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  1. Dumping on Microsoft To Open Source .NET and Take It Cross-Platform · · Score: 1

    Like the oil companies are doing with prices to stay ahead of the alternatives. But, what the hell, this is a good thing. There aren't too many Linux Tycoons that are going to cry over this.

  2. Re:In other words. on FCC Confirms Delay of New Net Neutrality Rules Until 2015 · · Score: 2

    What the voters did was throw the other bums out.

    No, they did not... 95% reelection rate by the most conservative estimates. If people are 'fed up', they have a weird way of showing it.

  3. Re:In other words. on FCC Confirms Delay of New Net Neutrality Rules Until 2015 · · Score: 1

    The FCC will will never go away. Who else can protect us from seeing Janet's titties again?

  4. Re: DMCA (Defamation) on ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption · · Score: 1

    I wasn't talking about the copyright. The first reply beat me to the punch(line)

  5. Re:Meh on ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption · · Score: 1

    Yep, and you probably said it was okay when you 'accepted' the service agreement. And now there's always that lurking chance of a secret law that requires stripping encryption. They sure do make it easy for us tin hatters.

  6. Re: DMCA (Defamation) on ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption · · Score: 1

    ...without the authority of the copyright owner...

    Sure they don't have it?

  7. Re: DMCA (Defamation) on ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption · · Score: 1

    Check your contract, real careful like. You probably authorize it.

  8. subject to eavesdropping and interception on ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Okay.. I assume that's the reason. The people who believe in encryption will just have to encrypt their mail before it leaves the machine. That's just the way it is. How many times does it need to be said? If you want something done right...

    How is it that anybody trusts their providers with the kind of history they have? I mean, can we tawk?

  9. Re:The providers on FCC Confirms Delay of New Net Neutrality Rules Until 2015 · · Score: 1

    The only burden they need to face is competition, even from the government if necessary. And their obligation should simply build us a dumb pipe. We'll do the prioritizing and filtering at our end. Unfortunately, that's all a pipe dream. The voters just wake up every two years to vote for Comcast and Time/Warner and Boeing to run the government, then sink back into their self made dungeon, like that giant eel that almost ate the Millennium Falcon...

  10. Re:Light is too slow on Rosetta's Philae Probe To Land On Comet Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Then all we have to do is remove the space between us and the comet, and the signal will get here faster.

  11. Re:How f!@#$%ing cool is that?! on Rosetta's Philae Probe To Land On Comet Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Somehow pretend 'swearing' is more adult?

  12. Re:Completely agree on Police Body Cam Privacy Exploitation · · Score: 1

    There needs to be an office...

    Yes! another bureaucratic committee to administer this! Just what we need... How much do I have to give you to put my useless brother-in-law on the council, so I can get his lazy drunken ass out of the house and get some 'quality time' with the old lady?

    I swear you're gonna make it turtles all the way down.

  13. Re:Legalities on Police Body Cam Privacy Exploitation · · Score: 1

    An organization that is not directly under the command of the executive branches or legislative branches.

    An organization under its own authority is much more dangerous. Normal public oversight over the government is all that is required, not another 'committee'. So, like they say, *If you see something, say something!* Don't let them get away with it. Always always treat authority as your adversary, guilty until proven innocent, the same way we are treated by it.

  14. Re:Hello I have a seach warrant for your computers on Germans Can Get Free Heating From the Cloud · · Score: 2

    Such a confiscation would require reaching though multiple jurisdictions...

    One of the things the last 15 years should have taught us is to never trust the authorities to follow the 'law'. They can make it up as they go along. Many of these raids are just plain punitive shakedowns in nature, like a mobster breaking your kneecaps or kidnapping the wife and kids. Oh, you may be found 'innocent' in the end, but just try to get your time and money back.

  15. Re:Hello I have a seach warrant for your computers on Germans Can Get Free Heating From the Cloud · · Score: 1

    I think the issue is the 'host' company renting space to the 'cloud' will get swept up and lose their own equipment also. Might not happen in Germany, but in the US it is a distinct probability.

  16. Re:AT&T is slipping on AT&T Won't Do In-Flight Wi-Fi After All · · Score: 1

    No, they will sue the government if it ever tries to compete

  17. Not going to bother on AT&T Won't Do In-Flight Wi-Fi After All · · Score: 1

    But they will find the money to sue the government if it ever tries to provide the service.

  18. A great opportunity! on German Spy Agency Seeks Millions To Monitor Social Networks · · Score: 1

    By 2020 some of that money may be spent the black market to buy zero day exploits, unpublicized vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers.

    Don't forget the ecstasy and coke!

    Is this a way of propping up prices, like they do with dairy purchases for instance? Does this particular market need government subsidies at this time?

  19. Heh, you know where this really sucks? on New Book Argues Automation Is Making Software Developers Less Capable · · Score: 1

    Airline pilots. They're hardly teaching them how to fly the plane anymore.

  20. Re:Can't wait for this! on Mozilla Updates Firefox With Forget Button, DuckDuckGo Search, and Ads · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't worry. There will be a lot more experimentation in ad blocking extensions.

  21. there may even be attacks unknown to us on Tor Project Mulls How Feds Took Down Hidden Websites · · Score: 1

    Ya think?

    Tor will never work over the corporate wire. That is as absolute as the speed of light or any other natural law. Unregistered use of encryption will simply be blocked. Only with this in mind can any method of possibly successful circumvention emerge.

  22. Re:Reminder of who not to credit on 25th Anniversary: When the Berlin Wall Fell · · Score: 1

    Yes, If you withhold food from somebody because he doesn't work, you are making him into a slave, especially these days of intentionally created shortages to prop up prices as everything becomes mechanized. At least in chattel slavery you had a roof also.

  23. Re:Take THAT dualists and theologists! on Scientists Discover a Virus That Changes the Brain To "Make Humans More Stupid" · · Score: 1

    The brain programs itself, using its sensory inputs to 'guide' it. The software emerged from the hardware and it will die with it. The only thing left is the printout. I doubt very much it can produce a conscious being.

  24. Well, the trick is: on The Students Who Feel They Have the Right To Cheat · · Score: 1

    Don't follow bad example. You can see what's happening in the states, and around the world because of that attitude.

  25. Re:Reminder of who not to credit on 25th Anniversary: When the Berlin Wall Fell · · Score: 1

    Yes, I admit, wage slavery is more comfortable than chattel slavery. I know people who want freedom also. And they know that 'revolution' is temporary at best. They seek a more profound solution than merely putting in a more friendly gangster that will give you an extra bar of soap and toilet paper with 63% fewer splinters every week.