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Comment Re:News at 11. (Score 1) 282

by sociocapitalist (#48129569) Attached to: Four Dutch Uberpop Taxi Drivers Arrested, Fined

How? You can't even buy normal tickets anymore in The Netherlands.

You can get a ChipCart (I think that's the name) at the airport or at Central Station, then use that to ride the trains. You check in at readers on the platform before you board, check out when you get wherever using the same technique and it deducts money from your card.

You can use that same card for buses, trams, trains, etc. You can keep it and use it again when you come back.

I've had trouble buying train tickets in NL - my memory said it was a combination of the train company not accepting bank cards without chips in them as well as refusing visa / mastercard.

Perhaps someone in NL can clarify.

Comment Re: grow your own (Score 1) 236

by sociocapitalist (#48109297) Attached to: Outsourced Tech Jobs Are Increasingly Being Automated

For capitalism humans are required not only for labor but also as consumers. Therefore the elites require to find a way to distribute money to the rest otherwise their system will collapse. However, I have the distinct impression that they do not know that.

In a system without money, consumers would no longer be required.

Comment Re:The Conservative Option (Score 1) 487

by sociocapitalist (#48100793) Attached to: Texas Ebola Patient Dies

And in the meantime, work globally to stop travel out of West Africa until their outbreak problem is under control.

You are no doubt aware that West Africa is connected to the rest of Africa and that the area where the current outbreak exists is large enough that it cannot just be surrounded by a 10 meter high fence and patrolled by armed guards. Blocking such roads as there are will not help where people travel off road as often as on.

Comment Re:The Conservative Option (Score 1) 487

by sociocapitalist (#48100763) Attached to: Texas Ebola Patient Dies

We cannot help the west africans if the disease spreads in the US or infects south america.

Certainly not true. This means we would spend more resources on a cure.

..and said cure would not be available in unlimited quantities, just as existing 'experimental' medicines are not available in sufficient quantities to be of use in the larger scope of things and as such appear to be available only to Americans and Europeans at this point.

The OP is correct. If this spreads to the developed countries the rest of the world be be SOL.

Comment Re:This is crime in many states (Score 1) 191

by sociocapitalist (#48092593) Attached to: DoJ: Law Enforcement Can Impersonate People On Facebook

Louisiana: http://www.criminaldefenselawy...
Unfortunately in New York http://www.criminaldefenselawy... the intent must be criminal.

From your link:
"A person commits the crime of criminal impersonation by: impersonating another or pretending to represent some person or organization with the intent to benefit the defendant.."

Arguably this was done to benefit those doing the impersonation.

Also, it's quite possible that while using her identity the agent performed illegal acts, which would seem to indicate criminal intent, if indirectly.

Comment Re:And her child? (Score 1) 191

by sociocapitalist (#48092547) Attached to: DoJ: Law Enforcement Can Impersonate People On Facebook

So the DOJ also involved her child by posting his picture? As part of a drug investigation?

She should also be suing them on behalf of her child for endangerment. In drug transactions family members can be targets of violence. The DOJ was putting a minor in harms way.

That would go really well for the DOJ in court. I would love to be in the courtroom and watch some lawyer from the DOJ defend a practice that puts a child at risk. I'm sure that the jury would hear that testimony and decide there and then that the DOJ should loose the case very painfully.

Also, aren't their laws pertaining to the use of images of minors without parental consent? Even if the image was obtained legally (not likely in this case). Sounds like a potential criminal case to me. Of course, considering it's the DOJ, they could have used the image in a pedophilia sting and nothing would happen.

They'll buy her off in one way or another. She was on probation...how about a complete clearing of her record to drop the whole thing plus a few thousand 'for the kid's education'.

Comment Re:Please liberate us... (Score 1) 335

by sociocapitalist (#48092405) Attached to: US Says It Can Hack Foreign Servers Without Warrants

To any foreign country out there that doesn't like the US government, please come liberate us and bring us democracy again. As a person that is stuck living in the hell hole that is the USA, I am begging you, please help us -- we are fucked.

Thanks,

-- Brian

You could always move.

And honestly, you're exaggerating. You still have it much better than the vast majority of the people in the rest of the world.

Comment Re:Of course nobody wants to see that happen? (Score 1) 274

by sociocapitalist (#48053993) Attached to: Could Maroney Be Prosecuted For Her Own Hacked Pictures?

Really?

Because it seems to me that if I can be put on a sex offender registry and/or jailed for up to the rest of my life (possibly really short and painful life) simply for owning a phone or email address to which a picture was sent, or god forbid browsing a porn site and they happen to be in the gallery, then the creation and distribution of said photo better be illegal. It better be very very illegal.

No such law should be prosecutable unless intent, on your part, to receive, keep or distribute such material can be shown without doubt.

Comment Re:misleading (Score 1) 72

by sociocapitalist (#48045415) Attached to: Hundreds of Police Agencies Distributing Spyware and Keylogger

This is a misleading story and summary.

I got the impression the police were distributing this as some kind of internet filter, and secretly using it to monitor your computer.
It's not.
The are advertising it for what it is. A keylogger... so you can spy on your kids.
It's a crappy piece of software, and the company that produced it made some disreputable marketing claims.
The police are not using it to spy on you.

I have a 6yr old. The way I monitor his internet activity is simple. The computers in the living room right next to the couch. I can see everything he's doing, any time hes on it. I have the password so he can't log on without me entering it for him. Every game he plays or site he visits I go checkout myself. Btw, Adventure Time Battle party is his favorite and it's actually pretty fun for adults to.

Do you go to his friends' places with him and monitor over his shoulder then too?

My kid is ten and has a good head on his shoulders. I've discussed the risks of the net with him and we've discussed several times what he should avoid.

Teach your kids and they'll be much better protected everywhere they access the net, not just when you're sitting with them.

Comment Re:Why is Boeing responsible? (Score 1) 142

by sociocapitalist (#48045089) Attached to: Boeing Told To Replace Cockpit Screens Affected By Wi-Fi

I think that's between Boeing and Honeywell, no? Honeywell didn't supply the jets with the displays in them - Boeing did. Now if the displays weren't up to the spec under which they were sold, then Boeing probably has a good case to go back to Honeywell and demand compensation. On the other hand, if being unaffected by wifi was never part of the specs or the deal, then that's Boeing's fault and they should have to eat it.

Either way, the airlines should have to deal with Boeing and not with Honeywell.

And to continue that train of thought, why should Boeing have to eat it if there was no law or other legal requirement in place at the time the planes were sold requiring displays to be resistant to wifi (or other)?

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