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Comment Re:But the ID shouldn't have to be secret (Score 2) 59

So the real problem is not identity theft at all, the real problem is vendors failing to properly identify the person, allowing a fraudulent transaction to occur and then pursuing the wrong person.

Easy way to solve the problem, charge the vendor with fraud with they make a false claim against person when then vendor can not prove a fraudulent transaction was made against them.

It should never ever be a innocent parties fault who had not part in the transaction, they should not need to prove anything. First in the firing line should always be the vendor for making a fraudulent claim against an innocent party. You can bet it will not take long for vendors and credit providers to tighten up on identification requirement once they start facing penalties for fraudulent charges.

Comment Re:Usury turns Free Markets into Capitalism (Score 1) 839

The how is surprisingly really easy, no complicated at all. All you need to do is understand why all, I repeat all, 'isms', social structures fail in modern humanity. It is all down to psychology and genetics. Basically a sub-species of humanity corrupts and disrupts all 'isms' by seeking power and control within that 'ism' by any means possible in order to gratify their own egos and lusts to the point of disrupting that 'ism' and bringing about it's inevitable collapse.

Basically take the psychopaths and narcissists out of position of governance and influence and all 'isms' naturally self correct to serve the humans that form that society. Fail and we see the consistent degradation of a society to a point of collapse. It is all down to nothing more than a developmental disorder resulting from a genetic lack of an autonomic empathic response and the lack of a full range of human emotions. We allow a minority destructive parasitical sub-species of humanity to ruthlessly prey upon and exploit the majority. Make the change in humanity and the 'isms' will self correct.

Comment Re: It's time to start a trade war. (Score 2) 106

The US admits to being actively engaged in economic warfare against other countries with rabid psychopathic claims of it being somehow legal and complains, whines and then ruthlessly attacks other countries when they do far less, like threatening to stop using the World $US Bank and cease propping up the US economy. This stupidity is going to get a lot worse being prodded along by the US military industrial complex, screaming for more money now, a lot of other allied countries are going to start getting caught up in the cross fire.

Comment Re:You have it wrong. (Score 1) 323

False analogy. This is all about who takes initial responsibility for any action until alternate parties can be proven guilty. So with regards to an online account, it is always the account holder until the account holder can substantiate an alternate individual as the person who actually committed the act. In the case of a responsible authority, the one who provides unsupervised access is chiefly responsible, first up is the school and, next up of course is Facebook itself for failing to properly verify who the user was. The idea that parents should take responsibility for all the actions of the children is stupid, this would entail imprisonment of the children by parents to ensure the legal safety of the parents from all the potential harm caused by the children ie should the children play 'doctor' the parents could be held liable for child sexual abuse as they are liable for the play of the children.

Comment Re:Baby steps (Score 1) 352

It makes far more sense to skip the space station beyond simple research and head straight back to the moon. Gravity helps, rather than hinders when it comes to colonising and space has no resources to use unlike the moon. Self sufficiency research can be done quite effectively on the earth, the moon is all about achieving launches in a far lower gravity well. When it comes to radiation protection et al light weight earthmoving (moon dust) equipment can achieve much more than trying to get that mass into orbit.

Comment Re:Of course they're giving a 6-year transition (Score -1) 259

They also don't seem to care about stealing other countries social services and severely disadvantaging their citizens as well as placing a higher tax burdens on them. Basically a government of douche bags that should have been internationally penalised. Taxes should always be paid where the revenue was generated as it is those countries efforts that built the infrastructure and services to support the generation of that revenue.

Comment Re:No Carriers (Score 1) 149

Except of course the journalist is simply extracting that part of the information from a submission to the Federal Communications Commission by a company seeking to promote net neutrality. So youch, a company (name not yet reported) accused of directly intercepting and interfering with a customers communications in order to be able to intercept or block the contents depending upon the sending software and it's controls. You would know that if you actually read the article but of course you could be working for a company that is doing that and are seeking to muddy the waters and the same goes for that pack of friendly modders who also failed to RTFA.

