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  1. Last mile monopolies on How a DIY Network Plans To Subvert Time Warner Cable's NYC Internet Monopoly (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This will provide some healthy competition to a market where there's usually only one or two companies providing internet and who own an officially sanctioned monopoly in the area.

  2. Re:Knowing Wikipedia editors ... on Wikipedia Editors Revolt, Vote "No Confidence" In Newest Board Member (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    They want to revert to the previous board member.

  3. Energy bank on YouTube and the Modern Mad Scientist (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Invest your energy in my energy bank, and I'll give you 1% return yearly. You get more Joules out than you put in!

  4. Re:Seems like freedom of speech to me on German Court: "Sharing" Your Amazon Purchases Is Spamming (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I couldn't agree more. In fact, there's a petition to prevent people from sending one-click spam to other people. Click here to sign it. It will automatically detect who your representative is from your IP address and send him a letter.

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  6. Re:Say what you will on Apple Court Testimony Reveals Why It Refuses To Unlock iPhones For Police (dailydot.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People and companies will stand up to the government all the time, if there is profit in doing so.

  7. Re: When I said I was a fan of transparency on Edward Snowden Is Tired of Being Bombarded By Suitors (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's only illegal if they choose to prosecute themselves.

  8. Re:answer: no on Is Blockchain the Most Important IT Invention of Our Age? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I'd grant it "most important invention of October 31, 2008".

  9. Re:Media bias and misrepresentations on Why I'm a Defender of YouTube (vortex.com) · · Score: 0

    They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists, and some, I assume, are good people.

    An accurate representation of what he said was "some illegal immigrants are criminals", which is true simply by the law of averages, with the implication that if they went through a vetting procedure we could perhaps filter out the criminal portion.

    Sorry, no. What he says reads as "The majority of them are rapists, drug dealers/users, and criminals, but (and I have no evidence so I have to assume) some of them are good people." The press summed it up rather accurately, even though they're journalists.

    What Trump could have said about the problem, which would be more accurate but too boring for the sheeple, would be to note that illegal immigrants have a *much higher* proportion of criminals compared to the general population of either Mexico or USA. Of course, then people might wonder just how good an idea it is to prevent people from obtaining a legal source of income.

  10. Re:When I said I was a fan of transparency on Edward Snowden Is Tired of Being Bombarded By Suitors (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Sharing the pics with the rest of the world sounds like an excellent way to dissuade his suitors. Of course, if he did that odds are that the FBI would send him some (barely) underage pics to see if he'll share it.

  11. Re:How big is this problem? on Utah Bill Would Require IT Workers To Report Child Porn (ksl.com) · · Score: 1

    Just out of interest, what is an example of a photo where you think this could possibly happen?

    Baby pictures, especially involving a bathtub. Or, for people from other cultures where it is usual for women to go topless and pre-pubescent to go naked, especially if there's water involved. Or nudists.

  12. Re:Johnny can't encrypt on IoT Security Is So Bad, There's a Search Engine For Sleeping Kids (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Security is hard and companies have to make their video surveillance products easy enough for a socker mom to install.

    Or for someone who can't spell the most popular sport in the world.

  13. Re:Go Greenpeace on China Likely Cut GHG Emissions In 2015 (greenpeace.org) · · Score: 2

    BTW mdsolar, how are you getting along with your new friend mdnuclear? Or will you tell him to stick it where the sun don't shine?

  14. It's my fault on Software Hall of Fame Member Ed Yourdon Dies (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 1

    10 GOTO 10

  15. Re:How big is this problem? on Utah Bill Would Require IT Workers To Report Child Porn (ksl.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Imagine you're an IT professional, and you report your client for having what turns out to be (after the court case) harmless pictures of his children, maybe get your ass fired. Or perhaps you don't report it because they seem like harmless pictures, then you end up spending half a year in jail with a nice, no-more-jobs-for-you criminal record.

  16. Re:Sounds sexy on Hot Potato Exploit Gives Attackers the Upper Hand On Multiple Windows Versions · · Score: 1

    Hot Potato Exploit

    Name me one potato exploit that isn't hot.

    The couch potato achievement.

  17. Props to Mr mdnuclear on Gambling State Says the Solar Gamble Is Over · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ha ha, suck it mdsolar.

  18. Re:This is crazy... on FBI "Took Over World's Biggest Child Porn Website" (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    But if you wanted some comparable situations, you could point at Law Enforcement using under-cover officers posing as prostitutes to catch 'Johns' for soliciting prostitutes.

    This would be comparable if said under-cover officers were actually having sex with their targets. Which, incidentally they have done in the other direction -- with cops having sex with a prostitute to "verify that she really is a prostitute" and then arresting her.

  19. Heh, I wonder if someone will gather all the government-distributed child porn and give people copies, with a nice "I got these from the government" notice? Because unlike with other illegal things the government might distribute in its quest to jail people, information can be copied indefinitely.

  20. Re:Dumbass Bets on Mainstream Scientists Cashing In On Climate Wagers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the question is lalalalalalala I can't hear you / everything is fine / we don't need to spend money on anything.

  21. Re:That was pretty stupid. on Mainstream Scientists Cashing In On Climate Wagers (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Easy solution, just bet at a 10:1 ratio against their 95% confidence interval. If someone really believes in their confidence interval, then they should expect to on average double their money from that bet despite the unfavorable ratio. Unless it's this kind of study

  22. Doomed to benefit on Netflix's Doomed Battle Against VPNs Begins (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Looks like Netflix is doomed to get paid by people who officially shouldn't be able to pay them.

  23. More money stolen at banks then ever on Bank Heists - Another Profession That Technology Is Killing Off · · Score: 2

    Sure, there may be fewer heists, but boy are they whoppers! Something about derivatives and credit default swaps.

  24. Re:Censorship, again on Google Exec Says Isis Must Be Locked Out of the Open Web (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It is clear from your answers then, that you'd be OK with minors being able to send child pornography to your inbox, with no consequences to themselves? That minors could be paid by adults to produce child pornography, and only the adults (should they get caught) ought to be punished? After all, can't hold children responsible for making mistakes, right? The trouble, of course, with making something legal for some but not others, is that it makes for a nightmare for enforcement.

  25. Unemployed AIs on A.I. Startups Building Bots For Businesses (xconomy.com) · · Score: 1

    It's probably just the recently unemployed AIs from Ashley Madison applying for new positions.