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  1. It waxes and wanes... East India Company? A large sovereign government for a while... disassembled when politicians got tired of it.

  2. Re:Pushing my glasses back with my finger . . . on Why Bob Mansfield Was Cut From Apple's Executive Team · · Score: 1

    You're maybe overstating your case. Perhaps the security post is too obvious to start a discussion... where this particular use of 'effect' seems to be a counter-intuative exception (that caused rage when I asked around about it at work) that's worth further discussion.

  3. Re:Pushing my glasses back with my finger . . . on Why Bob Mansfield Was Cut From Apple's Executive Team · · Score: 1

    This is what I was thinking. I predict an afternoon with grammar girl now.

  4. Re:Laws, damn laws, and the courts on Most Americans Think Courts Are Failing To Limit Government Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Just a check. A checksum is something else. There is no parity in government, only parody.

  5. Re:Just like 1984. on UK ISP Filter Will Censor More Than Porn · · Score: 1

    [quibble: You may be shocked to find that you have your its and it's backwards...]

  6. Re:Self signed? on Anonymous Source Claims Feds Demand Private SSL Keys From Web Services · · Score: 1

    False. The various endpoints will and won't have man in the middle in place and won't match. That is the point of convergence. It works with CA signed keys, regular, and with trusted and untrusted convergence nodes. It's the solution to everything except the case where the bad guys own your entire internet connection.

  7. Re:Self signed? on Anonymous Source Claims Feds Demand Private SSL Keys From Web Services · · Score: 1

    http://convergence.io/ is the real solution

  8. Re:Banksters on Jail Time For Price-Fixing Car Parts · · Score: 1

    They're working on it. The cases are complicaed. The first few are coming in. I think there'll be a lot more.

  9. Re:And what will happen if they do on DEF CON Advises Feds Not To Attend Conference · · Score: 1

    huzzah! This is 100% true. Still, if someone phones in that there's a credible threat (bomb, beating, whatever) to the speaker, the protestors won't be allowed on campus.

  10. Re:A great deal of mass is devoted to driver safet on How Ubiquitous Autonomous Cars Could Affect Society (Video) · · Score: 1

    Also, I could read on the way to work. NEVER FORGET THAT.

  11. Re:+1, Flamebait on Man Of Steel Leaps Over Record With $125.1 Million To Mixed Reviews · · Score: 1

    I've never read it so succictly put before. This is the problem with superman in general and why I think this movie looked good in the previews -- ie, it seems to be about him adapting to us, which is interesting. 'course, I haven't seen it, so who knows.

  12. Re:Failure of Superstition to adapt to the real wo on The Amish Are Getting Fracked · · Score: 1

    ... maybe that's true; but their whole society is designed around living separately from the society they view as damaged. They don't want to take part (and not just for religious reasons). Why should they be forced to participate in a supposedly free country? It's not like they're forcing anything on us... they're just trying to live quietly out of the way.

  13. Re:Postapocoliptic Nightmare on GMO Wheat Found Growing Wild In Oregon, Japan Suspends Import From U.S. · · Score: 1

    If the farmers found that their plants were roundup proof, used roundup for weed control, and sold the wheat -- then yes, apparently monstanto can win that case. That's not at all the case here.

  14. Re:I can't wait to see this battle on Google Demands Microsoft Pull YouTube App For WP8 · · Score: 1

    Normally, I'd line up behind the MS bashing, but I think in this case google is super annoying regarding API access. Why doesn't MS have the tools necessary to make a youtube app that works according to the terms and conditions? Failing that, why hasn't google provided one? Just to shaft microsoft on both counts I suspect. And that's kindof annoying. Are they afraid of a little compeition for android? I don't personally feel like WP8 is anything to worry about... but if so, why do they appear so worried?

  15. Re:Ah, now the delays make sense on TSA Accepting Public Comments On Whole Body Airport Screening · · Score: 1

    I think 98% of all deaths in the house are more likely to be the shower. I'm presuming you meant 98% of untrained firearms deaths. The stats for cops are more like a third, but that's the only one I can think of off the top of my head. Where are you getting this number anyway?

  16. Re:"In-browser popups?" on What a 'Six Strikes' Copyright Notice Looks Like · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen it, but this almost certainly works like captive portal wifi gateways. It'll spoof a 302, redirect your browser to a local WAN page with the warning, and then surfing will continue as usual. I expect the comcast rep simply didn't know the lingo.

  17. this is simply not true on Google Store Sends User Information To App Developers · · Score: 5, Informative

    You do get name, city name, and zip... you do not get an address. That's simply false.

  18. Re:Should have been part of the bailouts on Richard Stallman's Solution To 'Too Big To Fail' · · Score: 1

    it was either that or a depression.

    How do you know that?

  19. wtf on UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6 · · Score: 1

    seems like a colossal waste of money -- they'll eventually come around to ipv6 and just throw this out... right?

  20. Re:SSL on Google Gives Up Fight Against Chinese Censorship · · Score: 1

    proxy it and sign it with their government ca cert? start their own root servers? who cares. it won't even slow them down though.

  21. Re:so its like the human immune system? on Antivirus Software Performs Poorly Against New Threats · · Score: 1

    I didn't mean the virus literally evolve autonomously, although I'd be shocked if something like that *didn't* exist. I was simply speaking metaphorically since the OP had simile-ed before me.

  22. Re:so its like the human immune system? on Antivirus Software Performs Poorly Against New Threats · · Score: 2

    It's much much worse than that... A human virus has to get really lucky and accidentally evolve features necessary to bind to our receptor sites. Virus authors, on the other hand, can use virustotal.com to see who can detect their stuff and evolve as necessary to avoid detection.

  23. Re:Piracy = Theft Analogy on Pirated iOS App Store Site Shuts Down · · Score: 2

    If they're using the app, yes, I should get paid, or they shouldn't be using the app.

  24. Re:Piracy = Theft Analogy on Pirated iOS App Store Site Shuts Down · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Presumably because the arrangement of ones and zeros took hours of someone's life... they should really get paid for that. Aside from the lotto winners (angry birds, etc) the vast majority of developers make less than minimum wage off the apps. I have one that's sold close to a thousand copies and I'm still only at about $5.50/hour. So while stealing is clearly the wrong word (since you didn't deprive me of anything); copyright infringement applies and you should really feel pretty guilty -- particularly if you find my app useful.

  25. Re:Touchpad Update on Open webOS Adopts Apache Cordova for Hardware Access · · Score: 2

    Many I miss WebOS. But I gave up and just started using Android. It's not nearly as good, but it's better in the way italian is better than latin.