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  1. NPR isn't helping on Glut of Postdoc Researchers Stirs Quiet Crisis In Science · · Score: 1

    If I hear one more news report about all the job opportunities open to STEM workers, I might scream. Either shorten it to TEM or mention that there are many jobs under the STEM categories, but S-cience is experiencing total glut.

  2. What about iCloud? on Details of iOS and Android Device Encryption · · Score: 1

    Is iCloud encrypted under the consumer's key? That seems like the smart thing to do, though I imagine it could make sharing folders across devices a bit tricky.

    Plus solving the brute-force problem, of course.

  3. DARPA loves the 'philes on DARPA Delving Into the Black Art of Super Secure Software Obfuscation · · Score: 1

    According to Eric Holder, information security == material support for pedophiles. I expect the DOJ to promptly due DARPA out of existence!

  4. What's the argument? on Google Threatened With $100M Lawsuit Over Nude Celebrity Photos · · Score: 1

    Is this some right to publicity bullshit or are they claiming copyright? Because unless all those pictures were selfies, the celebrity doesn't actually own the copyright. Hope they secured all the rights from every third party before threatening to exercise those rights :/

  5. Re:Throttle, indeed on Verizon Wireless Caves To FCC Pressure, Says It Won't Throttle 4G Users · · Score: 1

    Right. They won't throttle your connection. Now they just track your ass with GPS and have someone murder you.

  6. Re:They need to lock this down now! on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 1

    I will admit to being curious as to why international travel hasn't been suspended. I'm guessing that WHO and the CDC don't actually have that authority. Might be something worth fixing, for when Captain Trips shows up.

  7. Re:Not a thorough analysis on How Did the 'Berlin Patient' Rid Himself of HIV? · · Score: 2

    They did check him for a triangular beard and oddly inverted morality, though.

  8. CRTC == FCC? on Netflix Rejects Canadian Regulator Jurisdiction Over Online Video · · Score: 1

    In that their enabling statutes are poorly-suited to evolving alongside the subject matter they're supposed to regulate.
    Though FCC was widely complicit in its own decline, with ISPs wedging municipal internet concerns (and consumers) between sandbagging reclassification of ISPs and the Brand-X decision.
    I don't know why the CRTC is operating outside its ambit, but it seems a fair bet that it's because of the incompetence of the agency administration. :/

  9. Re: Not really buying Alibaba on Why a Chinese Company Is the Biggest IPO Ever In the US · · Score: 1

    There's plenty of space for American investment to be minimized in unexpected ways before economic warfare kicks in.

  10. Not really buying Alibaba on Why a Chinese Company Is the Biggest IPO Ever In the US · · Score: 5, Informative

    Shares go to Alibaba Holdings Group Limited in the Cayman Islands. The contracts enabling proxy investment by Americans (otherwise illegal in China) have never been upheld in a Chinese court of law. Not something I would want as a long term investment.

  11. Hulu ads on Early Reviews of Destiny: Unfulfilled Potential · · Score: 1

    I was getting ready to buy this and a PS4. Then Hulu glitched out and played the extended trailer three times every commercial break. Now I hate Destiny and don't feel all that great about Immigrant from Zeppelin. Could someone please publish a scientific paper assuring advertisers that people respond negatively to repeated ads? Christ.

  12. Obviously on BBC: ISPs Should Assume VPN Users Are Pirates · · Score: 4, Funny

    The co-operative approach is obvious. I mean, if a Ford-brand car battery is used to electrocute a journalist's genitals in a spider-hole in Iraq, of course the journalist and his survivors can sue Ford. That's just obvious. And BBC is going to find that many businesses at home and abroad do not care to have their means of secure communication severed.

  13. Just do SOMETHING on U.S. Democrats Propose Legislation To Ban Internet Fast Lanes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Republican bill that would remove ISPs from FCC regulation would allow states to regulate. It would make rent seeking a lot more difficult for ISPs. This bill would do the obvious thing that the Fourth Branch has failed to do. It's a sign that the FCC is entirely pointless if Congress has to order it to do every little thing. This wouldn't address the paid prioritization problem, but seems like it would give consumers more rights against ISPs in re traffic shaping, etc.

  14. Liability on California Whooping Cough Cases "an Epidemic" · · Score: 0

    Here's hoping the couples with dead babies have the wherewithal to sue the unvaccinated that got the disease first. Rich people only understand liability.

  15. Herd immunity on California Whooping Cough Cases "an Epidemic" · · Score: 0

    A wonderful side effect is not giving a disease a lot of warm bodies to mutate in. It would be interesting to see whether patient zero was immunized.

  16. Well... on Comcast CEO Brian Roberts Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot · · Score: 0

    Of course, the free market will reward whoever has the best.... Haahahahaha! Aww, I made myself sad. :( How about this, the FCC puts out a quality survey that assesses quality based on dropped packets. This very public assessment of the companies might sufficiently shame them into upgrading. Also, companies with congested networks should be treated differently at the regulatory level. If we ever get into regulating cable leases, those providers with congested networks get to charge their leasees only 80% of cost.

  17. Re: Well... on Mutant Registration vs. Vaccine Registration · · Score: 0

    Can we firmly establish responsibility when there's an outbreak of whooping cough? Can someone subpeona medical records en-masse to determine who didn't get a shot and file civil damages against them? Because if we aren't going to have a registry, that other thing needs to be possible. If my kid died of whooping cough because some fuckwit listened to Jim Carrey's looney wife, I'd want as many pounds of flesh from that fuck as possible. How else would you discourage that behavior if they're convinced the health of their children isn't at risk?

  18. Re: Better service though... on Cable TV Prices Rising At Four Times the Inflation Rate · · Score: 1

    Hulu is essentially IP television. Sure they're double dipping getting ad revenue and subscriber fees, but its still a step forward from fixed schedule garbage television.