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  1. Re:In a country far far away on Microsoft To Disable Policies In Windows 10 Pro With Anniversary Update (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    As a BSD user, I feel the same way about Linux. You're welcome to true freedom here on the BSD side however!

    But which BSD? The easy one or the secure one? ;) (Recursion never ends!)

  2. You see my face? I'm shocked. Really, I am.

    Well, they will be. This is a substantal reduction in value for WinX-Pro users. I gues they forgot that Sony had to buy back all those Playstations. (Or give free upgrades to Enterprise.)

  3. Re:Corporate VPNs too? on Using VPN in UAE Could Cost You $545,000 (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    It is a tack on crime. When they bust in and you are on unveiledteens.com that will tack on the VPN crime as well as all the rest.

  4. Re:Coming to your country too on Using VPN in UAE Could Cost You $545,000 (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    The next step will be local mesh, and they will try to regulate that.

    Yeah, I have to admit, radio signals are easy to locate and jam. We are in a bit of a pickle, aren't we?

    But full jamming block police communication too...
    The will start by turning off the cell networks. Then people will get a wifi mesh app to get around it. And so on... Just more rat race, but we have more rats!

  5. Re:Coming to your country too on Using VPN in UAE Could Cost You $545,000 (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Limited it. Significantly. How about free assembly also being limited to people who have not been felons? After a background check? Only allowed with a permit in most states? And so on... No PAs at meetings unless you are law enforcement...

  6. Re:that's on Using VPN in UAE Could Cost You $545,000 (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    If your think the DNC is scary, you haven't been looking at the republican nominee.

    He is at least still trying to hide it. The DNC is banking on no one caring.

  7. Re:that's on Using VPN in UAE Could Cost You $545,000 (businessinsider.com) · · Score: -1

    freaking scary. Of course, the good ol' U.S.A. will never get that scary. Not ever. Not even in the next 5 years or so. Never.

    At least not openly... Unless the DNC is a sign of open corruption to come...

  8. Re:Coming to your country too on Using VPN in UAE Could Cost You $545,000 (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no need to go that far. If you control the pathway, you control the data. The next step will be local mesh, and they will try to regulate that. In the US it will be hard because the freedom of assembly is kinda classically important, but I wouldn't put it past them. Look what they did to the 2nd...

  9. Re:Corporate VPNs too? on Using VPN in UAE Could Cost You $545,000 (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    It says in the summery! "the law has now changed to enable police in the UAE to go after anyone who uses VPNs to access blocked services, which is considered to be fraudulent use of an IP address." You do not even need to click the link!

  10. Re:Big loss of preorders on AR Helmet Startup Skully Has Crashed and Burned (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I was in on this early, and had an opportunity to buy into a early unit for preview. (I have a motorcycle website) But the combination of low features and high price made me skeptical. (You have a camera and a screen... Why not HUD navigation on yoru phone, and recording of rear view to your phone or other storage?) Also the early paying for vapor ware beta hardware. I decided to wait for V2. Glad I did!

  11. And a new version for popups! on Windows 10 Anniversary Update: the Best New Features (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    And now that the "free upgrade to Windows 10" is about to expire, they will have a new version to assault Win7 users with! "No, we didn't break our promise. We just want to give our users a chance to upgrade to the brand new Windows experience for free!"

  12. When the discussion of what goes in a treaty has to be secret, you know it is going to be bad for most people. (And very good for a select few.) How many times do we have to see this? I wonder what a cyber-spring will look like?

  13. Re:Why not? on Slashdot Asks: Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat? (dmarge.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a live chicken farm close to me

    As opposed to a dead chicken farm?

    As descriptive of the condition of the chicken when you buy it... So, yes, there are both.

  14. Re:Why not? on Slashdot Asks: Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat? (dmarge.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, you're at the same ground with real meat now. Do you really know where it comes from? What the animal ate? Whether it was bombarded with antibiotics and hormones?

    How much do you know today about the steak you're eating?

    Actually, quite a lot. You can buy meat directly and have it butchered if you want. Or buy from a butcher that sources from a known location. It takes a bit of work, a little more money, and a large freezer, but it can be done. There is a live chicken farm close to me, and the chicken really does taste better. So do the eggs.

  15. Re: Why not? on Slashdot Asks: Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat? (dmarge.com) · · Score: 0

    Facilitating the use of toxic pesticide

    As opposed to non-toxic pesticide? And because there was so little pesticide used before "Monsanto"?

    The new pesticides will use trigger words to send insects and weeds to a designated safe space.

  16. Re:They forgot the internet on 'Tor and Bitcoin Hinder Anti-Piracy Efforts' (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    It's all those damn computers... Back in my day... grumble grumble... :)

  17. Re:In other news; water is wet, the sky is blue... on 'Tor and Bitcoin Hinder Anti-Piracy Efforts' (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    You know that did not instantly leave the second the vote came in, right?

  18. Re:Sharing is a business now? on 'Tor and Bitcoin Hinder Anti-Piracy Efforts' (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone who put a lot more effort into being anonymous then most. And the receiving address is still there... Says nothing about the much larger group of low hanging fruit that just send it from there android app.

  19. Re:Sharing is a business now? on 'Tor and Bitcoin Hinder Anti-Piracy Efforts' (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    No one I know has ever paid money for pirated media. That's kind of the entire point. What is this drivel about business models?

    Advertising and/or malware distribution. Don't be dense.

    Uhm, isn't pretty much all of the malware on pirate sites spread by the media companies to fight piracy?

    And sometimes on CDs... cough... cough... Sony... cough...

  20. Re:Sharing is a business now? on 'Tor and Bitcoin Hinder Anti-Piracy Efforts' (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you offer a better product at better than free? People obviously want the artist's product; and a rational person wants that product for the lowest price.

    Bottled water. For most people in the US, tap water is free. (Essentially) And bottled water is tap water most of the time. And it is a $6.6BILLION business! http://www.statista.com/topics...

    And since many pirates are paying for VPN services and seed boxes, it ain't even competing with free!

  21. Re:for many, likely no choice on Slashdot Asks: Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat? (dmarge.com) · · Score: 1

    And it will be "hidden" in already prepared foods. Like McDonald's and the quality meat they serve.

  22. Re:Why not? on Slashdot Asks: Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat? (dmarge.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If it's cheap and healthy and tastes good.. Why not?

    Trust. You can verify the cheap. You can verify the tastes good. The healthy? You gotta trust the same guys that pushed through the GMO whitewash labeling bills.

  23. Re:Heck yes, on Slashdot Asks: Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat? (dmarge.com) · · Score: 2

    Considering the lack of trust people have for GMO crops, I think this one is right the hell out.

  24. Re:Cute on Web Petition For 2nd EU Referendum Draws Huge Interest (ap.org) · · Score: 2

    Who, specifically, do you wish to revoke the 2nd Amendment for in this referendum?

    How about we start with this lovely Christian woman and self-avowed Second Amendment activist who shot and killed her two young daughters today?

    http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

    She had been posting on Facebook recently that Obama was going to come and take away her guns. Well, if he had, she and her daughters would still be alive today. So, I'm suggesting going back to those old days (pre-2008) before there was an individual right to own and carry guns.

    We already have laws that take away her guns. Mental instability and violent crime both work for that... And considering how many ways there are to kill people, can you be sure they would be alive, and not run over with a car or drowned in a bathtub? Both have been done before...

  25. Re:Whaaaa ! on Web Petition For 2nd EU Referendum Draws Huge Interest (ap.org) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just to be clear... Are you talking about Brexit, or the Democrat sit in to vote again on removing Due Process?