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  1. Re: Leftisy government on Spotify Executive Chris Bevington Dies In Stockholm Attack (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    The bottom three are Saudi Arabia, India and Egypt........

    Sweden's high stats are because everything counts as rape, even things that in some countries aren't even crimes.

    Indeed. In addition, which two countries are the kidnapping capitals of the world?

    Australia and Canada.

    Official figures from the United Nations show that there were 17 kidnaps per 100,000 people in Australia in 2010 and 12.7 in Canada.

    That compares with only 0.6 in Colombia and 1.1 in Mexico.

    The Julian Assange extradition case has put Sweden's relatively high incidence of rape under the spotlight. But can such statistics be reliably compared from one country to another?

  2. Re:What's a "pension"? on NYC Poised to Ban Firms From Asking Job Candidates About Pay (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    A job benefit many people used to have but that will certainly not be part of the current "Great Again" makeover.

  3. The world's tiniest violin on New Destructive Malware Intentionally Bricks IoT Devices (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    is playing in the background.

  4. Re:Relevant links on How To Protect Your Privacy Online (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    VPN sounds alright when you're on your PC/laptop at home, but what about mobile?

    I'm using Private Internet Access and they have clients for Android and IOS. They also let you connect 5 clients simultaneously.

  5. Re:VPNs aren't all that great on How To Protect Your Privacy Online (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have my VPN on most all the time with no issues at all. My regular PC only tests around 30 Mb/s on my 150 Mb/s connection, but that is shared with several other computers anyway. They also may or may not use VPNs and I can still saturate my connection if they are all busy. Just can't do it on one machine.

    Ironically I mostly turn off the VPN for online banking, since banks and CC companies often flag connections from random geographic locations as suspicious.

  6. Re:If you could actually predict climate on Climate Change Is Altering Global Air Currents (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Crop failures, water shortages, shipping seasons....huge money to be made if you can predict those with accuracy. I should not have to explain how.

    But you can't, so it does not matter anyway.

  7. Re: So just consider VPN service on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Kind of breaks their whole business model though.

  8. So just consider VPN service on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    is now basically a requirement in America.

    You will be better off in the end. Protect yourself from your ISP and get the added bonus of protection from the RIAA/MPAA etc as well. Like a two for one deal.

  9. Re:The Joy of Sightings on 'Sightings' of Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Prompt Search in Queensland (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It could happen.....

    http://dnews.com/local/sasquat...

  10. If you could actually predict climate on Climate Change Is Altering Global Air Currents (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    with any sort of granularity you could indeed be a billionaire.

    That scientists are not driving Ferraris is telling.

  11. Re:The American obsession with self-reliance on The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    All socialism does is replace a wealthy class that buys political power with a political class that steals wealth.

    Why do I find those two examples equally repugnant........?

  12. Re:Trump may not make Americans happy on Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I've vote/fight to join the USA in a heartbeat...

    I guess we will be on opposite sides of the civil war.

  13. Trump may not make Americans happy on Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    but he makes me really, really happy to be Canadian!

  14. Re:Serious question on GOP Senators' New Bill Would Let ISPs Sell Your Web Browsing Data (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Their constituents spend all their time watching "reality" TV.

    Healthcare, privacy protection, consumer protection, environmental protection, financial regulation, etc are on a different channel.

  15. That is what they did not ask on For the First Time, More US Households Have Netflix Than a DVR (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    How many households have The Pirate Bay?

    I have fast internet, a VPN subscription, and a Bittorrent client. What is this Netflix thing?

  16. If only activists were not so fixated on CO2 on Pollution Responsible For a Quarter of Deaths of Young Children, Says WHO (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    there might be some effort to work on these other big problems.

    But that might make more CO2, so forget about it.

  17. One standard to break on Free Software Foundation Challenges Tim Berners-Lee On DRM (defectivebydesign.org) · · Score: 1

    Better to only have to work around one DRM implementation than a bunch of different ones, cause you know they are going to happen regardless.

    CSS anyone?

  18. Every once in a while on Researchers Store Computer OS, Short Movie On DNA (phys.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    a story here makes me go WOW!

    If this is legit it would be one. Time will tell though.

  19. Re:All you need to know if you own a cat on Owning a Cat Does Not Lead To Mental Illness, Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Indeed. Dogs drool. Cats rule.

  20. Shipping charges on Amazon on Amazon Quietly Lowered Its Free Shipping Minimum to $35 (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    or any other site are just part of the e-commerce shopping game.

    Many things that say free shipping are not really so when you go to check out. And what is with $20 items with $150 shipping costs? Why even show that, do suckers really fall for it?

    Caveat emptor applies to delivery too.

  21. Here in Winnipeg the city Transit service has been testing electric buses for a local coachbuilder for quite a few years with what I have heard to be good results.

    http://winnipegtransit.com/en/...

    King County is also already a large customer for their hybrid diesel-electric buses.

    https://www.newflyer.com/buses...

    If they can work well here in our cold winters and hot summers they can probably work well in most places in North America.

  22. I am very happy to be Canadian.

    Not that there is any paucity of reasons of late.

  23. Re:Let's hope they don't succeed... on Movie Industry Wants Irish ISPs To Block Pirate Movie Streaming Portals (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    The laws where I live are still reasonable. The *IAs are mostly irrelevant and we are always working to keep them that way.

    And Trump just killed the TPP, that had all sorts of nasty copyright overreach in it so very good to see it dead. That does not make me like him though, I'm sure he had no idea regardless.

    And movies are entertainment. Hardly worth censoring the internet for.

  24. Re:Let's hope they don't succeed... on Movie Industry Wants Irish ISPs To Block Pirate Movie Streaming Portals (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    The RIAA, MPAA, and their equivalents in other countries are THE ENEMY. Anything that works against their interests is A Good Thing.

  25. Perhaps they are hoping that if they can just keep Trump in the throes of one long continuous tantrum perhaps he will have a stroke.