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Yet another NSA shill pointing fingers at someone by Anonymous Coward · 2014-07-20 11:04 · Score: -1 · on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17

Yet another NSA shill pointing fingers at someone else

To distract you from US gov disinfo and cover up projects like congressedits.

Assassination of John F. Kennedy Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives
Donald Rumsfeld Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives
Nevada Test and Training Range Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives
Trilateral Commission Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives
City of London Corporation Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives
Crimea Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives

Simply put, Americans, don't worry about what others are doing, whatever bad is happening outside the US, your government is doing it 10 times worse and you're taking the blame for them.

Yet another NSA shill pointing fingers at someone by Anonymous Coward · 2014-07-20 11:04 · Score: -1 · on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17

Yet another NSA shill pointing fingers at someone else

To distract you from US gov disinfo and cover up projects like congressedits.

Assassination of John F. Kennedy Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives
Donald Rumsfeld Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives
Nevada Test and Training Range Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives
Trilateral Commission Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives
City of London Corporation Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives
Crimea Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives

Simply put, Americans, don't worry about what others are doing, whatever bad is happening outside the US, your government is doing it 10 times worse and you're taking the blame for them.

Yet another NSA shill pointing fingers at someone by Anonymous Coward · 2014-07-20 11:04 · Score: -1 · on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17

Yet another NSA shill pointing fingers at someone else

To distract you from US gov disinfo and cover up projects like congressedits.

Assassination of John F. Kennedy Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives
Donald Rumsfeld Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives
Nevada Test and Training Range Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives
Trilateral Commission Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives
City of London Corporation Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives
Crimea Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives

Simply put, Americans, don't worry about what others are doing, whatever bad is happening outside the US, your government is doing it 10 times worse and you're taking the blame for them.

Yet another NSA shill pointing fingers at someone by Anonymous Coward · 2014-07-20 11:04 · Score: -1 · on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17

Yet another NSA shill pointing fingers at someone else

To distract you from US gov disinfo and cover up projects like congressedits.

Assassination of John F. Kennedy Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives
Donald Rumsfeld Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives
Nevada Test and Training Range Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives
Trilateral Commission Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives
City of London Corporation Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives
Crimea Wikipedia article edited anonymously by US House of Representatives

Simply put, Americans, don't worry about what others are doing, whatever bad is happening outside the US, your government is doing it 10 times worse and you're taking the blame for them.

Re:Sarah Palin by _Sharp'r_ · 2014-03-02 18:02 · Score: 1 · on WikiLeaks Cables Foreshadow Russian Instigation of Ukrainian Military Action

Or, because she was smarter than her critics on foreign policy....

But hey, you can always check snopes for the actual context of her remarks on Russia...

Is this the topic of my reply? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-02-06 22:44 · Score: 0 · on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds!

I was going to post a link here to a tweet, showing how weird and shit the comments are.

see weirdness

Your comment inexplicably was a smaller less-bold font.
But the comments both above and below yours were the same.

Yours is score 1, above is score 2, below is score 5, but there is another comment just below off the screen also score 1, that doesn't have the same font as yours.

Yours has no replies; but neither does the one immediately below yours, nor the one above. Your comment is 10 hours old, and below is also 10 hours old.

I am at a loss to explain why.

And I am at a loss to really understand the comment box; since it doesn't indicate what the weird top box is - is it the comment box and the preview box below?
no.. I can type in both ... I guess its the title of my comment (So why didn't it say: "Comment Subject" instead of "Reply to Comment" in the subject box - that isn't the reply, thats the topic of my reply! aarg).

This is the comments reply box

And the giant Ad-whitespace to the right, if I had a smaller window it goes away.

Is this the topic of my reply? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-02-06 22:44 · Score: 0 · on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds!

I was going to post a link here to a tweet, showing how weird and shit the comments are.

see weirdness

Your comment inexplicably was a smaller less-bold font.
But the comments both above and below yours were the same.

Yours is score 1, above is score 2, below is score 5, but there is another comment just below off the screen also score 1, that doesn't have the same font as yours.

Yours has no replies; but neither does the one immediately below yours, nor the one above. Your comment is 10 hours old, and below is also 10 hours old.

I am at a loss to explain why.

