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  1. Re:What do you mean 'tomorrow'? on Tomorrow's Wars Will Be Livestreamed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Only fools livestreem a firefight they are in, as it lets the enemy know where they are and what they are doing. You want your combat video and pics to be uploaded after the action is over.

  2. Re:Well, there goes the 4th Amendment again... on It's Entirely Reasonable For Police To Swipe a Suspicious Gift Card, Says Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The courts have ruled that using an IR camera to search for grow ops is an illegal search. If you need special equipment to examine the cards then it's a search, not in plain sight.

  3. Re:Fucking Yanks, world police. on Accused British 'Flash Crash' Stock Trader To Be Extradited To The US (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    The legal jurisdiction of his actions is a matter of debate. Many online sites specify their "location" in the EULA, and American courts usually honour that "contract".

  4. Re:For them theoretically hacking a private org? on CIA Prepping For Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    This sounds like a good time to start a new political party. I think Americans would really jump on that bandwagon.

  5. Re:For them theoretically hacking a private org? on CIA Prepping For Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    If the NSA is actually doing all the hacking they are accused of, then they would know where it was coming from. If they are not doing all that spying, then they really need to spend more money on public relations.

  6. Re:They can go pound sand on Scientific Breakthrough Increases Plant Yields By One Third (wsu.edu) · · Score: 1

    GMO has nothing to do with feeding the poor starving masses. Western countries limit food production so we don't suppress food prices and put farmers out of business while third world farmers can't afford to buy seeds so they will never see the benefits. GMO exists only to increase profit margins. Also third world countries already have mass starvation. Food is the only limit on their population, so no matter how much food production increases they will eventually return to mass starvation.

  7. Re:Speaking of contradictions... on As Contradictions Mount, Experts Call For Declassification of Yahoo's Email-Scanning Order (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    If they can order Yahoo to write new code, they can probably order them to install outside code. I don't think a search warrant should extend to unpaid work not involved with turning over evidence you already have access to.

  8. All gag orders should expire after 1 year, with mandatory disclosure to those spied upon. If they need more time they can get a search warrant.

  9. Re:Fear is a good thing for business on Oscar Winners, Sports Stars and Bill Gates Are Building Lavish Bunkers (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    No. Even at the height of WW2 the enemy was never the largest source of death.

  10. The secret to survival in a disaster is having friends, or being prepared. Being the survival expert ensures those with supplies will find you in a disaster.

  11. The power company, the sewer company, and the water company all have (unused) last mile right-of-ways to every house. You just need to run the fiber. Google could run the fiber and rent bandwidth to everyone as a common carrier. Once installed it would eventually pay for itself through usage fees. The ability to spy on everyone would be a (advertising money) bonus.

  12. Re:With his own money? on Elon Musk Proposes Spaceship That Can Send 100 People To Mars In 80 Days (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This is not an optimized launch plan. It requires sending up the living space and cargo holds repeatedly. What you want is the smallest launcher possible, with the people crammed in like a sardine can, then loaded into a re-usable ship for the trip to mars orbit, then back into the sardine can for the landing while the trip ship goes back to earth for re-use.

  13. Can we use a VM for all programs? on Windows 10 Will Soon Run Edge In a Virtual Machine To Keep You Safe (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It sure would be nice if our OS ran every single program and app in its own private VM, with individually tailored permissions.

  14. Re:32 bits address on What Vint Cerf Would Do Differently (computerworld.com) · · Score: 0

    The domain name system should be name dot country dot com/edu/gov/org/home, with each country having master control over their domains. Giving the US complete and total control over the entire COM domain is insane.

  15. Re:Obviously on Senate Panel Authorizes Money For Mission To Mars (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you know there is no income tax collected on Mars? No property tax either. And not one cent collected for welfare or healthcare.

  16. Re:Great idea.. :( on Senate Panel Authorizes Money For Mission To Mars (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Rule number 1 of a business: cost control. The USA spends more on education than anyone else, but ranks near the bottom for results. Spends more on health care than anyone else, but ranks near the bottom. Spends more on infrastructure but ranks near the bottom. It's a pity the Republicans don't bring any business savvy to running America (There is a reason successful business men are called 1 percenters, most Republicans are poorly educated bible thumpers and that's what they bring to government).

  17. Re:Waste of money on Senate Panel Authorizes Money For Mission To Mars (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Spending that money to eliminate fossil fuels would make more sense. The biggest threat to humanity isn't asteroids, it's our inability to deal with problems where the solution would be inconvenient.

  18. Re:Waste of money on Senate Panel Authorizes Money For Mission To Mars (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    A manned visit to Mars is a PR stunt that will suck up all the resources currently being used for rovers and probes that generate real science. A single boots and flag mission could wipe out all science missions for the next forty years. Getting rid of the space station and all the Buck Rogers money sinks is the smartest thing we can do if we want real science.

  19. Re:Wrong Focus on Senate Panel Authorizes Money For Mission To Mars (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    A manned science mission to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn would need a nuclear rocket with long term life support and good radiation shielding. It would give better science results than going to Mars too. More chance of alien life too.

  20. Re:Waste of money on Senate Panel Authorizes Money For Mission To Mars (usatoday.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The reason the USA doesn't do those big flashy rocket missions any more is because they ran out of Nazi rocket scientists, and now must rely on poorly educated Americans. With the refugee problem in the EU now, maybe this is a good time to stock up on people from countries with a good education system?

  21. Re:Don't blame the courts. on Appeals Court Decision Kills North Carolina Town's Gigabit Internet (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Municipal broadband affects the inter-state commerce of internet service, it changes the price in the national market. This means the federal government can use the inter-state commerce law to regulate it (this is the same reasoning they used to regulate people growing marijuana for personal use)..

  22. Re:Right. on Appeals Court Decision Kills North Carolina Town's Gigabit Internet (hothardware.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Blame the politicians for taking bribes, or being influenced by deep pocket corporations. People can demand these monopoly laws be removed, the voting record of the state politicians is a matter of public record so you know who to blame. Politicians only get away with this corruption because the voters don't care. Also spin off the municipal broadband as a private corporation and they can keep it running.

  23. Re:Astoundingly stupid... on NYPD Says Talking About Its IMSI Catchers Would Make Them Vulnerable To Hacking (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Tapping phones requires a judicial warrant. If we know the model of IMSI catcher then we'd know if they have the ability to tap our phones without a warrant. Providing that information to a judge might result in a judicial order requiring a judges warrant to use it.

  24. They will charge for the fast lane. Priority traffic is a service and costs money to provide, so clearly it will have a cost. Corporations love money, so clearly the cost will be as high as the market will bear.

  25. Re:Propose 'A' Technology? on Stanford Engineers Propose A Technology To Break The Net Neutrality Deadlock (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Your solution will result in the ISP;s degrading the slow lane so that most people will want the fast one, and they will charge for the fast lane. The purpose of Network Neutrality is to prevent "Fast Lane Extortion" by the ISP's, and your plan directly facilitates the ISP's goal. I can only assume the Stanford researchers received a large cheque for their parroting the party line.