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  1. Re:Just assume everyone knows everything every tim on Hacker Breaches Securus, the Company That Helps Cops Track Phones Across the US (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Law Enforcement to "criminal" : Well we broke in cos' your civil rights weren't very strong. You were asking for it.

  2. Re:I know how to fix this on UK 'Faces Build-up of Plastic Waste' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And even then it'd end up being called "Plasticky McPlasticface"...

  3. Re:Earlier police failures... on Kansas Swatting Perpetrator 'SWauTistic' Interviewed on Twitter (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't classify telling police that there's an armed murderer in a house as "Inherently dangerous"? Do you not read the news or something?

  4. Re:This one isn't that hard on Vendor Tracks LinkedIn Profile Changes To Alert Client Employers (techtarget.com) · · Score: 1

    1) Create competitor to widely used social media network
    2) Create app that makes said network toxic
    3) See users defect to your network in droves
    4) PROFIT!!!

  5. Re:Kaspersky may well be innocent on Office Depot, Best Buy Pull Kaspersky Products From Shelves (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    "Russian government has many more instruments at their disposal to convince businesses and individuals to "cooperate", than do the governments of free(er) countries." - and if you think the US is free then I'm afraid you've swallowed the poison cool-aid.

  6. First they started with the pedos, cos' that's a no-brainer, right? Then they made "extreme" pr0n and cartoons illegal. Now it's "terrorist content" (With the government deciding what qualifies). What next? Attempting to educate yourself in an "non-sanctioned manner"?
    It's kind of a shame nobody said anything about "The thin end of the wedge" years go huh...?

  7. Re:Even More Simple on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If a Hyperloop Train Failed? · · Score: 1

    Riiight. Cos' the air that leaks in is all going to stay in one place like a pile of sand... Please learn some basic fluid dynamics before commenting next time.

  8. Oh, police kill BAME people here too - it's just that cos' we don't hand a firearm to anyone capable of reciting the oath of office they have to be more ...creative... about it
    https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

  9. Re:"Smart" TVs are stupid. on Samsung TV Owners Furious After Software Update Leaves Sets Unusable (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Only Spamsung aren't taking returns on the bricked TVs, claiming that it's a temporary issue that'll soon be fixed.

  10. Re:Not in the UK on iOS 11 Has a Feature To Temporarily Disable Touch ID (cultofmac.com) · · Score: 1

    "Contempt of court" - ie a jail cell till you comply with the court's orders. Even if that lasts longer than the maximum sentence for the supposed crime.
    If you ran a program that encrypted a portion of your computer's hard drive without giving you the unlock code there is no way you could know the code to give to the police. But under UK law you can be held in Contempt of Court and jailed indefinitely for not handing over when asked the code you don't know. And in these days of crypto ransomware running wild that's an even more scary concept.

  11. Re:Brains Different, or Not? on Ask Slashdot: Female Engineers, Could You Please Share Your Thoughts On the Google Memo · · Score: 1

    Assuming men and women's brains are indeed no different then surely diversity makes total sense. Rather than recruiting the top 10 men for your job you can have the top 10 people - it only makes sense to limit the recruitment to a specific group if #10 in your chosen group is better than #1 in the excluded group.

  12. Re:Yes, for heaven's sake let's do something usefu on Senators Propose Bill Targeting Websites That Facilitate Sex Trafficking (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    So... when do you want to start paying insurance for, say cancer? Or Aids? Or being hit by a truck? Pay too soon and you contravene what you said above. Getting insurance after diagnosis might be a little tricky...

  13. Re:Police or Paramilitary force? Collateral damage on Facial Recognition Could Be Coming To Police Body Cameras (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    Erm... if 1 in 3100 civilians killed someone each year it would be called a Crime Epidemic and people would be demanding that government Did Something about it. Based on current US population that would be roughly 100,000 murders A YEAR rather than the 16,000 it currently is.

