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  1. Second I get 100 Gbps service in Seattle on Comcast Excited To Have Lost 4,000 TV Subscribers This Spring (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm out of there.

    Just saying. Already bought an HDTV antenna, so it's sayonara, Comcast.

    Knowing my high school classmates in BC get 200 Mbps for $20 a month makes me furious.

  2. I tweet about the Olympics all the time on Olympics Committee Says Non-Sponsors Are Banned From Tweeting About the Olympics (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    In fact, I can see the mountain range from my window and the whole National Park.

    Try to stop me, greedheads!

  3. Re:What if you're part of the firefighting effort? on Feds To Deploy Anti-Drone Software Near Wildfires (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't write the rules. They are there so you don't cause planes to crash.

    Your rights end the second you leave the ground.

  4. Re:What if you're part of the firefighting effort? on Feds To Deploy Anti-Drone Software Near Wildfires (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    People fought fires without drones for years.

    I stand by the new rules structure.

  5. Re:What if you're part of the firefighting effort? on Feds To Deploy Anti-Drone Software Near Wildfires (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    The original article in security shows that this is only for civilian use. Military and firefighting use of drones is exempt. However, it was silent as to whether police use was permitted, as they may stray into fire operations areas and incorrectly use drones to "find crimes", which is not the role of the military and firefighting units (translation: don't trust cops).

  6. Actually it's an app drone users must use on Feds To Deploy Anti-Drone Software Near Wildfires (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    If you go to the original security milspec descriptions, you'll find it's an app that all drone users must use if they are operating in or near wildfire warning areas, whenever the fire threat level is above a certain threshold.

    Not checking the app means you will be fined or jailed.

    It's up to you of course.

  7. Re:Waste of time on Obama Creates a Color-Coded Cyber Threat 'Schema' After the DNC Hack (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's kind of sad. People shouldn't have written those communications in the first place.

    Stop trying to fix the leaks and start trying to fix the problem that caused people to subvert democracy.

  8. This will work as well as Bush Clinton Reagan on Obama Creates a Color-Coded Cyber Threat 'Schema' After the DNC Hack (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    None of the previous security protocols worked either.

    Information just wants to be free, especially when it can be socially engineered and exists in multiple locations at various times.

  9. Re:Always use a "clean" phone when travelling abro on Homeland Security Border Agents Can Seize Your Phone (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a wise move. Best thing to do is buy a clean rental phone in a safe city/country in the region you're going to, and never use it for anything important. Never use public wi-fi. Never use "secure" wi-fi at any hotel, the Chinese and Russians and Saudis and Israelis will root it. Never leave any electronics out of sight. Ever.

  10. 20 digit password encryption, no button bar on Homeland Security Border Agents Can Seize Your Phone (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    never leave any apps on your button bar. ever.

  11. So it's ok for us to chop judges fingers off then? on Suspect Required To Unlock iPhone Using Touch ID in Second Federal Case (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems fair to me.

  12. Re:String theory is just that: a theory on Scientists' Biggest Search For Dark Matter To Date Just Turned Up Nothing (sciencealert.com) · · Score: -1

    But we just proved it doesn't exist. The missing mass exists.

    But not the dark matter.

    Hence, my theory is just as valid, that EM has both mass and is a wave, and we're just confused little podlings who will have to go back and adjust our theories again, as we did over and over and over.

    Remember, at first we didn't think light bent due to gravity.

  13. Re:String theory is just that: a theory on Scientists' Biggest Search For Dark Matter To Date Just Turned Up Nothing (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 0

    Right, a theory. But if you can't count it, can't measure it, does it really exist?

    Or, alternative concept: is it aether? Could light and other EM waves have mass? We used to think light was a particle. Then we thought it was a wave. Now we "know" it's a particle and a wave. What if all electromagnetic waves are both waves and have mass? If infinitesimal, the vastness of space makes millions of light years of area of space contain a lot of infinitesimal waves.

    Just as valid a theory, since we've disproven dark matter mass by experiment.

  14. String theory is just that: a theory on Scientists' Biggest Search For Dark Matter To Date Just Turned Up Nothing (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And it's not even a good one.

    Look, I know you're stuck on it, but sometimes you just have to admit you've gone down the wrong path, and you start over.

  15. In Canada this would get corp execs jailed on Verizon To Disconnect Unlimited Data Customers Who Use Over 100GB/Month · · Score: 1

    Fraudulent advertising has consequences in real countries.

  16. Technically legal on Police 3D-Printed A Murder Victim's Finger To Unlock His Phone (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Live people have far more privacy protections than dead people do.

  17. Sold and paid, shipped and unpaid, or store? on Microsoft's Surface Hub Is a 'Hit', Demand Outstrips Supply (petri.com) · · Score: 0

    It ain't actually sold until the check and credit have cleared the bank and the physical unit is past the 10 day buyers remorse period.

    MSFT probably means "sold" to stores or "demo" units.

  18. Wait, you guys pay for this? on Apple To Make $3 Billion From Pokemon Go (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Silly me, I play for free and just listen to free podcasts for music too.

    Wow.

    Gotta catch all the rubes ....

  19. Violation of the EU-Canada Data Treaty on UK 'Emergency' Bulk Data Slurp Permissible In Pursuit Of 'Serious Crime' (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Canadian citizens have a right to privacy when in the EU, which the UK is still a part of.

    This includes data slurps.

    And it's in the Constitution.

  20. The problem is Stanford Harvard Yale on Facebook Makes Little Progress in Race and Gender Diversity (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    The old boys club of the elites, without realizing it, is uncomfortable with the fact that most Bachelors degrees are going to women nowadays, and from diverse backgrounds at that.

    Just look at what the current undergrad population looks like at UCLA, UW, and other schools. It looks like my nieces and nephews, from diverse backgrounds, where women are the majority and graduates are a multitude of racial backgrounds.

    It's not hard.

    Just HIRE them.

    Stop talking about WHY you don't do it and just DO it.

    It's 2016 not 1916.

  21. Re:Think you misspelled Cheaper Gigabit Networks on White House Pledges $400M To Back Speedier 5G Wireless Networks (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    "it's $20 a month with no data cap and 20 Gbps Internet"

    No one gets 20 Gbps for $20 a month. While I agree that the US is behind, if you really believe the ISPs are making billions from capping and overcharging, then you should invest in such companies and reap the rewards.

    I already do. It's called index investing.

  22. Silly people, we don't use guided missiles on In China, Fears That Pokemon Go May Aid Locating Military Bases (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    We use hunt and seek pop up drone packs that the Chinese don't even know are there.

    Now those do use the Poke database, but that's just a coincidence.

  23. Not if it takes 8 hours to d/l security patches on Microsoft: Windows 10 Won't Hit 1 Billion Devices By Mid-2018 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If they keep up that nightmare, then we're all going Linux.

  24. Did you say $10/mo for 40 Gbps? on Comcast Expands $10 Low-Income Internet Plan (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Cause that's what a low income family pays in a First World Nation.

    Not $10 a month for a data capped 40 Mbps sub-par service that might as well be in Africa like we have in the US.

  25. Think you misspelled Cheaper Gigabit Networks on White House Pledges $400M To Back Speedier 5G Wireless Networks (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Like in First World Nations, where it's $20 a month with no data cap and 20 Gbps Internet, not US $300 with a cap and 20 Mbps Internet.

    You know, like in a real country.