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Comment Too good play looks like inspiration. (Score 2, Interesting) 108

I do not believe in charges of cheating based solely on the moves chosen. To Good play is indistinguishable from inspiration. I believe that physical evidence or witness evidence should be required. To do otherwise would be to deny the possibility of inspiration or to only accept it when it assumes a given form. Cheating based on choice of moves is the very definition of speculative evidence. It assumes that humans know where thought and knowledge comes from. We do not.

Comment Will visa help me buy a burner phone? (Score 1) 18

Somehow I don't think Visa will tell me how to buy a burner phone so that when I buy crypto at a crypto ATM, I can do so anonymously. They will not tell me to turn the burner phone off when not in use so it can not be tracked. They will not tell me to turn off my regular phone and go to another location when I turn on my burner phone so the two phones do not become "associated". I just do not think Visa has to corporate culture to tell me these sorts of things.

Comment Don't buy a consumer router unless it supports (Score 1) 74

openwrt or other opensource router software. Upgrade your router to open source code router. With proprietary you not only will not be able to fix found bugs, but you will not be able to detect deliberate backdoors! Their have been cases where backdoors have been reported to companies and the result was that the company replaced the old backdoor with a new one which was hidden by even more smoke and mirrors! I believe that that one of the 3I agencies is going around coercing proprietary router companies to install backdoors for them. There is no way to prove that all private consumer router software is not backdoor infested. The only way you have a chance of backdoor free router software is with published verifiable source. But even here their is a possibility that a programing error which is difficult to detect could alow a backdoor.

Comment susceptibility is not what we thought it was. (Score 1) 224

Maybe susceptibility is not what we thought it was? Maybe susceptibility is like the rules of fizzbin. We always thought set of susceptible people = set of people who have not had it yet. Maybe that is not the case. Maybe the virus has used up all the people who are practically susceptible without using up all the people who have not had it yet?

Comment Re:OpenWRT (Score 1) 92

This is correct. The probability that the router companies have all been compromised by the intelligence agencies can not be excluded. Too many deliberate back doors have been discovered. There have even been instances where a back doors have been reported to the router company and the response was not to remove the the back door, but to hide it more thoroughly. You can not just buy a router anymore! You must replace the firmware!

Comment Bike Lock Party wants to ban Free Speech! (Score 1) 502

It is not surprising that Sen Wyden, a member of the Bike Lock Party, wants to ban Free Speech on the basis of "common decency".

No doubt, Wyden imagines that it will be someone like him and not someone like President Trump that gets to decide what constitutes "common decency" and hence what gets banned in practice. But to imagine President Trump making such decisions, requires thought. And members of the Bike Lock Party don't think, they only emote.

And what do they emote about: Who to hit over the head with Bike Locks.

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