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  1. Re:No global deletion on Google Expands 'Right To Be Forgotten' To All Global Search Results (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Most people posting on the previous story didn't seem to understand that rather important distinction either. My guess is that the AC who posted the story was similarly confused.

    Allow me to chuckle at all those people who claimed Google would never agree to this and simply pull out of France too. I'm glad to see that European privacy laws have real teeth.

    Translation: "I'm glad men with police behind them who deign to deny me their permission to read things they don't want me to have real teeth."

    What a proud fuckin' moment for the free west.

  2. Because there would be too much outrage. This is where we in the US must differ from our European colleagues and demand the US impose its will on the world.

    I hope in these countries for censored results, they return a page with "Certain results censored because a man with power demanded it, so you cannot see it because you do not have his permission. His name, address, and phone number are..."

  3. Re:Why not overseas .... on US Encryption Ban Would Only Send the Market Overseas (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    But quality and length of life is skyrocketting in India and China as they relax economic controls amd open their markets.

    The average worldwide is thus increasing rapidly as capitalism continues to work its unparalleled wonders at improving the average person's life.

    This is slowed but hardly reversed in America, for the moment. But if you care about the average person worldwide, you should be crying yourself to sleep with joy every night.

    The proper measure isn't a Chinese factory vs. an overregulated US one, a rhetorical device. The proper measure is a Chinese factory and apartment vs. a literal dirt floor shack existence which preceeded it.

  4. But what would I be downloading? on Scientists In Japan Build 100Gbps Wireless Network Using Terahertz Transmitter · · Score: 1

    100 Gbps is roughly 14 gigabytes per second. So I would use up my 5GB monthly Verizon cap in about 1/3 a second, then begin racking up $10 /gig overages at $140/s.

  5. Re:Obama abandoned Iranian people in 2009 on As Elections Approach, Iran Uses "Far More Advanced" Internet Censorship (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Nixon was convinced if he had remained in office, South Vietnam would not have fallen, and he was probably right.

    The new president inherits the country as it is, not as he wishes it was.

  6. How do you think a country like Iran (or NK for that matter) would use drones or atomics compared to the US?

  7. > It took 22 months

    "Nothing Starts a Trane(tm)"

  8. Re:Illegal phone running on Federal Bill Could Override State-Level Encryption Bans (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I would argue it is time to take up arms against a government with mind reading tech. That is too much power, even for a democratically elected government.

  9. Re:Illegal phone running on Federal Bill Could Override State-Level Encryption Bans (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Doctrine about the 5th amendment is that the government is not allowed to force you to create evidence (by speaking or writing in answer to a question). It is not considered to protect already existing evidence (your diary in a lockbox). There's been a kerfuffle lately about whether requiring you to decrypt some already existing piece of data constitutes creating evidence or merely accessing existing evidence. However it is not inconceivable that an actually accurate mind reader could be considered "accessing existing evidence", just like reading your fingerprints, dna, or blood content.

    The Supreme Court already outlawed passive IR scanning without a warrant, as using new tech to "see through walls" was not envisioned. So now there's a traditional concept of privacy barrier that new tech cannot cross, even if purely passive and from a public area.

    What is really scary is what they might want to do with a warrant. In that case, I would submit the 5th Amendment prevents an involuntary brain scan, even with warrant.

  10. Re:"Free as in Freedom" on Putin's Internet Czar Wants To Ban Windows On Government PCs · · Score: 1

    That is not denied. What demonstrates thickness of the level of the Earth's mantel is pretending PutinOS will not be equally crammed with stuff -- and keep in mind this Microsoft stuff is feared because its purpose and encoded data are unknown -- every bit of it could be mundane stuff.

    The stuff in PutinOS will not be. He isn't looking to see if you need an update, or might be interested in Jiffy Pop.

  11. "Not stolen from the agency."

    Thieves' Computer: Is this a valid pin?

