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Comment Re:Extreamists? (Score 1) 59

Do we have to abuse every word until its meaningless.

You can call them extremists, when the bomb some data-center, or gun down a group of intellectual property attorneys at the firms anal barbecue.

Until I think we can go with 'activists' or maybe even 'agitators', hell 'criminal offenders' if you wish, but extremists is kind of a weird take.

Wait, I am confused. Are you talking about spotify or the hackers?

Comment The laziest and sloppiest basis for arrest (Score 4, Interesting) 174

The burden of proof continues to shift to the accused?
Clearly the state's evidence was faulty and the tools they're using are suspect.

The only reason this person was not unjustly dragged into court and very likely
coerced to plead guilty to a crime they did not commit
  was that they paid for and submitted to constant surveillance.

Comment Triage (Score 1) 51

Or in this case, harm reduction.

Sounds like he's realized the climate is screwed and we are completely incapable of thinking far enough ahead to do anything about it.
As the effects of climate change continue to appear, we can address them on a case-by-case basis...if those effects directly involve anything we care about right now.

Meanwhile we should forget about fixing the root cause and apply our efforts where they might have some effect.

Comment Re:IP68 (Score 2) 9

It doesn't, actually. The official description from the IEC says:

Ingress of water in quantities causing harmful effects shall not be possible when the enclosure is continuously immersed in water under conditions which shall be agreed between manufacturer and user but which are more sever than for numeral 7.

Emphasis mine. The standard test for IPX7 is submersion in still water to a depth of 1 meter for 30 minutes. IPX8 is "better than that". Apple, Google, Samsung, etc. all define how much better on their own. CNBC has an excellent video explainer on what exactly all this means.

These companies are designing to protect against people dropping their phone in the toilet, or maybe a kiddie pool. And yeah, as called out in the CNBC video, the advertising is very deceptive and unfair.

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