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If correlation = causation, there may be something else we need to take a look at: http://politicsthatwork.com/gr...

The rest of these point out that you're statement of "easy access to firearms actually protects people" is most likely bullshit.

http://www.factcheck.org/2015/...

http://www.nationaljournal.com...

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

http://www.inquisitr.com/18064...

http://www.deseretnews.com/top...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/50...

This should amuse you:
http://www.inquisitr.com/59633...

http://www.inquisitr.com/15151...

I have an idea for starters. How about, to start, that all sexual abuse and harassment will be considered strictly unacceptable?

Define that. In my first sexual harassment class back in the late 80's, a fellow asked the counselor what sexual harassment was defined as.

Her answer? "Anything any woman thinks is sexual harassment - is sexual harassment.

As you might imagine, a hush fell over the room. How does one have any interaction with a woman if she can interpret "hello" as sexual harassment?

I did ask a coworker what she considered as harassment - she said "It depends". Keep in mind this was a woman who used to find it funny to goose me when I was using a glove box and couldn't move or get hy hands loose.

But back to our counselor we were told that remarks on how the woman looked, saying we liked her jewelry, or her dress, or her hairstyle, or any mention of anything physical or anything that could be interpreted as sexual in nature would very likely result in us getting fired.

Know what effect that had on most every man there? We avoided women like the plague. We made certain that nothing other than business was discussed when we absolutely had to deal with them, and we very often made certain to have a witness along with us.

Know what effect that had on the assholes? None.

Want to know what effect that had on 99 percent of the women there? Pissed them off royally. Our staff assistant had the dirtiest mind I've ever known. Silly small talk. She was devastated when the guys started avoiding her. Because despite what a few folks think, women actually think about sex, talk about sex, and make jokes about it.

Some years later, after seeing the unproductive chill this had put on campus inter-gender relations, not to mention actual real cases remained unchanged in number, these draconian guidelines were relaxed a good bit.

I'm not certain if the incident had anything to do with the change of heart, but not too long before this happened, one of the machinists was taken to task because someone saw in his toolbox, a photograph of a cheerleader. Since photographs of women in cute little outfits were considered harassment of other women, he was turned into HR.

The offensive photograph that was so demeaning to women and considered sexual harassment? It was a photo of his daughter, who had made the high school cheerleading team. He did note that if he was disciplined, he was going to take it to the legal system, as denying hime to post a school photo of his daughter, not unlike the ones the HR people had on their desks, surely looked like discrimination.

So be careful what you ask for. In your ideal world where women cannot hear anything regarding sex, you could end up with...http://feminist.org/education/SexSegregation.asp

or http://www.tolerance.org/magaz...

https://62e528761d0685343e1c-f...

http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-co...

or even.....http://www.relativityonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/12653311_img9939.jpg

Scientists.

The same ones who, in pre-industrial society, were also quite sure that they could measure someone's criminality by feeling the lumps on their skulls? Those sorts of pre-industrial scientists?

So you refuse modern medicine too, right? And you don't use the internet either right? I mean, you've just crossed disciplines to invalidate global warming with phrenology so nothing should be safe using your watertight logic, right?

OMG the blood brain barrier was broken! Too bad they belong to the human race and someone else in the human race used to believe in head lumps! Totally invalidates that, right?

You are the worst.

That "very definition" is used incorrectly by so many people, including you. When you're slapping it into a call to an encryption/decryption function, it's ALL effectively "something you know". A thumbprint hash is just data, so is a keyfile, so is the output of an RSA clock at any time. Security "experts" tried to model this off of physical security principles, but they don't translate over. That doesn't stop them all form parroting "something you know, something you have, and something you are hurr derp", though.

Something you HAVE and something you ARE need to be verified by some authority that controls access. It's like buying pseudoephedrine at the drug store. They ask for something you HAVE (your driver's license), and they verify it to a reasonable extent. Without an active arbiter, you can only use something you KNOW. Imagine buying pseudoephedrine on Amazon. That something you HAVE becomes something you KNOW because all you can do is type in your driver's license number, state, and expiration date. At the drugstore, they expect a physical card with a photo that looks like you and a magstripe that swipes with valid data. They can also physically see if you look like a tweaker who's got the shakes because they need another hit.

