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  1. Re:Easy solution on Next Up: the Jamming Wars · · Score: 1

    Modern cameras are easy to detect and destroy without leaving any physical evidence....

    Problem is that the camera caught you before the shot and that gets you nailed.

    Better to bug the hell out of people doing this stuff - identify and shame the crap out of them publicly. I mean, how many people are identified putting up surveillance on a large scale, the suppliers, amounts of contracts the individuals approving etc. Since the established news media is failing, other means are needed.

  2. If politicians on Medical Costs Bankrupt Patients; It's the Computer's Fault · · Score: 2

    would not be in the pocket of big money, the story would go in that manner:

    What? Not ready by 01/01/2014 - it's going to cost you a million a day per case penalty and all the systems would be able to add up the numbers at deadline just fine.

    This is laughable

    An yes, the whole Obamascare show is political: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/11/1230529/-The-real-reason-for-the-GOP-s-all-out-war-on-Obamacare?detail=email

  3. Re:How much? on How Much Should You Worry About an Arctic Methane Bomb? · · Score: 1

    Additionally, $60 trillion isn't that much. The last number I saw for our estimated *real* US debt is something like $72 trillion. If one government can suck down a $72 trillion debt, the entire planet can suck down $60t.

    So - what do you actually suggest?

    Do nothing or more - of so, what? I only see some blame and a few numbers.

  4. Re:How much? on How Much Should You Worry About an Arctic Methane Bomb? · · Score: 1

    Frankly, they can theorize as much as they want - up or down the scale a couple of %. Just use common sense and look how much fossil stuff is sent into the atmosphere and how long it took to generate it - millions of years perhaps and it's shot up in maybe 300 years at the most with increasing amounts.

    Something's gonna give, but it eludes many people with explanations running from "it's gods work and will" over "earth is 6000 years old" to "there is no global warming" and "the US government can't change the weather because other countries pollute more"...

    Results? All what counts is increasing profit, a principle used world-wide as the holy grail of running things on this planet at the cost of other values - and it shows more and more.

  5. How much? on How Much Should You Worry About an Arctic Methane Bomb? · · Score: 2

    Very - like 1000 %. The ignoring of all the environmental issues by the people able to change track will surely lead to a runaway situation in earth climate.

    There seems to be a large part of the US population thinking global climate change is a non-issue. Good luck with all of that!

  6. Re:Maybe on A Climate of Violence? · · Score: 1

    In the US.....think about what kind of people make minimum wage (mainly teenagers) and it makes sense.

    FYI: here is the 2012 breakdown "at or below" minimum wage: http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2012.pdf

    You may think what you want, you still don't show your source nor area where this happens and how you get $57k/yr out of a minimum wage earner.

  7. Re:Maybe on A Climate of Violence? · · Score: 1

    Just look at US "minimum wage" not covering basic living expenses at full hour work week?

    The average household income of someone making minimum wage is $57k. Think of that whenever you find someone trying to support their point with statistics.

    Source please and area where this happens, maybe NY - anyone can claim that sky is green

  8. Maybe on A Climate of Violence? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The violence is not directly caused by global warming but by the conditions to lead to global warming and social injustice across the planet making people angry.

    I mean, global warming and the causes - insensitiveness to that issue, isn't the same callousness cause for increasing accumulation of wealth and power to less and less individuals on the top of the pyramid, depriving the increasingly larger lower parts of basic necessities? Just look at US "minimum wage" not covering basic living expenses at full hour work week? There may be many examples, not only on wages, but also on social (female, racial, political and minority suppression) issues.

  9. All google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks through TOR!

  10. Old story! on Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds · · Score: 1

    How'd the government know what they were Googling?"

    Boyoboy - that's an old story, they.... - every search, chat, email and what else have you is scanned. ISP's are hit for their cert's master keys and over 50 % of reps in Congress support that shit.

    Are there any significant numbers of people bothered by that? Nope - it's for your security. (greatest brainwash success)

    The post is naive, there is more to come, fear, mistakenly taken and arrested as a "terrorist". All in a "free country" with a constitution "by the people, for the people"... sickening.

  11. Well on Russia Proposes Banning Foul Language On the Internet · · Score: 1

    People/humans interpreting sound as "foul" are foul in their brain structure and need to clean up their neural wiring. Similar all that religious junk going around and what else have you.

