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  1. Re:Lucky? on After LinkedIn Clues, FOIA Nets New Details On NSA's ANCHORY Program · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that data be available by default? Why is every single person who asks on the hook for it? Shouldn't it be part of their mandate to provide free data access considering they are spending OUR money? Shouldnt part of their funding include public accessibility?

  2. Re:I'm trying to figure out who isn't press. on After LinkedIn Clues, FOIA Nets New Details On NSA's ANCHORY Program · · Score: 1

    The data should be available by default. Part of any unclassified government purchase order should include keeping accessible records. We are NECK DEEP into the Information Age, its time we demand more access.

  3. Re:Intelligence on When the NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company · · Score: 1

    You dont understand Liberty at all.

  4. Re:Smart move on After a User Dies, Apple Warns Against Counterfeit Chargers · · Score: 2

    The Nexus 7, like the Nook, has a 'special' charging USB cable that can carry more current. The plug-in part is slightly longer. When i use normal phone chargers on my Nexus 7 it takes a lot longer to charge.

  5. Re:Smart move on After a User Dies, Apple Warns Against Counterfeit Chargers · · Score: 1

    Wait, you are saying that you cant send commands over USB?????? REALLY????????

  6. Re:Flashable? on The Rise of Linux In In-Vehicle Infotainment · · Score: 3, Insightful

    IM not blind to the realities of the car market. I grew up in Detroit and worked for Kelley Blue Book in CA. All that said, i wasnt aware of the finer details of trim packages until i went to buy. I was a bit shocked is all.

    I do disagree that GPS (a navigation tool) should be lumped in with leather seats, fancy rims etc. Its seems like its a pretty obvious addon that every car should have a cheap option for. THAT is what bothered me the most, i couldnt get a practical navigation tool without buying a ton of fluff at inordinate expense.

  7. Re:Flashable? on The Rise of Linux In In-Vehicle Infotainment · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I recently bought a new car for the first time. I was PISSED i couldn't get the GPS center console without upgrading to another trim level with a bunch of shitty ground effects, aluminum rims and a spoiler. I even asked about just upgrading after the sale and the dealer was all 'different harnesses, change this blah blah blah."

  8. Re:Finally! on Bill Gates Is Beginning To Dream the Thorium Dream · · Score: 2

    Bill Gates style would have him force socket makers to only sell his brand of electricity. Steve Jobs and Sony are the 'this is the new connector that obsoletes all your old ones, isnt it great?!

  9. At $35 per screen, its a cheap way to deploy an entertainment network.

  10. We are quickly coming to a time where people who cant figure this stuff out are going to be left behind. The time for coddling is over. If a 5 year old can parse a UI, any normal adult should be able to. Also, you can buy a chromecast AND an android tablet for the same cost as jsut an Apple TV

  11. I have a good example of google's problem. I setup chrome remote desktop so that i could remote into a Win7 Home Prem box (no RDP). So i get it up and running and it works fine, but i have to be signed in to google, and it never gives me the IP so i can manually connect in case something goes wrong on google's end. Everything always HAS to flow through google, and its getting VERY old. Their google drive is about the worst possible way to implement remote files. I REALLY hate how google constantly tries to blur the edges of offline/online. No i dont want to 'make available offline' I want the file put HERE, now. Illusion of simplicity.

  12. Re:He should just go to America and face the music on Edward Snowden Still Stuck At Airport, May Be Permitted Entry Into Russia Soon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What part of 'WE DONT TRUST THE GOVERNMENT TO CONDUCT A FAIR TRIAL' do you not get. They have PROVEN they are quite happy to ignore the law, torture people and hold them for very long periods of time without trial or representation. Your suggestion is like letting a rape victim be judged by the rapist.

  13. Re:He should just go to America and face the music on Edward Snowden Still Stuck At Airport, May Be Permitted Entry Into Russia Soon · · Score: 1

    Its espionage to expose crime to the citizenry? In what universe? Every US citizen has a moral duty to expose crime where they see it, its part of being a citizen. The NSA is engaged in absolute criminal behavior, and you are worried about Snowden's motivations??? It doesnt matter WHY he did it, the point is the NSA is acting unbounded and needs to be checked. There should be nothing illegal about exposing this type of deep corruption.

  14. Re:Dumping? on A Radical Plan For Saving Microsoft's Surface RT · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dumping generally refers to a foreign company

    'In economics, "dumping" is a kind of predatory pricing, especially in the context of international trade.'

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)

  15. Re:Legitimate order or not . . . ? on When the NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company · · Score: 1

    Once they started issuing broad gag orders and rubber stamping everything with no opposing side representing the People, it became a secret court. You can argue its legal until you are blue in the face, its wrong, and you dont need a law degree to see it.

  16. Re:Intelligence on When the NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company · · Score: 3, Informative

    FISA court is incompatible with the Constitution. You CANNOT have secret courts in a democracy, it must and will end.

  17. Re:Legitimate order or not . . . ? on When the NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company · · Score: 1

    Its not legitimate, its merely allowed. Under no interpretation of the Constitution are secret courts allowed.

  18. Considering the volatility of the Space Center, that makes a lot of sense. Gotta watch out for those Jake Buseys

  19. Re:Map of botched raids on Rise of the Warrior Cop: How America's Police Forces Became Militarized · · Score: 1

    Better to be judged by 12 then carried by 6

  20. Re:As a devils advocate on Rise of the Warrior Cop: How America's Police Forces Became Militarized · · Score: 1

    I reject the idea that cops have to treat us all like absolutely dangerous people because THEY carry guns. Its a ridiculous catch 22. Being a cop means YOU are supposed to die first, not last.

  21. Re:Wake up on Rise of the Warrior Cop: How America's Police Forces Became Militarized · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you shouldnt have stuck your nose where it didnt belong. I have no sympathy for your injury while upholding immoral law. You shouldnt have been there in the first place. You paid the price for your stupidity.

  22. Re:IRS Too? on Rise of the Warrior Cop: How America's Police Forces Became Militarized · · Score: 1

    SO if citizen's feel they need to be armed to protect from the police, how far do we let the police go? At some point we are going to get to Batman/Joker level escalation.

  23. Re:It's opt in? on DNI Office Asks Why People Trust Facebook More Than the Government · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Even if you are explicitly putting data out in the open, the government shouldn't be slurping it up. They should have reason to cast their gaze.

  24. Re:Big difference between Pandora and Facebook. on Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone To Facebook: Start a Premium Subscription Service · · Score: 1

    Both of those industries are experiencing unprecedented decline.

  25. Re:Metro UI on Microsoft Stock Drops 11% In a Day · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Apple was listening to people that wanted a better way to browse the web while mobile. Everything else followed.