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  1. It also "rendered millions of web-based games useless" because Chrome's the only browser.

    There's a pun available in the word "rendered" too, but can't be bothered.

  2. It won't matter, look at recent history on Lawmakers Move To Block Government From Ordering Digital 'Back Doors' (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    Remember AT&T installed traffic monitoring equipment in their San Francisco switching office at the behest of the NSA?

    Illegal under FISA.

    In 2008 Bush signed the FISA Amendments Act which granted retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies for past violations of FISA.

  3. I hope you live alone.

    I hope no burglar can find any of your weapons before you can.

    I really hope your heavy rounds don't penetrate your walls should you miss.

  4. It's worse than that on Ticketmaster Hopes To Speed Up Event Access By Scanning Your Face (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    TM doesn't control the database. BI does, and guess what... they have a relationship with Homeland Security.

    All to aggregate everyone's behaviour.

  5. Pleased that they are offering so much more than the market rate for vulnerabilities.

  6. The President is a bad example, because he doesn't do what his lawyers tell him, often being to simply shut up. The attorney-client privilege for MC/DT is broken when both parties claim they had nothing to do with it, e.g. the Clifford payoff.

  7. Not really. They have the wealth to afford the lawyers to challenge back. A court order can be fought, but very nearly everyone can't afford the price.

  8. No offense
    The companies will not help governments launch cyberattacks

    ...but if we help a cutout company working for a foreign government, it wasn't our fault, mommy!

    We need transparency and C level execs to go to jail, not weasel-worded fake accountability and cost-of-doing-business fines.

  9. 'nobnsense" is rubbish stated by one of the elite :)

  10. ...every country's spy agencies are trying to suborn every other country's switching gear.

    Are we back to the "exceptionalism" or "world police" nobnsense whereby it's ok ok if we do it to them, but not vice-versa, because we're the good guys? Every country's spy agencies think they're the good guys.

  11. Let's track Hyundai :) on FTC Warns Manufacturers That 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Break the Law (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Currently says (my enboldening):

    FAQs

    Why is it important to insist on Hyundai Genuine Parts?

    Choosing Hyundai Genuine Parts offers you better fit, finish, design, quality, safety, structural integrity, and resale value than alternative collision parts. The use of Hyundai Genuine Parts is required to keep your Hyundai manufacturer's warranties and any extended warranties intact. Finally, all new cars leased through Hyundai require that Genuine Parts be used for collision repairs.

  12. Secret? Google says not so. on FTC Warns Manufacturers That 'Warranty Void If Removed' Stickers Break the Law (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    "The use of" "parts is required to keep your" "manufacturerâ(TM)s warranties and any extended warranties intact"

    https://www.hyundaiusa.com/myhyundai/manuals-and-how-tos/Getfaq?faqId=2&category=Consumer_Awareness

    "This warranty shall not apply if this product" "is used with products not sold or licensed by"

    https://www.nintendo.com/consumer/manuals/warrantytext_us.jsp

    "This warranty does not apply if this product" "has had the warranty seal on the" "altered, defaced, or removed."

    https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/warranties/ps4/

  13. Re:...but creates new hurdles. on Trump Says He Wants Skilled Migrants But Creates New Hurdles (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    New hurdles to non-Nordics that is.

  14. Using knowledge that Apple willingly gave him on Documents Prove Local Cops Have Bought Cheap iPhone Cracking Tech (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If he is making use of an Apple trade secret, especially if he has signed contracts to keep such confidential, then he is in violation.

    This is not a issue of having the right to continue the same work under different employment.

  15. Actually the US Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 "would effectively nullify the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which explicitly forbids information and psychological operations aimed at influencing U.S. public opinion.

    Thornberry said that the current law "ties the hands of America's diplomatic officials, military, and others by inhibiting our ability to effectively communicate in a credible way," according to Buzzfeed. "

  16. Shirley if it has a powerful dong it should be used to time porn films?

  17. The expression 'fake news' is actually quite wonderful as a mis-director of attention. Saying a news story is fake news is not actually a claim that the news story is false, just that it shouldn't be a news story. The implication that is universally taken when the target of a story saying 'fake news' is that the target is denying the events.

    Similarly, a statement prefaced by "If anyone took offence to my action/statement, I apologise" isn't an apology, because there's no acknowledgement of fault.

  18. Re: I think this will end badly on Car Manufacturers Are Tracking Millions of Cars (boingboing.net) · · Score: 2

    Next step is to require a connected phone before the car will work, to validate the driver as an anti-theft protection of course. Now the telematics can use your data connection!

  19. Re:We view the future . . . on Apple Adds Medical Records Feature For iPhone (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "We view the future as consumers owning their own health data," Apple COO Jeff Williams said

    Perhaps he means "owning" because they'll be buying it, through iHealthPortal.

  20. Re:That's not a proper portmanteau on Facebook Announces That It Has Invented a New Unit of Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I shudder at the notion that anyone thinks that it is clever to take the mickey out of someone serving them food.

  21. Re:Because you gave consent to Uber... on Why Uber Can Find You but 911 Can't (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Laws are there to protect stupid, weak, willfully-ignorant people. This is why a pickpocket is prosecuted for theft, when the victim could possibly have prevented the theft in the first place.

  22. UK could help reduce radicalisation... on Call For Tech Giants To Face Taxes Over Extremist Content (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...by not being a party to killing civilians in so many foreign countries.

  23. ...ripping content from Netflix or YouTube. However, people who do this are breaking the law. The DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions specifically forbid it.

    Exactly what is being circumvented grabbing rather than streaming a Youtube video? Access to Youtube is not constrained by a contract (unlike FletNix), and there's no encryption.

  24. Re:Atlanta is the heart of the US air system on Power Outage Strands Thousands at US Airport. 600 Flights Cancelled (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Exactly! If it had been implemented as a router, it would have been much more effective!

  25. Re:Cut power line to an airport at Christmas?!? on Power Outage Strands Thousands at US Airport. 600 Flights Cancelled (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Wonderful. Now I want to re-watch them all in one sitting. Of course, the first one triggers a sad loss :(