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and cares absolutely nothing about human rights

I can assure you he does care and he has promised to remove them (I wish I was joking).

Conservatives promise to scrap Human Rights Act after next election

Out of tolerance of our muslim brothers we should pass a law that forbids wimmen to work: http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

(Note: The decision(*) was handed down 2 hours ago and already there's rioting.)

I recently posted about a fire inspector reacting to a problem in the most dickish way possible.

The responses were surprising and enlightening. On the topic of his actions, each and every one of the respondents felt that the inspector reacted appropriately, that he in fact had to react in the most extreme manner possible, and that it was the right thing to do(**).

If you agree with this position, then it's OK for police to shoot an unarmed black man in Ferguson Missouri, or a black man purchasing a gun off the shelf at WalMart, or a 12-year old boy in Ohio playing with a toy gun.

The police have a dangerous job - they put their lives on the line every single day (just ask one), and they simply can't take the chance that a black man might be dangerous.

No. That's completely wrong, and it comes from police and other government agencies "doubling down" on their mistakes. Something bad happens, someone in authority shouts "it was the correct thing to do!", and it's echoed all over the press and on the net by people who repeat what they hear without thinking it through.

When the department says that the most dickish possible way is the right response they are alienating the people. It might avoid getting the cop thrown off the force, but in the future the department may actually *need* the support or cooperation of the people in order to do their job. This is short-term smart and long-term stupid.

We have schools teaching teenagers how to react to cops, and the take-away message is that cops only hurt people - they are a danger to be avoided

The "broken window" theory of crime can also be applied to the police. If we let them get away with these sorts of abuses, everyone in a position of authority will know that it's OK to act in the most dickish way possible.

I understand how rules exist to prevent the "worst possible scenario" from happening, but do we *always* have to act as if the worst possible scenario is happening right here, right now? Should cops always shoot a suspect who has a gun in hand? Would a more nuanced approach better?

I'm glad there's rioting. This crap needs to stop.

(*) For non-merikan readers, a grand jury does not assign guilt or innocence, it only determines whether a trial should happen. Basically, it tries to determine if there is enough evidence to go to trial. Also, it's heavily rigged *against* the defendant.

(**) There are at least 3 alternative actions the fire marshal could have taken that would have solved his problem without alienating all the con goers, the business, and the hotel. I don't expect anyone in his local area would help if his office needed public support for something, such as "please help us by sending us your video tape of incident".

all the stuff that also happened under a "conservative" president.

Some of it was, indeed, happening under a Conservative President. We were then told, it must be ended — "before liberty is destroyed" — and that electing an Illiberal President is the way. We got such a President, and all of the government abuses became worse.

For example, whereas Bush was using drones to kill suspects, who could not be captured, Obama uses them to kill all suspects (because he does not want to get stuck with "inconvenient" detainees).

This "EINSTEIN" is the same — the program was instituted under Bush, but it took Obama Administration for them to begin destroying their records — just as the public started wondering about them overstepping legal bounds.

Scream all we want about Bush-era NSA surveillance, but such surveillance has not hurt an innocent American yet — the worst we've heard was the Feds "leaking" info to local police departments, who are then "reconstructing" events to make it appear, they got evidence on their own. But the crimes are still real! Now contrast this with Obama's use of the IRS audits to suppress opposition.

As I said, electing Illiberals causes the materialization of the worst fears...

Isn't there something completely wrong about this sentence? Aside from the bad grammar, I mean...

"Hydrogen gas, under enormous pressure, is used to drive a generator, which then charged a lithium-ion battery."

Or are they using the word "generator" where they actually mean "fuel cell"? And should we be surprised that "most proposed hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are actually combined hydrogen-electric designs"? I'm not seeing many internal combustion hydrogen designs hitting the market.

Surely there was a better article to link to than this? Even the guardian article on the Mirai is more informative for a Slashdot crowd.

This is about teaching kids how to get away with a crime and be disrespectful.

The police are there to protect you, but unfortunately also to enforce laws that politicians write. If you don't like the laws then go after the politicians.

This anti-police crusade is no different than rioting and burning down your own neighborhood. Wrong target, wrong method.

So you're saying that exercising your constitutional rights against unconstitutional actions of the police makes you a criminal?

I'm going to assume you're just uninformed, rather than a douchebag. Please prove me right. But I won't hold my breath.

http://www.theguardian.com/sci...

I couldn't find a more recent article, but at the end it mentions that this AI came up with a formula for cellular metabolism. It is my understanding that this formula has been tested to be valid, but no human scientists understands what the formula means yet.

