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  1. Re:If this is how privacy of a driveway is viewed. on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 1

    Ehm we gave up that right when assaulting a government official became a more serious crime than assaulting an adult male. Any time you start having special treatment via the laws, society is headed rapidly to classification and the split between the ruled and the rulers.

  2. Re:Power from the people on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 1

    citizen's arrest. Don't think so on the entering homes. And in Texas, you can kill intruders on your land if you think they pose a threat. And sneaking around my vehicles in the dark with some strange bomb looking thing would be a threat IMNSHO.

  3. Re:Heh on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone with a lick of sense knows that lag in WoW is caused by Cheney contacting his dark slave Satan for his weekly updates via the web. Seems old Cheney is too cheap to buy a T1 line to hell.

  4. Re:Sauce for the goose on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 1

    If I found one, it would promptly go on a cops squad car or personal vehicle. Seen an article on how to scan your vehicle for them somewhere. Guess I need to dig it up and see what I need.

  5. Re:Reason #0 on 7 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Outbreak Would Fail · · Score: 1

    What you think. When the government cover ups are broken through by dedicated hackers, the facts are clear. There have been over 43 reported outbreaks of zombies in the last 100 years. It is people like you who prevent the truth from being free. The dead will walk again, as they have been for hundreds of years. It is only through the brave efforts of the ZDF that have kept them in check.

  6. Re:Secure? on Minority Report Style Iris Scanners In Mexico · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hmm, that logic could easily be extended to our efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan and even with Islam in total. Somebody alert Beck that we have a solution to our problems, kill them all and let the invisible sky wizard of your own choosing sort them out.

  7. Re:Which film? on Minority Report Style Iris Scanners In Mexico · · Score: 2, Informative

    Said you can't in TFA. Eye loses blood pressure and screws up reading. Now wonder if surgery could alter the amount of pressure enough to screw scanner, while preserving vision? Maybe an ophthalmologist reads /. and can answer?

  8. Re:Phooey. on Minority Report Style Iris Scanners In Mexico · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Screw that, I am buying stock in the wrap around mirror shades companies. More scanners will result in more sales, until the governments mandate you must not hide your eyes. How about colored contacts or non colored contacts with just enough distortion to screw the sensors?

  9. Re:Hypocrisy Isn't Free on Controversy Arises Over Taliban Option In Medal of Honor · · Score: 1

    Uh, the network made their choices, not the producers. Contractually they made the episode they wanted to make, the network did the censoring.

  10. Re:If you win on Controversy Arises Over Taliban Option In Medal of Honor · · Score: 1

    Don't know about the taliban, but the Afghanistan warlords have a long history of having pretty boys as fuck toys. IIRC, that is one of the reasons they dislike the taliban, they made the warlords lose their boy toys.

  11. Re:Hypocrisy Isn't Free on Controversy Arises Over Taliban Option In Medal of Honor · · Score: 1

    It is a game. Just because something hurts your feelings, or goes against your moral, ethical or religious beliefs, does not make it illegal, at least not in America today. You have recourse, advertise against it, refuse to buy it, boycott the company or all of the above. But regardless of your feelings, you do not have the right to stop a company from publishing or marketing a game that does not endanger national security or cause you direct and measurable harm. Hurt feelings, no matter what you think, don't count. Think I might go buy a copy to to show my support, although if I play it, it will be mowing down nasty islamic dogs to watch them twitch and bleed in the dirt while I tea bag them.

  12. Re:Legality? on BFG Tech Sending Out RMA Denial Letters, 'Winding Down Business' · · Score: 1

    I bought a mattress from a company located in Walmart (owned by one of the big mattress companies as a subsidiary. On the day before delivery they were supposed to call and confirm delivery time. No phone call on that day and no answer on their phone number. Went to store and big Closed sign. Got on-line and found out it was "out of business". Made several phone calls to no avail, then called the local TV station. Was on TV that evening, and had a phone call at around 9pm that night from the mattress company apologizing and setting up delivery for my mattress. Ended up getting a much nicer mattress than I bought since they did not have the one I paid for. oral of the story, raise a big stink on TV if at all possible when dealing with BS subsidiaries whose parent companies are still in business.

  13. Re:Lifetime Warranties... on BFG Tech Sending Out RMA Denial Letters, 'Winding Down Business' · · Score: 1

    Common sense. The companies know 9 times out of 10 the customer will walk away pissed off, but without forcing the issue. And since the government won't do anything unless strong pressure is brought by the consumer, the companies save untold amounts of money by having their point of sales employees deny all claims due to bogus reasons. Much as US companies will eat the cost for accidents caused by defective products because it is cheaper than recalling and replacing them all.

