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  1. Each time the US block entry it has to give a justification. if it does not, it has to reimburse 100% of the trip expense. Maybe then that would cut some of the bullshit.

  2. petrodragon on Cold Fusion and the Reputation Trap (aeon.co) · · Score: 1

    "That doesn't mean that Rossi and his ilk are automatically frauds either" in the case of rossi he is a fraud, he just skipped prison with a plea deal.

  3. That has not been true for a decade or two on Deadline for Better Encryption on Payment Systems Pushed Back Two Years (pcisecuritystandards.org) · · Score: 1

    We all have bank card which are like credit card except with a chip and pin and are accepted in all shop. A lot of shop accept CC too, mainly shop where you can buy good with a big price. For example all mediamarkt accept CC.

    Basically your "Not everybody has a CC" hide the fact that actually we all have a bank card which fulfill the exact same need, and has chip and pin.

  4. In a way chinese hardware might be more secure on Juniper's Backdoor Password Disclosed, Likely Added In Late 2013 (rapid7.com) · · Score: 2

    People including NSA with a reason to find something and an axe to grind will have a look at chinese hardware for backdoor. The contrary is true too, for US hardware, but you will hardly hear any reporting from chinese news media about it.

  5. Start by adhering to "standard" on Improving UI and UX: Changing the "Open Source Is Ugly" Perception (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    Like it or not but people coming from the main OS, windows, expect the system button (minimize, close etc...) on the right side. So why the heck shift it in the left side in ubuntu ? You rise the difficulty of somebody switching or tying to. That is one example among others. And don't tell me "you can switch". Yes I know that after googling. But somebody trying ubuntu will not. Interface similar to what is the user standard should be the default.

  6. boat has sailed past on AdBlock Plus Updates Acceptable Ads Policy · · Score: 1

    When it was banner I never blocked any. But now it is not anymore static banner but scripts executable for which thee can never be any guarantee. I will never ever allow ads which can execute stuff on my PC ever again.

  7. That is even more doubtful on Israeli Firm Creates a Device That Can Hack Any Nearby Phone (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    See there is this thing which is called russia, europe, china. None of which would willingly go with NSA plan for good reason. So.... What is the chance do you think that local firm building phone in every of those country would allow for such hole ? And what would be their reaction if it was found out ? The risk would not be worth the try.

  8. There are a lot of journals and web site which tracks how reliable car are. German car are very reliable. Plus you seem to make a fallacy that very reliable means never get a lemon. That is not true over million of car sold, some will have a problem. So sorry for your 1200$ repair, but that does not mean on average that german car are crap. You have got to look at the bulk, not single incident.

  9. Yes and No on Should a Mars Colony Be Independent? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as a mars colony is not viable on its own without stuff brought to earth : no it should be considered a region/state of the nation founding it. Afterward there are a lot of stuff they would have to abid to before being "free" : outer space treaty, various other nation treaty etc... And I concur to the guy who said "shut up until we set foot there". IMHO we will never have a mars colony. Not enough gain for the effort.

  10. It is only actually around 5 to 6% on Study Claims Lettuce Is "Three Times Worse Than Bacon" For GHG Emissions (cmu.edu) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that they are counting greenhouse gas by quantity rather than by contribution. By contribution to global warming, since methane has a shorter half life, 5% is agriculture, 5% is animal farming, and 10 to 11% is transportation. Industry , heating, electricity are way above that.

  11. Nope. Again. on "Credible" Bomb Threat Closes, Evacuates All Los Angeles Public Schools · · Score: 1

    Firstly the letter AFAICT was not encrypted. Secondly at best even in such a case you do it only shortly before the event ,1 a minute or two so that there is no time to react and no way to dispute your claim, no need of encryption, and some outfit used that method extensicely in the 80ies, like separatist basque, corse and IRA when they warned of their own explosives . The fact it was sent in clear so long in advance make it clear it was with almost certainty an hoax (come on a cell warning of an attack with 27 persons in a region ?). At least they did not put allah with a lowercase "a" like the hoax letter in new york did.

  12. A firm he is sueing denounced him on Go To Jail For Visiting a Web Site? Top Law Prof Talks Up the Idea (slate.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Veolia a firm he is conflict with for disability denounced him for having being near a water plant and doing various activity which he was not allowed to, like visiting, and they found he researched article on how to make water toxic. Do you really think the FBI would think twice before jailing his ass ? So it was not coming only out of a google search. But afterward once it was known that that firm he was in conflict and it was research for his invalidity (25%) at that point it should have ended, and the firm getting a reprimand. The mise en residence was not the thing which you should be wary of, but that it stayed for so long and the firm was not even punished afterward. So yes it was not very good but it is not as clear cut as you push it.

  13. Warning is usually specific on "Credible" Bomb Threat Closes, Evacuates All Los Angeles Public Schools · · Score: 2

    So called "lone wolf" asshole terrorist (klebold/Harris/etc...) usually warn in advance because they want the attention that is true. But usually those warning are specific, not "the whole LA basin" or whatever. Organisation on the other hand like islamist terrorist claim afterward because they want the operation to be sucessful. Thus for the flight downed in Egypt claims came afterward (claiming beforehand would make it more believable but far harder to pull off)- As such I would really really like to see the definition of credible and the threat given.

