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  1. Re:The point of this on CIA Shows Off (Formerly) Super-Secret Spy Goodies · · Score: 1

    Mossad agents might be aware of the CIA's actual capabilities, the bureaucrat they are trying to flip in some other department might not.

  2. Re:Banewreaker on LotR Rewritten From a Mordor Perspective · · Score: 1

    No, not only counting POWs. It happened on a smaller scale and is less talked about, but there were a large number of US citizens of German descent in internment camps.

  3. Re:Banewreaker on LotR Rewritten From a Mordor Perspective · · Score: 1

    About 11,000 people of German descent were placed in internment camps. We also provided the internment facilities for several Latin American countries.

  4. Re:we should make it easier for them on FBI Complains About Wiretapping Difficulties Due To Web Services · · Score: 2

    Leaving out the second part of that sentence alters the meaning. The are reasons for, like catching criminals, and reasons against, like creating an overbearing police state with no regard for citizen privacy. You can't do a cost benefit analysis if you won't look at the costs and benefits.

  5. Re:Might not be entirely the driver's fault. on Driver Sued For Updating Facebook In Fatal Crash · · Score: 1

    If you can't see someone already in the road, you aren't in control of your vehicle. The facebook stuff is added evidence, not the main issue.

  6. Re:8PM? on Kids Who Skip School Get Tracked By GPS · · Score: 1

    4 unexcused absences doesn't imply that they are in any other way problematic.

  7. Re:Quite a conundrum... on Americans Trust Docs, But Not Computerized Records · · Score: 1

    I think you may be way off base with the Midwest comment. Remember the Midwest is home to the Cleveland and Mayo Clinics. Neither of those have been slacking in the electronic health records area.

  8. Re:Not Too Surprising on Americans Trust Docs, But Not Computerized Records · · Score: 1

    Even a lot of the Facebook junkies I've met have a personal line they draw around some medical information wher it won't be divulged publicly. They might tell the world about smoking a bowl and downing a fifth of whiskey before grandma's funeral, but they are a lot less likely to mention a positive STD test.

  9. Re:Interesting Intersection on Glen Beck Warns Viewers Not To Use Google · · Score: 1

    They could just go with the fact that he might be right that Google is worth watching closely, but fucking batshit insane for his reasons.

  10. Re:... he just described what Fox News does on Glen Beck Warns Viewers Not To Use Google · · Score: 1

    No, Foxnews is anti Democrat. When a Republican held the Whitehouse they were rather pro-government.

  11. Re:I think Beck has started to believe his own con on Glen Beck Warns Viewers Not To Use Google · · Score: 1

    If you think there aren't waiting lists and rationing of care under the US system you are missing out on what life is like for a huge chunk of the country.

  12. Re:Happens to every new media on The Most Violent Video Games of All Time · · Score: 1

    People may not be able to name 10 pre-code sound films, but there are plenty of well known ones, especially in the gangster and horror genres.

  13. Re:Bitter from competition? on OpenLeaks Founder 'Crippled' WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    That may be true for some, and maybe even all of the submitters, but we don't know that. All we know about the submitters' motivation is that they chose Wikileaks. They may have chosen them simply because they are the best known leak outlet, or they may have chosen them because they love the picture of Assange on the main page. They bought into the game at one price, it isn't my place, your place, or DB's place to change the rules of that wager.

  14. Re:Bitter from competition? on OpenLeaks Founder 'Crippled' WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    It might be preferable in your eyes, but maybe not in the eyes of the submitter.

  15. Re:Bitter from competition? on OpenLeaks Founder 'Crippled' WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    DB looks pretty bad if he leaks the material anyway. People who submitted that information chose to submit it to Wikileaks. It would be a breach of their trust on his part to use any of that information.

  16. Re:Dear Wikileaks, on Secret Plan To Kill Wikileaks With FUD Leaked · · Score: 1

    The problem is that what he did may very well be legal here as well. If their laws don't cover it and ours don't we shouldn't be lobbing missles back.

  17. Re:Dear Wikileaks, on Secret Plan To Kill Wikileaks With FUD Leaked · · Score: 2

    The problem is that those organizations have been given a long enough leash that passing a law and cutting funding isn't sufficient. Look at the whole mess with the CIA and the Contras. A law was passed saying don't do that and the CIA kept on humming along. When an agency of the government can continue its operations against US law and without traditional funding sources there is no legislative leverage left. Without the ability to control those organizations there is no representative input.

  18. Re:Destruction of evidence on Insider-Trading Suspects Smash Hard Drive Evidence · · Score: 1

    You become responsible when you had a reasonable belief that an investigation was coming. If you destroy it while no one would expect an investigation you aren't guilty of that crime.

  19. Re:Hmm... on Insider-Trading Suspects Smash Hard Drive Evidence · · Score: 1

    8 pounds of garbage per man hour is a wildly low estimate. Hard drives aren't small and are rather noticeable. They can also narrow their search space by knowing which trucks were in the area at that time.

  20. Re:Ruling doesn't affect Internet blocking on Feds Settle Case of Woman Fired Over Facebook Posts · · Score: 1

    It isn't at all crazy to limit the restrictions an employer can place on an employee during hours they aren't being paid.

  21. Re:He's right on Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Effort Kills Children · · Score: 1

    The rights of parents to raise their children their own are not, and never should be absolute. If someone decides the proper punishment for a messy room is violent rape we all agree the law should get involved. If you choose to not vaccinate your child and they get sick your actions caused them physical harm. In that situation the parents damn well should be responsible.

  22. Re:Wow on Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Effort Kills Children · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Hmmm ... on Sarah Palin Seeks To Trademark Her Name · · Score: 1

    No, she couldn't. It would probably allow her to stop someone from making a Sarah Palin TV show or magazine.

  24. Re:Don't worry. on China Starts Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor Project · · Score: 1

    Peak oil will only make oil companies more powerful at first. More limited supplies lead to higher prices.

  25. Re:Patent infringement time? on China Starts Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor Project · · Score: 1

    You should be happy if it catches on in China because you live on the same planet. The rate China has been accelerating their coal burning capacity should worry everyone.