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  1. Title is wrong on Japan Will Make Its Last-Ever VCR This Month (mentalfloss.com) · · Score: 1

    The VCRs are made in China by a Japanese company. VCRs haven't been made *in* Japan for a while now.

  2. Re:It is Their Site on Facebook Decides Which Killings We're Allowed to See · · Score: 1

    You can't discriminate based on race, religion, sexual preference.

    Sure you can. We do it everyday. I can't be a member of the congressional black caucus. I can't be a member of a WNBA team. I can't be a member of AARP.

    Exclusion happens all of the time. It's not always a bad thing.

  3. Re:But they did file charges against Saucier on DOJ Will Not File Charges Against Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Hilary's crime is needing to GET SHIT DONE and having to break the rules to do it.

    Hillary got shit done? Please list her accomplishments.

  4. 18 USC 793. This statute explicitly states that whoever, “entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any documentthrough gross negligence permits the same to removed from its proper place of custodyor having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody.shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.” Comey called her “extremely careless.” That was highly charitable. But even by that standard, Hillary was grossly negligent with classified material. Comey says Hillary had no intent to transmit information to foreign powers. But that’s not what the statute requires.

    18 USC 1924. This statute states that any employee of the United States who “knowingly removes [classified] documents or materials without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.” Hillary set up a private server explicitly to do this.

    18 USC 798. This statute states that anyone who “uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United Statesany classified informationshall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.” Hillary transmitted classified information in a manner that harmed the United States; Comey says she may have been hacked.

    18 USC 2071. This statute says that anyone who has custody of classified material and “willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years.” Clearly, Hillary meant to remove classified materials from government control.

  5. Dissenting judge is wrong on Password Sharing Is a Federal Crime, Appeals Court Rules (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From the article:

    "Notably, Reinhardt appears to have a commanding knowledge of what constitutes “hacking,” something that comes up over and over again both in the media and in the courts. He said that the decision “loses sight of the anti-hacking purpose of the CFAA.”

    “There is no doubt that a typical hacker accesses an account ‘without authorization’: the hacker gains access without permission—either from the system owner or a legitimate account holder,” he wrote. Using someone else’s password with their permission but not the system’s owner isn’t “hacking,” but that’s what the court is treating it as."

    Using another person's password with their permission but not with the system owner's permission is definitely a form of hacking. It's called social engineering. Social engineering is an attack vector that relies heavily on human interaction and often involves tricking people into breaking normal security procedures. Just because someone easily provided their account information doesn't mean that it was done so legitimately. It is ultimately the system owner who gets to decide who has authorization to their systems and what constitutes authorized access. At the same time, it is the system owner's responsibility to educate it's users as to what is allowed.

    I would also take issue with the sentence where the writer claims that the judge has a "commanding knowledge" of "hacking".

  6. Re:A question of definitions? on Password Sharing Is a Federal Crime, Appeals Court Rules (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I wish I had mod points for this. It's pretty black and white here. Common sense tells you that there is one owner to the account john.smith and that only that specific person is authorized to use it while they are employed.

  7. Re:How about having a user accessable mem card slo on iPhone 7 To Start at 32GB Storage, Says WSJ (time.com) · · Score: 2

    Having had contacts on removal cards wear out while in a mobile device and fail (SIM cards included), I'd actually prefer something with fewer mechanical links which is soldered on. More drop safe.

    On the other hand, you can't replace the soldered mem cards by yourself. Which is worse, having removable memory that can wear out (but you can back it up), or having non-removable memory card go bad?

  8. It's the best mobile OS that no one is using. Sad. 100% gesture based - no buttons needed.

    I love my Z10, but I'll probably be moving to the Priv soon.

  9. Re:Scammed on Historic Route 66 To Feature Solar Road Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Monorail! Monorail!

    I've sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, and, by gum, it put them on the map!

  10. Re:Devil's Advocate on Taking the Headphone Jack Off Phones Is User-Hostile and Stupid (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    7. A 3.5mm socket is an unsealed hole in a piece of electronics that does not respond well to moisture but is likely to be exposed to wet environments.

    You mean like the speaker grill, usb, hdmi, and lightning ports?

    One hole is all it takes to let moisture in.