I was in China last month, our hotel had CNN. As soon as it reached the segment about Hong Kong, the channel just blacked out. About 10 minutes later it came back on as if nothing happened.

Why be scared of external opinions? You do not see that as censorship? Suppressing history is censorship.

You are basically calling the Chinese populace a bunch of idiots who would not know how to make decisions for themselves.

This is why

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/...

the rioters in other cities also got the idea from news media.

News media and social networking blackout on the riots when they started would likely have stopped the riots happening in the other cities. Because the democratic UK had little taste for such media control the situation got very out of hand. Thats part and parcel of being a democracy eh.

The agreement allows China to continue building coal-powered plants, expand its economy and cement its place as the world's leading polluter -- perhaps even doubling its output until 2030 or some year around that time, when China's carbon emissions are expected to peak.

At that point, the Chinese promise that they will implement some vague action plan at some vague point in the future. All we need to do is trust them. The agreement contains no binding language requiring any goals to be met.

Yep, it's just a deal for the sake of making a deal. Obama is desperate for anything to crow about - a bad deal that Obama can claim credit for is more important to him than concrete results.

Which is why the Chinese didn't have to give up anything. Obama's position is so weak the Chinese basically agreed to do what everyone knew at least two years ago was going to happen anyway:

China's emissions expected to rise until 2030, despite ambitious green policies

And even then, there's no concrete numbers to hold China to anyway.

The Guardian published this 2 years ago:

China's emissions expected to rise until 2030, despite ambitious green policies

Now, read Slate from a couple of weeks ago regarding the "great" climate deal Obama agreed to with China:

A Real Deal

The Chinese commitment is not a commitment to any specific value of emissions but rather a commitment that the country’s emissions will peak by 2030, and thereafter will not increase. The deal does not specify whether and by how much emissions will decrease after 2030, but the significance is that China is committed to get off its exponential emissions track by 2030.

Lovely. The Chinese basically agreed that yes, the Earth is already round. Obama got rolled.

London Borough of Haringey ?

http://www.theguardian.com/soc...

might be of interest to you, Obviously I don't know about the case you bring up I can believe that the children and parents were shown to be related by DNA although it doesn't mean that automatically disqualifies the child sex trafficking charge.

You might think that there should be some existing evidence to backup the presumed intent. If the parents were not criminally charged and convicted then it would make the councils grounds for their actions very shakey.

You seem convinced that the case was groundless and I wish you luck in persuing the matter, maybe there is some chance of involving the investigation of Harringey social services in your case. Its going to be tough for them to be fair especially after the death of a 17 month old child where they didn't do enough after which there must have been an attitude change and a desire to not make any more mistakes.

good luck with it, I hope it ends well.

On the positive side those children in care should be safe and fostered and adopted into happy homes, it is there well being that matters above all else.

These people likely don't know what smartphones are

Wow, good to know stone-age ignorance is alive and well still. Are you trolling or genuinely 'that ignorant'?

"India Has Higher Smartphone Usage Than the US: Study"

"Smartphone users in the country have among the highest rates of smartphone usage daily globally, spending over three hours on an average on their devices" - http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobile...

"Smartphone explosion in 2014 will see ownership in India pass US " ... "Phone users in India and China will together buy more than 500m smartphones in 2014, comprising half of the total that will be sold in 47 key countries" - http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

But yeah, those primitive brown won't even know what a smartphone is hurr hurr

One of the things the alleged victims claim is that he tore one condom and insisted on continuing, and in the other case kept insisting on *not* using a condom.

The article about this in The Guardian, at http://www.theguardian.com/med..., is pretty damning. Even if the women quoted there did not consider it rape, he's an *amazing* jerk and I'm stunned they didn't kick his ass right out into the cold night air, preferably without his clothes.

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It was developed by security researchers and has been used to assist in Citizen Lab's investigations into government use of spyware against human rights defenders, journalists and activists as well as by security trainers to educate on the nature of targeted surveillance.

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Actually it's about equality.

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I like having synced bookmarks, history etc across all my devices and I don't care about google harvesting my data. (I don't think I have ever clicked an internet ad on purpose)

2000 is calling and it wants its data-harvesting naivete back.
We are long, long past the point where "targeted advertising" means showing you obvious ads.
It means things like price discrimination and reduced credit scores. And that stuff is just the tip of the iceberg, the more the Big Data analytics companies know about you the more they will be able to manipulate you and control your life all for their benefit, not yours.

No - BP was under fire because when the part (or multiple components) failed, alarms went off. The oil rig team in charge of responding to those alarms went "God those things are annoying and nothing is ever wrong when they go off, just disable the alarms."

