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  1. He who controlls the database on Canadian Mint To Create Digital Currency · · Score: 1

    Digital currency just means the Central bank can wipe-out our savings more efficiently (by devaluing the dollar).

    The same reason so many 'small government' folk constantly push for electronic voting; once in power, stay in power with the push of a buttton.

    Yes, let's take every durable, distributed system and convert them to a single point of failure - and corruption.

  2. Re:Z fscked up on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    Oh, yes; that's the bit when he fscked up. Not when he shot an unarmed black kid.

    Just like the abject hatred of Obama masked as anything but racism, not much has changed in the US since 1860.

  3. HA! on Assessing Media Bias: Microsoft Vs. Everyone Else · · Score: 1

    Microsoft, we all just love to hate, even if they're not in a position to deserve it anymore.

    Until they stop intimating - without ever bothering to offer proof - that Linux has stolen their IP, they do still deserve more hate than love.

  4. Time Zones on HP Ships Switches With Malware Infected Flash Cards · · Score: 1

    Hello? Quality Control? Are you there?

    Not yet; you have to remember the time difference when calling Shenzhen.

  5. The funniest part on Tennessee "Teaching the Controversy" Bill Becomes Law · · Score: 1

    is the Monkey-Trial descendants believing junior and high school students give a damn about anything remotely connected to evolution. Now sex education, on the other hand....

  6. Reality Distortion Field on Apple Developing Tool To Remove Flashback · · Score: 1

    It's not a bug.....it's a feature.

    "And we think you're going to love it."

  7. 5th Element on Interview With TSA Screener Reveals 'Fatal Flaws' · · Score: 1

    ...making it easy to fire someone makes it easier to hire someone and the 'creative destruction' is beneficial for an economy.

    When you choke on that next cherry, I for one, will not slap you on the back.

  8. Re:Still working on it. on Chrome OS Introduces Aura Window Manager · · Score: 1

    Android probably has about two years left, tops. Google - still as ADD as ever - is rapidly losing interest (and control) of their idle plaything. Plus, the handset manufacturers are tiring of paying blackmail money to Microsoft for their specious strawman claims that could only be knocked down after spending tens of millions and years in court.

  9. Curse that on Statistical Analysis Raises Civil War Death Count By 20% · · Score: 0

    'Northern aggression'. Read all about the spitefull greed of New Englanders in your local Jesusland high school history book.

  10. Name Change on Kubuntu To Be Sponsored By Blue Systems, Rather Than Canonical · · Score: 1

    Surely, they will have to change their name to Blue K Systems...

  11. They do agree on one point on Iran Plans To Unplug the Internet, Launch Its Own 'Clean' Alternative · · Score: 3, Insightful

    US Conservatives and Wahabi-style Islamists have common ground: all women are sluts and must have every facet of their lives controlled by men.

  12. Fly in your ointment on New Tech Makes Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Verifiable · · Score: 1

    The more nukes, the more unthinkable war becomes.

    That theory has a single point of failure due to an even better killing machine than nukes: Religion. Who would willingly make the world burn? Those who believe they will be rewarded in the next.

  13. Pshh on New Tech Makes Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Verifiable · · Score: 1

    Useless. Everyone knows Iran has now stuffed their entire bedrock full of styrofoam packing peanuts.

  14. Not the real reason on IBM Patent: Smart Floors Detect Heart Attacks, Intruders · · Score: 1

    The real lucrative market is of course home-confinement monitoring - a refinement of the ankle bracelet.

    IBM still does cool things, but just like certain Holerith cards, they don't seem too troubled about how the tech is used after the sale.

  15. Lowest bidders on FBI Says Smart Meter Hacks Are Likely To Spread · · Score: 1

    And where did these US corporations source all that hardware (and probably the software too)? The convient, one-stop shop of the Peoples Army, Military-Industrial Division.

  16. Disturbance in Skinny Jeans on Facebook To Buy Instagram For $1 Billion · · Score: 3, Funny

    And I felt a million hipsters cry out in non-ironic pain, now with no online shelter from their mothers.

  17. Hidden savings on Major Textbook Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up · · Score: 1

    The US southern states could save quite a bit by commissioning history books where nothing happened between 1860 and 1970!

    The last thing the US needs is to accelerate the balkanization happening at the regional / state levels where science and historical facts are already being converted into 'culture war' footballs.

  18. Politicians Phone on Company Designs "Big Brother Chip" · · Score: 1

    So if you ever find the phone of a politician (or another worker for the state security organs) that is equipped with this chip, be sure to leave it in the nearest adult book store.

  19. A large core of powerful, monied (hence, Republican) interests reside in Miami, having been displaced from Bautistan Cuba, where they were even more powerful and monied. That's the real reason for the continued US policy towards Cuba.

  20. Cue Loverboy on Chrome Beats Internet Explorer On Any Given Sunday · · Score: 1

    Google commercial to the strains of 'Everybody's Working for the Weekend'.

  21. Sarajevo on Flashback Trojan Hits 600,000 Macs and Counting · · Score: 0

    To be fair this is a Java exploit, and it's already been closed by Apple.

    The dullard users are probably receiving security updates automatically, and so they'd have been updated as of Tuesday.

    Aside from this, the general public does not seem vulnerable

    Reminds me of Archduke Ferdinand right after the gunshot: "It is nothing".

  22. Save your wrists on EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters · · Score: 1

    He probably doesn't believe in Amazon, either.

  23. Supremely Bad on The Supreme Court To Rule On Monsanto Seed Patents · · Score: 1

    This pack - especially Scalia and his shadow - are shaping up to be the worst lot since the Dred Scott decision. The absolutley worst part is that, like DICK Cheney, modern medicine will keep these bad guys living far longer than the jackals of the past. Everywhere you look, depressing signs of the death of true democracy and freedom.

  24. But tar sands? on Canadians Protest Wind Turbines · · Score: 1

    A-okay! Anyone ever wonder why the Canucks aren't bothering to refine their sludge and sell the value-added gasoline instead? I believe the real reason for piping this tar to Houston refineries instead, is that the vast majority of that output will not be for domestic US use, but exported instead. All the while, the Idiocracy will patiently wait for the price of their gas to go down. When it doesn't it will obviously again be the fault of the Left.

  25. Re:Oh, yeah, that'll work. on Dutch Pirateparty Refuses Order To Take Down Proxy · · Score: 1

    When linking is a crime then everyone becomes a criminal.

    And thus become far more compliant and controllable. That is the long game of corporate fascist states: threaten troublemakers with exposing everything they've done as they foolishly assumed they had a real right to privacy. He who is without sin, feet of clay, and all that rot.