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  1. Re:What did you expect? on FBI Seizes Server Providing Anonymous Remailer Service · · Score: 1

    Let's just say you wanted to knock every anonymous internet remailer off the internet, how would you go about it?

    If you wanted to scan through them and possibly leave some corrupted hardware in those servers to monitor them, how would you go about it?

    If you wanted to launch a big fishing expedition on those servers, how would you go about it?

    All a little to convenient, simpler to host your servers in another country than put up with junk like this.

  2. Re:Wait, what?! The court found in iiNet's favour? on Australian ISP Wins Case Against Movie Studios · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Australian High Court is very different to the US Supreme Court.

    High Court judges are more like the high priests of Australian judiciary. Their professionalism and ego are very much bound to that appointment. Strict accurate literal interpretation of the law is what they believe in and what they adhere to. This often trips up many politicians and of course corporations. None of this sounds like, looks like, could possibly be, politically aligned decisions. Even when politicians have made their way there, upon appointment they have demonstrated strict professionalism.

    Unhappy with their ruling. Rewrite the law so that it fits in with constitution or if that is not possible, attempt to force a referendum to get the constitution changed, so that the law you wants fits in with that. Yeah good luck with that.

    More simple access to referendums (where the whole electorate) votes on a single issue, make stacking the high court kind of mute, they could say no, it gets put in a referendum and the majority of the public say yes, then it's yes. especially on key issues.

  3. Re:Defense on University of Pittsburgh Deluged With Internet Bomb Threats · · Score: 1

    Australia was in pretty much the same situation, and they had an incident, the gun control laws got far stricter.

    To solve the psychopath problem, you need to tackle the psychopath problem. A genetic defect the result of which can be directly, infallibly tested for. A tough decision needs to be made or all humanity will continue to be victims of a genetic defect in a minority.

  4. Re:Don't you have to enter your password? on Federal Court Allows Class-Action Suit Against Apple Over In-App Purchases · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Have you no concept of adults, actual grown skilled professionals scamming children for their pocket, a beating is required but you are utterly wrong about the target.

    This is no excuse adults setting out purposely to scam children. Reality here due to the cost of purchases credit card details should be required to be entered every time with emphasis on the amount of money being spent. Not euphemisms, buy bullshit berries with pretend credits (only those pretend credits are really pretend they are direct deductions from your parents credit card and in turn the loss of all your pocket money).

    This is sick stuff, professional stealing children's lollipops in real life. It is mind boggling, can you imagine the meetings were psychologists, accounts, coders get togethor to create games to scam the pocket money from ten year olds. Each plotting more enticing, psychological manipulations to get the kids to press the pocket money wiping out button. "Yeah add that, that'll suck in the little rats","Oh Yeah, that'll get the little beggars competing","We need that to feed the little suckers egos so they spend big","We all gonna get rich scamming dumb kids pocket money, what a bunch of suckers, yuck, yuck ".

    Seriously wake the fuck up to yourself, "ADULTS SCAMMING CHILDREN'S POCKET MONEY", what the fuck is the matter with you.

  5. Re:ERROR on US Unhappy With Australians Storing Data On Australian Shores · · Score: 1

    Fear of mass violent protest will put paid to that. Last time around, I happened to receive one of those poll random phone calls, would you attend a protest if the government were to try to end Medicare (Australian Universal Health Care) and that's when the conservatives held power in both lower and upper houses. The poll must have been so bad, that the conservatives never even mentioned ending Medicare so Labour doing so is very unlikely.

  6. Re:Conclusions... on Was Earth a Migratory Planet? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In the game of interstellar billiards quite unusual things can happens to planets over time. Slowly moving to higher orbits is not one of them. Interacting with other high gravity masses is, whether it's a object passing through the solar system upon it's own intergalactic trajectory causing a direct change or that object impacting other high gravity masses and causing an indirect change or usual orbits of high gravity masses within a system.

    For decades science has avoided catastrophic based planetary orbits, it makes for messy science but over millions of years in a much more interactive galaxy and universe than originally thought, much to the fear of us tiny rock in space dwellers, catastrophic orbital patterns are all too common.