The next time the alarms were supposed to go off, they could not because they were disabled, so nobody responded to an alarm that did not sound.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jul/23/deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-alarms

Also, congrats on getting me to log-in for something worth of commenting on for the first time in ages.

Capitalism (private ownership and operation of property) in a free market system (system free of government intervention) has proven to be the best system for generating profits while improving the overall economy for all people involved. People tossed out the free market and they are trying really hard to toss out capitalism as well, they saw all the wealth generated in a free market capitalist system and believe that that wealth is gained somehow immorally, however I argue that making profits in a capitalist free market system is the most moral way to run an economy.

Except that isn't the case at all. As eloquently demonstrated by Ha-Joon Chang (economics professor at Cambridge University), the "free market" is a myth. Every market has its rules, it just depends which set you are playing by.

There is ample evidence that the rule set favoured by "free market" proponents enriches a small minority at the expense of everybody else. That doesn't make for a healthy (or moral) society.

Capitalism (private ownership and operation of property) in a free market system (system free of government intervention) has proven to be the best system for generating profits while improving the overall economy for all people involved. People tossed out the free market and they are trying really hard to toss out capitalism as well, they saw all the wealth generated in a free market capitalist system and believe that that wealth is gained somehow immorally, however I argue that making profits in a capitalist free market system is the most moral way to run an economy.

Except that isn't the case at all. As eloquently demonstrated by Ha-Joon Chang (economics professor at Cambridge University), the "free market" is a myth. Every market has its rules, it just depends which set you are playing by.

There is ample evidence that the rule set favoured by "free market" proponents enriches a small minority at the expense of everybody else. That doesn't make for a healthy (or moral) society.

A Republican by his actions and policies.

Oh, no you don't... You keep him. A Republican would not have withdrawn all troops from Iraq — allowing ISIS to bloom and necessitating a painful return.

A Republican would not have encouraged Putin to invade Ukraine by lifting all sanctions imposed over a similar invasion into Georgia.

A Republican would've continued to detain terrorist suspects — in Guantanamo or elsewhere — rather then order extrajudicial killings — most infamously one of Osama bin Laden himself.

No, Obama is an Illiberal Democrat through and through. But such people — yourself included — are famous for inability to recognize each other — so far are their deeds from their proclaimed ideals.

Guys like Spencer are playing the same game with their discipline that Intelligent Design-advocate Michael Behe plays with his

There may be more similarities between the two: Spencer concluded that the "theory of creation actually had a much better scientific basis than the theory of evolution". He also claimed that science had "hit a brick wall in its attempt to rid itself of the need for a creator and designer". - http://www.theguardian.com/env...

He is signatory to "An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming" that dismisses climate change because “Earth and its ecosystems—created by God’s intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence—are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting”

Obama was the one who chose to fund and arm "rebels" in Syria to try and oust Assad, paving way to the rise of ISIS, a group that is now being used as a justification to continue NSA spying.

So, uh, yeah-- thanks Obama!

Wait - I thought the story-line was that Obama did not do ENOUGH arming of the rebels, which created space for Islamist radicals to create ISIS. Shill on, AC.

North Korea just anounced they've already cloned one (and a unicorn as well).

FTFY

Just out of curiosity, what would Mossad have to gain from something like this? I could see them trying to give Al Queda or ISIL some bad press, but what would they have to gain from making Ukraine look bad?

That's a fair question.

On the morning when the airliner was attacked, world attention zeroed in on that event and failed to react to the Israeli ground offensive launched into Gaza.

The Israeli military has begun a ground offensive in Gaza â" the situation is still developing, and we have live updates overnight and into this morning.

The action is the first major Israeli ground offensive in Gaza in just over five years and would be open-ended, according to an Israeli military spokesman.

http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

That's the micro. On the macro side, fanning war flames between the East and West will result in a lot of dangerous oil politics which generally sees the oppression of Israel's historic enemies.

When one charts the major offenses launched by Israel which have had the potential to raise the ire of the world, or when peace talks threaten to lead to real concessions, there has *always* been some kind of outrageous attack which galvanizes public attention on something other than the issue at hand. Then a few weeks later, when the world regains its senses, too much time has passed and everybody has forgotten what Israel has done.

Business as usual. Basically, Israel has better spycraft than the rest of us. (Of course, saying so is "anti-semitic"! Which is just another example of practical counter-intelligence.)

Mobile phones.

