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  1. Re: Blame DRM on The Pirate Bay Now Blocked In Chrome, Firefox, And Safari (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    Here in Finland Game of Thrones is presented by the public broadcaster (they also provide it on their online service five episodes a time). Basically then downloading the episodes is not thievery, but an alternative way to access the content. It's paid for by my taxes (although I got tired of the series after the 3rd season).

    Same goes for other (commercial) providers, who broadcast freely. Imagine that I'd have a tv or online scraper and I'd be able to record everything. Or perhaps record everything on every radio station, and then neatly organize the recordings for my own use. Nobody would have lost anything, if I'd download all of that instead. One could also argue that this would cover everything that would be broadcasted in the future.

    If I'd share the content with somebody else I'd probably be notified. Still, if I'd share it freely with people who have the same access (nationally) I'd just to a service for them, and they wouldn't also steal anything.

    The concept of thievery in this case is rather fluid.

  2. Re: So what? on Developer Installs Windows 95 On An Apple Watch (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tons of people would still only be what, a couple of dozen people? Supposing that most of them are well fed westerners.

  3. Re: If it were aliens on NASA Feed 'Goes Down As Horseshoe UFO Appears On ISS Live Cam' (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You have it backwards. Aliens and UFOs are government created distractions to hide the fact that people who work for NASA are aliens and of extraterrestrial origin.

    "It's like a finger pointing at the Moon. Do not concentrate on the finger, or you'll miss all of the heavenly glory", a great thinker once said. It basically means that the UFO exhaust flames are in other direction.

  4. NOT global warming on NASA: Global Warming Is Now Changing How Earth Wobbles (go.com) · · Score: 1

    The change matches with the rise of Dubstep.

  5. Here's perhaps a useful study about circumvention tools and usage, and what are the most common reasons to use them: https://www.openitp.org/pdfs/C... It's from 2013 though. Anyway, from all the bit over 1000 respondents only 2 had never used any tool.

  6. Re: Obviously they had to pay a lot on TSA Paid $1.4 Million For Randomizer App That Chooses Left Or Right (geek.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not the app that cost so much but the system to make the agent always be at the correct position to know which 'right' is the 'right' the app says to go.

    The manufacturing of such contraption at an airport * the number of needed agents = huge cost.

  7. Re: MSFT is Evil, but not for the reason you think on CNBC Just Collected Your Password and Shared It With Marketers (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That gives me an idea. In the modern world sys admins could sell their services like gardeners or pool guys do. One could have one's own sys admin butler person.

  8. Re: I fully expect... on Fish Walks, Climbs Waterfalls Like a Salamander (discovery.com) · · Score: 1

    True. Much easier for the brains and better for the popcorn industry than discussing about the actual paper: http://www.nature.com/articles...

  9. Even oil companies don't want to be oil companies, if they wish to bring profits in the future to the owners and shareholders.

    The same big names will provide clean and renewable energy in the future. They have the resources. But sure, the companies that won't change will die out.

    I'd expect the energy companies to obtain new tech and patents and build business on them rather than trying to suppress the inevitable.

  10. Also, it can be seen through so no porn there mates!

  11. One reason to create a basic income system in Finland is that it would hugely simplify the present welfare and subsidy system. At the moment it's a complex mix of overlapping conditions and separate paper work for different offices, even though things are pretty well paperless and electronic.

    In essence, basic income would mean lighter government and less stress for people, who would for even a short while drop out of employment, or who have a varied mix of employment and other activities, such as freelancing.

    Besides, the amount of basic income equals more or less with the fixed period subsidy one can get when founding a company (sort of a welfare system for entrepreneurs, who in the present system wouldn't be eligible for any other support). That could be completely scratched, as well as student housing and living benefits. With the UBI in place one wouldn't have to mind conditions on earning while being a student or unemployed, so to speak.

    In essence, UBI would greatly ease the lives of a great number of people, and make the system more dynamic. Of course a number of people would still free ride on it, but that happens even now. I'd say the number would go a bit down. If one needs more money the employers are still there.