Comment Re: I don't buy it (Score 1) 265

The also missed the one who glaring difference between open source security holes and closed sourced proprietary security holes. Once found they are publicly exposed, and fixed and not lied about and put off until the next paid update, as motivation to pay for that update. Found as in found by the respective communities, one being the open developers and the other being the sales and marketing division of a corporation. Of course from the article itself âoeIf these systems were based on proprietary software, these vulnerabilities would likely stick around a lot longer,â Trost said. âoeThey may not be found ever, and if they were found, they would be found by high-end hackers or nation states.â

Hard to pick what this article is really about, it seems to be hinting at government funding of securing of widely used open source software. So logically any government departments using and securing open source software, share their work with each other and the public via a government sharing house that could also work with other allied countries. This is not a lost investment like buying 'er' renting closed source proprietary code but has potential for major savings across public and private technology use, savings in the range of hundreds of billions of dollars. There is serious money to be saved here across the long term, especially for those countries that don't profit from computer software licences but in fact register huge tax evasion losses as a result, again basically billions stolen in tax evasion scams.

Comment Re:More feminist FUD (Score 3, Interesting) 239

Let's be honest there was also a ton of anti-gaming marketing targeted at women by existing female targeted products. The whole scam being, don't spend you money on games that are meant only for teenage pimpled nerds instead buy makeup, but clothing, buy shoes, buy buy buy more shoes. This is real competition for the consumer dollar or credit line as per the current reality and a huge amount of counter marketing going on, to deny competition.

The computer game does in reality block a lot of other sales opportunities, not just because of the money it consumes but also because of the consumer time it consumes and how cost effective a recreation it is for the consumer ie dollars spent for recreation gained. Something that made it a pretty solid target for peer pressure marketing for decades and this marketing is clearly failing as more females get directly exposed to gaming and benefit by the low cost recreation (money saved from not be spent on other forms of recreation and you don't need to fancy dress to play an online game with others).

Comment Re:No mention on capacity though (Score 3, Insightful) 395

Logically you do not charge electric vehicles at a "commercial vehicle charging station" but at any regularly used parking point via induction charging. Obviously any commercial car park would build in induction charges and charge more slowly based upon estimated parking time and combine charging costs with parking costs. Employers would naturally subsidise the cost of the employee car parks by offering vehicle charging, over the life of a car park it makes sense. Even shopping malls could add in metered vehicle induction charging to charge vehicles during their stay. Pretty much the plain 'gas station' would die over time, replaced by diners with charging while you eat, mini marts with charging while you shop, basically any type of business that has to pay for car parks looking to subsidise that cost with induction charging fees.

This battery breakthrough by "TU professor Rachid Yazami, the co-inventor of the lithium-graphite anode", points to exactly why mega battery factories are so financially risky at this time, real battery breakthroughs are coming down the line, that will change everything. Tying into the right technology (now is the right time) and making sure your investment can compete for the next say 15 years is critical.

Not just used in cars of course but also to be used in residential properties to really drive renewable energy sources and people in the burbs being able to escape the grid (where battery life and capacity are everything and charging time is not so important). Most people of course will be charging at home most of the time and as long as fuelling points match dining times and battery capacity, fuelling on road would be pretty much as it already is on long trips.

Comment Re:security methods can be used by both sides (Score 3, Interesting) 37

They only thing special about this rootkit is that is clearly designed to be installed by an insider. The sort of thing that NSA financially or via extortion corrupted network security types, would install. I'll bet that many foreign countries will not be accepting their version of H1B when they come from the US, in network security jobs.

Comment Re:Funny to see (Score 1) 228

Sea level rise due to human caused climate change. Of course the rest of the economy is still blindly buying underwater front. This contrast is going to grow more and more interesting as time goes by. Rabid right wingers denying climate change and sea level rise whilst their beach front properties go under water and they demand government assistance.

Comment Re:Pardons are for the guilty. (Score 1) 228

No government agency is supposed to criminalise and corrupt the citizens of another state. This is in essence the core of organised crime. Where does it end, how about assassination to keep secrets, random murders to hide activities or hiding criminal activities behind innocent people so they get blamed and imprisoned. So white collar crimes are acceptable when governments are involved, economic warfare, currency forgery, forging electronic bank transactions emptying accounts and shifting the money to more approved accounts. How about extortion, finding evidence of criminal activities in other countries and keeping it secret in order to extort the cooperation of the criminal. So actively promoting organised crime in other countries to enable espionage is a good thing and quite simply fuck the victims of those criminals. Do you not see how this activity does not prevent wars but directly leads to them, it just gets worse and worse, with more extreme measures becoming more acceptable until finally war is the only recourse.

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