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  1. Re:"In-browser popups?" on What a 'Six Strikes' Copyright Notice Looks Like · · Score: 1

    As explained above ISP are included in the safe harbor by the nature of the service they provide. They do not need to do anything to keep this status except keep providing the service they do.

  2. Re:"In-browser popups?" on What a 'Six Strikes' Copyright Notice Looks Like · · Score: 1

    Sorry but you are ridiculously and blatantly wrong. ISP are already excluded of any liability from the DCMA regardless of what they do. Period. And although users can be prosecuted by the DCMA that is not the ISP responsibility. ISP has the single responsibility to provide the identity of the IP user whenever a judge orders a subpoena.

    So no, you are just wrong.

  3. Re:Chaotic good. on Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty To 10 Charges · · Score: 0

    Do you work in US government? ;)

  4. Re:Chaotic good. on Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty To 10 Charges · · Score: 2

    It doesn't work like this. The ones in the middle management are always go down with the leaders, as long as you are in the losing side. If you are in the winning side, like US, you can do pretty much whatever you want, you won't be judged for war crimes, ever.

  5. Re:Chaotic good. on Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty To 10 Charges · · Score: 1

    Your moral views are not only illogical, they are a double standard themselves and thus hypocritical.

  6. Re:Aiding the enemy on Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty To 10 Charges · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Where "The Enemy" is US general population.

  7. Re:"In-browser popups?" on What a 'Six Strikes' Copyright Notice Looks Like · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is no relation at all between this agreement and DCMA. DCMA excludes the ISPs of any responsibility and never applied to the end users. This is a pure commercial agreement, it is not designed to comply or help to comply with any law.

  8. Re:"In-browser popups?" on What a 'Six Strikes' Copyright Notice Looks Like · · Score: 2

    There is no six-strike law for illegal downloading in US. At least yet.

  9. Re:Yep on DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz's Prosecution Was Political · · Score: 1

    Until punishment for breaking any unjust law becomes capital punishment. Then nobody does it anymore and all unjust laws prevail. We would never have had Rosa Parks, or Martin Luther King if the punishment they would get for civil disobedience was death or life in prison. A few people may be crazy enough to try in these conditions, but they would be few and fewer each generation.

    At this point civil disobedience cannot happen anymore, and anything short of a full and bloody revolution is completely ineffective. A point where a person can be condemned to 35 years in prison for "crimes" like Aaron's.

  10. Re:Where are you going to go? on EA Building Microtransactions Into All of Its Future Games · · Score: 1

    Simple. If you formerly liked big budget games and they turn into something you can't possibly like anymore you try other things. There are a myriad of smaller budget developers out there, from indies to small and medium companies. Nobody really needs to accept these practices.

  11. Re:Yep on DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz's Prosecution Was Political · · Score: 1

    There is no clear distinction. All information regards the state, is used by it, and when denied can serve as a source of empowerment and domination for those that control it.

  12. Re: First strike on Six-Strikes System Starts In U.S. · · Score: 1

    But at least in this case the accuser has to pay too, and more.

  13. Re:The Apple Monoculture: on iOS 6.1.3 Beta 2 Patches evasi0n Jailbreak · · Score: 1

    I argue that for most people for whom backup is an issue, root is not a big deal. Most people unable to root only need backup for what is already automatically backed up.

  14. Re:The Apple Monoculture: on iOS 6.1.3 Beta 2 Patches evasi0n Jailbreak · · Score: 1

    No, you cannot from Google, but there are non root apps that will do just that for you, like Backup pro, and, of course, if you are rooted you can use Titanium Backup, which is much much better than anything possible on an iPhone, jailbroken or not.

  15. Re:The Apple Monoculture: on iOS 6.1.3 Beta 2 Patches evasi0n Jailbreak · · Score: 1

    I am sad for you, but sooner or later Apple will screw you up enough for you to move away, rest assured.

  16. Re:The Apple Monoculture: on iOS 6.1.3 Beta 2 Patches evasi0n Jailbreak · · Score: 1

    Considering you have access to the user file system you just need a normal PC backup application to backup user data, and calendar, contacts and tasks are synchronized to the cloud by default whenever you connect to the Internet.

  17. Re:The Apple Monoculture: on iOS 6.1.3 Beta 2 Patches evasi0n Jailbreak · · Score: 1

    You are exaggerating, but even if you weren't we are talking about now not 2 years ago. LG, HTC and specially Samsung high-end phones are considerably superior to the iPhone in pretty much everything.

  18. Re:The Apple Monoculture: on iOS 6.1.3 Beta 2 Patches evasi0n Jailbreak · · Score: 1

    When the vulnerabilities are a desired feature that tells a lot about the manufacturer's policies.

  19. Re:The Apple Monoculture: on iOS 6.1.3 Beta 2 Patches evasi0n Jailbreak · · Score: 2

    It would be a nice argument and all if a locked Android phone wasn't about as permissive as a jailbroken iPhone.

  20. Re:The Apple Monoculture: on iOS 6.1.3 Beta 2 Patches evasi0n Jailbreak · · Score: 2

    A pity they are sadly mistaken.

  21. Re:Al Jazeera *was* on How Close Is Iran, Really, To Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 1

    The more people you have in control of a company the more interests that have to be met so the company stays running. You may believe otherwise, but you are just wrong.

  22. Re:Where should we start? on Linus Torvalds Explodes at Red Hat Developer · · Score: 1

    Won't happen because it goes against other big interests, those being offering crappy connectivity for high prices.Hardware manufactures have no control over the quality and availability of internet connections, especially in mobile equipments.

  23. Re:Biased Just a Little? on Is the Wii U Already Dead? · · Score: 1

    Because smartphones cut a considerable part of the mobile market where they previously dominated among other things, and because consoles as a whole had diminishing sells through the last years.

  24. Obvious on We Aren't the World: Why Americans Make Bad Study Subjects · · Score: 1

    As usual in most "scientific" papers, this one talks about obviousness. All cultures have their own idiosyncrasies. To use subjects from one to predicted behavior on the other is a perfect path to failure. Actually even using groups inside a given culture to predict the behavior of the whole is due to failure most of the time.

  25. Re:Where should we start? on Linus Torvalds Explodes at Red Hat Developer · · Score: 1

    Won't ever happen. There are and always will be reasons to have machines disconnected from the Internet.