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  1. Re:Lost emails on Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com) · · Score: -1

    I don't like her. I'm just tired of the lies about her. The liar here is you, lying about who I like.

  2. Re:Lost emails on Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com) · · Score: -1

    Actually she had a duty to preserve all documents related to her job as SoS.

    She had a duty to delete confidential material. She did as required, and is accused of a crime of deleting documents, when she was required to, by law.

  3. The people already knew dash cams are there, and there's not a good correlation between those and civilian behavior, and the body cameras are not as obtrusive as you imply. Most people wouldn't see or notice them. They are just another bulge/lump on an officer's uniform.

  4. Police stop beating the shit out of innocent people when they are wearing cameras, so complaints go down.

    But if you want to blame that on the innocent people being "fucking out of control" that's fine. Blaming the victim is standard for some people.

  5. Re:Lost emails on Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 0, Troll
    Deleting all the emails isn't a crime, and if she's "guilty" of storing confidential emails, deleting them is her duty.

    The timeline is that she was investigeated for Benghazi, and while being investigated, noticed improper emails. She wipes the improper emails, then later there's an investigation into the improper emails. The "evidence" was already destroyed, back before it was evidence. That's not a crime, and storing them further would have been "worse" than deleting the improper emails once one is aware of them (And not under investigation for them).

    When every action she takes is "criminal", the problem is the people who hate her, not her actions. Next, she'll be investigated for murder because some child had a death from SIDS in Kansas while she took a breath in DC, so she obviously stole the baby's breath.

    Why are all the possible crimes being committed on one side here????

    They aren't. They are committed on both sides. Trump gets a pass because he's not Clinton. He's under multiple fraud investigations, and has criminal and civil "convictions" against him. But that's OK. He isn't Clinton. She should be burned at the stake. He should be president. Actual fraud (embezzlement from a non-profit) isn't as bad as deleting a classified email once it's discovered, as required by law.

  6. I've done so "legally". The side-street I approached the one-way from didn't have any markings that the street was one-way. So, with no way to know the road layout, turning the wrong way onto it was technically legal. I did not disobey any traffic marking. Once I determined it was a one-way street, and I was going the wrong way, I turned around. No law was broken.

    It's not illegal to go the wrong way on a one-way street. It's illegal to disobey road markings.

  7. Re: Too late, we already put hydro in the good pla on Scientists Identify Another Source of Dangerous Greenhouse Gases: Reservoirs (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    A full meltdown and containment failure is the worst case. The only worse it could get is some of the theoretical failure modes that haven't been seen, and are considered impossible. Perhaps the material melts down to a critical mass, and explodes like a nuclear reactor? Perhaps the core melts down to the point it is self-sustaining, and melts to the core of the earth, and the Earth becomes a star, self-sustaining fission rather than fusion, lasting forever, like the Door to Hell as a drilling worst-case.

    But excluding the impossible theoretical exercises, Chernobyl seems like a reasonable worst-case scenario.

  8. EU is a confederation of independent states, just like the initial forming of The United States. It's not incorrect to group them together. But apparently it offends some Americans to see other countries work together.

  9. Re:Is the implication that fresh water is bad? on Scientists Identify Another Source of Dangerous Greenhouse Gases: Reservoirs (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    We can sustain the current level of population with the standard of living of those in the US for the entire world indefinitely using current renewable technology. The problem is psychology and economics, not technology or population.

  10. Re:Why Such Large Coverage Area? on In Canada's North, a Single Satellite Outage Means Losing Basic Services (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    The satellite can see and be seen from northern Canada to Argentina. If it could only cover northern Canada, where would the beam go to? You want some "extra" coverage so you have options of spaceports for uplinks. Wide across the USA to link in SF, TX, or NY.

  11. Re:guess again on The Americas Are Now Officially 'Measles-Free' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I know of none of those people. I know plenty who claim things like that, but when accommodated, they change their objections, not remove them. Using the objection de jour doesn't mean they believe it, or that it's the only objection. Some of the MMR are available separately, some aren't. The anti-vax hit hard back when there were more options for separate vaccinations. So that was never a consideration. But these days, the proven safety of the MMR, the makers of the individual vaccines have stopped, so options are more limited. Seems that the anti-vaxers have changed their complaints to something else they hope is impossible, so they can keep complaining while exposing their children and others to risk.

  12. Re:guess again on The Americas Are Now Officially 'Measles-Free' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What about those that can't get immunized? What if I'm in the 5% or so who are susceptible, even after the vaccine?

  13. Simple Solution on Feds Go After Mylan For Scamming Medicaid Out of Millions On EpiPen Pricing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The company claimed on official government forms for multiple years that the drug is a generic. Make it so. Job done. The government can do that.

