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  1. Re:Legal action won't help, contract action would on How Cable Monopolies Hurt ISP Customers (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    How about a 50% refund of all bills for the entire time period, with interest? I think that would be noticed.

  2. Re:The only fix on How Cable Monopolies Hurt ISP Customers (backchannel.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The only way to FIX this problem is to hold the board of directors legally liable for the crimes of the corporation. Fraud means jail.

  3. Re:it goes both ways on The Videogame Industry Is Fighting 'Right To Repair' Laws (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If you attempt to replace the HDD in your console they will claim moving the contents to the next drive is a copyright infringement. So yes they will arrest you.

  4. Re:Ever notice how Hollywood on Seven Film Studios Want 41 Web Sites Blocked By Australian ISPs (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Enough that they should be charging property taxes to pay for it. After all, it's the copyright cartel that wants copyright treated the same as real estate.

  5. If humans go away then there will be nobody to buy from the robotic factories. Automating all the jobs means no more money.

  6. Once we have recycling food replicators we can live anywhere. No power grid, no government services, no civilization outside our little house. Put everything in an airtight box and you can live in a self contained habitat in the asteroid belt. The food replicator that recycles our waste is the ONLY missing piece.

  7. Every year the list of jobs the robots can do gets longer, and the list of jobs only humans can do gets shorter. Eventually all the jobs will be on the robot list, and humans will be unemployable.

  8. Re:So, America might have a lower life expectancy. on Life Expectancy Set To Hit 90 In South Korea, Study Predicts (nature.com) · · Score: 0

    I wonder how much of the difference is due to High Fructose Corn Syrup? That stuff will kill you (in excess).

  9. Re: The US ranks with Mexico? on Life Expectancy Set To Hit 90 In South Korea, Study Predicts (nature.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If a job has so little value that only illegal workers from Mexico can do it, then that job has already been exported to Mexico. Except that American taxpayers are covering the bills (police, school for kids etc). America would be better off just making it official and let Mexico have those jobs directly (no more subsidies etc).

  10. Re:No wi-fi on Disney Develops Room With 'Ubiquitous Wireless' Charging (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The magnetic power field is easily filtered, so radio repeaters would still work. The thickness of the aluminum is not really important, they make capacitors out of aluminum foil and this metal room is just a big capacitor. Don't use thumb tacks, you'll get zapped. Strong magnetic fields are known to affect human cells.

  11. Re:Another new phone? on T-Mobile Promises Big LTE Boost From 5GHz Wi-Fi Frequencies (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Designed obsolescence works.

  12. Re:They will game the system and destroy home wi-f on T-Mobile Promises Big LTE Boost From 5GHz Wi-Fi Frequencies (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This plan looks to have 2 huge benefits: 1-Wiping out Wifi competition. 2-Not having to pay for a spectrum license.

  13. Re:Sterile and shattered. on Thrilling Discovery of Seven Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting Nearby Star (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    An unmanned probe would use much less power, over a longer time, to reach there. I think we should send the probes first before we spend money on sending organic life.

  14. Re:Great idea... But there is a problem... on NASA Is Studying A Manned Trip Around The Moon On A $23 Billion Rocket (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    1-The outer space treaty prohibits doing that, and they don't have the military to enforce such a claim. 2-If China goes broke trying to colonize the moon it means they don't go broke starting WW3, not a bad outcome.

  15. Re: Why not land on the moon? on NASA Is Studying A Manned Trip Around The Moon On A $23 Billion Rocket (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    The fur trade paid for the pilgrims to invade the countries of North America, it wasn't done for "Noble" reasons.

  16. Re:Hijacked! on NASA Is Studying A Manned Trip Around The Moon On A $23 Billion Rocket (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Or you could do the entire mission using robots, for less than $23 Billion. And without risking human life. Assuming all you wanted was the science. They didn't have that choice in 1969, now we do.

  17. Re:Why this is wrong: on Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited, Rules A New Zealand Court (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you for succinctly listing why Iran should have a nuclear weapons program.

  18. Re: Why this is wrong: on Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited, Rules A New Zealand Court (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The USA collapsed the economy of the USSR. On purpose. The American government has worked long and hard on perfecting their weapons of financial warfare.

  19. Re:Why this is wrong: on Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited, Rules A New Zealand Court (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    People are loyal to their paycheck. Clearly a better offer was made than the one the taxpayers/voters offered.

  20. Re:Bad Decisions on Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited, Rules A New Zealand Court (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The purpose is to prove that they can milk copyrights for all eternity. If your business plan was based on milking virtual assets you'd do everything you could to protect those money making assets too.

  21. Re:whose fraud??? on Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited, Rules A New Zealand Court (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Books, music, and plays existed prior to copyright. Some rather famous stuff was written without having to offer eternal royalties as payment. They just got paid for live performances. Note that most curren musicians make most of their money from live performances. The copyright cartels ensure they make little or no revenue from CD's or streaming.

  22. Re:whose fraud??? on Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited, Rules A New Zealand Court (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It would be easier to feel sympathy or empathy for the copyright cartels if they didn't keep altering the deal (copyright duration and punishments, with no new benefits to us as compensation). We can't even pray they don't alter the deal further, as we know they will.

  23. Re:Why not blame the manufacturer? on Serious Computer Glitches Can Be Caused By Cosmic Rays (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes it's cheaper. That's why they invented RAID.

  24. Re:Why not blame the manufacturer? on Serious Computer Glitches Can Be Caused By Cosmic Rays (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The use of parity on memory can prevent most of this. Unfortunately the higher density cpu's are highly vulnerable, and using mil spec parts isn't mandatory for elections.

  25. Re:"[I]f we do nothing to resist" on Should International Travelers Leave Their Phones At Home? (freecodecamp.com) · · Score: 1

    A logical direction of attack would be for everyone to pick the worst airport in the USA (for security hassles) and boycott it. And tell them what you are doing, and why. That airport would work to reduce the trouble to regain business, and that would start competition among the airports to improve the situation. You have no influence, but a multi-billions dollars per year industry does.