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  1. Re: Typo: Digital Rights Management on Firefox 38 Arrives With DRM Required To Watch Netflix · · Score: 1

    Big Media has never won. They were late to the game and cannot reverse history. They literally cannot win. Facts and history are not on their side, and this is no different.

  2. Re:skating on the edge of legal? on Uber Forced Out of Kansas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is hilariously dishonest.

    Conventional taxis don't have to go out of business - that's a strawman/misnomer. Why don't they provide their own apps to provide service to riders? Oh, right. Uber is doing what taxi services refuse to in a lot of instances. Uber isn't the problem here, but old outdated legislation is.

    Taxi services don't operate 24/7 with 100% coverage, that is and never can be the case anywhere. Meanwhile, uber is opening up to other competition and enabling better coverage than the taxi services themselves provide.

  3. Re: Secrets on US Gov't Will Reveal More About Its Secret Cellphone Tracking Devices · · Score: 1

    awww, a big government baby won't be able to keep playing fast and loose with breaking the law and using toys they can't handle responsibly!

    qq!

  4. Re:well then it's a bad contract on ESPN Sues Verizon To Stop New Sports-Free TV Bundles · · Score: 1

    Agreed.

    I'd happily give up ESPN off sling to get something actually worthwhile. I haven't gone to ESPN even once on sling.

  5. Re:What about on The Sun Newspaper Launches Anonymous Tor-Based WikiLeaks-Style SecureDrop · · Score: 1

    Be reasonable. They can also submit anything that doesn't fit their scope of propaganda directly to the government and remove any hint of anonymity to thus gain more favor with the government, as well.

  6. Re:Really? This is a surprise? on New Privacy Concerns About US Program That Can Track Snail Mail · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Maybe it's the "you don't have a way to opt out of receiving mail" part of things?

  7. Re:Aggregated intelligence on Traffic App Waze To Alert L.A. Drivers of Kidnappings and Hit-and-Runs · · Score: 1

    This is the actual truth. You are 100% correct.

    It is actually proven that having real time traffic data to make traffic decisions is to the benefit of everyone driving. On the flip side, I don't really like how that equation works out for your personal privacy.

  8. Re:Maybe so but... on USGS: Oil and Gas Operations Could Trigger Large Earthquakes · · Score: 0

    This is so laughably false I'm amazed you even tried to push such a logic. Please stop asking people to prove a negative.

    Geoengineering is something you are referencing with no knowledge; an increase in seismic risk is exactly that.

  9. Re:We can learn from this on Copyright For Sale: What the Sony Docs Say About MPAA Buying Political Influence · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Considering they used their money to make this into the system, I see absolutely no reason to simply say "it's okay, they're using the rules they created".

    That's 100% wrong and dishonest.

  10. Re:Must hackers be such dicks about this? on FBI Accuses Researcher of Hacking Plane, Seizes Equipment · · Score: 1

    Remember, we have made a strong stance against asset forfeiture going forward. The assets however, have not - and are thus still considered guilty.

  11. Re:Must hackers be such dicks about this? on FBI Accuses Researcher of Hacking Plane, Seizes Equipment · · Score: 1

    To anyone who has a shred of fear of flying, the game of "screwing with the pilots for laughs" is not fucking funny.

    Except that this has ZERO to do with what's going on. The fact that they broke the law to basically steal his laptop, this has nothing to do with screwing with the pilots.

  12. Re:Sign off. on LA Schools Seeking Refund Over Botched iPad Plan · · Score: 1

    Pearson does a lot of things; I'd find them fairly neutral in the process - what they do will work with basically anything.

    That's not to say what they do is good? I find Pearson to be shit when it comes to education tools - they are filled with bloatware, drm, and things that don't provide any benefit to thing using them, but I wouldn't really blame them for anything here.

    I would blame the superintendent and apple for sticking their nose into more sales under the guise of supporting education.

  13. Re:The more the better-er on Google Battles For Better Batteries · · Score: 1

    I doubt it would happen for a variety of reasons, but I'd love to see Google find a way to work with Tesla on this.

  14. Re:NIST would like to hear from you. on NIST Solicits Comments On Electronic Authentication Guideline · · Score: 1

    While they didn't willingly/intentionally give their information to the NSA, the fact that they were compromised by the NSA means that they should still be considered compromised going forward, so you are correct.

