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  1. Re:OK, it's late, but... on SanDisk Breaks Storage Record With 400GB MicroSD Card (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm missing something, but how do you record videos without storing them?

    I think you read it the wrong way around.
    To give an example, you could have some high speed cards you use to record your videos, then transfer them at a lower speed to a high capacity card that isn't capable of handling real time recording speeds. They are saying this card is capable of both.

  2. Re:It's happened to me on Hacking Retail Gift Cards Remains Scarily Easy (wired.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Pro tip, never ever buy a gift card.
    If offers worse flexibility than cash, costs more and less secure. Gift cards are for schmucks...

  3. Re:Just bruteforce 10,000 requests in 10 minutes on Hacking Retail Gift Cards Remains Scarily Easy (wired.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I guess if the gift card website even allows part of that to happen, someone should be fired ?

    Exactly. All the gift cards I've had require a PIN as well as the Card number, and a simple limit of 5 login attempts every hour ends this as a vulnerability. It's as if this article and/or technology was written in 1993...

  4. Re:GPS can only send location (and time) informati on Dealership Remotely Disables A Car Over A $200 Fee (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Miss a few payments and see who the sheriff escorts out of THEIR house.

    Because not paying repayments is in breach of the contract, and the contract would specify these conditions and the consequences which both parties agreed to in advance.
    There is a difference between that and what you claimed is legal in your first response.

  5. Re:GPS can only send location (and time) informati on Dealership Remotely Disables A Car Over A $200 Fee (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Until you pay the car off, the dealership is the actual owner, so it is perfectly legal to disable THEIR car whenever they like.

    Just like how until the bank which owns your house can sleep in your bed until you pay them off in full. It's their house right...

  6. Re:GPS can only send location (and time) informati on Dealership Remotely Disables A Car Over A $200 Fee (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    That's just it they keeping lowering the entry credit scores to increase sales. Home sales are down to 1% down payments to increase sales of homes.

    Which is the perfect example for why regulations are a good thing.
    America seems to have an unhealthy fascination with 'freedom' and deregulation, which means they prefer GFC-type events and people forced to live on the street than some sensible regulations which prevent such things in the first place.
    Regulations improve quality of life. Learn to appreciate them.

  7. Re:GPS can only send location (and time) informati on Dealership Remotely Disables A Car Over A $200 Fee (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Its not repulsive at all. These devices are installed on cars sold to people with piss poor credit so that they can be easily repossessed if the person does not pay.

    And that is fine, but you need to declare that upfront. All they had to do was add a line in the contract about a fee for collection of property and all would be fine. They didn't, so they are the bad guy. .

  8. Re:skip it. Seriously on PayPal Debuts a Credit Card That Offers 2% Cash Back (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Someday, one of these tech companies will get smart and offer 7-10% interest on a card for those who are good risk.

    Those of us who are good risk generally pay 0% interest. There is nothing tech savvy about this market.

  9. Re:Do the phishers also get 2% back? on PayPal Debuts a Credit Card That Offers 2% Cash Back (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Phishing scams already attack your bank account, credit card, mortgage, tax etc etc. I fail to see how Paypal opening up to a different payment method has any affect on this.

  10. Trump is currently under audit on The IRS Decides Who To Audit By Data Mining Social Media (typepad.com) · · Score: 1

    And now we know why...

  11. Re:Officially Pissed Off on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    We just need gov apps, where everyone gets to vote on how money is spent,

    You have this, it's called an election. Unless you are suggesting that every level of a million-person+ government workforce needs every single purchase approved by popular vote?
    Should we buy the 1 ply or 2 ply toilet paper this week? Let's hold a public vote!
    Are we deploying the F-16's for the F-22's for this sortie? Let's see what the public thinks!

  12. Re:They're neither "outside" nor "fact-checkers" on Facebook Pages Spreading Fake News Won't Be Able To Buy Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that when a west-cost employee of a large Silicone Valley company, where the corporate culture is actively very left-leaning in its politics and where employees who question the bubble-like ideological echo chamber are fired, is in charge of scoring your social media post...

    So don't use that service. This is what freedom is all about....

  13. Most local bars were charging admission for this (or any big fight). Typically $20-50 per person.

    You must live in a strange place. Pubs are where most people go to watch major sporting events and I've never heard of any charging a door fee.