You can try to use automated arbiters, but they're vulnerable. A thumbprint scanner can be tricked into scanning a fake thumb or someone else's thumb, or it can be bypassed completely if you know the output it gives for your target thumb. A car with a breathalyser can be tricked by having someone else, or a raccoon, blow into it (that story was fake by the way - http://www.inquisitr.com/24605... ). Or, again, if you know what the breathalyser outputs on a good blow you can bypass it entirely.

You can try to use remote arbiters. A typical example is a security camera and a remote person monitoring and unlocking doors and shit. You can attack the camera, dress up as the target, put a photo of the empty hallway over the camera so that's all it sees, whatever. For an apartment gate/door with an intercom and a "buzz me in" system, you can pretend to be anyone to anyone who can buzz you in, or you can click the button a bunch and make the sound distorted and someone will just fucking buzz you in to make it stop, or you can always attack the gate.

Something you KNOW is the only thing you can use without an arbiter, because the mere knowledge of that thing is what constitutes valid access.
Something you ARE and something you HAVE require an arbiter for verification, otherwise the mere knowledge of those things can be used to masquerade/forge the thing that you ARE/HAVE. Automated and remote arbiters are better than nothing, but their automation/remote nature make them less able to verify the ARE/HAVE to the same degree an active and present arbiter can.

The most common "two factor" authentication systems in place are RSA clocks and one-time passwords sent via SMS.
No one verifies that you have and own that dongle with seed XYZ or that the specified phone number belongs to you. They verify that you know the code the dongle output or that you know the code they send you. Knowing either isn't very hard, and you can attack on either end.

RSA clocks: Attack the database that has the seeds and generate your own valid codes willy nilly. Steal the dongle. The easiest, however, is to pwn the target's device / MITM the target's network connection. When they're doing shit intercept the code and use it in your own attack (they all have pretty wide validity windows to account for clock skew, time for users to type it in, latency and processing time, etc.) This is why many places now require you two input two separate codes to disable the dongle - a victim will typically not provide 2 codes within a short time span. Of course this is pointless as the attacker can spoof a message to the victim s

Maybe you should rethink your HuffPo talking points and educate yourself: http://www.inquisitr.com/12548...

Violent crime has been reducing in many western nations over the last few decades. Much of this reduction is probably due to the removal of lead from petrol/gasoline, and the subsequent reduction in neurotoxic effects that can cause violence.

All we're left with now is the true nutters, who shouldn't be near a gun. And with your lax gun controls, guns and ammo are easy and cheap to get hold of.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/maga...

Maybe you should rethink your HuffPo talking points and educate yourself: http://www.inquisitr.com/12548...

Apple needs to bring more to the party. Like a la carte cable channels. That would be "One More Thing..." that would make me drop the cash.

You mean like this, which they have had working for a bit, or this which they have been working on for most of this year?

...Sunscreen actually causes cancer...

.

Whoa. Dude, I just saw on the Internet that "Sunscreen Actually Causes Cancer"!

A quick google shows that this is not a joke

June 12, 2015: MH370 Perfect Nose Dive: Mathematicians’ Theory Is The Latest Setback In Search That Could Soon Be Over

I can't say I RTFA, but when the police shut down the street and show up at your front door with the bomb squad, most people don't realize they have the right to ask for a warrant.

People always have the right to *ask* for a warrant, but the police don't always need one.

Our paramilitary police forces make increasing use of "no knock warrants." It is very difficult to ask to see a warrant when your ears are ringing from the flash-bang and very difficult to be rational when your baby's face is on fire

Mod up. Please.

Like this

Or this

Or this

A better example might be paying a prostitute to fuck a dog. Few takers then, I bet.)

Never send a woman to do a man's job

Florida Man Arrested After Wife Calls Police When She Catches Him Having Sex With Family’s Chihuahua

Gonzalez is just one in a growing list of Floridians being caught sexually abusing animals. In 2011, 54-year-old Eugene Hickman was arrested in June after his grandson discovered him naked on top of the family bulldog. In 2004, Ocala resident Randol Mitchell was caught by his girlfriend having sex with her Rottweiler. In 2005, Alan Yoder was charged with animal cruelty after he was caught having sex with his guide dog.

