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  1. Re:Rating individual tweets, accurate? on Researchers Develop an Internet Truth Machine · · Score: 1

    The best check is the site of an actual seismologist. Tweets shouldn't be trusted in emergency scenarios.

  2. Re:Extremely expensive on Solar Panels For Every Home? · · Score: 1

    That is the point. Solar panels are designed for constant electricity generation, not to provide emergency power. In a storm, the panels that don't get swept from the roof by the winds won't generate any electricity because there's no sun.

  3. Re:Uh...it's still there, you know on The Web We Lost · · Score: 1

    Exactly, if the noobs leave the web it's better for both of us, I don't see a problem here.

  4. Re:Treaties on US Refuses To Sign ITU Treaty Over Internet Provisions · · Score: 1

    The problem with disabled rights is that they are not a natural right, but requires massive governmental spending. That doesn't mean that countries are banned from implementing it, only that they aren't forced to do so. Some countries are simply not in the economic position to be able to afford that, and forcing them to spend all their money on medicare instead of trying to get out of poverty is unfair.
    And the current treaty isn't really an international agreement, because many countries oppose it, not only America. And if you think that leaving American control will somehow free the internet, you are very naive. The ITU will still be controlled by politicians, the difference is that most of them will be unelected.

  5. High-quality infographics? on The SEO Spammers Behind Online Infographics · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I haven't seen one that had any value, they are just a way of using shiny pics to spread ignorance while appearing smart because they have numbers on 'em.

  6. Re:He answered my question.. on Interviews: Eugene Kaspersky Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    It may be just a rumor but I heard that his son was kidnapped once, so I'm not sure he is as secure as he likes to believe.

  7. Never forget on ITU To Choose Emergency Line For Mobiles: 911, or 112? · · Score: 1

    the twelfth of January!

  8. Re:innocent until proven guilty on Guatemala Deports McAfee To the US · · Score: 1

    He is definitely guilty of running from justice.

  9. Re:send the mini-shuttle over there to wack it on North Korea's Satellite Is Out of Control · · Score: 1

    But the old shuttles most certainly do. Assuming they can get one out of the museum and battle-ready in time, they could go up and capture it.

  10. Re:So what's the word on software? on New EU-Wide Patent System Approved · · Score: 1

    Deciding what counts as obvious is very subjective, while deciding what counts as a software/mathematical patent can be done objectively, and will cover most of the obvious cases.

  11. Re:Terrible summary on Vector Vengeance: British Claim They Can Kill the Pixel Within Five Years · · Score: 1

    Theoretically, all CRTs can be used to display vector graphics.

  12. Re:Color me Surprised on North Korea Launches Long-Range Rocket · · Score: 1

    For sanctions to work, everybody would need to respect them. North Korea got this far with the help of China.

  13. Re:China on North Korea Launches Long-Range Rocket · · Score: 1

    Having a tyranny doesn't mean stability when the tyrant himself is unstable. North Korea is using nuclear threats as a regular tool in diplomacy.

  14. Re:Upload them on Engineers Use Electrical Hum To Fight Crime · · Score: 1

    You can't protect against the owners not recording themselves. After all, if they really don't want to appear on tape they won't put up cameras in the first place. Realistically, the footage can't be used against its owner.
    Prerecorded fakes are a bigger problem, but they are also much harder to do for a number of reasons. First, they require lots of preparation, so they wouldn't work in cases where the crime wasn't, or wasn't properly planned. Second, there are a huge number of unpredictable events, which you can't fake. For example, if a camera is between two other cameras, both of which recorded a person or car passing by, its absence in the footage of the middle one will be a sign of forgery.

  15. Upload them on Engineers Use Electrical Hum To Fight Crime · · Score: 1

    Faking A/V gets easier and easier. The only way I see to be able to use CCTV records as proof is to upload them to a trusted organisation at real time. The feed should be encrypted, but everytime a court wants to use it as proof they can ask for the recording from the organisation and the key from the owner, and can be sure that the result has not been tampered with.

  16. Re:First spam! on Text Message Spammer Wants FCC To Declare Spam Filters Illegal · · Score: 1

    This. Free speech only occurs between consenting parties.

  17. That's not how the cloud works on Austrian Blank Media Tax May Expand To Include Cloud Storage · · Score: 1

    The point of cloud storage is that you don't have to care about the physical location of data. Cloud providers will just withdraw their storage servers from countries that tax them.

  18. Re:Why would they stop developing weaponry? on North Korea Launches Long-Range Rocket · · Score: 1

    The only thing that protects them from the US army is China.

  19. Every prediction more than 5 years ahead on Gov't Report Predicts Cyborgs, Rise of China for 2030 · · Score: 2

    is almost certainly bullshit.

  20. Re:So what's the word on software? on New EU-Wide Patent System Approved · · Score: 2

    The EPO already allows some software patents. The only difference is that now they can do it legally.

  21. Re:I bet on Kazakhstan Wants Russia To Hand Over Their Baikonur Space City · · Score: 1

    I don't see paying for the renting of a facility as corruption. It's good business for both of them. Kazakhstan doesn't have a space program so the Baikonur would be useless to them, and Russia doesn't have territories near the equator, so they have to strike a deal.

  22. Sounds like a bad version of emission credits on UN Summit Strikes Climate Deal Promising "Damage Aid" To Poor Nations · · Score: 1

    Countries paying an undefined compensation in proportion of their wealth won't solve anything. If we want to incentivize emission cuts, we should require countries to pay up (or receive aid) in proportion of their emissions. That's what the old emission credit system did, and while it wasn't perfect it was still much better than the current treaty. But that wasn't good for the radical greens, now look at what we've got as a result.

  23. Re:If the feds want you they can get you. Learn th on Former Anonymous Spokesperson Indicted · · Score: 1

    But 4chan promised them they will al be anonymous and nobody can find them!

  24. Re:subject on Strong Climate Change Opinions Are Self-Reinforcing · · Score: 1

    According to the paper, most people trust their personal experience of the local weather. Sadly, this is one case where common sense like that doesn't really work.

  25. Re:Exceptions on The Scourge of Error Handling · · Score: 1

    Speed is another reason why current exception handling mechanisms are insufficient.