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  1. Re:You did not answer on Sony Cracks Down On Sexually Explicit Content In Games (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The one making the claim here is not me. But you are as dishonest and manipulative as you are arrogant. Your reference to kiddie porn is just a slimy attempt to fling feces.

  2. Re:It's for your good protection on Why the Swiss Still Love Cash (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I also saw the Swiss police response once when somebody accidentally drove into a lamp-post next to an ATM setting off some sensor. I recommend trying to steal these someplace else, if you must.

  3. Re:It's for your good protection on Why the Swiss Still Love Cash (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Indeed. Major ATMs (train station, airport) may contain CHF 100k in Switzerland, and they will get re-stocked during the day if needed. Most regular ones just get restocked overnight. No, I cannot provide a reference for that information. You can order more cash to be delivered to a branch office though.

  4. Re:How KIND of those banks... on Why the Swiss Still Love Cash (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you go to an ATM, there is a limit for security reasons and because the machine has limited stock. The quoted limits are the defaults for ATM machines, you can raise or lower them, but within limits.

    If you order the money in advance a day before or so, you can withdraw any amount you like from a branch office, although you pay a fee for withdrawing more than CHF 50'000 per month from a regular account. If you are a high-value customer, you can probably withdraw any amount they have on stock within half an hour or so at major branch offices and they will likely send an armored car with the cash for small ones, which may take a bit to arrive though. Your "immediately", is just uninformed here.

  5. Re:Think of the children on Sony Cracks Down On Sexually Explicit Content In Games (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    What studies have you seen?

    Wrong question. You are the one with the claim here, not me.

    The studies I've heard about pretty much indicate that exposure to porn at a young age can lead to addictions to same and a difficulty to successfully establish and maintain healthy sexual identities. It *can* lead to the inability to actually interact with *people* in an appropriate sexual way as most porn is unrealistic on many levels. I heard a guy the other day complaining that he could not have a normal (to him) sex life because of his early porn addiction had made arousal impossible without porn, and the women he was in relationships with found that to be unacceptable.

    "Porn Addiction" is a myth. It is used by people to excuse behavior towards others that these others find unacceptable. It is also a lie pushed by diverse religious groups to justify their anti-porn (and anti-sex) stance.

    We don't let them drink for a reason. We don't sell them cigarettes for a reason.

    You are mixing fact and fiction here. Alcohol consumption and smoking in humans too young is solidly scientifically known to cause life-long negative effects. For porn that is not known and when you look at actually neutrally funded (!) studies, they have not found anything. Same as with violence, incidentally. But, as I already said, you are the one with the claim here, please provide proof.

  6. Re:Think of the children on Sony Cracks Down On Sexually Explicit Content In Games (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you ever learned anything about the effect of porn exposure on kids sex lives? It's not good.

    Citation needed. Seriously. Because all the studies I have seen say something else (basically: "no effect") and the only sources for your claims seem to be rather problematic, mostly religion and its demented disciples.

  7. Probably "engineering" by "management" again on Samsung's $2,000 Galaxy Fold Units Are Failing Left and Right With Disastrous Display Issues (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Samsung engineers are pretty good in most cases. But the best engineers cannot build good products when management does not listen. That was at the root of the exploding phones by Samsung and it is very likely at the root of this problem now. Seems Samsung management has (as is customary) learned nothing.

  8. An idea being utterly stupid, disconnected from reality and dangerous, does not stop politicians from wanting to implement it. These people think they shape reality and they all think they need more control and restrictions in place.

  9. Re:Common problem in the cloud. Subdomain takeover on Microsoft Loses Control Over Windows Tiles Subdomain (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What a stupid system. And what a major screw-up to not protect that for something critical. MS is truly incapable of professional operations.

  10. He was CEO. I am just pointing out it is exceptionally likely he still looked at engine tech personally and his expertise would have told him something was wrong.

    No argument on your points, I agree.

