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Comment Re:And some say Obama isn't a Republican (Score 2) 425

Every time I hear that I think the same thing:
"Hey look, another knucklehead who doesn't actually pay attention to politics but says what ever group think crap he pulls out of his ass so he can feel important."

Really both sides want ongoing endless war in the middle east, both sides want to increases surveillance and move toward a police state, both parties side with big media, both sides want internet censorship,... need I go on. Its not crap when its true. Look at the debates what gets argued, abortion which has been in an endless stalemate since the 60s the. health care well some movement but not in a direction that anyone other than the insurance companies wanted, they argue about war in the middleast but both sides do the same thing go arm extremist topple government then go fight extremists that we armed earlier, controll/access has made no real movement either way. where is the real difference?

Comment Re:Tech Companies have become warring fiefdoms (Score 1) 161

I was carrying a smartphone 10 years ago, my new one is faster, prettier and better integrated, but does it do anything the other one couldn't... nope. Just polishing there, no innovation that I can see. In fact the battery life is significantly worse.

Yeah only back then we called them PDA's

Submission + - Reddit Forces Remote Workers To Live In San Francisco Or Lose Job (venturebeat.com)

Kethinov writes: Having just raised $50 million, reddit suddenly decided to force all its remote workers to move to San Francisco. From the article: "Company CEO Yishan Wong took to Twitter to confirm the new employee policy, which he said was unrelated to the new investment. 'Intention is to get whole team under one roof for optimal teamwork. Our goal is to retain 100 percent of the team,' he said." The decision was not well received by everyone, with some suggesting that perhaps Yishan should get with the 21st century instead.

Submission + - Homeland Security settles lawsuit of reporter whose home they illegally searched 1

schwit1 writes: In a lawsuit settlement Homeland Security has agreed to pay $50,000 and promise to return everything they seized — including confidential files and paperwork that identified Homeland Security whistleblowers –during an illegal raid of a reporter’s home.

Audrey Hudson, an award-winning journalist most recently at the Washington Times, told The Daily Signal she was awoken by her barking dog around 4:30 a.m. on Aug. 6, 2013, to discover armed government agents had descended on her property under the cover of darkness. The agents had a search warrant for her husband’s firearms. As they scoured the home, Hudson was read her Miranda rights.

While inside Hudson’s house, a U.S. Coast Guard agent confiscated documents that contained “confidential notes, draft articles, and other newsgathering materials” that Hudson never intended for anyone else to see. The documents included the identities of whistleblowers at the Department of Homeland Security. The Coast Guard is part of Homeland Security.

The settlement requires the government to return all documents, destroy all notes made from these papers, and promise it did not copy anything. Does anyone believe this?

Comment Re: How about... (Score 2) 482

It's not creepy if it works. It's kind of like real spam - try millions of times and if one works it pays off.

Dick pics/crude messages work for a subset of women as do really well thought out messages. But a really good message costs 30m-1h; a bad one .5 minutes even if the response rate is 10x worse it is still worth it.

I wonder if there is actually a biological factor here?

Hear me out, the predominate male animal biological strategy is to inseminate as many females as possible, each insemination involves injecting millions of sperm after one or two eggs per female. Is it possible that this digital mating-dance-span as it were, is just a logical exstension of the biological stratagy.

Comment Re:Story title needs a warning! (Score 2) 274

ah yes... but Child Pornography is a special kind of pornography. the definition is so broad its scary.

Section 2256 of Title 18, United States Code, defines child pornography as any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor (someone under 18 years of age). Visual depictions include photographs, videos, digital or computer generated images indistinguishable from an actual minor, and images created, adapted, or modified, but appear to depict an identifiable, actual minor. Undeveloped film, undeveloped videotape, and electronically stored data that can be converted into a visual image of child pornography are also deemed illegal visual depictions under federal law...

well with a single XOR instruction and the right arrangement of bytes in a mask you can turn any arbitrary file into any other arbitrary file child porn or otherwise. Thats it lets ban the use of the XOR operator, or any other arrangement of instructions logical/arithmetic operators that could be used to to emulate it...

Comment Re:"Rest assured, the data is going to be obscured (Score 1) 269

Rest assured, the NSA will be getting the unobfuscated stuff and sending the obfuscated data back to MS.

No, this is much worse than that. The collection of data will lead to Microsoft "helping" you use the system...

and that will be a justification for their ultimate goal...

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Comment Re:How does the quote go...? (Score 1) 267

HAHAHA HAHA HA!

Guy from GM - one of the most heavily subsidized corporations in the HISTORY of CAPITALISM has something to say about building a business and a "brand"?

Donald Trump has good advice on how to be born rich, and pretend you are a financial wizard, too.

Not even close.
Ever heard of The East India Trading Company?
they make our "defense" contractors look like a fucking kickstarter indi startup. Just go look at the wikipedia list for English Crown Chartered Companies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

Comment Re: battle with Android and iOS first! (Score 1) 132

Apple actually has a fantastic reputation for respecting user privacy. They don't collect/try to profit off of user data.

Really???

iAd is a mobile advertising platform developed by Apple Inc. for its iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad line of mobile devices allowing third-party developers to directly embed advertisements into their applications.[1][2] Announced on April 8, 2010, iAd is part of Apple's iOS 4, originally slated for release on June 21, 2010, the actual date was changed to July 1, 2010. iAd was announced at Apple's June 7, 2010 keynote, with an iPad version appearing in the fall. Hosted and sold by Apple,[3] the iAd platform is expected to compete with Google's AdMob mobile advertising service.

----- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...

Comment Re:Best outcome (Score 1) 201

The only reason the world tolerates the Middle East crazies is cuz of the oil.

The Russians are also proving they can be crazy as well.

Oil production seems to do that to countries. Did I mention the US Is the second largest producer of oil in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

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