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  1. Re:How do they prosecute? on How Sabu Orchestrated the Hack of FBI Contractor ManTech · · Score: 1

    Worse is they were also targeted minors. Luring them into commuting crimes, provide the tools, providing the knowledge and providing the targets, that is not only entrapment but also child abuse as they were minors. So that FBI not only participated but orchestrated child abuse and then sought to prosecute their victims, to which the courts turned a blind eye in the zeal to prosecute crimes that would never have happened without the FBI involvement. The FBI were off in lah lah land, pursing the global fiendish terror organisation 'Anonymous' with hundreds of thousands of members and secret underground laboratory all over the world in the fiendish plot of global domination and people laugh tin foil hatters with their conspiracy theories, the FBI was right up their with. After all that investigation, after all those crimes, after entrapping and abusing all those minors (it is child abuse to lure children into crime), they only got what they started, that child molester Sabu and his victims, the minors who he got to do his dirty work (very reminiscent of Fagin in Oliver twist, perhaps the FBI should make reading the classics compulsory before decide to participate and recruit children into crime). Worst of all the British police joined in on the persecution of the victims, those children tempted into crime by US authorities. Sabu has yet to be charged with that crime and it is a criminal act for an adult to recruit minors to commit crimes for them. So some of those hackers where actually victims under proper application of law and justice.

  2. Re:The cloud on Code Spaces Hosting Shutting Down After Attacker Deletes All Data · · Score: 1

    As a hosting company security is their responsibility, they got penetrated, their fault. When you claim to provide security and you fail it is your fault. They are not victim, they are professional who failed to provide the service they claimed to provide, secure hosting.

  3. Re:Urban Dictionary on The FBI's Jargon List: Internet Acronyms Galore · · Score: 1

    Well that in and unto itself is arbitrary, as internet shorthand is group or association specific, so terrorist speak, will be differnet to teenage girl talk.

    A more clear example LOL
    Laugh Out Loud
    reÃr en voz alta
    laut lachen
    mort de rire
    ridete alta voce

    Clearly makes no sense in other languages.

    Just as a large exhaustive list makes no sense as many association, social group or language specifc and only a very few, will spread wider, LOL might well be one that does spread wider but then again we do not all even share the same text. This kind of thinking leads to abusive arrests http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... and the douchebads will never admit fault for fear of civil suit, just a big ole fuck you to justice and the victim.

  4. Re:FYI: remove from Youtube not from 'Google' on Google: Indie Musicians Must Join Streaming Service Or Be Removed · · Score: 1

    Additional correction, this is not about removing independent musicians from Youtube this story is about negotiations with "Independent Music Labels". Seriously just what the fuck is an independent music label, I have heard of independent musicians who deal direct with the public but seriously independent label. Sounds like some lame PR scam.

    Perhaps musicians dealing with Google should become independent cut out the "independent label" (the only reason independent is in there is because it sounds cool) middle man and deal direct with Google.

    I have discovered one of the worst things you can do with current music, is to learn about auto-tune https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and to learn to hear the difference, once done there is no going back. I am really enjoying scifi radio dramas https://archive.org/details/OT... now.

  5. Re:Just do SOMETHING on U.S. Democrats Propose Legislation To Ban Internet Fast Lanes · · Score: 1

    He was a lobbyist, his mouth was for sale to the highest bidder. If the government wants to employ him, they should make him a bingo caller and even than they should employ someone to watch over his shoulder to ensure he was calling the right balls as they come up. Lobbyist by their choice of profession are to be trusted with nothing, they know it and everyone else knows it, which is why they are desperately trying to rebrand (Association of Government Relations Professionals, oh yeah, talk about PR bull$hit) themselves and the profession so that they can go back to skulking in the shadows as vampires of democracy, sucking the life blood out of democracy, actual public opinion, to line their own pockets.

