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  1. Re:How did the government pull this off? on Training Materials for NSA Spying Tool "XKeyScore" Revealed · · Score: 1

    Dont worry, the populace will not benefit from the success of the program in any way or form.

  2. Re:Pennies on The Billion Dollars on Schneier Has Something Good To Say About Airport Security · · Score: 1

    a device for random selection, consisting of a circular round object minted by our very own Federal Government that generates binary decisions with 50% probability

    They already have those, they are called "federal agents".

  3. Re:Test it in Washington on Sagita Displays Hot Air Powered Helicopter · · Score: 2

    And get yourself arrested by the feds by siphoning illegally off the national strategic hot air reserve.

  4. Hot Air Powered Helicopter on Sagita Displays Hot Air Powered Helicopter · · Score: 1

    Hot Air Powered Locomotion; This new technology will ensure the hyperpower status of the USA for the 21st century; given plentyful resources located in the north americas politician deposits.

  5. Re:Yeah, right! on British Foreign Secretary on Surveillance Worries: '"Law Abiding Citizens Have N · · Score: 5, Funny

    Law abiding governments have nothing to worry about from whistleblowers. Only war criminals, the corrupt and the dishonest should fear the activities of the media.

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  6. Re:in the US on In Praise of the King: 1.7M Social Media Comments In Thailand · · Score: 2, Insightful

    we just get audited by the IRS.

    And get your email and phonecalls monitored by the rest of the alphabet soup agencies.
    Or get legally droned if your government states that they consider you to be engaged in combat with them.
    Or get legally held indefintaly without a trial or a charge if you fit the criteria they themselves come up with.
    Also you jail most people in the world; in historical perspective only Nazi-Germany and USSR had more prisoners in proportion to population. That should be telling.

  7. Re:Wait, what? on iPhone 4, iPad 2 Get US Import Ban · · Score: 1
  8. Wait, what? on iPhone 4, iPad 2 Get US Import Ban · · Score: 1

    It's getting so complicated we need a scorecard to keep track of who's winning these offensive patent battles

    You serious? Whos winning?
    My take from past few years is more along the lines of... this

  9. Re:What? Again? on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    This was predicted back in the 1930s, too. How did that work out for them?

    Well, I'd find it much more plausible today than in the 1930's, given the past 70+ years of technological progress.

  10. Re:Sentience? on Why We Should Build a Supercomputer Replica of the Human Brain · · Score: 5, Funny

    If it's on the internet, maybe it will post to Slashdot as an A/C.

    you insensitive clod!

    some of us simulations have registered accounts!

  11. Re:At $325K a burger that is not reality on Engineering the $325,000 Burger · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, just because the first computer took millions to build and maintain didn't make it real.

  12. Re:Nice fight! on Congress Wants Federal Government To Sell 1755-1780 MHz Spectrum Band · · Score: 1

    If they both lose, do we win then?

  13. Re:This is like those selling names for stars on Nearest Alien Planet Gets New Name · · Score: 1

    The IAU hasn't even started the process to create the procedure to name exoplanets.

    Oh Oh Oh !
    I got one!

    First person on the planet gets to name it

  14. Re:His name is Dirt.. on Nearest Alien Planet Gets New Name · · Score: 2

    When the native Alaudans were asked "what does the name of your planet mean in your tongue?"

    "Dirt", they replied.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_(mythology)

    In ancient Roman religion and myth, Tellus or Terra Mater ("Mother Earth") is a goddess of the earth.

  15. Re:Bacon. on Lab-grown Kidneys Transplanted Into Rats · · Score: 3, Funny

    The price of bacon may also go down, win win.

    Not for the pig.

    Yeah, well, the pig should've thought about that before deciding to taste so damn delicious.

  16. Re:Duplicate datacenter on NSA Data Center Brings Concerns Over Security and Privacy and Jobs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Three data centers for the Elven-kings under the sky,
    Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
    Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
    One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
    One data center to rule them all, One data center to find them,
    One data center to bdata center them all and in the darkness bind them
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

  17. Re: What kind of moronic "defense" lawyer... on Guantanamo Hearings Delayed as Legal Files Vanish · · Score: 2

    Do *you* really think we're "the home of the free"?

    I dont remember saying that.

    And WTF is "iteration of category" supposed to mean?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iteration

  18. Re:What kind of moronic "defense" lawyer... on Guantanamo Hearings Delayed as Legal Files Vanish · · Score: 5, Funny

    The ones that think that the united states is the land of the free and home of the brave, not another iteration of category ("USSR, Nazi-Germany, Cuba, North Korea, DDR")

  19. Re:The lesson here... on The Activists Who Bring Security To the Oppressed · · Score: 1

    Whoops massive quote fail. Please dont hit me.

  20. Re:The lesson here... on The Activists Who Bring Security To the Oppressed · · Score: 1

    If you have a Smartphone with you can be tracked. If you have a Smartphone and enemies in high places, you will be tracked. Ironically, the cell phone is both a lifeline and a leash.

    If you have a Smartphone with you can be tracked. If you have a Smartphone and enemies in high places, you will be tracked. Ironically, the cell phone is both a lifeline and a leash.

    If you have a Smartphone with you can be tracked.

    I thought any kind of cellphone was vulnerable to being tracked while connected to a cellular network.

  21. Old news. on Bitcoin Blockchain Forked By Backward-Compatibility Issue · · Score: 5, Funny

    640K would have been enough for everyone.

  22. Fucking sleazebags on Microsoft Restores Transfer Rights To Office 2013 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Trying to chip away customers rights at every chance and backing away only when the blowback gets unbearable, just to wait for another chance.

  23. Re:Too little, too late on Apple's $1B Patent Award From Samsung Gets Cut By $450M · · Score: 0

    It's also pretty obvious that Samsung is astroturfing social web sites. After all, their marketing budget is bigger than Apple & Sony combined.

    .... [Citation needed] ..?

  24. Re:Too little, too late on Apple's $1B Patent Award From Samsung Gets Cut By $450M · · Score: 1

    It's been pretty obvious from the start that Koh was in the tank for Apple. I suspect at this point, she's worried about what the appeals court might have to say about her conduct, especially if they can't find grounds to overturn her verdict.

    If that was the case, how come shes still practicing law? In other civilized countries we have laws against judges preciding over cases where they have personal stakes in the outcome of the case - She should receive the judicial version of curbstomping if the bolded is correct.

  25. Re:I can think of a few rea$on$ on Time Warner Cable: No Consumer Demand For Gigabit Internet · · Score: 1

    Which town is this? I have 200/15 from DNA but I have to pay 55 euros for it!

    Hollola, DNA Joint subscriber cable(free up to 2mb/s), bandwidth guarantee for paid upgrades.