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  1. Re:What the hell is wrong with our politicians? on Marco Rubio: We Need To Add To US Surveillance Programs (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Cruz - scary blowhard asshole

    Listening to Ted Cruz, I think that he missed his calling. He sounds like he should be preaching in a tent revival. Or perhaps leading a mega-church on TV.

  2. Re:Two catches on AT&T Brings Back Unlimited Mobile Data To Lure TV Subscribers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    One more: since the announcement does not specify otherwise, one can presume that 22GB per customer means 22GB per contract.

    Got 4 phones on a contract? Share that 22GB between all of you, which makes it 5.5GB/phone, which isn't a lot.

  3. Re:Pot kettle black? on Google Claims a TOS Violation On RouteBuilder For Using the Map API (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Wasn't/isn't Google in battle with Oracle over the same thing? And lost too? So if ya cant beat them join them? I might be way wrong here.

    Google/Oracle is about copyright. This is about contracts.

  4. Re:Teething pains are going to be a bitch. on Tesla Model S Software Updates Lets Car Park Itself With No One Inside It (bgr.com) · · Score: 2

    Or it could park like a BMW driver.

  5. Re:cost and benifit on Antivirus Software Could Make Your Company More Vulnerable (csoonline.com) · · Score: 2

    PEBCAK (Problem exists between chair and keyboard).

    FTFY.

  6. Re:War Propaganda on WW2 Hero Who Captured Enigma For Allies Has Died (express.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    And frequently, it was Opsec failures by German operators that allowed the British to crack encrypted German communications. For example, there was a German operator in the field who would start every communication by hitting the same key three (or four) times.

    Other issues were encrypted weather reports. The British effectively had the plain text of part of those weather reports because they could also see what the weather was.

  7. British???? on WW2 Hero Who Captured Enigma For Allies Has Died (express.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    But ...... Hollywood told me it was Americans who captured the Enigma machine. Surely the filmmakers would never lie about something so important as this?

  8. For tax filings Google and Facebook sell to the whole of the EU from Ireland, not the UK.

    FTFY

    Google has employs plenty of people in the UK with job titles that include "sales". That the "sales" take place in Ireland is merely the way it is reported for tax purposes.

  9. Re:stupid uk gov vs big bad corps. which is worse? on Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo Balk At UK's Investigatory Powers (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    The idea was that the Lords would keep the Commons in check, unfortunately, the Lords voted themselves into irrelevance a few years ago.

  10. Re:Downloads that don't count against your limit on EFF: T-Mobile "Binge On" Is Just Throttling of All Data (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    You're getting free downloads, and you are upset that they are slow?

    It's not just the "free downloads". T-Mobile is throttling Youtube, which is not included in the "Binge-on" plan.

  11. Re:Wrong End on Will Advanced AI Spell the End of Lawyers? · · Score: 1

    The one time I got close to being on a jury (I was one of the last jurors to be rejected during voir dire), about half the jury members had a masters degree. Mostly liberal arts.

  12. Re:People forget easily on Ask Slashdot: Jamming UK Metadata Collection? · · Score: 1

    For emails, body text is the "data", whereas email headers are "metadata". From, To, Subject, that sort of thing

    They might define it that way, but it's not true. The envelope addresses are metadata, but the headers, "To", "From", "Subject" and other fields are explicitly data. The server doesn't use these in order to route the email to the appropriate mailbox (apart from spam analysis, but if you use that argument, there is nothing that is not metadata, since spam analysis typically looks at all the data in an email.)

  13. Re:It's a false tradeoff on Majority of Americans OK With Warrantless Internet Surveillance (ap.org) · · Score: 1
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    "Google has records that could help in a cyber-investigation," he said. Giorgio warned me, "We have a saying in this business: 'Privacy and security are a zero-sum game.'".

    That could mean what you're saying, and that he thinks that he needs a database of 100% of everyone's communication or there's no security.

    I don't think that you understand the term "zero-sum game" and the rest of your post is an off-topic rant, based on either your misunderstanding or a poor reading of this thread, or both.

  14. Re:It's a false tradeoff on Majority of Americans OK With Warrantless Internet Surveillance (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Except all he's doing is setting up a strawman and cutting it down. Nobody claimed that every loss of privacy would lead to gain in security.

