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  1. Re:Cool that someone still stands for freedom on Cloudflare is the One Tech Company Still Sticking By Neo-Nazi Websites (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    yep but no one, not me, you, cloudflare or anyone else has to provide them with the loudspeaker, sell them the server or provide them bandwidth, internet protection etc to spread that opinion. Freedom of speech doesn't put an obligation on anyone else to facilitate that and in fact freedom of speech allows others to explicitly refuse you the platform, if they control it, to speak from.

  2. What's wrong with that?

    LinkedIn paid little or nothing to get the data in the first place.

    and?

  3. Re:Hisotry repeating? on Bitcoin Just Surged Past $4,000. TechCrunch Explains Why (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Over a long enough term it can realistically only go up. .

    absolute bullshit. It can totally collapse to be worth nothing from which it would be unlikely to recover with so many competing offerings, a single vulnerability or large enough scam could easily trigger that or it could continue to grow, at the moment it is still pretty much an each way bet.

  4. Re:My server, My rules on Judge Says LinkedIn Cannot Block Startup From Public Profile Data (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Stopping a physical trespasser is fairly straight forward. How do you stop a virtual trespasser?

    firewalls, geo-blocking, security, rate and connection limiting, search limits, CAPTCHA's, client processor intensive scripts, interactive components etc etc. We regularly use a variety of those depending on the behaviour we are trying to block with bots that are trawling some of the sites I look after. It actually is quite easy to block virtual trespassers or at least make it very difficult for them to automate that.

  5. Re:Have I got this right? on Why AI Won't Take Over The Earth (ssrn.com) · · Score: 1

    resorting to Ad Hominem makes you worse than either side. Besides which he at least bases his beliefs on expert opinions that have some understanding of the field which seems more than any of the others can claim.

  6. Re:Hisotry repeating? on Bitcoin Just Surged Past $4,000. TechCrunch Explains Why (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    However, we probably haven't hit the stage yet where we have Uber drivers giving hot ICO tips

    I think we actually have hit that point. I see people everywhere (gaming forums, investment forums etc) saying buy bitcoin and you are guaranteed to be 40x or 100x better off in 12 months times. They perceive no possibility of a permanent downturn or collapse and believe it can only go up. This is the same thinking that happened prior stock market crash in 2000 as well as the housing bubble.

  7. Re:The science is not settled on Study Finds Vaccine Science Outreach Only Reinforced Myths (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    yes it does support the argument. Vaccination is not perfect, no one ever claimed it to be. Vaccination has a very high success rate and does far less damage than the diseases it is protecting against and for it to be successful you need to ensure all those that can be vaccinated are. The Anti Vaxxers risk everyones lives by breaking down the herd immunity. I would be fine for them to do this if they were happy to go live on an isolated island somewhere. Most should be put in jail for change child abuse or attempted murder as that is really what they are doing.

  8. hardly surprising, despite all the information available to them they choose to believe conspiracy theories and lunies, why would you think presenting them with science and facts would change people with such fucked up logic and thought processes.

  9. Re:It is so weird that... on Disney To Pull Its Movies From Netflix and Start Its Own Streaming Service (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Not at all, different people want different things. I don't mind paying for what I use (which is really bugger all), but I would be fucking pissed if I was paying for what I am NOT using just so others can have a cheap/free ride.

  10. fuck you disney on Disney To Pull Its Movies From Netflix and Start Its Own Streaming Service (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I am no Netflix fan (in fact just cancelled after the latest price hikes and screw you's they gave to customers in Australia), BUT fucking Disney is just showing yet again their heads are wedged firmly up their arses and trying to continue the traditional distribution models and locking viewers out of anything but a very narrow option. I don't care what movies they have or that my family wants I will pirate them before I support such douchebaggery.

  11. The reporting is not for a standard ATM, these are for deposit ATM's placed around the world where deposits can be very large and from the sounds of it when a large deposit is received they are supposed to trigger a report (larger than $10,000 AUD). the coding error gives them an excuse for the majority however there is also a chunk of them (around 100 or so) where they also failed to monitor and report known suspicious accounts for which they have no excuse for. In theory total fines could be as much as $1 trillion dollars, in reality I suspect they are looking at a couple of hundred million in fines and mandated oversight/audits.

