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  1. quick - grab the steering wheel on What the Mobile Patent Fight Is All About · · Score: 1

    c'mon...can you imagine a car without one?

    heres a recommendation: reasonable license fees - with creation credit - aka royalties.

    the more ludicrous and innovation destructive the lawsuit, the more seriously revision of intellectual property law becomes a priority

    rather than wait for a change in law, vote with your paycheck: buy something else

  2. Re:Play with fire on Russian Hacker Selling 1.5M Facebook Accounts · · Score: 1

    Permanently delete FB account (inside)

    Given the 2010 track record of FB this sends the 'correct message'...the captcha during delete is something else (ymmv)...takes 14 days inactive before they comply with request.

    Log-in, then paste the direct link: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account
    which will auto rewrite to https for two stage authentication post actions

    Explain page> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16929680703

  3. Re:I'm glad.. on Facebook Retroactively Makes More User Data Public · · Score: 1

    ..that I left that sinking ship (Facebook) a long time ago. It wasn't easy (litterally), but worth it.

    Self-determinism is the sinking ship taking privacy with it...I locked all (again).Facebook is the new AOL (bigger and badder portal), the Goldman-Sachs of social networking. Too big to fail, everyones favorite, for now.

    Firms with everything at stake in cloud/service "offerings" understand they DO NOT OWN hosted data and have SLA around all security facets. Only explicit "opt-in" ultimately works to benefit both the end-user and those corporations aggregating a data platform revenue stream around demographic business intelligence.

    The FB "opt-out" strategy sets precedence: if a deactivated account is found to have ANY associative data still accessible, FB may have to kiss their precious bottomline goodbye...

  4. Re:A non-issue! on Drugs In Our Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    This latest water pollution finding is certainly interesting, yet rather than being dismissive of the report as purely sensationalist, IMO it should be another "case in point" towards a refocus of our attention towards what is happening within both the food and drug supply chains: creation, consumption, by-products, and unintended consequences.

    The implications of long-term consumption of both drug-saturated animals and GMO botanical products - many speculated and some examined - all confer a sense of adverse risk within the larger eco-system to humans and animals.

    A prudent approach of engaging in active going-forward monitoring of these conditions, concurrent with on-going examination for causal relationships, is needed to determine corrective actions (if any). Ultimately there may never be any performance by authorities to do anything other than collect and disseminate the data.

  5. Re:Duplication, not stealing, a problem - yup! on UK Police Expand License Plate Camera Systems · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is totally phuquing real.

    There's a toll-road in Orange County CA which claimed to find my truck in photo's blowing thru a toll booth.

    Except I live in Ventura County, and never drive the vehicle anywhere except Home Depot and garbage dump.

    I figured out how to sent the servant/slaves an email (had to read source out of their webpage, check phone directories, then email; they didn't provide anything but mailing address for fine payment), and they _seemed_ genuinely amazed that I contacted them to dispute their findings.

    BUT...the important part was I went down to DMV and told them that I believed one of my vehicle plates were stolen, that someone was illegally using said plate, and DMV needed to do the right thing and cancel the plates and issue new ones.

    I had copies of all the paperwork, including the freeway toll notice, ticket, etc., and whether the clerk caved in or agreed is irrelevant; the effort *had* to be made immediately.

    So by the time the freeway people "reviewed" their info, I had already nipped the situation in the bud. So remaining question is whether they did a photo match against drivers license to determine that I was not the driver...