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  1. Pure BS on Ecuador Grants Asylum To Julian Assange · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The UK *MUST* extradite him or their laws mean nothing.

    You have got to be freaking kidding. Every empire is based on stinking, murderous hipocrisy - and useful idiots.

  2. Re:West Nile Emergency?!? on West Nile Virus Outbreak Puts Dallas In State of Emergency · · Score: 1

    What crack have the Dallas County Commissioners been smoking that John Whiley Price [wikipedia.org]

    Wow, that article came across as being written by the John Birch Society.

  3. Oh, suuure on West Nile Virus Outbreak Puts Dallas In State of Emergency · · Score: 1

    The "emergency" was declared primarily so we could gain access to 5 pesticide-spraying planes from the Texas Department of Emergency Management.

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    CHEMTRAILS!!

    We'll right back, with more Art Bell.

  4. Re:Reason: on Bill Gates Wants To Reinvent the Toilet · · Score: 1

    Massive deforestation is indeed a problem, but trees can be harvested in a sustainable way.

    Tree Farms != Forests.

  5. At the rapidly accelerating rate of fascism in the US and elsewhere (written on the eve of the British government invading the Ecuadorian embassy), the only high tech us proles will experience will be the tools of oppression; the cool tech - bio included - will be reserved soley for the 1% power elite.

  6. Yes and on Grumman Building Football Field-Sized Robotic Surveillance Blimp · · Score: 1

    Different enemies require different tools.

    Especially the ultimate enemy: your own citizens.

  7. I dunno on Widely Used Antibacterial Chemical May Impair Muscle Function · · Score: 1

    This is ridiculously in excess of any conceivable dose of Triclosan you could get unless you are an utterly unprotected employee of a Triclosan-using factory.

    I bet doctors and nurses in swamped urban ERs could get close.

  8. Spandau on Ecuador To Grant Assange Political Asylum · · Score: 1

    Assange should set up his own Spandau Prison in the Ecuadorian emabassy right there is London. He'd retain all the press attention and be a damn sight more secure than he ever would be in Ecuador proper, given that if the US will invade a country based on lies, they won't blink in snatching JA from a 'mere' central American country. Though it would be a bit of a tough arguement for him to sell: "Thank you for giving me refuge, but I don't want to go to your actual country as it would never be safe for me."

  9. Dadaist QR code on Alternative To QR Code Uses NFC and Cheap Rectennas · · Score: 1

    Take a picture of it and you're instantly taken to the wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_cat.

  10. PS/2 FTW on Cherry MX Mechanical Keyboard Switches Compared · · Score: 1

    I prefer PS/2 keyloggers; the stolen data has a much warmer, analog feel.

  11. Landfill on Electronic Retailers In Europe Now Required To Take Back Old Goods · · Score: 1

    Our county landfill has a covered drainage sink connected to a large oil tank; you just bring in your used oil and dump it yourself. I think they're supposed to at least check your car has plates from the same county, but I can't recall anyone even looking at them. Plus, I think most dealerships / car repair places will accept it too, but I prefer the landfill (one mile out of town) rather than interrupting folk during their work, which has to get old rather quickly. And this is all in the heart of a virulently Red state, too! I guess even troglodytes can learn new tricks.

  12. Die Hard on Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job' · · Score: 1

    The TSA is *exactly* like the FBI was characterised in the first Die Hard movie: brain-dead, by the book reactionaries that do exactly what the bad guys need done. In the case of the TSA, they have been crucial in conducting bin Laden's long-term goal of turning the US into a police state. Based on his early life exposure and his Soviet-era collusions with the CIA, he understood that the most likely US reaction to a terrorist threat would be justification of dictatorial powers for the gain of personal power and profits by those in both public and private sectors (if there is still a difference).

    Mission Accomplished, indeed.

  13. Well now, on Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job' · · Score: 1

    If a corporate-controlled 'news' group is telling us that being sexually groped by our own government is both effective *and* welcome, who are we to question?

  14. Know any concealed weapon carrying liberal democrats?

    Yes; as self-defense against concealed weapon carrying right-wingers.

    The system works?

  15. Grain Trucks on Google's Self-Driving Cars: 300,000 Miles Logged, Not a Single Accident · · Score: 1

    Given that there are grain trucks in midwestern states still being allowed on highways during harvest (usually driven by the teenagers in the farm family) that are so fucking old, they feature ANTIQUE classification license plates, other than in rich enclaves, I don't think self-driving cars are going to make much difference in traffic fatalities.

    And any attempt to get rid of old cars - which I do have a soft spot for - will quickly devolve into the same tired 'my cold, dead hands' argument surrounding guns.

  16. Rubberstamp on US Freezes Nuclear Power Plant Permits Because of Waste Issues · · Score: 1

    TMI, Chernobyl, and Fukushima were all designed in the 60s

    Has there ever been a US nuke plant not given extension after extension after extension by the NRC? Regardless of age, penny-pinching maintenance cutbacks, or operator apathy / incompetence, for all practical purposes they are given permission to 'run to failure' with very little drama involved. Yes, there are upgrades... around the edges, anyway.

  17. Converse Petard on ISPs Throttling BitTorrent Traffic, Study Finds · · Score: 3, Funny

    They don't, they sell speeds "up to".

    Next time my speed exceeds what I was promised, I'm suing.

  18. AKA on Indian Government Mulls Giving Away Mobile Phones To the Poor · · Score: 1

    Tracking Units.

  19. Madoff on Kim Dotcom Raid - What Really Happened · · Score: 1

    Bernie's high crime was robbing rich people, instead of poor ones. That is the only reason he is in prison.

    (30)

  20. Futurama on July Heat Set U.S. Record · · Score: 2

    "Is that Fahrenheit or Celcius?"
    "First one, then the other."

  21. Odometer on Are SSD Accelerators Any Good? · · Score: 1

    What Joe Consumer needs is an odometer equivalent for an SSD; something that can explicitly warn us when we're reaching the MWI cliff so we can plan for an upgrade (including nuking the old SSD) before we possibly lose even one bit. Without that, it's just murder in the dark.

  22. Yes and on This Is What Wall Street's Terrifying Robot Invasion Looks Like · · Score: 1

    We don't have *time* to get a warrant!

  23. Re:2013 on Acer: Microsoft Surface 'Negative For The Whole PC Industry' · · Score: 1

    This is exactly why Microsoft bullied and threatened manufacturers building Android handsets with legal oblivion unless they pay their blackmail fees based on nothing but a lawyered-up a tissue of lies. That this is allowed is why the concept of true justice is nothing but a fantasy.

  24. Sure on Sensor Uses Body's Electrical Signature To Secure Devices · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it works great - until you rub a balloon on your head! One simple party trick and boom! You're locked out of everything!

  25. Churchill on US Resists UN Push For Control Over Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Except that, good or bad, the US's governance of the Internet is a known quantity.

    Kinda like what Churchill said of Democracy: the worst system, except for all the others.