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  1. Re:If you have Amazon echo... on Amazon Isn't Saying If Echo Has Been Wiretapped (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Any internet-connected device could be "wiretapped", but in this case we are talking about something whose only and explicit purpose is to listen to what happens inside your house and send everything to "the cloud"

    Isn't the main explicit point to sell you more and more shit so easily you don't realise you're buying it? The massive data uptake for the alphabet gangs to rife through is just a happy bonus.

  2. Re:Two separate topics? on Amazon Isn't Saying If Echo Has Been Wiretapped (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Where's that whiplash guy to tell him to pack it in?!

  3. Re:It has on Amazon Isn't Saying If Echo Has Been Wiretapped (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    How could it not be.

  4. Re: Remember it's the Clintons on Farmers Demand Right To Fix Their Own Dang Tractors (modernfarmer.com) · · Score: 1

    Dmca wasn't all bad. Youtube couldn't exist without it.

    Is that worth it?

  5. Re:License to work on Farmers Demand Right To Fix Their Own Dang Tractors (modernfarmer.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it a sale or a lease? If its a sale then fuck them. If its a lease, then maybe they should have said so up front.

    Apparently it's both. You buy the tractor but lease the software that runs it.

  6. I refuse to believe we're the best the universe can do.

  7. Re:Yet, still 0% discovered... on The World's Most Powerful Telescope Just Discovered 1,230 New Galaxies (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet, still 0% discovered if we assume the universe is infinite. Anything divided by infinite equals 0.

    The space might be infinite but there are a finite number of things in it.

  8. Re:dark matter, huh? on The World's Most Powerful Telescope Just Discovered 1,230 New Galaxies (yahoo.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    You matter, until you multiply yourself by the speed of light squared. Then you energy.

  9. You can tell from the pixels this is fake

    Forget the pixels, look at the shadows! All over the place!

  10. Deporting all Muslims is the only way to save western civilization.

    That's a good first step but what's your final solution?

  11. Re:The British government looks like Duck Soup on Theresa May Reshuffles Cabinet, Warns Amazon and Google of Power Shift (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    No wonder Nigel Farage left UKIP. Once the UKIPers find out he sold them all an absolute load of bollocks, they'll want his head.

    UKIP is now pointless, farage just wanted out of EU, now it's happened he's shown he doesn't give a fuck what happens next, we're out, he's won and has fucked off to let everyone else deal with it.

  12. Re:The British government looks like Duck Soup on Theresa May Reshuffles Cabinet, Warns Amazon and Google of Power Shift (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And HSBC

    Well, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporarion does have a habit of moving it's HQ.

    I always thought it was High Street Bank of China, dunno where I got that from though, it's not like I ever looked them up on wiki or whatever.

  13. Re:She seem like a commie... on Theresa May Reshuffles Cabinet, Warns Amazon and Google of Power Shift (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Everything else, including you precious roads can be better provided by markets.

    I think that's the wrong way around. I'd say no for profit service can be as good as a public service can be.

  14. Re:This from a country? on Emirati Man Gets 3-Month Prison Sentence Over Instagram Insult (go.com) · · Score: 1

    So then you should have been able to point us to numerous examples of these human rights paradises that have Sharia Law legal system. I won't be holding my breath though.

    Nah, you get your paradise in the after life, 72 virgins, rivers of booze and all that. That's why you have to put up with such a shitty life with a grin on your face. Don't worry it'll all be sweet after you die.

  15. Re:It's Heartbreaking you're not in Jail on Clinton: It's 'Heartbreaking' When IT Workers Must Train H-1B Replacements (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It's heartbreaking that this is news. I also don't like it, and I also don't have a plan to fix it, but you don't see me quoted in the news.

    You're not set to be the president though are you?

  16. Re:UK And International Affairs on Theresa May Becomes UK's 'Spy Queen' and New Prime Minister (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    maybe she gave the job to boris to keep him out of the country for as long as possible.

    She should have made him ambassador to Mars. Send him over on the Embassy One.

  17. Yeah, and if you remove everyone over 50 it was like 60% in, what's you point? Scotland isn't going to leave for the same reason they didn't last time. It would establish them as a new country outside the European Union and they'd have to go through the joining process, which isn't quick.

  18. Re:The UK will recover and more on Theresa May Becomes UK's 'Spy Queen' and New Prime Minister (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's all the same evidence that supported the leave vote. Didn't you see it? It's around here somewhere...hang on a sec...

  19. Re:So Tired of "One Microsoft Way" on Theresa May Becomes UK's 'Spy Queen' and New Prime Minister (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Do you write your replies in notepad and paste them in or something?

  20. Re:Wow, the UK is even more screwed up than the US on Theresa May Becomes UK's 'Spy Queen' and New Prime Minister (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    We really shouldn't have let Dave do that.

  21. Re:Wow, the UK is even more screwed up than the US on Theresa May Becomes UK's 'Spy Queen' and New Prime Minister (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    So the biased papers had people believing that if they voted "leave" they would "stay"?

    Kinda, they basically told the gullible we'd be able to stop migration, keep all the money, have the influence AND still have full if not better access to the single market and all other eu benefits while simultaneously telling all the fat cats to fuck off. That's what the daily fail and co would have you believe a leave vote meant.

  22. Re:Come on dude on Theresa May Becomes UK's 'Spy Queen' and New Prime Minister (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    British news and reading articles at BBC, Sun.uk, The Times

    One of these things is not like the others.

  23. Re: Wow, the UK is even more screwed up than the U on Theresa May Becomes UK's 'Spy Queen' and New Prime Minister (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Why is my post at -1? When I talk about moderation abuse, this is it. Seriously, can anyone explain why this system makes sense?

    1) Scotland and Northern Ireland get a bad deal here since they wanted to remain in the EU. This is against their will. This would be harder in the US system.

    2) Why should the Prime minister be ousted? This makes no sense.

    3) When votes are done by elected officials, there aren't debates about whether the vote should count or of a revote is needed. No matter how things turn out, people will have a case if they say the outcome isn't valid.

    Why is this system a good thing? Seriously, I think the US system makes more sense and I asked my questions in good faith.

    1)It wasn't a separate vote, it was a UK vote. The result was the result like it or not for the UK. If you lose a vote you can't just pick up you ball and go do whatever anyway. It doesn't work like that.

    2)The PM wasn't ousted he quit because he didn't want to deal with this mess he got us into.

    3) When such a big decision comes out so close to a 50/50 split and pretty much all of the experts agree the 'wrong' side won, not least because of massive lies told during the campaign that were admitted to be lies on result day and the protest vote factor it's not quite as definitive as some people might like to imply.

    The system sucks and is rotten to the core but is it seriously worse that what america is facing with trump v clinton. tsa, patriot act and all that? I'm not so sure that either are worth shouting about.

  24. Should that not matter if they're both talking about the same place with same number of people?

  25. What we should do is hold a massive eugenics conference and then force steralise, or straight up shoot depending on budget, everyone who turns up. That way we won't get people who believe this crap because, that's how it works, right?