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  1. "credible sources"? Please, pull the other one...

    If there was ever a source of "fake news", it would be in the weather forecast.

    Maybe something practical would be a drone with a huge canopy hovering overhead, but having to carry an umbrella that needs a net connection to tell me when I should open it? Oh dear! I hope it doesn't flash the red light when indoors. I might break a mirror or knock over the salt shaker.

  2. What Apple doesn't say is more important on Apple Says Air Exposure Is Causing iPhone 6s Battery Problems (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What is causing this "exposure to air"? Can't they just spell out "manufacturing defect"?

  3. Wells Fargo says the same thing... Well, minus the 'net neutrality' thing...

  4. Isn't this a simple contractual dispute? Probably there is no such thing as a simple contractual dispute. It just doesn't seem to be about patents as it is about licensing. Look up "Apple"? Yeah yeah, trademarks, but the idea is there.

  5. So it begs(?) the question on Supreme Court Rules For Samsung in Smartphone Fight With Apple (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this a good thing, or a bad thing?

  6. Sheesh! All this crying about censorship on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft Will Create 'Hash' Database To Remove Extremist Content (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Count the votes. It's what people want.

    We just need to make it technologically difficult, if not impossible, to overcome that. Working the social angle will get us nowhere.

  7. Is this how things look on 4chan? on Erich Bloch, Who Helped Develop IBM Mainframe, Dies At 91 (google.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm just wondering, never been there yet. I guess the mountain comes to Mohamed

    Eh, anyway, you're original premise is false.

  8. Re:SuperPACs can go first on Should Domain-Name Registrations Require A Verifiable Real Name? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Go back to the beginning of the thread. I see no need to repeat myself. My argument is perfectly valid and correct. At this point you're just being a goof.

    Go after the people who take the bribes, stop rewarding them, and the problem is solved. Maintain your present stance and expect another ten thousand years of the same old thing.

  9. Re:My, how times have changed on Erich Bloch, Who Helped Develop IBM Mainframe, Dies At 91 (google.com) · · Score: 1

    Throw this little bit of info at him. He's just on a Trump rage thing. The link shows that IBM was as heavy into politics as anybody. They're not doing anything especially different. It wasn't necessary to Godwin this thread at all.

  10. Re:The "cost of compliance" on China's New 'Social Credit Score' Law Means Full Access To Customer Data (insurancejournal.com) · · Score: 1

    The Chinese market is a monkey trap. The opportunities are to great to let go.

  11. Re:The "cost of compliance" on China's New 'Social Credit Score' Law Means Full Access To Customer Data (insurancejournal.com) · · Score: 1

    You may tank sales and encourage folks to find substitutes.

    Nonsense. It doesn't happen in politics, it won't happen in the marketplace. People will believe every little lie they put out. It is their patriotic duty.

  12. Re:End-to-end encryption on Encryption Backdoor Sneaks Into UK Law (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Steganography HIDES the data so the bastards won't know it is there.

    That's kinda what "security through obscurity" is, like hiding the key (to the first door) under the doormat.

  13. Re:SuperPACs can go first on Should Domain-Name Registrations Require A Verifiable Real Name? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course I do. And it's a perfectly good one. But you seem to have trouble differentiating politicians from children. I really can't argue past that. And since you maintain false beliefs about my voting and who I support. I figure there's no point in taking any of this seriously anymore. But I am right, and you are wrong, and that's that.

  14. What cost? The companies shouldn't care one way or another. The "cost" will merely be passed on...

  15. Re:Too many websites use Flash on Chrome 55 Now Blocks Flash, Uses HTML5 By Default (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    It's too bad Adobe can't write secure software.

    Sure they can. It's just not worth the expense. Besides, the OS is just as much to blame. If it ran in read only memory, this wouldn't be such a big issue.

