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Comment: Re:Conclusion of the report... (Score 1) 40

by Joce640k (#40140797) Attached to: Oz Govt Pushes Ahead With ISP Customer Data Retention

I agree - random ISP lookups all day long and random , plausible emails to random names.

Back in the old days, when HTTP was just a twinkle in Tim Berners-Lee's eye, email programs used to randomly add trigger words (eg. 'bomb', 'nsa', 'plutonium') to all outgoing mail then automatically strip it off again at the other end.

I assume it was done as some sort of hacker joke but we should start doing it again. Any sort of government fishing expeditions through user traffic needs to be made completely futile.

Unfortunately most people send their mail via large corporate software so the chances of it happening are null.

Comment: Re:Why would it need studies? (Score 1) 135

by SgtChaireBourne (#40140629) Attached to: TomTom Flames OpenStreetMap
Except that you haven't compared that output to the actual terrain. Someone tried to foist Bing maps off on someone I know. The guy is mister diplomacy, never a direct bad word about something ,except for the Bing maps. Both the image quality and the accuracy were shit. Had he been shown a random area he was not familiar with, the scam might have worked but in his case it only showed off how buggy and inaccurate the maps were. Needless to say things were better on Google maps and he tried to enlighed the foister. However, Bing was probably chosen on ideology so I'm not sure his admonitions had any effect.

Comment: Re:Conclusion of the report... (Score 1) 40

by Joce640k (#40140601) Attached to: Oz Govt Pushes Ahead With ISP Customer Data Retention

They'll only throw a lot more tax at it to beef up the system

Nope, the ISP will be paying for it.

If the ISPs have to put their prices up you can bet a few more people might hear about this stupid law. The average Joe/Bruce will accept this in the name of saving the babies so long as it doesn't directly cost him more money. Tell him it's an extra five dollars a month and he might start saying "no".

Comment: Re:Designer Humans? (Score 1) 121

by demachina (#40139787) Attached to: The Race To $1,000 Human Genome Sequencing

"But saying "Nazis might use it against us" is not a downside, that's just insane."

At this point you aren't arguing, you are just engaging in abusive name calling.

Whether its racist national socialists or well intended eugenicists paving the road to hell, it is ENTIRELY possible. The entire first half of the twentieth century was full of eugenicists in the U.S., Britain and Germany trying to select out genetic flaws in humans, often using force. California and the Rockefeller foundation pioneered forced sterilization of people with genetic defects. The only reason eugenics died out was because the Germans gave it such a bad name.

Now that we have tools to actually study genes in detail, to manipulate them and really do eugenics its nearly inevitable its going to return in some form.

There is a hard right neo nazi regime in Hungary already, the hard right came in third in the last French election, and an antisemitic neo Nazi party gained seats in the last Greek election. With Europe on the verge of a major economic collapse its entirely plausible there will be more neonazis in power in Europe in the near future. Economic collapses breed national socialism and persucution of ethnic minorities who are scapegoated for the collapse.

P.S. The benefits of vaccines probably out weigh the risks but they have serious down sides too which just shows how biased you are. Some people have violent and dangerous reactions to some vaccines. There is a Federal agency that does nothing but compensate people for adverse reactions to vaccines, its called the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program

Polio vaccines were made with monkey tissue and some batches were contaminated with a dangerous simian virus that was a carcinogen, some people have also been infected with the disease by the oral vaccine. The mercury in Thimerisol was never proved safe which is why it was removed, but large numbers of people were injected with it. For diseases like chicken pox getting the disease and building natural immunity may be superior to vaccine immunity. People with immune system disorders can actually contract some diseases from vaccines.

Comment: Re:Why homosexualism but not incest? (Score 1) 268

by ceoyoyo (#40139265) Attached to: 'Eco-Anarchists' Targeting Nuclear and Nanotech Workers

Your link is kind of suspect - the big headline at the top of the page isn't supported by any of the quotes.

Having kids with a close relative DOES increase that child's risk of genetic diseases. As for mere sex with a relative, laws against that vary quite a bit, from not illegal at all to punishable by life in prison. Yes, some places are more backward in that regard than others. I'm not sure you can blame the bible for it though - there's plenty of incest in the bible.

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