    Except that you are the one with the strawman. He quotes Ed Giorgio, who was working with Mike McConnell, then director of National Intelligence:

    Giorgio warned me, "We have a saying in this business: 'Privacy and security are a zero-sum game.' "

  15. Re:it's the spying on Congress that's over the top on NSA Cheerleaders Discover Value of Privacy Only When Their Own Is Violated (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    True, but what if it's a recording? You can stop listening if you listen live, but if you collect recordings later then what?

    That is a rhetorical question, since the NSA doesn't think that it is constrained by US laws or the US constitution.

  16. Re:it's the spying on Congress that's over the top on NSA Cheerleaders Discover Value of Privacy Only When Their Own Is Violated (theintercept.com) · · Score: 0

    The thing is they were not explicitly spying on congress. They were spying on Netanyahu, Erdogan, etc.

    The thing is, when one end of the conversation is a US citizen, they are not supposed to continue spying on that conversation.

  17. Re:Ok, what I make of it on Debian Founder Ian Murdock Has Died (docker.com) · · Score: 1

    Would you want the police to have the authority to decide you need to be locked away and drugged into a stupor?

    They won't. They will drag you away to be assessed by a mental health professional. Look it up.

  18. Re:Whoa on Debian Founder Ian Murdock Has Died (docker.com) · · Score: 1

    How is it that he wasn't on a 5150 hold? If the police know that you threatened suicide, they are going to be knocking on your door, wanting to haul you away to be supervised in a suitable location (hospital).

    When are the ****ing /. developers going to fix the problem that logs me out between opening a window to write a post and submitting it?

  19. Re:Can a corporate security officer comment on Microsoft Has Your Encryption Key If You Use Windows 10 (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    "holy shit no. Windows 10 is not even being considered for corporate deployment"

    ... until that one PHB decides he can't live without Windows 10

  20. Re:Developers Developers Developers Developers on The Reason a Surface Phone Won't Fix Microsoft's Mobile Problem (windows10update.com) · · Score: 1

    You hit the nail on the head - it's all about the app ecosystem.

    And app developers have not only stopped developing for WP, they are pulling existing apps out of Microsoft's app store.

  21. Re:this should be entertaining on Zuckerberg Defends 'Free Basics' App With Comparison To Hospitals, Education (indiatimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Okay explain to me why Facebook should pay for your porn streaming. Go ahead, and listening.

    I didn't say that Facebook should pay for this. What I did say that Facebook's justification for providing a walled garden is bogus. The long game from Facebook is not beneficial for people.

  22. Re:Cult of personality? on Allegations of Data Manipulation At Theranos (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    As a case study, Google the story of Madison Priest

    A very good example that people with money are often not smart. The decision makers must have had access to technical advisers. Either they ignored them, or they never asked them, substituting their own judgement for that of people with more knowledge. It's a little like the Dunning-Kruger effect. People who have money and/or power think that they got it because they are smart, whereas it is more likely that they got it because of connections or simple ruthlessness.

    Their "investments" in Priest were no different from buying a lot of lottery tickets.

  23. Re:FB not a charity. Economics apply to both on Zuckerberg Defends 'Free Basics' App With Comparison To Hospitals, Education (indiatimes.com) · · Score: 2

    s/Wikipedia/Facebook/ Duh!

  24. Re:FB not a charity. Economics apply to both on Zuckerberg Defends 'Free Basics' App With Comparison To Hospitals, Education (indiatimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly the same constraint applies to Facebook or a mobile carrier paying for internet access - it has costs, and it doesn't make sense for FB to pay for everyone to stream porn videos from Xvideos.com.

    This is in part a strawman and in part false. Yes, Facebook has costs, but its decisions will be informed by its desire for profit, not a remit for public service. Just like any action of a public servant, decisions on book purchases can be challenged by civilians. There is no such accountability in Facebook's decisions.

    FInally, probably one of the best collections of pornography can be found in the British Library, so the idea that Wikipedia not paying to stream pornography is equivalent to libraries not stocking it is false.

  25. Re:more to it on Giant Methane Leak in California Won't Be Capped For Months · · Score: 1

    I bet those executives who decided to take on the risk of using this well for methane storage still got their bonuses, though.