    TLDR: don't do business with the NSA. This also means we really, really, really need to get rid of FIPS as well.

  15. Re:It's been nice knowing y'all on The Last Time Oceans Got This Acidic This Fast, 96% of Marine Life Went Extinct · · Score: 0

    GMO foods kill? More like your DNA is modified by what you eat, so eating foods with modified DNA may have undesirable effects (see: obesity, diabetes).

    I don't think I've heard anyone actually state that GMO foods kill them directly, though?

  16. Re:Systemic and widespread? on The Courage of Bystanders Who Press "Record" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Without any example, you are basically lying with your post. It's just as easy to obfuscate information by providing no example and asking people to prove a negative.

  17. Re:Know what's worse? Cleartext. on Researchers Find Same RSA Encryption Key Used 28,000 Times · · Score: 0

    Except that it's a known key with a known loophole?

    You may as well try to tell me WPA-2 encryption is meaningful. It's not.

  18. Re:What puzzles me is... on How Police Fight To Keep Use of Stingrays Secret · · Score: 1

    Maybe because they're trying?

    You can't just magic your way into a SCOTUS review.

  19. Re:So? It's a good corporate move. on Is Microsoft Trying to Become "King of Search" With Cortana Strategy? · · Score: 2

    No, it doesn't sound like a good strategy.

    It sounds like "Spray and pray". In fact, people who don't use google do not exactly jump to searching on Bing, mostly because bing is terrible at being a search engine. Are there alternatives? Yes. Is this a way to bring light to them? Not even remotely.

    Yahoo is bing, so using yahoo is using bing and is just as much garbage as bing.

  20. Re:I can't find the commercial speech section on FAA Says Ad-Bearing YouTube Drone Videos Constitute "Commercial Use" · · Score: 1

    The fact that the FAA is attempting to define commercial activity with a drone is exactly the problem.

  21. Re: In other news on Clinton Regrets, But Defends, Use of Family Email Server · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Maybe the part about "I deleted all the unimportant emails. Trust me" part?

    I can't wait to hear what happens when forensics gets to their machines and hopefully finds tons and tons of illegal activity.

    No person should ever be allowed to do this, especially someone who doesn't understand the impact of doing this from a technology perspective and only from a political one.

  22. Re:Is this a Bears Sh1t in the Woods story? on CIA Tried To Crack Security of Apple Devices · · Score: 2

    You're misunderstanding. If you create a form of encryption to which you do not hold the keys, all of the compelling in the world isn't going to do anything. Which is what most modern OS's including ios do.

  23. Re:There is one major entity - Apple on Schneier: Everyone Wants You To Have Security, But Not From Them · · Score: 0

    "Apple doesn't mine it"

    Yeah, ok. Show me where/how you can guarantee that any more than anyone else who already has your data? Apple in this case *already has your data* without HealthKit. Apple is identical to google and facebook and every tech company that collects user data in this regards.

  24. Re:How does this compare to radio? on Pandora Pays Artists $0.001 Per Stream, Thinks This Is "Very Fair" · · Score: 1

    Sirius isn't free, you pretty much have to buy the hardware too.

    Also, 90% of their stations are outright garbage and far less personalized than Pandora.

    At the same time, Pandora is ridiculous because it's treated more like a radio stream and less acknowledging basic functionality like "I want to play a song again" or "I want to restart the same song". Spotify is equally garbage in this regards as you are limited on the number of streams and the selection is limited. Google music is the next closest thing at $8/mo, but in reality it's no better as well.

    Until you have a streaming service that doesn't have to resort to covers to play certain songs just because the big bad publishers think their music is so magically valuable (it isn't), we're going to be stuck with garbage solutions like this.

    What isn't mentioned about every music streaming solution? None of them pay the artist *anything*, because this assumes artists actually get their tenth of a cent per stream. It's unlikely, because that's probably split 20/80 with their publisher, assuming they even get the money and that a publisher isn't somehow taking all the money from the artist who doesn't even work for them.

  25. Re:"Not intentional". Right. on Samsung Smart TVs Injected Ads Into Streamed Video · · Score: 1

    Uh, your mistake would not be smart TV's. Your mistake is buying a smart TV's that have some sort of voice/audio control. There's no reason to trust any mfr with audio information.

    Roku TV's for example, do not do this - they don't have or need a microphone, really.