  6. Re:For what on Why Amazon Might Want a Big Piece of the Smartphone Market · · Score: 1

    All to many bosses are greedy control freaks, for the majority of works there is not the opportunity to do anything but work at their computer terminal. To do anything online means carefully slipping out their smart phone and logging on, without getting caught. You have to be careful not to view every ones interactions through your own interactions. So quickly sneakily logging on get your stuff down and play without getting caught, work in many environments not being much different to high school, except the bully is now the boss ;). By far the majority of employees do not get to do their own personal stuff online on a bigger screen.

  7. Re:Internal and External Simultaneously on Google and Facebook Can Be Legally Intercepted, Says UK Spy Boss · · Score: 2

    Actually in the eyes of the law intent counts. So by his on words he is convicted "GCHQ can snoop on British citizens' use of Facebook and Google". So the intention is not to spy on Facebook and Google, as his distorted claim of legal espionage implies but to "snoop on British citizens' without a warrant. So why the need to 'snoop' on British citizens without a legal trail. Keep in mind this legal trail, establishes why the invasion of privacy is occurring, what evidence is sought, who is seeking it, how it will be used and that no counter evidence is destroyed (proof of innocence). This to ensure that the power is no not abused for personal use, perverted power over individuals and extortion ie sick stuff like them having evidence of crime and demanding sex or they will prosecute and it's not like there is no history of extortion for sex including with minors happening on the internet.

    So are the agents of GHCQ, claiming they are the perfect angels of security, the Gods of privacy, that they need no legal trail in their privacy invasive perversions. That's what warrants are about, a legal trail for the justification of the invasion of privacy, a means of proving that the invasions of privacy were not abused or abusive in intent.

  8. Re:Turn off, tune out. on Emotional Contagion Spread Through Facebook · · Score: 2

    Now if only the majority of the interactions on Facebook were not fake social posings and more about raising friending numbers or selling products. This analysis might be of real significance, rather than just a amusing and interesting analysis of digital pretence. How the pseudo self image, the on line preferred reality avatar, similar in many ways to the MMO avator, except the MMO avatar is accepted as an illusion and the Facebook avatar is a masquerade pretending to be real, spreads elements of itself to other persons online avatars so that they publicly align and are more accepted. This even when so many of them are nothing but totally faked PR characters designed to promote or attack product.

    If you do not corroborate the online personae with the offline persona, than you are analysing nothing but illusion, which is reasonable, as long as you study is about that illusion rather than people's real feelings and emotions.

  9. Re:Just imagine "if" on Congressman Asks NSA To Provide Metadata For "Lost" IRS Emails · · Score: 1

    Yes, those GOPers should no run around hating the crap out of leftie, liberal, progressives, so much so that according to GOPers those are swear words and insults, really rather pathetic. That still doesn't change that the IRS should focus it's efforts on those who are most likely to cheat on their taxes and where the greatest returns will be obtained on their investment. No hate going the other way, just sound logical performance based allocation of resources, something GOPers are always screaming for, except apparently when they are the 'appropriate' focus of investigation for criminal activity ;D.

  10. Re:In civilized countries... on Starbucks Offers Workers 2 Years of Free College · · Score: 1

    Well at least the Universities with the biggest sports budgets and by far the best marketing and hype and of course ex-students who promote their universities because of course it promotes themselves by having a qualification from their. What the fuck kicking or hitting a ball around a field or dancing around wobbling your boobies and flashing your panties has to do with a quality education, I shudder to think, perhaps for pleasuring the teaching staff upon the basis of most of the freely available on the internet media surrounding that kind of subject matter.

    I'm wandering should you just go to your cheapest local college without a costly sports program to get your actual education and only spend your final semester of the final year in a more marketable university to get actual qualification. Could save a ton of debt and still have that more marketable and frame able piece of paper on the wall.

