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Comment Re:Not "Facts" (Score 1) 381

No one has argued that it won't be detrimental to the business of the paper. Just like if the paper had spent money on selling water for $100 a gallon and other people started selling water for much cheaper would be detrimental to their business. The laws shouldn't not exist to simply ensure someone's failing business model.

There is a very good reason you cannot copyright facts. Just get in line over there with the cooper, blacksmith and candlestick maker and accept your fate.

Comment Re:Throw me a bone. (Score 1) 615

Why should i help you? The whole point of civil liberties is that they protect you from the boogie-monster du jour.

Anytime i see an argument start with "we need X or we won't be able to catch bad guys", I know right away that X is something that violates civil liberties. It's a logical fallacy: argument from ignorance/lack of imagination, and you can use it to justify ANYTHING.

Comment Re:Obvious. (Score 1) 555

How exactly is a company going to get a court order despite there being no crime and no probably cause? In the US (ie: outside of the UK), there is no law about providing encryption keys.

Even if would get a court order, that doesn't mean they'd get the password to the real data partition and not the dummy partition.

Comment Re:Make lemonade (Score 1) 555

And if you are saying 20% that means 1 in every 5 people are unemployed. So if you are talking about couples, you need 2 people unemployed for every 5 couples.

Unless you only know x * 2.5 couples where x is your claimed number of people unemployed, then your personal experience still doesn't back up your assertion.

Comment Re:Stop bringing your machine to work (Score 1) 555

Full Disk Encryption protects against THEFT, not loss/security breaches.

I agree with everything and you probably already know this, but i'll add to the discussion by saying, even with full disk encryption there are ways to make it safer like logging off so keys are cleaned from memory. the cold boot attack needs the keys in memory to recover them later, but smart software will wipe them from memory before shutting down.

Comment Re:Make lemonade (Score 1) 555

That's the worst idea ever. I don't want a pay cut because i can only get paid based on how many years i've served. When all of the ITT grads get paid the same as i do because they have X years of experience, i'll know i'm in hell.

Really dumb old guy has 20 years experience (in crappy jobs) so he should obviously get paid more than a superstar with 10 years of experience. That's why a union is an awful idea.

Comment Re:Doesn't matter what country you are in... (Score 1) 667

That never says it wasn't proven.

It's a list of bad evidence used against DDT. It's not a list of support showing DDT to be harmless. I'm waiting for his next page about how agent orange is actually also a good organophosphate and just got a bad rap because it was used it vietnam.

Does he have one article that is for making any chemical illegal? Under cap and trade he says that CO2 is not a pollutant.

Comment Re:Doesn't matter what country you are in... (Score 1) 667

The point is that DDT harms people more than helps in non-malaria countries.

Without gov't to stop DDT spraying 3rd parties can get harmed. There is no way to prevent DDT from wiping out populations of animals without gov't regulation, just like i can't fish up mercury free Tuna. Private industry hasn't solved that problem.

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