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  1. Re:Treat it like all other medicine on Washington Hosts Summit On Gene Editing and 'Designer Babies' (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You know what market based solution looks like?

    I'd assume it looks a lot like it did before the FDA. Like that one case where someone made cough syrup using diethylene glycol, which was known to be poisonous at the time. The company's owner claimed that he shouldn't be held responsible because there was no law that the company had to prove that their drug wasn't harmful.

    So now there is a law. Sorry, don't blame us, blame the companies who fucked it up first.

  2. Re:Wait, what? You can see other peoples' wallets? on Patreon Users Threatened By Ashley Madison Scammers (csoonline.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    https://blockchain.info/

    A bitcoin isn't a "thing". It's an entry in a public ledger that says "wallet X paid wallet Y 0.001BTC". All* the wallets start out at 0 and if you want to see how much money wallet Y has now, you start at the beginning and add all the payments into it and subtract all the payments out of it. Example:

    https://blockchain.info/addres...

    has 0 BTC balance after receiving 3 payments and making 3 payments (the tiny fraction of a BTC missing each transaction is the fee paid to miners to process it).

    As for anonymity, I normally have no way of telling you who 1ENYmn1eCWPa4MFD4VU9wUFqLrzPcqUgaY is. But if one of those payments there was made from an ATM that converts money to BTC (and takes a photo) or one of those debits was sent to a drug dealer who mailed the drugs to the wallet owner's home address, then got busted by the cops who got a customer list, then it could be figured out.

  3. Re:Your reply is bad and you should feel bad on How Anonymous' War With Isis Is Actually Harming Counter-Terrorism (metro.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Because that would harm existing operations!

    Yeah! Terrorists aren't like Marvin the Martian wondering where the America-shattering kaboom they were expecting is, no, they assume that if they didn't hear about the explosion it's because Allah made all the idiots in America not notice the explosion. Imagine the harm if they realized that all the times their shit didn't blow up it was because the government stopped them!

  4. Bad choice on Sabotage Blacks Out Millions In Crimea · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Cutting Crimea off from Ukraine is only going to strengthen Russia's hold on it (especially after Russia comes in to save the day with electricity). And if these people thought they were being repressed before, well, I'd hate to be a Tatar now that they're responsible for turning off everyone's electricity.

  5. Re:Is Windows10 a thing? on Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 November Update (1511) ISOs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Who is using Windows10?

    I don't know, but I do know that there are a hundred and ten million users out there somewhere, and that extra ten was a major milestone significant enough to advertise.

  6. Mårten on Meet Mårten Mickos, Serial Open Source CEO (Video) · · Score: 1

    using å : Mårten

    using å : Mårten

    Pasting the text right in: Mårten

  7. Re:Unlimited vacation eh on Survey: Tech Pros Ignoring Work-Life Balance Is a Myth (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Vacation is unlimited but after the 20th day you only get to take 1 hour of vacation per day.

  8. Re:What if I want to know what's out there? on AMA Calls For Ban On Direct-To-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm reminded of the companies that actually lobby to keep "blue laws" that make it illegal to be open on Sundays (I've heard this said of both car and booze sales on weekends). They expect that they wouldn't do enough business on Sunday to make it worth paying employees to keep the shop open, but if the government didn't force everyone to close they'd HAVE to be open because if they weren't, their competitors would get the business.

  9. Re:What if I want to know what's out there? on AMA Calls For Ban On Direct-To-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    It's easy to find out when some new drug gets approved, I hear ads for the drug on the alarm clock radio every morning. "Do you have [insert mild, benign symptom here]? It could be [insert nasty sounding disease here]! Go to our website and fill in our survey so we can prove it to you, then talk to your doctor to see if [insert drug name here] is right for you!"

  10. Re:Can't edit some things on Google's New About Me Tool Is the Anti-Google+ · · Score: 2

    Look at it this way: do you really want google to know your birthday?

  11. Re:Innocent? on Tor Project Claims FBI Paid University Researchers $1m To Unmask Tor Users · · Score: 2

    Since many of the 'endangered users' were then charged with various crimes, are they innocent?

