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  1. Define Pirates on US ISPs Refuse To Disconnect Persistent Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    DCMA is a violation of my privacy and publishing rights as a Canadian citizen in the US under the US/Canada Data Treaty, which is subject to the Canadian Bill of Rights (which was adopted in the 1980s so it has greater rights than Americans do).

    What DCMA calls a pirate is a treaty violation. DCMA is subject to treaty rights, not the other way around.

    You can't steal my rights by calling them piracy.

  2. All you've proven is it's the father's relative on Genetic Studies Prove Cuckolded Fathers Are Rare In Human Populations · · Score: 1

    That said, the commentary that, in the general population, paternity is rarely an issue is correct.

    But it could be a close relative. Also, CI is the confidence interval. And clustering effects can indicate in-family adoptions of underage children in terms of "your mom is actually your older sister and your mom is your grandma" or similar things.

    Remember, the study with the lower percentage is from Belgium. Different regions of different countries have different rates. You can't really compare other countries or regions with yours, in terms of correctly identified parentage. This is well known in the community of researchers.

  3. Some could be cleaned with biofuel scavanging on Over 80 Percent of China's Well Water Is Polluted (voanews.com) · · Score: 2

    In a recent Chinese language paper on high pH well water, it was noted that they can generate biofuel from contaminated well water with alkaline concentrations as high as 11.0 pH, and achieve 80 percent conversion efficiency. It's in publication in July 2016.

    Paper in Bioresource Technology.

    Maybe the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing? It's a large country, and a lot of the water resources are contaminated.

  4. Re:Ads aren't content on Newspapers Try To Stop Ad-blocking Browser Brave From 'Stealing Content' · · Score: 1

    Corporations aren't People.

    They don't have free speech.

  5. Just use FB for family pics and HW on Facebook Users Are Sharing Less and It's a Big Problem (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Most people just use FB for clicking Like on family pics and to set up homework groups for classes in high school and college.

    You think we'll tell you anything useful? How p3rvy is that?

  6. Ads aren't content on Newspapers Try To Stop Ad-blocking Browser Brave From 'Stealing Content' · · Score: 2

    One of my first jobs was delivering advertising tear sheets for a small town newspaper.

    You didn't make that. The news is the news. Ads are not the news.

    Maybe if ads didn't obscure half of our iPhone screen space and not go away when we try to read stuff, we wouldn't need to ad-block it. Especially the ones that autoplay.

  7. Re:Oh look, a mechanical engineer on Bill Nye: Climate Change Denial Is 'Running Out of Steam,' Thanks To Millennials (mic.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot the part about being clueless.

  8. There is only one answer, and offshore trust funds for China's Ruling Elites are the method to arrive at that answer.

  9. Re:This isn't just an Iceland Story. on Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Very true. There are two such account holders in the Seattle area - one in Redmond and one in Bellevue.

    Wonder if the IRS is going after them? I'd recommend a 10 year jail term and RICO confiscation of assets.

  10. UK PM Cameron is next on Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Activate Phase II.

    You can run but you can't hide.

  11. I think they are referring to the nine horsemen on FBI Says a Mysterious Hacking Group Has Had Access to US Govt Files for Years (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    There are five known military espionage units spying on government files, the CIA, NSA, and the other two agencies none are permitted to know about.

  12. Gosh but I so love these NSA/FB collaborations! on Facebook Guesses What's In Pictures To Help Visually Impaired (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    It is ever so keen to assist our Friend the Computer in finding those who do not worship workplace and crowd image surveillance!

    The Computer is our Friend!

  13. Cortana, which avatar are you today? on Skype is Getting Cortana and Crazy Bot Messaging (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Q. Cortana, which avatar are you today?

    A. The neo nazi one, of course. ... this is not going to end well.

  14. Is this what's killing my iPhone? on Apple's New Safari Technology Preview Browser Is Aimed At Web Developers · · Score: 1

    Just wondering. iOS 9.2 and 9.3 are crashing.

    Results matter.

  15. Totally meaningless due to China on The World's Largest Renewable Energy Developer Could Go Broke (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    China will produce 50 percent of all energy from renewable sources by 2020.

    It's not a question of "if"

    It's a question of "how high".

    Resistance is futile.

  16. So if 90 percent are IoT on Windows 10 Now Runs On 270 Million Monthly Active Devices · · Score: 2

    If most of these are Internet of Things, how many AI nazi bots does that make?

  17. We built the Net to withstand attacks on Global Majority Backs a Ban On 'Dark Net,' Poll Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You seriously think the Dark Net is less capable.

    Silly silly people.

  18. Re:The poor at higher risk for everything on Preterm Births Linked To Air Pollution Cost Billions In The US (time.com) · · Score: 1

    What's a map? Is that like some hardcopy TomTom?

  19. Re:Can we please get a tech story soon? on Preterm Births Linked To Air Pollution Cost Billions In The US (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Ths is what happens when yu have passed the technological singularity event horizon.

    Even Ray Kurzweil predicted that n the future all jobs we were going to be lawyer/politicians.

    Actually, we're outsourcing the lawyer jobs too.

  20. Re:The poor at higher risk for everything on Preterm Births Linked To Air Pollution Cost Billions In The US (time.com) · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is the air current comes straight down the middle of the island and blows outward on all sides?

    No, it's a long island, hence the name Long Island. Simple physics, pollution expands out in a ring, but half of the pollution falls outside the populated area. The water currents take the water pollution away. The air currents will tend to move the polluted air away as well, since it's not a round island.

  21. Re:The poor at higher risk for everything on Preterm Births Linked To Air Pollution Cost Billions In The US (time.com) · · Score: 0

    Most people don't drive in Manhattan and, being an island, the commercial/industrial is located near the edges so that it flows away from the island.

    Hence, lower pollution risk.

    Rich people live in Manhattan.

    So they force the industries there to fix their pollution, and outsource it to poor areas in the distant suburbs. Like New Jersey.

  22. Re:Can we please get a tech story soon? on Preterm Births Linked To Air Pollution Cost Billions In The US (time.com) · · Score: 1

    this is a tech story. technically it's STEM but that's what passes for tech nowadays. all the tech jobs are being shipped off to China and India anyway.

  23. Why can't I have freedom dot china dot com? on China Proposes Foreign Domain Name Censorship (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Why is this not permitted?

    I helped build your telephone system back in the 90s, China, and I was one of your first IPO investors in many advanced research firms in Hong Kong, but you won't permit that?

    What gives?

  24. FBI exposing US energy/research infrastructure on US Says It Would Use 'Court System' Again To Defeat Encryption (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The FBI hacks expose the US energy and research infrastructure to backdoor and frontdoor hacks that are now being used by state and non-state players, Russia, China, and ISIL, to attack us.

    SHUT DOWN THESE HACKS!

  25. Strange: I saw it's delayed till July on Microsoft Finally Ships $8,999 Surface Hub (eweek.com) · · Score: 1

    In a recent tweet, one of the tech news reviewers said the office-use MSFT Surface Hub, will in fact not meet the release date, but is delayed until July.

    It might help if your marketing and your order fulfillment and tech support departments actually talked to each other.