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  1. Re:Reason to be here... on New York Thieves Wearing Apple Store T-Shirts Steal $16,000 In iPhones (pix11.com) · · Score: 1

    "The thieves are idiots because Apple probably has the serial numbers of those stolen iPhones and thus will nuke them from orbit?"

    And given a serial, each one will report its GPS position to the holy city of Cupertino on request.

  2. Re:The downside of this on Anonymous Posts Pornography To Hijacked ISIS Twitter Accounts (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Can we finally put this 'lone wolf' crap to rest now? Well-planned international operations in multiple cities require an organizational network. This guy didn;t just look at a website and decide, Death To America.

  3. Re:The downside of this on Anonymous Posts Pornography To Hijacked ISIS Twitter Accounts (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    "Also, this just helps ISIS recruit."

    In what way would a secret hexing of jihadist sites 'help ISIS recruit?' And yes, it's a clash of civilizations and we need to understand that the US and Europe are active battlefronts in this war.

  4. Re:Fire Editor David on Anonymous Posts Pornography To Hijacked ISIS Twitter Accounts (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    50+ people lost their lives in a shooting and Slashdot still hasn't posted about it/ Do you hate gay people Editor David? Is that why you refuse to cover this story?

    Relax. The news-for-nerds aspects of this story will get plenty of play here in the coming days.

  5. Re:The downside of this on Anonymous Posts Pornography To Hijacked ISIS Twitter Accounts (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My thought also. The script kiddies of Anonymous will get one day of poking fun at ISIS out of this stunt, but a much better strategy would be for the NSA to quietly take over ISIS sites and, using all the global intelligence at its disposal, set up false feeds and chatter, funnel ISIS troops into kill zones, and issue faked calls for terrorist activity in the US and Europe which would lure the next Mateen into a police trap.

    We need to capture people like Mateen alive, so that their minds can be disassembled using the latest techniques to root out the ISIS command trees in Western countries. Every dead terrorist is a good terrorist, but it's also one we can't get information from.

  6. Re:doesn't tell the future on The World's Oldest Computer May Have Predicted the Future (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    "It's kind of pointless to write an article about an ancient Greek text that was found if you don't report what the text actually said. "

    It was the world's first README.TXT .

  7. Re:Reasons why I don't like the Internet of Things on NSA Couldn't Hack San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone; Now Working On Exploiting IoT (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    61 ) Internet of Things devices could be watching me fold this sheet of Reynolds Oven Strength Wrap into a hat!

  8. Re:makes no sense on DEA Wants Access To Medical Records Without Warrant (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Why should the government be allowed to dig through my prescription history if they have no evidence a crime has even been committed.

    Because it CAN. That's why we of the dark side want to keep defunding it until it has to cut back to something less harmful.

  9. Re:First it was the NSA ... on DEA Wants Access To Medical Records Without Warrant (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Let the addicts have their favored poison, and quietly remove themselves from the gene pool.

    I would rather we had a drug problem than suffer the continuing existence of the DEA. Oh, wait - we still do have a drug problem as well as a DEA. And when the agency goes, can we have back the parts of the Constitution that we deleted for their benefit?

  10. Re:"Unauthorized" repair on Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    There is a hero like that in every region, if you're willing to drive a long way. One of them can be found in Prescott, AZ, and he totally worth the 150-mile round trip when something goes wrong with an Apple in my town.

    One morning, the Q key mysteriously failed on my MacBook Pro. All I had to do was tell him that, and he could immediately diagnose a faulty battery. Apparently when a bad battery first starts to swell on this model, loss of the Q key due to slight, unnoticeable-to-the-naked-eye warping if the keyboard is the first symptom. I was able to get it replaced on a recall.

  11. Re:racism had been overcome on What Star Trek Owes To Robert Heinlein · · Score: 1

    Yes. Stating that one race is superior to another is racist.

    Only if you're white.

  12. Re:Anecdotal evidence on A Tour of Campus 2, Apple's Upcoming Headquarters (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    It looks as though politics is being disrupted right now.

  13. Re:Seawater or any salt water? on Scientists In Iceland Turn CO2 Into Stone (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Not only would we be sequestering carbon, but we would also be sequestering the extra water we seem to be getting right now.

  14. I have a better idea for secondary education on Ready CEO: Coding Snobs Are Not Helping Our Children Prepare For The Future (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Instead of a superficial 'coding for the masses' course, what I want to see is science appreciation enrichment blended into history, English and civics. Teach kids how science works and how its applications can be used. Let's raise a generation of young people who, for a change, appreciate science. Out of that population, the coders will naturally emerge. More importantly, we will have a voting population that makes better political choices about technical issues.

  15. Organ transplants? on 23 Seriously Ill MS Patients Recover After 'Breakthrough' Stem Cell Treatment (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Organ transplant patients have to spend the rest of their lives gobbling immunosuppressive drugs. Could this technique be used to remove and reboot the immune system, including in the replacement organ, for such patients?

  16. The federal law against cash transfers of $10,000 or more applies to cash deposits and withdrawals, not to account-to-account transfers or SWIFT (bank wire) transfers.

  17. Re:Whatcha gonna do? on Gawker Files For Bankruptcy After Hulk Hogan Lawsuit (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    "Hogan for President! And Thiel for his running mate! Couldn't be worse than Clinton/Trump..."

    Except for the evangelical has-beens who believe that a giant space humanoid personally monitors our sex lives, Thiel is the kind of billionaire business guy who Republicans traditionally like, as opposed to one who 'created' a fortune by starting with a big inheritance and flipping real estate while filing bankruptcy a bunch of times.

  18. Re:Revenge p0rn on Gawker Files For Bankruptcy After Hulk Hogan Lawsuit (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of worthless parasites!

  19. LOL. Yeah, that's not suspicious at all. Any idiot taking your advice deserves to have their funds frozen.

    Because civil forfeiture takes place only when you are not arrested, taking actin against you after the fact would require an indictment. When this happens, you gain rights.

  20. It has been held that "innocent until proven guilty" applies to people, and when charges are filed against them. Since property is not a person, it has no rights.

    And to get your property back you have to sue the city/county/state which took the action. Sometimes that works and sometimes it does not.

  21. This article should have been about a mother using the Android voice assistant for this to have been taken as a heroic technology example. Of course, she would first have had to yell, "Launch antivirus!" and wait for the phone to be scanned to eliminate the possibility of that ambulance call going to a Nigerian scammer.

    The iPhone is a walled garden, and that's the way I like it.

  22. No, the legal hack police are using is in the very name of your example: the cops file a civil action against the cash or property itself, which does not have Constitutional rights. People have rights, so if you ever want to see your money again, try to get arrested at the scene.

  23. Re: Japan and the Philippines should build one, to on China Plans Massive Sea Lab 10,000 Feet Underwater In the South China Sea (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "The obvious rebuttal is the well-known Chinese government penchant for stealing technology. "

    If it's tech that we're not using, then I say let the Chinese run with it.

  24. Re: Japan and the Philippines should build one, to on China Plans Massive Sea Lab 10,000 Feet Underwater In the South China Sea (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Why not an underwater version of the international space station?"

    Do you mean a multinational research station that China is excluded from for no particular reason? Uhh, no.

  25. "Your property and possessions are protected against search and seizure, period. They're YOURS to begin with and the Fourth doesn't say just on your person."

    The case you cite dates all the way back to 1965, when the Constitution still limited governmental powers. The reason that we cling to what remains of the Second Amendment is that it may represent our last line of defense against power.