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  1. Re:Long-term loss on Netflix Blinks, Will Pay Comcast For Network Access · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How does streaming 4k HD video fit in the open nature of the internet ? Netflix is merely entertainment, you don't need it to live, even less to survive. Why should Netflix free-ride over ISP investments ?

  2. Re:If Comcast were Exxon on Netflix Blinks, Will Pay Comcast For Network Access · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Regulation leads to regulatory capture, which leads not to communism, but to oligarchy. There has been no real implementation of "communism" anytime, anywhere.

  3. Re:I don't see what the fuss is about. on Most Alarming: IETF Draft Proposes "Trusted Proxy" In HTTP/2.0 · · Score: 1

    The NSA, GCHQ and other acronym agency are already spying everybody, so let's just formalize that even more. HTTPS MITM very basics is wrong, formalized or not.

  4. Re: Network vs Content providers on ISP Fights Causing Netflix Packet Drops · · Score: 1

    And you end up with regulatory capture as seen in the US with the FCC, and in Canada with the CRTC, where conflict of interest is king.

  5. Recursion on We Can Avoid a Surveillance State Dystopia · · Score: 1

    I guess this /. news is in itself sci-fi !

  6. Re:Rule of acquisition 18 on Star Trek Economics · · Score: 1

    what you describe is called "resentment"; my life sucks, so I'll damn make sure yours do as well.

  7. Re:Rule of acquisition 18 on Star Trek Economics · · Score: 1

    .. but putting gasoline in the tank of your car is pretty irrelevant if you are thirsty and heavily dehydrated...

  8. Re:Rule of acquisition 18 on Star Trek Economics · · Score: 1

    or Holodeck manufacture / availability.

  9. Re:Wow on Star Trek Economics · · Score: 1

    Bs... the earth at the time of the K-T extinction was pretty much in a infinitely worse shape for life than "today".

  10. Re:Wow on Star Trek Economics · · Score: 1

    No, greed is universally good.

    The problem is that, by making people to believe that greed is bad, governments (and businesses) make a whole generation refuse to fight to get out of their misery, for their own purpose. This "problem" is actually a clever solution for the powerful: you make people believe that the system is working for them, but what actually happen, is that you remove competition by being the only /few/ greedy one. The best trick a thief can achieve is to manage to be the only thieve in the world. "Legality" merely serving who control the use of force.

  11. Re:Wow on Star Trek Economics · · Score: 1

    Greed is not a problem. Greed is survival. Greed has made the world we live in now. Greed is GOOD.

  12. Re:Wow on Star Trek Economics · · Score: 1

    Technically, there is no pollution. "Nature" has no concept for good or bad, no right or wrong. Pollution only has a meaning as "what is detrimental to human survival" in a human-centered (and/or "life"-centered context). But, guess what ? "human" and "lif" are irrelevant to "Nature".

  13. Re:Wow on Star Trek Economics · · Score: 1

    Come on... environmentalist are not that smart, they barely look at the first order implication of their policies, not all the chain :-/ It was rather fun to discuss with Greenpeace folks in Montreal, while they were all enjoying 25degC heated buildings when it was -20degC outside. Actually, the conversation stopped as soon as I put them face to face with themselves. Same happened when I pointed out the $100 point and shoot camera some guy was using was only $100 because millions of them were made using a lot of not-so-ecological components.

  14. Re:Wow on Star Trek Economics · · Score: 1

    Just wait for the first Cylon war to happen... No traitor needed this time, mankind will be decimated.

  15. Or managers !

  16. Re:Cost on Ugly Trends Threaten Aviation Industry · · Score: 1

    Does B. H. Obama count for one ?

  17. Re:Cost on Ugly Trends Threaten Aviation Industry · · Score: 1

    It will merely be a new beginning... much needed.

  18. Burden of proof on German Domain Registrar Liable For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You cannot be prosecutor, judge and jury. You are still presumed innocent until PROVEN guilty. The domain shall be taken down only if instructed to do so by the competent court of justice whenever its owner is found guilty.

    The fertilizer example is bogus, the tangible property, the fertilizer, has been sold and you have no right to take it back if you discover its purpose. A better example would be a rented car. If A rent B a car, the responsibility of the car's usage is on B, even if A is aware B is speeding. The same way, if C rents a place and tell the landlord he's gonna run a brothel, the responsibility of running the brothel is on C, not on the landlord.

  19. Re:Let me be the first to say... on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 1

    To you talk to talk, or can you walk the walk ? It's easy to say "I quit" in an online forum, much harder in real life.

  20. Re:Certainly on Should Everybody Learn To Code? · · Score: 1

    Brainy is the new sexy.

  21. Re:Yikes. on Animal Drug Investigation Reveals Pet Medication Often Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    I am stupid enough to like dangerous stuff, so if Alzheimer pops off, there is a high probability of chances I will end my own life... abruptly.

  22. Re:Great idea on EU Secretly Plans To Put a Back Door In Every Car By 2020 · · Score: 1

    There will not be such device on any emergency and "official" car, what did you expect, really ?

  23. Re:Pass on $499 3-D Printer Drew Plenty of Attention at CES (Video) · · Score: 2

    just wait 6 month and the file format will be reversed engineered, same for the software.

  24. Re:Need suckers to pay for benefits! on Detroit Wants Its Own High-Tech Visa · · Score: 1

    Actually, Michigan is more gun friendly than is California... It would be a better choice for me to go there. And yes, for me, the more firearm restriction there is, the least is the place desirable.

  25. Re:But letting immigrants in would ruin GOP chance on Detroit Wants Its Own High-Tech Visa · · Score: 1

    I would vote GOP if I had the chance to.