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  1. Re:RIP Corporate Legal Accountability on Supreme Court Upholds Arbitration In DirectTV Case · · Score: 1

    > and a $7 rebate coupon

    Pretty much this is what you are losing out on.

    The 2 or 3 who filed the initial lawsuits that get banded into the class action get some, and the lawyers who created it get a massive amount (winning a lottery amounts) and then others get a snail mail letter saying file a claim and here's a check for $11.

    I got something like that out of the blue because Comerica way overcharged. It is the 3rd or 4th such thing.

  2. Re:Bangladesh will not be the last country to do t on Bangladesh Extends Social Media Ban, Blocking Twitter and Skype (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course you are not wrong, which is why freedom of speech (and the press -- the means of mass production and distribution of speech) are in the First Amendment of the US. Governments will censor to remain in power.

  3. I thought you were a dude. on NASA Looks To PlayStation VR To Train Space Robot Operators (roadtovr.com) · · Score: 1

    Humanoid robots are terrible in space...except for the PR value.

    Much better would be some octopus-like thing with large and small grippers and multitool swappable attachments and modules.

    Kind of like the squiddies from The Matrix.

  4. "What good is electricity in the home?" on FAA: Small Drones Must Be Registered By February (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "What good are drones?"

    "Senator, in five years you will be taxing them. Sorry, charging a fee to get out of the way."

  5. Re:A typo my ass... on A Typo Almost Derailed Paris Climate Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    This is not true. The exact status of a treaty is not definite w.r.t. constitutionality. Some believe it might be as you say, but this is not settled.

    There was a recent case where a woman who put a chemical on a romantic rival's steering wheel, causing irritation but no permanent injury) was charged with some chemical weapons violation, according to a treaty the US signed.

    This overrode normal constitutional permissions with respect to what laws Congress could pass vis-a-vis state vs. Federal domains, and the court agreed. The treaty could not, in fact, give Congress general police authority that, long understood, it did not constitutionally have (which is reserved to the states.)

    Logically a treaty should be above all federal and state laws (insofar as the constitution allows supremacy of federal laws over state) but below the Constitution itself. This prevents changing the Constitution without supermajority approval of the states.

    I cannot conceive of the states believing otherwise when approving the Constitution.

  6. Re:Gotta say it on Vandals Deface Facebook's Hamburg Offices (google.com) · · Score: 1

    Defacebook

    Facebookburning

  7. Re:Freedom of Speech on Vandals Deface Facebook's Hamburg Offices (google.com) · · Score: 1

    That you think yourself wise enough to censor others *is* the problem.

  8. Re:Great, just what we need! on MIT Creates Tor Alternative That Floods Networks With Fake Data (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Do they need the full Netflix future bandwidth where every house is watching 5 4k streams? Just to hide text messages and sma files?

  9. Re:Great, just what we need! on MIT Creates Tor Alternative That Floods Networks With Fake Data (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Multibillion-dollar installations crammed with more processing power than a Google data center disagree with you. They don't have buffoons hired to deal with it. These are the people believed to have inserted vulnerable keys into the earlier standards.

  10. Re:What happens when corrosion eats 0.01in of it? on Steel Treatment Paves the Way For Radically Lighter, Stronger, Cheaper Cars (gizmag.com) · · Score: 0

    And the kibitzers declare Rearden metal Full of Fail, right on schedule, according to Holy Writ.

  11. Re:In Before on Paris Climate Deal Adopted · · Score: 2

    No, we passed Peak Oil because it was a warmed over retread of 1970s shortage scares, where physical scientists stick their noses in economics and make literally ignorant predictions about economics.

  12. Re:2 C is a fantasy on Paris Climate Deal Adopted · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Doesn't matter. The best thing for humanity is to continue advancing technology rapidly. We can less predict the state of life 100 years from now than 1900 could today.

    I will happily take higher seas and the very occasional extra hurricane and China and India with the economic societies of the West over slowing their growth (and hampering the west) with idiotic command-and-control solutions.

