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  1. Re:honest anon assessment on More Popcorn Time Users Sued · · Score: 1

    The VPN exit IP will still be available, so your information would be available by subpoena if your VPN host keeps logs. I'm not sure if they're mandated to by law, but it sounds like a law the MPAA would have bought from Congress by now.

  2. Re:Life is not that difficult ... on More Popcorn Time Users Sued · · Score: 2

    Over 400,000 federal laws and regulations (even government agencies can't come up with a solid number). Then there are the state, county, and municipal laws. It's a common joke in law school that ever person over the age of 18 is guilty of some federal crime. This is why the NSA mass data gathering and archival is an issue, out of control legislators have created a joke of a legal system, representative of anything but a free society, wherein a database of everything on a person can probably produce something to threaten them with if they become interesting.

  3. Re:What did you expect? on Parts of SOPA Hiding Inside a Boring Case About Invisible Braces · · Score: 1

    Lamarr Smith (R-TX) said he would continue until it was all enacted, and I'm sure there were others who had benefited from the $100 million "donation" campaign that backed it. He did try the Envoy Act, adding new federal employees at every embassy to pursue copyright infringement on behalf of the MPAA.

  4. The smoke is thin here on Ten US Senators Seek Investigation Into the Replacement of US Tech Workers · · Score: 1
    What are they investigating, who was behind it? Are these all new Congressmen that weren't there when every major tech CEO was visiting Congress, bemoaning the lack of educated workers in America? When people doing phone support in call centers were making $40k it was inevitable that they would want to crush that labor market, and they did, with the assistance of Congress.

    It's not all in the past either, Gates was there just a year or two ago and walked out with another H1B increase, followed by a Foundation announcement of $20 million for schools in India.

  5. Anything that is accessible over the internet is a potential target for hackers. Does this guy really want an easy kill-switch sitting there?
    Perhaps he believes US government networks unbreakable, in which case he is entirely unqualified for his position.

  6. Re:Dear Michael Rogers, on NSA Director Wants Legal Right To Snoop On Encrypted Data · · Score: 1

    Barring having billions to "donate" to a campaign, there isn't a lot that can be done. I voted for Johnson last time, I didn't vote for Barr the time before because he came across as a GOP washout just looking for a home to me so I skipped that ballot choice since NOTA is not there.

    I voted against every incumbent in other national races, with the belief that whatever those in office were doing now was wrong or at least not enough to change anything and it was time for something different.

  7. Re:You sunk my battleship on Will Submarines Soon Become As Obsolete As the Battleship? · · Score: 1

    They have VLS, and now that Russia has scrapped the IR weapons treaties, there's no reason they couldn't carry tactical nukes, like the TLAM-N as the LA class used to.

  8. Re: Big Data on Will Submarines Soon Become As Obsolete As the Battleship? · · Score: 1

    Having 11 carrier battle groups seems a bit excessive to me, there's force projection, then there's trying to cover the globe as if there are no capable allies.

  9. Re:Hopefully, but probably not on Will Submarines Soon Become As Obsolete As the Battleship? · · Score: 1

    That's not always true, there were designs 60 years ago that could run without coolant pumps. The USS Narwhal had such a plant in the 60's, and the Ohio class also has natural circulation. It just takes large pipes for water density differences to be enough to provide flow.

  10. Re:Bad idea on FBI Seeks To Legally Hack You If You're Connected To TOR Or a VPN · · Score: 1

    In the old Wired article about the NSA archives and eventual decryption of everything they could gather, they mentioned seeing every stock trade and business deal. Lots of insider information to be had by public employees. If they get their way as they have with server access, they could watch everything without even logging their presence, leaving no trail to explain their futures market or stock trade wizardry.

  11. Re:Nostalgic for Windows 7? on Microsoft Ends Mainstream Support For Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Mac administration is different, since the network administration you refer to isn't there, but they have their upsides.
    Nothing beats target booting and other simple functions like just copying a system drive from one machine to another without needing other software. In a lab, one machine down can be reimaged with just a firewire cable connected to a working Mac.

    I found it pretty easy to maintain several hundred, though they were still the minority of the workstations and I didn't like them so much as to buy one myself.

  12. Re:USA is a police state on Feds Operated Yet Another Secret Metadata Database Until 2013 · · Score: 0

    I don't know if European countries are any better for the self employed, but they do have far better privacy laws and don't seem quite as susceptible to lobbyist "donations" for proposing new laws.

  13. Re:Interesting on Dish Introduces $20-a-Month Streaming-TV Service · · Score: 2

    On the positive side, Comcast doubled speeds to many customers in response to growing fiber coverage in the Portland market. Competition might keep them a bit in line, they can't match gigabit offerings over fiber.

