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  1. Re:Barely heard of it... on Hurt Locker File-Sharing Subpoenas Begin · · Score: 1

    Man who stare at Goats had elements of truth to the main story line of psyops in SF Groups.

  2. all the suing going on. on Hurt Locker File-Sharing Subpoenas Begin · · Score: 1

    If your suing people for NOT buying tickets since they downloaded the movie. Could you follow this logic and sue people for telling other people to NOT see it? The legal system is a bit jacked and it's not much of a stretch to imagine that...

  3. Re:it was 1999 on Ping Could Be Apple's Social Networking Backdoor? · · Score: 1

    Wasn't that 98 or 99? I guess they used the money from MS to build that first round of iPods.

  4. it was 1999 on Ping Could Be Apple's Social Networking Backdoor? · · Score: 1

    I remember EVERYONE said Apple was domed, DOMED to fail (then in 2001 they launched the ibluggghaPOD). I glanced at TFA but the term TROJAN seems out of place....As in it's not a Trojan if they see it coming, it's just a funny car full of clowns.

  5. Re:LOLWUT? on Newspapers Cut Wikileaks Out of Shield Law · · Score: 1

    See you are a perfect example. Look up Somaliland. It's in the north of the "area" know as "Somalia" and it has a pretty functional government.

  6. Re:Assange is in trouble on Assange Rape Case Reopened · · Score: 1

    I think you misunderstood my over generalization. As far as US law goes Assange knowingly released classified material to the public, that is a crime, no argument from me. If you look at the far right or left, they both make gross generalizations in line with their philosophies.

  7. to me on India Now Wants Access To Google and Skype · · Score: 1

    Indian access = India having access to American consumers data, given the amount of interaction we have. CS at your bank send you an email from India help desk, I think India would/could attempt to use that interaction for access. Somebody better be standing up for me! (oh wait, I can do that for myself)

  8. Re:Assange is in trouble on Assange Rape Case Reopened · · Score: 1
    In in the eyes of the Tea Baggers or GOP there is no difference between Al Qaeda and Wikileaks ; They called it "an enemy of the state" and they will apply it to anyone "left" of their position.

    They will do it from (now)ex GOP senate leader Murkowski (I live in Anchorage) down. You too can become one, just cross someone that is an angry right-wing voice, it's easy and free [as in beer], I did it last winter [on a very minor and obscure subset of wacko's]. It matters not what the truth is.

  9. is it? on Whisky Made From Diabetics' Urine · · Score: 1

    Is this a little cannibalistic or just gross?

  10. flawed on Retargeting Ads Stalk You For Weeks After You Shop · · Score: 1

    With a free moment I browse the for sale on Craigslist. If I see something that looks like a very good deal, I check the interwebs for what that price of said item is new. I may not be shopping for that item and only looked at xyz.com for pricing.

    All your marketing dollars now belong to us.

  11. Re:Ok, honestly? on Full-Body Scanners Deployed In Street-Roving Vans · · Score: 2, Funny

    My grandmother was on a plane hijacked in the 70's. It was LAX to JFK via layover in SFO. 30 minutes out of LAX a "crazy guy" (not a terrorist) with a gun took the plane over and had the pilots head to HNL. Upon the news over the intercom that the flight would be diverted (and was now a hostage situation) the passenger erupted in applause, apparently it was primarily business travelers. At least it's how Gran told the story. HNL = Honolulu.

  12. everybody already has one to hate on Pentagon Selects Companies To Build Flying Humvees · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be easier to have a CH-66 slinging a Humvee? Cheaper to? Of course it would carry far more then 4 soldiers, don't want that.

  13. Re:You can't on Sony Halts Sales of PS3 Jailbreak Dongle · · Score: 1

    True, a disassembled SBR will still get you in trouble but that does not prevent you from having the upper in proximity to a complete weapon (I am sure you know switching uppers can be done in seconds) or having the "pistol" and having a buffer tube and stock kit (much less expensive but longer to switch).

