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  1. Reverse question on NSA Hacked Email Account of Mexican President · · Score: 1

    What has NSA _not_ done?
    Anything thinkable and unthinkable they have done, continue doing, will do and have or will get the capability to do.

    http://www.thensavideo.com/.

  2. Isn't there something like ad-blackout happening?
    Like ads showing in whatever fashion trying to catch attention and the saturation with ads is to high that any impulse intended to be created by ads is suppressed and blocked out.

    Maybe it's just me if one tries to influence, I resist and the more they try, the more I get turned off. It's just no fun getting "guided" all the time by some folks trying hard to manipulate.

  3. Can the manufacturer be made liable for damages? Not sure what the are smoking there...

  4. Re:Rules? on Why the FAA May Finally Relax In-Flight Device Rules · · Score: 1

    This has nothing to do with electronics and everything to do with them needing you to be able to hear directions clearly in an emergency.

    BS - I always use noise cancelling headphones to reduce starting noise in economy class where the noise is excruciable and they are electronic. I can hear surrounding regular sounds - announcements for example, just fine with it.

    This was a single time incident when this happened with CAN Airline - never happened before and again.

    In this specal case, I used earplugs which I have as backup when batteries run out.

    This was clearly based on crankiness of this lady.

    And - just for info - using noise reduction in airplanes significantly reduces flight stress and on longer long distance flights across several time zones helps with jetlag.

  5. Rules? on Why the FAA May Finally Relax In-Flight Device Rules · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Cranky stewardesses are the rulers: "take that headphone off!", me: "it's not connected", she, with stern voice: "take it off now!".

    Sure nullyfies any FAA relaxation.

  6. Re:Remember all those times Bush blocked... on German NSA Critic Denied Entry To the US · · Score: 1

    ... was denied a visa by the U.S. government in a letter saying he engaged in a terrorist activity....

    In a society where a part of admininstrative power is clandestine, refusing access to information to anyone participating or affected, any facts can be claimed without much fear of recourse.
    This can lead to capriciousness in decisions over people's life.

    Maybe this overly restrictive behavior fear based?

  7. I wish on Google's Scanning of Gmail To Deliver Ads May Violate Federal Wiretap Laws · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The same scrutiny would get applied to NSA's escapades but they get a free ride on everything.

  8. Middle Click gone? on Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long · · Score: 1

    Fuck YOU!!!

  9. Re:In other news on Apple Starts Blocking Unauthorized Lightning Cables With iOS 7 · · Score: 2

    Would not do diddly squat as history proofed.

  10. guess.. on Extreme Microbe Brewing: the Curse of Auto-Brewery Syndrome · · Score: 2

    it's not the gut but the critters living in the gut. Lactic acid bacteria can ferment starch into alcohol and so can yeasts. Seems the gut flora needs to be way out of balance to get one drunk.

  11. It's always good on Fracked Shale Could Sequester Carbon Dioxide · · Score: 1

    To leave a few surprising presents for future generations
    some with long term effect, the radiating thingies and the ones with immideate effect - odorless, colorless gas taking your breath away.

  12. Just wait on Dialing Back the Alarm On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    what the evaluation on the CO flood will say - damage, cost, cause.

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/09/15/colorado-floods-weather/2816051/
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/14/colorado-flooding-climate-change_n_3926284.html
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX3w90YecnA

    How much denials there will be and if it's all blamed on the FSM (or equiv.).
    Enjoy the coming show!

  13. All those robots on 45% of U.S. Jobs Vulnerable To Automation · · Score: 1

    will produce goods and services to the majority of people who will be removed from the workforce by robots.

    Anything wrong with that?

  14. sick on Verizon's Plan To Turn the Web Into Pay-Per-View · · Score: 1

    and money-greedy people those jerks!

  15. That's the new normal on Parallels Update Installs Unrelated Daemon Without Permission · · Score: 1

    We own you.

    So what's the problem here?

  16. Isn't it getting boring? on Samsung Unveils Galaxy Gear Smartwatch · · Score: 1

    Somehow getting overloaded with gadgets?
    Glasses, watches, wearables, I-somethings, A-somethings, G-somethings, N's, S's etc...
    Could there be something else, a more simpler reality perhaps?

  17. What else is new? on We All May Have a Little Martian In Us · · Score: 1

    Our ancestors messed up Mars and after evolving to be able to do it again - there you go... Next planet goes bust and already looking to move on.

  18. Re:Proud? on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 2

    I would say less than 30 years ago this was true. Now, not so much.

    I was thinking the same thing. The country as it is today is, in my opinion, not much of something to be proud of.

    Take a poll and you'll see what the majority thinks. Flags are all up and high all over!

  19. Re:Safe House. on UK Government Destroys Guardian's Snowden Drives · · Score: 1

    Doesn't need to be - just needs to be in opposition to what their internal string-pullers perceive as bullies (US) and be pissed about all the snooping on them being disclosed.

    Still BR is not considering giving Snowden asylum.

  20. The kids on Partner of Guardian's Snowden Reporter Detained Under Terrorism Act · · Score: 1

    in the sandbox are mad at the guy digging up their secret stones (treasures) and now they get at him and his friends whenever they are showing up.
    "Getting even" - what a child's play!

    Grown-ups? No way Jose...

  21. Seems on Yahoo Deletes Journalist's Pre-Paid Legacy Site After Suicide · · Score: 1

    that Yahoo folks have a problem with themselves in connection with dying, suicide and related things. For sure it's not a money issue to keep the page open.
    Now they have another PR issue and are exposes as jerks.

  22. Hah - on Aging Is a Disease; Treat It Like One · · Score: 1

    The only species on this planet being concerned about this aging issue, all other's age, die and evolve.

    Maybe another sign of de-volving???

  23. And? on Google To Encrypt Cloud Storage Data By Default · · Score: 1

    The encryption master keys are subpoenaed under a NSL by our good friends looking out for us, so nothing bad happens.

  24. I really like on Forrester: NSA Spying Could Cost Cloud $180B, But Probably Won't · · Score: 1

    the "loosing money" term.
    You can loose something which you own and not something which you "may" get, or not...
    Sounds similar to the same train of thought happening in brains of RIAA, MPAA folks and friends when they claim those fantastic numbers of "lost" revenue due to actions of others.

    Just a balloon of ideas in people's head goes poof...

  25. Re:I'd be sorry on Bradley Manning Says He's Sorry · · Score: 5, Interesting

    [Spoiler alert] Last page of 1984.

    That ?

    You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. ... Do you remember, [O'Brien] went on, writing in your diary, 'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four'?
    Yes, said Winston.
    O'Brien held up his left hand, its back toward Winston, with the thumb hidden and the four fingers extended. How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?
    Four.
    And if the Party says that it is not four but five--then how many?
    Four.
    ....
    Five