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  1. Re:What Defence to Use? on Music Labels Sue Charter, Complain That High Internet Speeds Fuel Piracy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    3) Let's say that a judge buys the "IP" argument, so now the industry bod is showing how at the same time a movie was being downloaded, it was also being uploaded as well. So... how did you come via that data? To obtain such data you would have required access to data from my computer, and permission to access that has never been granted by me. That would mean an offence has been committed in collecting the "evidence", and thus it would be dismissed from the case.

    Actually, #3 can be obtained from the torrent tracker, not from your computer.
    By the way, there is a way to see what an IP address downloaded in the last few days: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.c...

  2. Independent of what the photon itself experiences, we, the observers, measure time and we also calculate the photon's speed.

  3. Re: Again this rubish? on Netflix May Be Losing $192 Million Per Month From Piracy, Study Claims (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    There was no mention about the same household or the same physical address. I have been sharing a 4 stream subscription with my mom and my in-laws (although we're on separate continents) for abut two years now and Netflix didn't seem to be bothered by this.

  4. Re:What's the deal with the Eastern District of Te on Apple To Close Retail Stores In the Patent Troll-Favored Eastern District of Texas (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    There might have been another incentive: judges ruling over cases where their own sons represented patent trolls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  5. Re:It's not just Internet on Microsoft Warns Internet Explorer 10 Will Be Terminated In January 2020 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Or add the camera "site" to the compatibility view list in IE11?

  6. Re:Scienctists have a dream... on CERN's New Collider Design Is Four Times Larger Than the LHC (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    CERN doesn't care about my opinion? How would you know that?

    Well, what CERN does is not what you argue for - what better proof that you don't matter to them?

    For all you know I'll be responsible for influencing the decision.

    Your opinion about yourself doesn't match the reality.

    CERN *should* care about me and the millions like me who are asking for reasonable justification before we commit to billions in equipment for more research.

    Well, CERN doesn't manage the budgets of the participating countries, so they are only committing their own money, money received from your governments. They are free to use their money as they see fit, or you think they need your blessing?

    IF they tick off enough folks like me though dismissive folks like you, it might be a long time before they get funding for their new toy.

    Let me repeat myself: you don't matter. Also, your government will ignore you and pay up. They will, actually, insist on paying into the new toy, to be able to receive the goodies they new toy will discover.

    I just want to do what's best here

    No, you want to feel important.

    advancements in areas like chemistry and biology could pay off more directly in huge ways

    Faster ROI - are you an MBA, by any chance?

    Once you get one level below the three base subatomic particles, there isn't much to be gained that applies to chemistry...

    How do you know? See the future? Completed that research ahead of CERN?

  7. Re:Scienctists have a dream... on CERN's New Collider Design Is Four Times Larger Than the LHC (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Rarely does anything happen in the biological world that requires the huge energies of even a small collider.

    [...] But we are not even close to such energies in the "natural biological world" so I simply think you are not understanding what you talk about, even at the elementary level.

    First, I never said that biology happens at the levels of energy involved in a particle accelerator. Never crossed my mind, whatever you may say.

    Second, you seem to consider that the energy used in the process of analyzing something must be equal to the energy used in that something's functioning. Again, it's just your assumption.

    Whatever, you can consider yourself the voice of reason. Good thing CERN doesn't care about you.

  8. Re:Scienctists have a dream... on CERN's New Collider Design Is Four Times Larger Than the LHC (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Before microbiology and chemistry, we need to understand the basics of the universe - the math and the physics.
    Spending money researching ways to put atoms together without understanding how and why do they stick together or don't, is as stupid as trying to run before being able to walk.

  9. Re:Call me when they roll it back on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Build 18290 With Start Menu Improvements (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Classic Shell lists "Devices and Printers" when I reach "de".

  10. Re:Is anyone using OpenBSD? on OpenBSD 6.4 Released (openbsd.org) · · Score: 1

    My personal laptop and all my servers are OpenBSD. I'm not buying any hardware that OpenBSD doesn't run well on.

  11. Re:What value added? on Sony Tries Using Blockchain Tech For Next-Gen DRM (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    What about players that refuse to play discs that are not recorded in the blockchain?

  12. Re: On-premises or colocated? on Windows 10 Will Use the Cloud To Free Up Disk Space (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You're right. If your iSP doesn't give you a routable iP address, you can get a cheap VPS, open an encrypted tunnel from your home server to the VPS and, with a bit of pf magic, forward all incoming traffic on the 443 port of the VPS through the tunnel. There you go, static internet iP address for your self+hosted ownCloud.

