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  1. Re: quick on Hulk Hogan Settles With Gawker For $31 Million (go.com) · · Score: 2

    There aren't any laws against adultery, however there are laws against privacy violations.

  2. Re: Exploding heads on Google Security Engineer Claims Android Is Now As Secure As the iPhone (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, one way to think of it is that there are plenty of devices within the ecosystem, which means that you get all of the benefits of a majority platform in terms of third party developer support, but if you want the only true Android UX, you go with Nexus/Pixel.

  3. Re: IoT needs to go away. on New, More-Powerful IoT Botnet Infects 3,500 Devices In 5 Days (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And how are we supposed to hold vendors accountable? Domestic ones you can, however there are very few domestic IoT vendors. Nonetheless, people are going to keep buying them without giving a damn what impact they have on anybody else. This is why you should hold the end user responsible, otherwise they can just get away with slapping the blame on a manufacturer that can never be reached, which means zero accountability.

    We do the same thing with cars, by the way. By putting your car on the road, you by default certify that it's in proper working order. If it's not (I.e. you don't maintain your brakes) then you're liable. Yes, you can claim damages from the manufacturer in some cases, but ultimately the buck stops at you.

  4. Re:AT&T does what it wants on The AT&T-Time Warner Merger Must Be Stopped (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    the railroads were built by cheap government backed loans and the protection of the US Army.

    Neither of these is an example of socialism. Socialism means that the government owns the means of production. That's all there is to it. If the railroad was produced by the private sector, then it's by definition not socialism.

    - Government financing is not the same as government production. Otherwise this is the same as saying that if you take out a loan to build a house, then the bank built the house.
    - There isn't a requirement to work for the government in order to receive military protection. And in fact most of what the military has is produced by the private sector and purchased by the government (for example, companies like Bushmaster and Colt make most of the firearms, Lockeed-Martin/Boeing make most of the aircraft, Brunswick makes much of the naval equipment, etc.)

  5. Re:It's the rational decision on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Zimmerman had wounds on his nose and the back of his head, meanwhile martin had no wounds other than the bullet hole. Jabba the Hut even testified that Martin wanted to "go after that cracka", even after he had an easy chance to leave without having any confrontation. But instead he turns back, follows Zimmerman and confronts him, and then assaults him.

  6. If you were spoofing the pings, you'd likely not get a response to record since you've sent your return address to presumably be one that you don't have.

  7. Re: BULL SH!T on Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank (slate.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Without having read TFA, often even as a network engineer, I'll use the term "ping" even when not referring to ICMP. For example, I'll refer to an SNMP walk (of any kind) as a "ping".

    Still though, this doesn't come off as suspicious to me at all. Since when is it odd or otherwise unusual that a server belonging to a billionaire talks to a server belonging to a bank in a foreign country? That's like saying that it's odd that there's dog piss on a fire hydrant.

  8. Re:It's the rational decision on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 1

    But Blacks are much more likely to be falsely accused, and end up in jail (or dead, like Trevon Martin)

    All of the physical evidence indicates that Trayvon Martin (yes, you misspelled his name) was killed while committing felony assault. Nobody is going to take your comments seriously when you managed to fuck up two things in one sentence.

  9. Or you could always do what we did before we had cars. And since this is mostly about supporting the natives, you could travel the way they did before Europeans came, since they completely killed off the native horse population a long time ago.

    Is that means of transportation not viable enough for you?

  10. Re: America must go Communist! on Google Discloses Exploited Windows Vulnerability 10 Days After Telling Microsoft (venturebeat.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He's deliberately creating mayhem. He's a member of GNAA.

  11. Re: a lot of Google personnel uses Macs on Google's 'Project Zero' Hid A Major Vulnerability in Apple's OS and iOS Cores (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    You are thinking of libel. Disclosing details of a vulnerability that can be used maliciously is a gray area. It's been covered by EFF and a blackhat presentation, and it's not as cut-and-dry as you asserted.

    How is it a legal gray area? Who has been successfully prosecuted for it?

  12. Re: a lot of Google personnel uses Macs on Google's 'Project Zero' Hid A Major Vulnerability in Apple's OS and iOS Cores (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Sued for what? There's no legal remedy for somebody making truthful statements. It just happens to be common industry practice to give some time for a patch to be made while making full public disclosure an ultimatum for somebody not releasing timely patches.

    A lot of armchair-lawyer-Microsoft-fanboys like to fault Google for disclosing a windows bug after such a notice just because Microsoft themselves complained about it, but Google didn't break any laws, let alone any industry norms at the time, so go put your head back in the Azure where it belongs.