And I am at a loss to really understand the comment box; since it doesn't indicate what the weird top box is - is it the comment box and the preview box below?
no.. I can type in both ... I guess its the title of my comment (So why didn't it say: "Comment Subject" instead of "Reply to Comment" in the subject box - that isn't the reply, thats the topic of my reply! aarg).

This is the comments reply box

And the giant Ad-whitespace to the right, if I had a smaller window it goes away.

Re:Insignificant by BlueStrat · 2014-01-15 21:26 · Score: 1 · on FISA Judges Oppose Intelligence Reform Proposals Aimed At Court

Who cares what the FISA judges think about the reforms? I mean, they're not the boss of the government.

This notion that there is some widespread fear in the government of how agencies and entities will react to changes in he surveillance regime are starting to get a little alarming. If you look at the NYTimes story here: http://t.co/lSEb6vWXSi [t.co], you will see the phrase, "backlash from national security agencies" in regard to reforms to surveillance. Who are they that now elected officials, who are charged with oversight over these agencies, have to worry about intelligence agencies' "backlash"? There have been several other stories recently that have mentioned similar "consequences" from the agencies if the scope or powers of those agencies were to be limited in any way.

I guess that tells us who's really in charge.

I'm telling you, unless we can figure out a way to chop this surveillance regime down to size, and quick, there is absolutely no chance that any other national problem can ever be fixed in any significant way. Not the economy, not security, not social problems, not anything. When Americans finally internalize the fact that they are always being watched and that our own security agencies view them as a threat, there will be a sickness over the American people like none we have ever seen before.

To this day, people from places like East Germany and other surveillance states have it in the back of their heads that there is always someone watching. As the husband of a woman from Eastern Europe, I know this to be true from my experience with family and friends. Once you have Big Brother in your head, he never goes away, maybe not for generations.

I would absolutely rather take my chances with the terrorists than see the US go on this way much longer.

Spot on.

You and I have had heated disagreements in the past, but on this we agree fully.

This is not a Conservative/Liberal, Left/Right, (R)/(D) issue of a political nature at all.

This is a matter of basic human rights, both as the rights of nature's law and the laws of man as set forth in the US Constitution. They are our most basic civil rights.

There was a struggle in the 1960s for civil rights for minorities of US citizens against government bullying, infringements of rights & liberties, and racial discrimination.

This time the government bullying, infringements of rights & liberties, and discrimination is aimed at the whole population. The response from we the people should scale accordingly.

In the '60s, everyone railed against infringements of civil rights by "the Man". These days, it seems many people have it reversed and are railing against people's civil rights in support of giving "the Man" more and more power and control over people's lives.

We need to realize that regardless of whether you vote (R) or (D), like or hate guns, support Obamacare or not, whether Christian, Atheist, or Muslim, gay or straight, etc etc, *individual civil rights* are something that almost everyone agrees is a good thing and government violating them a bad thing.

We can fight about global warming and a national high-speed rail system, etc etc, *after* we shut down this massive and un-Constitutional domestic spying apparatus and toss out all these corrupt fascist bums in government that don't actually keep even a fraction of their promises to any of us anyway, no matter which political or ideological side you happen to be on.

I don't care who you are. I'd take my white, male, heterosexual, pro-life, (small-L) libertarian-leaning, non-"living"-Constitution-advocating ass to a protest against these violations of all our civil rights, and march right beside almost anyone else regardless of Party, ideology, race/ethnicity, sexuality, or income class, that favors defending everybody's basic civil rights & liberties against government violation and infringement.

I sometimes wonder what they

Insignificant by PopeRatzo · 2014-01-15 09:52 · Score: 5, Insightful · on FISA Judges Oppose Intelligence Reform Proposals Aimed At Court

Who cares what the FISA judges think about the reforms? I mean, they're not the boss of the government.

This notion that there is some widespread fear in the government of how agencies and entities will react to changes in he surveillance regime are starting to get a little alarming. If you look at the NYTimes story here: http://t.co/lSEb6vWXSi, you will see the phrase, "backlash from national security agencies" in regard to reforms to surveillance. Who are they that now elected officials, who are charged with oversight over these agencies, have to worry about intelligence agencies' "backlash"? There have been several other stories recently that have mentioned similar "consequences" from the agencies if the scope or powers of those agencies were to be limited in any way.

I guess that tells us who's really in charge.

