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  1. Re:First sharing is stealing, now on Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content · · Score: 1
    But giving the game a bad review, in the future is going to be considered stealing because you're causing other people to not buy it, which is exactly the fucking same as what they are doing now.

    Part of tommorow's "Terms and Services" which for the last 3 years have been legally binding and a felony to breach is that you must only say and think positive things about the product.(drink your verification cans)

  2. Re:First sharing is stealing, now on Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content · · Score: 1

    buying the game used the developer only makes one sale. That is exactly the same if a person buys the game and makes a copy for their friend.

  3. Re:First sharing is stealing, now on Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content · · Score: 1

    hey look, I had the idea for posting on slashdot before you came along and stole my idea, I am going to need $100 per post in compensation.

  4. Re:This is my problem with Snowden on Edward Snowden: the World Says No To Surveillance · · Score: 1

    To the American public and our daily lives, the impact has been slight, but its done somethings like inspire TLS 1.2 implementation, and other organizations to seriously re-check and resecure their systems.

    the people who work in technology noticed and many companies are seriously not trusting the government anymore

    The NSA has lost some operational capability and fired a whole bunch of sysadmins because it no longer trusts its people, this limiting its operational capabilities. Morale is low.

    Less people are joining law enforcement across the board. The NSA isn't getting the recruits it wants. The crucial people who it needs to continue its technological operations know, and they care.

    The leaks have degraded its long term capacity to function.

  5. First sharing is stealing, now on Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content · · Score: 1
    First they told us sharing was stealing. I let someone else listen to the album I have, and now I'm stealing. If that was bad enough

    Now, if you buy something in a foreign country, and then bring it back to your home country its stealing, even if you legally bought it.

    This is like how police charge people with "assaulting an officer" for bleeding on them after they beat the crap out of them at a traffic stop for doing 5 mph over the speed limit.

    When you steal something you deprive someone else of using it. End of story.

  6. Re:But its jobs they clearly don't want on Disney Making Laid-Off US Tech Workers Train Foreign H1-B Replacements · · Score: 1
    But thats always how its been. Political conversation about economics always uses really simple terms, and ignores stuff that might be used to present a negative view of capitalism. For example, we talk about "supply and demand". It is not the only force in the market:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    If you knew something about capitalism, you'd know something about Porter's Five Forces. With the exception of union labor, and some form of labor movement doing negotiating, the power of labor to negotiate is mostly less than the power of the owners to negotiate, hence the long term decrease in wages and conditions. Every now and again there is a temporal reversal of the situation where the labor holds the bargining power, but that is almost as quickly reversed by agreements between the bosses.

    and yes, its always been like this. Wages only remained high because of regulation. Regulation also can create unneccary rules and power to be abused.

    you can't have capitalism that is not abusive somehow. Solving one problem introduces another until you throw the system out altogether.

  7. But its jobs they clearly don't want on Disney Making Laid-Off US Tech Workers Train Foreign H1-B Replacements · · Score: 1
    But they clearly don't want these jobs. I mean, they are only taking jobs Americans won't work, right?

    Wake up, this is capitalism. Americans won't have access to American jobs next generation because college will cost too much, and they will import labor from less capitalist countries to make up the diffrence. Free market my ass.

  8. Re:Manufacturing buisness supported by government. on How Elon Musk's Growing Empire is Fueled By Government Subsidies · · Score: 1

    but but "muh markets".

    for the people who'd rather we loose our jobs to the chineese.

  9. The Bigger Problem on Creationists Manipulating Search Results · · Score: 1
    This just highlights the bigger problem of SEO, big data, and such. Anyone can manipulate search engine rankings, and anyone can pay for your public opinion.

    Having creationists do what advertising has done should simply highlight an existing problem.

  10. Re:Republican Hypocrits on TPP Fast Track Passes Key Vote In the Senate, Moves On To the House · · Score: 1
    and the topic is changed. the topic is the Trans Pacific Partnership. Obama Supports it. All of you partisan asses are just as brainwashed. you see someone attacking Obama for any reason and they might as well be talking about secret muslim athiest birth certificate shit.

    There is a secret trade agreement, and Obama is supporting the secrecy. If you look at the Democrats supporting it, its going to be the most powerful ones that are running in 2016 for president and have the most sway and favor with party leadership, and detemine party dirrection.

  11. Re:Republican Hypocrits on TPP Fast Track Passes Key Vote In the Senate, Moves On To the House · · Score: 1
    your partisan bias is the reason we have shit like this. Both parties, have almost unanomious support except a handful out outliers.

    This is what happens when you vote party line instead of looking at the issues.

  12. Re:Razr v3 on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Dumb Phone? · · Score: 1

    it also is pre-GPS chip E911

    unfortunately no. all phones pull a satellite or two starting a generation before the razr as required by law(not user accessable). even with smart phones you can turn the GPS for the same effect.

    That said, cell network location is not exactly reliable. If you are in a major city, there can easily be half a million people in resolution radius. E911 is notoriously poor for location as well.