  16. Re:For added fun. on Encryption Backdoor Sneaks Into UK Law (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, no doubt about it, we will have to be mobile, and maybe plant little self powered access points all over the city, in office broom closets, or in sunny spots in the street. Kinda "sprinkle" them around, keep 'em chasing after ghosts. What is really needed is to turn the majority away from authoritarian governments. That is the hard part. In the meantime, cat and mouse it is. May the best man win...

  17. Re:SuperPACs can go first on Should Domain-Name Registrations Require A Verifiable Real Name? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    I do every time I can. Why don't you?

    See? That, among other things, is why I know you're just messing with me.

    Want to offer heroin to a child as a bribe? In your world, that's fine and there should be no penalty. Or offer to give money to a doctor so someone else doesn't get life-saving treatment? Again, you're in the clear!

    *There you go again!*

  18. Re:End-to-end encryption on Encryption Backdoor Sneaks Into UK Law (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Security through obscurity, yeah, I guess that could work. Might not do much against traffic analysis though. I still would rather see some form of independence from the ISP where we can broadcast and receive without anybody knowing where the signal is going. You know, radio...

    All trends indicate a general move towards authoritarianism the world wide. Only technology can protect us from majority opinion in that direction.

  19. Re:For added fun. on Encryption Backdoor Sneaks Into UK Law (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    P2P ad-hoc doesn't really work.

    So it's hopeless then? Should we just put our hands up, and say *We surrender*? I, for one, would love to know what would work. Personally I see the latency, bandwidth, jamming issue as a temporary one. Obstructions are meant to be overcome. Let's use any and all means available, and let the authoritarians weep.

  20. Re:SuperPACs can go first on Should Domain-Name Registrations Require A Verifiable Real Name? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    I said nothing that was "fact free". I know where I stand, and I will keep standing for what is right. Why don't you show some courage and vote out those who take bribes? When will you stand up, open your eyes and see where the real corruption lies? You're just following the crowd. There's no courage in that. And it appears, in your quest to demonize me, you continue to completely misread what I'm saying. Not that I mind of course. I just find it rather odd, but given the circumstances, following the path of least resistance is to be expected. So, like, I can say little more than, *whatever floats yer boat*. Just don't expect any improvement or evolution. Your way means only stagnation, something we have suffered for over ten thousand years. Time for a change, don't you think?

  21. Re:End-to-end encryption on Encryption Backdoor Sneaks Into UK Law (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    What will be your solution be when your comm provider blocks "illegal" encryption?

  22. Re:For added fun. on Encryption Backdoor Sneaks Into UK Law (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    It can also plausibly be read as software vendors - including open source ones resident in the UK (or for who it is considered reasonable to compel even though they are outside the uk).

    Better encryption will just have to be anonymously created and maintained. But, once again, our dependence on the ISP for service makes all that moot when they engage in deep packet inspection and block and report all unauthorized protocols traveling through their wire. The only long term solution will be P2P ad hoc networking. There is no other way.

  23. The biggest danger is from our own politicians we always reelect and their fickle panicky fanatical followers.

    *We have found the enemy...*

    Anyway, it's very easy for Twitter to make public statements while doing something else entirely. It's a good PR effort

  24. Positively creepy on Erich Bloch, Who Helped Develop IBM Mainframe, Dies At 91 (google.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this what Slashdot is deteriorating into? Not that this offends me or anything, in fact I find this sort of trolling somewhat amusing, but there are other sites for this kind of stuff.

  25. Re:SuperPACs can go first on Should Domain-Name Registrations Require A Verifiable Real Name? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    There are laws. And there are differences spelled out between juveniles and adults in those laws. And do familiarize yourself with the famous affluenza kid, another clear cut case of failure in the criminal justice system.

    You can carry on until the end of days with all your loony analogies. You are still wrong about who should bear the burden in bribery cases. It just does not matter one whit how many people agree with you. I know it is wrong, simply because it is. It is not subject to interpretation or argument. Some things really are absolute, despite any human feelings or opinion.