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  1. Re:Awesome! on 'Hidden From Google' Remembers the Sites Google Is Forced To Forget · · Score: 1

    Victims of slander should have the origin removed, not the index by google or others.
    It was wrong to put the burden on google and other search indexes, and it will fail.
    This site just proves that this method of "forgetting" will fail.

  2. Re:To what end? on After NSA Spying Flap, Germany Asks CIA Station Chief to Depart · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No they don't. The supreme court actually has something to say in Germany, and its constitution is pretty strong (also in practice) w.r.t. privacy and citizens rights. I'm not german myself (but living near germany). My impression, also from German newspapers etc., is that most germans including politicians are truely mad and are seriously considering to cool down relations with the USA. The USA is risking to loose one of the few remaining friends it has in the world.

  3. Re:Truecrypt was the hardest thing for the NSA on TrueCrypt Website Says To Switch To BitLocker · · Score: 1

    It is the only one I know with plausible deniability (i.e. hidden partitions).

  4. Re:Drat! Still only 8GB RAM max. on Surface Pro 3 Has 12" Screen, Intel Inside · · Score: 1

    Java software development, running a few weblogic or other JEE appservers for testing etc?
    At work we get slightly underpowered laptops, but with 16GB RAM.

  5. Re:What Level 3 can do on Internet Transit Provider Claims ISPs Deliberately Allow Port Congestion · · Score: 1

    Millions of customers being out of internet, might wake up some politicians.
    Would be interesting in the light of the net neutrality discussions.

  6. Respect must be earned on NYPD's Twitter Campaign Backfires · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Times that policemen got respect automatically are over. The enforcement of unjust laws, such as most related to the war on drugs, undermines public respect for the police, at least amongst a large minority. I think that it the greatest danger of unjust or ineffective laws.

    The best thing the police could do to improve its image, would be to advocate the abolotion of unjust laws, even if these provide them with easy money.

  7. Re:NASA Proposes "Water World" Theory For Origin o on NASA Proposes "Water World" Theory For Origin of Life · · Score: 2

    Fortunately, if there Is a real God, I suspect "he"s not going to be that hung up on whether his creations beleived without evidence or not.

    Most religions claim otherwise. I think those religions that "survive" the competition from other religions (like an evolutionary process), are those that "procreate" well into the next generation.

    Therefore, successful religions must force people (with the threat of divine punishment) to adopt the theory, like belief in god.
    Religions that would not mandate a belief in god, and promise punishment to those that don't, would die out fast.

  8. Re:Conditions of instability: on Firefox Was the Most Attacked & Exploited Browser At Pwn2own 2014 · · Score: 1

    But some of these extensions are the reason for me to run firefox.
    I may not complain if they don't work, but I'll stop using firefox too.

  9. When robots do 90% of the work on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    then the government transfer will either be somewhere between 90 and 100%, or if ower, a significant amount of the population will starve.

    Long term joblessness is bound to go up to extreme levels, meaning we get a lot of spare time. I just hope a system will be in place to redistribute wealth. If not, future looks really awful.

  10. Re:Always AUFS ... on Under the Hood of SteamOS · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes I discovered AUFS a while ago and it is really great.

    I use it to backup to 5 disks (of various sizes).
    Need to backup 10TB to a bunch of disks, but in the case of a disaster I want to be able to read individual disks without setting up a (software) raid array when restoring from an emergency. So I joined 5 disks of various sizes, 10TB in total, together with aufs and write to the aufs device. Aufs ensures that files are written on one of the disks, the one with the most space left.

    Later I can take an individual disk and find part of all files on int, or put them together in an aufs-setup and restore in one go.

    Raid-JBOD has the drawback that loss of one disk (in the backup set) means loss of all of them.
    Raid-5 is more complicated and fragile for restores, and wastes 1 disk for parity, which is not required for a backup (the live system already is raid-6).

    (and yes, I've got two backups).

  11. 5-10% of most mammals, including humans, are gay. That leaves more than enough people to procreate. What utter nonsense.
    Would you also exclude or stigmatize priests or nuns? Or anyone that doesn't procreate for whatever reason?
    Or the 0.5% of the population that have another deviation that obstructs their procreation, such as infertility? You want to stigmatize those?

    Please think again and be very ashamed.

  12. Re:Solution - End the "war on drugs" on Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6 Million Worth of Bitcoin Seized · · Score: 1

    In addition, you don't need to be libertarian to find the idea of the government telling me what I may ingest and what not abhorrent.
    Only massive propaganda (since 100 years) can keep up some level of acceptance for this concept.

  13. Re:Billion ... with a B on Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6 Million Worth of Bitcoin Seized · · Score: 1

    Please stop calling it the war on drugs. It is a war on people that want to decide for themselves what they ingest, instead of letting lawmakers decide over my own body. It cannot be called a war on drugs, it is a war on people owning their own body.