  14. Re: Math author dies rich... on Calculus Textbook Author James Stewart Has Died · · Score: 3, Informative

    You wouldn't want people studying Calculus in 2014 from a 1998 book. It would obviously be outdated with all that has changed.
    I mean there was the... umm.. and the...

    Really though, the last ethics class I took required an e-book with a 3 use license and six month expiration that cost $130. So, after six months, there is no access to the material at all, like a returned library book without even the value of a paper-bound book that could be burned for warmth.

  15. Re:I understand the FAA's position... on FAA Scans the Internet For Drone Users; Sends Cease and Desist Letters · · Score: 1

    Border patrol in Washington has been using 10,000-pound Predator-B unmanned aircraft with 950-mile coverage ranges for a while, perhaps they don't need to be certified like the insignificant masses. The northern border patrolled from Washington to North Dakota was the claim in Congress in 2012. I only remembered because of a story that farmers were getting annoyed by the low-flying drones with lights and noises disturbing their cattle at night.

  16. Re:We Are All Under Suspicion Now on Fugitive Child Sex Abuser Caught By Face-Recognition Technology · · Score: 1

    The presumption of guilt is valid, with an unnumbered quantity of federal laws on the books it is commonly posed that every person over 18 years of age in the US is guilty of some federal crime. As has been the case in many totalitarian nations, someone just needs to point someone out and let the federal police figure out what they can be charged with.

  17. Re:Good luck with that. on Ford, GM Sued Over Vehicles' Ability To Rip CD Music To Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    The AARC is going to waste millions and go home with nothing.

    This would be the happy result. I lack faith in our legal system these days to reach such a conclusion though.

  18. Re:Closed Captioning on Deaf Advocacy Groups To Verizon: Don't Kill Net Neutrality On Our Behalf · · Score: 1

    Sounds like they want to charge a premium rate for closed captioning, but I'm not sure how they could spin that as being a good thing.

  19. Re:Do you have any hands-on experience ? on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17 · · Score: 1

    You don't really expect people who are flying internationally on holiday to accept delays due to some poor people fighting over something. There are the people who get involved in such things, then there are those who fly over them and are supposed to be untouched.
    Perhaps if conflicts and wars interrupted flight schedules and inconvenienced more people there would be less of them.

  20. Re: The Moral? on Chinese Hackers Infiltrate Firms Using Malware-Laden Handheld Scanners · · Score: 1

    We have SEH and some others growing silicon in the US, though the profits go to the parent company.
    US manufacturing seems to interest Asian companies more than any US ones, they exited the US in the 80s/90s and invested heavily overseas. Even Foxconn of suicidal worker fame has been talking about opening US facilities.

  21. Re:Hate to break it to you ... on US Arrests Son of Russian MP In Maldives For Hacking · · Score: 1

    The NDAA lets the US government send citizens to overseas prisons, without trial, charges, appeals, and not even a warrant needed.
    It's one of the few areas where Congress and the President are in total agreement, citizens are the biggest threat to their power.

  22. Re:Kidnapping. on US Arrests Son of Russian MP In Maldives For Hacking · · Score: 1

    Credit card thieves like this are primarily harming banks, the cardholder gets some crazy bills and spends an hour or so on the phone or signing papers disavowing the charges, but they don't bear the cost. Why go after bankers, they're victims here.

    lol

  23. Re:So they don't have to ask the NSA on New Russian Law To Forbid Storing Russians' Data Outside the Country · · Score: 1

    It sounds like a government imposition of a policy many companies have resorted to with increased privacy laws and liabilities to companies for protecting data. It was known pre-Snowden that anything stored on cloud servers which included one in the US was subject to warrantless perusal by US authorities, so some providers made an avoidance of US mirrors a marketing point.

  24. Re:As a means to hide the crappy streaming selecti on Netflix Shutters Its Public API · · Score: 1

    Their licensing is off and on all the time, a movie you can stream today might seem to vanish from existence next week without a word and reappear sometime in the future when it's relicensed. Their search system used to take you to those pages to see that the movie is not available, then they stopped doing that so now the only time you see a movie page that isn't currently available is when doing ratings. If you don't see it, you won't miss it seems to be their angle.

    It mostly means they're a really bad place for information about movies or what actors have done.

  25. Re:They're not trolls on FCC Website Hobbled By Comment Trolls Incited By Comedian John Oliver · · Score: 2

    Ignoring all feedback seems a given from the industry executive turned lobbyist who is running the FCC anyway.
    Government appointments sold to the highest bidder make for some terrible outcomes.