  13. Re:On-premises or colocated? on Windows 10 Will Use the Cloud To Free Up Disk Space (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It depends on the use case. My personal ownCloud runs at home, on an OpenBSD machine behind another OpenBSD firewall, the static IP being replaced by dynamic DNS. The offsite backup is provided by Tarsnap.

    But, as you said, once you no longer control the physical access, you can't avoid having to trust somebody other than yourself.

  14. Re:Learned nothing from Jennifer Lawrence on Windows 10 Will Use the Cloud To Free Up Disk Space (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    OwnCloud - I control both the client and the server.

  15. Re: Clinton emails or not... on Ecuador Will Be Handing Assange Over To UK Authorities 'In Coming Weeks Or Days': RT (express.co.uk) · · Score: 0, Troll

    You can also see the pilots shooting at unarmed civilians who tried to save a wounded man and you can see the pilots shooting at the van with two children in it. What kind of asshole do you have to be to justify that?

  16. Re: Where are the permissions logs? on Android Is Now as Safe as the Competition, Google Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, DTEK also has logs for the last 7 days. Just an example: On my BB KeyOne, the OpenSignal app asked for location 261 times while in foreground and 22562 times while in background (in the last 7 days).

  17. Re:Where are the permissions logs? on Android Is Now as Safe as the Competition, Google Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    DTEK by BlackBerry does exactly this. Plus it can alert you when an app tries to access a certain resource (microphone, camera). Plus it can allow/deny access to each resource individually, unlike Google's all-or-nothing approach. Even if you grant all permissions when you install an app, when the app tries to actually access any resource (camera, microphone, address book, local files etc.) you get a prompt to allow or deny access to each of the resources requested. And, yes, it comes installed on the Android BlackBerry phones. I don't have another Android phone, so I can't tell of it's only available for BB phones or not.

  18. A friend has asked a butcher, while buying meat, where to get an industrial meat grinder. He spoke the question, did not write/e-mail/text/IM it. Same evening, at home, Facebook started showing him ads for industrial meat grinders. This happened last year. Coincidence, right?

  19. Re:What ignorance gets published these days on Consciousness Goes Deeper Than You Think (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Are cats conscious?

    I can make a cat chase a laser dot around the room endlessly.

    When I waggled a laser dot infront of my infant, he identified me as the source of the phenomenon after about 2 seconds, gave up on the dot and came for the emitter itself.

    My cat knows the emitter is creating the red dot, but he still chases the dot for fun. When I reach to get the laser pointer, he becomes excited (before I have the device in my hand) and stares to the carpet, one meter away from my feet, waiting for the red dot to appear. He clearly enjoys the play although he knows where the dot comes from. Also, the cat wants me to hold it and create the entertaining chase, why would he want the boring device? What exactly did you intend to prove with your example?

  20. Re:Fuck Toshiba. on Toshiba Sues Western Digital For $1 Billion in Damages (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    To consider that US did not nuke USSR out of morality is naivete. They did not have enough nukes to disable USSR in 1945 and, when the 3-4 nukes would have been gone, there was no way to defeat USSR at home. Second fail is to compare the 1940's USA with late '80s USA. The americans overturned democratic governement all over South America and Middle East in the meantime, so, no, US is not to be trusted, just feared and respected.

  21. Re:Fuck Toshiba. on Toshiba Sues Western Digital For $1 Billion in Damages (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The sale allowed USSR to catch up to the US and made sure they don't have too much advantage over the USSR and don't grow too confident in their chance to disable the USSR with one swift nuclear attack. Basically, Toshiba ensured mutual assured destruction remained effective and, probably, saved the world this way.

  22. Re:need more STEM grads on Short of IT Workers At Home, Israeli Startups Recruit Elsewhere (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Developing and improving tools essential to developing technology. Saying that tool makers are not needed is a catastrophic short-sightedness. My calculus professor used to say that we discover theorems, simplify them for use with computers and give to the engineers to use them for whatever.

  23. How inferior can it be on Kaspersky Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft Over Disabling Its Antivirus Software (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... given that Windows Defender is a re-branding of Reliable AntiVirus, whose architect (Costin Raiu) Kaspersky hired from GeCAD before GeCAD sold RAV to Microsoft?

  24. Re:Relaxed code of ethics? on Waymo: Uber Plotted With Former Exec Before He Left Google (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Wasn't that obvious for years now? "The law doesn't apply to us" sounds dishonest to me.

  25. Re:In next weeks news get your nails done at Autoz on Netflix Just Announced a User Focused Security Application (netflix.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a Chrysler dealership in Calgary that offers just that: having their nails done while their car is being serviced.