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  1. Re:Worst summary ever on Swedish Court Orders Seizure of Pirate Bay Domains · · Score: 2

    Actually, you couldn't be more wrong.

    It absolutely IS the same as "guilty until proven innocent". MegaUpload is gone permanently, even if Kim Dotcom is ultimately found 100% innocent. Any money he would have made off his potentially legal service (remember, he WAS responding to DMCA requests) is now gone for years and is never coming back, again, even IF he is found innocent.

    And Kent Hovind, head of a Creationist ministry currently on trial for structuring and tax evasion, was found in contempt of court for filing a lis pendens ON HIS OWN PROPERTY to prevent it from being sold by the government despite the fact that his trial is still going on!

    And in the US, cops have seized over $2.5 billion since 9/11 in cases WITH NO SEARCH WARRANT OR INDICTMENT! Only in 7% of those cases was ANY money returned at all.

    So, yeah, you can keep believing that seizures are great if you like, but it's a factually untenable argument.

  2. Re:Texting Maths on Microsoft To Teachers: Using Pens and Paper Not Fair To Students · · Score: 0

    And ironically, math is the most useless subject we learn and should be severely curtailed in high school. It's the only subject we force on kids where 99.9% of them will never use it for a single thing in their entire lives.

  3. Re:Salespeople making salespitch on Microsoft To Teachers: Using Pens and Paper Not Fair To Students · · Score: 0

    I would rather my kids learn to program than to learn Trigonometry or Calculus, which have proven to be completely useless in my life.

    Why we teach everyone years and years of math(s) they'll never use instead of something that many people could use is beyond me. Save that stuff for aerospace majors.

  4. Re:call me skeptical on FBI Alleges Security Researcher Tampered With a Plane's Flight Control Systems · · Score: 5, Informative

    He already said that this paragraph is taken out of context and that he didn't do it (on a real plane). Basically, he's saying the FBI is lying. Shouldn't be too surprising considering how many times they've lied to the courts recently, but hopefully a jury pays attention to all that.

  5. Re:Too much technology on The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless · · Score: 1

    You send the allowance to your child's phone or just get them some Pesos. Using Coinbase in the US, you can just send bitcoins to their e-mail address.

  6. Re:Proposal on FCC May Stop 911 Access For NSI Phones · · Score: 1

    2 extra seconds is a lot when you're dying.

  7. Re:It was an app on a WORK-Issued Phone! on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1

    My HOUSE actually blocks most radio signals including TV, radio and most cell phones.

  8. A Data Point on Enterprise SSDs, Powered Off, Potentially Lose Data In a Week · · Score: 1

    As a data point, at work I took an 80GB Intel SSD from the IT guys' desk drawer (I needed it for a project and that's all he had available as he had a bulk order out). He told me it would probably be blank, since he hadn't used it in over a year. I found a whole PC worth of data on there which I had to format. He was surprised and until reading this article, I really didn't understand why. At least in my case, everything was there and could be read just fine, over a year after it had been written. It was in a 70F office both while in use and in storage.

  9. Re:Short Answer: DON'T on Ask Slashdot: How To Own the Rights To Software Developed At Work? · · Score: 1

    Tell that to the Bratz! guy.

  10. Re:Money for nothing, chicks for free.... on Ask Slashdot: How To Own the Rights To Software Developed At Work? · · Score: 1

    So, you're saying that this guy is clear CEO material?

  11. Re:I'm not religious, but... on FWD.us To Laid-Off Southern California Edison Workers: Boo-Hoo · · Score: 1

    Solomon was the richest man who ever lived, and he got there by following God. Job was rich, Joseph was second in command of all Egypt. Daniel of Babylon and Persia. Esther became a queen. All by following God. I am pretty wealthy myself by the world's standards (just upper middle class by US standards). I thank God for all his many blessings here and hopefully more in the world to come.

  12. Re:I'm not religious, but... on FWD.us To Laid-Off Southern California Edison Workers: Boo-Hoo · · Score: 1

    Well, thankfully there's a hell for you where you won't have to put up with all of God's laws.

  13. Re:Statistical on Poker Pros Win Against AI, But Experts Peg Match As Statistical Draw · · Score: 0

    Poor losers. Real men can admit they lost, even in Game 7 in triple overtime.

  14. Re:Is playing a game Artificial Intelligence? on Poker Pros Win Against AI, But Experts Peg Match As Statistical Draw · · Score: 3, Informative

    Playing blackjack is applied statistics. Playing poker is AI.

  15. Re:How many times do we have to say it? on Poor, Homegrown Encryption Threatens Open Smart Grid Protocol · · Score: 4, Informative
  16. Re:How many times do we have to say it? on Poor, Homegrown Encryption Threatens Open Smart Grid Protocol · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In fact, you can use AES but not the recommended default values. Satoshi did this with Bitcoin, just in case the NSA was recommending those values for a reason.

  17. Re:nanny state on 25 Percent of Cars Cause 90 Percent of Air Pollution · · Score: 1

    80 people dead is bad and tragic, but it's also about the same count as black-on-black thug crime over a four week period in the US.

    And that's only 64 days in all the coal mines in the US.

  18. Re:Elephant in the room... on 25 Percent of Cars Cause 90 Percent of Air Pollution · · Score: 1

    I had a Saturn that almost passed. It was so close but it just wouldn't quite get there. Turns out the catalytic converter had been hit under the car and was completely missing. I was surprised at how poor the emission standards were at that point since I could just about pass without a catalytic converter.

  19. Re:Black Pipe Shotgun Videos? on Defense Distributed Sues State Department Over 3-D Gun Censorship · · Score: 1

    True. It's mentioned in Joel after all (around 600 BC).

  20. Re:Code can be a weapon on Defense Distributed Sues State Department Over 3-D Gun Censorship · · Score: 1

    Pre-emptive restriction of speech is automatically reason for standing, isn't it?

  21. Re:I can get plans to build a still on Defense Distributed Sues State Department Over 3-D Gun Censorship · · Score: 1

    I think this argument is falling flat lately, as the US government has been treating its citizens worse than the UK treats theirs for quite some time now.

  22. Re:No real choice but to accept it on Defense Distributed Sues State Department Over 3-D Gun Censorship · · Score: 1

    I remember game companies saying they would charge less if people didn't copy that floppy... sure hasn't happened.

    In fact, console games are more expensive than PC games for the same game, even though there is still piracy on PCs.

  23. Re:Bureaucrats on Defense Distributed Sues State Department Over 3-D Gun Censorship · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mental health treatment is beyond atrocious in the US. Most gun homicides involve people that are largely in a state of non-treatment of various mental illnesses.

  24. Re:Even 200 miles of range means that you... on Tesla To Unveil Its $35,000 Model 3 In March 2016 · · Score: 0

    An electric car? Do you want to charge it in the rain?

  25. Re:Tesla is the new Apple on Tesla To Unveil Its $35,000 Model 3 In March 2016 · · Score: 4, Informative

    No. It wasn't. I had various smartphones for years before the iPhone came out. It didn't even have apps (at first). You fell for Apple's marketing, which wasn't remotely true.