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  1. Re:Not unprecedented on Drupal Creator Floats an "FDA For Data and Algorithms" · · Score: 2

    It's just for broadcast anyway, which just hamstrings the major networks in an age of not just cable but of post-cable channel distribution. It survives under the fiction of limited radio bandwidth therefore government gets to regulate content in the Name of The People when The People obviously don't want government controlling speech, hence the First Amendment.

  2. Re:We're not looking for information control on Drupal Creator Floats an "FDA For Data and Algorithms" · · Score: 2

    That's called the First Amendment. The People have wisely decided long ago this is the proper way to deal with this, and not to authorize government to be the arbiter of truth and falsehood.

  3. Re:What about "Import Grade" on FREAK, Logjam, DROWN All a Result of Weaknesses Demanded By US Gov't (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    But would a US Citizen trust encryption from another country to not have a backdoor or other such weakness that might allow that country's government to crack it easily?

    Export of crypto is limited. Inside the US you can use anything. IIRC the Supreme Court already ruled speaking encrypted is protected by the First Amendment.

  4. Re:Heck, Minneapolis/St. Paul has done it for a de on Maryland Public Buses Record Passengers' Conversations (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Self-driving cars will need video recording, at least, internal and external, to fight off gigadollars of lawsuits at first.

    People have written about the boon to lawyers in lawsuits if the makers of these things (and home robots and med robots) don't track scam artistry. Think those Chinese accident victim scam artists times a million.

  5. The more weight it carries, the more it must tax, and the harder business becomes, leading to a self-fullfilling prophecy of ever-greater safety nets needed.

  6. Re:Why always the Chinese on U8 Smartwatch Engages In Covert Traffic With Chinese IP Behind Your Back (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows does lots of stuff nobody knows about because it is encrypted. While this is good for security, you now have to take Microsoft's word for it it is all benign.

  7. Re:but its not obamas fault. on $500K NSF Grant Boosted Girls' CS Participation At Obama Daughters' $37K/Yr HS · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The children of elites tend to have parents who care about scholastics, which is far and away the most accurate predictor of scholastic success, not school quality, dollars per pupil, class size, teacher quality, or other irrelevancies Democrats and Republicans argue about.

  8. Or something with stripes or spots anyway. on Australia Deploys Shark-Spotting Drones To Keep Watch Over Beachgoers (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Shark spotting. Right.

  9. Ok I need a WhatsWhatsApp app.

  10. Re:yes they should on FBI Should Try To Unlock iPhone Without Apple's Help, Lawmaker Says (csoonline.com) · · Score: 0

    Why don't they do this? It's not like they have more money than NASA and some of the best scienti...

    n/m

  11. Garbage in shit out

  12. Re:Spoiler alert on AI Bookworms Seek To Predict Human Behavior (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    And your residual self image is a momsbasmentdwellingfatass, for some reason.

    (Ok you can do this you can do this) "Hi, Trinity!"

    "Hey. You're 'Smeghead', right?"

    "YES!!" (She knew my name she kew my name!) "Wanna go out to dinner some time?"

    "Hehe, no..nooooooo."

  13. They are supposed to exhaust local hires before hiring an import. That is how imports are supposed to drive down salaries and satisfy need. Actually, they are just to satisfy need. Lowering salaries is irrelevant.

    You are not supposed to fire people and replace them with imports. That is supposed to be illegal (you are even supposed to advertise locally in a paper to show you tried.) Firing someone local ain't exactly trying hard.

  14. Uppity folk on How Donald Trump Uses Twitter As a Weapon of Fear · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "They better be careful," Trump wrote of the family, "they have a lot to hide!"

    It is wrong for him to do investigations of political opponents, and could be used to get the case thrown out.

    It was wrong for the IRS to be misused in this way under Obama.

    It was wrong for the IRS to be misused this way under Nixon.

    It was wrong, when S&P downgraded the US's bond rating, for Obama to announce a redoubled effort investigating them to see if there was anything they could tag them with as punishment.

    This is the purpose of warrant requirements, and the banning of general warrants, so those in power could not go fishing around for something illegal to tag uppity oppoonenta with.

    Boo Trump.

    Boo Obama.

    Boo Nixon.

  15. Re:SJWism as an acquired a contagious mental disor on America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges · · Score: 1

    That's what hir said!

  16. Re:I guess "oppressive" is relative on America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges · · Score: 1

    Authorizing government to silence certain opinions hasn't worked out too well for blacks or women.

  17. Re:All awful but the bias is interesting on America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges · · Score: 1

    FIRE is indeed concerned with government violations of the First Amendment. What private universities do, however assholey, is not a battle they chose to fight as no First Amendment government infraction is occuring.

  18. Re:Money will return once China lands on the moon on Former NASA Chief On US Space Policy: "No Vision, No Plan, No Budget" (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Ironically nowadays it will be, with all the channels.

  19. Yes but this isn't even a disaster, even in purely environmental terms, much less one of the greatest in US history.

    It's like a ship tearing up a few hundred yards of coral reef. Actually even that overstates it considerably.

    No one died. There is no noticable difference in the environment except temporarily and locally, as a hazard.

    From an environmentalist's point of view, this is just boy who cried wolf hyperbole that makes a real disaster less likely to be cared about.

  20. Re:Not quite on AT&T Sues Louisville Over Google Fiber (wdrb.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Moreover these are not the city's poles, but AT&T's, and they have a contract for 3rd party access, which Google is paying elsewhere.

    So unless Louisville can point to their contract with AT&T where Louisville strongarmed them into pre-agreeing to stuff like this in exchange for, say, 100% coverage, it does indeed exceed the city's authority.

    The OP badly misstates things about this being the city's stuff.

  21. Re:The Pen vs the Sword ... on ISIS Makes Direct Threats Against Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the point is that the person with the pen is able to garner more support from friends and allies, and thus more swords.

    The sword must disable the pen to survive as the controlling force. This is why the pen is mightier.

  22. Re:The important thing to remember about ISIS on ISIS Makes Direct Threats Against Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "Wouldn't it be neat if someone killed soadso?"

    Half if not most attacks are not by direct effort. This is serious.

  23. Re:This is the equivalent on Chicago Public Schools Make Computer Science a Requirement For a HS Diploma · · Score: 1

    Well let's start by requiring a typing class again. Some abandoned it when typing went out as a backup vocation for everyone. But now it is more useful than ever.

  24. Republicans are in this spot precisely because they haven't been doing enough to get in the way. The whole tea party was an insurrection against the Republicans, not the Democrats, because they were going along with the Democrats too much.

    There is zero chance of this in an election year, in this context.

  25. I want security, but if access to the data on the phone could potentially save lives, that seems pretty important too.

    It will cost many more lives whit loss of eternal freedom. Already the same arguments are used in thugocracies like Russia and China so they can spy on dissidents..

    No, we should not force a security camera into everyone's modern living room, their phone. If you do not build the tools of tyrrany, they cannot be misused...everywhere...today.