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  1. Oklahoma on Bill Gates: Piketty's Attack on Income Inequality Is Right · · Score: 1

    They don't have taxes.

    They just have 'fees' for everything. So the rich stay rich and the poor are nibbled to death by ducks.

  2. Re:Why..... on "Double Irish" Tax Loophole Used By US Companies To Be Closed · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that it gives those same companies huge incentives to medal in politics.

    Well that's unintentionally true - especially for assholes like the Kochs that are awarding gold medals to lapdog morons across the US.

  3. The Chinese hacked the landing code on Secretive X-37B Military Space Plane Could Land On Tuesday · · Score: 1

    it took this long for the NSA find a backdoor that worked.

  4. Re:Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis on Ross Ulbricht's Lawyer Says FBI's Hack of Silk Road Was "Criminal" · · Score: 1

    Brandeis would have had the entire notion of 'Parallel Construction' thrown up against a dirty brick wall, then gut-shot. And rightly so.

    It must have been great to have a Supreme Court not packed with partisan, corporate / police state lapdogs.

  5. Simple: file a Bugzilla report on them: that will definitely get the word out!

  6. Sue? on US Says It Can Hack Foreign Servers Without Warrants · · Score: 1

    point being, they're breaking the law in the country where the servers were in... they're going to slip up some day and hack someone that sues them abroad and in usa...

    Sue? Nah, I want the offended country to consider the hacking as an act of war, justifying the seizing of assets and jailing of US government officials on charges of espionage. And a big country; too big to drone / carpet bomb. I'd advise Brazil to conduct a test case.

  7. The War on Drugs (TM) on Silk Road Lawyers Poke Holes In FBI's Story · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The first fatal casualty in The War on Drugs (TM) was an honest justice system, with someone in the back screaming 'She's got a gun!' while bursting through the front door of a knock and announce.

  8. Three times fast on UK Government Tax Disc Renewal Website Buckles Under Pressure · · Score: 1

    Just try saying that fast three times: tax disk; tax disk; tax disk.

    I hear they're also available where they sell seashells by the seashore.

  9. that means members of the FBI should be subject to extradition and trial in those other countries just as they would be if they had been caught (and prosecuted) for breaking American law.

    Oh, my aching sides! Are you here all week?

  10. Re: Application sandboxing on Will Windows 10 Finally Address OS Decay? · · Score: 1

    Each app gets a separate Linux user, so it's data is separate and inaccessible to other apps.

    Ignoring the endless screens of permission requests with each update, including your mothers maiden name and bra size. But yeah, sandboxes are great.

  11. Wrong name on Factory IoT Saves Intel $9 Million · · Score: 1

    It shouldn't be called the Internet of Things; it should be honestly called the Panopticon of Things.

    But expecting honesty from the largest tech company is like expecting the DOJ to prosecute bankers.

  12. Nope on The "Man In the Moon" Was Created By Mega Volcano · · Score: 1

    Whenever you look up at the near side of the moon, you see a face looking back at you.

    Nope. Never.

  13. Walmart on The $1,200 DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 0

    I saw my first gun-packing meathead in Walmart last week end (why, he was White - how did you guess?). I was very tempted to go up to him and ask :"What are you so scared of, that you have to carry a gun in public?" We all should, every time.

    Unless you're living in Beirut, the real reason for 'packing' is race-based fear and / or small, limp junk.

  14. Re:Space Trilogy on Are the World's Religions Ready For ET? · · Score: 1

    I first read the trilogy when I was an atheist, and it helped remove that particular hurdle in my later study of the world religions that lead to my conversion to Catholicism.

    So you highest belief set is Empire.

  15. Whole house filter on The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    Just like having a water filter and/or softener at the entrance of a house's service, LED bullbs (and other electronics) might live up to their projected lifetimes if they were fed with filtered, rock-solid power, free of spikes and sags.

  16. Re:So offer a cost effective replacement on Security Collapse In the HTTPS Market · · Score: 1

    ...the best approach is to continue and fix the flaws as they are found.

    You mean *after* they've been known about for years by blackhats - or far more likely and terrifying - the TLAs.

  17. Just one more step on Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair With Astonishing Crop Yield Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Coming soon: Roundup-ready bacteria!!

  18. Accidental on Device Allows Paralyzed Rats To Walk, Human Trials Scheduled Next Summer · · Score: 1

    "The rat has no voluntary control of its limbs, but the severed spinal cord can be reactivated and stimulated to perform natural walking. We can control in real-time how the rat moves forward and how high it lifts its legs."

    This also accidentally describes the nearly-attained goals of the US state security organs (with assists from the POTUS and the Supremes).

  19. The riskiest experiment of them all on US Asks Universities To Flag Risky Pathogen Experiments · · Score: 1

    Moving an animal disease lab from an isolated island to within eyesight of a college football stadium: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bio_and_Agro-Defense_Facility

    This Pat Roberts pork barrel is pathological.

  20. Shaka, when the walls fell on Apple Yanks iOS 8 Update · · Score: 1

    Or at least, cracks (and bends) are starting to appear...

  21. Being Black in Ferguson is taxed, as 70% of their budget comes from traffic tickets and court costs and draconian fines such as being 5 minutes late to your kangaroo court hearing.

  22. Quarkson. Jeremey Quarkson?


    POWER!!

  23. Funny on Scotland Votes No To Independence · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Prime Minister David Cameron said in a speech outside 10 Downing Street on Friday morning. "It would have broken my heart to see our United Kingdom come to an end."

    A heart, he no doubt had stolen from a Welsh, Irish, or Scottish street urchin.

  24. NSL on Apple Will No Longer Unlock Most iPhones, iPads For Police · · Score: 1

    I'm betting an NSL with the ink still wet makes all this pretty, untrue words.

  25. Bin Laden Playbook on Snowden's Leaks Didn't Help Terrorists · · Score: 1

    Attack the US Homeland (vomit), and watch the paranoiacs and self-serving greedy pricks (Chertoff, et al) come to power. This will do far more damage to a supposedly enlightened, modern country that respects the rights and privacies of its citizens than the actual attacks, even if successful.

    Mission Accomplished