  14. Re:guess again on The Americas Are Now Officially 'Measles-Free' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So your right to force disease on others trumps their right to not be diseased by you. You must be a crazy liberal, against personal responsibility and all that.

  15. Re:Never was a reasonable conversation on The Americas Are Now Officially 'Measles-Free' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    In Scenario 2, the number of unvaccinated people approaches the levels where herd immunity fails, so most that couldn't get the vaccine even if they wanted will end up sick. Because of the ignorant and destructive acts of the anti-vaxxers. That's why everyone who can should be vaccinated.

  16. Re:Never was a reasonable conversation on The Americas Are Now Officially 'Measles-Free' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You have the right to decide for yourself. But you don't get to decide for your children because failing to vaccinate is child abuse. Once you are legally an adult, nobody can or will tell you that you must be vaccinated. Your argument is still anti-vaxx.

  17. Re:On a sober note on The Americas Are Now Officially 'Measles-Free' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Swine flu was not "real". The flu was no more deadly than any other. The initial statisics were all wrong. It was caught by pig farmers in Mexico. Take a sick day, lose your job. Lose your job, starve and die. So taking a sick day was death. So workers literally worked themselves to death, with the flu, then the complications like pneumonia. They'd drop dead at work, drown in their own mucus while standing up. The stats were pretty bad in Mexico, but when spread in the US, the death rate was no worse than the regular flu. I took a trip to LA, and managed to contract N1H1. A flu, but not the worst I'd had.

  18. Re:Who cares if they actually help on Aetna To Provide Apple Watch To 50,000 Employees, Subsidize Cost For Customers (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    http://zenergysv.com/blog/deta... The chest straps like that one have never gotten in my way. That's not the brand I use. Though they don't get in the way, I've gotten some skin irritation under them, as they fit tight and don't breathe well, so I put them on for the time needed, then remove, you wouldn't want to put one on in the morning and take it off at night on any regular basis.

    If you are wearing a gi, it will be completely unobtrusive.

    Though, thinking about wearing a gi, there are some wrist sensors you can wear up by your shoulder, and under a gi, they'll be out of the way, though if you are topless (or in a sleeveless wrestling outfit), it could get in the way. With the chest sensor, you could do a number of contact sports and not have them too much in the way. They are so tight fitting, it would be hard for anyone to grab them (deliberately or inadvertently).

  19. If you didn't write the compiler yourself, you can't be confident in the executable, even with the source code of the executable.

  20. I had a friend in the FBI. I asked her to look me up. She said it was a crime to look up someone that isn't under investigation (even yourself). So nobody ever does. Every lookup must be linked to a case, and the case manager will see the request. You *will* be caught, fired, and possibly prosecuted for looking up information you don't have reason to. Such a scheme should be used where customer data is used. Including the private sector.

  21. Re:The real (and very bad) message: no updates on EFF Calls On HP To Disable Printer Ink Self-Destruct Sequence (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The answer is the same either way. The purpose of it, as software goes, is to test I/O, not produce "Hel[l]o World". So even if errored, it does fulfil its purpose. So no update is needed, even if "wrong". That's one of the points of software updates. Change to add "polish" often drives introduction of functional bugs.

  22. Re:The real (and very bad) message: no updates on EFF Calls On HP To Disable Printer Ink Self-Destruct Sequence (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    10 Print "Helo World"
    20 goto 10

    Perfect, and never needs updates.

  23. Re:Who cares if they actually help on Aetna To Provide Apple Watch To 50,000 Employees, Subsidize Cost For Customers (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    You put on the chest-strap heartrate sensor, linked to a recording device (phone or watch) that's off on the side of the mat. Safe and easy.

  24. Re:Bandiwidth is *free* fallacy.. on ISP To FCC: Using The Internet Is Like Eating Oreos (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1
    The bandwidth caps generally affect the top 1% or fewer users (at least at the more common larger cap sizes). The decrease in profit from tripling the cap wouldn't be anywhere near what you are thinking.

    It also reveals that everything they ever said about needing the caps to manage network load was just a pack of lies.

    True. Basic shaping is much better than capping, or "advanced shaping". Advanced is when they try to shape down Netflix, but not their own video service. Basic shaping is the shaping allowed by every proposed "network neutrality" bill or suggestion, where you target P2P and such for lower quality, boosting voice, video and web.

  25. Re:Bandiwidth is *free* fallacy.. on ISP To FCC: Using The Internet Is Like Eating Oreos (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Or they had previously been collecting more profit, and cut into profits to compete with a competitor. Cutting the price of something doesn't cut the costs.