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  1. Re:Bernie's problem on Sanders Campaign Accused of Trademark Bullying By Web Site (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    well, looking at their site Liberty Maniacs sure isn't going to just back down...people have been tweeting about this for days now. IMHO, the "best case scenario" is that the Sanders campaign itself puts the attack-dog lawyers back into their cages and Sanders himself just laughs it off. In a way, this reminds me of when Trump sued Bill Mayer over saying he was an orangutan.

  2. Re:Trademark MUST be defended on Sanders Campaign Accused of Trademark Bullying By Web Site (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    well, at least you have a 5-digit UID...and to quote Jayne "And that's - Well, I guess that's somethin'. "

  3. Re:Trademark MUST be defended on Sanders Campaign Accused of Trademark Bullying By Web Site (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    It's called "genericide", and other such products like aspirin, hoover, escalator, frisbee and others have lost full trademark status. Even "heroin" was once a trademarked name owned by Bayer lol. Companies like Google and Twitter are currently fighting a war of genericide haha.

    The true moral of this story is "hate the game, not the player" haha

  4. Re:Judge for yourself on Sanders Campaign Accused of Trademark Bullying By Web Site (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    The link is actually right after the title, in a light-green link with a dark green background. It's really hard to see, and many have complained...

  5. Re:Bad lawyers on Sanders Campaign Accused of Trademark Bullying By Web Site (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, it's called "plausible deniability", a term coined by the CIA in 1948.

  6. ""My side"? I'm not even a USian (I'm from the UK), so other than an interest in US politics in so far as those parts of it that have a major impact on the rest of the world, so I don't really have a "side" in this" Sure you do, your trying to foment civil strife inside the US, start another Civil War, and collapse the government of the USA just so Her Royal Majesty can once again march in and burn down the White House...and eventually once again claim control over your wayward colony. /sarcasm

  7. Re:subsidy driven business on Two-Year Delay for SpaceX's Private Spaceport (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most people wouldn't consider 1,500 miles to be "just north", which is the distance from Kourou to the mouth of the Amazon.

  8. Re:basically... on Two-Year Delay for SpaceX's Private Spaceport (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Those taxes aren't taking into consideration thousands of pounds of dirt being hauled on one specific highway over and over again.

  9. Re:subsidy driven business on Two-Year Delay for SpaceX's Private Spaceport (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Good luck shipping very sensitive payloads across Central / South American highways. However, lower fuel costs are the main driver of the sea-based landing pads. As of yet, there really isn't any Central / South American countries that aren't riddle with extreme corruption from bribery, that also have the technical and physical infrastructure to even begin anything like this. For V, the best "location" would probably be either Manta, Ecuador or someplace that is along the equator. But trying to build a space port at the mouth of the Amazon river would be incredibly difficult.

    Plus, building rocket engines is incredibly difficult. Getting the right metallurgy is sometimes more akin to alchemy than just science, and takes years of experience for engineers to properly understand it. There is a reason so few countries have managed to get into orbit...

  10. basically... on Two-Year Delay for SpaceX's Private Spaceport (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Even Elon Musk is having to wait until the dust (more specifically 310,000 cubic yards of soil) to settle...if I was the Texas DoT, I'd also be charging SpaceX for all the additional maintenance needed on S.H. 4.

  11. Re:Gossip on EU Approves Strict New Privacy Rules · · Score: 1

    Gossip is society's form of the immune system. In the bigger picture, it ejects those people who don't conform to that particular cultures ideals; especially when said person hasn't done anything actually "illegal" just "culturally immoral".

  12. Re:Unbelievable comments. on EU Approves Strict New Privacy Rules · · Score: 1

    Because the US is geared towards Old Testament retribution, something that goes far beyond the idea of "justice". When someone does anything "bad", the bulk of citizens think that it should be eternally hung around the convicted like the allegorical albatross. Unless, of course, it's a "financial" crime then most people here are just fine with that, if not downright supportive because here in the US wealth=righteousness. Our justice system is driven by over-zealous District Attorneys, and the foundation is for-profit prisons. Cases become political quite quickly when your conviction rate influences your next election. Many of our "public defenders" later go to work inside the District Attorney's offices.

    The problem with the EU's law is that it WILL be used by politicians and corps to hide past misdeeds. Corps always exploit any and all loopholes available; it's just the nature of the beast. Since corps have only one goal (profit for shareholders), if being able to purge "bad press" is available they will use it. Not that they actually care that much past what might impact quarterly profits.

