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  1. Re: Orrin Hatch is a Fool! on Senate Passes Music Modernization Act With Unanimous Support (billboard.com) · · Score: 1
    Remember, this is the same Orrin Hatch who fantasized about destroying the computers of "pirates" while at the same time having a website based on stolen code.

    During a discussion of methods to frustrate computer users who illegally exchange music and movie files over the Internet, Hatch asked technology executives about ways to damage computers involved in such file trading. Legal experts have said any such attack would violate federal anti-hacking laws.

    "No one is interested in destroying anyone's computer," replied Randy Saaf of MediaDefender Inc., a secretive Los Angeles company that builds technology to deliberately download pirated material very slowly so other users can't.

    "I'm interested," Hatch interrupted. He said damaging someone's computer "may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights."

    (source)

    On Facebook: “So, how do you sustain a business model in which users don’t pay for your service?” (April 2018)

    This guy is another dinosaur that his constituents keep putting in because they have no idea how to vote for anyone else and doing so would require thought or energy which are scarce resources for the average American. At least this guy has the decency to retire! Just a few months ago, McCain was incapacitated and refused to step down unless the governor agreed to appoint his wife to take his place.

    Putting the CON in Congress! :)

  2. Re: nEw proDuct BY aPk on Does LinkedIn Suck? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    Better than that, try this spam blocker. APK
    Only HERE you find Affiliate SPAM with croflol snickering from around the corner. Maybe that is why APK has not resurrected CmdrTaco yet????? apk

    P.S. => I am not APK..apk

  3. Thanks, TRUMP! on Australia's Great Barrier Reef Showing 'Signs of Recovery' (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: -1

    Trump created this hurricane by the standards of the mainstream media. Can we credit him with saving the reef? ;)

    -GoaS

  4. Re:nothing new here. on Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap, Says Oculus Cofounder (palmerluckey.com) · · Score: 0

    Are you referring to customers of this auto parts store?

  5. What thousands of kids are you referring to? The ones who are getting thrice the amount of inoculations in their first days as you did as a child? There is substance to that part of the argument as well as the one for children who have a family history of autoimmune disorders. I have one friend who was paralyzed from a flu shot. Her mother and aunts had fibromyalgia.

    And that bobble-headed bleach blond did not make the decisions. The parents did.

  6. Maybe you should look up what pseudoscience is? Quite literally, it means "false science."

  7. Now thirty years later, have they added essential things to make these units compliant? There are much more stringent regulations that have to be met now.

    UL (kind of)
    ETL
    CE
    FCC

    It isn't cheap to sell consumer electronics anymore. Everyone wants a piece of the pie, and you'll be sued out of existence in some countries and not allowed to enter the market in others if you manage to survive the first round of development.

  8. Re:What? on Senate Democrat Floats First Serious Proposals For Regulating Big Tech (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is this what we can come to expect from an editor?

    Take advice from a gentleman who has been embedded in Silicon Valley culture for decades. It is an oligopoly run by a big club of people always high-fiving each other. Everyone's money is forced into the stock market as it's the about the only accessible thing that "grows," and all the people in the Fortune 500 companies take as much off the top as they can get.

  9. Recall, from another Defense One article, the Russians are using every trick possible to gain ground in cyber warfare. One of their biggest fronts is finding and not disclosing software vulnerabilities. This means that you don't even have to actively install Russian software for them to potentially be able to get into your computer.

    I am a security analyst and recently took a trip to Russia. There are a lot of jobs out there. And they pay well. The Russians are looking for every way to "hook" into American systems through social engineering. And they pay REALLY well once you have been working for them for a few years, you gain their trust, and they put you on "assignments" frequently involving US government contracts. I had a few offers when I was in Vladivostok. They knew who I was and still tried even though they knew I wouldn't budge.