  11. Winterkorn is an engineer. He is in fact an engine-specialists with a reputation to always want to look at all the details himself. You know, somebody that takes one look at the performance numbers of the affected engines and immediately sees that something cannot be right.

  12. Re: In all seriousness... on A Hacker Has Dumped Nearly One Billion User Records Over the Past Two Months (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That is not what "deterrence" means.

  13. Re: In all seriousness... on A Hacker Has Dumped Nearly One Billion User Records Over the Past Two Months (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, you really do not understand how things work. And even with your primitive approach, it would still not have any deterrence value.

  14. Re: In all seriousness... on A Hacker Has Dumped Nearly One Billion User Records Over the Past Two Months (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That is unlikely. Most people are not cave-men that think murder (whether by the state or otherwise) is acceptable.

  15. Re:Using PGP is now "advanced"? on The Rise and Fall of the Bayrob Malware Gang (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The tor "onion" network mode goes through 6 proxies. So what? This is some pretty old state-of-the art.

  16. Re:In all seriousness... on A Hacker Has Dumped Nearly One Billion User Records Over the Past Two Months (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That would make things better. But some people obviously prefer them to stay bad so they can indulge their sadistic fantasies...

  17. Re:In all seriousness... on A Hacker Has Dumped Nearly One Billion User Records Over the Past Two Months (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Just shows you are a vicious cave-man. The death-"penalty" has no deterrence value and is just revenge. As such it makes matters worse. Great job.

  18. That probably means the evidence is extremely solid or they would have swept it under the carpet. Greed, stupidity and no integrity at all.

  19. Re:Using PGP is now "advanced"? on The Rise and Fall of the Bayrob Malware Gang (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Not everybody is terminally incompetent with regards to security. But many are, sure. That does not make competent use "advanced" though.

  20. Using PGP is now "advanced"? on The Rise and Fall of the Bayrob Malware Gang (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    I would have considered that standard procedure. At work, it is completely standard for anything confidential.

  21. Re:Nicely sums up the problems with science-report on Fake Mouse On Twitter Mocks Overgeneralized Scientific Research (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. When everything is hyped, even scientists have a hard time separating hype from fact. It becomes excessively tiresome.

  22. Re:Is it a surprise? on Are Silicon Valley Workers Abandoning Libertarianism For Socialism? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Looks like people are slowly wising up and the carrot (which is mostly fake anyways) does not work anymore. Of course, denying the tech elite a good life is about the most stupid thing you can do, because they remember and there is no way to do without them.

  23. Re:Amazon the big lie strategy on Scammers Are Buying Thousands Of Fake 5-Star Amazon Reviews -- on Facebook (thehustle.co) · · Score: 1

    They are all doing it and it is not an invention of Amazon either. The "Big Lie" technique was probably best described so far by Goebbels, although it doubtlessly us much older. The problem with it is that it works well. For this reason, it does see a lot of use in politics and religion as well. It can even be used in reverse, see, for example, the anti-vaxxers or the flat-earthers. Their "big lie" is that the other side uses a "big lie". Of course, they never notice this little problem with their argumentation.

    As a bonus, it is very easy to implement. That is probably why we are seeing it used in so many variations.

  24. Re:You need to understand the reviews on Scammers Are Buying Thousands Of Fake 5-Star Amazon Reviews -- on Facebook (thehustle.co) · · Score: 2

    Pretty much matches my experience. However even the one-star ones can be interesting, for example, they can tell you that you need a specific skill or really read the manual in order to use the product right. Same for the 5 star ones. So what you do is you browse reviews until you have a picture of what the product actually is. If there is a lot of fake glowing reviews, that can tell you something all by itself.

  25. Nicely sums up the problems with science-reporting on Fake Mouse On Twitter Mocks Overgeneralized Scientific Research (twitter.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Everything has to be spectacular and groundbreaking and changing everything. Here is news: Most research is incremental or not directly applicable and the rest is almost never groundbreaking. Deal with it. This is a slow process and over-hyping results is a huge disservice to all of humanity.