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  1. Intentionally not permitted - so as to profit JPay on $11M Worth of Legally-Purchased Music Will Be Confiscated From Florida's Prisoners (tampabay.com) · · Score: 1

    Timothy Hoey, the assistant warden, did not deny the financial incentives at play in his response to Freeman, saying that it was "not feasible to download content from one vendor’s device to another, not only due to incompatibility reasons, but the download of content purchased from one vendor to another vendor’s device would negate the new vendor’s ability to be compensated for their services."

  2. Re:prisons? dorms? mp3 players on $11M Worth of Legally-Purchased Music Will Be Confiscated From Florida's Prisoners (tampabay.com) · · Score: 2

    Prison is already a place almost everybody doesn't want to be. Being in prision is the punishment.

    What things like this teach the prison population is that it's OK to take what belongs to others with impunity so long as you wield the power. Which is exactly what we're supposed to be presenting as the wrong option - you know - the thing that got most of them into prison in the first place.

  3. Re: Top rated paid app?! on Apple Yanks Top Mac App a Month After Learning it Sends User Info To China (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, my ignorance of all things Apple is evident. Thanks for the correction.

  4. You know, the silent folks who work every day, who don't engage in narcissistic social media bullshit, who didn't put stickers on their cars or signs on their lawns because they didn't want their property vandalized by lawless unhinged leftists.

    I'll just leave this here now.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/us/politics/donald-trump-signs.html

  5. It's much easier to spread hatred, intolerance, bigotry, racism, fear of the "other", than it is to promote rationality and understanding.

    If those numbers are correct, they sadly show just how much easier.

  6. If they remove it from the phone then don't they have to refund $5?

  7. Re:Yes, they should on White House Says Anonymous 'Coward' Behind New York Times Op-Ed Should Resign (freerepublic.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In fairness to Trump it should be noted that during the debates he stressed that the elections were rigged. So he gave us fair warning.

  8. Re:cold war spy thriller.. on Russia Thinks Someone With a Drill Caused the Recent ISS Air Leak (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see why it would be the Russians.

    /s

  9. Re: "after a commotion he was terminated" on Russia Thinks Someone With a Drill Caused the Recent ISS Air Leak (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Lawyers fucked up the planet Earth,

    I hope you don't think that "Love Canal" and the numerous environmental disasters that the US faced were caused by lawyers because they weren't. They were ultimately dealt with (and sometimes cleaned up properly) when the injured parties hired lawyers to bring legal complaints that got the attention of the companies that had been polluting the environment. They got their attention by getting the courts to levy large fines on the companies and making them pay restitution to those they injured.

    I won't bother commenting on any of the remainder of your post - it speaks for itself.

  10. Federal Law Missing in Action on Justice Department Warns It Might Not Be Able To Prosecute Voting Machine Hackers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It looks like this is currently handled on a statewide basis. Some states have no law regarding voting machine tampering, some punish it with a fine, some classify it as a misdemeanor, and some as a felony.

      http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/state-statutes-prohibiting-tampering-with-voting-systems.aspx

    It would help if there were a federal law with substantial criminal penalties. No need really to invoke "computers" at all.

  11. You must be new here.

  12. Re:First line could use editing on China Has Withheld Samples of a Dangerous Flu Virus (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The most reasonable way to deal with this then is to locate some sick Chinese farmers, offer them transport and state of the art medical care in the US, et voila!

    We get samples of the virus and the farmers hopefully get well on US soil. It would be a nice touch to offer them asylum also afterwards.

  13. Re:What if ... on Six To Eight Hours of Sleep Best For the Heart, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Never saw this before or even imagined it to have existed. Thanks.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_penny_coffin

  14. Re: It's time to cull the denialist Republicans on NASA Supports SpaceX Plan To Fuel Rockets With Astronauts On Board (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily a troll. Poor AC may just be in denial.

  15. Re: Little-used components on Firefox-Forking Browser 'Pale Moon' Releases Major Update 28.0 (palemoon.org) · · Score: 1

    Do people in a wheel chair need a browser with a ramp? I don't think it affects browsing much

    Say what?

    If user can't control mouse I don't see what browser developers can do about it.

    https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/177893#autoclick
    https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/177893#tapdrag
    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mouse-shortcuts-perform-common-tasks

  16. Re:Little-used components on Firefox-Forking Browser 'Pale Moon' Releases Major Update 28.0 (palemoon.org) · · Score: 2

    Actually, that is a very long-winded way of saying what the other AC put so succinctly.

    Because fuck handicapped people, right?

  17. Re:What is a weapon? on LA To Become First In US To Install Subway Body Scanners (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm certain that you know much more about firearms than I do, but the AR-15 nonetheless has been reportedly involved in numerous mass murders. So I'm fine with not permitting an AR-15 or a 30-06 semiautomatic hunting rifle on the subway. Or a handgun for that matter.

    And probably it's easier to stealthily pack a bag containing an AR-15 with a collapsible stock than it is to surreptitiously carry a semiautomatic hunting rifle onto a subway platform.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR-15_style_rifle

    While most gun killings in the United States are with handguns,[58][59][60] AR-15 style rifles have played "an oversized role in many of the most high-profile"[58] mass shootings in the United States, and have come to be widely characterized as the weapon of choice for perpetrators of these crimes.[61] AR-15 variants were the primary weapon used in the most recent six of the ten deadliest mass shootings in American history,[62] including the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the 2015 San Bernardino attack,[4] the 2017 Las Vegas shooting,[63] the 2017 Sutherland Springs church shooting,[63] and the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.[64] Gun expert Dean Hazen and mass murder researcher Dr. Pete Blair think that mass shooters' gun choices have less to do with the AR-15's specific merits but rather with familiarity and a copycat effect.[65][66][67]

    Following the use of a Colt AR-15 rifle in the Port Arthur massacre, the worst single-person shooting incident in Australian history, the country enacted the National Firearms Agreement in 1996, restricting the private ownership of semi-automatic rifles with a capacity of more than 5 rounds (Category D[68]).[69][70][71]

  18. Re:Let us offer then our hopes and prayers on Florida's Gulf Coast Battles Deadly And Smelly Red Tide (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Better dead than Red. Vote Democratic and cast off the Russian puppetmaster.

  19. Let us offer then our hopes and prayers on Florida's Gulf Coast Battles Deadly And Smelly Red Tide (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Let us offer then our hopes and prayers then that the Blue Wave will very soon do away with the Red Tide.

  20. Re:What is a weapon? on LA To Become First In US To Install Subway Body Scanners (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I've read that the focus on guns versus screwdrivers is that a malicious person can more quickly kill multiple people with a gun, especially an automatic gun, than with a screwdriver.

    N.B.: I haven't actually verified that for myself so it's just hearsay at this point.

  21. Which raises the question of why Defcon continues to hold their conventions in such a place instead of someplace decent.

  22. Trump told Howard Stern that he routinely walks into the dressing rooms to see the beautiful naked women. That is not in dispute. Whether it occurred also with teenage girls is still in dispute.

    You can easily find the Howard Stern interview. I'll just leave this here for you:

      https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2016/oct/18/allegations-about-donald-trump-and-miss-teen-usa-c/

  23. A great man once proclaimed: "If the President does it, it's not a crime".

    So get off your high horse Mr. Pope. The perv knew he would rise to the highest office someday so it was OK.

  24. Re:Blue light isn't the issue, getting old is... on Chemists Discover How Blue Light Speeds Blindness · · Score: 1

    I just installed this chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/negative-revert-web-color/ohhfjfhanfnmmolddbjhfkogappmbndd and so far at least it's not bad at all.