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  1. Re:Not just cameras on Website Peeps Into 73,000 Unsecured Security Cameras Via Default Passwords · · Score: 1

    So no Internet for anyone, until explicitly authorized? I worked for a place like that in the '90s. But none since. Today, most offices let everything out, without a problem, it's only in that matters.

  2. Re:Be careful on Website Peeps Into 73,000 Unsecured Security Cameras Via Default Passwords · · Score: 1

    slow implies it works. I looked for a while and found only one working one, and it looked like an empty DMV deliberately open for people to see the crowd.

  3. Re:Computer License on Website Peeps Into 73,000 Unsecured Security Cameras Via Default Passwords · · Score: 1

    They don't learn. They just attack others (as a member of a botnet).

    We don't need additional laws to prosecute members of botnets. That's what we should be doing. Throw a few in jail, and people will secure or turn off their computers, no new laws needed.

  4. Re:What is the actual risk? on Website Peeps Into 73,000 Unsecured Security Cameras Via Default Passwords · · Score: 1

    almost none have mics, and the resolution is far worse than professional erotica of the same type.

  5. Re:Place the blame where it belongs on Website Peeps Into 73,000 Unsecured Security Cameras Via Default Passwords · · Score: 1

    All my luggage came with the password 0000. Most people know to change it. How is this different?

  6. No. It's accessible from the internet; it's not broadcasting, there is a big difference.

    You are giving the technical answer to a non technical question.

  7. And how would you discover the door was unlocked, unless it was left open?

    Someone less ethical before put a note on the door, "this door is unlocked".

  8. Re:Before the Big Bang on Mathematical Proof That the Universe Could Come From Nothing · · Score: 1

    Something had to create the nothing that created the something (the last something we call Universe)? That's an interesting theory. Why don't you try to prove it?

  9. Re:Before the Big Bang on Mathematical Proof That the Universe Could Come From Nothing · · Score: 1

    You are assuming a "nothing" before, and positively asserting that it's impossible to have such fluctuations from "nothing". That isn't addressed in the article, so would be a new theory by you. Yet you are expecting others to prove your theory for you.

  10. Re:Logically only God could have created.. on Mathematical Proof That the Universe Could Come From Nothing · · Score: 1

    Why is it ok to assume "always" for God and not material? Seems like you are irrationally holding one to a higher standard.

  11. Re:This is probably a very silly question ... but on Mathematical Proof That the Universe Could Come From Nothing · · Score: 1

    can you deny god?

    Many people in many places without science have denied God. You are requiring a standard that has been met without science.

  12. What myth?

  13. Re:Type 1 vs Type 2 on Human Clinical Trials To Begin On Drug That Reverses Diabetes In Animal Models · · Score: 1

    Isn't that used for gestational?

  14. Re:The food pyramid screws you up and then... on Human Clinical Trials To Begin On Drug That Reverses Diabetes In Animal Models · · Score: 1

    It doesn't even do that.

  15. Re: US Gov't Corn Subsides on Human Clinical Trials To Begin On Drug That Reverses Diabetes In Animal Models · · Score: 1

    Genetic predisposition, with environmental triggers is how I've seen it described. I'm already 10 years past my father's diagnosis of diabetes. But he was an overweight alcoholic. HFCS is a red herring. Yes, everyone with it was exposed a lot. 100% also drank milk or formula as a baby.

  16. I had seen it mentioned that in practice, hypoglycemia and death was a possible/probable side effect of that diet.

  17. Re:Epidemic on Amazon's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 1

    You have the freedom to leave, but choose not to. Why?

  18. Re:What was quote about Internet and censorship? on Amazon's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 1

    Not true when there are any taxes on anyone else. If there are taxes on anything, then the corporations can be used to remove or minimize taxes on people. I know many "owners" of corporations that fully deduct undeductable personal transport by meeting the loose minimum standard to then call it a business expense.

    They started as a way to separate investors from liability, but ended up a tool of the 1% to pay less in tax on millions of income than the average person pays.

  19. Re:What was quote about Internet and censorship? on Amazon's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 1

    The rising tide lifts all boats,

    That's what Bush called Voodoo economics, when Reagan proposed it.

  20. Re:What was quote about Internet and censorship? on Amazon's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 1

    Income related taxes are immoral and bad economics (let government to grow when the other spending is actually cut by people, governments should be cut just like all other expenses when people cut down on spending, by tying government to income taxes, society destroys savings thus destroying and preventing capital investments).

    If governments spent low enough, taxes aren't even necessary. With a strong currency, the government can print more, rather than manipulating interest rates, and pay for services out of that. We can't do that in the US because of the military, but other places with lower taxes and more services could.

  21. Re:Another Idiot Tempts the Fates on Silk Road 2.0 Seized By FBI, Alleged Founder Arrested In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    1) he wasn't extradited.

    2) What he did was a crime in Scotland.

  22. Re:Another Idiot Tempts the Fates on Silk Road 2.0 Seized By FBI, Alleged Founder Arrested In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    The FBI does do it. Often Embassies will have FBI officers or liaisons stationed there to help coordinate international investigations.

    But the FBI isn't interested in things that aren't a crime in the US, and most crime falls under someone else's jurisdiction. The FBI also gets no inherent secrecy, so they won't be able to topple foreign governments with plausible deniability on day-1.

  23. Re:Another Idiot Tempts the Fates on Silk Road 2.0 Seized By FBI, Alleged Founder Arrested In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    China will comply at all times, except for a policy of never extraditing a citizen.

  24. Re:Another Idiot Tempts the Fates on Silk Road 2.0 Seized By FBI, Alleged Founder Arrested In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    There's nothing that bans the FBI from operating outside the US. There are rules banning the CIA and military from operating within the US for some things. The CIA could be disbanded tomorrow, with all the work handed to the FBI without a single law change (other than budget changes, if necessary). But it couldn't go the other way around.

  25. Re:Another Idiot Tempts the Fates on Silk Road 2.0 Seized By FBI, Alleged Founder Arrested In San Francisco · · Score: 2

    They can only do that with non-citizens. Has any citizen ever been deported from their home country to face trial for a "crime" they committed in a place they've never been for a "crime" that isn't a "crime" in their native country?

    Look at AllOfMP3. They were legal under Russian law, run by local Russians, so the US put pressure on them to use mob tactics to convince them it's in their "best interests" to shut down. Because there were no legal options to shut them down.

    And given that it's standard practice to use phone, video, or other remote tactics to question people wanted for questioning, but Sweden refuses to follow their own standard procedures for Assange, it seems quite likely that the US is covertly influencing the actions of other governments.