The 50% of all American marriages end in divorce statistic gets referenced all the time. The problem is that it isn't true. Although there are different ways of measuring the divorce rate, a good average seems to be somewhere around 30% and it's getting lower.

The first google hit.
The NY Times has a more credible article.

Recently there was a video going around of a racist beating up a child. With some searching I was curiously unable to find the raw video so here is a news article about it. This video was banned from Youtube for "encouraging bullying". When you're claiming presentation of evidence is encouraging the crime you've gone one step too far. It becomes censorship. If we don't see it it hasn't actually happened? The only reason I know about this at all, given youtube taking it down, is the wide news reporting on it. Imagine it were something even more controversial: "senator kicks kitten". Would any news organization report it? Sure if enough people found out about that hypothetical video for the Streisand effect to kick in it would be all over the chans but besides that. And how many of you go to the chans for news anyway? I know I don't.

The point of all this is that anything sufficiently sufficiently controversial is getting censored in the name of protecting our fragile little minds with a very real, very strong chilling effect. It will be a sad day when I have to make my own website mirrored on Tor to proactively report on anything that might get censored but I can see that day coming.

see also...

http://www.inquisitr.com/24162...

We're not even over the NSA hard drive hacks and now this?

Next you're gonna tell me Americans shove food up people's ass for freedom. Oh wait they do.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of worldâ(TM)s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

"hard drive" isn't even mentioned in the summary. You idiots got misdirected.

The focus should be on the fact that all hard drives from major brands can be fucked with by the NSA and there are no solutions, the focus shouldn't be on some fucking hacking group:

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of worldâ(TM)s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

Why don't you stupid American fucks sue the NSA and all the American corporations exposed by Snowden.

You Americans idiots bitch and moan about little adware from others while ignoring the biggest exploits developed by your own people.

Fuck off.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

The NSA bugs all hard drives, there are your END USERS.

Slashdot kept burying the story, while minor Chinese related news gets double exposure.

Obvious NSA American dumb down operation at work.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

It's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call slashdot a geek site? "News for nerds, stuff that matters" my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

It's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call slashdot a geek site? "News for nerds, stuff that matters" my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

It's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call slashdot a geek site? "News for nerds, stuff that matters" my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

Come on slashdot, stop deleting the NSA hard drive backdoor news submissions, it's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call this a geek site? Stuff that matters my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

Some people are worrying about doubling the LHC power.

Though the overall reduction was only 10 percent, the impact is quite visible, claim proponents of marijuana consumption. According to the data obtained, homicides went down from 17 to 8, a massive 53 percent drop, automobile break-ins went down from 2,317 to 1,477 (36 percent), and sexual assaults from diminished to 95 from 110 (14 percent).

http://www.inquisitr.com/14900...

Violent Crime Down Since Colorado Legalized Marijuana

When Colorado legalized recreational marijuana, critics of the idea warned it would lead to more crime throughout the state. But the impact has been just the opposite so far in the state’s largest city, which has seen violent crime go down.

Crime data for Denver, the hub of legal pot sales in the state, shows murders, assaults, rapes, burglaries and other violent crimes declined during the first three months of the year, compared with the same period for 2013.

Homicides went down from 17 to 8 (a 53% drop), automobile break-ins from 2,317 to 1,477 (down 36%) and sexual assaults from 110 to 95 (down 14%). Overall, violent and property crimes dropped more than 10% from last year to this year during the first quarter.

Two types of property crime did go up—arson from 20 incidents to 47 (a 135% jump) and larceny from 2,133 to 2,287 (up 7%).

http://www.allgov.com/news/unu...

Ray Kurzweil's got this ultra-longevity thing figured out

Still further, Colorado is seeing the general effects of people being stoned, such as deaths,

This turns out to be hysterical misinterpretation of the evidence. If you follow that link back to the source, https://www.sciencenews.org/ar... you'll see what they really say is

The results offer just a “snapshot at the time we did the testing,” Thames says. They describe an association, not causation. “The question down the road is, what kind of implications does that have for everyday functioning?”

Scientists have largely failed to turn up compelling evidence that adult pot smokers risk permanent brain problems, Earleywine says. “Being stoned all the time is a strange way to live your life,” he says, but data just aren’t there to argue that a cannabis-fueled lifestyle is permanently harmful to the adult body and brain.