  14. over reacting (DRM in general)? on Sony Halts Sales of PS3 Jailbreak Dongle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why is it that I can own a M4 carbine upper with an 11 inch barrel and do not need a NFA short barrel tax stamp as long as it is not installed on a M4 lower, but it's 10 kinds of law violation to sell a dongle that can jailbreak some specific computer platform? This planet make no sense what's so ever. I am going back to my veal fattening pen and watch some sitcoms.

  15. Re:Great on Google Officially Brings Voice To Gmail · · Score: 0

    and I thought I was the only one

  16. Re:Really? on First Review of Avatar Special Edition · · Score: 1
    No, you are not missing anything. It was Dances with Wolves or Last of the Mohicans or 5th Element or B13 or King Solomon's Mines or Fern Gully or from real life the battle of Wounded Knee or the battle of Sterling or countless other movies or real life sagas. The difference is it had a higher budget that all that put together.

    It is totally ok (not that you need my validation) to not like a block buster movie that people are going mental over.

    I hated the Titanic, then people made a huge deal out of the Blair Witch project and how scary it was, I saw it in the theaters and people were freaking out. I grew up in the the rural forests (even lived in a tee-pee when I was 3 for a year) with native americans teaching me what to eat, how to hunt (I am not kidding). For the 2nd half of the movie I was laughing my ass off and I was ruining peoples' suspension of disbelief. I was taught to stand your ground in the woods, no matter if it's sprits, bears, escaped convicts or a raiding party.

    Live your life, don't worry if you are not moved by a shiny movie. I thought it was ok, but there were holes.

  17. Re:I take several short naps a day on Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime · · Score: 0
    I had a megalomanic for a CEO, who was alway on IT; "what do you do?" "how do you make us money?" So I created a huge spreadsheet of "call tickets" my IT department did. It was added to rather then being weekly or monthly it was just one huge document. and I emailed it every day. You can imagine that he did not read it after scanning it the first day (I just made up the backlog of dates prior to creating the document). This was for a guy who in 2001 wanted me to update his Windows 3 computer to XP BUT make it look exactly the same. He also wanted me to reprogram his cell phone so he would never have to enter his voicemail password. None of this because he was tech savvy or that he knew I was. He just wanted stuff how he wanted it with no consideration for reality or difficulty of his request.

    Oh, I loved that job, Now I am the boss and if I want it someway I do it myself.

    As another example of how great my job was. I did a lot of work at his house (building it as a smart house), it was this 15,000 sq ft McMansion. The first thing was he said "never ever right do in your report that you worked on my house". The second thing was that one time upon knocking on the door (I often went with the plant engineer to work on the house), we were joking around as we rung the bell and the bosses trophy wife answers the door in a robe "we say avon calling" and she grabs me and says "lets do a demo in the bath I am running". The engineer says "uh, I am just going to the server room and start back on the wiring." - This was one of my more memorable corporate America experiences.

  18. ur doin it wrong on Canadian Cannabis Car · · Score: 1

    See this is what happens if you smoke pot, you come up with dumb ideas like this. See, you are supposed to make a car that RUNS ON HEMP, not made of it. Frickin pot heads.

  19. Re:Oh great on Look For AI, Not Aliens · · Score: 1
    I have 1500 rounds of 5.7x28 (FiveseveN), 1000 rounds of 22L (M&P15), 500 rounds of .308 (M110), 300 rounds of 6.8SPC (SPR M4) and 500 rounds of 10mm (Glock 20). I also have an OTV with SAPI plates and a kpod helmet.

    I am an avid shooter/hunter and the armor I picked up here and there.

    I have an expedition class lorri - modified Nissan Titan (lift, high flotation tires, bull bumper, lights, winch). Love America, but really would it be much different in Africa or Russia? Legality of my gear is on the level, except the OTV, thats a military only item.

