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  1. Outbreak on London Police To Wear Video Cameras In Pilot Project · · Score: 2

    "The London Met Police are reporting a sudden outbreak of vandals with tiny cans of spray paint, waggishly obscuring the copper cams at the worst possible moment."

  2. The next obvious divestment target on Stanford Getting Rid of $18 Billion Endowment of Coal Stock · · Score: 1

    Divest (and stop buying!) anything even partially owned by the fucking Koch brothers.

  3. Sad Day on Let Spouses of H-1B Visa Holders Work In US, Says White House · · Score: 1

    'Fifty million working-age Americans aren't working,' Sessions said in a statement, adding that as many as 'half of new technology jobs may be going to guest workers. This will help corporations by further flooding a slack labor market, pulling down wages.'

    It is truly a sad day when I find myself agreeing with Jeff [fighting rising gorge] Sessions.

  4. The Supremes on Comcast: Destroying What Makes a Competitive Internet Possible · · Score: 1

    Shoot 'em down. Title II Common Carrier status for the lot of 'em. They've abused for far too long, and gotten rich in the process. Time to cut them down a notch, before they manage to throw their weight around so much they break everything in the room.

    Given that the majority of this Supreme Court just ruled that government-backed and sanctioned prayer in public meetings is fine provided they are Christian prayers, you really think an FCC ruling on Title II would have any scintilla of hope?

    Democracy is dead, but most of us either haven't realized it or come to accept it yet.

  5. As planned on Polio Causes Global Health Emergency · · Score: 1

    It doesn't help that one the other side you have the Taliban who now target *all* health care workers as working for the enemy... to the detriment of the poor [brown, Muslim] people.

    If you really don't think that was another -ahem- bullet point in the CIA's slide deck for this operation, I have some swamp-based bitcoins to sell you.

  6. The two problems remain on The Feature Phone Is Dead: Long Live the 'Basic Smartphone' · · Score: 2

    Smartphones = hugephones. I would be much more amenable to switch from my creaky Env2, if there was an actual Android phone that fit into human-sized shirt pockets.

    The second issue is more serious: $40 per month soaking for the 'data plan', for a phone that will mostly remain off during working hours per policy.

  7. That Shining City on the Hill on Actual Results of Crimean Secession Vote Leaked · · Score: 1
  8. Forgot one on Researchers See a Post-Snowden Chilling Effect In Our Search Data · · Score: 1

    Ovaltine

  9. Re:Simple enough to fix on Yahoo Stops Honoring 'Do-Not-Track' Settings · · Score: 1

    Yahoo stops using "Do-Not-Track" and in response people who care about it implement "Do-Not-Yahoo". These things tend to work themselves out over time.

    You may remember exactly every service you use(d) that had a Yahoo email account as the main or fallback address, but the majority of folk out there don't. Admittedly, some of the fault is their own, but they are locked-in to a service that has now decided to abuse them for cash.

  10. 2nd Amendment on For the First Time Ever, the FAA Is Trying To Fine a Drone Hobbyist · · Score: 0

    Simple: just slap a gun on your drone and bingo! You now are protected from the FAA by the 2nd Amendment!

  11. Engineers on An MIT Dean's Defense of the Humanities · · Score: 1

    If you look at the ranks of terrorists / freedom fighters / loaded descriptor, you see a fair amount of engineers filling 'technical' roles (weapons, bombs, etc.) as they merely see a problem that needs solved... by any means necessary. Humanitarianism is pretty far down on their list.

  12. Don Henley on Drone Camera Tornado Coverage Raises Press Freedom Questions · · Score: 1

    "It's interesting when people die, give us dirty laundry."

    This is why I'm never too thrilled about all the 'storm hunters' late spring brings out to my state - it's all about getting lucrative footage and an adrenaline rush (some offer vacation packages, FFS). Precious few of them and their families live in harms way from tornadoes; to them, it's just a cool vacation where they occasionally have to drive around and past the remains of the natives. They only stop long enough to film the carnage and death, and then bug out, following the funnels. Pricks.

