Comment Need a failsafe password mecanism (Score 1) 453
Flash devices need a failsafe password mechanism that, if a particular password is entered, it immediately does a device erase on all flash memory.
Comment Re:QUeue the PFTBA TAX! in 3..2..1.. (Score 1) 216
I think you need to check your division skills there, buddy.
Comment Re:Communication lines should be publicly owned (Score 1) 291
1)
--- 99% of the time, they are
2)
--- Haha, fat chance of that
Verizon, for example, isn't rolling out Fios anymore because government won't pay for it. The US Telecom model is "Get infrastructure for free from the taxpayer and then charge them a princely sum to use it, and smile all the way to the bank - just make sure the politicians get their cut."
Comment Political and Corporate Outrage is all Theater (Score 3, Interesting) 174
The reality is that Government and Corporations are on the same side and none of them want to get rid of the tracking.
Nokia Takeover In Jeopardy Due To Alleged $3.4B Tax Bill In India 226
New submitter Snotboble_ writes "The government of India apparently thinks Nokia owes a lot of taxes. They originally told Nokia that the company owed around $340 million, but now reports suggest it could be an order of magnitude higher. Such a large liability would have consequences for Nokia's sale of its handset division to Microsoft. From the article: 'Nokia Corp.'s tax troubles in India worsened Tuesday as local authorities ratcheted up the amount of tax they say the Finnish company may owe to more than $3 billion. Nokia's battle to defend itself from the claims—one of the latest surprise tax bills slapped on big foreign companies in India—could affect its plans to sell its handset division to Microsoft Corp. as the phone company's factory in India is part of the $7 billion deal.'"
Comment Re:Errors While Copying (Score 1) 321
The question is, why the holy hell are you using cp and not rsync?
Comment What threat? (Score 2) 414
Has there been a single documented case of someone using a 3D-printed plastic gun to commit a crime?
Comment Re:Wow (Score 2) 425
It is because we are economic slaves to the elite. Feudalism never died - it only changed form. Instead of being servants to the lords and masters, we are all servants to government.
Comment Re:Doesn't work with MMS (Score 1) 118
It does work. You just have to RTFM and set it up properly.
Comment Re:Stop stimulus for producing waste (Score 2) 273
We need to address waste stimulation, but government can't do that.
People need to take personal responsibility for themselves and own this problem. My wife and I take a trash can to the dump once every 3 or 4 weeks. We have really worked hard to cut down our trash profile by reusing, recycling, composting, reducing, and conserving (for example we use empty dog food bags as trash bags).
Government can't successfully make people do this. They can tax noncompliance to kingdom come but it won't accomplish anything except to give government more money to spend on pork and take more money from hard-working Americans.
The solution to most of society's ills starts right at home, and requires desire and action at the individual level.
The root problem is that government has trained people from a very young age to be people who proclaim "Someone needs to do something!" rather than "What can I do!?" when a problem comes up. Government in its own thirst for power and control has raised a society of helpless dependents, and it really has zero interest in solving problems, because the problems are the source of their power.
Comment Re:I also assert that (Score 1) 326
The 1974 Mustang V8 didn't make 140 horsepower because of MBAs and Bean Counters. It made 140 horsepower because of government.
Government killed the US auto industry back in the 1970s with onerous and not well thought out rules about emissions that did absolutely nothing about the two big government boogeymen of the time: smog and acid rain.
FSF Responds To Microsoft's Privacy and Encryption Announcement 174
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft announced yesterday their plans to encrypt customer data to prevent government snooping. Free Software Foundation executive director John Sullivan questions the logic of trusting non-free software, regardless of promises or even intent. He says, 'Microsoft has made renewed security promises before. In the end, these promises are meaningless. Proprietary software like Windows is fundamentally insecure not because of Microsoft's privacy policies but because its code is hidden from the very users whose interests it is supposed to secure. A lock on your own house to which you do not have the master key is not a security system, it is a jail. ... If the NSA revelations have taught us anything, it is that journalists, governments, schools, advocacy organizations, companies, and individuals, must be using operating systems whose code can be reviewed and modified without Microsoft or any other third party's blessing. When we don't have that, back doors and privacy violations are inevitable.'"
Comment Chicken Little (Score 1) 267
They said the same thing back in the 90s when the manufacturing tech of the time was approaching its theoretical 100nm limit, surpassing which would require manufacturing technology so revolutionary, nobody would ever, 3V4R, be able to afford it.
Have these people not learned anything from Bill's famous "640k ought to be enough for anybody" gaffe?
Comment If I'm gonna die of Cobalt poisoning... (Score 2) 923
I'm at least going to want to do it... On the Beach.
Comment Re:Hopey Changey (Score 1) 365
They could just link to it. It's still up there on this page:
