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  1. You are NOT giving up "aggregate data". You are giving up your personal data, where you drive, how you drive, with who you drive, to a corporation eager to maximize the amount of money they can earn for that data, but with very little experience in either preventing others from accessing it or in "aggregating" it so it no longer can be associated with you.

  2. Re:Well there Liberal supporters? on TPP Signing Ceremony To Take Place In February (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 1

    yeah, he didn't want to be labelled "soft on terrorists" by Harper, so he went along with C51.

    I'm pretty sure he did say he wasn't going to sign the TPP, but I'm sure it's like the last Liberal gov't with their Red Book "Oh, now that we're in power, we found out we can't do what we promised."

  3. Re:They had this tech on Algorithms Claimed To Hunt Terrorists While Protecting the Privacy of Others (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, yeah, the other thing is that "terrorism" is just the sales pitch trotted out to the public as to why the data is collected and how it is used. But the actual use of the data is not actually limited to that [even if the data has "legally" been permitted to be collected only for one specific use, like say, to catch terrorist], but rather whatever they feel like using the data for.

  4. requires something that so far the gov't has shown no interest in...not invading peoples privacy.

  5. Why is the ATF after this crime? Since ATF stands for Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which of these covers the misuse of grease?

  6. Re:Oh yeah, we'll have to get alot of theft protec on IRS: Identity Theft Protection a Tax Deductible Benefit - Even Without a Breach (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    You spelled "grate" wrong.

  7. Re:Penny on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    more like merchants hand them out at par value, and accept them 2 for 1.

  8. There is also the bug where Diablo 3 is displaying effectively random data [data it allocated in the GPU, but never initialized before displaying].

  9. Re:Nice. on PostgreSQL 9.5 Does UPSERT Right (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    Dup

  10. Re:Wll, the internet is full.. on How To Talk About Mental Illness Online? · · Score: 1

    is everybody just fucking nuts?

  11. Re:Ignorant trite from someone not ready to pay on Domestic Terrorists Could Use OSINT To Pinpoint US Substations For a Blackout (darkreading.com) · · Score: 2

    Meanwhile, the utilities go "If I turn of this power station now for 'maintenance', the other power stations I own will be able to charge at least 25% more. Make it so."

  12. Re:Obama not a fan of 1st nor 2nd amendment ... on Tokyo Rose 2.0: White House Asks Silicon Valley For Terrorism Help · · Score: 1

    Let me guess, you are also a birther.

  13. Re:How about tracking the provenance of software on Using Tech To Create Safe and Ethical Retail Supply Chains (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    The only way that 'ethical' music can happen is if you could detail precisely who gets what amount of the money you paid for the music (song/CD/tape).

    Except nobody in their right mind will believe any numbers that any of the big labels would produce.

  14. Well, I ate at a Holiday Inn.

  15. Hah.

    I've already registered

    XInfinityInfinitiesPlusOne.org

  16. Re: There is only one goal on The US Gov't Could Become the Biggest Customer for Smart Guns (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    he uses it on typo's. works better than whiteout on his monitor. unfortunately, he keeps having to reload. wife has learned to stay out of the back yard while he is on the computer.

  17. There was that whole "this is a tablet for business, not like that iPad toy" thing... It was something like a year after it was released that the email client could reliably send and receive email without crashing.

  18. Re:known bugs are for cows on Drupal Update Process Flawed By Multiple Bugs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 0

    Drupal really needs to work with Wordpress on how to do a good update process.

    If there is anything Wordpress knows about, it's buggy CMS software and updating it.

  19. Re:Safari really is the new IE on Firefox Will Support Non-Standard CSS For WebKit Compatibility (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    When you are out and about, you need to take the original Mac Portable with you... 16 lbs of goodness.

  20. Re: Sweet on DNA Manufacturing Enters the Age of Mass Production (ieee.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'll bet you money that there are corporation's that have a legal "opinion" by their in-house counsel in their files that an embryo that is inseminated and brought to term entirely outside a human womb is the corporations property and not a human.

  21. Re:Weird Science on DNA Manufacturing Enters the Age of Mass Production (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Tits are sagging from overuse.

  22. Re:Goddam SJWs. on Turning Around a School District By Fighting Poverty (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That's just crazy-talk.

    It is SO MUCH BETTER for a single adults to be semi-permanently jailed in a for-profit privately owned and run jail for that $200K than it is to be just given away to some union member.

  23. it's not just been devalued, but made illegal. you publish a link to something, and you can be made to be responsible for what is at the end of that link, even if what is there is different from what was there when you publish the link.

  24. Re:Good on Carrier iQ Goes Under, AT&T Buys Assets and Staff (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    see what? that it's carrying on? that low-level code in your phone is secretly recording virtually everything you do on that phone and uploading it to a server somewhere, with no restrictions on what that data can be used for?

  25. Re:Aren't we labeling sponsored content? on 2016 Is the Year of Buying CNC Tools Instead of Building Them (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I would think 'real' CNC's would use some kind of cutting oil that is filtered/recycled in the machine itself. And even if you did just did a once-through setup with water, you'd be an asshole if you just fired it down the drain. At the very least, you'd filter it to capture the metal for recycling [as it's worth money and if you've got a CNC machine, you are likely using it a bunch, so you'll have a bunch of scrap metal].