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  1. Re:Please provide link to official FDA release on FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Merck held the original patent for MDMA - marketed as a weight loss drug for ladies with interesting side effects.

  2. Fishing expidition... on Justice Department Demands 1.3 Million IP Addresses Related To Anti-Trump Website (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful
    On its face this warrant seems overly broad. If you are looking for bad actors who actually threatened or cause physical harm/disruption - then use regular police work to fid that out.

    Simply sniffing out all who disagree with the current administration (raises hand), and would protest it (raises other hand), stinks of police state tactics.
    Now, why are both my hands in the air again?

  3. Re:Internet time machine on I Bought a Book About the Internet From 1994 and None of the Links Worked (vice.com) · · Score: 4
    Yes... don't just try it, but support it - and fight copyright mongers who would try to keep it limited or non-existant. This is part of our history. Fast paced, but crucial.

    Even my crappy 1st attempt at a website is there... https://web.archive.org/web/19...

  4. Re:How about telling it like it is? on GoDaddy Expels Neo-Nazi Site Over Article On Charlottesville Victim (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1
    Walmart Nazis

    Made in CHINA discount store TIKI (polynesian) torches. After the rally they drove to the TACO place in their HONDAS.

  5. Re:Both ... on Some Retailers Criticize Amazon's Recall of Eclipse Glasses (kgw.com) · · Score: 2
    I sell on amazon as an FBA seller.

    This is overstated. Azazon does not co-mingle inventory unless the seller reuqests it. The default is to keep each seller's inventory of the same SKU separate. In fact, the bar-code labeling you have to supply for FBA inventory has a unique FNSKU that identifies item -and- seller.

    That said, you can choose to not label and co-mingle. As a seller I think this is stupid - as other sellers that co-mingle could be selling sub-par (expired, counterfeit, damaged) product, that could be shipped out with my business name (and my feedback) at stake. All the legitimate sellers I know from FB groups of other sellers do not co-mingle. That is the bastion of the cheapo seller to hide their shit products.

    Unfortunately though a buyer cannot tell if the seller they are buying from is co-mingled or not. Your best bet is to buy only from sellers with 94% or higher feedback and read the low star feedback carefully.

    In the case of eclipse glasses, I went to buy some for myself last week. Amazon was flooded with listings, some legit, some obviously fake, skyrocketing prices and back-ordered inventory. I am a fairly smart person and could not distinguish shit listings that were unsafe from real ones. So I ordered som bushnell binocs with the appropriete lenses. I can see where Amazon would like not to get sued by people blinded when they used paper glases with brown acetate instead of real shade 14 filtering.

  6. The most important thing... on US Senators To Introduce Bill To Secure 'Internet of Things' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Any device with internet connectivity needs to have s reasonable support window where the manufacturer provides known security updates. The unfortunate side effect is that support has large costs and will either drive down profit, or drive up price. People will care less (anb buy less) when the magical IoT keyfob/light controller/toaster oven costs $500 instead of $99.

  7. Re:It didn't take much detective work. on Alleged Dark Web Kingpin Doxed Himself With His Personal Hotmail Address (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's funny because it's true.

    He also apparently hung himself.

    Like this guy fell off a curb? http://i.imgur.com/VAm6wxO.jpg

  8. Re:It didn't take much detective work. on Alleged Dark Web Kingpin Doxed Himself With His Personal Hotmail Address (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    But we need encryption backdoors!

  9. "The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

    This explains it all, no need to dig deeper.

  10. Re:How long has this been secretly planned? on Elon Musk's Boring Machine Completes the First Section of An LA Tunnel (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    IIRC the machine was built for a tunnel somewhere else and he bought it, but wikipedia does not have it and I am not digging deeper.

  11. Re: Crazy thought process on GTA V Flooded With Negative Reviews On Steam After OpenIV Modding Tool Shuts Down (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    The DLS is free. But the new in game items cost money (some are limited time). So, it is either grind like mad (in game rewards are tiny),hack GTA$ and risk banning, or pay.