    IRS' Computer: Nope

    Thieves' Computer: Is this a valid pin?

    IRS' Computer: Nope

    Thieves' Computer: Is this a valid pin?

    IRS' Computer: (Smirks and looks away) Nope!

  12. Re:If only... on The Sexual Misconduct Case That Has Rocked Anthropology (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    ...it had been paleontology or geology that had been 'rocked' by this case. But I'm struggling to understand why such a story is relevant to a science/technology news website?

    The anthropologists were saddened and shocked an esteemed colleague had behaved this way, but were exited to watch cultural behavior shifts in progress as they shamed him according to tumblr rules aborning.

  13. Re:fire! on Scientists Turn Paper Waste Into Aerogel (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    I would have thought it evplosive, like coal or corn dust, well distributed thru a volume of air.

  14. Re:Youtube next? on French Gov't Gives Facebook 3 Months To Stop Tracking Non-User Browsers · · Score: 1

    They just wanna sell you stuff via automated computers. They aren't assembling lists for politicians to track.

    I think.

  15. Re:So what should we do? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 0

    "RTFM!!!!" is the sloppy engineer's response for a dangerous or mass market product.

    RTFM! is about as successful in this case as "To lose weight, eat less!" is to America's obesity problem. A terrible engineering solution.

  16. Re:Math is fine! on An Advanced Math Education Revolution Is Underway In the U.S. (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, it's a long term gripe that society as a whole would be much better served devoting to intellectually elite student's education just a fraction of the money spent making sure every last clown can calculate change by the time they graduate.

    But you know, political memes and "them elites don't need it! >:-( "

    And that was before all this privledge meme shit hit the fan. Try it today.

  17. Re:I am not a physicist but... on China Just Made a Major Breakthrough In Nuclear Fusion Research (techienews.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If time spent splitting and recombining results is not your calculation bottleneck, I submit the BOINC project is far and away the fastest supercomputer.

  18. Re:I am not a physicist but... on China Just Made a Major Breakthrough In Nuclear Fusion Research (techienews.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Their "Chinese" supercomputer is 3.1 million clustered Intel Xeon cores.

  19. Re: I am not a physicist but... on China Just Made a Major Breakthrough In Nuclear Fusion Research (techienews.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Corrosive. It is a common problem and water supplies all over the place have anti corrosive treatments.

    They tested the water from the river for drinkability, which is fine, but not for ths common problem. It then went to leach lead from the lead pipes of older homes.

  20. Re:Time for unions! on Sen. Blumenthal Demands Lifting of IT 'Gag' Order (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Because unions worked so well to keep physical auto worker and steel worker and clothing worker jobs here.

    So when applied to jobs that don't need a physical teardown of equipment to move, but merely the push of a button, what could possibly go wrong!

  21. Re:Of course it is. on North Korea Accused of Testing an ICBM With Missile Launch Into Space (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    Because America is the worst thing in the world, so if America does it, it's OK that North Korea does it. ...say people living safe and free in the west.

  22. Re:Sad state of affairs on Hackers Leak DHS Staff Directory, Claim FBI Is Next (csoonline.com) · · Score: 2

    A honeypot, like Winnie the Pooh getting his hand stuck in one?

  23. And our backdoor supply-ees. on Even With Telemetry Disabled, Windows 10 Talks To Dozens of Microsoft Servers (voat.co) · · Score: 1

    "Don't worry, your data is encrypted and nobody will ever know what it is besides our business partners."

  24. Registration and papers, sir. on Intel Says Chips To Become Slower But More Energy Efficient (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Having defeated their upstart competition, they can get back to slacking off. Soo much for "Get ready for thousands of cores!"

  25. Re:This is completely awesome on Wendelstein 7-X Fusion Reactor Produces Its First Flash of Hydrogen Plasma (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Fusion is clean energy, not necessarily cheap. It is a replacement for shortage and (nowadays) pollution of fossil fuels, not anything else.