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  1. Re:FBI not in trouble? on FBI Must Reveal The Code It Used To Hack Dark Web Pedophiles (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Lying isn't illegal in and of itself.

  2. Re:The Hydrogen Hoax on UK Company Riversimple Plans a Fuel-Sipping Hydrogen Car (techienews.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Did you read it? It's nothing but chemistry and physics. Did they invent a new kind of hydrogen in the meantime?

  3. The Hydrogen Hoax on UK Company Riversimple Plans a Fuel-Sipping Hydrogen Car (techienews.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    It's really too bad that hyrdogen is such a ludicrously impractical fuel.

  4. Re:hyperloop without the hyper or loop on The Hyperloop Industrial Complex · · Score: 1

    "Drivers" and "Taxpayers" aren't exactly non-intersecting sets.

  5. Re:Fear not for your batteries! on The Hyperloop Industrial Complex · · Score: 0

    What happens to your warranty when Tesla goes bankrupt? Can't help but notice that its Earnings Per Share is -$5.32.

  6. Re:Internet service disruption? on Samsung's AdBlock Fast Removed From the Play Store (androidheadlines.com) · · Score: 1

    Android 6.0 has a feature that allows the user to deny applications specific system privileges, thereby disrupting or interfering other parties' apps and services. Therefore, Android itself needs to be removed from the Android marketplace.

  7. Re:One Time Use on Dutch Police Train Bald Eagles To Take Out Drones · · Score: 1

    They tested this on MythBusters. Small plastic propellers won't hurt people but heavy carbon ones will.

  8. Re:Release a net on Dutch Police Train Bald Eagles To Take Out Drones · · Score: 2

    Instead of training birds and risking bad PR from injuring them, why not just get cheap anti-drone drones to drop nets on drones?

  9. Re:What could go wrong on France To Pave 1000km of Road With Solar Panels (solarcrunch.org) · · Score: 1

    6) It would make bankrupt France would be even bankrupt-er.

  10. What time is her perp walk scheduled?

  11. The Commodore VIC-20 had a daisy-chained serial bus in 1980.

  12. Re:Benefits cliffs penalize work on SaxoBank Predicts Universal Basic Income For Europe · · Score: 1

    In principal, you could eliminate minimum wage and people could work for any amount of money, considering that it is in *addition* to the basic income, in order to take home a bit more money, to gain needed experience, or just to have something to do. Minimum wage is actually a nasty regressive force on the most vulnerable. The main challenge to this type of system is that the average tax amount on people who work needs to be significantly higher than the basic-income amount.

  13. Self driving cars also still need insurance; just not as much.

    They'll need plenty of insurance one they start getting hacked just as much as PCs and smartphones.

  14. Instahack on UK Voice Crypto Standard Built For Key Escrow, Mass Surveillance (benthamsgaze.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "By design there is always a third party who generates and distributes the private keys for all users. This third party therefore always has the ability to decrypt conversations which are encrypted using these private keys,"

    ... and this third party is commonly known as Internet Hackers.

  15. Re:Hydrogen: Best selection of the worst downsides on German Automakers Working On Hydrogen Fuel Cell Tech (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a lot more ludicrous than you describe. Between production, distribution, and usage, the hydrogen economy is a complete non-starter (like your fuel-cell car after taking its first sniff of atmospheric O2).

  16. Re:very resillient for a labor organization. on IBM Union Calls It Quits (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    "You can’t treat the working man this way. One day, we’ll form a union and get the fair and equitable treatment we deserve! Then we’ll go too far, and get corrupt and shiftless, and the Japanese will eat us alive!" -- Last Exit To Springfield.

  17. Re:Citizens recording on Entering the Age of Body-Worn Police Cameras (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Most people are carrying around a high-def video camera at all times. They only need to activate it. And for god's sake, if you're ever filming anything newsworty, HOLD YOUR PHONE SIDEWAYS!

  18. Re:Complaints go down for more than one reason on Entering the Age of Body-Worn Police Cameras (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You're forgetting that 95% of the time, it's the perp that is lying. Now, those 95% of cases will go very smoothly indeed, with the perp generally pleading Guilty.

  19. Re:Complaints go down for more than one reason on Entering the Age of Body-Worn Police Cameras (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Hear, hear on Entering the Age of Body-Worn Police Cameras (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It also has the potential to save a lot of money as petty thugs caught red-handed will no longer bother to plead Not Guilty after seeing the police videos, reducing court costs.

  21. Re:Slippery Slope on An FBI Hacking Campaign Targeted Over a Thousand Computers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The FBI has also confessed to operating a web site that distributes extreme pedo-porn. When will the FBI director be doing a perp walk?

  22. Re:Tim Cook's a lier too on Apple Settles a $348M Fine With Italian Authorities For Tax Evasion (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    It's probably true that Apple doesn't evade taxes. It does avoid them, however, which is not only legal, but he has a legal obligation to shareholders to avoid unnecessary expenses. The summary contains the humourous line "accused of using cross-border structures to reduce their tax bills". Wow, corporations have been accused of *not* breaking the law! I'll bet you're doing something right now that *doesn't* break the law. Report to prison immediately!

  23. Re:Can we get some of that over here on Apple Settles a $348M Fine With Italian Authorities For Tax Evasion (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Cook has a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to maximize profits. If he were to repatriate $200B and pay an outrageous 40% tax on it, he would be sued into the stone age for needlessly squandering $80B. None of this capital will come into America until it gets its corporate taxes under control. Until then, the rest of the world thanks you. Enjoy missing out!

  24. Re:The first three letters of USPTO are UPS... on USPTO Power Outage Damages Equipment and Shuts Down IT Systems (uspto.gov) · · Score: 1, Funny

    For one thing, you have to replace the UPS battery every year.

  25. Rubber Stamps on USPTO Power Outage Damages Equipment and Shuts Down IT Systems (uspto.gov) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Guess they'll need to use literal rubber stamps now!