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Comment Re:are you serious? (Score 2) 81

Trump could sign a peace treaty with Russia tomorrow and /.ers and other American leftists would still bitch about it. "Ooh, of course Agent Krasnov would broker a peace deal with Putin!!

OF COURSE everyone sane would bitch about it - the only "peace treaty" Trump is capable of signing is the utter capitulation suggested by Russia.

Comment Re:Time to Think (Score 1) 82

I agree it sounds like a bad idea. The stock markets already have tools they deploy during crises that pause trading to give people time to stop and think rather than just react. Having trading stop at the end of the day and other markets around the globe take over gives everyone an automatic long pause to regroup and plan for whatever crisis the markets may be looking at..

Just one problem. Not everyone around the world lives in the same timezone.

Comment Re:It's not "late stage capitalism" it's the NYSE (Score 1) 68

Stupid take. The stock market is always forward-looking. If you want your company stock to command a hefty premium, you need to be able to show a believable roadmap to riding major trends into making a lot of money. it's okay if you can't, but still make a lot of money right now and tomorrow. Just don't go Pikachy-face that this is indeed reflected in your stock valuation.

Comment Re:Fraud haven (Score 1) 46

I don't know what they can do about that without breaking their business model

If a business model inherently depends on non-cooperation, opacity, or immunity from justice and harm becomes systemic as a result then that model is not only broken; it is unacceptable.

If you jurisdiction requires communication software vendors to provide law enforcement with a backdoor and/or encryption decryption capabilities, your jurisdisction is not only broken; it is unacceptable.

Comment Re:Escalation in ToS (Score 3, Insightful) 139

In this case it is by law pretty much everywhere because you bought a physical item.

The device and the software on the device are not the same thing,

This, precisely. You might have purchased a physical item and do own it, but you absolutely were not granted ownership of the software running on the physical item. You were granted a license to use it. A license with terms and conditions. A license that can be revoked.

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