    Catastrophic orbits of course imply major life extinguishing impacts, that's were the catastrophe part comes in and of course that's why science doesn't like to think about them too much.

    Although it allows the hypothesis of much simpler and more logically planetary development models and those planets out of sequence being treated as just the result of catastrophic interactions, it leaves those scientist with such a gut wrenching sense of impermanence that emotion over rules logic and far more stable convoluted models are preferred.

  7. Re:I Don't See the Parallelism Here ... on Student Charged For Re-selling Textbooks · · Score: 2

    Catch is the WTO (World Trade Organisation) is organised around a corporation being a person and the singular purpose of the organisation is about buying cheap in one country and selling expensive in another country, intent being to exploit labour. Of course it's impossible to put that intent in writing as many leaders and their cronies would end up being executed in mass uprisings. As such any limitations on trade by any biased laws are targeted (originally really only meant to target minimum wage laws).

    So prevent parallel importing is against WTO principles and as the WTO is run by the US, they have a real problem in biasing to US publishers (DVD region encoding should be illegal under WTO principles), so they have a real problem. Major US distributors could take the US government to court in the WTO and win a penalty which the US would be forced to pay.

  8. Re:Parent post written by anti-US propagandist on Why Drones Could Be the Future of Missile Defense · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is all still a waste of money. They are autocracies, the only way to effectively defend against them is to convince 'Dear Leaders' and their cronies that they are number one on the hit parade and they will be targeted and eliminated as the first priority.

    'Dear Leader' and his pals do not give a crap about their country or it's citizens they can all burn as long as it feeds the ego and lusts of 'Dear Leader' and his pals.

    So all you need to do is convince 'Dear Leader' and his pals, that they will die should they initiate a conflict, no negotiation, no truce, no peace until they personally have been eliminated. Whether by direct conflict or assassination.

    The idea that political leaders should be spared from direct personal attack during conflicts is crap. They should be the first on the firing theirs and ours, for their failure to achieve diplomatic resolution and save their citizens lives. Top down attack will see many more diplomatic resolutions and many fewer even zero conflicts.

  9. Re:The most important lesson in life being taught on Florida Thinks Their Students Are Too Stupid To Know the Right Answers · · Score: 2

    That problem is quite easily remediable. Quite simply take schools from local government budgets and shift them to state budgets. Each state would need only 1 administrative body to administer all schools in that state and to establish curricula for the whole state. Double plus benefit here, is the Federal department of education can be reduced not eliminated, as it would still be required to ensure all the states align the education so grade equivalence is maintained and the curricula is sufficiently similar (it provides the meeting place for the fifty states to discuss education) and federal funding would be hugely simplified, needing only to go to fifty different organisations.

    Of course this will be next to impossible to achieve due to every bum hicksville town believing from the gut religious thinking is the best way to manage education and who cares what the rest of the country does.

  10. Re:Just protecting their assets on Canadian Media Companies Target CBC's Free Music Site · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The purpose of human society is to provide the best possible services to the majority not to fucking enrich a psychopathic minority. If a service is best provided by a non-profit government agency, then that is the appropriate medium for provision of the service.

    Forget the insane bullshit that a service should only be provided by the most corrupt most greedy organisation that can tilt laws in it's favour and and, pay for the most PR=B$ (marketing lies for profit).

    "JUST TELLING" human society is for the benefit of the majority not so that a psychopathic minority can prey upon the majority.

  11. Disconnect Trap on Aussie Case Unlikely To Solve Piracy Riddle In Fast Broadband World · · Score: 3, Informative

    Two problems with disconnect as approved by the High Court, the RIAA/MPAA have to pay for it and they are liable for false disconnects.

    If a business is affected that could be hugely expensive. Even residential users could stick them with a pretty massive civil suit. Online banking, online grocery shopping, online local government communications, social networking, remote working etc. total up the benefits of those services as losses to the consumer and the period of loss and the RIAA/MPAA could be in for some real pain.

    Best way to tackle is to haul the ISP into court and get them to warrant the accuracy of the IP address time correlation to the tune of a million dollars (as the sole form of evidence), if it should prove inaccurate then they should pay a penalty.

