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  1. As a holder of many Canadian copyrights I object on Canada, Japan Cave On Copyright Term Extension In TPP · · Score: 1

    I'm not even dead yet, and you'll make my works live into the 22nd Century if you permit this insanity!

  2. Re:all names the same on New Chinese Regulations Require Real Name On Internet · · Score: 1

    In South and North Korea, almost everyone has the same last name.

  3. Challenge Accepted! on New Chinese Regulations Require Real Name On Internet · · Score: 1

    Man, how many million accounts can you create using a telephone database ....

  4. China is laughing at the US "claims" on FAA Could Extend Property Rights On the Moon Through Regulation · · Score: 1

    They'll have an active moon base by 2019 and it won't matter what the US, a third world country, says.

    Heck, the US can't even build high speed rail, they're that backwards, and their idea of fast Internet is 1/20th what real countries have.

  5. Self-driven cars are the solution on BMW Patches Security Flaw Affecting Over 2 Million Vehicles · · Score: 1

    If by solution you mean major hacker targets.

    Actual solution: stop making the car OS connected to the Net, and keep those systems totally separate.

  6. Re: Real Reason: Hacker Attacks on Sony Sells Off Sony Online Entertainment · · Score: 1

    Of course I am. Ignore the trial going on in the Air India case that I may or may not have done certain CT ops in BC. And my dad had nothing to do with anything that became the NSA.

    I believe you, because you're "well informed". Like most people who think we haven't been doing this stuff for many decades.

  7. Re:Real Reason: Hacker Attacks on Sony Sells Off Sony Online Entertainment · · Score: 0

    thanks, forgot the word, still depressed from the Seahawks final call.

  8. Real Reason: Hacker Attacks on Sony Sells Off Sony Online Entertainment · · Score: 1

    This is a way of insulating the rest of the Kirabuta (or whatever they call the "holding company" I owned ADR shares in) from the parts that hackers attack.

    Expect them to spin off the movie division the same way, changing it's name too, so that North Korea attacks only the film part that underpays women, not the rest of the holding company which underpays women.

    (personal opinion only, but based on many years watching shareholder meetings online as an owner)

  9. Cheaper solution - Drones on Obama Proposes One-Time Tax On $2 Trillion US Companies Hold Overseas · · Score: 1

    For every percent of taxes not repatriated, we send one drone after their top execs and top shareholders, starting at the top and working down.

    I give it about one week before they pay in full.

  10. Re:Funny thing is on Wi-Fi Issues Continue For OS X Users Despite Updates · · Score: 1

    same here at the UW. It's kind of irritating, since we are building new tech for everyone, but our own internal stuff sucks so bad.

    And then I connect to the 100 Gbps port directly and ... what problems?

  11. They have to do this due to Canada-US treaty on Fixing Verizon's Supercookie · · Score: 2

    Under the treaty signed for Data they have to respect the Canadian Citizens right to not be tracked, including the Canadian Constitutional Right to Privacy, even if a Canadian is in the US. Since many Canadians use border cell towers in the US, they would be liable to be sued if they did not provide some method not to be tracked.

    Once again, Canada saves American rights.

  12. Worked on my base tan in Seattle on "Mammoth Snow Storm" Underwhelms · · Score: 1

    It's hotter than Florida.

    What snow? We have maybe half the snowpack we usually get, which means California won't be getting any power this year they don't create themselves with solar or wind.

  13. Re:Gives a new meaning... on Germany Plans Highway Test Track For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    It means Hack The Auto in Deutsch.

  14. Going to be a lot of dead kids and pets on Germany Plans Highway Test Track For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    Test tracks rarely allow for what happens in the real world when snow, rain, and fog combine with small kids and pets playing.

    How many billions in lawsuits for their lifetime (a kid lives 100 years, and becomes a CEO that means $40 billion each kid) will these Steel Death Automatons rack up before they are outlawed except in retirement communities without kids or pets?

  15. Oh please, you act as if they're computers on Modular Smartphones Could Be Reused As Computer Clusters · · Score: 2

    Next thing you know, you'll tell me that the modern smartphone has more processing power and data storage than all the spacecraft we've sent to other planets combined, and all the computers we built up to the year 2000.

  16. Too bad he hates the US Constitution on Omand Warns of "Ethically Worse" Spying If Unbreakable Encryption Is Allowed · · Score: 1

    And the international Data Treaties the Senate confirmed with the EU and Canada that make such actions illegal and unconstitutional.

    Get a warrant! A specific individual warrant!

  17. Re:Hidden Implications on Scientists Slow the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    It's just a matter of time now until we will be able to teleport to Alpha Centauri.

    The good news is you arrive on Alpha Centauri.

    The bad news is that you die screaming as the teleporter destroys your body on Earth.

  18. Is it a literal measurement or one inferred on Scientists Slow the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    I ask because we thought that light traveled faster one way than the other once, and it turned out to be a measurement error in the circuitry.

    Could the low temp also slow down the reporting devices? Things behave strangely when the temperature drops too much.

  19. One Of A Kind Art on Researchers Moot "Teleportation" Via Destructive 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    Luckily I hacked the data stream and printed cheap knockoffs from my secret lab in Antarctica ...

  20. Re:So I can't sleep because engineers are jerks? on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 1

    Note to self: build noise-seeking self-immolating drones. ... ...

    Profit!

  21. So I can't sleep because engineers are jerks? on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 1

    Seriously?

    I live up the block from a whole slew of bars in Fremont in Seattle and you're telling me the noise that wakes me up is because some idiot engineers thought it would be "cool" to add it in?

    Give me their names and addresses so I can hunt them down ...

  22. Have MSFT release something worse on What Will Google Glass 2.0 Need To Actually Succeed? · · Score: 1

    Oh.

    Wait.

    Mission Accomplished, Glassholes!

  23. You'll never guess mine on The Most Popular Passwords Are Still "123456" and "password" · · Score: 1

    654321

    Now that's secure!

  24. Sounds like Cluster II (Traveller) on Sid Meier's New Game Is About Starships · · Score: 1

    Yes, I am the Celtani Federation that sold you all those Ford starships and sent the CDT on missions against you.

    Did you like my robots? Wasn't it a surprise when the Tech 15 starports from the CF were everywhere and the 10 ton battleship killers lay in wait in the outer orbits and set off nukes inside your armor in kamikaze attacks?

  25. Many words, few actions on Fighting Tech's Diversity Issues Without Burning Down the System · · Score: 0

    I've seen people talk about hiring women in the executive suite at tech firms and in tech itself for decades, but little action.

    1. Make sure you get as many female interns as male interns. If not, go back to how you recruit, cause you're doing it wrong.

    2. Pay women the same as men. Period. No exceptions. Yes, I know you pretend you do, but internal data shows it's a lie.

    3. Actually hire twice the industry standard percent of women. Require double the promotion rate per unit of women. There are many excuses, but they are always excuses, and in my long history in tech, I've rarely seen unqualified women. You just shut them out cause they don't get obsessed by the same stuff you do, and you have 1960s visions of gender roles in actual practice.

    4. As to other diversity, a lot of the comments are the exact same as 1-3. And you know it.