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  1. Re:Haven't we learned yet? on Homeland Security Border Agents Can Seize Your Phone (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    International shipping goes though customs, where they definitely may open any package they want too. Letting the devices out of your physical control gives adversaries but more opportunity to compromise or analyze the device.

  2. Re:You can load them even faster... on Google Tests Ads That Load Faster and Use Less Power (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yes the content can be good quality, but the ads are almost universally crap. And i think the subscription model is not very good as well, as many of the sites I visit, I read less than ten articles a month. Allowing a micro-transaction alternative would be great if you could get most of the sites on the same page, or at least a grouping of compatible pages. A monthly subscription fee is split over the sites you actually visit that month, with some bonus or incentive for higher levels.

    TLDR: If the business model is annoying, it deserves to die.

  3. Re:Stop breaking the law on MIT Says Their Anonymity Network Is More Secure Than Tor (pcmag.com) · · Score: 0

    Tell that to you U.S. intelligence agencies who created and continue to fund Tor to this day. ;)

  4. Re:An article in search of a problem on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    ISA Never went away, it just got cleverly disguised.

  5. Re:Science is still vague and unsettled on Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    >The regulatory burden on pharmaceuticals is necessary because of the risks.

    You get some type I errors, but what you don't see is the type II errors. All those people who might have been saved had a pharmaceutical option been available earlier, or had experimental compound been more widely available. Right now from that data I've seen current regulation vs 1963, creates moderately less type 1 errors, but vastly more type 2 errors.

  6. Re:It's better than what we have now... on Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, a really rational government would need to craft policies as experiments with a true control group.

  7. Re:Science is still vague and unsettled on Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if the diagnosis was flawless, the prescription was a steaming pile of excrement.

    Pharmaceuticals are a particularly bad example to use to claim market failures. The regulatory burden on the industry is uniquely burdensome with huge barriers to entry for any particular product. Even then there are companies that seek out and test interesting orphan drugs.

    As for planned obsolescence, cars now last upwards of 200,000 miles, double what happened 40 years ago. Checkers were pretty much indestructible (500,000 miles were possible 300,000 was the minimum unless you bent the frame) on most of them and model years had interchangeable body parts, , but were so heavy the only got 7-8 miles per gallon. Smart phones are kind of crap, and would last a lot longer if the software were fully open source, however it's not what people care about. They want "cool" and "carrier subsidized" which means short model lifespans and barely two years of support.

    If you don't begrudge Jane and John "SUV" Doe their choice you can't say it's inefficient, Maybe a 2nd, 3rd and fourth kid are were in the plan at one time. Maybe they have a boat or RV they like to haul around every weekend in the summer, or maybe "duude!! 4-wheel drive,!" Unless you wasn't to substitute your criteria for what the consumer was actually using, how can you say it's inefficient? Even though you may be more intelligent the Jane and Johns of the world when it comes to many decisions, you still aren't intelligent enough or moral enough to run their lives for them.

  8. You are confusing genetic with phrenology. Eugenics just means good genetics. How you practice that may or may not have the grievous civil rights concerns.

  9. Even though IQ is not perfectly heritable, for every 10 points from the mean for your parents, the bell curve of your expected IQ moves 5-6 points. And there is certainly at least some epigenetic effects thrown in for good measure.

    And even though some groups in society out breed others, but a eugenics program just with monogamous couples would take forever. And the consequences of breaking monogamy would be devastating to western culture.

    Random mating selection will give you the greatest diversity, but doesn't move the average genetic expression of a population, a provably non-optimal strategy if you are looking to increase the expression of a few particular traits you have to select for it

  10. It's a trap!!! on Telecoms Promise 5G Networks If EU Cripples Net Neutrality (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The worst expected consequence of keeping neutrality,is a little slower roll-out, but that mean cheaper and better tested when it does roll out.

  11. Re: Double Standard on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    With respect to unemployment benefits.http://www.uimn.org/applicants/needtoknow/job-separations/index.jsp Quiting usually disqualifies you from benefits (completely of for many weeks), whereas only certain sorts of firing carries a disqualification.

