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  1. Re:Should be required for all contracts of any kin on FCC's 'Nutrition Labels' For Broadband Show Speed, Caps, and Hidden Fees (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Capitalism is about efficiently allocating the *market's* resources, not the resources of any particular particpant in the market. A prerequisite for this is information about the market. Obfuscation makes the market less efficient therefore it is anti-capitalist.

  2. Re:Read between the lines. on FCC's 'Nutrition Labels' For Broadband Show Speed, Caps, and Hidden Fees (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    " I just hope the FCC is ready for the manipulative ways"

    The FCC is used to dealing with phone companies. Cable companies can only aspire to that level of malice.

  3. Re:What are the chances on Electric Fork Simulates a Salty Flavor By Shocking Your Tongue (med.news.am) · · Score: 1

    "you need to be aware of the dictionary meaning of the word"

    http://www.oxforddictionaries.... and http://www.oxforddictionaries....
    "Injure or kill someone by electric shock", which clearly includes non-fatal interactions.

    Is The Oxford English Dictionary insufficiently authoritative for you?

  4. Re:You Yanks Are Stupid! on Verizon Plans $20 Upgrade Fee Even If You Pay Full Price For a Phone (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    New Jersey has 90% of the population of Sweden in 5% of the area. Why can't New Jersey have as good coverage as Sweden?

  5. Re:You Yanks Are Stupid! on Verizon Plans $20 Upgrade Fee Even If You Pay Full Price For a Phone (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh great, another repeat of the bullshit population density argument.

    1) The US, like anywhere else, does not have a uniform population distribution.
    2) The thing about areas with low population density is that most people *are somewhere else*.

    While low population density may be a rational excuse for not covering every square inch of Montana, it doesn't explain why New Jersey should be expected to have bad coverage.

  6. Grieving Father is Begging Apple for a unicorn on Grieving Father is Begging Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's iPhone (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Just because he is grieving doesn't make his request rational.

  7. Re:They tried that on Grieving Father is Begging Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's iPhone (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Resetting the lock screen code wipes the device, which is then restored from backup. The father is trying to get data that he thinks is on the device that had not been backed up.

  8. Re:clueless adults on Grieving Father is Begging Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's iPhone (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "Why can't he? "

    The father does not want the device per se, he wants the data.

  9. Re:Something tells me on Grieving Father is Begging Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's iPhone (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "The father is, was, or is currently owned, paid, threatened or otherwise influenced by law enforcement."

    Never attribute to malice what can adequately explained by incompetence.

  10. Re:What Happens When you Forget Your Password? on Grieving Father is Begging Apple to Unlock His Dead Son's iPhone (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The phone is wiped and the backup reloaded from iCloud storage which has a distinct password (your Apple ID password) or from local storage which may have a password in which case it would be a distinct password (specific to local backup encryption).

    Lock screen, iCloud, and local storage are not tied to the same password.

  11. "We need to decrypt his phone before he gets to your children."

    Maybe my kids are DTF.

  12. Re:Already disputed and debunked on Bitcoin Could Consume As Much Electricity As Denmark By 2020 (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    Mining does not just generate new bitcoins. Saying that users of bitcoin will accept transactions being verified at 1/120th the rate rather than pay transaction fees is ludicrous.

  13. Re:Found a bug and fixed it. on Apple Releases iOS 9.3.1 With Fix For Unresponsive Links · · Score: 1

    Any other app could still create a unexpectedly large list of allowed URLs, then you'd have the same problem over and over again.

    While they could add a check in App Review to look at the size of hr URL list, it would also be prudent to also update the OS to better handle unexpected input.

  14. Re:Found a bug and fixed it. on Apple Releases iOS 9.3.1 With Fix For Unresponsive Links · · Score: 1

    "So of course it would pass QA because it was only stupidly coded apps that broke."

    Assuming well-formed input from a source you do not control is at minimum QA failure, and potentially a security risk.

  15. Responding to incentives on Netflix's Original Content Library Is Growing By 185% Each Year (cordcutting.com) · · Score: 1

    If Netflix wants more original content, they just need to choose to spend more money on original content.

    If Netflix wants to license more content, there's no no way to force rights-holders to take their money no matter how much they wave around.

  16. If you could determine that the email was faked then you wouldn't need to contact the CEO... because you already know it's fake.

  17. Why would you think to ask for approval from the CEO when the CEO just sent you approval?

  18. Re:other citations on Leaked Emails Reveal Widespread Corruption in Global Oil Industry (theage.com.au) · · Score: 2

    Those are not other citations.

    a) The Sydney Morning Herald and Stuff are published by Fairfax Media, who are the co-authors with The Huffington Post of the cited report.
    b) The Daily Mail cites only the Sydney Morning Herald.

    All 5 of those articles cite only the same report. They are not separate.

  19. Re:No amount of evidence is enough on The Arctic Sets Yet Another Record Low Maximum Extent (nsidc.org) · · Score: 1

    The arctic has a well-known liberal bias.

  20. Re:I sympathize I ride DC's METRO rail on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 2

    "the Portland MAX where they actually took the lines all the way to the airport, unlike in D.C."

    The National Airport Metrorail station opened in 1977, 24 years before the Portland International Airport MAX station opened and 9 years before any part of MAX.

  21. "why didn't the school board put some money away" on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 2

    It is easier for the tax vigilantes to push through a referendum on the basis of the district collecting taxes they clearly don't need because they are not spending the money. If they push against payments on debt-financed capital expenditures, then it is the tax vigilantes that have to justify defaulting on debt to the public.

  22. Over 2 centuries of trolling on 33,000 Sign Online Petition Promoting Guns At Republican Convention (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Thomas Jefferson cried about all the mean things that were being written about Washington... while funding the papers printing them and in some cases writing the material himself.

    Trolling the political process is as American as apple pie made with rotten apples.

  23. Re:Those smart liberals at work. on Bill Introduced To Require ID When Purchasing "Burner Phones" (house.gov) · · Score: 1

    There is no objection to identification per se, the objection is that almost invariably what is claimed to be a voter identification measure turns out to actually be a poll tax and those are unconstitutional in the US since 1964 as per the 24th Amendment.

  24. Re:not sure I believe story on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "unless you are employing retard programmers"

    You don't believe this part could happen?

  25. Re:Hyphens in last names? on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you hate the Portuguese?

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

    "It is not uncommon in Portugal that a married woman has two given names and six surnames, two from her mother's family, two from her father's family, and the last two coming from her husband. In addition, some of these names may be made of more than one word, so that a full feminine name can have more than 12 words."