So far nobody has been able to supply any evidence (good enough to be published in a peer-reviewed journal) that marijuana is harmful.

A bigger problem than marijuana is a lack of the public understanding of science. These people don't understand what "evidence" is.

Colorado already proved that with the tax revenue they brought in from legalized marijuana,

False. Colorado brought in 20% of the promised revenue from legalization and the prospects of them meeting their initial projections are about as likely as Steve Ballmer running Linux.

Before you then say, "Well, they at least got something," I would like to remind you of this article wherein people on here were claiming Chicago's use of red light cameras a failure when they only got 44% of the initial projected income. Apparently getting 44% of of something is much worse than getting 20% of something.

Still further, Colorado is seeing the general effects of people being stoned, such as deaths, robberies and murder, and of course the general loss of productivity from people unable to perform their jobs such as two nurses who quit their good paying jobs at a hospital where a family member works because they would have failed the mandatory drug tests.

Just like Kansas' failed experiment of lowering taxes and cutting services didn't magically produce more revenue, whatever amount of money Colorado brings in will be eaten up by the side effects of legalization and, as this article clearly indicates, bordering states will also suffer financial losses and deaths.

But I also think there's been a massive overreaction by the health care industry because of HIPAA,

THIS!. It's difficult for me to get the status of a family member. After all - "Privacy!"

Then these hospitals, these guardians of privacy, thesde bastions of HIPPA, put a unguarded computer on the net, and give everyone's records away. Or just put it on Facebook.....

http://www.journal-news.com/ne...

http://www.journal-news.com/ne...

http://www.inquisitr.com/12847...

http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2014/...

http://www.inquisitr.com/12847...

And onandonandonandon. The uncontestable fact that Hospitals are the largest source of leaked personal data means that there is no need nor point for it to be encrypted, because as soon as it's in plaintext, it's darn near publicly posted.

But I also think there's been a massive overreaction by the health care industry because of HIPAA,

THIS!. It's difficult for me to get the status of a family member. After all - "Privacy!"

Then these hospitals, these guardians of privacy, thesde bastions of HIPPA, put a unguarded computer on the net, and give everyone's records away. Or just put it on Facebook.....

http://www.journal-news.com/ne...

http://www.journal-news.com/ne...

http://www.inquisitr.com/12847...

http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2014/...

http://www.inquisitr.com/12847...

And onandonandonandon. The uncontestable fact that Hospitals are the largest source of leaked personal data means that there is no need nor point for it to be encrypted, because as soon as it's in plaintext, it's darn near publicly posted.

So, we should execute John McCain as a traitor to the US, for providing material support to a terror organization and providing aid and comfort to an enemy?

Because you really don't know what's happening, do you? Mr. Jones?

http://www.inquisitr.com/13261...

http://countercurrentnews.com/...

http://topconservativenews.com...

http://www.theminorityreportbl...

we're worried about dying from Global Warming . . . getting hit by an asteroid . . . an Ebola epidemic . . . but nobody seems concerned that maybe the Earth could bust apart at its seems.

You're kidding, right?

Just after people's terror of word-ending asteroids wore off, the media was pushing the Yellowstone Supervolcano (very hard) as the thing we should all be pissing our pants about. And they really never gave-up on it, either:

http://www.inquisitr.com/10848...

http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/30/...

http://news.nationalgeographic...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt04...

Here is another story with visuals.

And a vice president who claims that oil is destroying the planet.

http://www.inquisitr.com/506480/jon-stewart-confronts-al-gore-on-selling-out-to-big-oil-video/

Several Barilla's competitors expressed support for LGBT equality. Buitoni, an Italian food group owned by Nestle, was probably the first one to post a photo on their company Facebook page with the caption 'At Casa Buitoni, there is room for everyone.' Buitoni US division also posted a photo on their facebook page as explained on http://www.inquisitr.com/970331/barilla-pasta-boycott-addressed-by-competitors-buitoni-bertolli/

Good graphics cards are big. Most people don't need them, true, but PC gaming is still very much alive - Diablo 3 has sold about 15 million copies. That's about a half _billion_ dollars right there, for one game.

Sure, your converged phone won't replace a gaming rig for hardcore gamers, but not everyone games, and not everyone who does does so on the PC.

