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  1. Re:Slow day in tech, then? on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This wasn't an overbooked flight, it was the airline wanting to transport its employees on a flight where all seats were taken by paying passengers. Auctioning seats may be "capitalist", but the only course of action that measures up to the standard of "fair" is for the airline to bend over and take the consequences of going short staffed at the destination where the employees were needed.

  2. Publishing politicians' phone numbers is fair play on Hacker Publishes Cell Phone Numbers of House Democrats (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Given that politicians are allowed to pay bribes to obtain unlisted numbers of private citizens.

  3. They're just being honest ... on Microsoft Swaps Toy Gun Emoji For Revolver -- Days After Apple Does the Opposite (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    ... about what you're aiming at your foot when you install Windoze 10.

  4. Update even includes a new peripheral device on You Can't Turn Off Cortana In the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    A saucepan for Cortana to boil your pet bunny in if you accidentally call her Siri.

  5. Re:Best Version of Windows for Whom ? on Windows 10 Upgrade Activates By Clicking Red X Close Button In Prompt Message (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That 29th of July expiry date is a lie; free upgrade offers for products pushed as hard as Windows 10 do not end.

  6. Re:Terraforming potential? on How To Die On Mars · · Score: 1

    But we'd need a secure password for access points through the membrane. I recommend 12345.

  7. You know the patent system is broken when ... on Patent Issued Covering Phone Notifications of Delivery Time and Invoice Quantity · · Score: 1

    ... A security flaw can be a patent violation; because a security flaw could be sufficient to allow a quantity in an order to be modified when the website operator did not intend that to be possible.

  8. Re:Facebook - Do this, DEA will have to stop on Facebook To DEA: Stop Using Phony Profiles To Nab Criminals · · Score: 1

    "No cops allowed" in the TOS isn't enough to keep cops out; I'm sure pirate websites have tried this and failed.

    But the fact that "No cops allowed" can't be the whole of your legal armour doesn't mean that it can't be part of it:

    1. 1. Add a clause stating that the new user signing up indemnifies all other users against any harm of which the new user's violation of the TOS is a material cause; falsely claiming that you're not a cop is a violation.
    2. 2. Add a clause stating that the new user must insure their liability for that indemnification with company X. No confirmation of cover from company X? Then no new user account for you. Company X will charge the new user a premium of 1 trillion dollars if they admit to being a cop. And like any other insurance company, you have to consent to them ratting on you to the other insurance companies if they catch you lying.

    Cops can still penetrate the legal armour, but now they have to lie to an insurance company. And "lied to an insurance company" is something that noone has enough lawyers to wash away.

  9. Re:Still abusive on Gabe Newell Responds: Yes, We're Looking For Cheaters Via DNS · · Score: 0

    So Valve have empowered the producers of commercial cheats to flag innocent players as cheaters simply by hosting their DRM servers on the same physical box as another non-cheat related service that gamers are likely to use.

    But that power won't be abused of course because there's no correlation between charging money for enabling players to cheat in video games and being a douchebag </sarcasm>.

  10. Plausible deniability on Candy Crush Maker King.com Has Trademarked 'Candy' For Games · · Score: 1

    Plausibile deniability for using words covered by excessively broad trademarks: make Gg98r49;9pthl$mk the offical name of your game and have some anonymous third parties google bomb it with the title that you really wanted.

  11. First commandment in my personal code of ethics on UK Men Arrested For Anti-Semitic Tweets After Football Game · · Score: 1

    Be corrupt, dishonest, and treacherous in your dealings with those who practice censorship.

  12. So i have to ask, suppose you purchased something locally snd the clerk gave you to much change, what would you do?

    I think you'll find that most brick and mortar stores have a notice telling you to "check your change before leaving the counter as mistakes cannot be rectified later". Note that "mistakes" is unqualified, not qualified as "mistakes in our favour". Keeping excess change when the store makes a mistake in your favour is simply accepting that policy.

  13. There's always the "murder scene" trick on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop a Debt Collection Scam From Targeting You? · · Score: 1

    Caller: Could I speak to [Name] please?
    You: What was the nature of your business with [Name]?
    Caller: ... yadda yadda unpaid debt yadda yadda ...
    You: You've just called a murder scene.
    Caller: CLICK!

  14. Think of the children on MPAA Backs Anti-Piracy Curriculum For Elementary School Students · · Score: 1

    The MPAA and RIAA are thinking of the children a little too much here. Maybe we should put their executives on some kind of list...

  15. Re:The death penalty is a little different there on China Plans To Stop Harvesting Organs From Executed Prisoners · · Score: 1

    They have their blood tested after arrest, and then are executed when a customer requires an organ.

    Chinese Death Row: the only place where AIDS has overtaken drugs in the contraband market.

  16. Re:I hear they're outsourcing it... on China Plans To Stop Harvesting Organs From Executed Prisoners · · Score: 1

    Harvesting organs from executed criminals is a non-justice incentive for a justice system, and like all other non-justice incentives for justice systems (e.g. American "Felony Murder" laws that reward cops who "accidentally" murder innocent bystanders at scenes of crimes in progress with additional crimes that they can accuse the perpetrator of), no good will ever come of it.

  17. Re:Notch beaten to the punch on Notch Shelves Space Game 0x10c, Cites Pressure, Desire To Work On Small Projects · · Score: 1

    Another game in the genre: http://www.master-space.com/

  18. Re:Wireshark on Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds · · Score: 1

    This. Politicians are a renewable resource.

  19. PayPal sucks ... on PayPal Credits Man With $92 Quadrillion · · Score: 1

    ... but on this occasion the suck was in a customer's favour. He could spend all of it and still be morally superior to PayPal.

  20. In other news ... on Former Student Gets Year In Prison For College President Election Fraud · · Score: 1

    Kindergarten student sent to Hague Tribunal for pretending to use chemical weapons while playing soldiers.

  21. Why not just leak them? on Microsoft Petitions US Attorney General For Permission To Disclose Data Requests · · Score: 1

    If they want to disclose the data requests, why not just engineer a leak from a disgruntled former employee already located in Ecuador/Venezuela/Iran/Wherever?

  22. Re:Goddammit. on Altering Text In eBooks To Track Pirates · · Score: 1

    Hell, change the Bible randomly; that wouldn't get noticed at all.

    I think they already did that, considering the way the Bible uses italicization.

  23. Re:Hostage taking dressed up as a piracy charge on Man Who Sold $100 Million Worth of Pirated Software Gets 12 Years In Prison · · Score: 1

    W00t! I got a "-1 disagree" from a butthurt authoritarian!

  24. China is slacking on Man Who Sold $100 Million Worth of Pirated Software Gets 12 Years In Prison · · Score: 1

    Saipan (Chinese people, but a U.S. territory)

    A Chinese populated island in that part of the world that China doesn't claim to own? Standards in China have really fallen a long way.

  25. Hostage taking dressed up as a piracy charge on Man Who Sold $100 Million Worth of Pirated Software Gets 12 Years In Prison · · Score: 0

    No matter how much you dress this up as a piracy charge, hostage taking to secure the extradition of Edward Snowden is still hostage taking.