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  1. Re:Question of intent for the Jury on Should The FBI Have Arrested 'The Hacker Who Hacked No One'? (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Its also more of a tricky case than what you might imagine at first glance.
    All these people know what their customers are doing with their products. I am sure their are gun sellers who know with 100% certainly that when a certain type of person comes into his store that one of his guns is going to end up at a crime scene sooner rather than latter. And yet you cannot discriminate even if you know the guy is part of a gang. There are gun sellers who know 90% of their sales go on to commit crimes. What is the real difference when one of your customers lets slip verbally that the gun will be used for illegal means instead of just signalling with the very essence of his being? At what point has someone gone from joking around to admitting to future crimes? Is it a surprise that Huddleston was not outraged when he learned that a potential customer was a criminal, when we all know full well that Huddleston knows what his software is used for, he knows that most of his customers do with it.

  2. Re:simple answer on Should The FBI Have Arrested 'The Hacker Who Hacked No One'? (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    If you advertise your gun as being particularly good at stickups, if you sell the gun to someone you know will use it unlawfully, yes. Yes they are
    If this guy can be proven to have knowingly sold tools to an individual stated his illicit intent. If he ever made any claims to its potential use illegally, he will likely be convicted. I me likely will not be if it was just some pirates who used his software to hack.

  3. Re:Should be exterminated on Wolves May Be 'Re-Domesticating' Into Dogs (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Not that I am saying that this is a fair sampling. But typically when you hear about pit bulls killing things those things are its owners and owners children.

  4. Standard Procedure in "Border Security" on 'Extreme Vetting' Would Require Visitors To US To Share Contacts, Passwords (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I am not sure if this is just codifying existing practices or what, but if you watch "Border Security" you would know that these things are pretty standard in Canada, Australia, and America.

    The first thing border agents do is to get your phone passwords.

  5. Most ToSes break the law. The law has always held than any illegal order in a ToS contract can just be ignored.

  6. My poor neck.

    For the first rebooting of Star Trek I came too late. I was stuck in the front row. Being just a few feet form the 3 story screen, I spent the entire movie half out of my seat contorted, trying to see what was going on. I wanted to lay on the floor, but was too embarrassed to try that position.

  7. Re:This is unnecessary and stupid on Companies Start Implanting Microchips Into Workers' Bodies (latimes.com) · · Score: 0

    These thing get implanted like a millimeter below the surface. Someone skilled could remove it without you even noticing immediately.
    Also, an easier method would just be to scan for the chip and making a software copy.
    the great thing about a card is that it can be shielded when not in use.

  8. Re:Only one possibility considered? on An Unexpected Relationship Between Nuclear Power and Low Birth Weight (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The vicinity can mean a lot of things. And just a few miles downwind can mean it has no effect on the pollution you or your baby are subject to.
    At the same time, perhaps a uranium refinery or mining operation were upwind. And now everyone has cleaner air, but are also under crushing poverty. The only thing we can assume with any certainty is that shutting down a power plants makes the residents poorer.

  9. I am really hoping they controlled for poverty. It seems to make a lot of sense, not even including pollution, that worse results across the board would follow after a big fancy high paying business shuts down in a one business town.

  10. Intervention on Can Robots Help Children With Autism? (go.com) · · Score: 1

    We all love you Steve, but your autism has gotten out of control. Flicking the lights on and off is one thing, but you have starting counting the leaves at 9 in the morning!

  11. Re:2006? on Steve Wozniak's Biographer Pranked By Woz's Mom? (groovypost.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Maybe only idiots read celebrity biographies?

  12. ranked lower on average

    Giving women more proof that they will never measure up. Is exactly what happened. Of course they got better at it, the phenomenon of practicing a skill to improve it is well understood.
    What you are missing is that they fell short. They have been taking math courses for a decade at that point, and are still behind. By high school senior age even the slowest kid should be catching on that they do not enjoy doing courses where they consistently unperform.

  13. Re:No cronyist legal restrictions in retailing on Amazon and Walmart Are In An All-Out Price War That Is Terrifying Big Brands (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    My point is not the the American system works well, or is broken, but that we are comparing 4 countries with socialized medicine to each other, and coming to the conclusion that socialized medicine is superior to free market medicine??? America is an example that socialized medicine is not a magical fix all. Simply doing any form of socialized medicine will not magically fix or make better the healthcare establishment of any and all nations. The American government spends more per citizen on socialized medicine than Canada does, America is not less publicly funded than Germany, Japan, Canada, it is more publicly funded. Yes, it is probably the worst healthcare system in the free world, but that has nothing to do with a lack of socialized medicine.

