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  1. It's simple spirit of law on Man Caught Wearing Earbuds With a Dead Phone Found Guilty of Distracted Driving (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    The reason he got nailed is that if you plugged in headphones to the iphone, it's clear that you were using it, in a manner where you put it in your hand.

  2. Just a place to ship poor people on The UN Wants To Build Floating Cities To Save Us From Climate Change (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what it'll be. It won't be idealistic, but for all the people who can't afford to live in the city as prices skyrocket, they'll 'encourage' people to move to the floating cities. We all know most people want to live on the beautiful land, with the mountains, freedom to drive anywhere in a large country etc.

    Instead they can now put you in a controlled environment, where you can go is limited, and you're not able to bother the rich, and protests won't be able to effect the economy.

  3. Re:Translation on Ban Fortnite, Says Prince Harry (gamespot.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Pretty much.

    Social media is more dangerous to the people in power than drugs and alcohol, is more like it. That information age is really upsetting them.

  4. Which of course they have no fucking entitlement to reach me either and need to fuck off. Got a call at 8:00 PM, they can fuck off and die.

  5. Actually I still have a parallel port on my PC. It also has PS2 keyboard and mouse slots, and a lot of boards I work with still have serial ports.

    Going to USB 2/3 is compatible with USB 1 devices, and are only an improvement, allowing more features to be used. In fact, it consolidates it so a lot of devices can just use a single port type, instead of needing a ton of adapters to connect devices.

    So your logic is shit and you know it.

    This would be akin, to everyone like today using USB ports for most additional devices, and someone being like HARK! USB slots are too big! For design we use knew triangler USB ports. You'll need an adapter to connect regular square ones.

    It provides no actual bonus to users, or new features or functions. It's not about technology evolving, it's a business change to get more revenue out of their users. That's all, it's shit and we can smell it, get over it, you'll hear about it.

  6. Apple started getting rid of the headphone since they don't get royalties from it and you can purchase other brand headphones without them making money. So now you have to buy special adapters and give more money to apple if you want to use headphones.

    Apple's a dick.

  7. If you're super worried about ethics you wouldn't buy the product anyway, made overseas because our standard of living makes it too expensive, but they can work them 14 hour days with no OT and lower pay than our minimum wage. Never mind any other over seas gear you buy "cheap"

    Better check your own ethics before you talk about anothers.

  8. Re:Yet another reason not to touch IoT on Logitech Disables Local Access On Harmony Hubs, Breaks Automation Systems (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Got Windows 10?

    They're already doing it. They have literally removed features, such as certain file system support etc from non enterprise versions of windows. It's in the agreement. That's why they were so pushy about getting windows 10 out there.

    By the time the average user figures out what has gone on, it'll be to late. The only languages companies speak is money, and they only way we can truly communicate to them is by not giving them our money. However the average person refuses to be that inconvenienced, so here we are.

  9. Re:The "service" they have on MS Answers doesn't h on 'Windows Isn't a Service, It's an Operating System' (howtogeek.com) · · Score: 1

    Execs can't figure out why people pirate software.

    It's because it becomes a better product. Even if they paid for it.

  10. It's not the tech on Tech To Blame For Ever-Growing Car Repair Costs, AAA Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What it is, is advanced marketing techniques, improved market cornering, and a better legal understand to prevent lawsuits for shady business practices.

    The tech, the tech, the tech. The new USB connector, which is the same as the old one, but with a slightly different shape you pay 20$ for. It costs the store 0.70$, and to make it probably less than a fraction of a penny. The 0.70 cents the store pays covers the shipping and logistics of it.

    It's all market price gouging cornering. It's been going on for thousands of years. Greedy people try to corner the market and increase price at the max rate that won't cause rebellion on their products, and lobby to prevent competition, and any competition there is has to play by their rules or else they'll sue them to financial ruin, even if they lose the court case, the money the large company loses suing them is minor, compared to the threat of competition, and the small company loses its market entrance point, it gives time while financially ruining them for the large company to make competing products, and that's what they do.

    You literally have people who know they have no legal ground to stand on, but just the effort to prove that will ruin your company, trashing companies, and making your prices higher.

  11. I don't fucking think so on Canadian Music Group Proposes 'Copyright Tax' On Internet Use (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    Majority of the data is netflix for a lot of house holds. Youtube also.

    If you're a gamer, a lot of it is game updates. E.G Ark Survival ,that's 80 GB right there to install. They're going to charge me for installing games now?

    If you charge that tax, you're saying I'm entitled to the content because I paid for it. I will absolutely start a new business of content for everyone as will many others and it will backfire so damn hard. Just like CDRs

  12. Re:Kamikaze on Japan's Silent Submarines Extend Range With Lithium-Ion Batteries (nikkei.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey man, glad you corrected it later, but it doesn't invalidate your first post, nor my response to it. You still posted something like a know it all, linked wikipedia like you knew what you were talking about, without even reading the article. Nothing is incorrect in my response.