  11. Re:I can't buy one on Are US Hybrid Sales Peaking Already? · · Score: 1

    Nope it is all around sales rising and more efficiently paying for development costs, the more vehicles the lower per vehicle the development and of course with regard to manufacturing, the tooling costs. Big drivers now are plug in recharging so that people can gain benefit from home solar panels to recharge their vehicles for small shopping runs, with drive being purely from electric motors, so zero fossil fuel cost. Combustion engines run best within a specific revolution and load range, thus using them purely as generators and not to directly drive the wheels keeps them more efficient. Basically means the loss of the transmission and a large chunk of the drive train, to be replaced with generator, battery and electric motors along with regenerative braking and even generative suspension, as well as embedded solar panels, external and internal (top of dash). There are a lot of energy tweaks that can be applied to a hybrid that are meaningless to a fossil fuel infernal combustion engine only vehicle.

  12. Re:Just imagine "if" on Congressman Asks NSA To Provide Metadata For "Lost" IRS Emails · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What 'wrong'. The function of the IRS is to ensure that the majority of the tax claimable is paid. Now out of the mounts of GOPers, they earn all the money and lefties are useless. unemployed and broke welfare queens. So where should the IRS deploy their resources and spend all that taxpayer money pursuing unpaid taxes, from the GOPers who claim to have it all and publicly (don't even try to hide it but brag about it) myopically pursue every imaginable tax avoidance scheme or according to those very same GOPers or all those unemployed broke lefties, considering each audit takes much the same time and cost much the same money. Out of the GOPers own mouths, the IRS should upon sound economic returns upon investment, performance base, focus all it's efforts on GOPers because according to the GOPers themselves that is where all the tax dollars are ;D ;D ;D.

    As for archival copies, so many government agencies and private corporations fail at it, its not longer funny. Just because you think you are backing up and archiving does not mean you are and you only do so in reality when you randomly and routinely check all back up and archives, in fact you need to spend more time on testing and auditing backups and archives than in producing them in order to ensure that you are in reality producing them and that is up to and including restoring from backup onto test systems.

    I personally would be deeply surprised that most government departments around the globe have not managed to lose most of their backups and archives through failing to test them appropriately and basically backup backups, especially through periods of funding cutbacks. It is most amusing to think of all the petabytes of data sitting in storage, that are not really petabytes of data but rather blank or corrupted data storage devices, being stored for no purpose and at great expense.

  13. Re:Water is wet on Bill Gates To Stanford Grads: Don't (Only) Focus On Profit · · Score: 1

    What is worse, with lot's of profit you get to buy the solutions you want, regardless of how many more problems your solutions cause other people.

    Just to be clear profit solves no problem, the creative thinking of many minds thoughtfully applied by many hands, solves problems. With lots of profit you just get to take credit for it all, without doing much of anything, neither thinking of the solutions nor applying them, just paying for them and pretending you did everything and reinforcing it by paying PR=B$ types to spread the manure.

  14. Re:Let's get rid of EU on EU May Allow Members Home Rule On GMO Foods · · Score: 1

    "Goddamn, Americans really have no clue what motivates US Policy" because there are too many heads pulling in too many directions often conflicting directions but it is still pretty easy to figure out which US corporations and doing what stuff to advantage themselves and bugger everyone else, including all those other competing US corporations. THERE IS NO COHESIVE US POLICY, NONE, IT DOES NOT EXIST, wake up to that fact and you will realise why the US is fucking up all over the place, it is doing it to itself.

  15. Re:this should apply to all domains worldwide on Nominet Compromising UK WHOIS Privacy, Wants To See Gov't-Issued ID · · Score: 1

    Yet that domain name is just an entry in a database, pretty meaningless in reality and totally controlled by where an end user DNS points. You can see the day coming, with the end of Net Neutrality where major multi-national ISPs decide that all the domain name money is theirs and route all traffic to their DNS servers and unless you pay them, your domain name no longer exist, it will be in their EULA, that the end user most use the ISPs domain name servers, or pay extra as a result of the extra cost of using another private corporations DNS server. It would be fraudulent to point that DNS request to the wrong address but not fraudulent to claim it is currently unavailable (they are making it unavailable) try this other one instead.

