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  1. They don't need a VPN for that, they just need to route the traffic through another country and have an ally intercept it there. Using a VPN increases their workload, gets the sheeple thinking about security, and introduces the possibility that someone will make a good one they can't spy on. This is right wing politicians trying to prove they "think of the children" so vote for me.

  2. Re:Yey Free Speech Great Britain on Online Pornography Age Checks To Be Mandatory in UK From 15 July (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Saudi Arabia views itself as the leader of the Muslim World. They are systematically taking down every country that doesn't bow to their leadership. This isn't the first time the President of the USA has been hired to do a job.

  3. Re:Yey Free Speech Great Britain on Online Pornography Age Checks To Be Mandatory in UK From 15 July (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The purpose of the American second amendment is to ensure that Rich White Men can always have private armies to keep the poor rabble in their place. History shows that a well trained professional army can reliably crush a much larger armed mob. The American war of independence was faught over Corporate Taxes.

  4. If it's a problem then Apple will pay someone to make modems.

  5. There is a natural tendency of large corporations to shift from inovation and agility to rent seeking and lobyist. Those that follow this path eventually die.

  6. Re:Opens door for AMD or Huawei or Nokia? on Intel Will Exit 5G Phone Modem Business, Hours After Apple and Qualcomm Settle Licensing Dispute (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    If the patents are essential to 5G then how can China be selling 5G equipment outside of China? Do they have a site licence, or did they offer a "Deal you can't refuse" to Qualcom?

  7. Re:Step 0: Become a person! on How To Stop Amazon From Listening To Your Alexa Recordings (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 2

    You think the NSA built all those massive server farms to record meta-data? They could do that with a single blade server. They are recording everything. Can't actually analyze it, not enough people. But rest assured, within hours of the next 9/11 attack they will have all the pieces of who the suicide bombers were and where they used to live and work.

  8. The service industry (waitress etc) needs physical presence. Since tele-commuting means exporting jobs to the third world the service industry will make up 75% of our jobs.

  9. Using a gas generator like in an airbag would ensure deployment before impact. Having crumple zones and a max allowed flying altitude would complete the safety picture. You don't need 4x the battery power for redundancy, you only need sufficient redundant power to land.

  10. Bird strikes are a major issue for civil air travel. Flying cars must be automated, even a good pilot can't fly in swarms through city streets safely. You would have to be watching in 6 directions at the same time.

  11. Re:Third-world country on Are America's Big Telecom Companies Suppressing Fiber? (salon.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For the Ultra-Rich America has the best healthcare money can buy. For everyone else it's a third world nightmare.

  12. If you work for the American Federal Government then you should be bound by the Constitution of the USA. If Google is being paid for spying, then they work for the American Federal Government.

  13. Re:Still needs to run for a while... on Canadian Company Gets $68M Investment To Turn CO2 Into Fuel (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What I know of the ultra-wealthy gives me no reason to think they would object to converting large tracts of productive farmland to bio-diesel production, to be burnt, and thereby generate CO2.

  14. Re:too expensive on Canadian Company Gets $68M Investment To Turn CO2 Into Fuel (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Their plan can't be to burn the fuel generated from CO2. The process of making fuel takes more energy than you get out of the fuel, so you'll always lose money on the process.

  15. Re:Another one of these ? on Canadian Company Gets $68M Investment To Turn CO2 Into Fuel (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If it can be done with Nuclear then it can be done with Solar with batteries. The laws of physics work like that. Unless you're talking about doing it in interstellar space.

  16. Re:In 20 years oil will be worth half on Canadian Company Gets $68M Investment To Turn CO2 Into Fuel (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Oil will never hit zero, just like coal and wood never hit zero but both used to be the major source of fuel. If the situation between USA and China keeps heating up you might very well have a tank in 20 years.

  17. Re:I could not care less if it imploded tomorrow on Social Media Bosses Could Be Liable For Harmful Content, Leaked UK Plan Reveals (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If the Social Media companies object to this then they will move their servers out of ( insert country of bad laws here ). There is always a less regulated country.

  18. Re:All hail the almighty advertising dollar! /s on Android TV Update Puts Home-Screen Ads On Multi-Thousand-Dollar Sony Smart TVs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect somewhere in the papers included in your TV there is a "use of TV is consent to EULA", and a link to an online page listing the actual terms that are subject to change without notice.

  19. The Arm chip has a much higher clock rate than the (old) Intel chip. The Intel chip requires fewer clock cycles per instruction, but not enough to make up the difference. The Arm chip can probably emulate the Intel chip at full speed.

  20. Re:I've read the individual stories on Bay Area Tech Firms Laying Off 1,200 Workers By Memorial Day (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 2

    Firing engineers is also something they do when moving the business to China.

  21. You can have: 1-A user pay for profit system (excludes the poor, divert research funds to profit), 2-a user pay co-op system(pay what you can is "unfair" and hard to organize), or 3-a taxpayer funded and run one (ick more taxes why do I need to pay for this?). A huge part (most) of the world's science is currently funded by government with the profits privatized.

  22. I suspect the Sea People would abduct local musicians to sing for them at sea, literally pirating local music.

  23. Re:Jesus they're getting as desperate on Music Labels Sue Charter, Complain That High Internet Speeds Fuel Piracy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So they should change their policy to eliminate disconects for copyright infringement? It's the policy that the music cartel is complaining about here.

  24. Re:Indeed on First-of-Its-Kind US Nuclear Waste Dump Marks 20 Years (apnews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A nuclear reactor "Burns" radiation to run a steam engine. Dumping radioactive waste in the ground is dumping fuel in the ground. Use fuel reprossessing to remove the contaminants that prevent it working in a normal reactor and re-use it as new fuel. We have the technology to permanenly and safely dispose of all radioactive isotopes, it just costs more than dumping.

  25. Re: Are you afraid of a new vote, Brexit traitors? on Online Petition Site Crashed By Millions of 'Cancel Brexit' Signers (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Once the UK is kicked out of the EU things will get bad for them. Then they will beg for re-admittence under the old rules but get offered the same deal the rest of the EU gets instead. I suppose that's progress.