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Comment Re:Climate change is degrading the military (Score 2) 228

Here in the real world, the Secretary of Defense is proposing budget cuts.

The DoD has two problems:
1. The sequester
2. Wildly over-budget acquisition programs for the F-35, the Littoral Combat Ship, IT efforts, and a bunch of other stuff

There's also the issue of the Navy buying a large number of submarines it doesn't have the money to pay for, despite the submarines coming in under budget.

Comment Re: Thats Fair (Score 1) 158

You are Netflix Customer
You are Verizon FIOS Customer
You are already paying for their service (both sides).

You are a potential customer for Verizon's (in-house) streaming offerings.
Hence the conflict between Verizon and Netflix.

Verizon owned 65% of the now-defunct Redbox Instant.
Speculation is that the Redbox Instant team will be retasked to work on Verizon's new digital video service.

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Pentagon Unveils Plan For Military's Response To Climate Change 228

An anonymous reader writes Rising sea levels and other effects of climate change will create major problems for America's military, including more and worse natural disasters and food and water shortages that could fuel disputes around the world, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Monday. From the article: "The Pentagon's 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap (PDF) describes how global warming will bring new demands on the military. Among the report's conclusions: Coastal military installations that are vulnerable to flooding will need to be altered; humanitarian assistance missions will be more frequent in the face of more intense natural disasters; weapons and other critical military equipment will need to work under more severe weather conditions. 'This road map shows how we are identifying — with tangible and specific metrics, and using the best available science — the effects of climate change on the department's missions and responsibilities,' Hagel said. 'Drawing on these assessments, we will integrate climate change considerations into our planning, operations, and training.'"

Comment Re:No. (Score 1) 367

The problem is that they still get money from normal people who don't realize their real agenda. It's a bit like smoking way back in the day - people didn't know it was harmful*, the tobacco companies were pushing untrue messages, etc...

PETA, the organization is a lot like that. They push a specific variation on their message to the world(be ethical about the treatment of animals!) that is non-offensive to the majority of people. As a result, pet owners will donate money to them, thinking that PETA is a bit like the old NRA(which put the money towards safety education, safe firing ranges, and such) - that their money would go towards animal shelters, education, fighting animal abuse, etc... They don't realize that their money is used to fund overpaid executives and push radical agendas.

As such, we need to scream it to the rafters until enough people know to give to their local animal shelter over PETA and PETA goes bankrupt.

*Well, many did, but it wasn't advertised, there were a lot of truly ignorant people.

Comment Re:GMAIL SPAM is fairly accurate (Score 2) 265

But if you miss a critical email because Google accidentally thought something was spam when it wasn't, then Hello lawsuits.

I'm betting you've never read the TOS of your e-mail provider.

For Gmail, the short version is that that they make no commitments about anything, including reliability.

When permitted by law, Google disclaims all warranties and liability for damages.
To the extent permitted by law, Google limits its total liabilities to the amount you've paid them.
Also, you agree that Santa Clara County, California is the controlling jurisdiction for any dispute.

I'm not saying you can't sue Google over misdirected e-mails, just that it'll be a tough case to make and you'll have to rely on California or Federal laws.

Comment Re: And? (Score 4, Insightful) 367

That was pretty much my thought. A camel that's truly pissed off isn't going to be helping you. They're big ornery creatures, after all. Meanwhile in getting the camera view the camel was provided with fodder, water, medical care, as well as all the other help that a domestic camel gets in exchange for walking around.

Comment Re:Victim Blaming vs Common Sense (Score 1) 622

The law needs to track down that car if it is stolen but the person doing this is still an idiot.

A basic primer on contributory and comparative negligence

It's not exactly victim blaming if the victim could have acted in a more prudent manner.
But in this case, a user of online storage isn't being negligent in assuming their backed up files are secure.

The next time, I wouldn't have a problem blaming the victims, as now everyone should know their nudes can get hacked.

Comment Article is stupid (Score 4, Insightful) 265

Google does an excellent job of catching spam. The submitter's problem isn't that, it's that he's got other numpties giving out his email address and then he's not using the Google-supplied tool (that little "mark as spam" button) to mark unwanted email so that Gmail learns his preferences. Instead, he's Dunning-Krugered together his own solution that barely works.

Submitter's problem is PEBKAC.

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Ask Slashdot: Why Can't Google Block Spam In Gmail? 265

An anonymous reader writes Every day my gmail account receives 30-50 spam emails. Some of it is UCE, partially due to a couple dingbats with similar names who apparently think my gmail account belongs to them. The remainder looks to be spambot or Nigerian 419 email. I also run my own MX for my own domain, where I also receive a lot of spam. But with a combination of a couple DNSBL in my sendmail config, SpamAssassin, and procmail, almost none of it gets through to my inbox. In both cases there are rare false positives where a legit email ends up in my spam folder, or in the case of my MX, a spam email gets through to my Inbox, but these are rare occurrences. I'd think with all the Oompa Loompas at the Chocolate Factory that they could do a better job rejecting the obvious spam emails. If they did it would make checking for the occasional false positives in my spam folder a teeny bit easier. For anyone who's responsible for shunting Web-scale spam toward the fate it deserves, what factors go into the decision tree that might lead to so much spam getting through?

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