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  1. Re:Liability / Obligation on Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops (yahoo.com) · · Score: 0
    The fine summary clearly states that the system auto-dialed first responders. So it was the first responders who were suspicious, not the manufacturers service dispatch.

    It appears that reading comprehension is a lost art.

  2. Perspective on Largest Destroyer Built For Navy Headed To Sea For Testing (ap.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To compare, NASA s 2011 budget was 18 billion. Compare this to one project for one branch of the military, not counting ongoing ops.

  3. Convienent on India Wins Contract To Launch Private Weather Satellites · · Score: 1
    How nice it will be when entrenched interests can hide weather and climate data from the government and individual researchers. Oh, you want data on x for the last 5 years for an AGW study, pay extra and get doctored data.

    No sir, I don't like it,

  4. Re:In some states.. on Museum of Political Corruption Planned For New York (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Pretty much...

  5. In some states.. on Museum of Political Corruption Planned For New York (npr.org) · · Score: 1
    Corruption is written into law:

    6. To accept, hold and enjoy gifts, donations and bequests on behalf of the Department from the United States government and agencies and instrumentalities thereof, and any other source, subject to the approval of the Governor. To these ends, the Director shall have the power to comply with such conditions and execute such agreements as may be necessary, convenient or desirable, consistent with applicable standards and goals of the Board;

    In other words, you want a Bahamas beach house to let our corp provide overprices phones/commissary/medical care to inmates? It is legal!

    This is from Virginia code 53.1: http://law.lis.virginia.gov/va...

  6. Re:No expectation of privacy on school systems on Google Accused of Tracking School Kids After Promising Not To (cio.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful
    They did agree to this. However, is there evidence of them violating any of these statements? Sure they are collecting data. That could be used in violation and it could be used to better provide service.

    If they are in violation, then fine, be pissed. But data collection does not imply use for unauthorized purposes. I collect phone and address data on my customers. I do not use it to stalk them.

  7. Re:Give me a dumb tv on Even the Dumbest Ransomware Is Almost Unremovable On Smart TVs (symantec.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, unfortunately, you can hardly find a "dumb" TV anymore with decent features. I had to buy a smart TV the last time I upgraded only because it was the only model I could find with a decent set of inputs and outputs. But I've found that it's a lot less "smart" and intrusive when you don't plug it into the router or give it your wifi password.

    Google commercial display TV. You will find plenty. Not as cheap because they are not subsidized by apps, tracking and adware.

  8. Re:10 years??? on Fake Bomb Detector, Blamed For Hundreds of Deaths, Is Still In Use · · Score: 1

    Excellent job posting the original version. The later remasters are junk, Dave ruined the vocals rerecording, they sound like trash, not thrash.

  9. Re:10 years??? on Fake Bomb Detector, Blamed For Hundreds of Deaths, Is Still In Use · · Score: 2

    And when you kill a man, you're a murderer Kill many, and you're a conqueror Kill them all ... Ooh ... Oh you're a God!

    -Dave Mustaine, Megadeth

    http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics...

  10. Irony on Pesticides Turn Bumblebees Into Poor Pollinators (acs.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is coming from the country that lifted a ban on neonictonoids... http://www.theguardian.com/env...

  11. You do realize that the accretion phase lasts hundreds of thousands of years right?

  12. If target pays x to prevent attack, surely they'll pay x + y to stop it.

    . Dummies.

  13. Re:Lightning? on How a Group of Rural Washington Neighbors Created Their Own Internet Service (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have seen lightning travel through 200ft+ of rg6 coag, much of it buried. Al the way up to the house where it had a ground tap, saving the house. The cable had blown itslef out of the ground, 6 inches deep, making the dirt into glass. Without proper supression/grounding the current will find its way down ethernet and FUCK SHIT UP.

  14. It's My Life on UK Police Make Third Arrest Over TalkTalk Cyber Attack (reuters.com) · · Score: 1
  15. Re:I wonder if there was a "satellite" TV outage? on Military Blimp Breaks Free and Drifts Over the Mid-Atlantic Trailing Tether (baltimoresun.com) · · Score: 1
    Most dishes do point to a geo-synchronous satellite.
    However in the 90s there was a thing called Wirelss Cable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    I worked for a provider. They could get a smallish set (15-20) channels out to places where the cable company would nto run cable, much cheaper than satellite at the time. It was quickly overtaken by true satellite and expanding cable networks with larger and increasingly digital offerings.

    Interestingly we were the first high-speed internet provider in our area. It was one way cable Internet. 1 QAM Docsis 1.1 channel broadcast wirelessly downstream. Upstream was provided by a dial up modem, and some funky split routing.
    The company I worked for was also an ISP and regional telco/mobile provider. I did cable modem installs and maintained the headend equipment, then promoted on to their NOC. Soon ater I went to the NOC, thet started launching DSL and the wierd split cable internet went away. That same POTS upsream was also often used in regular cable plants until the local provider switched their amplifiers to pass upstream traffic.

  16. Re:You cannot succeed on Despite Takedown, the Dridex Botnet Is Running Again (sans.edu) · · Score: 1

    The flip side of that is companies do not want the expense or hassle of dealing with cases where the anut patch breaks functionality. This happens all the time and the more multi or general purpose the device the less likely that the vendor can test against all cases before releasing a critical patch.

  17. Re:They used only two years to call this a spike on FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police To Rise In Violent Crime (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The uptick (however small) we are seeing in crime is more likely correlated to the economy and the increasing difficulty to live in poverty. It has nothing to do with a war against cops except that blatant police brutality will move the culture to one more prone to fear and violence. If you treat people like enemies, they will respond in kind.

  18. Let me get this right.... on FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police To Rise In Violent Crime (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful
    "Please don't watch us do our jobs, because when we are watched we cannot accost and brutalize the dregs of society into submission, therefore you should be scared as those dregs will come after you!"

    Sorry, but do your job withing the confines of the law (including the constitution). You get no free pass. If you cannot do your job within those confines, then press to have those laws changed, in an open and democratic manner. If you do not, you are little (or no) better than the thugs and gangsters you wish to imprison.

  19. Re:11 cents a minute? on FCC Passes Landmark Reform of 'Egregious' Prison Phone Charges (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    As an ex prisoner you are right and wrong. While a majority of prisons are public, many services are privatized. Commissary, heath care, phones, industry, etc.

  20. Re:Follow the money on eFast Malware Hijacks Browser With Chrome Clone (malwarebytes.org) · · Score: 1

    Because they claim innocence. They thought the ads were being served on regular web pages, and had no idea that it was malware spewing it out and collecting the clickthrus,

  21. Re:Fairly simple software fix... on Radio Waves Can Be Used To Hijack Androids and iPhones Via Siri and Google Now · · Score: 1

    And the output you speak of comes through the headset. If that is not on a user, no bueno. However with Google now, if you have a screen lock it will not run commands without unlocking.

  22. Re:Drunks don't make the best decisions on Live-Streaming Florida Woman Charged With Drunken Driving · · Score: 2
    In most states, refusing the test is an automatic license suspension.

    You should never drive inebriated, however, if you are this stupid, be smart enough to have an attorney on retainer or delay to get one.

  23. Re:Really? on New Flash Vulnerability Being Exploited In the Wild (trendmicro.com) · · Score: 1

    Unprotected sex has been a gaping source of STDs for 1000's of years now, why the hell do people keep having it?