  14. Re:No cronyist legal restrictions in retailing on Amazon and Walmart Are In An All-Out Price War That Is Terrifying Big Brands (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I am not sure what you are saying? Medic(aid)/are are conspiracy theories? The US government does not pay for the medical care of millions? American healthcare was not on par with similar countries when socialized medicine was passed?

  15. Re:No cronyist legal restrictions in retailing on Amazon and Walmart Are In An All-Out Price War That Is Terrifying Big Brands (recode.net) · · Score: 0

    But American Healthcare has been publicly funded for decades. In fact, the cost of healthcare in America was under that of Germany before socialized healthcare was brought in.

  16. Re:"We're" loosing it? on UW Professor: The Information War Is Real, and We're Losing It (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Making stuff up is neither left nor right.
    That said, not every conspiracy is fake, and not every news article published by a major media station is true.

    The real story here the media is no longer owned exclusively by 2-3 rich guys.

  17. Is recording someone really a felony? I would expect it only to be against the law if you released the recording, and still a civil matter. Their are entire shows, Marketplace for one, which operate on recording people secretly to uncovering illegal and suspect business practices.

  18. Re:Tradeoffs on 'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I am not really sure what your point is. Trump, Marine Le Pen, Vladimir Putin are not members of an old defunct American political party called "the Populist Party"; And no one has ever suggested that they were.
    They are people* who hold, or are concerned with, the views of ordinary people. - (All dictionaries)

    * - I'm really not sure that Putin is a populous (more on this below). And do not follow French politics well enough to say either way for Pen.

    Trump is a populous as that is 100% his political strategy. Putin is a politician of (or from) the people, but I would not say that necessarily means be is concerned with their views.

  19. Re:Tradeoffs on 'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    democratically elected

    I don't think you understand what that word means. The UK EC member is even bound by oath to represent the interests of the EU over Britain.

    Here read the oath of office yourself:

    Having been appointed as a Member of the European Commission by the European Council, following the vote of consent by the European Parliament
    I solemnly undertake:

    to respect the Treaties and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union in the fulfilment of all my duties;
    to be completely independent in carrying out my responsibilities, in the general interest of the Union;
    in the performance of my tasks, neither to seek nor to take instructions from any Government or from any other institution, body, office or entity;
    to refrain from any action incompatible with my duties or the performance of my tasks.
    I formally note the undertaking of each Member State to respect this principle and not to seek to influence Members of the Commission in the performance of their tasks.

    I further undertake to respect, both during and after my term of office, the obligation arising therefrom, and in particular the duty to behave with integrity and discretion as regards the acceptance, after I have ceased to hold office, of certain appointments or benefits.

    Your "representative" swore an oath to not care about your interests. He states explicitly that he was elected to the position by the EU itself and holds no ties or bounds to his mother nation.

  20. Re:A completely unaccountable governing body on 'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Two world wars were fought because Europe was controlled by a group of international globalists who made backrooms deals to parse out the world between themselves. They were the first international wars because for the first time in history it was not nations fighting but international interests and power blocks.

  21. Re:Tradeoffs on 'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    We have a "representative" democracy because we do not think that people should have a say in the minutia of ruling. For example, we probably would not what to simply have everyone vote on how much they want to pay in taxes, and then average the result. We have a representative "democracy" because we think that the government should serve the people and in broad policies do what they want.

    We should not use a wiki format to draw up laws, but laws should be drawn up that reflect the will of the people.

    Trump is not a populous leader in that he wants to crowd-source the government, he is a populous leader in that he serves the will of the people.

  22. Re:Europe is the one that should be scared. on 'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I think the biggest nail in the coffin of the EU will come from America. Their is no way America will continue to be willing to bankroll Nato and fill the role as the EUs military. European nations will have to start spending tens of billions more for their own military, and China and Russia already has orders of magnitude less deterrent for any expansionary policies they might enact. The EU is simply incapable of protecting itself from any aggressive military or trade/financial move by either of these countries without protection from either America or the UK. And do not forget the past, even with antiquated equipment, Europe fell in a month, with today's supersonic jets and intercontinental missiles Europe could fall in a day.

  23. Re:Tradeoffs on 'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    populists

    So the people, as a general rule, are happy about it.

  24. Re:Tradeoffs on 'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    One might say that the web of treaties that made up a united Europe of the early 1900s, The European Union 1.0, was exactly what instigated and fueled WW I & II. We had the exact same situation then, just with a different name. A group of powerful unelected globalists controlled Europe together, and lead us into the two most deadly wars in human history while they divided the world between each other like you would a cake. The history of a Europe tied together by laws and treaties and centrally controlled is one of bloodshed and chaos.

  25. Youtube on What Killed Adobe Flash? (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 0

    Flash lost most of its use case when Youtube started switching away from it. But still very much controls gaming. Glitter Gem Kitties 5 is still a Flash exclusive. And billions of children and women play it everyday.