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Comment Re:Prison time (Score 1) 275

I believe the same thing as with what the people who stole those celebrity pictures. I believe that would be unauthorized use of a computer as defined by the computer fraud and abuse act. That's a federal level felony you know.

And if it's applied to cops (but not teenage hackers with autism, of course) that's good, right?

Comment Re:Prison time (Score 1) 275

There's also the matter of the sex crime.

If peeing behind a dumpster is enough to get someone on the sex offender's list, surely sharing private nude photos without authorization should get them listed.

Just to get it straight in my mind, this applies to anyone who shares nude photos without authorization?

If so, I imagine about half the people who use the internet would become registered sex offenders.

Or is this just for cops?

Comment Re:Prison time (Score 1) 275

Or what? What are you going to do?

The Black Panthers had the only answer. The only thing that can stop a bad cop with a gun is a good citizen with a gun.

The only way to stop a bad cop is a bunch of good cops. If there aren't enough good cops, you're fucked beyond the ability of a single citizen with a gun to do much about it.

Comment Re:IBM no longer a tech company? (Score 1) 283

I personally wouldn't invest in Amazon. That said, overall the company seems sustainable, it can afford to make losses like the one last quarter in part because it can easily reverse those losses if it ever becomes a serious problem.

No other business would be allowed to handwave away losses like that., nor would they be allowed to operate with a business model reliant on becoming a monopoly in various different sectors like "all online retail" or "all online data services" as this is never going to happen. .

Comment Re:IBM no longer a tech company? (Score 1) 283

Amazon is a real business, but their business model basically requires that they shut everyone else down, and not everyone wants to shop with Amazon. So they'll eventually fail if they don't find a new model.

If your fundamental business model is a fantasy, then so is your business.

If Amazon can't generate profits, they don't have a business, and there is surely a limit to how long the "jam tomorrow" excuse can be used.

Comment Re:Make an app, then see if it has a market?? (Score 1) 72

"Journeys & Notes - This is a social app meant for the space between an origin and a destination: It connects you to a community of people who have traveled the same path that youâ(TM)re on. Whether youâ(TM)re taking the bus to work or jet-setting across the globe, you can both leave behind notes for others to discover and read what others have shared."

If I'm in Barcelona and want to know about Barcelona, what does it matter what my source point was and my destination point? Is a restaurant different in flavour if I arrived at it North to South than East to West? Does it make great tapas if I came down from Girona, but not if I drove up from Sitges?

Until someone invents instantaneous teleportation, getting from A to B involves things happening in between. If you spent several hours driving from Sitges to Barcelona, other people might be interested in the sights you saw, what the roads were like, how good the roadside cafe halfway was, and so on.

Comment Re:Better use: online clothing shopping (Score 1) 165

I find that not lying to yourself about your actual body measurements helps.

If those 34 inch waist jeans are too tight to do the fly up, it's most likely that you are in fact a 38 waist, rather than that the jeans are mislabelled.

Top tip: most people don't have the same statistics at 38 that they did at 18.

Comment Re:Boycott ASDA (Score 1) 165

Asda, Morrison, Tesco and Sainsbury are all pretty similar in terms of quality and price, whatever people try and pretend.

They're all equalled in quality and undercut in price by Lidl and Aldi, it's just that you generally have more choice in Asda et al as they have bigger shops.

But if you want an aspirational carrier bag you go to Waitrose,or M&S.

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