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  1. Re:a hefty bill? on French Power Company Fined For Hacking Greenpeace · · Score: 5, Informative

    Green also doesn't tend to blow up and render large areas uninhabitable for decades...

    Cough. Also, which of these numbers is lowest, again? Hint: it's not hydro, wind, solar, or biomass.

  2. Re:Simple Solution on Warner Brothers: Automated Takedown Notices Hit Files That Weren't Ours · · Score: 1

    Except that a service provider isn't supposed to make judgments on the legitimacy of the order. If they receive one, they take the content down and it's the responsibility of the person who posted it to issue a DMCA counter-claim. Doing otherwise risks their safe harbor status under the DMCA.

    But for your proposal specifically, how is the service provider supposed to verify if a given piece of content is from something owned by the company that issued the takedown notice? The companies are using keyword searches because there is too much content to verify manually. The amount of work required to track down the actual source of a random file and then compare it to the big list of owned content is a ridiculous amount of effort for slim to no gain for the service provider. Much better then, from a legal and financial perspective just to let the users deal with counter-claims.

  3. Re:Please repeal! on Senate Set To Vote On the Repeal of Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    And you think that an individual citizen has a greater chance of collecting that money? The problems you make reference to are real, but your solution does nothing to help them.

  4. Re:Please repeal! on Senate Set To Vote On the Repeal of Net Neutrality · · Score: 2

    Except that puts the burden of enforcement on individuals. I know I certainly don't have the resources to stand up to a major corporation in court, do you?

    Under the system you're suggesting, environmental enforcement would only happen if the victim was tremendously wealthy or the damage was so egregious that a lawyer could smell a massive payoff (which, of course, would be eaten up almost entirely by attorney's fees). I can't really think of a way your proposal could benefit massive polluters more.

  5. Re:Hurr durr? on In Favor of FreeBSD On the Desktop · · Score: 1
    Yeah. His conclusion at the end of the article is specifically about servers:

    Once you've ridden the learning curve and spent some time actually getting to know the innards, you may decide you'd be better off running FreeBSD on the next set of Web servers, SMTP relays, or application servers you build.

    I guess even the submitters don't RTFA.

  6. Re:Well on StreetScooter: The $7000 Open-Source Modular Electric Vehicle · · Score: 2

    You do realize that despite the name, it's a car rather than a scooter, right? $7k is quite good; the closest competitor that comes to mind would be a Smart Car, and those start at $12k in the US.

  7. Re:Age of father on When Geeks Meet, Are They More Likely To Have Autistic Kids? · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Why? on The CIA's Social Mining Department · · Score: 2

    They're all just justifications of the administration's existing policies. It's not a platform for interacting with the citizenry, it's a platform to lecture you about why the government is right.

    Concern about software patents -> "That's the way the law works. Now we'll talk up our new patent law which doesn't address them."
    Religion in the public square -> "The president mentioned you non-believers in his inaugural address, what more do you want?"
    Legalize marijuana -> "The War on Drugs totally works guys, I swear."

    The only two petitions that got a positive response were about DOMA and student loans, positions the administration had already taken.

  9. Re:As Much As I Don't Like Obama... on The CIA's Social Mining Department · · Score: 1
    He's referencing the response of the Obama administration to a petition to legalize marijuana on it's petition website.

    The responses from the administration make it clear that website isn't about listening to the petitioners, but rather telling them why what the government is already doing is the right thing (and why you should just sit down and stop making a fuss, thanks). In the case of marijuana, their argument is painfully thin. They trot out the "marijuana significant use is a source for voluntary drug treatment admissions and visits to emergency rooms" line without mentioning that their source shows that underage drinking causes far more emergency room visits than marijuana (it doesn't mention consumption by adults however. I'd be interested to see that statistic). And then they have this gem:

    Like many, we are interested in the potential marijuana may have in providing relief to individuals diagnosed with certain serious illnesses. That is why we ardently support ongoing research into determining what components of the marijuana plant can be used as medicine.

    In other words, if you get it from Big Pharma, it's a-ok. If you buy it from a local grower (or grow it yourself), then you're a drug-using felon.

    I don't have a a personal interest in this issue. I don't use marijuana, nor does anyone I know (that I'm aware of, anyway). But the patronizing bullshit that gets spewed by politicians and law enforcement about drug laws shows a level of contempt for citizens that is almost unbelievable to me.

  10. Re:Age of father on When Geeks Meet, Are They More Likely To Have Autistic Kids? · · Score: 1

    I think you may be right about that. Age of the parents is certainly a factor in other developmental disorders. My parents (who both had a long education, my mother got a Masters and my father is an MD) waited until their mid and late 30s to have children. One of my sisters ended up having Downs syndrome. Their experience is not unique; statistically, older parents are more likely to have children with Down syndrome. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a similar situation with autism.