    Of course there are more ways to track you besides E911 which only activates durring a phone call to 911. Government backdoors like the ablity to turn on your phone's mic and listen are present in phones of this era.

    Even if you could find a phone with no spying capabilities, which is hard because all the GSM/CDMA chips are closed source, and every chip and ever device needs to be approved by the government, you'd stand out on the network as the only device without such capabilities.

  13. Sell the Sevice on Ask Slashdot: Can SaaS Be Both Open Source and Economically Viable? · · Score: 2

    Its simple, you use somthing like the Affero license so no one can make changes that you can't access. Since anyone can try, whatever good ideas other people have you can re-incorporate, so you can potentially have a far bigger unpaid developer base. If your product is known to attract hacker types as customers, they can act as force multipliers, easily. As compared to a closed program, you'll have more eyes on the code. Its also your code, and you know it better than anyone else.

    Then you simply focus on having the best quality of service. You can copy software, you can't copy quality of service.

    Combine these two, its not as easy as you think to compete against someone else with their own software.

    You also have your brand name and reputation. which is built on that quality of service. Despite the fact that CentOS is given away for free, people pay good money for RHEL subscriptions, and RH is an economicly viable company.

    The support is where the money is. The actual product is a loss leader.

  14. Razr v3 on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Dumb Phone? · · Score: 2

    Motorola Razr v3xx is probably one of the best handsets of all time.

    That said, its old, uses a now non-standard charge port, and all the hacked tools are no longer readily available.(Motorola PST, Qualcom's tool, etc...)

  15. Re:Cost on Pre-Orders Start For Neo900 Open Source Phone · · Score: 1

    the pre-order is for 350 EURO which is under $400 USD at current exchange rates.

  16. Its official, I am now a criminal. on US Proposes Tighter Export Rules For Computer Security Tools · · Score: 1

    This would make developing things such as metasploit and nmap near impossible, as well as most Free/Open security testing tools.(there is no way to really prevent Free software from crossing borders)

  17. I Think I understand more now on Secret Files Reveal UK Police Feared That Trekkies Could Turn On Society · · Score: 1
    Even more reasons I am glad I am done with the government. Its seems like ever last seemingly innocous habbit I had as a kid the government saw as some part of ungodly conspiracy. From loud rock music, to computer skills, now riding harleys.

    I can't win, they know it, I know it. So fuck them.

  18. Re:Well... on Kim Dotcom Calls Hillary Clinton an "Adversary" of Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    plus I can't stand fat people

    Congradulations, you are the problem. Thanks for making the Jersey Shore look intellegent by comparison. To quote Mark Twain: "Its somtimes better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are a fool, than to open your mouth and confirm it"

  19. Re:compromise on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    Commercial, as in Commericial registation/plates.

  20. Re:compromise on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    There are no value judgements, simply put, already commericially plated vehicles. that is all.

  21. Re:compromise on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    my thinking exactly. also, a diffrent tax rate for commericial vs residential. Someone might need to drive a 5 ton truck for business, so we give them a little break, so we don't raise the price of goods and services. As long as someone is doing something productive with the vehicle its fine. However we can raise taxes on people who recreationally drive heavy vehicles they don't neccerially need. Not an outright ban, but if you want to drive your giant SUV when you could have used a much smaller car, you need to pay your share of the extra wear on the roads. This is only fair. SUVs are expensive. Gas is expensive. If you can afford the gas, and you can afford the truck, you can afford the roads.

  22. Registration fees based on vehicle weight on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 2

    They should have registration based on vehicle wieght, and other factors which determine how much wear your vehicle does to the road.

  23. I think my next card is going to be AMD on AMD Details High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) DRAM, Pushes Over 100GB/s Per Stack · · Score: 3, Interesting

    nVidia fanboy since switching to Linux. A combination of them releasing their new unified driver, the latest nvidia chips being notoriously hard for nouveau, and now this, I think my next card is going to come from AMD

  24. Re: Well... on Kim Dotcom Calls Hillary Clinton an "Adversary" of Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    Bernie Sanders is a Social Democrat. People like him have always been called "Social Democrat". He is not any type of liberal, in any decade, ever. He fits the self-description most liberals have of themself which is always been a lie.

  25. Re:Well... on Kim Dotcom Calls Hillary Clinton an "Adversary" of Internet Freedom · · Score: 1
    still less of a scumbag that most of congress. Far less credible as well. If you think thats bad, start asking how the prison industry works, how drugs get approved, or oh yeah, legalized insider trading. US Congress.

    Plus, the amount of people that died, or litteral wars started by Kim for profit? none.

    How many people did Kim have arrested or tortured for getting in his way? none

    So, yeah, he's a scumbag. But he's far less dirty then most media figures and US politicians, because his crimes are far smaller in scope, and less destructive in nature?

    Assange has his own personal problems, but again, slight compared to what we have running the show. I wouldn't vote for, or support either is a leader, but I do support both as sources of information, because of which they do a better job, and are far more altrusitic than what we have now.

    If you start waiting for someone with a perfect record, you'll be waiting a long time with no friends.