    I for one, will never accept that I am "allowed" to ingest alcohol but not other substances that I prefer and know to be less dangerous.
    If justice wants to regain respect of the population at large, they must stop this.

  14. Mandatory health insurance is widespread on Health Exchange Sites Crushed By Demand; Shutdown Blanks Other Gov't Sites · · Score: 1

    In most western democracies there is a system of mandatory health insurance.

    The reason is the same everywhere: we do not tolerate that in a civilized society people have to die just because of money. Any other society is barbaric in the eyes of most enlightened people.

    You can either pay everything from the general budget (like the UK's NHS) or pay through some (often income-dependent) insurance premium, which has partially the character of a solidarity tax.

    If it were not mandatory, you would have to fund it otherwise, like via income tax.

    Do you really rather live in a society where people that have bad luck have to die so you have a bit more wealth?!?

    I think 95% of all non-US citizens are appalled and shocked that this is even worth a discussion in the USA, and this is a sign of the extreme egoism and selfishness of parts of US society.

  15. Re:But does it change anything? on When Criminals and Terrorists Communicate In Real Time · · Score: 1

    The red terror had a message for their 'own group' and wanted to wipe out their enemy. Just like Al Shabaab yes.

    But the enemy for red terror was maybe 1% of world population, for Al Shabaab it is 90% or more.

    Also the 'detail' of suicide has quite large practical implications. If you would assume any terrorist would always try to get out alive, lots of potential attaacks become much harder.

    These two facts, especially in combination, make quite a difference.

  16. Re:jerk on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    So based upon a correlation it would be ok to punish people for something they didn't actually do?

  17. Re:Still no encryption... *sigh* on OpenZFS Project Launches, Uniting ZFS Developers · · Score: 1

    I use LUKS on dmraid, which works quite well (and using ext4 or xfs on top of LUKS).

    I've been looking at ZFS encryption since 2007 but it never materialized (except for solaris 11).

    Given the choice between a general OS with LUKS+dmraid or something wonderful like ZFS but having to use an obscure (nowadays) OS, I'd go for the first choice.

  18. Re:AI and robotics and jobs on 45% of U.S. Jobs Vulnerable To Automation · · Score: 1

    I somehow despise the idea the people have to be kept busy for the general good. It sounds horrible really. And patronizing.

    I think mankind will adapt to this new state. We have adapted to worse changes.

  19. Re:AI and robotics and jobs on 45% of U.S. Jobs Vulnerable To Automation · · Score: 1

    It is possible to divide the remaining work fairer over the workforce. It was done in the 1980 in the Netherlands (but retained long after it was necessary and became very expensive later), where people reduced their working hours by about 5% in order to create 5% - overhead jobs.

    In fact germany did a similar thing in the last crisis.

    Civilization has progressed a bit since the Romans. Fair distribution of work and money is possible in some of todays political systems (the USA is not one of them currently).

  20. What automation is for: on 45% of U.S. Jobs Vulnerable To Automation · · Score: 1

    More free time! Not more profits.
    And that is a political choice.

  21. Re:Hmm... on Official: Microsoft To Acquire Nokia Devices and Services Business · · Score: 1

    But when Elop came, they could and should have gone at least with BOTH windows phone and android. Betting everything on one horse surely was a mistake, or on purpose by Elop being the trojan horse towards Nokia.

  22. Re:Maybe overturning an election on Egyptian Security Forces Storm Pro-Morsi Camps Leaving Nearly 100 Dead · · Score: 1

    Look what is happening in Turkey.

  23. Re:Maybe overturning an election on Egyptian Security Forces Storm Pro-Morsi Camps Leaving Nearly 100 Dead · · Score: 1

    Only the election was not really democratic. Democracy is more than just holding an election and giving all power to the onewho got 51%.
    For example, Egypt did not have a constitution and the process to get one was completely flawed.

    The consitution is supposed to keep the government of the day in check and prevent dictatorship of the majority.
    That was going all wrong, so something had to happen.
    Of course what happened now is bad.
    But it is questionable who is to blame and if better options would have existed.

  24. Re:Disappearance of E-Ink on Have eBooks Peaked? · · Score: 1

    The Nexus 7 (old model, haven't got the new one yet) is a really good e-book reader (e.g. with kindle app). It is so small and light that it is easy to keep in one hand and read. Unlike my Kindle and ipad, who both are too big and heavy to hold in one hand while reading i.e. for longer periods of time.

  25. I'd rather be spied upon by Chinese than by the US on Is China Wiring Africa For Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    I'd rather have the Chinese spy on my internet traffic than the US.
    Reaon: If I would have anything to hide (of course I don't :), being in western europe, I am better in physical reach of the US secret service than of the Chinese secret service. The Chinese knowing things about me affects me less.