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  1. News at eleven... on Looking For Love; Finding Privacy Violations · · Score: 1

    Anything you put online will forever be cached by somebody.

  2. What a smarty on IRS Employee Stole Data To Forge $8M In Fraudulent Returns · · Score: 1

    TFA says all 58 returns directed money be deposited into one of the guy's bank accounts. Derp

  3. Re:marijuana _and_ hashish on FBI File Notes Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field · · Score: 1

    They're the same thing, but hashish is a dangerous form of "mare-i-joo-ana" that is highly potent; one "hit" of that stuff can leave you high for days and often leads to murderous rages and psychotic episodes. All this shit was official documented decades ago - didn't you learn anything in school? =p

  4. Re:Drugs on FBI File Notes Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field · · Score: 1

    This turns casual and innocent drug users into liars

    My thoughts exactly. It sucks having to bold-faced lie about my marijuana use for fear of being branded or otherwise discriminated against.

    Off topic - I hate the idea of corporations winnowing their pool of prospective employees by using psychological tests. I can't even land a minimum-wage job at Blockbuster without lying about how much "I love being in big crowds." =/

  5. Re:Yay! on Google Close To Launching Cloud Storage 'Google Drive' · · Score: 1

    Will Google be checking artist/song names and reporting you to the RIAA if your songs are pirated?

  6. Be there a "hacker" amongst ya'll? on Central Europe Countries Continue to Oppose ACTA · · Score: 1

    If a "hacker" reads this, please explain what it is that "Anonymous" intends to accomplish by releasing the private info of Czech gov't officials publicly. It seems stupid.

    These acts will most likely provoke paranoia and promote web censorship. How is this furthering the agenda that "Anonymous" supposedly has? Is "Anonymous" just a few script kiddies stupid enough to risk imprisonment over a misguided sense of morality?

    Or maybe I'm missing the point. Please enlighten me.

  7. Re:Religion on Mitt Romney, Robotics, and the Uncanny Valley · · Score: 2

    I had forgotten he was Mormon. Isn't that considerably weirder than your average flavor of Christianity? 99% of what I know of Mormonism is from South Park.

  8. Re:The current security craze... on Science Panel Recommends Censoring Bird Flu Papers · · Score: 1

    Well, it's in the name our national defense... so anything goes. What a slippery slope.

  9. Great... on Science Panel Recommends Censoring Bird Flu Papers · · Score: 1

    ... more government intervention involving suppression of information.

  10. smug grammar nazi's... on DHS Sends Tourists Home Over Twitter Jokes · · Score: 1

    piss me off.

    "assassinated".

    the period goes inside the quotes. nice try

  11. Re:Why cross-platform? on Jailbreaking the Internet For Freedom's Sake · · Score: 1

    Gastrointestinal surgery is a way too specific example in your metaphor. Anybody who can figure out how to download, install, and use a P2P client like bittorrent will already know what OS they're running (and henceforth which installer to use).

  12. I don't understand.... on Hijacked Web Traffic For Sale · · Score: 1

    Somebody please enlighten me on how this service works. If you are "injecting" inline frames that have a size of 0 width and 0 height, then how the heck does anybody click on it? I don't get it.

  13. Re:So when did... on AT&T Caps Netflix Streaming Costs At $68K/Yr · · Score: 1

    Amen... Netflix uses p2p technology so those bandwidth numbers are not necessarily accurate at all times

  14. Proper response to piracy on NinjaVideo.net Founder Gets 14 Months · · Score: 2, Informative

    Many game developers are fed up with PC piracy and feel they are in a lose-lose situation and they don't want to choose between DRM-laden software or Internet activation... these companies (maker of Crysis comes to mind) vow to develop more heavily for the "console" platforms (XBox, etc.) because piracy is less common there. Of course, if Crysis 3 is console-only, people will probably go the extra mile and modify their boxes and pirate it anyways, but that's beside the point. The point is, game devs (along with authors and other artists) have manned up for ages and when piracy becomes an issue for them, they find a solution that doesn't involve hundreds of frivolous lawsuits that is harming everybody with its costs in tying up our legal system.