  13. Horizontal orientation on Toyota Describes Combustion Engine That Generates Electricity Directly · · Score: 1

    One of the problem with boxer-style engines (older VWs, 911s, Subarus) was that the horizontal orientation of the piston bores meant the bores, rings, and pistons wore more rapidly at the bottom due to self-weight when compared to vee or vertical engines. The slide showed roller bearings to support the rotor / piston, so maybe that's less of an issue.

  14. Not quite on Target Moves To Chip and Pin Cards To Boost Security · · Score: 1

    Will this move by a huge retailer push the U.S. into parity with the rest of the world?"

    Target is huge? I'm not so sure about that. But it will be fait accompli when Walmart changes.

  15. Re:Guess who is going to retire well; on SEC Chair On HFT: 'The Markets Are Not Rigged' · · Score: 1

    And just like Allan Greenspan, a certain SEC Chair is going to be miraculously a very wealthy bitch when she retires from a government oversight job.

    No need for that; history has proven countless times that crooked government oversight in exchange for future payment has no gender.

  16. On Twitter on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    Caught a retweet yesterday along the lines of "As far as I know, the only Christian sect that advocates the death penalty is Southern Baptist."

    "We don't care what Jesus would have done, WE WANT BLOOD!"

  17. Oh, the horror on Heartbleed Turned Against Cyber Criminals · · Score: 1

    Our ability to project power abroad would be crippled if we could not depend on them.

    Perish the very thought. #AmericanExceptionalism

  18. Re:Buggy whips? on The Koch Brothers Attack On Solar Energy · · Score: 1

    Do you really not perceive that the US military and intelligence agencies are used to make the world safe for American business? Why did the CIA overthrow the Guatemalan government in 1954?

    It goes back farther than that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket/

  19. A grateful nation on Face Recognition Algorithm Finally Outperforms Humans · · Score: 1

    of Killbots thank you.

    "Science: we're all about coulda, not about shoulda." -- Patton Oswalt

  20. Facism on Supreme Court OKs Stop and Search Based On Anonymous 911 Tips · · Score: 1

    I guess it always increases at an exponential rate.

    Seriously: what is left for the citizenry to do when it is being increasingly brutalized by the fucking Supreme Court itself??

  21. Rubber Stamping Racism on Supreme Court Upholds Michigan's Ban On Affirmative Action In College Admissions · · Score: 2

    'Michigan voters used the initiative system to bypass public officials who were deemed not responsive to the concerns of a majority of the voters with respect to a policy of granting race-based preferences that raises difficult and delicate issues.'

    The majority of those voters being White. Just trade in your judicial robe for a Klan outfit, Kennedy.

  22. VLC on Groove Basin: Quest For the Ultimate Music Player · · Score: 1

    Not sure what's wrong with the Swiss Army knife of media players. It wouldn't surprise me if it could actually play a spreadsheet.

  23. The most uttered English phrases on Apache OpenOffice Reaches 100 Million Downloads. Now What? · · Score: 1

    1. The check is in the mail.
    2. I promise I won't come inside you.
    3. I hate Word.

  24. Wrists on Switching From Sitting To Standing At Your Desk · · Score: 1

    I sorta switched to a standing desk by elevating the old drafting desk I use to it's highest level of ~38" from the floor. I have a crappy drafter's chair when my feets get tired (linoleum floor) so I alternate about half the time between seated and standing.

    But more than my feet forcing me to sit are my wrists. I can't do to much keyboarding or intensive mousing without my wrists starting to ache. The desk surface is about at my belt level, so my wrist / arm included angle is about 150 or so. Not sure what to do about this problem.

  25. Re:Why Transparency is Important on FBI Drone Deployment Timeline · · Score: 1

    We need transparency via reporting requirements and guidelines that give full information to the public.

    At the end of the day, you're still relying on foxes properly filling out their TPS henhouse reports.