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  1. Re:Basically a giant Stanford Prison Experiment on Almost Half Of All TSA Employees Have Been Cited For Misconduct (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    The biggest group of people shot by cops are white.

    That's because white people make up much more of the population. If you fill a room with 80 white people and 20 black people, and you shoot 10 whites and 5 blacks, yes, "more white people got shot." But proportionally you've shot twice as many black people as white people. This is not a hard concept.

  2. Re:Will you do the same at the Democrat convention on Avast Suckers GOP Delegates Into Connecting To Insecure Wi-Fi Hotspots (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What law prohibits setting up a wireless network?

    What law prohibits inspecting the traffic traversing your own network?

  3. Re:So basically... on Verizon To Disconnect Unlimited Data Customers Who Use Over 100GB/Month · · Score: 1

    Are you using skype for monitoring ?

    No, that's the NSA's job.

  4. Re:Commenting to undo moderations on France: Windows 10 Collects 'Excessive Personal Data', Issues Microsoft With Formal Warning (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    The New York State Attorney General is soliciting reports from consumers who had any kind of damages. Other state AGs might be sniffing around too. Microsoft's recent $10,000 loss is hopefully just the beginning.

  5. Re:This is just self-serving nonsense... on BlackBerry CEO 'Disturbed' By Apple's Hard Line On Encryption (theinquirer.net) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Pretty much. The only reason BlackBerry exists in India, for example, is because they gave the Indian government a backdoor into all BlackBerry devices. If they'd do it for India, why wouldn't they be happy to do it elsewhere? A company like that isn't trustworthy and it's no wonder their brand has tanked. Apple isn't going to go down the same moronic path.

  6. They never said they wouldn't introduce new surveillance capabilities to XP, though. There are plenty of XP holdouts, and it's still very widely used in "interesting" (to IC) nations because a) it runs well on any old hardware that's available, and b) it's been thoroughly and completely pirated. If your goal is to intercept as many conversations as possible, particularly in places like Iran, the Koreas, Syria, etc., you had better make your wiretapping client available for XP.

  7. Re:Yay for Open Standards! on Software Flaw Puts Mobile Phones and Networks At Risk Of Complete Takeover (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't tell whether you're being sarcastic or what, but obscurity is not security; quite the contrary, it reduces the likelihood that a bug or backdoor, if there, will ever be found. Human-readable protocols are good.

  8. Re:Not just a denial of service, on Library of Congress Hit With a Denial-Of-Service Attack (fedscoop.com) · · Score: 0

    Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat.

  9. Man, for the days before Obama when people could assume the US government was generally on their side

    Yeah, 'cause George W Bush and the USA PATRIOT Act really gave me a warm fuzzy feeling about the government...

  10. Re:Voter ID on U.S. Curtails Federal Election Observers (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    It's Chicago style voting - vote early and vote often!

    That sounds more like Wisconsin Republican style voting to me.

  11. Re:Probably Trump on U.S. Curtails Federal Election Observers (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a ton of voter fraud in the US

    You've got that right. This guy voted 7 times in one election and at least 12 times in total over two years.

  12. Re:Probably Trump on U.S. Curtails Federal Election Observers (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    Why would this be troublesome for any particular group of people?

    Consider you're a relatively poor person who doesn't own a car. You rely on public transportation (riding the bus) to get around. Now suppose your state decides to close down a bunch of its DMV offices due to "budget constraints" or "low demand." Coincidentally, the ones being shut down are almost exclusively in areas with a population that's mostly poor and black. Suddenly, the closest DMV office where you can go and renew your photo ID is 30 miles away. Even if the public transportation would take you there, which it won't, it would be a 3 or 4 hour round trip, which is time you don't have because you're working two 35-hour-a-week jobs for minimum wage and no benefits.

  13. Re:What kind of a convention is this? on Paypal Founder Peter Thiel To Speak At Trump's Republican Convention (nbcbayarea.com) · · Score: 2

    He should hook up with Taylor Swift, they'd make a perfect celibate couple.

  14. Any organization which hosts such a website should be engaged in a felon

    Engaged "in a felon?" How does that compare to being engaged to a woman while your ex-wife dies of cancer, after you've told her she isn't young enough or pretty enough to be a First Lady? Ah, the party of family values. Newt Gingrich is an unrepentant piece of shit of a human being and nobody should be paying any attention to what he suggests.

  15. Re:Translation on 145 Tech Leaders Say 'Trump Would Be A Disaster For Innovation' (cnn.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    He has, however, been totally consistent about putting Americans first for at least 25 years, based on interviews he's done in that time.