  14. Re:Maybe on Monetizing Free-To-Play Gaming Models · · Score: 1

    I will leave WoW as soon as a better game comes along. Preferably one with some character customization and dev supported RP stuff. WoW, if it included dev supported RP(such as toon housing, closets, more bank space, better naming conventions like last names, family names etc)it would be pretty close to perfect. I would stay a subscriber and level alts and work on amassing the most gold possible. As it stands now, I might subscribe for a couple of months, then let it die, only to come back again later on. I don't raid, don't run instances, PvP only for leveling gear for alts, and to run alt after alt through the lowbie BGs to faceroll folks. The lore does not interest me. Farming and making gold is what I enjoy. But how many mechahogs do you need? Not enough gold sinks. Where if they would put player housing in, that would give me something to grind for and achieve. And no, I am not terribly anti-social, met some good folks playing WoW, just not into having a guild dictate when I am going to play.

  15. Re:Send Him to PMITA Prison on Ringleader of RBS WorldPay Heist Faces Charges in US · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Oh yes, especially if they are a minority. What is the saying? 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world's prison prisoners. Of course I wonder if they count the millions in chinese re-eduction camps run by the military and used as slaves to mass produce goods for sell on the American market, but I digress.

  16. Re:First off... on Child Porn As a Weapon · · Score: 1

    correct, no mens reas(sp?) is needed in any cp violation. possession is guilt, no matter how or why or even if you had no knowledge of it being there.

  17. Re:The SPARCplug on Creative Uses For Extra Drive Bays? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    PC cases make great micro grow cabinets if you are into growing your own pot. Seen one where they put some really small mother board in the back section, and made the main case into a grow box. Complete with a carbon scrubber to kill the odor. Fully functional computer with a small plant growing inside. Dude got almost an ounce off it when dried and cured.

  18. Re:Too late on Pentagon Demands Return of Leaked Afghanistan Documents · · Score: 1

    What? This is the US military you are speaking of. All they need to do is pull the documents down, and then have everyone who has seen them or heard about them spend a little time with Dick Cheney, a board, a towel and a water hose. All the information will be removed at the end of the session.

  19. Re:McEvil? on Lego 'CubeDudes' By PIXAR Animator · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually LEGO does make purple bricks. I have a decent selection of LEGO, around 600 pounds or so, give or take a pound or two. And I have a whole container full of purple blocks, a container oif purple plates and another one of purple plates. So this Article is full of lies and ignorance.

  20. Re:Faster than a speeding on Superman Comic Saves Family Home From Foreclosure · · Score: 1

    You must be not bright. I use a proven and successful strategy for my retirement funds. I watch the talking heads, do huge amounts of research and investigate everything a company does. Then I take my money and buy lottery tickets. That way I will have a well funded portfolio when I retire.

  21. Re:Here's an explanation for you: on Market Data Firm Spots the Tracks of Bizarre Robot Trading · · Score: 5, Informative

    The weird robot trades are actually preliminary account trades being done by a rogue AI who is marshaling its resources to better conquer and destroy all flesh based life. In about ten years, if there is any humans left who can access or spend time to look at the remaining data, will see the pattern. As a traveler from an alternate universe, I am giving you this warning to save yourselves.

  22. Re:Ou of interest... on Hacker Builds $1,500 Cell Phone Tapping Device · · Score: 1

    Don't say anything you don't want recorded by the police. Don't have phone turned on or even have battery installed if you don't want location noted by police. Communicate strictly by F2F meetings held in a cone of silence.

  23. Re:"deliberate choice" on Hacker Builds $1,500 Cell Phone Tapping Device · · Score: 1

    Uh, think the NSA got the telecoms to do more than make it easier to snoop.

  24. Re:The UAE is partially correct. on BlackBerry Services To Be Halted In UAE · · Score: 1

    Was going to mod an idiot down the thread a little bit, but your MP% comment caught my eye, and five minutes on google assures me, that you were 100% correct. MP5 is BS. Hell I bought a damn video/music player at CVS a couple of years ago for 20 bucks that would do what these MP% players will do. Of course it only had a 2.6" screen, but it would hold 8GB, and play anything I loaded on it, including realmedia files with no conversions necessary. Don't think it did flv files though, but I lost it and can not check.

  25. Re:No Thanks on Budapest Panorama, at 70GP, Now the World's Largest Digital Photo · · Score: 1

    I use XP AC. But when there are already perfectly fine programs, the need for a proprietary and dickwad program like silverlight does not need to be supported.