    Based on what? The say-so of someone paid $50 million to finger people as experimental "research"?

    If the FBI paid a psychic $50 million to finger drug users, would you still open your argument with that line?

  12. Re:Fingerprint are not passwords on Unhashable: Why Fingerprints Are Weaker Security Than Passwords (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    "something the connection claiming to be the device that is claiming to have read your fingerprint knows"

  13. "Not ripping off your customer" - a novel enough idea to patent, how about that.

  14. Re:That's not what the DMCA says. on How DMCA Rulemaking Has a Chilling Effect On Security Research (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    They're not making a copy of anything

    And? The word in the sentence you quoted is "bypassing". It doesn't matter if once you bypass the security measure you copy the copyrighted work or not, the law says that you shall not bypass the protection, and the courts have indeed decided that the law means exactly what it says, which is what leads to us having to get special permission from the Library of Congress to unlock our cellphones.

  15. Re:Well duh on Virginia Radio Station Broadcasting Chinese Propaganda (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd start with the one that decided that obscenity can be censored, and that what constitutes obscenity is decided on an as-needed basis by the government when it wants to censor something.

  16. Re:There should be redundancy in these tests on Crime Lab Scandals Just Keep Getting Worse (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Who is going to pay for that? The police, who will stop sending samples and money to the lab that tells them "You're wrong" too often?

  17. Re:Well that's just ducky. on Debt Collectors Sneaking Robocall Exemptions Into Budget Bill · · Score: 1

    I blame lazy government employees at the NSA. How else are they supposed to figure out which Americans have an "unhealthy" interest in certain laws? Break SSL encryption? Or just ask the senate.gov webmaster to refuse SSL connections?

  18. Re:It works differently in (most of) EU on Are Car Dealers a Business Worth Keeping? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    It definitely doesn't work like that here. I can go to ford.com or honda.com or whatever, tell their website I want a 4 door sedan in midnight blue with leather interiors and GPS, give it my zip (postal) code and it tells me I can't have that car but if I go to this dealer 9 miles away, someone will be happy to show me the car I really want, just sitting on their lot waiting for me.

  19. Re:How did it fit on a scale it broke? on Patricia, Strongest Hurricane Ever Seen In Eastern Pacific, Strikes In Mexico · · Score: 4, Funny

    Me? I'm just hoping that the windspeed stays below escape velocity!

  20. Re:Keep her in Mexico! on Patricia, Strongest Hurricane Ever Seen In Eastern Pacific, Strikes In Mexico · · Score: 1

    The best jokes become integral to our culture.

  21. Re:Not wrong != optimized on Is Too Much Choice Stressing Us Out? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Evolution seems to be having trouble picking which ones should go.

  22. Re:Wow, slashdot editors can not RTFA on Landfall Nears For Strongest Hurricane In Recorded History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The story I read was "strongest hurricane out of all the storms in places where giant storms are called hurricanes" so the typhoons didn't count.

  23. Re:850 Pro Enterprise Use on Samsung Demos PCIe NVMe SSD At 5.6 GB Per Second, 1 Million IOPS (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    but the anxiety after only 3 months is palpable.

    I assume they're under warranty for the next while.

    My fear would be that there is an intelesque hard limit on writes that bricks the drive, and ALL of your drives in a RAID array will hit that limit simultaneously.

  24. Re:Not changed THAT much on Americans Show 'Surprising Willingness' To Accept Internet Surveillance (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    60 percent of respondents said that they would react negatively if they discovered that a network they currently use employed TLS proxies

    It's pretty clear to me that the majority was opposed to having THEMSELVES be the target of spying, but perfectly fine with spying on everyone else.

  25. Re:We do what we always do ... on Software Update Adds Autonomous Driving To Tesla's Bag of Tricks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's dishonest to try painting the objections to claims of AV perfection

    It's dishonest to demand perfection. All it needs to do is be better than humans, and in urban environments where granny is likely to step out in front of a car, the speed limit is likely to be 45 or lower, and at those speeds cars can stop faster than you can think.