    Year 2100 powered by 6 billion living as the billion in the west do should be pretty amazing.

  13. Re: Absolute bullshit on LionsGate Wants Pirate Sites To Pay For 'Expendables' 3 Leak (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    How does the law actually work? May each view be considered lost revenue, regardless of whether the freshman rubs his engoatee'd pimpleroost and imagines he wouldn't actually pay to see it?

  14. Re:I support this. on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The Texas attorney general is full of fail if he can't prosecute comanies that do that. Assuming Texas outlaws it, as many states do.

  15. Re:The FBI director should go first. on Obama Administration To Offer Full Position On Encryption By End of Year · · Score: 2

    Encryption for me but not for thee, one of the legs of the panopticon. Others are Eye in the Sky (go listen to Radiolab podcast on it), and omnipresent cameras with facial recognition, license plate recognition, and so on, dumping into a database where you can look up where anyone is at any given moment. Oh and tracking who calls who, when, and the ability to listen in with no technological barriers if you don't get a warrant.

  16. Re:Who cares what the fuck he says? on Obama Administration To Offer Full Position On Encryption By End of Year · · Score: 2

    The encrypted speech is, independently, also speech, and thus protected.

  17. Re:NASA moderator quickly shut things down on Quantum Computer Security? NASA Doesn't Want To Talk About It (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    And no women will date Slashdotters! Now there's a conspiracy.

  18. Re:I don't see why this is a story on Quantum Computer Security? NASA Doesn't Want To Talk About It (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that a clueless whale falling? No, it's an average Slashdot reader!

  19. Re:Wolf, Ram, and Heart on Stephen Wolfram's Free Book Teaches the Wolfram Language To Kids · · Score: 1

    Oh, I forgot to add this notebook is almost useless on a cell phone like a Galaxy S6 in either landscape or portrait mode, as the right hand side, the non-notebook side, is too wide and "wins", and the pop up keyboard on the phone covers too much given the non-notebook real estate budget you demand.

    Perhaps this is true notebook or desktop only, ok, but why rely on shift if so?

  20. Wolf, Ram, and Heart on Stephen Wolfram's Free Book Teaches the Wolfram Language To Kids · · Score: 1

    Attn: Wolfram Usability Testing

    1. I took me 10 minutes to figure out a "Wolfram Notebook", needed for these exercises, is not a product by itself, with an easy-to-find link, but part of lab.wolfram.com.

    2. The first hello world program, solve 2+2: fails with "syntax error". It turns out you don't need the colon. I assume the colon is part of the section header of the text, but it is not obvious to leave it out.

    3. 2+2= similarly gives bad results. Fair enough, but it is more logical than a colon, or nothing.

    Well, that is my first 15 minutes with it.

  21. Re:AMD settled on The Ups and Downs of AMD (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    to knock AMD off their roost while still keeping them in business. The latter prevents the finger of antitrust from being pointed at Intel the way it was for Ma Bell

    And Microsoft kept Apple's heartbeat going several times. And Frito Lay keeps Bettermaid's heartbeat going. And so on.

  22. "Feel bad about dishonoring our ancestors. Honoring them requires at least X dollars."

    A billion dollars each? "SURE!" Now we are just haggling over the amount. Theatrically slink away, grumbling about injusce with your fattened wallet, if you desire.

  23. Re:But they already can... on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2

    In the US, a password cannot be forced from you as it would violate your 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination. Presumably that would include a massive key, or where it is. However, biometric data like a finger swipe, sux to be u.

  24. Re:Jumped the shark with this one... on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2

    More interesting is the First Amendment right to speak, encrypted, as encrypted speech is itself speech.

    I like fighting this on the grounds of the pocketbook, it harming US companies bound by it, and the eventual and inevitable failure of government to keep escrow keys secret. Fight it there before gets back to the Supreme Court.

  25. I.e. business as usual -- this is why these people go into politics: to get in the way of things so they can get paid to get back out of the way.