People have been predicting the death of the desktop for decades, whether due to consoles, laptops, mobiles, whatever. It's never going to happen while good graphics cards and processors need a lot of cooling, and therefore are big.

Who's talking about death of the desktop? Desktop is useful for some people. But again, not everyone games on the PC, strange as it may seem to you. With 16GB of ram on my laptop, I could easily do all my development work on my laptop, once attached to a bigger screen and keyboard.

The only reason laptops haven't taken over from desktops is that you can't make a laptop do what a desktop does for a similar price, and in some cases not at all. Good luck getting similar performance from a phone.

Newsflash: laptops HAVE taken over desktops, in the sense that more laptops are sold than desktops, by about a factor 2 in 2012 http://www.inquisitr.com/76157/tablets-to-overtake-desktop-sales-by-2015-laptops-will-still-reign/, and that's excluding netbooks. Why? because performance is good enough for most people. Because the price differential is not quite as big as it used to be, and is worth it for many people in exchange for the portability. Tablets and netbooks are each also moving a comparable number of units to desktops. Again, they're good enough for many uses for many people.

Give it another couple iternations in performance, storage and battery improvements, and phones will be good enough for most people too, and will just need a bigger screen and keyboard to be usable for running most desktop applications, except for high-GPU users like games, photoshop, etc.

It seems to me a bit frivolous to be connecting lights, toilets, refrigerators and whatnot to wireless technology.

If we're doing aggregator writeups it's been done better by someone who actually found the original Trustwave alert.

http://www.inquisitr.com/860668/louise-goldsberry-police-swat-team-raids-wrong-apartment-59-year-old-nurse-pulls-gun/

Some kings probably spent resources on hiring wizards to cast magic spells to protect their castles and curse their enemies. To say the least, this was probably not cost effective.

Modern spells like "Authorized Use Only" and curses like "Full extent of the law" are nearly as effective, especially when obtained from and managed by a lowest bidder wizard. Not all wizards are created equal ;)

Well one thing you can do is use an open source operating system. It isn't going to be 100% secure (nothing is), but at least the source code has millions of eyes on it looking for holes, and you aren't reliant on some central authority to make fixes available after the NSA is done exploiting them.

Yes, this is an excellent suggestion and one of the most reasonable responses to the attack we're under. A thing about these millions of eyes is they are millions of unqualified and non-programmer eyes. The domain specific talent required is supplied mainly by commercial companies, each with their own agendas. I understand the sentiment and even with opensource you're still running it on someone else's hardware, even if you paid for it and possess it you do not own it.

Even if the NSA has proof that a guy hacked into a computer to become student president of a state college, they aren;t going to allow this info to be used in a trial.

Initially you mentioned cost, that it's "expensive" and my point was that the system is already in place and is paid for (by us, also those fees that get tacked on to cellphone bills) and seeing use. Compared to the cost of the network, the $20 million USD annually, it's cheap just like storage space. I'll give you another comparison, Youtube (estimated) costs $2 million USD to operate daily. Location information with handsets specifically is a byproduct of the system; see the value of accurate billing information. The way this guy "hacked things" was done locally with keyloggers negating the need to snoop on traffic. No need for the NSA, just simple admin work.

I think a world where 0 day exploits are rampant is preferable to one where all these holes exist but are yet to be discovered. Even if the bad guys find them first, the good guys can usually know shortly after.

"Bad" guys finding them first would be hackers, no? Is it only bad when hackers sell them to others? Or is it when they don't tell people about them? Or is it only when they're exploited? Wouldn't supporting one of these companies where you buy 0days make you complicit in supporting the "bad" people thus making you one of the "bad" even if you're doing it for the perceived greater good?

people, at least not that i know of.

people who cannot comprehend the difference between a priavte corporation, with your consent, sharing your information, and government agencies obtaining your email without warrant, are...

Facebook use leads to Arrest
5/26/13 In Britain, Police Arrest Twitter and Facebook Users If They Make Anti-Muslim Statements

Facebook use leads to Imprisonment
5/25/13 Jailed for Facebook Comments, Marine Sues

Facebook use leads to Rape
5/28/13 Facebook Rape Joke Prompts 15 Companies to Pull Ads

Facebook use leads to Killing
2/09/12 Facebook "Defriending" Led to Double Murder, Police Say

It seems you're right in that there is a difference between Facebook and the NSA. The NSA's system has a far cleaner track record. If only the NSA would let us join their social network we'd live in a safer world.

