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  1. Re:Not very private. on Google Admits To Collecting Emails and Passwords · · Score: 1

    Unlike Americans, Canadians actually (with the exception of a few sociopaths) trust their government.

    Please be advised that your version of reality may not apply in other countries.

    Specifically, try to do this action in China at Tianamin Square and you may find yourself in jail for a decade or two.

  2. Re:Not very private. on Google Admits To Collecting Emails and Passwords · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry that you seem to believe that corporations have rights to do things that people have.

    This belief of yours only applies to the US - it does not apply to data collection by the legal fictions called corporations which do not have the same rights as people in most of the world, and specifically in both Canada and the EU.

    It's illegal to record someone in my state in the US without a warrant. We have laws against peeping toms, upskirt videos, recording people inside their homes even if visible from the street. The photons and sound waves hit your recording device, but you'll still serve time in jail here.

  3. Re:Not very private. on Google Admits To Collecting Emails and Passwords · · Score: 1

    I guess they better arrest those WiFi users for broadcasting that information. And the router manufacturers for permitting an insecure configuration.

    The Wi-Fi users are people.

    People have actual Rights. Including the right to privacy - just as I have the right not to have you use binoculars to watch me shower even if there is an alleyway behind my house and if you stand at a specific spot you can see me.

  4. Re:Admits? Being SUED by Canada! on Google Admits To Collecting Emails and Passwords · · Score: 1

    In Canada and the EU Google is being sued for such data collection. Corporations do not have the right to collect, store, sell, or distribute certain types of information about people, since they are legally NOT people themselves but legally created fictions.

    A person can write it down.

    A corporation can not.

    Please be advised - oh, and you need a license to MOVE a weapon in Canada. Different countries have different laws, and US corporations routinely violate the Rights of citizens of both the EU and Canada, for which they are subject to legal Action.

    Corporations are not people. They are subject to people and have none of the rights of people.

  5. Re:Admits? Being SUED by Canada! on Google Admits To Collecting Emails and Passwords · · Score: 1

    I'm a Canadian citizen. There are Canadian consulates within the US affected by this. And an embassy (which technically is Canadian soil).

  6. Re:Admits? Being SUED by Canada! on Google Admits To Collecting Emails and Passwords · · Score: 1

    Corporations have fewer rights than people in Canada and in the EU.

    Corporations are NOT people. Except by a legal created fiction by the US Supreme Court recognized by no other nation on Earth.

  7. Re:Not very private. on Google Admits To Collecting Emails and Passwords · · Score: 1

    This data was broadcast publicly. Privacy is not an issue here.

    No, data collection by corporations has to accede to Laws.

    Laws in Canada and in the EU are very strict about what information - whether gained legally or from public data - may be kept, transmitted, sold, or used by corporations.

    Perhaps you seem to think the weak privacy "laws" in the USA apply around the world?

  8. Re:Obviously a weapon of graphene distruction on Physicists Say Graphene Could Create Mass · · Score: 1

    There's something perverse about such an anti-Christian kingdom doing any research involving mass, especially mass construction. If it were the other way around, unrolling the nanotubes into graphene and destroying mass, it would make more sense.

    Maybe they discovered the Black Temple is shrinking and they decided to add some weight to such a massive project?

  9. Re:Not very private. on Google Admits To Collecting Emails and Passwords · · Score: 2, Informative

    in Canada however, it is the responsibilities of the people that expect to profit from that information, or any corporations not to -retain- that data without a waver.

    In Canada, corporations are not people, and do not have fake rights like our activist Supreme Court has given them here in the USA.

    Privacy is a Right in Canada. Period.

  10. Admits? Being SUED by Canada! on Google Admits To Collecting Emails and Passwords · · Score: 1

    The Privacy minister in Canada is suing them for violating the RIGHTS of Canadian citizens worldwide as well as those EU citizens - both of whom have stronger privacy RIGHTS than we peons do here in America.

    I hope they break them up - serves them right.

  11. Re:Obviously a weapon of graphene distruction on Physicists Say Graphene Could Create Mass · · Score: 1

    Even better - since Saudi Arabia is our enemy not our ally, if they attack themselves it's a win-win!

    Well, except for the graphene nano-tubes' families.

    And maybe the erasers that depend on them.

  12. Obviously a weapon of graphene distruction on Physicists Say Graphene Could Create Mass · · Score: 1

    I'll alert Saudi Arabia and arrange for them to declare jihad on these scientists and their sharp pencils!