I'm telling you, unless we can figure out a way to chop this surveillance regime down to size, and quick, there is absolutely no chance that any other national problem can ever be fixed in any significant way. Not the economy, not security, not social problems, not anything. When Americans finally internalize the fact that they are always being watched and that our own security agencies view them as a threat, there will be a sickness over the American people like none we have ever seen before.

To this day, people from places like East Germany and other surveillance states have it in the back of their heads that there is always someone watching. As the husband of a woman from Eastern Europe, I know this to be true from my experience with family and friends. Once you have Big Brother in your head, he never goes away, maybe not for generations.

I would absolutely rather take my chances with the terrorists than see the US go on this way much longer.

This Story is Crap But.... by the+eric+conspiracy · 2013-12-22 08:27 · Score: 1 · on Is Computer Science Education Racist and Sexist?

On the Infographic there is a link:

A Google employee's comparison of Computer Science education in Vietnam compared to the US. #WeCanDoBetter http://t.co/oRPRy2pSFm

THIS IS THE REAL STORY. What really needs to be done.

FIX THE EDUCATION SYSTEM.

Re:TL;DR version by TheRealLifeboy · 2013-12-09 00:04 · Score: 1 · on The Status of the Fukushima Clean-Up

It will probably have a good effect on life in general and prevent a lot of cancer.

This is why no-one has died from radiation sickness at Fukushima and probably won't in future either. It also explains why the people that chose to live in the Chernobyl radiation area are not mutating and dying a slow, horrible death. Radiation (as high as 800 mSv aoording to the original research) is actually good for you!

Time to get with the times and stop hanging around in the atomo-phobic 60's!

Re:not just the salaries by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-12 05:26 · Score: 0 · on Nobel Winners Illustrate Israel's "Brain Drain"

In other words, Israel is everything to Jews for Jews that Jews refuse to allow America or any other white western nation to be for white Gentiles. Gotcha.

http://t.co/CMFWOi9RfB

Re:Rocket science isn't required for this one, fol by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-12 05:18 · Score: 0 · on Nobel Winners Illustrate Israel's "Brain Drain"

Yeah, I'll bet.

Recently Shuttered? Still Up by Jonah+Hex · 2013-09-07 08:47 · Score: 1 · on Could Technology Create Modern-Day 'Leper Colonies'?

GhettoTracker is still up and running, and I scrolled over to Detroit and see lots of colored circles. Additionally they are still tweeting about this situation. They took the site down and now it's back up.

@msmarypryor My designer will be touching up the logo for sure. You realize we just launched Monday, and this all happened and we were not
— Ghetto Tracker (@GhettoTracker) September 7, 2013

@msmarypryor prepared for this as it was still in beta. This has been quite an experience...
— Ghetto Tracker (@GhettoTracker) September 7, 2013

@gypsy_sister @nealcarter its back up. We took it down to assess the damage. We see there isnt any.
— Ghetto Tracker (@GhettoTracker) September 7, 2013

@corecorina well we just launched Monday. Site was not even supposed to be blasted out. We have been talking internally about providing...
— Ghetto Tracker (@GhettoTracker) September 7, 2013

@corecorina solutions. Like if and when the site makes money donating a % of all $ to select charities.
— Ghetto Tracker (@GhettoTracker) September 7, 2013

@corecorina we are 3 people. We dont have pr management. We didnt "launch" it. Thats what youre not getting. We turned it on to get..
— Ghetto Tracker (@GhettoTracker) September 7, 2013

@corecorina feedback from a few people to start to slowly roll it out. We didnt have a chance thanks to cnn. We didnt think there would...
— Ghetto Tracker (@GhettoTracker) September 7, 2013

@corecorina we dont have a pr team. We are 4 guys who had an idea.
— Ghetto Tracker (@GhettoTracker) September 7, 2013

@corecorina no we do know what we are doing. Our main company http:http://t.co/VSIJAoA436 is fine. This was a side project. Obviously you..
— Ghetto Tracker (@GhettoTracker) September 7, 2013

@corecorina know nothing about app development.
— Ghetto Tracker (@GhettoTracker) September 7, 2013

Re:Capacity by Anonymous Coward · 2013-08-31 13:40 · Score: -1 · on Particle Physicists Facing Insane Competition For Work

ASIA FOR THE ASIANS, AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS, WHITE COUNTRIES FOR EVERYBODY!

Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries.

The Netherlands and Belgium are just as crowded as Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.

Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY white country and ONLY white countries to “assimilate,” i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.

What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries?