    I'd much rather view the fight with 15-20 friends than with 100-200 strangers.

    Personal preference I guess. You can't beat a vocal crowd for atmosphere...

  14. Re:The great censoring has begun on Facebook Pages Spreading Fake News Won't Be Able To Buy Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I made a cynical remark about the bigotry and ignorance of Democrats. .

    Oh ok. Because they're all the same. All of them, they're not like all of us. We should get them...

  15. The company said they'll give refunds so can't see how this complaint has any legs.
    I'm not sure why anyone pays for this shit anyway. Go to your local bar and spend the $hundred on beer and snacks support your local business and watch the show for free. The atmosphere is usually much better than at home or the actual event.

  16. Re:This is ok on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    The issue is that their behavior is probably unconstitutional.

    WTF? You'll have to point to the rest of us where in the constitution it says you can't analyse someone's writing style without their permission?

  17. Re:Why? on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    Is Satoshi Nakamoto suspected of a crime? Is he or she a threat to national security? The NSA has expended all this effort and violated Satoshi's and a billion other people's privacy for.... what? Shits and giggles?

    For national security obviously. You might not agree, but information is power, and our security agencies are charged with maintaining position of power. Or do you think all decisions around national security should be held by popular vote instead?

  18. Re:Officially Pissed Off on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    If this is true, it begs the question: why is the NSA looking for Satoshi? Where are the warrants to do this kind of search?

    Um, last time I checked you don't need a warrant to do writing analysis

    As a taxpayer, there be something pretty fuckin important they need to ask Satoshi personally to justify this waste of my tax money.

    Maybe there is, maybe there isn't. But your concerns of how your tax is spent is dealt with at election time. Unless you think every tax payer should be consulted for every single operational decision for every government department at every level, all the time? Good luck with that....

  19. Re:Who determines what is fake news? on Facebook Pages Spreading Fake News Won't Be Able To Buy Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Anything you disagree with of course. POTUS has made that point clear numerous times...

  20. Re:The great censoring has begun on Facebook Pages Spreading Fake News Won't Be Able To Buy Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    Well, the definition of "alt-right" is evidently "anybody who didn't vote for Hillary".

    Of course, that makes about 3/4 of US voters "alt-right".

    Oh right, make a unsubstantiated claim, then make a conclusion based on your own stupid premise. That isn't how logic works...

  21. Re:They're neither "outside" nor "fact-checkers" on Facebook Pages Spreading Fake News Won't Be Able To Buy Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since the people vetting the ads are almost all leftists, it'd be easy for them to decree something as non-fact.

    They're vetting themselves.

    Citation?
    You see that is generally how fact checking works, it isn't purely an opinion, it is an opinion based on cited sources.

  22. I never understood why TV and movies don't go down the Pay Per View model. It clearly works for Sports broadcasting so why not movies and TV?
    As long as the pricing is reasonable it should net more revenue for content producers than any other model.

  23. Re:And in case you were wondering the result on Streaming Glitches Delay Massively Hyped Mayweather-McGregor Boxing Match (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty much played out as expected. Mayweather let him go for a few rounds to figure him out, then dismantled him piece by piece as he ran out ideas and energy.
    This should be a lesson for rednecks who think outsiders would do a better job than the experts. Experts are experts because they are the best at what they do. No amount of wishful thinking changes this fact...

  24. Re: glitches from sheer greed. on Streaming Glitches Delay Massively Hyped Mayweather-McGregor Boxing Match (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    without the ppv $$$$ we would have never seen this fight

    Of course we would. Because people like Macgregor and Mayweather exist in amateur ranks. There's a whole world of cocky young upstarts that love frighting purely for bragging rights. We might not have seen the private jets or the the Roll Royce's, but had there been no ppv we could still see two guys punching each other's light out every day of the week.

  25. Re:propaganda on China Relaunches World's Fastest Train (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    >> It's right there in the propaganda FTFY Hugo Chavez died with $2 billion in his pockets because he wanted to help "the masses". You know better than to fall for this.

    I've been to China, I've seen people on the trains with my own eyes.
    But feel free to dismiss reality because it doesn't fit your ideology...