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  1. Governments will still use it themselves, which is the major historical kind of problem ripe for abuse.

    If government has it, the people should, too. I am less concerned a company tracks me to see if I am walking by a store with Depends than I am some government panopticon is tracking opposition to those in power.

  2. Tower of auuuuuugh on Amazon To Fund CS Classes in Over 130 NYC High Schools (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Journalists might want to acctually attend some of these clas&÷×[*$,squwaaasrk!!$&$&/;

  3. Supreme Court members are under no obligation to attend.

    Many think it is actually unseemly as this is political theater by the two political branches.

  4. No, to ban Trump under some misbegotten guideline reason effectively puts them in the position of quasi-censoring political speech, the most important free speech of all. And coming from the president, like him or not.

    "We're hiding from you what th president is saying because we don't like it" is not a bragging point for a speech-based company.

  5. Quantum key distribution (QKD). QKD exploits the fact that the simple act of sensing or measuring the state of a quantum system disturbs that system. Because of this, any third-party eavesdropping would leave behind a clearly detectable trace, and the communication can be aborted before any sensitive information is lost. Until now, this type of quantum security has been demonstrated in small-scale systems.

    Existing repeaters for quantum information are highly problematic. They require storage of the quantum state at the repeater sites, making the repeaters much more error prone, difficult to build, and very expensive because they often operate at cryogenic temperatures.

    Commander Data continued, "Using the deflection dish, though, it should scale up enough to allow us to detect the warp anomaly and free the USS Maelstrom."

  6. Re:Absolute power corrupts absolutely on Singapore HIV Registry Data Leaked Online in Health Breach (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And a supermajority believes government should be granted that new power.

    The fundamental relationship between power and the people should be something most agree with.

  7. Re:Different resolution and level of detail. on Google Glass is Still Around (nymag.com) · · Score: 2

    If the future is omnipresent surveillance (I can see a simple AI app in 20 years basically being the panopticon held in the basement of those billion dollar spy agency buildings today) then the only real solution is to let everybody have it so we can track government as they track us.

    Sad but better than the alternative.

  8. Re:Here in the US the media is controlled on Amid Chaos Venezuelans Struggle To Find The Truth, Online (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Not sure what this comic list comes from, but you can hardly blame gay people for turning the tide on the use of social ostracism to hurt people, having been kept down by it for millenia.

    How does it feel?

  9. Re:Late Stage Socialism on Amid Chaos Venezuelans Struggle To Find The Truth, Online (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    By introducing a rationale for massive amounts of government control and approval for business, you lose the abity for free businessmen to adapt and replace it with standard corruption of cronyism. Since it shuts down opposition (business, political) nobody invests and nobody does what is necessary to make things work.

    So nothing does.

  10. This is what you get for gluing in the battery.

  11. Re:Uh, hello? on FBI Arrests Three More Men Who Hired 'SWAT' Perpetrator (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't putting someone in PRISON for 20 years just because they made a phone call pretty much the definition of censorship?

    You are an idiot.

    KILL YOURSELF NOW.

    By the way, protected speech as it is not an exhortation to imminent lawless action. Unlike swatting.

  12. Re: Uh, goodbye on FBI Arrests Three More Men Who Hired 'SWAT' Perpetrator (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    No it is not clueless bitch.

    Boy, the modern rewrite of the Monty Python "I'd like to have an argument!" sketch is just terrible.

  13. Re: Uh, hello? on FBI Arrests Three More Men Who Hired 'SWAT' Perpetrator (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Although threats of government retaliation is considered censorship, as is the even weaker "regulation by raised eyebrow", where government, empowered to license things, might decline if you speak unfavored things. Unofficially of course. 'Cause that would be illegal.

    Anything that "chills speech" is censorship.

    But free speech doesn't include fraud, deliberate lies to get someone's money. Or kill them.

  14. Re:Copypasta! on 'This Time It's Russia's Emails Getting Leaked' (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    As someone who lived in USSR before and after collapse I am well ware of who Russians are and what they are capable of. So all I have to say is this. Ubei sebya ap stenu der'mo. Razgon 100m. Stena betonnaya.

    You don't sound like a Russian bot/troll. You sound like a dumb asshole.

    Is it Popov or Popoff that's the real Russian vodka?

  15. Re:Copypasta! on 'This Time It's Russia's Emails Getting Leaked' (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    The truth is probably far more disturbing. The spy agencies record calls outside the US without warrants. If they realize one caller is a US citizen they are supposed to keep the recording locked unless they get a warrant.

    Maybe they caught someone high up speaking to someone high up there, and listened but shouldn't have, and now need a way to drag it out into the open without revealing a grotesquely unconstitutional action.

    Ymmv to the details.

  16. Re: Copypasta! on 'This Time It's Russia's Emails Getting Leaked' (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Eventually? It already was when the Republicans went after Bill Clinton with a special prosecutor for Whitewater, which turned into impeachent (but not removal) for a process crime not even related to the Whitewater issue.

    Neither side learns. All we see is the wisdom the Founding Fathers had in things like the 4th and 5th Amendments in trying to stop powerful people from using the power of government to investigate their political enemies.

    Now maybe there is something here, but it is driven by politics. And Trump shouting "Lock her up!" is the exact same thing. So one need not even go back to Bill Clinton to see Republicans abusing government to hurt political enemies.

  17. "What? You mean I can't just shoot off my mouth, repeatedly, and make life difficult for my elected bosses, who were elected to set policy and not me?"

  18. Re:Vaccinations are bad on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Although the mercury meme remains, official antivaxx crap (if there is an official one) has dropped the mercury issue and is now just anti-vaxx for autism.

    It's a study in how memes evolve to keep spreading.

  19. Re:Vaccinations are bad on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    1. Autism continued climbing after thimerosol was removed.

    2. The thimerosol link (i.e. mercury link) was hypothisized by that disgraced doctor to cause intestinal inflamation of some kind, which caused autism. This turned out to not be true.

    So neither mercury, nor the mercury path, turned out to be true.

  20. Re:30 in 7.4 million on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess some think a drastic increase of spreading disease isn't an emergency until it jumps from 50,000 to 100,000 in a year?

  21. Re:30 in 7.4 million on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    And it's about more than measles, too. Some thought parents who don't want to immunize should watch a video of kids with whooping cough.

  22. Re:30 in 7.4 million on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    30 cases in 26 days in a State of 7.4 million people is a state of emergency?

    Exactly. It would make so much more sense to wait, and let the situation spiral out of control before acting.

    Exactly. For the same reason western countries should ignore Ebola outbreaks in Africa and not get practice helping contain it...until someone with it gets off a plane...two weeks ago.

  23. Re:Put Jenny McCarthy in jail on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    She has retracted her position, and the Jenny McCarthy Death Clock has stopped counting needless deaths under her name, but the toll goes on.

  24. Re: Put Jenny McCarthy in jail on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Most likely it is probably higher because such parents would be on the lookout for it above the average. It would be similar to the "Hollywood cluster" of autistic kids...as fed by moneyed people demanding diagnoses that match their expectations of this difficult to diagnose (especially border cases) disease.

  25. Re: Put Jenny McCarthy in jail on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Gosh you would make a good scientist because nobody thought to look at that!