  16. Re:Let's get rid of EU on EU May Allow Members Home Rule On GMO Foods · · Score: 1, Troll

    Not to forget that is regardless of how much the US wants it to disappear in order to ensure US dominance ie the worst of Greece's debts were crafter by a US corporations specifically to cheat EU rules. The US is seeking to dump the Ukraine on the EU in order to further destabilise the EU. The conservative UK is colluded with the US under the five eyes conspiracy, to disrupt the EU. The pesky euro just become to powerful against the US dollar, so as said by Nuland "FUCK THE EU", a lot more was going on there, than just some crazed scheme to destabilise just one country. So now create conflict between Russia and the EU in order to cut off gas supplies and further damage the EU economy, added benefit you cut off exports from the EU to Russia and who does that hurt the most EU or Russia and who benefits, the US and whoops China, now that isn't all that well thought out either. The corporate states of America, never to be trusted with anything, too many heads pulling in too many directions, the corporate hydra.

  17. Re:Run a completely new OS? on HP Unveils 'The Machine,' a New Computer Architecture · · Score: 1

    One immediately springs to mind. Just as OSs changed from text based, to video based and then to touch based, so the next big step approaches. https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... Sticking Majel Barrett Roddenberry in your hardware will require a new OS, not maybe but definitely. OSs have been driven by the human machine interface, input and output. In they are pushing voice only based interaction with physical just contact for configuration purposes, then they will be working on someone quite new, think of something like a family notice board a central computer, where people vocally interact in passing, uploading and downloading and synchronising data from hand held smart phones and that extends out into business operations.

  18. Re:This ban on gambling, porn, etc on Amaya Gaming Buys PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker For $4.9 Billion · · Score: 0

    It is fraud when they claim in the advertising that you will win. Failure to disclose the truth is also fraud. So your claim is absolutely nonsense and also fraudulent. My how you buggers whine when it comes to the threat of equal odds, don't like to gamble at all do you, HA HA. Now that is exactly why the laws need to change, want to control gambling and reduce its impact force equal odds, feel the burn, equal odds oh my shock horror, don't like gambling at all do you.

  19. Re:But on Canadian Supreme Court Delivers Huge Win For Internet Privacy · · Score: 3, Informative

    A US court can order it but the Canadian subsidiary would be required under Canadian law to provide the parent company with that information to hand to the US court. All quite legal. Parent company sends the request with the court order to the subsidiary and the subsidiary refuses, citing the appropriate Canadian law. The US court then fruitlessly fumes because the US parent has obeyed the order and sought the information and can legally substantiate that, they were just unsuccessful in that endeavour, the government can in some circumstances force you to try but in reality regardless of anything claimed they can not force you to succeed, you just must just genuinely try to succeed.

  20. Re:Shut up and take my money on Man Arrested For Parodying Mayor On Twitter Files Civil Rights Lawsuit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Based upon that, the fellow is tackling the problem all wrong. First up should be a call to Federal Authorities to file a complaint for infringement of his civil rights and let them do all the heavy lifting. Once the Feds have successfully prosecuted the case, his civil suit then becomes a simple manner of negotiating out the value of the claim.

  21. Re:This ban on gambling, porn, etc on Amaya Gaming Buys PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker For $4.9 Billion · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It is never gambling when the odds are biased in one sides favour, then it is fraud and losing. Quite simply gambling laws need to change, equal odds should be enforced and both sides of the gamble should be forced to 'GAMBLE'. It would be truly humorous to see all those gambling houses being forced to actually gamble, here's betting the majority of those fraudsters would shut down long before they would be willing to actually 'GAMBLE' with their money.

    Of course this is likely a share transaction, specifically designed to inflate share prices in order to allow major share holders to dump shares based upon insider bad news. That bad news likely linked to upcoming legislation. Not that it will be say 'Fair Gambling' laws that actually require that both sides share they same gamble when it comes to winning or losing or at least be forced to include substantial warnings that the odds are tilted in the favour and that the punters on average will 'LOSE' and not gamble their money.

