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  1. Re:I don't buy it on Report: Google Wants To Design Its Own Smartphone Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the first time I've ever heard anyone ask for VMs running on a phone.

    The idea has been around for a while. You have a phone for work and a personal phone. Want to combine the two into one piece of hardware without giving control of your BYOD device to your employer? A virtual phone running in a VM on your own hardware is the answer.

  2. Re:Downloading the intertubes, Daily on Comcast Expanding Data Cap Locations, Training Reps To Avoid Subject (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    You might be better off signing up for one of their business plans. I don't think that Comcast requires actual verification that you are running a business.

  3. Re:What about Log tables on When Slide Rules Were Like Cellphones (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    it was the following year I think '95 or '96 that they started allowing students to use calculators as long as they had no graphing function,

    I used a calculator in my "A" level maths exam (high school) in 1975. I Think that it was an TI SR-50. It made some of the questions remarkably easy -- I think that the people who wrote the exam paper did not realize that calculators could "do" logs.

  4. While the BBC pays lip service to restricting VPN access, I don't think they are wanting to implement any bans.

    Ignoring VPNs, the BBCs geographic restrictions are easy to get around (or they were). My experiments with this (perhaps a year to 18 months ago) showed that all you need to avoid the BBCs geographic restrictions was a UK-located nameserver.

  5. Re:I wouldn't put it past Putin on UK and US Suspect That ISIS Bomb Took Down Flight 9268 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Putin can get away with what he's doing becaus the Russian people support it.

    People support Putin because all that oil revenue and the sovereign wealth fund it created (when oil was over $100/barrel) have people feeling well-off. However, the current low oil prices are not enough to support the levels of spending by the Russian government and the sovereign wealth fund will be gone in a couple or more years. Then, austerity will bite and the people are much less likely to support Putin.

    IMHO, the West's policy in the middle east has been aimed at keeping oil prices low in order to counter the threat from Putin.

  6. There are no real terrorists. on TSA Screeners Can't Detect Weapons (and They Never Could) (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    As proof of this statement, I point to:
    1. the lack of any bomb detonations in the queues for the security check.
    2. Breaches of airport perimeter security by a teenager and others.

    If there were serious terrorist attempts against air passengers, they would have already happened.

  7. Re:Why do we still use MPG? on Volkswagen Emissions Issues Spread To Gasoline Cars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    We should use a different system of units for things being exported to the USA, just to show them how annoying it is to have to convert to another system when we're dealing with their products. For example, instead of measuring in centimetres and inches, sell them products measured in centimetres and fingerbreadths.

    Surely the TPP will allow companies to export products to the USA that are marked using metric units? Allowing that would remove a real barrier to trade and the TPP is a trade deal, right? right? .....?

  8. Where do I find this botnet? on Botnet Takes Over Twitch Install and Partially Installs Gentoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have a partial install of Gentoo that I need to work on. The first clean Gentoo install that I have done for almost a decade.

    How can I get this botnet to finish the job?

  9. Re:By what authority on EU Parliament: Citizens' Rights Still Endangered By Mass Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Oh come on. Is means is.

    "Is" means present tense. Now, currently. Bill Clinton was asked "Is there a relationship". He replied "no" and later, when accused of perjury on this point, by making the statement about the definition of "is", he was really pointing out either the deficiency of the question put to him, or the questioner's understanding of "is". The relationship was in the past, not current, so the correct answer to "is there a relationship" was "no".

  10. Re:By what authority on EU Parliament: Citizens' Rights Still Endangered By Mass Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Kind of like the definition of is.

    In that case, Bill Clinton was right. The question was "Is there a relationship...", it should have been "is there now, or was there ever ...". But a better example of the how the Supreme Court has modified the plain text of the constitution is how the interstate commerce clause is interpreted. The court is quite open about this: it claims that the Federal government can regulate anything that affects interstate commerce. But the word "affects" does not appear in the clause. An example of this: My pharmacist buys the drugs that he stocks from an out of state wholesaler. I then buy from him. Which is interstate commerce? According to the Supreme Court, both are. Or the idea that plants grown in my back yard that I might consume are interstate commerce. Again, the Supreme Court allows the Feds to regulate this because it "affects" interstate commerce. But that's not what the clause says.

    The interesting thing is that it is generally the "originalists" who are the one who read the word "affects" into the Constitution, showing that these judges are highly influenced by their own biases, perhaps more so than the laws that they are supposed to interpret.

