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  1. Re:So you wind up on the "Don't come back" list on Facial Scans at US Airports Violate Americans' Privacy, Report Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    No return means no opportunity to have your ordinary behaviour criminalised with a view to using you to extract money from citizens. How does that help?

  2. Re:Overstaying visas? on Facial Scans at US Airports Violate Americans' Privacy, Report Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Ever get the feeling when someone asks what you're smoking that if you were to answer truthfully, a guy from the NSA would turn up at your door with beer and Cheetos? Freaking NSA freeloaders!

  3. Re:Catching the wrong people on Facial Scans at US Airports Violate Americans' Privacy, Report Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    what they're supposed to be doing is catching the people on expired visas who are not leaving the country.

    It's not clear how DHS could make mountains of cash from that.

  4. ...evidence for the necessity of this $1 billion program, ...

    Pretty sure the evidence can be found within the above sentence fragment.

  5. Re: First Post? on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Alternatives To Android Or iOS? · · Score: 1

    Yeap; modern civilisation is doomed by a single flaw, don't try to fix it, simply start up a new civilisation on mars with that single flaw fixed.

  6. When you're buying from a third-party seller, it's a lot more difficult to tell where products have come from, whether you're getting exactly what you think you're getting, and if anything has been done to the product since it was manufactured. "It is possible for internet-connected devices to be tampered with and resold on the web,

    These devices could possibly listen to you, watch your every step, communicate with and attack other devices connected to the same local network, such as PCs, laptops, and TVs."

    Thanks for the warning. It *is* quite concerning that someone other than Google/Facebook/Apple/Amazon/NSA/<otherGiantCorp> might be listening. Quite concerning indeed. One would never know what *those* unscrupulous actors might do with one's data.

  7. Re:Really? on Ajit Pai Taunts Net Neutrality Critics. Mark Hamill Taunts Ajit Pai (mashable.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    not beholden to concerns of a select few elites.

    Would you characterise the recent FCC behaviour as consistent with this?

  8. Clearly, the FCC wasn't listening to the estimated 83% of Americans who support net neutrality

    That's unfair; they listened to the 'people' who *matter*. What's wrong with you people?

  9. Re:Wait just a minute... on EFF: Accessing Publicly Available Information On the Internet Is Not a Crime (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    At what point does this act of bad faith reflect badly on LinkedIn ?

  10. Every successful parasite knows how to keep its host alive.

  11. More broadly on "The FCC Still Doesn't Know How the Internet Works" (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Why are any of those who are 'in charge' in that position? I think it's been established that it's not 'because democracy.'

  12. Re: Suggestions for the new name... on San Diego Comic-Con Wins Trademark Suit Against 'Salt Lake Comic Con' (deseretnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Or the catchy:
      * We want to enter the market at the last minute and reap the rewards of twenty years of someone else's efforts

  13. Who has the best office furniture, Oracle or Google?

  14. all the cool kids are using snapchat now

    Maybe if they fix their brain-dead-pinch-zoom bullshit feature/failture in Instagram, some will use that and then they too can be monitored. Creepy fucks.

  15. I can't tell you how much I love this new meme.

    ...because it's off-script?

  16. About $5.5 billion in revenue was lost to piracy globally last year

    Maybe they ought to work on basic comprehension before embarking on a business venture. It's only lost if you had it in the first place.

  17. Sure on Gamer Streams Pay-Per-View UFC Fight By Pretending To Play It (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    UFC has the depth of a videogame. Lol wtf.

  18. Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Says Bitcoin 'Ought to be Outlawed'

    What greater praise could one offer?

  19. Your brain farts right before you start into an 'Orange Clown' / Demonrats / Repugnicans rant =D

  20. Re: Community organizing on Shouting 'Pay Your Taxes', Activists Occupy Apple Stores in France (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Enjoy your next movie.

  21. Re: Hey Dumb Fucks on Shouting 'Pay Your Taxes', Activists Occupy Apple Stores in France (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Omg. Fail 101. Right here folks.

  22. Re: Good for France on Shouting 'Pay Your Taxes', Activists Occupy Apple Stores in France (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    They are huge leaches sucking the life out of us.

    No doubt there is an as-yet unappreciated societal benefit to this, analogous to that provided by the use of leeches in early medicine.

  23. Re: Good for France on Shouting 'Pay Your Taxes', Activists Occupy Apple Stores in France (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems like they are awake. Taxes are what holds up and maintains infrastructure, health, food and shelter for the poor.

    Some of these concepts are missing from the American psyche so they underestimate the implied tax burden.

  24. Re: Community organizing on Shouting 'Pay Your Taxes', Activists Occupy Apple Stores in France (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    What are they offering for the greater good?

    Phones. Software. Maps. Email. Cloud storage. Communications. Payment services. Publishing services.

    ...A peculiar emotion within the minds of customers who realize that not only have they paid over the odds for behind-the-curve locked-down phones but the workers who built their phones were paid almost nothing and may have been one of the few to escape onerous working conditions by jumping to their deaths.

  25. Re: Why does Apple even bother on Shouting 'Pay Your Taxes', Activists Occupy Apple Stores in France (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Government services like healthcare to keep an army of n00bs healthy enough to keep buying iPhones?