    I've got no problem with gambling where the odds are equal, where they are one sided, people should be going to jail for fraud.

  22. Re:What? on Egyptian Blogger Sentenced to 15 Years For Organizing Protest · · Score: 1

    I think North Koreans would disagree with you on that claim. As would Germans under Hitler (as well as a big chunk of the rest of the world's population). A whole list of countries and people under Stalin, of which Russia and Russians where just another bunch of victims. Chinese under Mao. Chileans under Pinochet. Then there was a whole world of feudal serfs under many different monarchists. The list just goes on and on and on.

    So regardless of the brand, whether religious, ideological, monarchist or corporate 'ALL AUTOCRACIES SUCK BALLS'. What happens is one autocracy is just replaced with another autocracy, just run by different psychopaths. Psychopaths being the real problem, those conspiring ass hats always colluding to gain control of any and all groups for their own personal psychopathic advantage, including corrupting democracy. So no, replacing one autocracy with another autocracy is never better as a bad penny will always turn up in the family line and destroy everything that was achieved. The inevitable end of all autocracies unless they are ended before hand and turned into properly managed democracies.

    Think about it, what is sane about devaluing you own children in favour of the children of the autocrats. Why would you accept the children of the autocrats having a greater right to power and life. Why would you ever accept autocracies sacrificing the lives and happiness of your children to keep the autocrats children in opulent luxury and to feed their egoistic need to abuse your children. That is the true underlying reality of autocracies, monarchies, oligarchies et al.

  23. Re:Here's yer free market, telco's on Portland Edges Closer To Google Fiber · · Score: 2

    Of course that particular government could be a bit smarter and alter the contract so that Google only provides wholesale fibre to retail ISPs and if they want to provide a separate retail ISP service. This helps to ensure competition at least for most areas of service and ensures the fibre becomes and remains essential infrastructure. Whilst it might seem a disadvantage for Google, there are many advantages, less billing services, many marketing services, less resistance from existing small and medium ISPs and, more investors (a lot of those small and medium ISPs will seek to invest in Google Fibre to increase their own market base).

  24. Re:Will they hide the "X" icons again? on Facebook Lets Users Opt Out of Targeted Ads · · Score: 1

    That really wont work either. What if the majority of people decide they only want to see pretty holiday ads as definite break for the dull routine of a regular working day. Doesn't mean they will just go on all those holidays they'll just breath a sign of relief as they day dream about them. Now what about all the other advertisers that have been cancelled out of existence, will they pay Facebook not for ads but just for being considered for ads by users. They are all still avoiding the major issue, the high cost of reviewing all content and aligning the adds to that content, the more realistic marketing solution. Instead they continue to push the marketing lie, targeting ads at what people wanted yesterday and not at what they want tomorrow and that is the current reality of what they are doing now, although they claim the exact opposite.

    How often are reports of what websites the adds appeared on, how often and at what times. What control do the advertisers have over which web site included and which are excluded. What control can web sites have over which ads they allow, when they allow that ad regardless of any lie put forward they are in fact promoting that product or service. With targeted ads, are the advertisers advised that the targeted individual has already bought the product marketed and the advertiser is basically paying for nothing.

  25. Re:Oh my ... on US Pushing Local Police To Keep Quiet On Cell-Phone Surveillance Technology · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So it is neither Republicans nor the Democrats fault, it is the lazy electorate, thumb in bumb, mind in neutral who pays no attention at primaries time and allows both parties to be stacked against them and let the Republicans and the Democrats to be turned into the Corporate Party, the party of corporations, by corporations and for corporations, only major corporations and multi-nationals get to play of course.

    Whoops there's been a major upset, it seems more people are starting to pay attention to the primaries. If Hilary Clinton gets through, Americans will be seen as bigger idiots than the world already believes them to be and there are just so many other blatant corporate politicians that should all be dropped. Time to Kill Wall Street and rebuild Main Street and both parties need to be focused on it by ensuring the electorate pays attention at primaries time.