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  1. Make a bigger effort on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 1

    to teach people easy to remember passwords.

    Examples:
    All you kids, case appropriet, change vowels to numbers.
    First line of you favorite poem, backwords with vowel substitution.

    Hell: 1_L1k3_B1g_Butt5

  2. Re:Yeah, and what'll it do? on First City In the US To Pass an Anti-Drone Resolution · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    DOn't confuse your irrational fear with the will of the people.

    I, for one, want drones. They are a very effective way to watch for crime, and track people.

    Let me clue you in:
    Stopping cameras will never, ever happen. It's to cheap and it works very well.

    That's not the fight, and you can not win.
    The fight is what they can do with the images, what constitutes evidences, who they can share them with, and that the people can also ahve camers and film the police.

    Those are the critical issues.

  3. Re:Yeah, and what'll it do? on First City In the US To Pass an Anti-Drone Resolution · · Score: 1

    How about: we can patrol more space more efficiently?
    How about we can save money?
    How about we can track someone without engaging in a high speed chase?

    invasive? it is a camera that watcher public space. let me know when they want to fly them into your home.

  4. Re:Kool Aid on First City In the US To Pass an Anti-Drone Resolution · · Score: 0

    AS one of many people who did read it before it was voted on, please stop you bull crap. You didn't dread it, that's your problem. Pundits didn't read it, that's their fault.

    And there is nothing of the sort in Obamacare.
    It's already easier, in many places, to get digital version of your records, and to transfer them.

  5. Re:Yeah, and what'll it do? on First City In the US To Pass an Anti-Drone Resolution · · Score: -1, Troll

    What police state? actual examples?
    DO you even know what police state means?
    Notice: If you post as idiot, don't expect a response.

  6. Re:Why drones? on First City In the US To Pass an Anti-Drone Resolution · · Score: 1

    "and the government does it anyway."
    citation needed.

    ", the easier it becomes"
    so what?

  7. Re:And what does the FAA have to say about this? on First City In the US To Pass an Anti-Drone Resolution · · Score: 1

    Yep. This is nothing then anti american propaganda put out by a Sikh.

  8. oh for fuck sake on First City In the US To Pass an Anti-Drone Resolution · · Score: 1

    remote planes? oh, drones are scary.. idiots.

    Did anyone else besides me read about attacks on Americans.
    Yeah, if we can't send soldiers in without higher then normal risk..in a war zone.
    If they can't get you any other way,
    if you are not on american soil,
    and you are making plans with terrorist to attack the country.

    Yeah, end of the fucking world right their.

    If an American was talking to Hitler in Berlin to make plans to come home and blow up bridges, would anyone said a damn thing if a sniper took him out? Cause THAT"S the sort of thing we are talking about.

    This is a drone, doing what military personal have been authorized to do fore decades.

  9. Re:Management is to blame. on US Postal Service Discontinuing Saturday Mail Delivery · · Score: 1

    USPS is not a corporation. They need to service all people. Not 'customers' but everyone. SO that's why you see things like that. It's the price for a good mail system.

  10. Re:How about on "We the People" API To Be Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about you realize thier is more then one agency, and they do more then one thing at a time?

    The people doing this have nothing to do with the budget; which won't happen until everything is broken and the republicans can blame their hindering everything on the dems.

  11. Re:I'll wait for the WH to release on "We the People" API To Be Released · · Score: 0

    If you weren't so damn stupid and selfish, you might be able to take the time to find out this has to do with accessing the petition information at the white house. If you can be bothered to take the time away from you cheesy poof eating, rote response life and create a petition to disunion.
    I know, creating and doing something is all scary and new to you.

  12. Do this on US Postal Service Discontinuing Saturday Mail Delivery · · Score: 1

    drop mail to 3 days a week.
    Allow people to opt out of advertisments.

    If they can't make money, then maybe it's time to shut it down.

    I say this as as some one who knows the mail service,s is proud of the USPS's work, and understands why we have the best postal system in the world.
    But, if not enough people are using it then maybe it's time for a radical change.