    Next up RIAA/MPAA will have to prove accuracy and full evidentiary proof of their accusation, not best guess, not paid per kick off bias and, not sounds like looks like (files names only is a fail). So they will hate it.

  12. Re:Its like it costs Comcast less to stream their on Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Their plans are much bigger than that. The major telecoms/isp want to become internet publishers, they already see themselves as such, in their greedy little minds they feel they should be paid as such.

    They want to put every content producer who doesn't pay them a percentage of revenues on strangle band, low bandwidth and high traffic cost. This ensures content 'er' published by the telecom/isp has a significant competitive advantage and competing content is basically driven out of business.

    Partnering with the MPAA/RIAA et al is just an illusion, as far as the telecom/ISPs are concerned they are competing publishers. They want the content producer to come to them direct. The current administration has only been paying lip service to net neutrality, Obama is a corporate stooge, whilst smiling at the people he has quietly been slipping the knife in and the Uncle Tom administration is turning a blind eye to the end of net neutrality.

  13. Re:ERROR on US Unhappy With Australians Storing Data On Australian Shores · · Score: 1

    Not original Ralph Nader picked it from the start http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IshiClQqCM, he was pretty accurate, so not that funny, simply totally accurate, the only funny thing, it is fox not-News defending Uncle Tom Obama, WTF?

  14. Re:With all due respect... on Banned From Kickstarter For Being Cyberstalked · · Score: 1

    Interestingly enough naive men often get drawn into relationships with narcissistic women, the women think their extra special and the men get drawn into that delusion believing those women are special. Of course harsh reality and bitter disappointment along with the post wedding constant degradation for not being good enough for her, soon painfully shatter the illusion.

    Oddly enough the things narcissists fear more than anything else is abandonment, so there is that constant push pull of emotion, attack followed by repentance (only if abandonment is sensed), passive aggressive as an art form.

    If a replacement can be found to ease the fear of abandonment watch out, extended revenge is in the offing for each and every perceived slight no matter how minor.

  15. Re:Interesting... on World Bank Embraces Open Access and Makes All of Its Research Freely Available · · Score: 1

    Problem with World Bank research and data, it was all answer driven. Here's the answers we want, create research and cherry pick data to match it, then hand to to our PR=B$ department to publish it and ensure the working in poverty nobodies all worship at the alters of the rich and greedy as they should (don't forget we have to break the back of the middle class, those uppity types need to learn their place).

  16. Re:With all due respect... on Banned From Kickstarter For Being Cyberstalked · · Score: 1

    Narcissism, is now being seen as a developmental issue resulting from a birth defect. That defect being a lack of an autonomic empathic response. The various conditions from that defect take years to form and vary substantively based upon the social environment in which that person is reared. As a genetic trait, narcissists being raised by narcissists, will obviously grossly exacerbate the condition and produce worst possible outcomes.

    Treatment prospects are pretty much nil and those associated with them through family relations just end up having to develop coping traits to minimise harm http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/emotional-freedom/201008/how-deal-narcissist, those not related a simply advised to avoid them and the hassles they generate.

    It would seem the management recognised the personality trait and took the sound position of avoiding future relationships.

  17. Re:Kip Hawley is an idiot. n/t on Former TSA Administrator Speaks · · Score: 2

    The US tourism is starting to complain, lobbyists are closing their wallets and, someone needs to fall on their sword so that the TSA can change it's direction, from tourist hostile to tourist friendly.

    Catch is an the agency has allowed a culture of ego driven superiority where any hint of resistance from uppity foreigners is brutally and sadistically punished. Each and every abuse is published and millions of potential tourist read about and a percentage alter their holiday plans well away from the US, the more frequent the events the greater the percentage.

    By the time the agency is rebuilt and it will take years and many dismissals to rebuild it, US tourism industry will be crippled for many years to come. Bush to Obama and years of more of the same, has just set the rot in place.

  18. Re:ERROR on US Unhappy With Australians Storing Data On Australian Shores · · Score: 1

    Unless the US want's a major backlash against all US corporations in Australia especially after bullshit like this http://christine-milne.greensmps.org.au/content/media-releases/trans-pacific-partnership-negotiation-dead-water, Uncle Tom had better get his grubby fingers off. This crap is just getting worse and worse.