    Is that why I've seen so many pictures of Trump clothing with "Made in Mexico" and "Made in China" stickers? Actions speak louder than words. He can say whatever he likes in interviews, he's been happily farming his own manufacturing out of America for years.

  16. Re:What happened to personal resonsibility? on Consumer Reports Calls For Tesla To Disable Autopilot (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1

    No argument from me on that sentiment!

  17. Probably the FBI on Google Deletes Artist's Blog and a Decade Of His Work Along With It (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    D. Cooper you say? Maybe the FBI commandeered his Google account years ago and shut it down when they closed their investigation into the famed hijacker.

  18. Re:What happened to personal resonsibility? on Consumer Reports Calls For Tesla To Disable Autopilot (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1

    I agree it's mostly the driver's fault, but that doesn't relieve Tesla of liability. If I have a pool in my backyard surrounded by a 10' locked fence, and a kid climbs the fence and drowns in my pool, I can still be sued even though it was the kid's fault. If I have a pit bull in my home, and a burglar breaks in and gets bitten by the dog, I can still be sued even though it was the burglar's fault. Case law is full of suits like this that have been won by the plaintiff.

  19. Re:micropayments? on PSA: Pokemon Go Has Full Access To Your Google Account Data (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    I just assumed it was $25 or something and you just had the app to play with considering its nintendo and thats how console games ususally work.

    Those were the LUDDITE days. Nowadays everything is APPED in the CLOUD, which means you get CHARGED anytime you want to do something. PROFITS!

  20. Re: Scare tactic? on PSA: Pokemon Go Has Full Access To Your Google Account Data (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pok©mon GO

    Wait, they released a new Jamaican version of Pac-Man??

  21. Re:Autopilot on Second Tesla Autopilot Crash Under Review By US Regulators (time.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do you think airplane pilots who are using the autopilot are allowed to just ignore what is going on and watch a movie?

    Joe Average buying a car probably does think that, yes. Look at the comments anytime there's a news article about a crashed airliner and you'll see the ridiculous misconceptions the general public has about aviation. After Germanwings 9525, it became clear that a substantial number of people fully believe that the autopilot does everything from rotate to landing on every commercial flight, and that human pilots are an outmoded concept. (I'm aware that CATIII autoland exists, but it's rarely used.) I lost track of how many times I heard or saw someone say "the planes fly themselves these days anyway, if there wasn't a pilot, nobody would be in there to fly the plane into a mountain, we should get rid of pilots" etc.

  22. Re:She gave off all the classic signs. on Theranos Faces Congressional Inquiry Over Faulty Blood Tests (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The new thing here is that now women try to promote that faulty self-image as well (see. g.e. Marissa Mayer) and fail, just the same as the men that try it.

    And the problem is that because they're women, everyone wants to drink the Kool-aid, otherwise they're going to be labeled misogynistic. Many of the critics of Theranos' process fell victim to this: question the results, question the technique, and suddenly you're just a sexist who can't stand to see a woman succeed, so your questions don't matter. Everyone stuck their fingers in their ears and screamed "La la la, I can't hear you over the sound of this incredibly successful woman! Did I mention our CEO is female?"

    Putting a woman at the top of the Theranos pyramid was genius because they were essentially placing their product beyond reproach. You aren't allowed to criticize women, these days. Reminds me of the Ghostbusters reboot. If you dare pan the movie, women come out of the woodwork to smear your character and spread the idea you only panned the movie because women are the stars. Nevermind the movie is apparently a pile of dung, no, the negative reviews are because everyone hates women.

  23. Re: Oh, the irony on America Expands Its Freedom of Information Act (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The FOIA was the whole reason why Hillaty put up a private email server. She wanted her email traffic to not be on a government server and thus subject to the FOIA.

    I wonder where in the world she learned such a tactic?

  24. Re:It's been days on How China Took Control of Bitcoin (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Both tulips and gold suck big time if you need to send them instantly* across the globe.

    Contracts, futures, and options seem to work pretty well for gold, oil, and other commodities. They'd work just fine for tulips too if anyone was still trading them in such volume. We solved that problem a long time ago, hardly anyone ever takes possession of the physical goods anymore. Same goes for dollars, nobody (legit) is sending around enormous piles of $100 bills.

  25. Re:It's just part of the rent. Renters shuld be aw on Landlords, ISPs Team Up To Rip Off Tenants On Broadband (backchannel.com) · · Score: 2

    So what if the building allows only one ISP?

    It's anticompetitive and expressly illegal, that's what.