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  1. Another key point on Where Does America's Fear Come From? · · Score: 1

    The destruction of effective (read: well-funded) primary education. It is far easier to lead the majority of people by their noses when they have been intentionally deprived of critical thinking skills.

  2. Won't someone think of the children on Edward Snowden Leaks Could Help Paedophiles Escape Police, Says UK Government · · Score: 3, Informative

    The last refuge of the true fascist: the straw man of child pr0n.

  3. Perhaps even time enough to ask themselves why they have arranged their entire lives around the conceit of working far away from home.

  4. In our times on Speed Test: Comparing Intel C++, GNU C++, and LLVM Clang Compilers · · Score: 1

    In the times we live in - and the knowledge Ed S. has given us - do you really still trust a black-box compiler from a huge US corporation with intimate government ties?

  5. Crimonelly! on Silent Circle, Lavabit Unite For 'Dark Mail' Encrypted Email Project · · Score: 2

    Would be more interesting that instead of the comments of Microsoft (with deep ties with the NSA), yahoo and google (both may not be very happy with the NSA, but still must give them their users accounts info by law) the article focused on comments from people from i.e. the IETF for implementing it as an standard in a more worldwide (even personal) way.

    Congrats: your sentence is thoroughly encrypted!

  6. Kickstarter on NSA Broke Into Links Between Google, Yahoo Datacenters · · Score: 2

    A Kickstarter campaign to put up billboards alongside the top 25 rush hour arteries across the USA with stark black letters on white background:

    The NSA knows what you did.
    And one day they will expose you.
    Stop Them and save yourself.

  7. Lame, low governmental fines = The Cost of Doing Business. I suspect they could find this amount under their couch cushions.

    Major Federal violations such as this should _start_ at 10% of the total corporations' gross profits encompassing the entire time span of the violation, rapidly rising with discovery of any willful cover-up.

  8. It's no different on UK Prime Minister Threatens To Block Further Snowden Revelations · · Score: 1

    He was completely unable to grasp that was he was advocating was most definitely not conservative given that by definition conservatism is about resisting change, and he was advocating massive change, and was very much a communist idea - i.e. the complete opposite of the right which he claimed to proudly represent.

    It's no different than the current US extreme right now advocates and embraces the same foundational beliefs of the systems their grandfathers fought against in WWII (fascism). I truly believe the GOP and their Randian backers merely waited until almost all of the WWII generation were dead or senile to begin implementing their greatest desires.

  9. Very sadly related on Fighting Paralysis With Electricity · · Score: 1

    I do IT work at Medtronic... My prior jobs were all IT jobs in really dismal, "selfish" industries - banking, credit cards, health insurance. Nothing I did helped make the world a better place.The work I did made a CEO richer and that was about it. The companies were built on "How can we cheapen this so we make more money on it."

    http://www.startribune.com/business/208307771.html

  10. Offsite Storage on The Cloud: Convenient Until a Stranger Nukes Your Files · · Score: 1

    Offsite storage to ensure no data loss? Good idea. A bad idea is using online storage as it will be a matter of when (not if) they have a major failure, get hacked, go temporarily brain-dead, declare bankruptcy, or just suffer the boring disgruntled employee scenario. A better idea is rotating media to a meat space security deposit box in a bank. No you won't have the convenience of having your files at your fingertips, but neither will anyone else, ffs.

  11. Downside on Cow Burps Tapped For Fuel · · Score: 1

    If they did this, no doubt the long-term presence of the tubes would cause respiratory infections. TRIPLE THE ANTIBIOTICS.

  12. Wheat Trucks on TSA Airport Screenings Now Start Before You Arrive At the Airport · · Score: 1

    Sorry, Pollyanna, but you and your wonder car will still have to share the highway with barely functional cars and trucks such as a large chunk of seasonal wheat trucks headed to elevators while sporting ANTIQUE* classification license plates. Bonus: a good chunk of these museum pieces are piloted by high school kids.