"By the end of 2014, it is forecast that there will be more than 635m mobile subscriptions in sub-Saharan Africa. This is predicted to rise, to about 930m by late 2019, when it is estimated that three in four mobile subscriptions will be internet inclusive. The growth is attributed to the rise of social media, content-rich apps and video content accessed from a new range of smartphones costing less than $50 (£30)" http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

It's difficult to buy the slippery slope argument. Netflix accounts for about a third or more of primetime internet traffic in the US [1]. If I were an ISP, that too in a capitalistic economy, I'd throw my resources at the things in highest demand by my customers.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

It's not even controversial that the FBI coordinated a crackdown on Occupy. http://www.theguardian.com/com...
The FBI even knew of possible assassination plots via rooftop sniper fire, and not only would they not act on these obvious acts of terrorism--the FBI has tried only to hide public knowledge of these plans. http://www.democracynow.org/20...

The entire HBGary scandal came about due to the Chamber of Commerce (which shouldn't be a part of government to begin with) cooperating with Bank of America through a middleman to target activists and occupy figureheads.

Furthermore, the government has been paying trolls to trash both OWS and the tea party on various sites. But it's too early for you to hear about that in mainstream news (even though the Intercept broke the story of government-paid trolls earlier this year: https://firstlook.org/theinter...)

So the idea that the government hasn't tried to suppress occupy is BULLSHIT.

Let's not take the UK as an example, though. The UK is pretty bad compared to most of Europe. It's closer to Russia in this regard.
People are literally sent to prison for racist tweets there.

This article, from an evolutionary psychologist, entirely demonstrates my point. Breasts have evolved to be the way that they are because of sexual selection.

http://www.theguardian.com/sci...

The point is that you select a mate based on what will best help your own genes to propagate. Males will be inclined to look for a woman that is 1: sexually mature (has breasts and wider hips than waist) 2: able to carry and deliver a child and feed the child until it is able to eat something besides breastmilk.

If you don't satisfy those minimal criteria, your genes aren't getting passed on. So by the only measure that matters in evolution, you haven't reproduced. The artificial methods you've suggested (bottles, etc) didn't exist during the vast majority of human history. They have nothing to do with it.

Now, we know that the features we've discussed are not actually reliable indicators of fitness (large-chested women can have trouble breastfeeding, and small-chested women can produce plenty of milk) but they key in to those things that a male will be biologically inclined to look at when choosing a mate. The reason that sex in advertising is so pernicious is because it taps into deep, instinctual biological impulses we have.

From the article: "The sex appeal of rounded female buttocks and plump breasts is both universal and unique to the human primate" - this is cited in more depth there, but the point is that you are arguing against human nature. Again, the answer is not to pretend that sexual body parts aren't what they are. It is to stop this weird culture of sexual obsession combined with prudery, accept that sex is just a part of life like any other, and be adults about the whole thing.

http://www.theguardian.com/sci...

They're not. They're GMO denialists who recently made misleading claims about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation work in Africa. If you want a legitimate genetic resources organization, you want Biodiversity International. These guys are just professional activists who, rather than doing something worthwhile, are just looking for something to leech off.

Think again 33 dead and 140+ injuried by knife attack from group.
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

China's emissions expected to rise until 2030, despite ambitious green policies

Analysts say that beneath the apparent contradiction lies a consensus that barring any significant changes in policy, China's emissions will rise until around 2030 – when the country's urbanisation peaks, and its population growth slows – and then begins to fall.

Great. Obama just let the Chinese agree to what was published knowledge two years ago.

There don't seem to be any concrete claims of that thus far. http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

There are plenty of examples of government or quasi-government public utilities doing it right and providing good service and value to their customers. For example Chattanoga.

Your automatic assumption that government involvement will screw it up is not warranted.

I also agree that women are more likely to encounter threats of violence on the net

http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

Yep, men are more likely to be threatened with violence online.

See also : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

But forget 'on the net', lets look at the real world:
http://nortonbooks.typepad.com...

Equality would be a wonderful thing.

Really? And how is that working out?

Givn that Sweden has a 30-40% reoffending rate, I'd say it's doing okay.

But one also shouldn't ignore that Reagan gave his speech on 12 June 1987, a good 29 months before the actual fall of the wall. And there is little evidence that it had much impact on the dynamics of the dissident movement in East Germany, or on Soviet politics at the time.

Apparently so.

...Merkel probably doesn't want to do anything that might disrupt the German economy.

Somehow it seems you didn't follow the news. And Merkel ...

MDMA is relatively benign and no one is overdosing on it. What you do increasingly see is people overdosing on what they think is MDMA because it's not as readily available now thanks to law enforcement.

http://www.theguardian.com/pol...

