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Comment Re:Get your "hooked on phonics" lessons out (Score 1) 120

Well, have fun blocking only on specific urls, basically every time something "unwanted" and "wanted" share a hostname.

OTOH, a hosts file does have it's own use, you can apply it easily enough for a WLAN, while filtering on http urls is way uglier, without running an application level proxy on your router, which again is far from trivial.

The APK link on the other hand looks a little bit like spam to me.

Comment Let's be realistic here (Score 1) 260

Dead, Inc. offers this incredible new service, dispose the your ex, for a dynamic fee.

And these pesky authorities around the globe insist that it's murder and illegal. Obviously the authorities want to protect the interests of divorce lawyers.

Basically Uber decided to ignore local laws in most jurisdictions, so I think they should be happy that they are just ordered to cease operating, instead of getting a confiscation order for their illegal gains.

Comment why would anyone want 4G? (Score 1) 259

Affordable 3G (big enough data a package, or flat fee) is probably way more useful.

4G just mean that you can in theory use one GB in 1-2 minutes.

Another thing you might want consider is that you probably don't want to be reach able transparently, personal experience show that getting voice calls during the night (locally) just to say Hi is not only expensive but also gets boring really quick.

Comment Re:Duh... (Score 2) 265

Because the police is not interested in catching the criminal. They are interestesting in arresting somebody that could get realistically convicted.

they need the statistics to look good.

police officers have been known to get the wrong belief.

police officers do lie, and they commit perjury. Can land you in innocently in death row. (And the funny part is, because a crime needs to be proven, and many of the crimes that law enforcment commits require intend, and intend is always very hard to prove, these creeps tend to go home freely.)

From having seen it myself, an interrogation is quite often not much better than bullying the "suspect" into confessing. "Ok, so you don't want to confess, no problem, let us book you, and we'll talk again with you when you've lost your job for not being there for some days. In the meantime we'll probably have to check on all your family, bring them in for interrogation, I'm sure their employers will be understanding if we question them for a day, ...." While many innocent people might be okay with fighting for their innocence, see how many won't try to avoid pulling their family into the hole?

So basically, never talk to the police tends to be a good starting point. Try to prepare mentally. Use any breaks the system allows you, and that means "do not talk" and "ask for a lawyer". Fact is that nearly everything you say can be twisted into making you look bad.

Comment Re:A fifth horseman (Score 1) 449

US government drone strikes and bombings have killed thousands of people in the middle-east. In fact, thousands more than were killed in 9/11. Often, civilian "collateral damage" is considered perfectly OK.

The fact that the US Government kills innocent people does not give us the right to kill innocent people ala Timothy McVeigh.

True. And McVeigh was mostly a home-made terrorist.

That still leaves some issues:

  • How do you influence a government (and their private sector buddies, let's call them the "elite")? They've shown many times that they don't really care much about their constituents. Plus they've shown time over time, that they don't consider them bound by the rule of law.
  • One has to wonder how the press in GB at the time described the Founding Fathers. Wonder if they were described as nice loving freedom fighters. And how the current press (current language usage, morals, understandings, would describe the situation in the colonies.

Comment Re:US vs Europe, again? (Score 2) 278

This is basically how "data protection" (I guess US people would call it privacy) works currently in the EU.

The issue is, that while the broad outline is the same everywhere in the EU, the law is implemented slightly differently everywhere. And how strongly the authorities are enforcing it is also a local detail. E.g. that's why many US companies have their local subsidiary in Ireland, it's not only taxes, but also the fact that Irish authorities are kind of friendly in regards to their business models.

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