how it should be, since by not vaccinating children you're putting the children's life in danger...

  23. Re:I feel safer with NSA than Google on Eric Schmidt: To Avoid NSA Spying, Keep Your Data In Google's Services · · Score: 1

    Yes, you're not. It was meant to show that NSA may be sharing that data with "private partners". You'll never be sure.

    Conspiracy theorists will believe anything, agreed. They also like to post things as facts. But this has been partly proven, and a full prove will probably never appear.
    Since I don't like conspiracy theories, I made clear the fact it's not completely proven...

  24. Re:I feel safer with NSA than Google on Eric Schmidt: To Avoid NSA Spying, Keep Your Data In Google's Services · · Score: 1

    Are you serious? As not "selling" it to promote unfair competition in favor of some white house supporters?
    If you search you'll see various companies had secret data searched and stored by NSA, oil&gas has a lot of examples. It's believed that this data has been used b some companies as an advantage on international biddings...

  25. Re:Catholic Health on Displaced IT Workers Being Silenced · · Score: 1

    If documentation was that much deficient, it seems that the management wasn't THAT much wrong....