Awesome. Go ahead and provide the citations for all those claims.

Citation.
Citation.
Citation.

There are dozens more. Dope makes you stupid. It also lowers reflex response time, and it makes you apathetic.

Marijuana should be legal, because people should be free to be stupid. But using dope is stupid.

his online payment processor Stripe has decided that his companies, all of them, qualify as forbidden "weapons and munitions; gunpowder and other explosives" services.

This is yet another manifestation of the tactics employed by Obama's Justice Department. Unable to outlaw a particular activity (such as ammunition sales, or escort services — or even cigar-sales) itself, they lean on banks and payment-processors threatening them with audits if they don't stop serving the "undesirable" merchants and services-providers. The name is "Operation Chokepoint" and it has been in the news for a while. About time it made it to Slashdot too.

This — "the most technologically-advanced Administration in history" — is what all the cool kids (not a few /.-ers among them) voted for in 2008 and 2012...

Note, the DoJ is not even alleging any illegality — only "high likelihood" thereof. Nor are they threatening actual prosecution — only an audit. Unfortunately, the audits themselves — even if you end up fully clean at the end — are sufficiently painful and expensive, that banks choose to drop the few clients to avoid the experience.

It is particularly evil, because it is not the result of a prosecution, that is used to cow the victims to comply with the government's whim, but the very process itself. Results, you see, require the Executive to argue its point in front of the skeptical Judiciary. The process, however, can be made very painful without any repercussions — DoJ don't need to prove anything to cause a person or a company as much pain as they please.

And the delicious irony of it all is that Belhadj is now going to sue the British government.

Slashdot IS social media, which is why NSA and GCHQ created a fake Slashdot to hack into a Belgian Telecom company.

You dirty terrorists, you! Bad Slashdot! BAD!

Seriously, though, this is beyond belief and beyond the pale. Where do they get these morons? Most of these people are guilty of perjury (at best) and outright conflict of interests and gross violations of basic human rights at worst.

When is this going to stop and when are we going to get rid of these idiots? Where is Senator Franck Church when we need him?

'Most of the $3bn (£1.8bn) that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given to benefit hungry people in the world’s poorest countries has been spent in the US, Britain and other rich countries, with only around 10% spent in Africa, new research suggests.'

You do realize that this is easy to find.

Seriously, it took longer to paste the link to slashdot than to google them.

NSA 'engaged in industrial espionage' - Snowden
NSA Busted Conducting Industrial Espionage In France, Mexico, Brazil, China and All Around the World
NSA accused of spying on Brazilian oil company Petrobras

Two wrongs doesn't make one right, but China isn't the worst offender here.
Now that we both know that NSA is doing illegal things that makes everyone hate the US, could you please stop defending them?

Indeed. From The Guardian:

Christopher Hart, the acting chairman of the US National Transportation Safety Board, told a press conference on Sunday night that the co-pilot, Michael Alsbury, had unlocked the feathering system, but that the second stage of the process, which moves the wings into the feathering position, happened “without being commanded”.

And here's a short video from the press conference.

So microsoft's relationship with the govt is relavent here but google's is not?

Yeah, the NSA hacked Google to get at their data, Microsoft was a willing collaborator.

Since you so dishonestly quoted text from an article without linking back to it, here is the link: http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

This concerns the "Prism" program - which since the initial bruhaha has been revealed to be little more than an automated way to comply with (presumably) lawful requests from law enforcement agencies. (Note: I strongly disagree with the constitutionality of having a secret court issuing secret orders; it totally undermines the democracy)

The participation in the automated system (aka Prism) does not require a company to comply with more FISA requests, nor does non-participation allow a company to *not* comply with FISA requests. It simply has no bearing on it.

Importantly, the automated system does NOT(!) allow the agencies more access to users' data. Each FISA request will STILL have to be considered on a
case-by-case basis, and lawyers for the company will STILL have to review all material sent to the agency through PRISM before hitting the "send" button.

And conspicuously absent from your quote is the fact that while Microsoft was mentioned in the title, Skype, Apple, Google, Facebook and Yahoo were also mentioned.

Little information is available on the actual design of PRISM, and basically all of the speculation was based on this single slide from the Snowden leak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

From that slide you can see that Microsoft was indeed the first company to comply with FISA orders through PRISM, but that Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Paltalk(?), YouTube, Skype, AOL and Apple all followed.

So you are grossly misrepresenting facts, being dishonest and out lying about the information in a transparent attempt to taint Microsoft while letting Google of the hook. Now, why would you do that? Anonymous cowardly liar.