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  1. Re:No room for feet on Airbus Patents Adjustable Seats, In-Seat Storage For Aircarft (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Well the TSA has to check there anyway, it's only logical that they at least install a plug with a seal so you can't get anything up there after you go through security.

    It's a courtesy to permit you to store some of your belongings in this security device.

  2. Re:Report + Judgment on Anonymous Goes After Miami Police Officer Who Doxed An Innocent Woman (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is virtually impossible for a police officer to do such a thing, as you can tell by the number of convictions, terminations or even suspensions of a police officer for doing something "wrong".

  3. Re:Why does Apple get props for doing the obvious? on Apple Is Said To Be Working On an iPhone Even It Can't Hack (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Android phones don't have this "problem". The gov't has no trouble getting whatever data they want from them.

  4. Re:And so ... on Windows 10 Now Showing Full Screen Ads On Lock Screen (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    more like "it continues"

    Microsoft already started the second Win10 was released, with having no way to turn off sending what you are doing on the computer to Microsoft. Microsoft hasn't just been doing UI research to make windows work better. They are selling that information.

    For Microsoft, their reasoning is, you didn't pay for this 'upgrade', they have the right to generate money from your using it in any way they can.

    I will not be surprised when Microsoft turns on 3rd party background task processing, where you pay Microsoft $X to have some processing intensive task done, and Microsoft farms it out to execute on a bunch of computers running Windows 10.

  5. This should be left up to the next elected Republican president.

    FTFY.

    Of course, the way the R's handle the whole nomination process seems to point towards it being quite some time before one will actually get elected. They have to say and do bat-shit crazy stuff to satisfy various parts of their party, and then during the general election, when those same things are played back, it turns a bunch of people off as well as getting the candidate to soft-pedal those things, which simultaneously gets those fringe-elements out in force demanding that they double-down on them.

  6. Re: Fucked Country on Australia's Major Parties Vote Against Encryption In Wake of Apple FBI Case (delimiter.com.au) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unfortunately, it seems only complete douchebags are eligible to run for government.

  7. Re:So really... on Big Test Coming Up For Kilogram Redefinition (ieee.org) · · Score: 0

    Nope. Her break between clients is only 2 minutes.

  8. Re:So really... on Big Test Coming Up For Kilogram Redefinition (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Mine is closer to "just right" than yours is.

  9. Why won't you let us... on Facebook Will Still Back Internet.org Despite Indian Gov't Disdain For Free Basics · · Score: 0

    get your citizens to believe Facebook is the Internet?

    And why do you like killing puppies?

  10. Re:Sanders who? on It's Time To Kill the $100 Bill, Says Larry Summers · · Score: 1

    CIA agents are bulking up now, in preparation for switching to 20s and 50s for their payoffs.

  11. Re:More 4 Loco? on Drinking More Coffee May Undo Liver Damage From Booze (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    only if you spit instead of swallow.

  12. Re:Important question on Microsoft, Intel, Samsung, Other Tech Companies Form New IoT Alliance (techtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Security and encryption will be integrated as part of v3 of the hardware release.

  13. Re:This is good because of network nature on US Asks VW For Electric Cars (news.com.au) · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is TOTALLY WRONG. The gov't must get out of the way of the free market, as it is ALWAYS self-correcting. VW would eventually come around and produce clean-burning diesel vehicles on their own, just through normal market forces, or they would go out of business. It's a fundamental law of nature. Like gravity.

    Everybody knows this.

    Once Trump get's elected, this will get fixed up real good.

  14. It's not like their motto ever was "Don't be evil."

  15. Re:This was it folks. on Google Is Experimenting With Article Recommendations In Chrome (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 0

    you only get recommended articles if nobody is willing to pay put a promoted article in front of you.

  16. Re:So no more escorts for me? on Google Cleans Up Search Results By Ditching Sidebar Ads (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Hint: they only love your money. Dole it out slower so it lasts longer.

  17. Have you looked into a lawyer's eyes or talked with one? They manage to make it very clear they have no soul. And that the only things important to them are maximizing their billable hours and not personally going to jail.

  18. Re:Finally the debate is here on Why Are Apple's Competitors Staying Silent On the iPhone Unlocking Fight? · · Score: 1

    It's not a real debate, just a bunch of talking heads.

    The FBI and DOJ knows that it is very likely they will lose. They WANT to lose, because then, Congress and the Senate and WAY more likely to pass laws that will go much further into enabling them to invade our privacy, "otherwise, the terrorists and child molestors win."

  19. Re:Better question on Where Do the Presidential Candidates Stand On Encryption? (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    Does it really matter what they know? If everyone single candidate stood up against forcing Apple to help decrypt this phone, I would expect whichever one got elected to turn around and go "oh, yeah, no, national security, didn't know all this stuff, Apple definitely needs to code in a backdoor, so the FBI can remotely access any iPhone, as long as they tell their supervisor it pertains to an investigation"

  20. Re:Is he really agreeing? on Google CEO Finally Chimes In On FBI Encryption Case, Says He Agrees With Apple (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    He's not really agreeing. It amounts to "it might be bad. not for me to say one way or the other. other people should talk about this."

  21. Re:until people get punished for false claims on Copyright Professor's Lecture Removed From YouTube Over Sony Content-ID Claim (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, it's Youtube, which uses Google's ContentID system and process, which uses just private contract law, not the DMCA.

    It amounts to "We (google) permit a limited number of wealthy partners arbitrarily decide to either take down or make money off whatever videos they want on our service, in exchange, they agree not to sue us for copyright violations, even though they know they would lose."

  22. Re: Vendor finds buying from vendor only is best b on New Google Data Shows Dangers of Third-Party App Stores (onthewire.io) · · Score: 2

    That's news to me.

  23. Re:Revisionist history? on Auschwitz Museum Releases Software To Rewrite Holocaust Nomenclature (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    These are not the Polish collaborators you are looking for.

  24. Re:What should happen but won't on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Except replace 'some' with 'all'. No compromise!

  25. "it's only fair".

    Hilarious.