  11. anto-social on Dutch Psychologist Faked Data In At Least 30 Scientific Papers · · Score: 0

    Maybe I'm being pedantic, but really? anto-social? Could you at least run the submissions through a spell check?

  12. Re:Different thing on Climate Change Skeptic Results Released Today · · Score: 1

    You're quoting the Daily Mail and you say he's full of shit?

  13. Re:Trick or treat is dead in NY? on New York State Releases Sex Offender Facebook App · · Score: 2

    This American Life did a story on the very thing you mention, although probably in a different city. In Miami, you have to live 2500 feet from a school, park, or daycare if you're a sex offender. Try going half a mile in a major city without running into one of those things. Pretty difficult. So, as in your case, they just move to the corner cases. Specifically, camping under a bridge.

  14. Re:Google is an advertising company, get over it! on Google Not Reciprocating On IFrame Usage? · · Score: 1

    So you're complaining that the ads on Google's search page are more prominent then the ads in a thumbnail? How is that comparable to your "showing google with an add on top" example from above? Regardless of the content of the story, you'd find something to complain about, wouldn't you?

  15. Re:All three remaining fans on Hyperion Promises An AmigaOS Netbook · · Score: 1

    systems that seem obscure to you were mainstream to them.

    So the European computer buyers were all hipsters?

  16. Re:Meh, its just a name on Hyperion Promises An AmigaOS Netbook · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Google is an advertising company, get over it! on Google Not Reciprocating On IFrame Usage? · · Score: 2

    Is Google adding ads to other people's sites? I just checked some search results and didn't see that happening. If you look at the image linked in the summary, there are no Google ads on the page.

    Anyway, Google putting other pages in IFrames isn't an issue, so long as you can block the use of IFrames and still be listed by Google. That's entirely equitable: they're able to opt-out and you're able to opt-out. And, unless I'm very much mistaken, that's how it works.

  18. Re:Google is an advertising company, get over it! on Google Not Reciprocating On IFrame Usage? · · Score: 1

    So you're arguing that Google is unwilling to tolerate the existence of other ad networks? That's odd, especially considering how many you can find using Google itself. Someone using ads on a service that used a Google IFrame wouldn't stop Google from making money on its own ads.

    The other posters have hit the nail on the head. When you're dealing with as much personal data as Google, it would be irresponsible to allow IFrames. The fact that clickjacking isn't on the security radar of most users makes the problem all the more significant.

  19. Re:Why bother with a 4th amendment at all on TSA Doing Random Truck Searches On Tennessee Highway · · Score: 1

    Liberals? What liberals?

    The political spectrum you refer to is a myth in America. Instead we've got two flavors of the party of corporatism. The Democrats have as much in common with liberals as the Republicans have with libertarians.

  20. Re:What about the Tunnel? on FTL Neutrinos Explained... Maybe · · Score: 1

    Are you being serious? Neutrinos travel through "solid" matter easily. There's no need for a tunnel, the particles are capable of traveling through the earth.

    I could understand not knowing that the first time the story came up, but it's been awhile now. And if it was intended as a joke, it's gotten stale at this point.

  21. Re:Through counter-intelligence... on DHS Goes Ahead With 'Pre-Crime' Detection Project · · Score: 1

    He was quoting, actually. From a COINTELPRO report. Made famous by the Rage Against the Machine song, which was featured in The Matrix. The actual line can be heard at about 5 minutes in.

  22. "Rogue Trader" on UBS: Our Risk Systems Did Detect $2bn Rogue Trader · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who was really confused when these stories were not about the kind of Rogue Trader I expected them to be?

  23. Re:There were supposed to be 61... on HADOPI To Disconnect 60 People In France · · Score: 1

    I thought the explanation was that Candlejack hit the submit button f

  24. Re:What other products on Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    Which is a filthy lie.

    Did you actually see the debate? Paul said they shouldn't be left to die (although he wasn't enthusiastic about it), but the audience (Tea Party members, you might recall.) were clamoring for the death of the hypothetical poor.

  25. Re:Possible and likely. on Amazon To Launch Kindle Tablet? · · Score: 1

    Look into EPUB. DRM certainly isn't required. However, the ability to use DRM'ed EPUBs is an asset. If you want to use Overdrive or an alternate ebook store that uses DRM, you need EPUBs.

    The Nook might have books from other sources in a different list, but the Kindle is makes it impossible to have them period without format shifting.