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  1. Re:We always knew that on Mobile Phone Use Patterns Identify Individuals Better Than Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    As I said, there's no such thing as anonymous location data. Once they know where you live and where you work, all it takes is a Google search to find out who you are. What this research has shown is that breaking up the data to small timescales doesn't help either.

  2. Re:Pfft. Amateurs on Largest DDoS In History Reaches 300 Billion Bits Per Second · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter, if the communication is cut they won't be able to control the other servers. Unless they have a satellite link or something.

  3. We always knew that on Mobile Phone Use Patterns Identify Individuals Better Than Fingerprints · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But now we also have scientific proof that when carriers sell our cell data claiming it has been anonymized they are lying. There's no such thing as anonymous location data.

  4. Re:No on Do Big-Money Acquisitions Mean We're In a Tech Bubble? · · Score: 1

    Those dollars have to come from somewhere. If tech companies can afford to throw that much money on risky bets, then they are doing very well.

  5. No on Do Big-Money Acquisitions Mean We're In a Tech Bubble? · · Score: 1

    Bubbles are funded by outside investors. In this case, the money for the big aquisitions comes from other tech companies, which means that they have a way of making that money somehow.

  6. Re:Good. on Man Who Pointed Laser At Aircraft Gets 30-Month Sentence · · Score: 1

    In cases like this, the law also takes intent into account. He may have been harmless, but he intended to down planes with hundreds of passengers on them. Attempted mass homicide shouldn't get the same punishment as shoplifting. And the age of the criminal shouldn't be taken into account, otherwise the law wouldn't be fair.

  7. Re:Density calculation? on Graphene Aerogel Takes World's Lightest Material Crown · · Score: 1

    Yeah, interesting material but in no way the lightest. If the holes in the material count to its volume, you can get lower density with a big balloon.

  8. Re:I love working with PV cells on Bosch Finds Solar Business Unprofitable, Exits · · Score: 1

    The problem with that is that you usually need lighting when the sun DOESN'T shine.

  9. Re:Capitalism on Bosch Finds Solar Business Unprofitable, Exits · · Score: 2

    Or maybe we should look for other alternatives than PV. Of course distributed power generation isn't efficient.

  10. Re:They don't get it on Bitcoin To Be Regulated Under US Money Laundering Laws · · Score: 1

    The problem with using bitcoins directly is that in that case you have to keep a large amount of your wealth in a very volatile currency.

  11. Frightening on Cyber War Manual Proposes Online Geneva Convention · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So when the Chinese hack America from an infected Swiss machine the US will bomb Switzerland? From outside it looks like that the military class has a disproportionately large influence in American politics.

  12. Re:I can see where this is going on Botnet Uses Default Passwords To Conduct "Internet Census 2012" · · Score: 1

    They deployed a botnet using other people's machines for their research. While I find it cool at some level, it's also definitely illegal.

  13. Story is at odds with freedom on Video Games and Literature · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The better story a game has, the more linear it is. It's a basic truth of game design. And while it's in no way bad that we have games with a decent plot, that's not the only way to entertain.

  14. Re:How about... on Stricter COPPA Laws Coming In July · · Score: 1

    You'd have to teach those to the parents first.

  15. Re:So what they're saying is... on Study: Piracy Doesn't Harm Digital Media Sales · · Score: 1

    No, it means that they are not correlated.

  16. Re:this is prodigy? on LazyHusband Smart Phone App Compliments Your Wife for You (Video) · · Score: 2

    Everybody can sell a good app. But it takes a true genius to sell a crappy one.

  17. The problem is not with the blogs on UK Bloggers Could Face Libel Fines Unless Registered As Press · · Score: 2

    The problem is not that blogs operating like newspapers are treated as such. Online journalism shouldn't be in a different category just because it's on the internet. The problem is that journalism in its entirety is being limited.

  18. Re:Is this a first? on Electronics Arts CEO Ousted In Wake of SimCity Launch Disaster · · Score: 1

    EA has been doing invasive DRM for quite a few years now, and I'm willing to bet that it had a great effect on profits.

  19. Re:Failures are very necessary part of science on How Scientists Know An Idea Is a Good One · · Score: 1

    If there are 10000 ways of doing it and only one of them is right, then finding a wrong one only gives you about 0.0013 bits of information, while finding the right one would give you 13.29 bits. While a negative isn't a waste of time, its value in general is not the same as that of a positive.

  20. Re:I blame the web on Schneier: The Internet Is a Surveillance State · · Score: 1

    True, but something still should be done in order not to make it worse. Technological solutions offering security will catch up after a while if the web just stays at the current level.

  21. Re:Build some nuclear plants first on Obama Wants To Fund Clean Energy Research With Oil & Gas Funds · · Score: 1

    You assume that electric cars have 100% efficiency which is not the case. Charging is inefficient, and the electric motor also adds some loss. Not to mention the extra weight of all the batteries.

  22. I blame the web on Schneier: The Internet Is a Surveillance State · · Score: 3, Insightful

    While the W3C is always keen to push all kinds of new fancy unnecessary technology, they never cared much about security. Privacy and security should become an important part in web standard design.

  23. Build some nuclear plants first on Obama Wants To Fund Clean Energy Research With Oil & Gas Funds · · Score: 0

    70% of America's electricity comes from fossil sources, so switching cars to electric wouldn't help much. Even worse, it would increase the electricity demand and the only thing that can quickly satisfy a rapid increase in demand is fossil.

  24. Re:F U on Why Trolls Win With Toxic Comments · · Score: 1

    But most current democracies are representative, not direct. Ideally, each candidate will come up with a program before elections, which is a collection of their opinions on certain topics. Voters will vote to the candidate whose program they most agree with. But they don't give the same weight to every issue, they will vote for the candidate with whom they share the same view in topics important to them, and are willing to overlook differences on those they don't care about.

  25. Re:F U on Why Trolls Win With Toxic Comments · · Score: 2

    If I understand the paper correctly it's the other way around, impolite comments decrease the credibility of the opinion they hold. Which is problematic when a troll pretends to hold a viewpoint and then acts like a jerk in order to discredit it.
    I still don't see how this is a problem though. It may ruin a first impression, but people actually interested in a topic won't make up their minds based only on a few internet comments, but do further research. And the people who don't most likely don't really care anyway.