    In fact, if they got rid of junk, eliminated positions they would no longer need becasue they aren't processing junk, I would have no problem with them getting tax dollars to ensure rural mail service stays in tact.

    Allow seniors to pick up a few free mail envelopes a month. Maybe wind the system down for a couple of decades.

    alternatively, raise the price of sending advertisements 100 times.

  13. Re:Man, oh man! on US Postal Service Discontinuing Saturday Mail Delivery · · Score: 1

    5 bucks for a USPS spam filter..or free to throw it away.
    yeah, brilliant plan you got there, slick.

  14. Re:Wherever there's a hurricane... on Air Quality Apps and Bottled Air Thrive On Beijing's Pollution · · Score: 2

    roofers are fine, much of this stuff is like people selling a magic rock that will keep the next hurricane away.

  15. Re:it was windows on Chinese Hack New York Times · · Score: 1

    You can lock down windows computers just as well as anything else.

    The attack they used would have worked on any computer not properly locked down. This was a direct attack from a private group in response to a iImes story. As such, the could have crafted the attack anyway they chose to.

  16. Re:Time for import tariffs on Chinese Hack New York Times · · Score: 1

    Don't be stupid. Attacks have been coming from China* for well over a decade. The US has recently responded to them.

    *Meaning people in China, not as an official China government attack.

  17. Re:Great Paywall of NYT on Chinese Hack New York Times · · Score: 1

    Paul Krugman went to the Times after Enron, so in your attempt to look clever you only look stupid.
    Maybe you should stop watching Fox 'News', shut your dick holster, and learn to think for yourself?

  18. Re:Shady? Really? on How Videogames Help Fund the Arms Industry · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    AH yes, the 'liberal media' nonsense.

    Do you ever think for yourself? ever?
    The media is only liberal if you consider fact liberal.

    If you consider facts liberal, well please check out of society. No one needs you.

    feel free to come back when you can evaluate opinion against faces in an intellectually honest fashion.
    I am so tired of conservatives dodging question by labeling them as liberal.

  19. Re:Shady? Really? on How Videogames Help Fund the Arms Industry · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    AH yes, once again we have the asshats deflecting from any actual conversation about their killing machines.

    Well done, asshat.

  20. Re:Shady? Really? on How Videogames Help Fund the Arms Industry · · Score: 1

    Its shady becasue they tried to hide it, and it's shady becasue they are giving support to a systyem that blames games for violence. Among other reasons.

    "Today licensed weapons are commonplace in video games, but the deals between game makers and gun-manufacturer are shrouded. Not one of the publishers contacted for this article was willing to discuss the practice. (EA: "I'm afraid we can't progress this." Activision: "Not something we can assist with at present... My hands are tied." Codemasters: "We're focused on our racing titles these days." Crytek: "We can't help you with that request." Sega: "[This] doesn't sit comfortably." Sony: "I can't help with this I'm afraid.")"

  21. Re:congratulations. on How Videogames Help Fund the Arms Industry · · Score: 1

    Of course they are. The knowingly sell to countries who have a marked reputation for allowing criminals get guns.

  22. Re:Historical vs Sci Fi on How Videogames Help Fund the Arms Industry · · Score: 1

    Why to miss his other points to support your bias.

    Talk about Cognitive dissonance in action.

    The only people who care are you and the other members of your circle jerk.
    So shut your dick holster* and think

    *shout out to Pam for that one. WHoo

  23. Re:How about just not naming them real names? on How Videogames Help Fund the Arms Industry · · Score: 0

    No, it's shady. as are the same deals with car manufactured and sports teams.

    It's shady becasue their is no legal reason for it to happen, only lawyers making threats.

  24. Re:How about just not naming them real names? on How Videogames Help Fund the Arms Industry · · Score: 2

    Yes they will. Maybe some gun nut gamer won't, but if it's a good game, they will still buy it.

    Most gamer won't care if the gun you use is a pun on the real name.

    Do you seriously think XCOM would fail if they didn't use real gun names? oh wait, they don't.

  25. Re:How about just not naming them real names? on How Videogames Help Fund the Arms Industry · · Score: 1

    And if you have Dwarf Bread in your backpack, you never go hungry.