I am getting tired of Apples continuing Privacy abused, first they sell their customers to the highest bidder now this.

Even Siri was ruined with advertising http://www.inquisitr.com/256025/steve-wozniak-says-apple-ruined-siri-technology-after-acquisition/ "Steve says he initially loved Siri because it could accurately answer questions such as “What are the five largest lakes in California?” and “What are the prime numbers greater than 87?” . To which Wozniak replied, “It’s incredible. It’s like it understands ‘greater than.’”

Wozniak also notes that his former question about California Lakes now brings up lakefront properties while his question about prime numbers now displays information about prime ribs."

There EULA's have got so abuse they are subject to ridicule by South Park http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HumancentiPad in HumancentiPad

Three words "Don't be Evil"

There was a rumor of a Saudi student being arrested .. ... and then the authority came out and said that Saudi student wasn't the suspect

Okay, I accept that

But the following action from the government of the United States have been very suspicious

They want to deport that Saudi student !!

Why ?

If that Saudi student is innocent, and if he is still studying, why deport that guy ?

Or is there something that the authority does NOT want us to know ???

http://www.examiner.com/article/saudi-person-of-interest-boston-bombings-to-be-deported

http://www.inquisitr.com/624111/saudi-national-no-longer-boston-marathon-suspect-may-face-deportation/

http://www.inquisitr.com/256025/steve-wozniak-says-apple-ruined-siri-technology-after-acquisition/ Here is Steve Wozniak showing how siri was destroyed by Apple advertising “What are the five largest lakes in California?” and “What are the prime numbers greater than 87?” (91). To which Wozniak replied, “It’s incredible. It’s like it understands ‘greater than.’”

Wozniak also notes that his former question about California Lakes now brings up lakefront properties while his question about prime numbers now displays information about prime ribs

Why do you interpret an expression of lack of belief as "being a dick"? Why is saying "there is a god" not being a dick, but saying "there is no god" being a dick? Why is it OK for christians to shove their religion down my throat, but not OK for me to even make you aware that I exist?

e.g. Here's a case where atheists have merely informed the community that they exist. "We are here and we are good people too." That's all it took to rile up the christians.

No, atheists aren't dicks. It's the thin skinned theists who can't stand the tiniest bit of dissent who are the dicks.

I don't know Alan, but looking at pictures of the device at http://www.hanscan.com/en/hsc-ac-it2 I'd guess that it's a Fingerprint cards RF-based placement scanner (http://www.fingerprints.com/Products/Sensors/FPC1011F.aspx) with an IR pulse detector (for example, http://pulsesensor.myshopify.com/pages/open-hardware), wrapped by a bunch of simple software apps for time-and-attendance, low-value shopping, etc.

Frankly, everyone in the business is trying to replace credit cards; how else can you envision getting 3% of every transaction made, anywhere, without having to do more than lift a finger now and then?

And there are a lot of people trying to do it:
http://www.paywithisis.com/
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/lenovo-nok-nok-labs-paypal-validity-lead-open-industry-alliance-revolutionize-online-1755467.htm
http://www.inquisitr.com/490728/authentec-iphone-6-fingerprint-detection-and-apple-release-date-rumors/

I wish him luck.

The car was equipped for disabled drivers, which is skillfully omitted from this story. The controls are not like the ones we are used to. And the driver was also disabled. http://www.inquisitr.com/523747/125-mph-no-brakes-disabled-driver-stuck-in-runaway-car/

From the same continent, an even worse story about the dangers of Google Maps - sending people the wrong way down a dangerously narrow one way road. It comes with a similar warning from police not to rely on Google Maps.

Apple's error has affected a handful of people (one that we know of), while Google's error affects a great deal more people since it's a road along the sea-side where a huge amount of tourist traffic exists.

So can we infer from your post that Google Maps is a fiasco a decade in the making? I would say Google Maps works pretty well, as does Apple Maps - but that mapping is a hard thing to get quite right. When you start singling out errors it throws egg on the face of every map company, not just the one you are targeting (and in this case most the egg did not even land on Apple).