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  1. How Not to be Seen on Leaked Memo Says Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The next time you text "i hacked my xbox!" to your friend, expect federal prison for life.

    It's all a big setup. The Patriot Act lets them investigate anything, anywhere, without a warrant. Now they are on your devices. Now any terrorist loses his rights as an American. The next war is at civil. No wonder the troops are coming back home.

  2. Re:How much will they pay me? on EPA Crowdsources Massive Photo Project · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How much money do I get for each pic I send them? Oh right, it's supposed to be on a volunteering basis, which is a euphemism for "amateurs only".

    Don't be fooled into thinking the lack of money will be the big problem. Helping the government find you by submitting images of your natural habitat will only increase the likelihood of being identified.

    Lesson 2 in How Not to be Seen is not to choose obvious cover. In Lesson 3, their neighbors ratted them out. Sending them photos of your beloved lands, well that's the equivalent of standing up.

  3. if it ain't broke on Japan Plans To Scrap Nuclear Plants After 40 Years · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I promised my neighbors I will stop burning cow dung after 10 years, unless I deem it doesn't still smell like sh*t.

  4. retweet on NYC Mayor Bloomberg Vows To Learn To Code In 2012 · · Score: 2

    His account was hacked. Bloomie would never make a New Year's resolution.

  5. Re:Retaliatory action? on Israel Says It Will Treat Online Credit Card Theft As It Would Terrorism · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Here's 5 pence. Go and have your sarcasm detector adjusted.

    Seriously, only weeks after the US declares all terrorists will be held indefinitely without regard to citizenship. Pick up a CC you find on the street, expect to surrender your rights as an American.

  6. Re:the article seems a bit muddled on Another Stab At Sorting Hybrid Hype From Reality · · Score: 1

    In slow, urban areas, these really do excel. The cost is high but the gas savings adds up quickly. As for why anyone who isn't in the city would drive a hybrid, it is a mystery.

  7. My Awesome Bio on DARPA Chooses Leader For 100-Year Starship Project · · Score: 3, Informative

    This reads like a bio of Jemison and her funding opportunities. News?

  8. Re:Here's What Needs To Happen. on Lawmakers Intent On Approving SOPA, PIPA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Health Care was created to give everyone access to something they couldn't afford. SOPA is created to give corporations access to putting you in jail.

    Yes, both are examples of government over-reaching, but one attempts to serve the public trust (quite imperfectly) while the other serves to enforce fascism on the US and the world at large.

  9. Re:Can't wait on Lawmakers Intent On Approving SOPA, PIPA · · Score: 1

    Getting slammed with anti-trust bullshit. Google is "the enemy" to a lot of people in Congress right now, because they're marching to the orders of the MAFIAA.

    Imagine this possibility: Google takes the legs out of Sopa, and a lawsuit suddenly emerges with a judge ruling for the split of Google - just like MS in 1999.

  10. Can't wait on Lawmakers Intent On Approving SOPA, PIPA · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Internet blackout day is sure to be a historical event for all ages.

  11. Re:Aboutface. on TSA Interested In Purchasing Dosimeters · · Score: 1

    The same thing with shoe xrays. Proven safe for kids. Banned 20 years later.

  12. Re:Individual drive cost on NetApp, Lenovo Raise Prices, Citing Thailand Flooding Effects · · Score: 2

    I had thought about buying a case of 2TB drives just before the flood because they were so damn cheap. Would have made a nice profit. Honestly they aren't so expensive at the moment, but certainly much more than I would like to pay.

  13. in-house on IT Salaries Edge Up Back To 2008 Levels · · Score: 1

    All those employees who were replaced by cloud-sourcing are now getting back to business - smart, simple, administration for less than you pay your average accountant to cook the books.

  14. Test on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 2

    Two employers offer you jobs. One asks you a teaser and expects a solution but lies, the other asks for experience and references and expects performance but tells the truth.

    What do you ask the parrot that lies about the job the truthful parrot is offering?

  15. Re:on an intranet far far away on Iran Developing 'Halal' Domestic Intranet · · Score: 1

    Truly, a "Halal Mary" towards cyberspace.

  16. ohmigod on Ohm's Law Survives To the Atomic Level · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the atomic resistance gather together at ohm's law, will they occupy it?

  17. Re:This story is a lie on Microsoft In Talks To Buy Nokia's Smartphone Division? · · Score: 2

    As they stepped out of a potential RIM deal, MS knows this is their only option. When the opposition is leveraging iphones and androids, you can either pay to play or pray you stay.

  18. Re:I will never adopt 3D on Makers Keep Flogging 3D TV, Viewers Keep Shrugging · · Score: 2

    Makers are looking to hop on the next big thing, afraid to miss out. They just don't realize this is a boat that just won't sail.

  19. Over-reaching on UK Executive 'Forced Out of Job' For Posting CV Online · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If employers can post openings for your position on job sites, you can certainly check a box indicating general interest in careers-at-large.

  20. rapid-release on Firefox 3.6 Support Ends April 2012 · · Score: 1, Informative

    For those who think "Wow, that's 6 versions ago", consider it was released just two years ago.

  21. Re:Leaders, plural on California State Senator Proposes Funding Open-Source Textbooks · · Score: 1

    They are all treasonous, can't you see?

  22. Re:WMF is a charity on California State Senator Proposes Funding Open-Source Textbooks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How do you "break the legs" of a registered charity like Wikimedia Foundation?

    Press charges in your country against their leader, extradite him, and then try him for "terrorism"

  23. Freedom on US Threatens Spain For Not Implementing SOPA-Like Law · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Blackmail: you're doing it right.

  24. Short Notice on Leap Second Coming In June, 2012 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I demand at least 3^10x8 seconds advance warning.

  25. Re:Higher Power on Mathematics Says Romney and Santorum Tied In Iowa · · Score: 1

    You must be Kagan.