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  1. Re:What legality would do for the Fascists? on Calls For European ISPs To Filter Content Could Be Illegal · · Score: 1

    It's only illegal if a SWAT team shows up at your house, blows your front door up, hits your child with a tear gas cannister, and shoots you for resisting arrest. This is how you can be sure what you are doing is illegal.

  2. They do have technology instruction in schools now. They have a handy package given to them by the RIAA and the MPAA describing how copyright infringement is a criminal offense, and that children can be sent to prison for the rest of their lives for their first offense. What more is there to teach?

  3. Re:Yep it is a scam on US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Next, they vote on whether God exists and that it's every desire should be used to direct Federal Law.

  4. Re:Comparable Efficiency ? on Microsoft Researchers Use Light Beams To Charge Smartphones · · Score: 1

    But it's so hard to insert the plug into the phone. Hell, it's a pain just to place on the table with the wireless charger built in.

    It's way easier to come up with a rube goldberg contraption to determine the exact position of a phone in the room and then arrange for a light beam to strike the right part of the phone to make it charge. This way, you can just come into the room, and throw the phone anywhere, knowing that when you come back and search for it, it will be charged up.

  5. Re:Jennie McCarty gets right on that - on Scientists Discover Compound In Baby Diapers Can Enlarge Brain Cells · · Score: 1

    How drunk or high was the person when they said: "Hey, let's see what happens when we put that stuff on brain cells."

  6. Re:2nd/3rd generation of immigrants are IMMIGRANTS on European Countries Seek Sweeping New Powers To Curb Terrorism · · Score: 2

    why use different labels for the same thing?

  7. Re:Solution! on To Avoid Detection, Terrorists Made Messages Seem Like Spam · · Score: 1

    The US wants to do EXACTLY what Cameron announced. They just don't want anybody to know about it.

  8. The main negative is....ebooks... Publishers want to gouge people for having the text of a book read to them, and would rather screw over blind people than permit Apple to read the text of ebooks for no additional charge. Some publishers have some kind of workaround for blind people, so they don't come across as complete douchebags, but the workarounds also tend to be a hassle.

  9. Re:Waiting for Republicans to come in and defend t on Eric Holder Severely Limits Civil Forfeiture · · Score: 1

    It's still bad, because it is still not against the law, just against the current administrations policy. So, the next administration can still do whatever they want.

    For example, Obama said he wanted the law changed for the NSA instead of him just stopping them directly [because he has the legal power and authority to do so with immediate effect] because the next administration could just start it again.

    Course, he also did this for prosecuting illegal aliens [not doing so], which the next administration could start up again.

    So, this sort of thing seems to be more of a "these laws we agree with, so we will enforce them, and these other laws we don't, so we won't really enforce them".

  10. Re:You want to protect your data? on Simple Rogue WiFi Hotspot Captures High Profile Data · · Score: 5, Funny

    can't be any worse than the reall cnn.com

  11. Re:Is Uber a big government straw man? on Uber Suspends Australian Transport Inspector Accounts To Block Stings · · Score: 2

    not even that. it's the idea that if the last person buying any shares of a company for does it for $X/share, then ALL shares of the company can be sold for that much.

  12. Re:Wait, which part is he sorry about now? on NSA Official: Supporting Backdoored Random Number Generator Was "Regrettable" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Words cannot express how sorry we are. The next time, we made sure the backdoor was much less obvious"

    FTFY

  13. Re:This could be fun.... on Man Saves Wife's Sight By 3D Printing Her Tumor · · Score: 1

    By "the new normal", they mean giving the raw files to the person who's sick and say "here, fix the problem yourself. you can't afford to have us do it."

  14. Re:And this is good why? on Wireless Keylogger Masquerades as USB Phone Charger · · Score: 1

    then I wake up with my pants around my ankles, feeling like something bad just happened....

  15. Re:Idiots at work on UK Prime Minister Says Gov't Should Be Capable of Reading Any Communications · · Score: 1

    He's mainly talking about end-to-end encrypted text/audio/video between individuals, where the service doesn't have the ability to decrypt it [supposedly like how Apple's FaceTime/iMessage work]. For SSL web pages, they are generally to a specific company which can be served with a warrant and the unencrypted content retrieved that way.

    But he totally knows exactly what he's saying, because he'll have had experts tell him. The people he really has to worry about won't be affected by these laws. He MIGHT catch a couple of lone wack-jobs [people that basically self-radicalize and blurt out something stupid]. But anybody serious, like actual 'terrorist cells', in the sense that normal people would consider the term, will not be caught by this [well, they might in the sense that the security services will focus on who is using encrypted services that they can't readily decrypt, but they won't be decrypting the messages].

  16. Re:Any experienced teacher already deals with this on UK Computing Teachers Concerned That Pupils Know More Than Them · · Score: 1

    In Junior High [grades 7-9], by the second class, I knew more about programming the Apple II+ than the teacher did. It wasn't until end of highschool/university that the teachers caught up.

  17. Re:Idiots at work on UK Prime Minister Says Gov't Should Be Capable of Reading Any Communications · · Score: 2

    emails are already fair game, as they generally aren't encrypted [as in gmail has the plain text to hand over].

    while they claim this is for terrorism, the only terrorists they could catch using this 'idea' are the very dumbest ones [shoe-bomber dumb].

    but what they really want is for regular people to not casually use communication methods that they cannot read. they can't have this, and they know that require the big established players like facebook, google, apple, microsoft, yahoo to keep communications insecure, the vast majority of people will continue to use the services anyway, just through inertia.

  18. Re:The 3 Laws of Robotics on AI Experts Sign Open Letter Pledging To Protect Mankind From Machines · · Score: 1

    Anyway, this whole "open letter" thing is ridiculous, because there are a whole bunch of people willing to do anything for lots of money.

    1) banking sector
    2) investment sector
    3) military sector

    There are already robot machine guns, programmed with a simple "fire at anything that moves" mechanism. Nobody building them will even flinch slightly at enabling them to move and throw in some 'AI' to control it. But I'll bet that the AI with not shooting at targets wearing specific tags [ie, good soldiers]. After that, it gets more vague as to whom will or will not be killed.

  19. Re:Short of memory? on NetHack Development Team Polls Community For Advice On Unicode · · Score: 1

    bytes! there are some crazy alien languages out there!

  20. Re:pings on AirAsia QZ8501 Black Box Found · · Score: 1

    nice. of course, 3 out of 7 "underwater restaurants" are just last aquariums, and not actually underwater in the normal use of the word. If those count, then every hotel with an above-ground pool also can sell themselves as having an "underwater restaurant".

  21. Re:When the freedom of speech is taken away ... on Several European Countries Lay Groundwork For Heavier Internet Censorhip · · Score: 1

    Harper is working to fix this. The same day as our last "terrorist attack", he announced he just had to rush through some already-written legislation, that previously wasn't passed due to complaints from the public. Hey, I can use this death for my personal gain.

  22. Re:Makes sense. on Google Throws Microsoft Under Bus, Then Won't Patch Android Flaw · · Score: 1

    except carriers won't let this happen...they have to make sure the update is safe for their network before you can upgrade to it...and by 'safe' I mean make sure that the update alters the settings on your phone so they make more money.

  23. Re:pings on AirAsia QZ8501 Black Box Found · · Score: 1

    You get no bars at the bottom of the ocean.

  24. Re:Short of memory? on NetHack Development Team Polls Community For Advice On Unicode · · Score: 1

    short-term thinker!

    UTF-128 FTW!

  25. Re:safety, performance and concurrency on Rust Programming Language Reaches 1.0 Alpha · · Score: 1

    OK. Swift and Ruby.