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  1. So a lobbyist "think tank" found out that our liberties cost them money (which they never had). That is truly unexpected and shocking.

  2. Re:yes they should on FBI Should Try To Unlock iPhone Without Apple's Help, Lawmaker Says (csoonline.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Have you even read the summary? How would the iPhone do that if they make binary image of the storage? Can it magically format other storage devices as well?

  3. Re:This guy over here.... on FBI Should Try To Unlock iPhone Without Apple's Help, Lawmaker Says (csoonline.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He's still ahead of FBI.

  4. Re: Mathematics of greed on The RIAA Says 1500 Streams = 1 Album Sale (riaa.com) · · Score: 1

    Every person who ever torrented an album would have to listen to it at least 150 times and every single one would have to buy it if they couldn't download it for RIAA reasoning to make sense. But yeah, that doesn't add up.

  5. Re:Mathematics of greed on The RIAA Says 1500 Streams = 1 Album Sale (riaa.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you can't, you're incapable of recognizing disingenuity.

    • - One download is one person, because that's how RIAA calculates it. They account for possible sharing between people in their estimates already.
    • - Assume album has 10 tracks, thats 150 playbacks of the ENTIRE album for EACH download for this to make sense, not to mention that
    • - this is still assuming that EVERY SINGLE PERSON who has illegally downloaded the album would buy it if they couldn't download it.

    That's lots of ifs and assumptions for you to call anyone disingenuous without looking very disingenuous, anonymous coward.

  6. Mathematics of greed on The RIAA Says 1500 Streams = 1 Album Sale (riaa.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How does this add up with 1 illegal download = 1 missed sale?

  7. I think I've read about this one... on Samsung Warns Customers To Think Twice About What They Say Near Smart TVs (theantimedia.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A big screen that tells me what I should think and listens to everything I say... I'm sure I've read about this somewhere....

  8. Re:That'll work well with automated vehicles.. on Are Roads Safer With No Central White Lines? · · Score: 1

    You assume that people breaking the speed limit increases the average throughput of the traffic, which is not always the case.

  9. You get someone famous enough to declare it.

  10. Does that actually make sense in your head?

  11. Re:Musk isn't going to Mars on Lori Garver Claims That NASA Is 'Wary' of Elon Musk's Mars Plans (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    My mistake. Nevertheless, it seems the plan is to make the super heavy lifter reusable, which is one of the key features that makes the plan at least theoretically feasible.

  12. Re:Musk isn't going to Mars on Lori Garver Claims That NASA Is 'Wary' of Elon Musk's Mars Plans (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    He may not be able to afford a Saturn V, but that's not what he plans to use, he plans to use multi-launch mission using reusable Falcon 9 Heavy. Everything he has done this far suggests he is able to build it. I am not saying he can't fail, but at this point it takes too many unsupported and ill-informed assumptions to just say he isn't going to do it. This is getting a little bit old to be honest. First it was the main engine. Musk isn't going to develop and/or build one. Look at how much NASA spent developing F1! There is no bussiness case for that! Then it was Falcon and reaching orbit. Musk isn't going to develop and build one! At best it's going to end with huge fireball! Look at how NASA spent on putting things into orbit! Musk isn't going to deliver cargo to ISS! Look at how much NASA spent developing rendezvous and docking technology! He can't afford that or build that!. Give me a break. It was never guaranteed that was going to succeed and it still isn't. And I understand that you people may not be his fans. But it would be great if you could, for once, learn the difference between you not wishing that he succeeds and him actually not having chance.

  13. Re: Elon Musk is for cows. on Lori Garver Claims That NASA Is 'Wary' of Elon Musk's Mars Plans (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Well constructed and coherent argument, sir.

  14. Re: Of course they don't like him. on Lori Garver Claims That NASA Is 'Wary' of Elon Musk's Mars Plans (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    SpaceX lost one launch, for which NASA will NOT pay as per the contract. What is wrong with your perception of reality? He is very far from not delivering what he promised.

  15. Re: FAIL! on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    Doesn't make it any less (or more) true.

  16. Re: It powers the reactor on ISIS's Hunt For a Bogus Superweapon · · Score: 1

    You forgot to open with "I'm not a racist, but...".

  17. "Rules of war"? You mean Geneva convention and other applicable international law, right?

  18. Riiight.... on Should Programmers Be Called Engineers? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    So a "GAME DESIGNER" is questioning the profesionality of software engineers. Is there no one who sees the absurdity of that? And to answer the question: no. Not all people who write software are software engineers. You should only call software engineers software engineers. The fact that Google docs go down now and then doesn't make software engineers not engineers. But using it as an argument proves you don't know what you're talking about, because apparently you know nothing about the complexity of the infrastructure that is necessary to keep something like Google Docs up and running. None of its software parts need to fail in order for the service the stop working. But hey, you're just a "GAME " DESIGNER"".

  19. Said a member of a nation that doesn't even have its own language.

  20. You type through what?

  21. Re: Irony on Anonymous Begins Publishing Ku Klux Klan Member Details Online · · Score: 2

    I am board with your puns.

  22. Absolute zero of sympathy reached. on The Rise of Political Doxing (schneier.com) · · Score: 1

    But how could this cause any damage to anyone? Surely, they have nothing to fear if they have nothing to hide, right? It offends me when the CIA, some media or anyone else behaves as if a) this is a serious problem and b) we should give anything more than 0 shits.

  23. Re: Must be public pressure in Europe. on Non-Binding Resolution: EU States Should Protect Snowden · · Score: 1

    Right, its neither gulag nor concentration camp. Lots of people made it out of them alive. Note that every major power in WW II had concentration camps (US used them for people of Japanese heritage) and many of them, including some in Third Reich, had better conditions than Gitmo. Look, you made the comparison.

  24. Re: That editorial summary tho on 15-Year-Old Boy Arrested In Connection With TalkTalk Hack (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They are already taking it more seriously than physical theft. What was the last time you've been robbed? What did the police do about it?

  25. Re: Remove casing from a Wallmart clock - get inv on 'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar · · Score: 1

    Only if Trump was a race.