  11. Re:It's amazing she still has defenders on Assange: Wikileaks Will Publish 'Enough Evidence' To Indict Hillary Clinton (rt.com) · · Score: 2

    Are you a fucking retarded asshat??
    Her huge crime is sending emails with a blackberry???!?!
    Her predecessor Colin Powell used his own email server...

    Her predecessor was Condoleezza Rice. The rules and regulations regarding electronic communications were firmed up before Clinton took office.

  12. BB10 is a great mobile OS on BlackBerry Really Struggling In Android Market (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    I have tried switching to Android and iOS and couldn't do it. I lost too much integration between my main apps. The Hub is where I live the most followed by calendar, contacts, remember, browser, twitter, maps and weather app. Occasionally I use VMware Horizon View. That's pretty much all I do. I don't play games and I rarely use other apps (I have access to the google play store via Snap). The BB10 OS is intuitive, responsive and completely integrated.

    I would like to stay on BB10 for my next device, but I know that's probably not possible.

  13. Since when does law trump the Constituion? on Secret Text In Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access To Email Records (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no way that this can be constitutional.

  14. Re:Hydogen is just a way to store energy on Tesla Co-Founder Says Hydrogen Fuel Cells Are a 'Scam' (electrek.co) · · Score: 3

    They hate nothing more than people charging up at home, on their own terms, with the electricity provider of their choosing, possibly with their own solar.

    What's to stop people from creating their own hydrogen at home? Even running the conversion on solar power.

  15. Re:Bomb or missile on EgyptAir Flight 804 Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    There are no other alternatives - modern planes don't just break up mid flight

    Sure they do. It's not often but it happens. Plans have lost critical parts during flight, like tails. Fuselages have failed like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243

  16. Re:Really Headline? Misleading on iOS 9.3.2 Bricking Some 9.7-inch iPad Pro Devices With 'Error 56' Message (macrumors.com) · · Score: 2

    Bricking doesn't apparently mean what it used to. There is no evidence to support that this is completely unfixable.

    Thank you for pointing that out. I hate the bastardization of IT lingo.

  17. It would need to be done at multiple levels. Reform at the federal level is fine, but each of the states has their own laws as well. At least that is my understanding.

  18. Any thoughts? Good or bad about this.

    Very hard to make it work. The reason being the company isn't paying payroll somewhere else, they're paying another company to provide a service. That's a tricky loophole to close, because B2B services (even offshore ones) is a perfectly legitimate thing to do for allthe right reasons as well as the wrong ones.

    Correct. Even it wasn't a true B2B service and they were paying the payroll the US-based company could just create another company and pay the company for services rendered.

    In my experience, that is how many companies get around rules, regulations, etc here in the US: Just create another company. I'm not saying it's wrong, I'm just pointing out that existing laws don't take those practices into account.

  19. Are you trying to tell 18-year olds to start work sooner so they can retire with more money?

    They can either retire with more money or retire sooner. Either way it's a huge positive. On average, the longer a person waits to enter the workforce the longer they will have to work to secure their retirement funds.

  20. Their taxes have nothing to do with the subsidies though. That's a separate issue entirely. Most people would also agree that there should be minimum tax rates for companies and individuals.

  21. That's because those industries are also much larger. If you look at subsidy per unit produced it's actually quite small in the whole scheme of things.

    However, our goal should be zero subsidies for everything.

  22. I totally agree and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

  23. Run Windows 7 in a VDI environment and disable any instruction sets newer than Skylake. I'm in the process of moving all users to VDI for full DR capability. The ability to run Win 7 for years is a side benefit.

  24. Unplugged...but still plugged on YouTube To Launch 'Unplugged' Online TV Service In 2017 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's funny that they're calling it Unplugged even though technically you still have to be physically plugged in to a ISP somewhere to receive the content.

    Yeah, I know there are mobile wireless plans out there. But realistically you won't be able to use them because of data caps. And yes, there are WISP's out there too, but those still require wiring at the premise. So my point still stands.

  25. Every year that a person waits to save for retirement costs them serious money. At this age, these people should be educated enough to realize that they need to start working ASAP for self sustenance and to start saving retirement. It also speaks to the entitlement of that generation as well. Are they working during the year off from school? I doubt the majority are.

    Unfortunately at the same the government is classifying people as old as 26 as kids/dependents so they can continue living at home and not earning a living. Another example of government subsidizing/rewarding undesirable behavior.