  12. Re:Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick on GTA V Flooded With Negative Reviews On Steam After OpenIV Modding Tool Shuts Down (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh boo hoo hoo cry me a river. You have been as profitable as a pure golden turd and it is the fans and modders who made that possible.

    For anyone not experienced in gaming, modding can turn a good game into a great game, and a great game into a timeless game. It's sort of like open source software. Community members put in time and effort to create custom content, and everyone benefits from it (including the publisher, who now has an awesome game on their hands with sales through the roof.) Often, modifications go above and beyond content like extended campaigns or additional characters - engine hacks and patches are often necessary to incorporate new content and functionality that simply did not exist previously.

    Ahh but you have a hard time monetizing new DLC and new games if everyone is playing the 'timeless' modded game. Money grab, pure and simple.

    I played GTA because it was sometimes fun with my friends. Once I got temp banned for inadvertantly receiving hacked money from an unknown player on the server (who was just spewing money out), and after repeatedly getting instakilled by pots and hacks I said fuck it. I hope this nails the coffin shut.

  13. Huh? on Trump Misunderstood MIT Climate Research, University Officials Say (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Misunderstood? Or willfully misconstrued to fit an agenda?

  14. Re:Lighten up, Francis. on China Censored Google's AlphaGo Match Against World's Best Go Player (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Most live events in the US are delayed too. So censors can bleep curse words and other anti-puritanical content.

  15. How does one design a text entry field that parses embedded SQL commands?

  16. Re:How to avoid these vulnerabilities on Malicious Subtitles Threaten VLC, Kodi and Popcorn Time Users, Researchers Warn (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Playing devils advocate here, but - you are supposed to wait for a region locked spanish version to b e released. No one knows when or for how long it will be available for any given title, and you have to pay again for the privilege.

  17. Unlikely?? on Microsoft Wants To Use DNA For Cloud Data Storage (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1
    I doubt it is unlikely. I am no expert, but the cost of genetic sequencing has dropped tremendously in the PAST 20 years? Why should we expect the costs of creating our own sequences to not become easier with time and new methods?

    I am not here to debate the ethics of such a thing, but to hand wave it away as if it will not happen is likely to be hubris.

  18. Re:They can vote all they like on Switzerland Votes To Abandon Nuclear Power In Favor of Renewables (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And a new Tool album.

  19. Re:Mysterious units on SpaceX Launches Super-Heavy Satellite Atop Falcon 9 Rocket (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Football fields is an incompatible unit. Just request freedom units and let the neckbeards figure it out.

  20. Re:Unlocking? on Netflix Says No To Unlocked Android Smartphones (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    This is not carrier unlocking, but bootloader unlocking - IE not requireing a signed bootloader.

  21. And what trail would searching for a domain leave? Valid names are easily determinable with the RFC and other public information. Checking registration is as easy as a whois lookup from behind any obfuscation you desire. There would be no trail.

  22. Re:Why do you think this would change anything? on Digital Economy Act: Illegal Kodi Streams Could Now Land Users In Prison For 10 Years (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I did 10.5 years in prison. Do I scare you? I should. Now let me go watch GoT.

  23. Re:It's more sinister than that on Over 200 Android Apps Are Currently Using Ultrasonic Beacons To Track Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    This. My phone goes lots of places. It has my location data. So, if an app has access to location data, it is far easier to link based off of that and ip data. Presumable when my phone is at a residential address, and my IP on the phone is the same as the one on other devices (tv, PC, etc) that can create a linkage. However ultrasound? What if I am at a friends an it picks up his/her TV, or anywhere else? What if it is an ad on a TV in a bar? I think the SNR here too high to be useful for advertisers.

  24. The Xbox Phone - with Zune technology.

    MS, stay out of markets you do not understand and are far to late an entry to get any appreciable market share.