  13. Time to activate the Canadian Armed Forces on Canada Says Google Wi-Fi Sniffing Collected Personal Data · · Score: 1

    There are enough of us in place near Google to launch a tactical strike and bring their servers to a dead stop.

  14. Already happening in America on UK To Track All Browsing, Email, and Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    You just don't realize it's being done. ...

    Do you feel safe yet?

    Even if al-Qaeda left Iraq and Afghanistan five years ago and are actually in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia - two of which are supposedly our allies?

    Well?

    Or maybe you gave up too much liberty for false security ...

  15. Re:11 critical issues, is it lack of cold fusion? on Drupal 7 · · Score: 1

    Seriously, acting all mysteriously won't help us.

    Is it stuff like record locking issues, mishandling of input strings so that it's so hackable a Chinese baby could hack it, or is it stuff nobody cares about like field locking or only being able to run on machines that have less than 64 cores on an 8 blade server and not addressing more than 2000 terabytes of memory space.

  16. I know it's the back end for 43rddems.org on Drupal 7 · · Score: 1

    Other than that, my main objection to this review is that it lacks sufficient keywords so that anyone could figure out what it does.

    Keywords are your friends.

    Proselytizing won't work if you don't say what it does.

  17. I'd rather live in an Apple world than a Gates 1 on The Case For Apple Buying Facebook · · Score: 1

    At least then we'd have privacy as more than an afterthought after all the FB users get outraged once again.

    And we wouldn't have chairs thrown at us.

  18. Re:Let me entertain you on Ray Ozzie To Step Down From His Role At Microsoft · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, you can always do what I'm doing and just install the MacOS on a well-made Win7 machine. Then dual-boot when you have to.

  19. Re:Let me entertain you on Ray Ozzie To Step Down From His Role At Microsoft · · Score: 1

    actually, Win7 is pretty decent. Not the platforms they're launching it on, but it's fairly stable.

  20. TRANSLATION: Ballmer will resign in 2011 on Ray Ozzie To Step Down From His Role At Microsoft · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For anyone who doesn't speak corporate-speak, or the variant they use at Microsoft, this really means the following:

    Ray got fired, but at his level they don't fire you. He got fired because Microsoft is a mature business and doesn't really create anything new anymore.

    Ballmer refuses to split the company up (tax reasons) so he's been given a grace period of a year to find a replacement for himself.

    Here endeth the lesson.

  21. Re:So what? on NRO Warns They Are On Final IPv4 Address Blocks · · Score: 1

    yes they do. We've had routers that support this since 2005, at least anywhere except the boonies.

    Let the farmers run on IPv4 while those of us in the city run on the more secure IPv6. That will keep the Chinese Army botnets out too.

  22. So what? on NRO Warns They Are On Final IPv4 Address Blocks · · Score: 1

    Seriously, we've had IPv6 stacks and routing on all the major OS and trunk lines since 2000.

    So why should we care?

    Move to IPv6 already.

    It's like people complaining because SUVs are now outlawed due to low mpg, but there are cheap hybrids and cars that get 36 mpg on the market for the past ten years.

  23. Re:Easier alternative: drop them from the WTO on Searching For Alternatives To China's Rare Earth Monopoly · · Score: 1

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    1. We'll never find labour in our own countries as cheap as in China. Slavery (which Chinese labour conditions are very, very close to) is illegal here. We have all those pesky human rights obligations.
    2. Being able to outsource our pollution is a major convenience.

    Face it, we (the western world) are just one big NIMBY.

    1. You say that like it's a bad thing to pay labor.

    2. If you watched a recent episode of Bloomberg or CNBC you'd realize - since you don't buy from US companies that only buy from US companies - that you already ARE paying a Carbon Tax. Investment in low-carbon alternatives in China is 3 times US investment.

  24. Re:Don't get Vaccinated on Meta-Research Debunks Medical Study Findings · · Score: 1

    I'll tell that to all the kids and adults who will now get Polio as a result of your faith.

  25. Re:Easier alternative: drop them from the WTO on Searching For Alternatives To China's Rare Earth Monopoly · · Score: 1

    You assume my devices come from China - they could be from Vietnam, South Korea, Taiwan, and many other nations.

    In fact, certain factories have shifted literally overnight - just look at what happened when the China-Japan trade war kicked in this past month.