    Insufferable is being a twonk like you, and thinking you're not a twonk just because you caught your mistake later. The part that makes you a twonk is the fact that you skipped to the showing people how smart you are and jumped to correct them, while being wrong, because you couldn't be bothered to even read what you linked because you were too busy showing you're the smartest kid in class.

    It might be annoying when someone puts up correct information against your own, but that's life, and that's learning. You skipped ahead because you're a twonk.
    You're going to keep doing the same thing, just this time you made a mistake. Since at least someone called you out on it, hopefully you'll be less of a twonk and check your facts first before correcting people.

  13. You know, if you're going to be a know-it-all and link wikipedia...

    You should actually read your link.

    "The propulsion of the Balao-class submarines was generally similar to that of the preceding Gato-class. Like their predecessors, they were true diesel-electric submarines: their four diesel engines powered electrical generators, and electric motors drove the shafts. There was no direct connection between the main engines and the shafts. "

    So yes, WW II era submarines, were in fact, TRUE diesel-electric submarines. As per your link to - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  14. It's not entrapment.

    Your job is to deliver the package. They didn't do anything that suggests you should keep it instead. There is no reason to believe you can keep it just because there is an error scanning it. It's not yours. No one said it's fine to keep if the system has a problem with it.

    It's a sealed box. Calling that entrapment would be like saying people parking their cars on streets sometimes get stolen, and putting a car alarm in them is baiting them to steal it for entrapment. At no point was it suggested or pushed that you should steal a car.t.

  15. New iphone with even more corporate control! on Apple Moves the iPhone Away From Physical SIMs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In attempt to bring us more prof..features to our users, now all registration related information to the phone is hard wired in!

    This fantastic feature ensures we can remotely control your phone at anytime and disable access to carriers without any setup required, we'll just use your special unique esim number to lock that phone to what we want in the future when you're forced to accept a new terms of service to keep using the phone!

    Congratulations!

  16. Stop.

    You know for a fact that this computer had nothing to do with crime and wasn't a center point of attention?
    You know it's role in the network security of the company?
    No? Yea troll, discussion is over.

    I'm confident you know as well as anyone if you are aware that any equipment was used in a crime and contains evidence, requested or not, you will be held for wilful destruction of evidence if it can be proved it was destroyed with that knowledge.

    It's like if you have 4 hand guns in your house. A person was killed by a hand gun, and you just happened to destroy one before it was requested you turn them all over for evidence.

    You'd still get nailed. People aren't as fucking dumb as you'd like them to believe, excluding even responding to you.

  17. If a crime happened and your fridge was involved and a key piece of evidence, so you willingly destroyed it after a lawsuit was filed, it would show intent to destroy evidence. So no, you can't destroy your fridge.

    Your analogy is shit too. Let me use one to prove the point like you are with the same quality. Uh uh if a hand gun killed someone, does it mean a random person who has nothing to do with this at all in china can't use the toliet? It wasn't in the lawsuit originally filled.

    If a /key/ computer that would have evidence on it was deliberately destroyed, and was a key point or focus / entry point of the attack, it's a lot difference then daves old office PC in the basement, role, function, and relation to what happened all apply.

  18. Re:Timing is everything. on US Health Insurer Premera Blue Cross Accused of Destroying Evidence in Data Breach Lawsuit (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You wish it worked that way. You see, the computer wasn't destroyed until law suits were filld. E.G they had warning that computers might be requested, so they immediately destroyed it before it happened.

    I know, you think ahaha I was clever so I get away free. No, it doesn't work that way. If it can be linked that the computer destroyed would of had evidence relating to the breach and was destroyed post breach, especially after lawsuits were filled, it won't work.

    They'll still have to prove it, but that's like a criminal shooting someone, then destroying the gun before it's requested in court. You still get hit with destruction of evidence.

  19. New line a business maybe? on Google To Nix All Tech Support Provider Ads (itnews.com.au) · · Score: 2

    They'll "Fix" this problem.

    Then either offer a special verified IT support program, which unfortunately has some overhead and will cost more to place such an ad (Premium Premium ads)
    or you'll hear that google is offering to resolve IT problems and has their own outsourced IT company they advertise :P

  20. Re: Open source is winning. on Linus Torvalds No Longer Knows the Whole Linux Kernel and That's OK (eweek.com) · · Score: 0

    TrumpOS: What does it do? No one knows, they can't get past the startup because the boot logo hurt their feelings.

  21. Re:They can fuck off on Big Telecom Is Using Robocalls To Fight a Net Neutrality Bill in California (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "In the face of rising demand for data, why haven’t prices risen or even stayed flat? "

    Actually my data has constantly increased. You used to get internet for 30$, now the minimum where I live is 65$ for the lowest package. It includes data caps at that price.

    It has in fact doubled. In addition, if they can quantify the amount of data you can use and charge a price for it, it does not make it more expensive because they can't make you pay an extra fee to access netflix or facebook.