  13. Re:Not just Southern Spain on Climate Change Rate To Turn Southern Spain To Desert By 2100, Report Warns (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Good, the last thing the world needs is more ignorant fucks littering the world with more ill-behaved progeny. Fuck people who have children without a plan for mitigating their environmental impact. Fuck them right in their selfish faces.

    Well it's typically poor people that have a lot of kids, but we're supposed to have sympathy for the poor and not speak ill of them or the homeless people who leave trash all over and run in the middle of the street, blocking traffic, so they can pickup a quarter.

  14. Re:Not just Southern Spain on Climate Change Rate To Turn Southern Spain To Desert By 2100, Report Warns (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    When the human population was at half its current value, the percentage of starving people was probably the same, or higher. And the reasons were the same, too.

    I don't have any numbers to show it, but I suspect that it was much higher than it is now, namely because mass famine has historically been a chronic problem in Asian and African countries, whereas that's no longer the case. I think the reason things are different now is due to big changes to agricultural technology that have come about over the last 60 years. Synthetic pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, GMO, etc. You get massively increased crop yields without needing to increase the landmass required for farming.

    Ironically the "clean food movement" seeks to roll back these technologies, raise the costs of food production, and go back to famine, and for no good reason other than they have some kind of religious objection to modern agriculture.

  15. Re:Not just Southern Spain on Climate Change Rate To Turn Southern Spain To Desert By 2100, Report Warns (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    That, and it seems like every time you read something written by people who are clinically depressed, they always talk about how people are getting poorer and poorer.

    https://ourworldindata.org/gra...

  16. Re:You know what that means. on AI-Powered Body Scanners Could Soon Speed Up Your Airport Check-in (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What I mean is roughly the third quartet of UV which ionizes some but not all atoms. Nonetheless, it qualifies as what a hypochondriac typically refers to as "dangerous" radiation, even though it's anything but. (Then again, your typical hypochondriac probably thinks all radiation is bad, neverminding that without radiation they'd be unable to see...hell, they'd be unable to exist. That can also be filed under the same category as health food nuts that shun chemicals.)

  17. I think you're misinterpreting my statement, I'm referring to margins.

  18. Re: They are publicly buying votes in Pike County, on Lawsuit Seeks To Block New York Ban On 'Ballot Selfies' (msnbc.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    This happens practically every major election:

    http://www.politifact.com/pund...

    I recall during the 2004 elections it was done pretty openly by Democrats, under a program called "smokes for votes".

  19. Re:Oracle employees, show yourself on Oracle Will Officially Appeal Its 'Fair Use' Loss Against Google (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Can you tap the shoulder of somebody in the UX department and tell them to do a better job please? For all of our sakes. Virtually every oracle program I've ever used is extremely annoying to work with, and it has more to do with a crappy UI than anything else (well that and overall slowness with some applications.)

  20. Re:Dump lightning on Apple's New MacBook Pro Requires a $25 Dongle To Charge Your iOS Device (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    That would negatively impact Apple's business model. Accessories sold by a company like Apple are typically much more profitable than the devices themselves.

  21. Re:You know what that means. on AI-Powered Body Scanners Could Soon Speed Up Your Airport Check-in (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    It really depends on the radiation (lower UV range ionizing radiation is less dangerous than being in the sun for a long time,) and the fact that you're moving through it quickly reduces the chance that it will be bad. It just depends a lot of things.

    And if an AI is checking you, then you're probably not going to get your dick and ass grabbed by this guy:

    http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us...

  22. Re:will they pay for that? even if there are high on Canadian Police Are Texting Potential Murder Witnesses (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Only time I've ever been charged for a text was when it was an international text, which was retarded and I complained and got the fees waived.

    As for the crime, I think if I was planning on breaking the law I'd want to create an alibi, and I would leave my cell phone wherever I intend to claim that I was, maybe even plant a burner phone somewhere else, call it, and keep the line active for a set time period while I go and bury Nina on the side of a hill between Redwood Regional Park and the Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve.

  23. That doesn't seem likely because it propped up a lot of European corporations. Especially considering that Volkswagen, which directly competed with US domestic interests, was partially funded by the Marshall Plan in the postwar era.

  24. It's not a nitpick by any stretch of the imagination. The web is just an application that runs on top of the internet. What you're doing is the same as saying that TV and radio are the same thing. TV is the content delivered over the radio waves, much as the web is just an application that runs on top of the internet. GP may as well claim that Philo Farnsworth invented radio and it would be just as educated (and yes, television was originally broadcast over AM in its early mechanical days, with FM coming later with electronic televisions, followed by today's digital modulation being one of 8-VSB, COFDM, or QAM.)

  25. Without having any internal numbers, I suspect that the TV side of things is killing them. They probably anticipated that they'd get lots of double-play subscribers given existing industry politics, but it quickly turned out that most of those who wanted it were part of the cord cutter generation.