    * Antique tags are for anything older than 1975, IIRC.

  13. He wins on NSA Director Keith Alexander Is Reportedly Stepping Down · · Score: 1

    Given that he is not stepping down into a Gen Pop PMITA prison (whilst we are still in his) means he wins.

  14. Washington Post on Online Journalism Is Becoming a Billionaires' Plaything (Again) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I wouldn't hold my breath over the Post launching an in-depth investigation into Amazon's contracts with the CIA, for example. More to the point, Bezos won't even have to say a word; even the dimmest editor knows which side of the bread his butter lies. Kinda like Russia Today's coverage about the treatment of the LGBT communities in that country is a bit... light. Or Al Jazeera's reportage on the practical enslavement of south pacific workers in the Middle East. Lesson: never single-source.

  15. Don't rule out misogyny on Most Cave Paintings Were Painted By Women, Says Penn State Researcher · · Score: 1

    But an analysis of the relative lengths of fingers in hand stencils found on cave walls suggests that it was mostly prehistoric women--not men--who created these works.

    Or proof of the male artists' ownership of a women (or women).

  16. Never ask why on Guardian Ignores MI5 Warnings, Vows To 'Publish More Snowden Leaks' · · Score: 1

    Mr Parker said it was vital for MI5 to retain the capability to access such information if it was to protect the country.

    But never *ever* ask why measures up to and including the destruction of one's own society to 'protect the country' is necessary. That 'protection' being the continued unfettered profits of British Petroleum, BAE Systems, et al where ever and when ever no matter the collateral corruption and death (i.e., constructing the next generation of terrorists).

  17. Bruce Schneier's entire point on The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 · · Score: 2

    All the criminal activity the NSA has done and continues to do has done nothing but made the entire hardware and software structure of the Internet vulnerable, paving a smooth, superhighway to everyone else in the world that wishes to either destroy modern society or simply steal money from the 99%.

    The petard the NSA and Western World will be hoisted upon is one of their own making. (Cylons 1:15)

  18. TANSTAAFL on NSA's New Utah Data Center Suffering Meltdowns · · Score: 1

    and the laptops have seriously reduced battery life, even while doing nothing.

    There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lurk -- NSA

  19. What a shame on NSA's New Utah Data Center Suffering Meltdowns · · Score: 1

    Isn't it terrible when bad things happen to absolute fascists?

  20. Attention must be paid on Why the FAA May Finally Relax In-Flight Device Rules · · Score: 1

    It never really was about interference, but getting all the seat meat to at least pretend to pay attention during the parts of the flight when things just might go pear-shaped: takeoff and landing.

  21. Thank the underwriters on Science Magazine "Sting Operation" Catches Predatory Journals In the Act · · Score: 1

    "In closing, we would like to thank the underwriters of our story: Elsevier."

  22. Buried Lede on Fukushima Leak Traced To Overflow Tank Built On a Slope · · Score: 1

    The deviation must be quite small to only let out 430 litres slip out.

    More to the point: why were these tanks designed with open (or for all practical purposes open) tops?? If that minimum amount can slop out just due to grade, how much are they losing just to freaking evaporation?

  23. Wide beta is wide on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    Wow. That's... that's really wide. But then again, I'm not sure my POS work IE8 has the proper Panavision plug-in.

  24. DDOS and Bogusity on Health Exchange Sites Crushed By Demand; Shutdown Blanks Other Gov't Sites · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have to wonder how much of the crush was due to the Randians, the Baggers, and Koch Whores trying to overwhelm the site and flood it with bogus accounts. Given the depth of their hatred of the working poor, it would not surpise in the least.

  25. Maybe it'll be like Dallas on The Next Big Fiber Showdown: Austin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In AT&T's Dallas HQ parking garage, you can get four bars in every elevator as it's critcally important all their execs be in constant contact.

    But for their customers? Ha! This will be just more cobbled-together Uverse hybrid garbage.