  15. Movies for money on Is Facebook Becoming a Central Bank? · · Score: 1

    Warner Brothers this summer offered movie-goers a chance to watch Harry Potter and The Dark Knight for 30 Credits apiece.

    is it just me or does it seem like Facebook was wooed by Warner Brothers here

  16. Re:$.99 Textbooks? Doubtful but... on Apple Intends To 'Digitally Destroy' Textbook Publishing · · Score: 1

    WHO is forcing you to buy the latest edition? Can't you just buy a textbook that is slightly outdated, and save tons of money?

  17. Re:And terrorists thank you for running windows on Hackers Steal $6.7M In Bank Cyber Heist · · Score: 2

    Wow, I wish I had mod points so I could mod parent "Flamebait."

    When will idiots understand that windows is the best friends of terrorist and criminals?

    With an opening statement like that, all the following dialogue is rendered irrelevant.

  18. Re:Easy to shut off... on FTC Expands Its Google Antitrust Investigations · · Score: 1

    I think you forgot the biggest (first) step - creating a GMail account and logging in.

    Interestingly, my brother-in-law just bought a new phone (I don't even know what the heck model it is, but it runs Android). It would not let him sync to his Facebook contacts, he was required to create a GMail account to use the phone. Didn't sound like opting out was possible.

  19. Re:It would be good to have optional GUI on Windows Admins Need To Prepare For GUI-Less Server · · Score: 1

    CEO is in a fancy hotel somewhere and starts shouting rather loudly at the help desk that his VPN doesn't work

    This is why I don't do helpdesk anymore =/

  20. Re:Do no evil indeed on Google Caught Misbehaving By Kenyan Startup · · Score: 2

    maggoty burgers

    You just ruined McDoubles forever...

  21. Re:Do no evil indeed on Google Caught Misbehaving By Kenyan Startup · · Score: 1

    The Google employees involved in this Getting Kenyan Businesses Online project were probably just thinking about their precious bonuses when they chose to lie about Google's relationship with Mocality. The employees caught lying on tape will be fired and any employees who don't pretend to know nothing about this will be fired also. Google has a brand to nurture and so they'll be appropriately apologetic as they always are when they cross boundaries in their pursuit of corporate domination.

    However, the Mocality blog moans about how Google manually scraped their database; this is legal as pointed out in an earlier comment.

    The blog's claim that Google is offering competing services isn't even accurate because all Mocality does is list websites, not host them... so what does Mocality expect to win from Google?

  22. Re:Interesting, but.... on Windows 8 To Include Built-in Reset, Refresh · · Score: 1

    The file containing the recovery image should resist editing via encryption and/or NTFS permissions.

  23. Re:and this is a good thing? on NFL: National Football Luddites? · · Score: 1

    If the players weren't huddling all the time, the play clock could be reduced by a significant number of seconds... making the game much faster paced. The players wouldn't be able to keep up with the pace like this so the dynamics of the game plays would change. Also, fans would lose the beer-drinking, pissing, and eating time that is available between plays.

  24. Re:Tunneling below the ice on NASA May Send Landers To Europa In 2020 · · Score: 1

    Oopsies sorry for not looking that one up. But yeah, so it's thick ice how would a rover send transmissions anywhere from that far under the surface of the moon?

  25. Tunneling below the ice on NASA May Send Landers To Europa In 2020 · · Score: 1

    I was just watching reruns of the old History channel "The Universe" shows not long ago. The ice on Europa is apparently *very* thick (I think the show said 100 feet at least). So, let's say NASA's rover lands on Europa and melts its way through the ice to search the water there - when it takes nice hi-rez photos of critters licking the camera, how will it send it back to earth? I can see the transmissions going through "space" OK (little interference) but wouldn't 100 feet of ice put a bit of a damper on the signal?