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Comment Re:NOT CONFIDENTIAL!! YAY!! (Score 4, Insightful) 231

What I love is none of this 'terms kept confidential' nonsense that is so typical in court settlements.

The public has a right to know.

You do realize that settlements are basically private contracts right? Are you really saying that I must publicly disclose the terms of any private contract I am a party to, just because the "Public has a right to know"?

No, No, they don't have a right to know. I may allow you to use my intellectual property and by contract disclose it to you for your use, but that doesn't mean everybody in the world is now entitled to see everything.

When a crime is involved (such as unlawful arrest, harassment, theft of property, etc. the cops engaged in), the public has a right to know.
When one of the parties IS the state or one of its many agencies, the public has a right to know.
When the public courts handle a case on the matter, criminal or not, for however long, the public has a right to know regardless of whether the case is settled by the court of by the parties outside of the court.

Comment Re:Safety vs Law (Score 1) 475

So your solution to the problem of people who drive aggressively, don't pay attention, etc (ie the real cause of accidents) is to let them drive FASTER? In what world does that make sense?

You're an idiot.
The solution is to have everyone else driving at a faster speed so the idiots end up juking and jiving between them less frequently.
You can't control the behavior of the idiots, so you're not letting them drive faster. You're telling everyone else that they should be traveling at a reasonable speed.

Comment Re:Safety vs Law (Score 1) 475

Lower speed limits cause more congestion.
Congestion causes all sorts of problems, from making lane changes more difficult (as there is less space between cars) to increasing collisions on the freeways and on the surface streets connecting to them.
You'd cause more shit by setting a speed limit of 45 on the freeway than you would by setting a speed limit of 85.

Comment Re:Muh freedom of speech (Score 1) 748

Oh, that's why I killfiled you. Thanks for the reminder.

Because I point out the hilarious holes and hypocrisy in your posts?
Please respond to my actual points about you dismissing someone's opinions/views and experiences on the basis of their race, sexuality, and gender. I could use a good laugh. Or continue to tell me more about how I've been "killfiled". Either way works.

Comment Re:Fast, reliable, not expensive = win (Score 1) 64

Seems a good bet if you want reliability

good bet if you want reliability limited to 43TB of writes. Or did you miss that small print in the warranty?

No one will read the warranty.
When they send it in they'll be denied with an explanation of "You wrote too much to this drive, see? This hidden, unreliable, untrustworthy counter in the firmware says so.".

Comment Re:This is something I wanted for a long time (Score 1) 64

I thought AMD chips are competitive in some parts of the market (not top-end, though). The last chip I bought was an AMD A10 - 4 cpu cores and 6 graphic cores on the one die. It saves having to buy a separate graphic card and the graphic cores have full access to the same memory that the CPU cores use which I think is an interesting architecture.

They compete on performance / $.
They win at cores / $.
They lose at performance.
They lose at TDP.

Comment Re:Long overdue (Score 1) 748

1. Censorship only applies to governments.

LOL!
What if I said "Racism only applies when the government does it."? Would you flip your shit at how absurd that is?
You probably would, and you still wouldn't see how absurd your own statement is.

Censorship occurs when things are censored, government or not.
1st amendment violations occur when the government limits or criminalizes speech.

Comment Re:Muh freedom of speech (Score 1) 748

You're a straight white male, aren't you?

You're a heterophobic, racist, sexist, bigot, aren't you?
You're literally dismissing someone's opinions, views, and experiences based on their sexuality, race, and gender, without consideration, simply because they differ from your own established views.
You're matching the exact definitions for these things, ignoring the whole hijacking of "phobic" that PC clowns like you pulled with "homophobic".

Comment Re:Sigh (Score 1) 748

there were endless posts about how "just not liking gays" was somehow a perfectly okay position to take

It absolutely is an perfectly fine position to take. People are allowed to like, dislike, hate, and love whatever they want, for whatever reasons they want. How they act on those feelings is a different matter entirely.
If people like you are FOR tolerance and acceptance as you always claim, why is it that you're always driving a hate train at anyone who disagrees with your views?
Why is tolerance and acceptance limited to the groups and opinions you like? If you were open-minded, tolerant, or accepting, you would abide the opinions and views of others even when you disagreed with them, and you would simply ignore those that you found offensive and instead focus on actual crimes, not your phony thought crime bullshit.

Comment Re: Amost sounds like a good deal ... (Score 1) 376

3 != 4.
A triangle is not a square.
Red is not blue.
Hydrogen is not helium.
A dog is not a cat.
If the coin landed heads-up, the coin did not land tails-up.
If someone was in location A at time T, they could not have been in location B at time T committing crime C.

That are some nice claims, can you prove any of them?
I bet that a lot of smarter minds than yours have tried to prove the first one and failed.
As for the others, a presumption of inequality is not proof.

They are all proven by their definitions, which are to the exclusion of the other possibilities.

Comment Re:Tor (Score 2) 376

If the ISP is redirecting every port coming from your IP, it doesn't matter what protocol you use. Instead of getting the "hotel" like page, you get nothing.

If the ISP is redirecting/blocking everything, there will be hell (and a lot of its lawyers) to pay the moment someone with VOIP tries to dial 911 after they were blocked.

If data of any form can get out of the pipe to a host not controlled by the ISP, then the blocking can be circumvented.

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