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  1. Re:We should make a new game on San Jose May Put License Plate Scanners On Garbage Trucks · · Score: 1

    Of course not. A website with no comments (can't stop people from commenting elsewhere, obviously), no text beyond possibly a transcript of what's been said, but beyond that? Pictures, video, audio. That's not harassment according to his own suggestion! Or at least in this case, a site that updates with regular intervals where he and/or his car is located.

    I'm sure a politician will get really nervous if there's a website that details his location with just five minute intervals.

  2. Re:Police state San Jose on San Jose May Put License Plate Scanners On Garbage Trucks · · Score: 1

    There is no proof that the ONE data point of your car's location and speed when you got the ticket is related to you.

    However, a map of where your car has been every day at three different times of day for the past two years? Yeah, that's a map of where you are with 99.9% accuracy.

  3. Re:to Serve Customers Better on Regionally Encoded Toner Cartridges 'to Serve Customers Better' · · Score: 3, Funny

    And not a very good one. This recipe leaves the customers burned.

  4. Re:how does "limited, geographical experiment" wor on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Didn't live in $town before January 1st, 2016? You're not part of the experiment. No exceptions.

  5. Re:BULL on Evidence That H-1B Holders Don't Replace US Workers · · Score: 2

    But what exactly does this one foreign worker do that one native worker doesn't, apart from working for a lower pay?

  6. One game, one save on The Tech Problems Inside Nintendo's Amiibo Toys · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So let me get this straight.

    Only one game currently uses the write function. The chip can only HOLD data for one game. And the whole problem boils down to, "But what if someone in some indeterminate future decides to use the write function as well?"

    While yes, they should have thought of that during development, this currently seems kind of like a non-issue. And wouldn't the simplest solution be using the normal save space on the Wii U (I assume it has that, right?) requiring something similar to an encryption key or password from the given doll to use the data that applies to it?

  7. Re:once again: the CLOUD is NOT on Wuala Encrypted Cloud-Storage Service Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    NSA checks your credit card history.
    NSA finds a payment to a storage unit.
    NSA gets in a car.
    NSA drives to a hardware store.
    NSA buys a bolt cutter.
    NSA drives to the storage unit.
    NSA rummages through your stuff after using the 'key' they just bought.

    Yep, very secure. I'd look up that XKCD comic with the five dollar wrench if I felt like it.

  8. Re:Ya, right on Police Training Lacks Scientific Input · · Score: 2

    your*

    Oh, the irony. ;-)

  9. Re:Fragmentation... on SteamOS Has Dropped Support For Suspend · · Score: 1

    Which is odd, Win98 was the last time I had a machine where Suspend worked properly.

  10. Re:some bosses are sociopaths on The Challenge of Working At Amazon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I got reamed for it the next day, dude was literally screaming at me that "that was no excuse" that I "needed to focus and not make excuses" and so on

    When people yell at you, don't accept it. Remain calm. Say, "As soon as you are ready to calm down and act like an adult, we can discuss this." That will make him really mad, and then he'll fire you on the spot.

    Fixed that for you.

  11. Re:Work/life balance is extremely important. on The Challenge of Working At Amazon · · Score: 1

    The guys doing the hiring don't work on the factory floor, though. Why should they care?

  12. Re:Work/life balance is extremely important. on The Challenge of Working At Amazon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why would they want healthy, long-term employees? Someone who has worked in the same place for a long time expects raises.

    Instead they accept a high employee turnover and keep wages at entry-level.

  13. Re:Thanks anonymous reader! on How to Quash Firefox's Silent Requests · · Score: 1

    Being on an incredibly slow connection I can at least confirm that if I open a new tab in Firefox, JUST a new tab with the list of frequently visited sites, other people in the house experience severe latency in online games for several seconds up to half a minute. Have I hovered over a thumbnail or two? Possibly.

  14. Re:So how many lawsuits have been filed so far? on Windows 10 Still Phones Home With Data In Spite of Privacy Settings · · Score: 2

    And then took a series of steps deliberately designed to make users think they were REVOKING that access without actually revoking it.

    Let's throw in deceptive business practices.

  15. Re:So how many lawsuits have been filed so far? on Windows 10 Still Phones Home With Data In Spite of Privacy Settings · · Score: 4, Informative

    And I'm pretty sure it's been established that a EULA can't be used to do things that go against the law.

  16. Re:So.... on CNN and CBC Sued For Pirating YouTube Video · · Score: 1

    infinity symbol (?)

    I would guess at a symbol for rebirth or reincarnation.

  17. Re:So how many lawsuits have been filed so far? on Windows 10 Still Phones Home With Data In Spite of Privacy Settings · · Score: 0

    Unauthorized access to a computer system, for one.

  18. Re:WTF does that mean? on CNN and CBC Sued For Pirating YouTube Video · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It means that Youtube doesn't have to pay him royalties and can share it with daughter/sister companies, eg. Google+.

    It does not mean that CBC can sweep in, drop their logo on the video and call it theirs.

  19. Re:Why is safety in scare quotes? on Airline Begins Weighing Passengers For 'Safety' · · Score: 1

    Yes, I am European. Your point?

  20. Re:Slack DM? on Don't Hate the Phone Call, Hate the Phone (And the Network) · · Score: 1

    I was wondering the same thing. My best guess is 'relaxed direct message', eg. an SMS or something like that. Never heard that term before, made me wonder if it's something the company this guy works for produces.

  21. Re:Why is safety in scare quotes? on Airline Begins Weighing Passengers For 'Safety' · · Score: 1

    Why should people that don't drive as much subsidize those that do through road taxes?

    Why should people without children at the age to attend school subsidize those that do through school taxes?

    Why should anyone pay for anything that does not directly benefit them?

    Oh wait. Because that's how society works.

  22. Re:No Theora? on Cisco Developing Royalty Free Video Codec: Thor · · Score: 2

    I'm not sure the epilepsy-inducing random flashes with the THOR codec are any better than those, though.

  23. Re:similar approaches have succeeded. on Oracle Exec: Stop Sending Vulnerability Reports · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, I think the homeless problem requires a little more than a large wall.

    Let's put in three more walls just to be sure.

    And a roof.

    There! Problem solved!

  24. Don't worry! on Continued Cord Cutting Hits the Pay TV Business Hard · · Score: 2

    To quote Blizzard's management when WoW lost three million subscribers in a single quarter: "Don't worry, it's cyclical."

  25. Re:What was the penalty for a false DMCA notice? on Anti-Piracy Firm Sends Out Wave of Takedown Notices For Using the Word 'Pixels' · · Score: 2

    There isn't any. That's the problem.