  11. Obstacles to sharing? Doesn't matter. on Real-World Roadblocks To Implementing CISA · · Score: 5, Informative

    CISA isn't about sharing, it's about spying on our communications.

  12. Re:Help Wanted on EFF Asks Appeals Court To "Shut Down the Eastern District of Texas" (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's not as intuitive, but if you look to the right of the headline, you will see "(arstechnica.com)". That's the link to the story. This is presumably another /. layout unimprovement.

  13. Deleted more than systemd support on Busybox Deletes Systemd Support · · Score: 2
    It looks like more than just systemd support was deleted:

    No repositories found

  14. Re:Basic income on Finland Begins To Shape Basic Income Proposal (yle.fi) · · Score: 0

    Regardless, it was my *work* they were stealing. My effort. They could have gone to the forest and cut down their own trees, but instead?

    So I guess oil companies should be able to pump oil out of the ground and pay no royalties? Logging companies should be able to go into national parks and cut down the trees?

  15. Re:Also resupply on US Army Tests Swarms of Drones In Major Exercise (itworld.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Small, cheap, expendable drones

    You are joking, right? When the DOD gets around to ordering them, they will cost several million dollars each.

  16. Re:Our gov't is 100% clueless on UK Plans To Allow Warrantless Searches of Internet History (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What you have to remember here is that Her Majesty's Gov't especially Theresa May and David (Knob in a Pig) Cameron can't even spell "internet" let alone being able to draft any coherent legislation to control the Internet.

    Unless the real purpose of this is to hide GCHQ's illegal activity? In other words, provide a plausible source for information that could not be legally gathered? To provide a parallel path for "parallel construction" of evidence?

  17. Re:Brits love to complain on UK Plans To Allow Warrantless Searches of Internet History (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The USA has constitutional prohibitions against this kind of activity.

    You mean that piece of paper that the US Supreme court has been shredding, unless it involves freedom of speech by wealthy people?

  18. Re:The Object lessons on Revisiting the Infamous Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal 10 Years Later (networkworld.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For Sony there is little doubt the object lessons were "Now how do we do this? "

    FTFY

    Given the tiny fine that Sony was required to pay for the rootkit fiasco, I doubt that they really care about getting caught.

  19. License agreements need an automatic termination.. on Man Licenses His Video Footage To Sony, Sony Issues Copyright Claim Against Him (petapixel.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I did not see it in the snippets of his license agreement, but I think that people should put something in such as: "if licensee claims ownership of the work in any form (including DMCA take-down notices) and fails to remove such claim within 24 hours of being notified at , this license shall terminate immediately and licensee shall lose all rights granted by this agreement."

    Sony's lawyer didn't immediately back down because Sony might have taken an exclusive license.

  20. Re:20 hours? That's nothing. on Study: Standardized Tests Overwhelming Public Schools (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    There shouldn't be any 'prepping'

    Exactly what do you expect the teachers to do when there are calls to make them more "accountable" and to link their pay to test scores? When schools are judged on their test score results? Your argument is naive and unrealistic.

  21. Re:20 hours? That's nothing. on Study: Standardized Tests Overwhelming Public Schools (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    1.3% of their time is spent on test. So what?

    And how much time "prepping for the test"? Tests should measure learning achievement, not direct it, but the result of so much testing is that a large amount of classroom time is directed towards the test.

  22. Re:The old school system needs some change but wha on Coding Academies -- Useful Or Nonsense? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe America just needs to reform its post-secondary school system, the rest of the world doesn't cost nearly as much.

    * Some countries excepted. Have you seen the cost of tuition in the UK recently?

  23. Re:I can't help but wonder on California's $68 Billion Bullet Train Project Faces Major Hurdles (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Irrelevant. Those are either sunk costs (airports) or paid for by the private sector (planes). If it isn't going to be paid for with my future taxes,

    It's quite relevant because it is an indication of whether the high-speed rail is economically viable.

  24. Re:I can't help but wonder on California's $68 Billion Bullet Train Project Faces Major Hurdles (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If you divide the likely cost of this train by the number of seats, it will cost about $500,000 PER SEAT.

    Just how much is the capital cost per seat of the planes that are the real competition for this train?

  25. Re:Let me be the first to put this here on Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Daraprim Pill (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd think at least here on /. we'd be better at spotting trolls!

    I don't know about you, but I proposed that his goal was to make money on a short bet. I spotted the trolling.