    The only area this is a problem is when they lie and say it's unlimited but don't mean it, and expect you not to use it. This is a mistake on their part for misrepresenting the services they can offer. Net neutrality didn't create this, it's been going on for a long time. The real effect of net neutrality is they might not be able to use the marketing gag "unlimited data" at worse.

    When they say it makes it more expensive, they mean the ISPs constantly want more money each year. If they can't separate basic access for one price, and tac on extras, they'll just increase the overall price. It's not because it costs them more, its because they want more out of your pocket anyway.

    No matter which way you go, they'll try to gouge you. If they can't charge you 65$ for internet access, plus 15$ for netflix access, they'll just raise the price to 80$ and say, see, net neutrality made it more expensive!

    It's the same garbage, they're lying. Overall it'll cost more, because you'll also have 5$ facebook access. Basically these ISPs see people making money, and got jealous it's not a service they offered and are not getting a piece of that pie.

    Other countries without net neutrality literally have a basic charge, plus social networking access, youtube access and more. When it should be part of your regular total data usage, it's not.

    It's all marketing and scheming, and we need net neutrality as it's just a stab at control so they get a piece of any business that does well, forcing them to give money to ISPs. They want to double dip even more.

  22. Re:Why did this take so long? on US Court of Appeals: An IP Address Isn't Enough To Identify a Pirate (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah they definitely do a lot of assuming it's value would be paid if viewed. There are plenty of shows I've seen on netflix or at friends that if I was told I had to explicitly pay for or not watch it, I'd just not watch it. Some content gets watched just because I have netflix for other shows, otherwise it wouldn't happen.

    Not interfering in a crime isn't illegal. In a store it's about your personal safety, and it can be with internet crimes as well. Also in the case with technology, are you an expert to know if its a crime and can provide the proof? So they can't argue that either.

    You're not paid law enforcement, and you don't know if they have legal copy of the movie, there is the right to backup, and unless you see the actual torrent software and recognize it, if they're watching a movie, you don't know if it was paid for.

  23. "sniff, sniff...if... IF we don't get what we want...we'll charge you more!!!!!!!!!!!"

    That's all it is. They're going to fucking charge you more anyway. In fact, I'm sure they see other companies outside of north america and are like fuck yeah, I want to charge an extra 15$ for facebook access on top of what we charge. It's legit in other countries, they itemize specific website / traffic access.

    When we're like no fuck that system, they turn around and go WELL FUCK YOU WE'LL CHARGE YOU MORE IF YOU DON'T GIVE US WHAT WE WANT.

    Fuck them, let them raise prices and throw their usual tantrum, let them fuck their business up so someone else who wants a piece of the pie can sack them by offering decent services. Well, for awhile anyway as the cycle repeats.

  24. They all keep trying to corner us into slavery.

    OHhh updates, for what? More telemetric updates that run my program slower so you can sell the data?
    Do you know how many programs never needed an update and worked fine? They're trying to convince now they need updates every week and we need to pay for it. If there is that much fucking wrong with your software I shouldn't buy it anyway.

    This is a great system for them, makes them a ton more money. Hey, people living normal lives, have your wages suddenly jumped up? No. They're just taking more out of the same pot, everyone is. The answer is no. I refused windows 10, windows 10 fucked up a lot of businesses, who needed the earlier version of windows for commercial software but windows was like, fuck you guys, we want more money.

    I won't do it. I use windows for media content, games, stuff like that, but at the end of the day, what I actually need for work, I can do in linux quite easily these days.

    When it hits the point that I can't find the software anymore for my OS, I'll switch to linux and wash my hands at it. I won't update to windows 10.

    Everyone wants full control so you have to do what they say or the turn you off. Hell even my printer wants me to use their special ink cartridges that they give me so many prints a month for monthly subscription and they replace the ink in it, but you cancel? Your printer doesn't print anymore.

    Your printer is now a subscription model. I've done the math, for a lot of people, it's going to cost more than just replacing the ink yourself when you need to.

  25. Re:I'm not entirely sure the courts should care on US Judge Blocks Programs Letting 'Grand Theft Auto' Players 'Cheat' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    When my car explodes randomly, or my client disconnects from the game, it forces altered behavior on /my/ client.

    It shouldn't read me as dead, and it shouldn't have exploded my car. They're not tricking the server. They're tricking your client, so it is forcing your client / your car. If everything was calculated server side they couldn't have so many players running around in sync, in traffic, on a map as huge as GTA 5's map. There's a lot of peer to peer that goes on.

    They are actually hacking your client, by using a modded client that allows them to send information that is not correct to manipulate your client. So they're literally interfering with your client by using special tools that let them send custom data to it.

    It would be the same as install a device on a car, that sends signals to other cars, forcing them to play the tune, not listen to it. Actually play. We're not talking about someone cheats to get a rocket launcher, we're talking about your car exploding in an infinite loop and you can no longer play the game until you exit and join a new one.