    In the end it all comes to an individual's wish what to do with one's life, and what's the necessary level of income to support that. If UBI can empower people to work on those wishes and have more choice about their lives it would benefit the society at large.

  12. Re: Because it already is on EU Set To Crack Down On Bitcoin and Anonymous Payments After Paris Attack (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    Specifically, tracking the inequality of
    the wealth distribution more carefully will provide plenty of information to prevent negative consequences of the system, and to undermine the power of individuals who use the system to advance their own interest.

    That is, if humanity is the center of the proposition.

  13. Re: If he were really serious... on In Battle With Ad Blockers, Ad Industry Fesses Up To Alienating Users (iab.com) · · Score: 2

    That doesn't make any ad sense.

  14. Re: Infinity on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    They also got fed up with writing endless strings of numbers on the sand, just to see result being washed away by the next tide, so they came up with the concept of infinity. Then, the surf was good!

  15. I could imagine there being a collection of things, which one needs to place in the correct position for the access. No need to hardcode anything.

    One has more or less certain unique things at home for instance. The position info would add to that.

    The devices would be the user interface.

  16. Re: Volcano? on Ice Loss In West Antarctica Is Speeding Up · · Score: 1

    That's actually 135 times that of ALL of the volcanoes, on average. Imagine if there would be 135 times more volcanoes. The culprit for extra CO2 would be evident, wouldn't
    It?

  17. Re: Volcano? on Ice Loss In West Antarctica Is Speeding Up · · Score: 4, Informative

    Meanwhile, the humanity is adding as much CO2 as 135 volcanoes would, in a year. And the next year, and the nextâ¦

    source: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com...

    Earths feedback mechanisms cannot cope with that geologically relatively short impulse. The extra energy that's being captured is showing in all of the sensors on earth and in space also.

    Try to find a mention of that on the website.

  18. Why rollover? on The BBC Looks At Rollover Bugs, Past and Approaching · · Score: 2

    Isn't mouseover the modern term?

  19. Re: Cool world on US Successfully Tests Self-Steering Bullets · · Score: 1

    So, will these bullets steer away from the coded in important persons? The more sophisticated the systems the more there are walls to be broken in the case of a criminal government.

  20. Re: It does add up on Incorrectly Built SLS Welding Machine To Be Rebuilt · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much that is in terms of weight distribution?

  21. Re: can be under emergency authority, but politica on Incorrectly Built SLS Welding Machine To Be Rebuilt · · Score: 1

    Halliburton wasn't vilified because of the lack of paperwork. They were vilified as a part of the whole botched up business of rebuilding a country. They were also an integral part of the Pentagon ideal of subcontracting war waging and the support operations.

    What they build really well though was the military-diplomatic complex a.k.a the embassy, which had the purpose to defend the occupiers from the angry natives. Tells a lot doesn't it?

  22. Re: What I find unbelievable... on New Zealand Spied On Nearly Two Dozen Pacific Countries · · Score: 1

    Social conditioning since the birth. A belief that there exists a nation state; a reality shaped by a language and a culture and most importantly emotion, which can be manipulated.

    The thing is that the people behind the agencies in any country are not patriots or nationalists, but pragmatic players of a game of their own.

    In essence one could say they are the enemy. The trick is that cognitive dissonance keeps us not accepting that.

  23. Re: No surprise on How NSA Spies Stole the Keys To the Encryption Castle · · Score: 1

    Less questions, paper trail, less names involved; more development, practical capability testing⦠Imagine this as weapons development.

  24. Re: Getting something from nothing? on Experiments Create Particles Out of a Vacuum Using Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    There's no "nothing" anywhere in the universe. The only nothingness could be said to have preceded the universe.

  25. Re: triggering below percentage is dumb on Windows 10 Adds Battery Saver Feature · · Score: 1

    If that's the case she is a good example for other technically aligned females who want to know more about the technology they are using.