  13. Supreme Court has already ruled on this on Worshipping the Flying Spaghetti Monster Isn't a Real Religion, Court Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    I stole this from an Ars post, but this is going to be appealed and the State will loose. It's already been seen by the Supreme Court in 1985, specifically Wallace v. Jaffree : "The individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority. Moreover, the individual freedom of conscience protected by the First Amendment embraces the right to select any religious faith or none at all. "

  14. A search for "TVA senior manager for the probabilistic risk assessment in the Nuclear Power Group from April 2010 to September 2014" returned Ching Guey. Inceed lists his work experience as "Senior Manager Nuclear Power Group - Chattanooga, TN April 2010 to September 2014 TVA" so that's almost an exact match, especially given his name. Matching the list of wikipedia to the info off NRC.gov, there is only Exelon Generation Co. LLC, or FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co. Exelon owns 4 out of the 5. Then, there is the actual PDF of the indictment.

  15. Because China isn't considered an "enemy" of the USA. Their a competitor, for sure, and use "unethical" ways of gaining information...but not considered an enemy per the State Department.

  16. I get mad at a few specific people who park in one of my apartment's handicapped spots, but only because they pull too far forward so no one can use the sidewalk....leaving a few inched between their bumper and the pointy bushes. Or the newest handicapper, who's car's plastic behind the passenger wheel well sticks out almost a foot, making an excellent trap for anyone walking by it in the dark to get stabbed by the screws still in it.

  17. well, you could always do remote call center work from your bed! /sarcasm

  18. Re:Something Smells Fishy Here.. . on Obama Is Forgiving the Student Loans of Nearly 400,000 Permanently Disabled People (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Denial of first time applications are around 65-70%. Reconsideration denial is 80%-90%. And it usually takes 3-5 years for the first round.

  19. Well, corps like Halliburton sure got quite a bit out of it.

  20. Re:The software is getting worse, though. on Tech Jobs Are Replacing Tech Jobs in Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    My biggest problem with Firefox is how it keeps loosing my dictionary. If I open up too many tabs, suddenly the "Check Spelling" disappears and I have to go re-install the dictionary again. I don't know if this is a flaw a hipster coder introduced, but I'll go along with your idea and blame them for it anyway lol. Not all Millennials are hipsters; I know several Millennials that are quite serious IT people. But they are most certainly not "hipsters"...but looking at the Firefox dev team only one of them looks like they might be a hipster.

  21. Re:Well-known IT security axiom on FBI Unlocks iPhone Without Apple's Help In San Bernadino Case (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    And I've read in a few places it costs around $15,000 or so to break on just this level; but I'm really confused as to why the FBI doesn't already own such devices since they seem to be for sale on Cellebrite's website. And their even on Ebay for only $256!

  22. Biggest quote from the whole article... on How To Hack an Election (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    In the very last paragraph: "But Rendón says he’s in talks with another leading U.S. presidential campaign—he wouldn’t say which—to begin working for it once the primaries wrap up and the general election begins." Gee, he said he won't work for Trump because he doesn't like him. Bernie would never stoop this low. Therefor, that leaves Hillary Clinton. Sounds like something she would do.

  23. Re:It's owned by the FBI/CIA now on Anonymous's War on Trump Described as Successful and Disastrous (techinsider.io) · · Score: 1

    The Sabu debacle is quite well documented. And I'm not posting as an AC.

  24. Re:Setting fire to the process on Anonymous's War on Trump Described as Successful and Disastrous (techinsider.io) · · Score: 1

    No, what's REALLY broke is the system itself...because it's a "majority rule" instead of "proportional representation". Majority rule leads to only two viable "sides", which switch back between "winner" and "looser" in each election. We need proportional representation, along with the "single transferable vote". That is the ONLY way we will ever have more than two major, viable parties. The fact that "third party" is a meme in US politics speaks volumes. Every third party in the US has always been formed around a single, strong person and quickly collapses after that person is gone.

  25. Re:DSL isn't necessarily unreliable on AT&T Wants $100 Million From California Taxpayers For Aging DSL (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    I think that I ordered mine through the "business" side, and have a "commercial" account, helped out quite a bit. Also, there is no data caps on it...which is a good thing, since I'm sitting at 140GB for the last seven days...