  14. There is an alternative on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    "But philosophy does highlight how little we really know, despite our ever-growing skill at the practical."

    There is an alternative explanation : naturalistic and practicable application were shedded one by one once from philosophy question were answered as you also say. It could very well be that all is left, is nothing more than intractable unanswerable questions, which only lead to dead end. In other word philosophy was sucked dry and all that is left is a dry hulk, with all unanswerable question which may lead to debate but never to a conclusion. As such philosophy as it is today would indeed be only mental exercise and nothing interesting in itself.

  15. and government can be topled on France Will Not Ban Wi-Fi Or Tor, Prime Minister Says (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2

    People have the courage to protest and go to the barricade in some countries, and France is among them. Make a rule which enrage most french, expect to have nasty consequences. See De Gaulle and the protests of 68.

  16. Only if AUS gov declare it so on Alleged Bitcoin Creator Raided By Australian Authorities (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If the AUS gov does not declare it as a commodity but a currency, then it is a different picture.

  17. One one hand that certainly slow down *a bit* recruitment, amount unknown, but that also mean they go underground are are much more difficult to spy on. Much better they stay up, FBI / GIGN /Whoever spy them on, and can catch recruitment attempt or anything suspect.

  18. Whether you like it or not it is also domestic on California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You cannot so easily dismiss the husband. He could have chosen to not go that way. He could have convinced his wife. He could even have tried an intervention or the police. But in the very end he chose to go with her plan. Putting it all on her shoulder ignore that he HAD a choice. Anyway there is plenty of homegrown terrorism in the US. Up to now it was mostly anti federalism, racism, and christian religious terrorism (yes there is some even if rare , like murder of abortion doctor, and sometimes attack on gay people). So homegrown terrorism is not a new thing. It is just that homegrown islamist radicalized terrorism is a new one.

  19. Price of doing business ? on How Much Will Autonomous Cars Really Help? (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    " also choose my own level of risk tolerance." No asshole, among a fleet of autonomous car, you chose the risk other people shall endure for your privilege. So the occasional death and handicap for life is also the price we have to pay for your freedom ? Sure. Ok. But from now onward 1) fine should be multiplied by 100, with penal consequence if you are unable to pay. Speed ? 20000 dollar. 2) you shall have a much greater insurance premium than us, since you are intentionally taking risk. Let us say 10 to 50 time what you pay now. 3) you will have to pass your driving license every year on your cost, to prove you can drive among autonomous car.


    Go ahead continue with your privilege, but be prepared to pay a HEFTY sum for that privilege. Because we the others, can't waitz for the driver on the road to not be human assholes anymore.

  20. I thought it was well known on Skip the Picks; Expert Uses Hammer To Open a Master Lock (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of those brass lock I had which failed, actually primarily failed because with age you did not even need the hammer to release the pick, just pressing with the hands and the picks released, the mechanism inside or the picks becoming so used that they lost even a small modicum of tension retention. One i am keeping for demonstration purpose you can simply open with bare hands. This happens the more you open and close the lock. I do wonder if this was a new lock or a somewhat used one.

  21. Or a man on Los Angeles Flirts With Pre-Crime (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Not all prostitute are female, there are so called gigolo too.

  22. ... That tech is harder and some development do not pan out of the lab.

  23. To reserve processing power for add-on on Sony Unlocks PlayStation 4's Previously Reserved Seventh CPU Core For Devs (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    They want to be able to stream and have gimmicky input controls - like kinect. Thus they have to reserve processing power, otherwise would run into the risk that if the game reserve it all, the streaming experience is lowered or even so crappy as to be useless. The same way kinect for example you would need to reserve some processing power (although I think in the mean time they changed it so that if the game is not kinect enabled, that processing power is free to be used). And then again there might be system part for which they need even more processing power like DRM management.

  24. And again this is what you and other misunderstand on Richard Dawkins Opposes UK Cinemas Censoring Church's Advert Before Star Wars (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "What Dawkins is talking about is the principle, the ideal of free speech. "

    But even the most far out ideal of free speech DO NOT require private party to endorse and repeat your own opinion or speech. This is why free speech , freedom of expression , liberté d'expression and such like are always about governmental restriction. You and me and any other have no right to force other private party to carry our speech or get it heard. I repeat, the church, Dawkins, me aepervius or you nemyst have a right to express ourselves without governmental interference, but we have no right whatsoever to force a 3rd private party to carry our speech.

    This is essentially why this is not a free speech issue no matter what you look at it. Private party may at any moment, or any time, chose what they publish or show (usually this become a bit more complicated when you look at communication lines and common carrier rule, but here with cinema it is clear cut).

  25. he should know better on Richard Dawkins Opposes UK Cinemas Censoring Church's Advert Before Star Wars (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Free speech is only about governmental intrusion and obstacle to speech. This is not about private person (cinema) telling the church , "no we do not want your advertising". It is incredible how many people bring "free speech!" up in conversation where it is not warranted.