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  1. Re:c'mon on Al Franken Urges FBI To Prosecute "Revenge Porn" · · Score: 0

    You don't give up rights. They are taken.

  2. Re:Cant get it here on Australian Government Outlines Website-Blocking Scheme · · Score: 1

    Yes. it is illegal.

    Copyright law is coded specifically and framing illegal activity in any context doesn't make it any "less legal."

    The problem is that copyright holders cannot afford to go after massive violations, and so they are getting ISP/governments to do that job for them.

    Copyright protection of digital material is simply impossible.

    Just as we individual users of the Internet have no way of absolutely protecting our private data (and have largely learned to just accept it) it's just a matter of time before copyright holders run out of ideas as to how to stop piracy.

  3. Re:All you Comcast® haters ... on Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home · · Score: 1

    Seriously, mods? Remember SCOTUS and "corporations are people, too?"

  4. Re:All you Comcast® haters ... on Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home · · Score: 1

    Anyway, the pinch line is "SCOTUS."

  5. Re:All you Comcast® haters ... on Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home · · Score: 1

    Ever read, say, The Onion?

  6. Re:Amazing post on Hacking Weight Loss: What I Learned Losing 30 Pounds · · Score: 1

    I am puzzled that you are using the Internet and have to get other people to do this for you.

    Google is a search engine (there are others, but the thinking process is similar), and here's how I do it.

    I'm thinking:

    - mayo clinic (they know medical stuff)
    - exercise (that's the scope we want)
    - makes people hungry (what we are talking about)

    Click on the first link:

    Exercise, hunger and weight loss - Mayo Clinic

    I think you're just trolling, but that's how it's done and stuff.

  7. Re:Ultracompetent robots on Bring On the Boring Robots · · Score: 1

    Really?

    No programmers were involved in manufacturing the robots?

  8. Re:Trust Us! on UK Setting Itself Up To Be More Friendly To Bitcoin Startups · · Score: 1

    Why?

  9. Re:This makes sense due to Bitstamp on UK Setting Itself Up To Be More Friendly To Bitcoin Startups · · Score: 1

    ... BTC exchange ...

    Because those are bullet proof.

  10. Re:Bitcoin's use on UK Setting Itself Up To Be More Friendly To Bitcoin Startups · · Score: 1

    Anonymity isn't what crypto currencies provide.

    Whew!

    Thanks for the schooling. I thought sure Bitcoin would be used in the sex slave and drug markets.

  11. Re:GCHQ has realized they can track Bitcoin, I bet on UK Setting Itself Up To Be More Friendly To Bitcoin Startups · · Score: 1

    When Mt Gox folded, Bitcoin got REAL anonymous.

  12. "Hopefully other governments take note." on UK Setting Itself Up To Be More Friendly To Bitcoin Startups · · Score: 1

    Why "hopefully?"

    Is this a biased story?

  13. Only 6.8 bn? on Japan To Build 250-Mile-Long, Four Storey-High Wall To Stop Tsunamis · · Score: 1

    Americans could build Berlinesque walls on the norther border at that price/hour, in addition to another to the south and along the eastern seaboard and the Pacific coast.

  14. Amazon needs this for all of us ... on Amazon Blasts FAA On Drone Approvals, Regulations · · Score: 0

    ... SCOTUS says Amazon is a people.

    If Amazon gets concessions, the We The People will get them, too, or file discrimination suits.

  15. Re:Either Way on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 1

    The saddest part of the story is ... /quote ... we don't have it yet.

  16. All you Comcast® haters ... on Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home · · Score: 1, Troll

    ... quit it.

    We're people, too.

  17. Re:Oh noes ... on NASA's ARM Will Take a Boulder From an Asteroid and Put It In Lunar Orbit · · Score: 1

    In sync went out with the Backstreet Boys.

  18. Re:Oh noes ... on NASA's ARM Will Take a Boulder From an Asteroid and Put It In Lunar Orbit · · Score: 1

    From your post:

    ... should be ...

  19. Oh noes ... on NASA's ARM Will Take a Boulder From an Asteroid and Put It In Lunar Orbit · · Score: 1

    ... it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that orbitals are dependent on other orbitals.

    I know damned well, given the difficulty of solving the three body problem, that NASA doesn't know what effect relocating an asteroid will have on other objects.

  20. Re:Wait ... what??? on Arkansas Is Now the First State To Require That High Schools Teach Coding · · Score: 1

    Well, technically ... (from YOUR source):

    No Child Left Behind was the cumulative result of a standards-and-testing movement that began with the release of the report A Nation at Risk by the Reagan administration in 1983.

    And I'm quite sure the Republicans are pissed at you for desecrating Bush's legacy piece of work.

  21. Re: Browsers getting too complex on Every Browser Hacked At Pwn2own 2015, HP Pays Out $557,500 In Awards · · Score: 1

    And we can pretend that coders are worth a shit but when they can't make a computer do what the coder does, that pretense fails.

  22. Re:Big deal ... not! on Public Records Request Returns 4.6M License Plate Scans From Oakland PD · · Score: 1

    What did the authorities say when you reported this violation?

  23. They need to sell this ... on Public Records Request Returns 4.6M License Plate Scans From Oakland PD · · Score: 1

    ... to advertisers, insurance companies, NSA ...

  24. Re:Common sense on Hacking Weight Loss: What I Learned Losing 30 Pounds · · Score: 1

    I am not sure ...

  25. Re:Amazing post on Hacking Weight Loss: What I Learned Losing 30 Pounds · · Score: 1

    Why didn't you at least look?

    The key to weight loss is to consume fewer calories than you burn. For most people, it's possible to lower their calorie intake to a greater degree than it is to burn more calories through increased exercise. That's why cutting calories through dieting is generally more effective for weight loss. But doing both — cutting calories and exercising — can help give you the weight-loss edge. Exercise can help burn even more calories than just dieting.