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  1. Re:So get a new domain on The Pirate Bay Loses Its Main Domain Name In Court Battle (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you suppose TPB is still up, after incurring the wrath of the Movie / Music Industries, and Governments everywhere?

  2. Re:Pretty standard boilerplate... on There Are Some Super Shady Things In Oculus Rift's Terms of Service (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    YouTube transmits user generated content without requiring a "worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual (i.e. lasting forever), non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free and fully sublicensable (i.e. we can grant this right to others) right to use, copy, display, store, adapt, publicly perform and distribute".

    I'd like to add this is also what email providers do.

    The Oculus requirement to transfer all rights to them is nonsense.

  3. Surely they mean Decrypt, right? I mean, these are supposed to be the best and brightest, MIT "creme de la creme", right?

  4. What's with all these pilots and HAM operators coming out of the woodworks to defend this?

    "They can violate my privacy online because I operate a multi-million dollar flying piece of machinery where many lives are at risk, therefore anyone operating an RC Toy that can hover in the air should be on the same list."

  5. Yes, who indeed? GKH? Alan Cox? Lennart P? Kay Sievers? rms? Linus?

  6. O rly on Are We Too Quick To Act On Social Media Outrage? · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is the same thing that happened to a Texas Firefighter who supposedly had praised that sadistic little shit Dylan Roof, on Facebook. However, the post was a response in a thread, and the Firefighter claims it was in response to another poster, who had donated to a fund for the victims of the shooting. The words were "He needs to be praised for the good deed he has done." He was immediately suspended and is now a social Pariah, a walking target. The disturbing trend in these kinds of situations is the accuser doesn't even have a chance to defend themselves before they find their lives ruined.

  7. Texting vs calling on Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head Into 2016 Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    Have they ever considered text polling / text surveys to solve this crisis? Does the FCC's interpretation of the 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act extend to texting? I would be a lot more likely to respond to a text poll than a phone call from an unknown number whose intent I haven't yet determined. Usually these kinds of calls are just from automated credit scam calls anyway.

  8. Re:Amazon on USAF Cuts Drone Flights As Stress Drives Off Operators · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The USAF should contract Amazon to just "deliver" the bombs and missiles through Amazon's new drone delivery program ;)

    I forgot to log in >:/

  9. Cognitive Dissonance on WA Gov. Sides With Microsoft: Philanthropy-Funded K-12 CS Education Now the Law · · Score: 5, Funny

    Big industry won't be able to claim a shortage of CS workers to justify more H1B visas for long. But by that time, the market will be so over-saturated with software developers, and salaries will plummet - then they won't need H1B visas, because American software devs will be more affordable than foreign workers on H1B visas.

  10. Good luck on China Unveils World's First Facial Recognition ATM · · Score: 1

    Good luck running an errand for a friend. Do they not have debit cards and Pin Numbers in China?

  11. He gives you the answer on The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers · · Score: 1

    It's pretty obvious that Musk provides the answer, and then gives a pretty vital clue to the answer. "You're standing on the surface of the Earth" Now the clue is "You end up exactly where you started." Even though you've walked these miles and ended up a mile west of where you were, he tells you that you haven't gone anywhere. Because you're still standing on the surface of the earth. Simple.

  12. Correction on Canadian Piracy Rates Plummet As Industry Points To New Copyright Notice System · · Score: 5, Informative

    a 70% decrease in [the detection of] online infringement. FTFY.

  13. Re:I love it! on Retail Copies of Office 2013 Are Tied To a Single Computer Forever · · Score: 1

    Not much different from the GNU project which also puts restrictions on their software, just other restrictions. If customers won't accept them then they should not buy it.

    Except the GNU restrictions are designed for the complete opposite effect: to prevent anyone from monetizing what should be free for anyone to use, in accordance with the developer who chose the license. I don't think what you say can be taken as a fair comparison, because nobody "buys" software from the GNU project, and they're not really "customers". And why would anyone buy Office 2013 with the great GNU based alternatives? They are also cross platform, I might add.