  20. Re:Charge for support on National Park Service Says Tech Is Enabling Stupidity · · Score: 1
    That's a great system, I am currently in Alaska and right now there is a massive SAR mission on near Katmai for a missing float plane (with government employes on it). Most of that is the Coast Guard flying (as are many SAR missions up here). We have a system for giving to non-profits that allows you to give on your PFD application (that's the big check we Alaskans get every year from a deal the state made with oil companies), you can choose any 501c3 and many of the SAR and EMS groups are listed.

    AK is such a small state, I am going to mention that to someone who knows someone. The best we have right now is Workers Comp for all volunteer rescue personnel on a rescue mission.

  21. Re:Oh great on Look For AI, Not Aliens · · Score: 1

    Yeah, see I was always looking forward to that Mad Max future. I thought with Y2K we really stood a chance, but now I have to wait for some global pandemic and hope I survive.

  22. Re:Insurance on National Park Service Says Tech Is Enabling Stupidity · · Score: 1
    Ah, the myth of "unpredictability of nature and the inherent hazards". No such thing. Chance favors the prepared mind. I have been lost and injured in the backcountry and I am a wilderness search and rescues, woodcraft and survival "expert". I have crossed chest deep class IV streams when the air temp was below freezing. If you have knowledge and a fire starter (or can start one, I can with my cellphone, in fact I have seen a fire started on a log in a stream with nothing but a condom filled with water and sunlight).

    Ok, I am going to get off my high expert horse, it's probable getting annoying.

    Having rescued and recovered people from a dirt bike breaking to death in a hole on a glacier with half their head missing because they did not have their crampon on right (100+ man hours on a glacier in the middle of the night in the worst conditions imaginable using helo's in blackout with the pilot flying an Astar by NVG). bottom line: I don't think people should be charged for wilderness rescue. I am one of the ones on the sharp end of the rope. The morons who press 911 on their spot because their water tastes funny; They should be charged.

    However the last caveat is that the PJ's use wilderness rescue opportunities to practice their job, which is Combat Rescue. I think it's pretty important for them to practice in the real world prior to entrance to a combat zone.

  23. Re:Insurance on National Park Service Says Tech Is Enabling Stupidity · · Score: 1

    They do that on Denali. $10,000 rescue bond. I think it's pretty widely accepted practice world wide on the big mountains. I know it is in the Alps, Himalayas, on Kilimanjaro and Mt Kenya

  24. Re:Charge for support on National Park Service Says Tech Is Enabling Stupidity · · Score: 1
    You are WAY off. Ambulances that are dispatched by 911 are generally operated by your local fire/rescue. There are thousands of private ambulance services in the US, these handle non life threatening or lower priority patients. Your right that the patient does not get to pick, but for the most part the 911 folks know what they are doing. I am an EMT, the ambulance service I VOLUNTEER with DOES NOT CHARGE to provide service. We work at sport events, public events, fairs, that sort of thing. No matter what we do; band-aid to back-boarding there is no charge. However, if we hand you off to the FD for transport, they may charge you.

    A while back, before EMS provided treatment and did primarily transports, many private services vied for business, but now the emergency medicine is in it's own right and qualifications are becoming more and more intensive the requirements for an ambulance service are pretty demanding and you will see less and less "for profit" EMS services. 2011 the EMT course requirements increase by something like 60 hours.

  25. Re:Charge for support on National Park Service Says Tech Is Enabling Stupidity · · Score: 3, Informative
    I have been in wilderness search and rescue and wildland fire for 18 years in 5 states, I have yet to see a bill go out with one exception. Denali National Park; If you climb Denali and need to be rescued you MAY get a bill. I have not worked up there but I know some of the mountaineering rangers and guides.

    In the USA other then some of the resources like helicopters, pilots, law enforcement (rangers), training and grants, much of the rescue work is done by professional, trained volunteers supplying there own gear and time. I have been on many rescue calls for people who made bad decisions and a good number did not make it.

    You look at it like this: You are not doing it for them, you at doing it for their family and friends.