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  1. Dua's Layer on Researchers Discover Another Layer To the Cornea · · Score: 1

    I assume the NonEgotistical Layer name was taken.

    I wonder how many cool nicknames he's also given himself.

  2. David Brooks on Snowden's Big Truth: We Are All Less Free · · Score: 1

    David Brooks is a priviledged, water-carrying toady with delusions of intellect; a partisan hack whose undeserved notariety matches his swollen ego.

  3. Twitter on Keeping Your Data Private From the NSA (And Everyone Else) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I only use one time pads when tweeting.


    ...puts a crimp in the number of followers though.

  4. Prisons on Federal Judge Says Interns Should Be Paid · · Score: 2

    If you want free labor and you're a for-profit business?

    Go to the Prison-Industrial Complex, pay them a low fee, and get your labor for next to nothing (or free).

    This has been about the only growth industry in the US for decades.

    This is very appealing to Red states as it gets them a good chunk of money both over and under the table whilst also satisfying their twisted Purtianical sadism fetishes. The fact that most of the sla^H^H^H workers are minorities is just gravy.

    Very related: for-profit prison companies are now lobbying if not outright writing ever more laws with prison sentences as it directly increases their profits. Greed and sick, religion-driven punishment fantasies are the twin reasons the US has more citizens imprisoned percentage-wise than anywhere else.

  5. Keep writing your Congressmen AND your local media outlets.

    This advice only works in cases where they're both not straight-up, zombie-like fascists.

  6. Put the Too Big To Fail theory to the test. If Google, Apple, Microsoft (kidding; they have no morals) and a few other biggies all dump what the jack boots told them to do, what would they do - line up the execs in front of a firing squad? Call their bluff; cockroaches and corruption can't stand sunlight.

  7. Nope on Proposed NJ Law Allows Cops To Search Phones At Crash Scenes · · Score: 1

    Err....don't most people lock their phones with a code? Nothing here says you have to give the cop the fucking number to unlock the phone if he asks for it. He can look at mine all here wants, but he needs a warrant for me to even THINK about unlocking it for him.

    Large police departments now have wonderful little machines (kept right next to their military-level assault rifles, no doubt) that plug into phones and can bypass any and all user protections to suck it dry of data.

    Smell the freedom.

  8. Re:With NSA Reader! on Slashdot Asks: How Will You Replace Google Reader? · · Score: 1

    In all seriousness: are any of the alternatives safer than the rest? Do any offer going above and beyond the https fig leaf?

  9. Tinfoil Hat Timing on Majority of Americans Say NSA Phone Tracking Is OK To Fight Terrorism · · Score: 1

    Anyone happen to notice a bunch of bomb threats today? Princeton, an airliner....

    Thank Red State God, the Security Organs are doing the Lords work to keep us sheeple safe. /s

  10. Because on The NSA: Never Not Watching · · Score: 2

    That terrorists will come after us if they can and the only thing we have to deter this is good intelligence.

    "Because we have no fucking intent to ever change our corporate-foreign-military policy of fucking with everyone in their own backyards."

  11. Re:Farmer types, a question for you on GM Crop Producer Monsanto Using Data Analytics To Expand Its Footprint · · Score: 1

    Source: I grew up in farmland. When the wind blows just right, you can smell the manure from the pig farms.

    aka: The Smell of Other People's Money

  12. Special Committees are great on Dell Special Committee Backs Michael Dell Buyout Bid · · Score: 0

    They always end up with the right answer - just ask Dick Cheney!

  13. Coming soon on European HbbTV Smart TV Holes Make Sets Hackable · · Score: 1

    McAffe for TV!


    [shudder]

  14. Silver Lining on Quadcopter Guided By Thought — Accurately · · Score: 1

    Far fewer idiotic public appearances by polititians and celebs - at least not without covering ack-ack.

  15. Cap, I don't know what happened on Watching the Police: Will Two-Way Surveillance Reduce Crime? · · Score: 1

    "It must of got broken and suffered an EMP blast right before I had to shoot that [non-white] guy."

  16. Already disproven on Genetic Switches Behind 'Love' Identified In Prairie Voles · · Score: 2

    Ask any woman and they will tell you that all men are not voles, but are in fact, pigs.

  17. Stop being thick on SCOTUS Says DNA Collection Permissible After Arrest · · Score: 1

    I don't see the difference between this and finger printing. If you are going to do either and the person is not found guilty that stuff should all be tossed out.

    How the eff did this get a 5??

    New fingerprints can't be synthesized from on-file images and dumped at the crime scene or on evidence already in the police evidence room.

    Cops see everyone ever investigated and/or arrested as permanently guilty, therefore they are justified in their tiny minds and dark hearts in keeping DNA evidence to plant later on to vindicate their beliefs (not to mention getting promotions out of clearing all those pesky whodunnits).

  18. Related Story on Judge Orders Google To Comply With FBI's Warrantless NSL Requests · · Score: 1

    "Illston Aspires for Higher Judicial Office."

  19. Re:Endangered except... on Badgers Block British Broadband Buildout · · Score: 1

    "badgers are considered an endangered species" except where it's been decided to kill lots of them [bbc.co.uk].

    I won't comment except to say that it seems very inconsistent. J

    Just the ones that refuse to purchase a broadband package.

  20. Except these unlicensed plants are from a lab strain which was never released, and which Monsanto was supposed to have destroyed the plants after their tests. If anything, Monsanto has some 'splaining to do, and all of their claims that it couldn't possibly cross-contaminate other crops needs to be looked at much more closely.

    No doubt, the sub-sub-sub contractor that was supposed to actually destroy the plants didn't quite understand the interpreter or the INS found them before they could finish.

  21. Biggest Surprise on Kim Dotcom Wins Case Against NZ Police To Get Seized Material Back · · Score: 1

    When the large, militarized 'police' force stormed his home, I'm still surprised they didn't just go ahead and kill everyone that was home and then carefully cradle his personal weapons in his cold, dead hands. Perhaps the Kiwis weren't willing to carry out that part of the MAFIAA game plan.

    It still feels like living in a bizzaro simulacrum when confronted with the fact that the fucking entertainment industry can and does send out deadly paramilitary units across the face of the planet to defend their filthy middleman lucre.

  22. Tulips on Could Bitcoin Go Legit? · · Score: 1

    Like it or not, there are people who accept BTC as payment for goods and services, and there is a somewhat thriving market for them. That is legitimacy.

    So were tulip bulbs, for a brief time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_bubble

  23. Sad on New Best Way To Nuke a Short-Notice Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Asteroid Deflection Research Center at Iowa State University

    Meanwhile, my alma mater's big project is going to be a pork-barreled animal disease lab within eyesight of 50,000 respiratory tracts on gamedays. Ad Astra, my ass.

  24. Old adage on Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' Is Out · · Score: 2

    The whole business of having everything in C: is just dumb.

    I like to keep my drivers close and my viruses closer.

  25. Survive? on Scientists Recover Wooly Mammoth Blood · · Score: 5, Funny

    The upper torso and two legs, which were in the soil, were gnawed by prehistoric and modern predators and almost did not survive.

    "I do not think that word means what you think it means."