  12. Then we know on Congress Voting On Amendment to Defund NSA Domestic Spying Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    who is on which side - any optimists?

    That system is so screwed up, it's unbelievable!!!

  13. One has to on Dutch Government: Number of Internet Taps Has Quintupled In One Year · · Score: 1

    really question all this stuff. Not the numbers, but the purpose. Are the guys initiating and using this do it instead of doodling on paper?

    Seems that just because the technology is available it is used and expanded without questioning the purpose and effect.

    On top of it most happens under a veil of secrecy and when disclosed/caught it's defended and even more covered up or the whistle blowers are criminalized.

    I can maybe understand that some software package like Prism is developed and the wow effect of all what can be seen with it may be there. Is it useful and adequate or does it lead to more suspects by association and then events like that:
    http://www.salon.com/2013/07/10/militarized_police_overreach_oh_god_i_thought_they_were_going_to_shoot_me_next%E2%80%9D/

  14. Maybe? on Dropbox Wants To Replace Your Hard Disk · · Score: 1

    Just bribed or hypnotized by the NSA?

  15. Re:Hyperbole, anyone? on RC Plane Attack 'Foiled,' Say German Authorities · · Score: 1

    Those laws have historic reasons when 1977 the German attorney general Siegfried Buback (and others) were murdered in a car by a RAF motorcycle driveby shooting.

    - "harming/endangering a state"

    A model airplane with explosives can very well kill targeted individuals in the open or in vehicles

  16. Opus caementitium on Ancient Roman Concrete Is About To Revolutionize Modern Architecture · · Score: 2, Informative

    Researched and published over 30 years ago. Known technology for decades. Could reduce the 7 % of total carbon dioxide output on planet generated by cement production.

    Anything changed in 3 decades - will anything change in the near future in a billion $ industry?

    BOHA!

  17. Well on Disease Outbreak Threatens the Future of Good Coffee · · Score: 1

    Growing coffee in the current industrialized fashion (not organic growers) makes heavy use of fung/pesticides. Cofee beans after harvested and spread out to dry are sprayed daily with fungicides.

    Maybe, just maybe the undesired organisms are getting adapted to the poisons, survive and hamper production?

    It's big business for the chemical industry selling all that poison....

  18. Re:See? on Oracle Reinstates Free Time Zone Updates For Java 7 · · Score: 1

    All you people who think Oracle is the embodiment of evil and Larry Ellison is the devil incarnate are... ...absolutely right.

    There is a more understandable name for it - psychopathy (renamed to ASPD) - actually many so-called or driven to "leaders" fall into that category.

    Nothing new actually - eventually they will die like everyone else and maybe then realize the futility of their efforts - or not...

  19. Congratulations! on Majority of Americans Say NSA Phone Tracking Is OK To Fight Terrorism · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mission accomplished - brainwashing succeded.

  20. I love LX on What Keeps You On (or Off) Windows in 2013? · · Score: 1

    use it for server - mail, web, backup to tape etc.

    But when it comes to running all the necessary applications - accounting, tax, GPS data from/to device, HR monitor support and what else have you, fiddling with Wine or VMware under LX just takes too much time to get it going right and then there are quirks.

    Disappointingly, Picasa under LX is stagnant - something I hold against Google amongst other things...

  21. One would think on Vint Cerf: Data That's Here Today May Be Gone Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    That people in the far future would be getting smarter to accomplish this - probably a tossup - and apart from it, it's very questionable if a far future for humanity even exists, the way "humanity" is behaving this days/years/decades/centuries/millenia....

    Maybe there are smarter robots by then babysitting...

  22. Oh man on Marriages Spawned From Online Dating As Satisfying As From Traditional Dating · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's a fantasy and illusion - why should there be any difference at all?

  23. clueless on CenturyLink's Nationwide Outage Affects Millions · · Score: 1

    I am complainimng to Centurylink for about a week about their service overwhelmed. Latency times of 700+ ms right out my door - countless emails with traceroute logs bring no change - clueless customeer support. With Qwest nthing like that happpened!!!

  24. The other way....

  25. Sure on Firing a Laser Into Your Brain Could Help Beat a Drug Addiction · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Lobotomy was used once as a remedy for many things...

    Folks changed after that. Some think to the better for society.

    Depends on perspective.