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  1. Re:The funny thing is... on Top Advisor To Australian Gov't Says Climate Change is a UN Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    'When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.'

  2. Too little, too late... on US Appeals Court Says NSA Phone Surveillance Is Not Authorized By Congress · · Score: 1

    More likely a massive multi-branch "limited hangout" op.

  3. Maggots, Michael... on Santa Clara County Opts Against Buying Stingray Due To Excessive Secrecy · · Score: 1

    I have video evidence from the 80s that this town's bureaucrats and law enforcement organizations are controlled by an undead motorcycle gang. This move is obviously meant to manipulate the emotions of their human herd as to engender positive emotions meant to attract more visitors and residents, therefore increasing their food supply.

    Oh, wait...

  4. Re:Which is why we disguise cell towers on Police Can Obtain Cellphone Location Records Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    I can't take creds for it...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  5. Re: The "and order" part. on Two Programmers Expose Dysfunction and Abuse In the Seattle Police Department · · Score: 1

    Once a decision to use a firearm is committed to, putting a stop to whatever that threat is takes precedence. At this point (condition red: the Cooper Color Code philosophy) speed and violence of action to immobilize the threat has to be your only goal. That usually means multiple rounds as close to center mass as possible regardless of what may happen to the target until the threat is no more. This is just common sense and a reality some may not want to acknowledge no matter who is wielding the gun: criminals, police, your grandma...doesn't matter. This choice of action isn't the root of the problem, though. The problem seems to be that police are making huge leaps in the hierarchy of threat recognition and opening fire and going to condition red unpredictably and/or without the mental leap to condition red...essentially disproportionate stopping force where it is unwarranted. This is hardly a shock - unaccountability, resentment and the social stratification that this kind of control over others breeds the ganglike, us-against-them mindset which is the real problem....IMHO.

  6. Re:Sony's Project Morpheus on Oculus Rift Launching In Q1 2016 · · Score: 0

    What if I told you

    I'm just trying to fit the Morpheus "What if I told you" meme in this thread...

  7. Re:A spokesman for Uber said on Uber Forced Out of Kansas · · Score: 4, Funny

    Uber is just dust in the wind at this point.

  8. Re:Which is why we disguise cell towers on Police Can Obtain Cellphone Location Records Without a Warrant · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "America is at that awkward stage: too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."

  9. Similar to choosing an OS on Empty Landscape Looms, If Large Herbivores Continue to Die Out · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Whenever I hear prophecies of doom like this from any outlet I wait about 5-7 years before I even think about adopting it as something to look into with any seriousness, by then if there is still a hue and cry about the same thing there's the possibility it isn't total BS.

  10. I prefer drugs to state intervention.

  11. Wonderful on Inside the Military-Police Center That Spies On Baltimore's Rioters · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Somehow, this being covered by Gawker makes me care less about this subject than I usually do.

  12. Long uptime... on Long Uptime Makes Boeing 787 Lose Electrical Power · · Score: 1

    ...some witty remark about airplanes and downtime.

  13. Does she walk, does she talk? on My High School CS Homework Is the Centerfold · · Score: 1

    Naa naa na-na-na-na na na na nanana nah nah!

  14. Corparate security hijinx on Chinese Security Vendor Qihoo 360 Caught Cheating In Anti-virus Tests · · Score: 0

    I keep imagining some scenario like in Blade Runner and the crazy Chinese eye-doctor or something.

  15. I Haven't RTFA Yet... on NSA Reform Bill Backed By Both Parties Set To Pass House of Representatives · · Score: 1

    ...but I have a feeling that I will come away feeling that nothing covered in it actually means jack shit.

  16. Re: already done on Obama Announces e-Book Scheme For Low-Income Communities · · Score: 1

    Publishers "donating e-books", lol.

  17. Re:NASA Prob and Possible Ice Caps on NASA Probe Spies Possible Polar Ice Cap On Pluto · · Score: 1

    Since WD40 is designed to displace water, this is very true.

  18. Re:Again? on Ham Radio Fills Communication Gaps In Nepal Rescue Effort · · Score: 1

    Anyone who is into PCs and amateur radio (or interesting tech in general) that doesn't own at least one RTLSDR dongle should dig the 10-15 dollars to get one out of their couches and start fiddling around with it and the open source software for them. The coolness factor aside, the future uses for them...and the possibility that what they can do now may be restricted in design later because of their flexibility...make these little things a must-have, and soon.

  19. Re:Words in comment not meant to be offensive on Ask Slashdot: How Should I Build a Maker Space For a Liberal Arts College? · · Score: 0

    Crude, yet insightful. Such non-PC crap is a refreshing change from the usual prim, blathering and just as crappy usual crap.

  20. Re:Makerspace.... on Ask Slashdot: How Should I Build a Maker Space For a Liberal Arts College? · · Score: 1

    God, thank you...I'm undoing my mod point just so I can say this. I'm sure a lot of others will upmod you, so it's all good. "Makerspace", lol.

  21. Re:They found a temple! on Signs of Subsurface 'Alien' Life Found In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    Beautiful movie.

  22. Not Vostok on Signs of Subsurface 'Alien' Life Found In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    I was sure this was referencing life under Lake Vostok elsewhere on the continent, I just assumed it was until I saw Blood Falls mentioned.

  23. Re:Bodyly fluids on Feds Say It's Time To Cut Back On Fluoride In Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    SHIT you bastard...I thought I caught this story's title early enough to be the first Ripper quote...I salute you.

  24. Gen X Here on Except For Millennials, Most Americans Dislike Snowden · · Score: 1

    Most of us like him...if we know who he is. Sadly my generation's decline into apathy and rigid-minded thinking...because of being the original victims of the then often-theorized and feared, yet now-confirmed tactics of the surveillocracy...has begun to claim us.

  25. Re:in my opinion this guy is like Jenny McCarthy on Columbia University Doctors Ask For Dr. Mehmet Oz's Dismissal · · Score: -1, Troll

    I assume you are implying Jenny McCarthy is ignorant for not trusting the holy word of the state priests of the CDC bearing their eldritch sacramental vaccines and refusing to be cowed by the faithful masses' scornful cries of "heretic" and/or "feed them to the Sharkticons"?