  12. Re: Double Standard on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    Likely not true. Most states have different rules for laid off, fired for cause, and fired without cause, and quit.

  13. Re: loyalty is a two-way street on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Right unilateral breach makes just about any contract voidable by the injured party.

  14. SecOp-sy Dropsy on Hackers Can Use Smart Watch Movements To Reveal A Wearer's ATM PIN (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Put your smart watch on
    Take your smart watch off
    Put your smart watch on
    And shake it all about
    Do the SecOp-sy Dropsy And pass you're secrets around
    And that's what it's all about!!!

  15. Re:Does it still specify exFAT as file system? on Samsung Unveils World's First UFS Storage Cards, Could Replace MicroSD (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    JFFS2 would be an even better choice. Unfortunately certain venders make it really difficult to implement third-party file-system on their OS.

  16. They have an open source driver on Linux, but the VBIOS is still closed.

  17. Dude... far out though here. on Pod Planes Could Change Travel Forever (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    This is just making a really big fighter jet, and turning the wing-mounted bomb bays into passenger cabins.

  18. Re:Niggers Beware on Pod Planes Could Change Travel Forever (cnn.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Dude, Both 'merica and it's Cheeto messiah are going to be great again!

  19. Depends on the power supply, Most of them can run more than 75W on the six pin, as their 8-pin connector merges the extra grounds to the six-pin ground wires, which they simply beef up to take it. The 8-pin is rated for 150W, and the only difference with the 6 pins is 2 additional ground pins being added.

  20. Re:it can't be for distributing copyrighted materi on Man Who Teaches People How To Repair Their MacBooks Alludes To Apple Lawsuit (gamerevolution.com) · · Score: 2

    A "bad " novel is just as eligible for copyright protection as a good one. Skill does not make the resulting work eligible for copyright. I don't categorically agree or disagree, a specific schematic may or may not count as a creative work in the definition. Put the ten best novelist in the world and ask them to write a book with 22 specific plot points, you have zero chance of any two books being the same. If you ask the 10 best schematic drafters to draw a circuit with 22 components, I would bet there is more than a zero chance that two would be the same, (and this is the level at which Louis shows the schematics). If you are diagramming something with 350 components, and 15-20 sub-circuts (depending on how you want to divide them), then that final tangible collection certainly is eligible for copyright protection.

  21. And this is why DRM is bad... mmmkay? on Security Researcher Publishes How-To Guide To Crack Android Full Disk Encryption (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 1

    And exploit of the widevine DRM subsystem running in trust-zone. The second exploit is possible because you don't control the keys to the kingdom.

  22. Re:it can't be for distributing copyrighted materi on Man Who Teaches People How To Repair Their MacBooks Alludes To Apple Lawsuit (gamerevolution.com) · · Score: 2

    Clarity is a functional requirement, So clear vs. not clear can't be grounds for copyright-ability. To count as a creative work, it must be improbable that someone else would independently make an identical work. It is not unreasonable to assume that in some areas two skilled people has some significant probability of ending up with the same result.

  23. Re:it can't be for distributing copyrighted materi on Man Who Teaches People How To Repair Their MacBooks Alludes To Apple Lawsuit (gamerevolution.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter if it requires skill, what matters weather it is a a factual or creative expression.

  24. Re:it can't be for distributing copyrighted materi on Man Who Teaches People How To Repair Their MacBooks Alludes To Apple Lawsuit (gamerevolution.com) · · Score: 1

    There is likely an anti-trust defense available here though. It may also be hard for Apple to prove damages, or the legal relation between the infringement and the profits from repair, as reversed schematics (which are entirely legal) from other sources would have worked just as well. My guess is that statutory damages per manual would be used anyways. Apple doesn't want the money, they just want to ruin independent repair shops.

  25. Re:it can't be for distributing copyrighted materi on Man Who Teaches People How To Repair Their MacBooks Alludes To Apple Lawsuit (gamerevolution.com) · · Score: 2

    Fair use, he doesn't make the them available in whole, and the videos are educational in nature.