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  1. Re:Campaign reform may be in order on Scott Walker Rents Out Email and Donor Lists To Pay Campaign Debt (wisconsingazette.com) · · Score: 1

    Come to www.campaignlife.com and sign for me and a thousand others, we all sign for each other, won't take long to reach critical mass that way.

    You were saying it was hard how, exactly?

  2. Re:Yes, they are stupid on Consumer Campaigners Read T&C Of Their Mobile Phone Apps To Prove a Point (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You are missing the point.

    These are the average 33 apps the average citizen has installed. You need to know ALL OF THEM as they are not perfectly identical, and you need to somehow remember which T&C is connected to which app.

  3. Re:More than one city supplies a home on AT&T Begins Capping Broadband Users (dslreports.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to say here. That people unhappy with their ISP should pack up all their things and move to a different city, possibly far enough away they need to find a different job and new social circle?

    Isn't that a little bit overkill?

  4. Re:wait, wut? on Apple Sued Over iPhones Making Calls, Sending Email (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure that prior art really covers "This one sci-fi movie did it".

    Being able to look at people you're talking to in real time at a distance is a common sense fantasy; it is quite another thing to figure out how to do it.

    We have sci-fi that allows instantaneous cross-galaxy communication through various handwavings; if someone actually figures out how to DO it should that not be patentable because movies did it first?

    That said, patenting how to make phones place phone calls seems a little ... weird.

  5. Re:Luddite here on Google Plans To Bring Password-Free Logins To Android Apps By Year-End (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In fact they will be extremely troublesome.

    Typing or voice patterns? Oh so sorry, you have a headache or the flu, your pattern has shifted enough to not be recognizable. Walking patterns? Too bad about that broken leg after your ski trip, you're locked out of your phone for three months or more.

  6. Re:Only programmers on Student Exposes Bad Police Encryption, Gets Suspended Sentence (podcrto.si) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    See, in this house everyone assumes the lock on the front door works. No one ever tests if it does, they just trust it.

    One day, this guy decides to try opening the door without turning the key in the lock first. Whaddya know, the door opens without a problem.

    Realizing this he writes a note and drops it in their mailbox to warn them.

    Then he gets arrested for breaking and entering.

  7. Re: Hm... on Student Exposes Bad Police Encryption, Gets Suspended Sentence (podcrto.si) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do we know this isn't one of those plastic badges that come with various Halloween outfits and it may have belonged to his kid brother or something like that?

  8. Re:Did you ever actually see the movie? on Real-Life RoboCop Guards Shopping Centers In California (metro.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Came here to see if anyone made this correction already.

    Was not disappointed.

  9. Re:Ok, why? on Fox 'Stole' a Game Clip, Used It In Family Guy and DMCA'd the Original (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm not sure that's data that even gets sent in the DMCA notice or complaint or whatever it's called. I am pretty sure (though not from any kind of experience, so here's a grain of salt so you don't have to take your own) it just goes "We have determined this video infringes on our stuff. Get rid of it."

  10. Re:Ok, why? on Fox 'Stole' a Game Clip, Used It In Family Guy and DMCA'd the Original (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do you know the real trick to getting rich and staying rich?

    It is not spending more money than you have to.

    In another article a few days ago I saw someone who did the math; apparently Google would have to employ 56,000 people JUST to monitor uploaded Youtube clips in real time. Let's say they get a pitiful 20,000 dollars a year each for staring non-stop at inane video clips (many of which would likely be trolling uploads of Tubgirl, Two Girls One Cup etc.), that amounts to approximately 1.1 BILLION dollars per year.

    Just to avoid something like this happening too often.

  11. Re:Paris isn't exactly French these days. on EgyptAir Flight 804 Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Tongue in cheek: Which one is a gruesome beheading, and which one is peacefully in my sleep of old age?

  12. Re:Paris isn't exactly French these days. on EgyptAir Flight 804 Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed.

    But that leads to more philosophical questions, doesn't it?

    If there will be innocent victims no matter which solution is taken (let anyone in without checking if they're terrorists, or seal the borders no matter if people aren't terrorists), what do you do? Wouldn't most people choose to leave the victims on the side that isn't close to them, eg. Europeans choosing to seal the borders to keep the muslims out and by extension forcing them to stay in war-torn countries, but reducing the risk of terrorist bombings within Europe?

  13. Re:Paris isn't exactly French these days. on EgyptAir Flight 804 Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    One of the current problems is the number of lives one extremist is able to claim before he's stopped. Look at the attack on the rock concert in France, or the airport in Bruxelles, or a plane getting taken out of the air.

    If one person can kill hundreds, even having less than one percent of muslims be extremists is a really, REALLY big problem.

  14. Re:I'm so confused these days... on Snapchat Faces An Outcry Against 'Whitewashing' Filters (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    I may be mistaken as English isn't my first language, but I think I've seen whitewash referring to the treatment of brick walls to give them a uniform surface that is easier to paint. As the word would suggest, it leaves the wall white (actually a kind of grey but details).

  15. Re:Well, what do you expect. It's online. on Wikipedia Editor Says Site's Toxic Community Has Him Contemplating Suicide (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you never get assaulted in real life, that only happens on the internet.

  16. Print Screen, save screen cap as file, upload on imgur or wherever you prefer, link it here.

    Easy.

  17. Re: Mirrors? We don't need no stinking mirrors. on Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be simpler to just keep using mirrors, then?

  18. Re: I weep for the airline industry. on Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Are all those acronyms supposed to mean anything to an uninitiated European?

  19. Re: False on Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? (go.com) · · Score: 1

    We do have an obesity 'crisis', we've also gotten a whole new industry focused on health foods.
    Stage actors are few and far between; that career path adapted towards TV acting.
    Deforestation happens; he talked about over-forestation, are you dense? .
    Automation has caused unemployment, yes. Some people have taken up other careers.

  20. Re:Mirrors? We don't need no stinking mirrors. on Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? (go.com) · · Score: 1

    That depends on how you use the mirrors. If there are small monitors in the middle of the dashboard (think where you have your radio now), they won't help you catch the car speeding up along your left side while you're making a left turn since you're looking away from the monitor - but in the direction of the side mirror.

  21. Re:Nuked my local game store's POS software on Microsoft Auto-Scheduling Windows 10 Updates (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, this thread of comments did start with a Point Of Sale system that no longer worked after getting the upgrade, so ... that, for one.

  22. Re:Confirmed on Microsoft Auto-Scheduling Windows 10 Updates (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    So what happens if your net connection is down? Do you suddenly not have a working computer anymore?

    That's really awesome when most router setups are accessed from, y'know, a working computer ...

  23. Re:Time to sue on Microsoft Auto-Scheduling Windows 10 Updates (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    The kind of hate speech that gets you thrown in jail is trying to stir up a crowd to go lynch the nearest gay couple or similar.

    You know, incitement to aggravated assault and such. Pretty sure that's illegal in America too.

    Remember: Your freedom to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose.

  24. Re:Limit breaking awesome innovation!!1! on Disney Research Leverages RFID Tech For Low Cost Interactive Games With Physical Objects (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Reading comprehension. You should try it sometime.

  25. Do you have any idea how many years a case about unlawful removal of a child from its family can take up in court? Little three-year-old Anna Sue will be a legal adult before the case is finished.