  14. Re:Even plenty of Americans do... on US Seizure of Kim Dotcom's Assets Will Stand, Says Appeals Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    As he's not US citizen, he's not protected by the Constitution...

  15. Re:YES!! on EFF On Why FBI Can't Force Apple To Sign Code (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    Every single one of those things you mentioned has a purpose of keeping the user of the car safe. Tell me how mandating that you give your local police station a spare set of keys so they can go through your glove box any time they like is going to keep you safe?

  16. Re:Managers are dumbasses on Most IT Pros Have Seen Embarrassing Information About Their Colleagues · · Score: 1

    Migrations often bring a lot of this out of the woodwork. You can tell users to clean up their machines before migration till you're blue in the face but you'll still get the uncomfortable moment when the 80Gb of "essential company data" they need transferred from their old laptop has filenames like "Busty Betty bonks like an animal"...
    Though as IT staff we're not immune to this either - I've seen someone asked to hand in their resignation by the end of the day because someone else borrowed their flash drive to transfer customer data and it turned out to be full of pr0n... which Windows helpfully popped up thumbnails of right in front of said customer...

  17. Streisand effect? on Anti-Malware Maker Files Lawsuit Over Bad Review (csoonline.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I get the feeling Enigma are gonna regret this - looking at the article they're suspected of several "sharp" practices already. Publicity is unlikely to be their friend.

  18. Re:There are US DHS at London Gatwick?? on US Stops British Muslim Family From Boarding Flight To Visit Disneyland (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No fly without visa. Simple idea, no?
    It's kind of like getting a phone call from the other side of the world and rejecting it and thinking "See, my power is global"...

  19. Re:Helping subscribers remain subscribers on ISP To Court: BitTorrent Usage Doesn't Equal Piracy (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Make non-BT updates available to Gold Star accounts that pay a small monthly fee that also gain ingame credits to the value of the fee with each month. Effectively make access on a non-BT ISP tied to a guaranteed minimum spend. SImple.

  20. Re:I thought we all knew those things where BS... on Leaked Documents Confirm Polygraph Operators Can't Detect Countermeasures (antipolygraph.org) · · Score: 2

    Is it my imagination or does 90% of the list of "non-chart related markers of deception" read as things that an innocent person who's nervous and stressed because they're unjustly accused and having to take a polygraph test?

  21. Re:Tax dollars at work. on Man Arrested After Charging iPhone On London Overground Train · · Score: 1

    PCSO's are usually people who wouldn't pass the police entrance exams so they sign up as PCSO to get to walk around in a uniform and push people around despite having no more actual authority than a private citizen. They usually have egos the size of Jupiter and get really butthurt if you point this out to them. Real police detest them as they make everyone in a police uniform look bad.

  22. Re:Presumably the bug count... on Fallout 4 Will Be Skipping Xbox 360 and PS3 · · Score: 1

    You know when you start up the game and it says "An update for this game is required"? I'm guessing some time around there...

  23. Re:The 90s all over again... on Why Crypto Backdoors Wouldn't Work · · Score: 2

    Does nobody remember the Clipper Chip debacle? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

    Funnily enough the sort of person that would be happy to hand law enforcement the spare keys to their house is not the sort of person that law enforcement's interested in investigating... Seems that memories are short in the NSA

  24. Re:More from wiki... on Wellness App Author Lied About Cancer Diagnosis · · Score: 1

    The Page History of her Wiki article makes for interesting reading - seems it's a bit of a work in progress as of right now...

  25. Re:This is not good... on Wellness App Author Lied About Cancer Diagnosis · · Score: 4, Informative

    "eating right can HELP MITIGATE THE OCCUENCES OF CANCERS DUE TO WHAT YOU EAT" - Tftfy...
    Eat all the healthy foods you like, it won't do jack for cancers caused by other factors like smoking, drinking, overtanning, etc... And this is just the kind of ignorance that this nasty piece of excrement posing as a human being expolited when peddling her snake oil.
    Personally I hope that she gets tied up in lawsuits based off this for the rest of her miserable life.