Comment Re:Infingers? (Score 1) 376
Apparently they think it's ok to put your fingers in, so long as you pay.
Rightscorp's New Plan: Hijack Browsers Until Infingers Pay Up 376
A few weeks ago, Rightscorp announced plans to have ISPs disconnect repeat copyright infringers. mpicpp (3454017) wrote in with news that Rightscorp announced during their latest earnings call further plans to require ISPs to block all web access (using a proxy system similar to hotel / college campus wifi logins) until users admit guilt and pay a settlement fine (replacing the current system of ISPs merely forwarding notices to users). Quoting TorrentFreak: [Rightscorp] says 75,000 cases have been settled so far with copyright holders picking up $10 from each. ... What is clear is that Rightscorp is determined to go after "Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Cable Vision and one more" in order to "get all of them compliant" (i.e forwarding settlement demands). The company predicts that more details on the strategy will develop in the fall, but comments from COO & CTO Robert Steele hint on how that might be achieved. ...
"[What] we really want to do is move away from termination and move to what's called a hard redirect, like, when you go into a hotel and you have to put your room number in order to get past the browser and get on to browsing the web."
The idea that mere allegations from an anti-piracy company could bring a complete halt to an entire household or business Internet connection until a fine is paid is less like a "piracy speeding ticket" and more like a "piracy wheel clamp", one that costs $20 to have removed.
Comment Re:science and religion agree! (Score 1) 123
according the some billboard on I-35 the bible says the world will end in 2017
Does it say when we can start looting?
Comment Re:We could only be so lucky (Score 1) 123
Tunguska, Chelyabinsk, you see the pattern.
The heavens punish always those evil comunists.
Yes! At Tunguska, even before they existed!
Comment Small correction... (Score 1) 123
THAT specific meteor isn't, another may be.
Comment For some reason (Score 1) 123
I wasn't particularly worried about a 2880pocalypse to begin with.
Two Years of Data On What Military Equipment the Pentagon Gave To Local Police 264
v3rgEz writes: Wondering how the St. Louis County Police ended up armed with surplus military gear, and what equipment other departments have? A FOIA request at MuckRock has turned up every item given to local law enforcement under the Pentagon's 1022 program, the mechanism by which local law enforcement can apply for surplus or used military gear.
Comment Re:Population declines (Score 1) 116
What chemicals spilled, other than all the radioactive water?
And since when have people not been interested in the effects of chemical spills, genetic or otherwise?
Comment Re:Population declines (Score 1) 116
By not studying the narrow strip of land that was affected by the tsunami.
Bah, you're making the radical assumption that scientists have a clue about the things they study.
Comment Re:Not That Surprising (Score 1) 116
Yes, if there's a reactor meltdown in your neighborhood you should stay put and ignore the panic mongers. A little radiation never did anything.
Comment Re:because... GOD! (Score 1) 109
No, my life would have been changed (i.e., ended in the cosmic collapse) if I *had* hit him.
Comment Re:When did the universe get so big? (Score 2) 109
The speed of light is a limit on how fast you can accelerate something *in* space, but it's not a limit on how fast space can expand.
In fact you can't even state the rate of expansion of space as a velocity, because the velocity apparent as the speed of recession depends on how far away you're looking.
Comment Re:LOL (Score 1) 109
It has a psychological effect because ignorant economists use limited knowledge about the universe to justify austerity policies. Friedman using TANSTAAFL, for example. Except now Dark Energy violates TANSTAAFL, and it didn't hold in General Relativity anyway. So we suffer from an artificially imposed scarcity of money because economists suffer from a lack of knowledge about the universe.
That's not rigorous enough for physics, but I do believe it meets the standards for good economics.
Comment Re:Black Magic is the reason! (Score 1) 109
This is all hogwash.
At least that much of your theory is correct.
Comment Re:because... GOD! (Score 1) 109
God is the fundamental reason for why the universe didn't became a black hole in the early stages after the Big Bang
I can stated with equal evidence and authority that the stray cat I almost ran over yesterday is the fundamental reason for why the universe didn't become a black hole in the early stages after the Big Bang.
Be glad I missed him.
Ok, let's hear it.
[clears throat] "the stray cat I almost ran over yesterday is the fundamental reason for why the universe didn't become a black hole in the early stages after the Big Bang."