How long would it take anyone to realize I’m not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?

And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn’t object to this?

But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the white race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.

They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white.

Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.

Re: MIT Researchers have created a Starbucks count by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-25 13:17 · Score: 0 · on MIT's "Hot Or Not" Site For Neighborhoods Could Help Shape Cities

But... but... but... That's Racist!

Re: I remember being puzzled by that chapter by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-09 06:16 · Score: 0 · on Malcolm Gladwell On Culture and Airplane Crashes

Quick! Call the anti-racist!

Re: The America I believed in never existed by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-06 12:02 · Score: 0 · on Lincoln's Surveillance State

Just like another great progressive...

Re: Drats, foiled again... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-06-30 07:59 · Score: 0 · on Flaws In ZRTPCPP Library, Used In Secure Phone Apps

How about this one?

Nothing adds class like a live Twitter feed by Samantha+Wright · 2013-06-27 16:23 · Score: 1 · on PayPal Spaces Out With Paypal Galactic

Highlights from the bottom of the PayPal Galactic page:

@Stratocumulus: RT @lbillin: #paypalgalactic Incur debt in space! Paypal wants to help http://t.co/cqVsVyCy0B

@JodyYeoh: I visited space and all I got was a probe. #PayPalGalactic

Get a Disney Vacation by Anonymous Coward · 2013-06-08 01:25 · Score: -1 · on What Features Does iOS 7 Need?

Get a Disney Vacation

I want Georgia ... by wylderide · 2013-06-02 06:18 · Score: 2 · on Matt Smith Leaves "Doctor Who"

... For the next Doctor: http://t.co/Yo42g5iaGb

Re:Of Particular Significance by elias2010 · 2013-05-20 21:19 · Score: 1 · on Dark Matter, WIMPS, and NASA's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Data

I think there is not dark matter http://t.co/DhiB9Zxp [t.co]

Re:why no dark matter black holes? by elias2010 · 2013-05-20 19:57 · Score: 1 · on Dark Matter, WIMPS, and NASA's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Data

I think there is not dark matter http://t.co/DhiB9Zxp [t.co]

dark matter by elias2010 · 2013-05-20 19:51 · Score: 1 · on Dark Matter, WIMPS, and NASA's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Data

I think there is not dark matter http://t.co/DhiB9Zxp [t.co]

Re:Improperly worded summary by elias2010 · 2013-05-20 19:48 · Score: 1 · on Dark Matter, WIMPS, and NASA's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Data

I think there is not dark matter http://t.co/DhiB9Zxp

Re: In other words... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-04-25 00:18 · Score: -1 · on House Judiciary Chairman Plans Comprehensive Review of US Copyright Law

I wonder how the copyright laws would affect something like this?

Re: My house, my rules by Anonymous Coward · 2013-04-24 16:47 · Score: 0 · on Israel Airport Security Allowed To Read Tourists' Email

Well, I know who I'm voting for!

Re: Article has Anti-Semitic Purpose by Anonymous Coward · 2013-04-24 15:28 · Score: 0 · on Israel Airport Security Allowed To Read Tourists' Email

I know just the thing for that...

Re: solution. by Anonymous Coward · 2013-04-23 17:30 · Score: 0 · on Self-Proclaimed LulzSec Leader Arrested In Australia

Oh, I don't know about that. You just need the right man for the job.

Pics from overnight live-tweeted by girlinatrainingbra · 2013-04-19 00:40 · Score: 4, Informative · on One Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect Dead, Other At Large After Shootout With Police

http://t.co/0A3Mjmshkz
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https://twitter.com/AKitz/status/325121071479156736/photo/1
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https://twitter.com/akitz = andrew kitzenberg's twitter site
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supposedly, backpacks on Laurel Street where a police shoot-out occured. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3664323&cid=43490229

Re:How did it pass the House? by tnk1 · 2013-04-18 06:59 · Score: 1 · on CISPA Passes US House, Despite Privacy Shortcomings and Promised Veto

This was a completely bipartisan affair. The mainstreams of the two parties combined on this one and so the Tea Partiers were left out in the cold because their mainstream Republican brethren didn't need them for this.

List of those who voted for:
http://t.co/XQJt8jcfWI

wrong measurements by elias2010 · 2013-03-15 11:06 · Score: 1 · on A Quarter of Sun-Like Stars Host Earth-Size Worlds

http://t.co/DhiB9Zxp

Re:Resignation? by zeugma-amp · 2013-02-19 15:54 · Score: 3, Interesting · on Python Trademark Filer Ignorant of Python?