    Corporations who have not been able to gain control of governments are just using the US to force through this crap, via threats of trade and even violence. Hope and change has sure changed to despair and trapped. Another secret deceitful anti-democracy treaty championed by the US and Uncle Tom Obama.

  19. Re:First? If the public airwaves are free already on Major Networks Suing To Stop Free Streaming · · Score: 1

    Yeah but so what, they a no stealing from the original broadcaster they are simply scamming the end user into paying for something that is already free, they just can't access it because the overpriced iPad lacks a TV-tuner.

    At the end of the day rather than wasting money suing the TV channels just need to extend their broadcast to frequencies the iPad is capable of picking up.

    All that is happening is Aereo is sucking people into paying for free to air commercials, the existing channels just need the numbers to ensure they can charge advertisers for the extra audience.

    Of course if they are editing out the commercials that's a whole other story.

  20. Quite simply it's a made up fantasy language that is not in use. Java is in use and was made accessible. You can not copyright the output of that language as it was made open and accessible.

    Even if the language was closed source proprietary language, you could not copyright the output unless the purchase licence clearly stated you owned the output.

    Oracle is simply going for a money grab, as open source relational databases threaten it's future. As part of it's buy a major chunk of Google campaign, it is simply using the courts to twist negotiations in it's favour. So Google Oracle merger no great benefit for Google but it creates a future for Oracle.

  21. Re:Was he really naive enough to expect otherwise? on Whistleblower In Limbo After Reporting H-1B Visa Fraud At Infosys · · Score: 1

    P. Whatever happened to those whistle blower protection laws under the current administration rather than protecting whistle blowers it just seems to have made them bigger targets. Perhaps there is an Bradley Manning - Uncle Tom Obama, amendment memo floating around "report a corporate or government crime and you'll be the one doing the time", that the rest of us aren't aware of but are pretty much seeing the consequences of.

  22. Re:How did they get a patent... on Activision Blizzard Sued For Patent Infringement Over WoW, CoD · · Score: 1

    Ohh, look someone has patented that piece of crap movie Lawnmowerman 2 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116839/ released in 22 August 1996 in Australia now including production time, that puts it well before that date. Now that is just one blatant example.

    1) Watch a crap movie
    2) Describe what's going on in patent language.
    3) Bullshit Uncle Tom patent law revision, fuck prior art, if it ain't patented patent it and fight it out in court.
    4)???????
    5) Profit.

    One can only imagine all the stuff that is currently being done that wasn't patented and that will. One of the more popular ones, is to go through every imaginable variant of relational databases, re-describe the database in patent language and if some troll already hasn't patented it, patent it.

  23. Re:Baloney on Magical Thinking Is Good For You · · Score: 1

    Magical thinking, when you're fucked and you know you're fucked, but pretending you're not fucked so you'll feel better right up until the moment when you're well and truly fucked. Often promoted by those fuckers that fucked you up to ensure you don't take the fuckers with you ;D.

  24. Re:We have the same problems in this country on Russian City Ever Watchful Against Being Sucked Into Earth · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Definitely looks like Russia has learnt the lesson of privatisation well. Privatise the profits and socialise the costs. How come when you buy an existing mine you get the profits but get to deny responsibilities for the mine, where exactly do they squeeze that nifty clause or is that just post contract corruption.

  25. Re:Autism on Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital · · Score: 1

    Tough, the law is law. Children are not possessions, they are not pets, they are tiny citizens with all the rights of protection of other citizens but none of the responsibilities. Parents rights (there are none beyond normal citizens rights) do not out weigh the rights of their children. Parent's do not own children they are responsible for them and failure to uphold those responsibilities results in punishment for unreasonable pain and suffering they cause.

    Stringing along a lethal disease rather than working to eradicate it just allows new strains to develop, strains that could attack already immunised children. People are playing with fire and in this case they should be treated exactly the same as arsonists. These people selling books and internet adds should be treated worse than people shouting fire in a crowded theatre they should be treated like a person who sets a crowded theatre on fire.