  12. Re:Grsecurity pure garbage. on Linux Kernel Hardeners Grsecurity Sue Open Source's Bruce Perens (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    ignorance is bliss I guess, continue on. hopefully Linus is smart enough not to take advise from dumb cunts like you.

  13. Re:Grsecurity pure garbage. on Linux Kernel Hardeners Grsecurity Sue Open Source's Bruce Perens (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    you are the one in desperate need of an education. You CANNOT perform actions or make statements with the explicit intent of damaging someones business. You really have no fucking clue.

  14. Re:Grsecurity pure garbage. on Linux Kernel Hardeners Grsecurity Sue Open Source's Bruce Perens (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    LOL do you have any fucking clue what you are talking about. hint go search the term "Tortious interference", and no your paparazzi example is NOT similar as them saying they want them to stop has absolutely no impact on their ability to profit.

  15. Re:Grsecurity pure garbage. on Linux Kernel Hardeners Grsecurity Sue Open Source's Bruce Perens (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    he is under no obligation to facilitate profit, but he is under an obligation not to interfere with the profits of another business, especially through actions or statements that explicitly are designed to undermine that companies profits.

  16. Re:Grsecurity pure garbage. on Linux Kernel Hardeners Grsecurity Sue Open Source's Bruce Perens (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    such a statement would make him an easy target for a lawsuit and it would be a slamdunk win for them

  17. it is easy to skill up in a language, it takes many months or years to be proficient with all the ins and outs of the language to get the best from it. When you are dealing with something critical the last thing you want is someone that has only just picked up the language.

  18. Re:Surface Keyboard... on Microsoft's Windows Phone Keyboard For the iPhone Is Dead (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    how pray tell did you make x86 windows run on an ARM tablet?

  19. wife has iphone, I have samsung galaxy on Is the iPhone 'Years' Ahead of Android In Photography? (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife loves her IPhone 7, But when she wants a good picture from a phone she grabs my Samsung galaxy as she hates the poor quality from the iPhone (she has had that complaint for the last 3 iterations where my equivalent galaxy has been superior). I have told her to just switch but she loves everything else on the iPhone better because lets face it android is a bucket of shit when it comes to consistency and usability (I can live with that for the flexibility though).

  20. "Apple has already created two million jobs in the United States, according to Cook", and that just proves Cook is full of shit. If they are 3 plants like the 2 million jobs those plants will include the truck manufacturer that builds the trucks that deliver the phones to the stores, the ship builder that provides the transport from china and the building material manufacturers for their shiters.

  21. Re:Did I miss the news? on Fact-checking and Rumor-dispelling Site Snopes.com Held Hostage By vendor (savesnopes.com) · · Score: 1

    did I miss something? when was snopes ever a fact checking site?

  22. Post links on every page to a new domain, clearly explaining what the hoster is doing to you and place all new content on the new site in the meantime.

  23. ummm no, the primary goal of the anti-trust laws is to prevent companies from using their position of strength to exploit users or leverage themselves into other markets, it has noting to do with breaking up companies though that sometimes is a remedy sort during an anti trust trial.

  24. Re:And what's wrong with such reasonable assumptio on Unemployment in the UK is Now So Low It's in Danger of Exposing the Lie Used To Create the Numbers (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    When it talks about 21.5% it is using ALL people in the age range 16-64. "In reality, about 21.5% of all working-age people (defined as ages 16 to 64) are without jobs". The article is an even bigger lie, it least the official rate tries to exclude people that aren't looking for jobs or are completely unable to work, yes you could argue other groups need to be included but good luck working out how to accurately measure those without creating an even more misleading number.

  25. Re:And what's wrong with such reasonable assumptio on Unemployment in the UK is Now So Low It's in Danger of Exposing the Lie Used To Create the Numbers (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually that is EXACTLY what the article is making the case for. It uses the number of 21.5% which lumps in all groups in the 16-64 age group regardless of the reason they don't have a job. If 4.5% is a lie then so is 21.5%