I'd like to point out that there is another Pobox out there, which is a US company (pobox.com), that is apparently not affiliated with this British "Pobox" company.

From their blog:

=snip=

We support @ThePSF in their fight for Python trademarks in the EU. @pobox is *not* http://pobox.co.uk. Learn more: http://pyfound.blogspot.nl/2013/02/python-trademark-at-risk-in-europe-we.htmlâ¦

=end snip=

I'm not affiliated with either company. I've used pobox.com for email forwarding for about 17 years though, which is one thing that made me investigate this, as the UK company's claim of having used 'python' for 17 years seemed to me like about how long the US company had been around.

Re:Resignation? by zeugma-amp · 2013-02-19 15:54 · Score: 3, Interesting · on Python Trademark Filer Ignorant of Python?

I'd like to point out that there is another Pobox out there, which is a US company (pobox.com), that is apparently not affiliated with this British "Pobox" company.

From their blog:

=snip=

We support @ThePSF in their fight for Python trademarks in the EU. @pobox is *not* http://pobox.co.uk. Learn more: http://pyfound.blogspot.nl/2013/02/python-trademark-at-risk-in-europe-we.htmlâ¦

=end snip=

I'm not affiliated with either company. I've used pobox.com for email forwarding for about 17 years though, which is one thing that made me investigate this, as the UK company's claim of having used 'python' for 17 years seemed to me like about how long the US company had been around.

Re:Also Quad-Core but for $89 by lobiusmoop · 2013-01-03 06:19 · Score: 1 · on Quad-Core Stick PC Runs Ubuntu

Also saw this one today, dual-core 1.2GHz Cortex-A9, 1G RAM, 4G flash, wifi for $20, crazy.

Re:The right thing, but the wrong person resigned. by squiggleslash · 2012-11-11 14:27 · Score: 4, Informative · on Director General of BBC Resigns Over "Poor Journalism"

A variety of reasons:

The BBC didn't name him, but the journalist who was working on the story claimed, on Twitter, a few hours prior to broadcast that they planned to name a major Conservative politician. Ironically, McAlpine isn't - and never was - a major politician by most standards (he did at one point "lead" the Conservative Party, but that's more of a fund raising position), and hasn't been a Conservative for about a decade.

To make matters worse, the story was shoddy journalism to begin with. Leaving aside the fact that at least one of the witnesses does, actually, have a credibility problem (see if you recognize any names in this 1999 New Statesman article, appropriately about another dubious bit of journalism: http://t.co/eZ1drMcV), there was no attempt to even contact McAlpine beforehand.

(It doesn't help that the BBC, by both bringing it up while not naming names also managed to reserrect an awful conspiracy theory from the homophobic pen of Simon Regan, which added virtually anyone rumored to be homosexual in the Conservative Party to a giant fictional pedophile ring headed by McAlpine himself. It's this rumor that actually ended up on the Twitters. Much as I don't like the victims of the smear, it was a nasty attempt to equate homosexuality with pedophilia, and frankly I'm glad Regan is dead.)

Not as bad as it sounds by slapout · 2012-11-02 07:26 · Score: 1 · on More Than 25% of Android Apps Know Too Much About You

Some apps, like dialer apps, do need access to your contacts so they can display them to you.

Re:"Do the right thing" by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-19 02:38 · Score: 5, Interesting · on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt"

Also applies to himself regarding facing up to the charges against him in Sweeden.

Read this article written by Naomi Wolf

Re:identical? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-16 13:38 · Score: 4, Insightful · on High Security Handcuffs Opened With 3D-Printed and Laser-Cut Keys

Note: The people most likely to want to get away after being apprehended are both guilty AND repeat offenders. The second factor being a group that might have the foresight to wear such a thing.

Wrong. I want to get away after being apprehended illegally.

You know--if the police decide to kidnap and beat me....or just beat the shit out of me while other offices stand by and watch^H^H^H^Hfigure out their cover stories....Maybe they'll just handcuff you and take you back to their torture chair to let you die...or your baby.

Maybe you should do nothing. You'll get your day in court, right? I mean--this is the United States of America where we have due process and a fair trial. The government would never fuck with that perfect system.
Resist. Always resist.