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  1. I said it would be found in their dna. I was very specific. Are you suggesting that chromosomes is inside the dna?

  2. Why would you say a dna test was needed but claim I'm the ignorant one when the question was about trying to identify you? Do you know of some way to determine identify from chromosomes?

  3. So you come up with very rare situations and magically forget that dna can tell you the sex of a person? Obviously they would be looking at more than chromosomes if trying to determine your identity but even physical differences should be enough to identify a sex if enough parts are found.

  4. Re:two for T on Porn Giant xHamster Blocks North Carolina Users Who Support Anti-LGBT Law (usatoday.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If you were born female, you genetic markers in your dna will identify you as such. If you were born male and warped your appearance, it is just an unscientific fantasy thinking otherwise. Personally I don't know you and don't care. Just as I don't care that people are Muslim or Jewish or Christian or pastafarian or shinto or evangelical atheist.

  5. Re: Standard tactics on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1

    No you do not. Search warrants for places are issued all the time with absolutely no evidence or suspicion that the people at the location are even connected to any crimes. The person or place to be searched needs to be identified but the threshold is reasonable not probable. If it is not reasonable to search the ip address due to some TOR node it wouldn't be reasonable to search the isp for information identifying the ip address.

  6. Re:two for T on Porn Giant xHamster Blocks North Carolina Users Who Support Anti-LGBT Law (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If you were found dead and dismembered in a ditch or more appropriate several ditches, how would science classify you sex in attempts to identify you. .

    Distorting the details indeed.

  7. Re:Porn Industry is suddenly the pillar of eqality on Porn Giant xHamster Blocks North Carolina Users Who Support Anti-LGBT Law (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Or they figure that the types of people who would be against this law are the types they could make money from and know that the claim would generate tons of free publicity and advertising for the site. Not that this would change anything you said.

  8. Re:In more recent news.... on Porn Giant xHamster Blocks North Carolina Users Who Support Anti-LGBT Law (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The law doesn't cover employees facilities. Just public accessible restrooms design to accommodate more than one person at a time. It also allows entities to make accommodations at their choice.

  9. If it is a government run facility, employees only. If it is a private facility either up the owner or user of the facilities. It also only covers multi person use bathrooms designed to accommodate more than one person at a time.

    But there is a specific prohibition on passing laws forcing private entities to allow or require access so the GP is not correct in this.

  10. Re:The customer losses would be too big. on US ISPs Refuse To Disconnect Persistent Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    The TOS does not need to specify anything in most areas. That is what the right to refuse service actually covers. If you are unfamiliar with that concept then look it up.

    As for the franchise agreement, they very often carry exclusivity clauses for the purpose of infrastructure improvements. As I said, it isn't just competition but having to enable it through the use of said infrastructure. In the case of areas with a single isp for high speed internet, That would likely be access to the cable.

  11. Re: Standard tactics on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1

    Probable is the cause. You do not know what you are talking about.

  12. Re:Define Pirates on US ISPs Refuse To Disconnect Persistent Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Try doing a search for "data transfer pact".

    It isn't a treaty as of yet but an agreement and from my limited investigation it might only be a framework for some future agreement that might or might not become a treaty.

  13. Re:Define Pirates on US ISPs Refuse To Disconnect Persistent Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    What about the wct and wppt? The dmca is directly born from those treaties which is why dmca style laws pop up all over the world and get defeated repeatedly.

    Those are two treaties that can actually be named and Canada is part of. Perhaps you could ask your mom for help supporting your claims?

  14. Re:The customer losses would be too big. on US ISPs Refuse To Disconnect Persistent Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Private entities generally have the right to refuse service to anyone as long as it isn't some legally protected reason. Cutting internet off for copyright infringement is about on par with because I don't like your socks in this case. Itwould not be the same as criminal or civil penalties.

    But there may be other problems concerning their franchise agreements. If they cut people off arguments might be made that they aren't serving the public and could be forced to allow competition in possibly using their own equipment too.

  15. Re: Standard tactics on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you seriously think every criminal makes no mistakes and never gets caught? Here is a news flash. Most criminals get caught because they screwed something up that ended up identifying themselves.

  16. Re: Standard tactics on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1

    You will end up surprised then. Unless you are rich or out of town when it happened, you can most assuredly expect to be searched and at minimum detained which is about the same as arrested.

  17. Re: Standard tactics on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it is plausible and reasonable that someone can screw up in hiding their tracks so yes. It is how a lot of criminals get caught - making mistakes that lead back to themselves.

    Do you think someone running a TOR node is infallible?

  18. Re:How about something more useful? on Microsoft's BSOD Is Getting More Descriptive With QR Codes (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it is hip and there is an ap for that. Think of the hipsters and apper apps or something like that.

    In all seriousness though. I have had people take pics of the errors before and describe what they were doing when it happened. That was key in finding a problem back in2000 or 2001 when ms office had a memory leak involved with copying links to the clipboard to use in documents. Turned out the problem was already solved with sp3 due out a week or so later. I have used the same principles several times since then and with phones now having cameras it is even easier. I'm not sure why they need to go this route unless they think different is improvement.

  19. Re:What the fuck? on Amazon Customers Sign Letter To Jeff Bezos To Dump Donald Trump (thestreet.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Way to completely lose all perspective and conflate crap to fit your own desires.

  20. Re:Standard tactics on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone posted kiddie porn from their ip address. They had evidence of this and probable cause. The TOR node is ancillary because nothing precludes them from being part of the kiddie porn postings.

  21. Re:Standard tactics on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1

    I can tell right away that you don't have any grasp on reality here. You cannot even copy a moniker properly and you think that what happened was the end of the world or something.

    Yes that was minimal inconvenience. They could have been arrested and charged. They could have had their equipment confiscated and reviewed for evidence in some proceedings that would take long enough for it to become obsolete.

  22. Re:No evidence on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1

    I need a cite for this 99.995% number you invented.

    Also, It doesn't fundamentally change anything. It is very little different from getting the warrant to get the logs and ip information from the website the illegal material was posted to or even the isp which led to the address in question. Do you expect them to do this without a warrant?

  23. Re: No evidence on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1

    Lol.. It changes nothing.

    And yes, I already suggested incompetence or ignorance was at play.

    And this is about a specific type of content else there is no reason for the actions you claim are harassment to take place. Just because you are paranoid and can dream it, It doesn't mean it is real.

  24. Re:No evidence on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1

    Sigh.. you need to cite that. I could agree if the ip address was exclusively used for the TOR node but it wasn't and your supposition falls apart when there are real and traceable people using the ip address. All the node does is create plausible deniability which is more of a defense than pertinent information seeing how it is known real people outside of the TOR node regularly access internet from there.

  25. Re:No evidence on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1

    So that is why the ISP gave up the user's name and address?