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  1. Re:Yea but nothing happened on Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    So what? His judgement still only applies to his jurisdiction. Since he's a district court judge it is quite a limited one.

  2. Re:Career suicide on Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Which doesn't mean what you think it does. Congress can remove justices. It's their Constitutional authority. Did you not bother to read either the second or third sentences of that section?

  3. Re:About time on Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional · · Score: 5, Informative

    Everybody

    Look... SCOTUS is a branch of the Federal government, just like the other two. It is not immune from image problems (especially in recent years, when it has demonstrably failed to do its job again and again and again).

    How cute and naive. The Supreme Court is immune to "image problems". Unless any of the justices have done something that Congress has decided they should be impeached for then they will face no consequences.

  4. Re:About time on Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional · · Score: 2

    And who is going to stop them exactly? That's before you get to the fact that the Supreme Court is in no way forced to hear the case even if there is standing.

  5. Re:The NSA is so Credible on CBS 60 Minutes: NSA Speaks Out On Snowden, Spying · · Score: 1

    Just had to respond to one more part.

    But don't worry, there'll be plenty more opportunities in the future.

    Yeah that has been the party line that you shills have been saying for a while. You'd think by now you'd have way more and better examples, no? Let me guess, when we don't hear anything about these extra opportunities it will simply be because it's being keeping it secret instead of you simply being full of shit, right?

  6. Re:The NSA is so Credible on CBS 60 Minutes: NSA Speaks Out On Snowden, Spying · · Score: 1

    Nowhere in that article does it say he was caught via the NSA snooping programs. Seems he was simply some idiot that got himself caught by corresponding with FBI agents posing as fellow terrorist. Did you have some actual point or did you simply need to try to justify your constant bed wetting?

  7. Re:"Stole test and answers" on CBS 60 Minutes: NSA Speaks Out On Snowden, Spying · · Score: 1

    All of those things would be good qualities for someone working at the NSA had he simply kept his mouth shut. But since he publicly embarrassed the agency they now need to assassinate his character. Once they start poisoning the well, their good little parrots will simply carry the meme on until Snowden becomes tantamount to the Devil.

  8. Re:Rah! Rah! NSA! on CBS 60 Minutes: NSA Speaks Out On Snowden, Spying · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For a liar to be caught in a lie, he has to speak first.

    Oh so someone other than James "Least Untruthful Answer" Clapper or the Jean-Luc Picard wannabe Keith Alexander? I'm pretty sure both of them having been saying lots of things.

  9. Re:Up Next... on CBS 60 Minutes: NSA Speaks Out On Snowden, Spying · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The LOVEINT scandal is one of the perfect examples of how that statement is patently bullshit. Unless they're going to claim that the FISA court is giving out LOVEINT warrants now.

  10. Re:Stole exam answers? on CBS 60 Minutes: NSA Speaks Out On Snowden, Spying · · Score: 1

    Hey guys! Look over there!!! *NSA goosesteppers run the other way*

  11. Re:Amnesty? *snarf* on NSA Has No Clue As To Scope of Snowden's Data Trove · · Score: 1

    There are tons of stateless actors (and not an insignificant number of nation-states) whom are clearly enemies of the United States that benefit from his disclosures of our SIGINT sources and methods.

    And yet the Boston bomber was able to succeed without every needing to know them at all. Why would anyone need to believe that these boogeymen "stateless actors" would either?

  12. Re:Google should review the linked story on Google's Dart Becomes ECMA's Dart · · Score: 2

    No kidding. Ghostery has a field day with that page.

  13. Re:Arrest To Death in 4 Days for J.S. Thaek on North Korea Erases Executed Official From the Internet · · Score: 2

    Because there are numerous cases of people being wrongfully convicted and/or executed despite everything thinking their guilt was obvious?

  14. Re:IOS? on Google Cuts Android Privacy Feature, Says Release Was Unintentional · · Score: 1

    I'm sure there are apps that might. I've yet to see any that has though. I even just denied Waze location services and it still created a route and everything for me. It simply just didn't have a GPS lock.

  15. Re:IOS? on Google Cuts Android Privacy Feature, Says Release Was Unintentional · · Score: 5, Informative

    Settings -> Cellular and then toggle off the apps you don't want using it. For apps you don't want using your location data, you simply deny them when the app runs the first time. If after the fact you want to deny them this permission you go to Settings -> Privacy -> Location Service and again toggle off the apps you don't want to have that permission. And guess what? None of the apps will crash due to these things being turned off.

    The saddest part of your post is you probably thought you were going to completely baffle people with the question when these toggles have been part of iOS for years now (if not since the beginning).

  16. Re:Misleading title on Bots Now Account For 61% of Net Traffic · · Score: 1

    A Slashdot article with a misleading title? You must be kidding!

  17. Re:Brought to you by... on Game Preview: Hearthstone · · Score: 2

    Why would Blizzard give Slashdot money? Especially when the editor's post is itself filled with inaccurate statements.

  18. No experience on Game Preview: Hearthstone · · Score: 2

    But Blizzard is video game company; managing cardboard print runs and scheduling tournaments isn't exactly in their wheelhouse.

    Just as one example, Blizzard has run tournaments at BlizzCon for years now. You could have found this out with 10 seconds of Googling.

  19. Re:NIH on Canonical Moving Away From GNOME Control Center · · Score: 1

    Ok

    Where did it all begin?

    Linux was already established as an enterprise server platform in 2004, but free software was not a part of everyday life for most computer users. That's why Mark Shuttleworth gathered a small team of developers from one of the most established Linux projects – Debian – and set out to create an easy-to-use Linux desktop: Ubuntu.

    You're welcome.

  20. Re:Dead Patents on Decades-Old Rambus Litigation Against Micron For RDRAM Tech Reaches Settlement · · Score: 2

    Because they still have the pay the judgement of the case.

  21. Re:Soft sell... on Nokia Still Experimenting With Android Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Yes, Google and Android are direct competitors to Microsoft and Windows Phone. In what universe are you living in that they are not?

  22. Re:Soft sell... on Nokia Still Experimenting With Android Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Riiight. Because after spending billions in marketing and billions to buy Nokia they're going to release a phone with a competitor's OS. How delusional are you?

  23. Re:Simpler explanation on Nokia Still Experimenting With Android Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Don't you dare bring facts into this!!

    Seriously, only a delusional idiot would believe the scenario that Nervall's Lobster has concocted.

  24. Re:best to keep away from countries that spy and h on Google Opens Asian Data Centers But Shuns China and India · · Score: 1

    Stupid editorializing like that is what you get when people put nationalism before human rights. The other side is always needing to be painted as worse than the home team to to keep the plebes in check.

  25. Re:The laws need changing/revoking... on NSA Uses Google Cookies To Pinpoint Targets For Hacking · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But if these companies didn't have such huge troves of private user data there would be no need to worry about NSLs, etc. They'd have nothing to give over. He's not against bulk collection of data, etc. He's simply against the government competing against him in the data collection realm.