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  1. Re:Not restrained by law? on Obama Praises NSA But Promises To Rein It In · · Score: 2

    And if you think they are really only spying on foreigners you're extraordinarily naive.

  2. Re:Not restrained by law? on Obama Praises NSA But Promises To Rein It In · · Score: 2

    He meant "US law" when he said "law". The NSA is not bound by US law outside the USA.

    Which is total bull. US Citizens have been arrested for laws US they've broken outside of the US. Also, people who aren't even citizens of the US have been extradited for breaking US laws.

  3. Re:Duh on Obama Praises NSA But Promises To Rein It In · · Score: 1

    Doh that should be SNA not SNR.

  4. Re:Not interested in reading your text messages on Obama Praises NSA But Promises To Rein It In · · Score: 1

    SNA not SNR. Facepalm on my part.

  5. Re:Not interested in reading your text messages on Obama Praises NSA But Promises To Rein It In · · Score: 0

    They don't need to read the messages if their SNR graphs show you within 1 or 2 hops to a "terrorist". You'll simply be assumed to be one too and either arrested or a drone'll be sent to get you.

  6. Duh on Obama Praises NSA But Promises To Rein It In · · Score: 2

    They are not interested in reading your emails. They're not interested in reading your text messages. And that's not something that's done.

    More misdirection. Of course they aren't interested in those things, they want the more valuable location data and other metadata so they can build huge tracking database and SNR graphs.

  7. Re:Our Founding Fathers would be mortified on NSA Tracking Cellphone Locations Worldwide · · Score: 1

    Really? Last time I checked John Adams was a "founding father". Sure, James Madison was opposed but you can't make any such blanket statements about what the "founding fathers" would think because they were actually quite a diverse group of people. They were not some hive mind.

  8. Re:Love this quote on NSA Tracking Cellphone Locations Worldwide · · Score: 1

    Exactly. It is basically saying they are collecting the information just not in the US. That way they can skirt those pesky things like laws.

  9. Re:Bu.lls.hit on Famo.us To Open Source Rendering Engine Replacement JavaScript Framework · · Score: 0

    Abusing the name system? Are you for real? Jesus fuck you're an autistic twit.

  10. Re:One word on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Convince Management To Hire More IT Staff? · · Score: 2

    And you can feel smug and superior as you're being walked out by security shortly afterwards.

  11. Re:Phenom || instead of Bulldozer on AMD A10 Kaveri APU Details Emerge, Combining Steamroller and Graphics Core Next · · Score: 1

    They are called "Core i7" not "iCore7".

  12. Suck it cold fjord! on Australian Spy Agency Offered To Share Data About Ordinary Citizens · · Score: 2

    That these came from leaked Snowden documents can't be true. cold fjord told us that Snowden's leaks were only to harm the US government and would never include things about other governments. *rolls eyes*

  13. Re:I liked the N900, but.... on Neo900 Hacker Phone Reaches Minimum Number of Pre-Orders For Production · · Score: 1

    This is a place to discuss things which involves both sides of a subject. It's not merely a circle jerk.

  14. Re:DMCA Counter-notice on Copyright Takedown Requests to Google Doubled In 2013 · · Score: 1

    You don't need a law firm to file a counter-notice.

  15. Re:Ubuntu Edge on Neo900 Hacker Phone Reaches Minimum Number of Pre-Orders For Production · · Score: 2

    Because they have more than just a couple of 3d renders and an empty shell?

  16. Re:Surprising number of Verge comments anti-tech on No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service — and No Google Glass, Either · · Score: 1

    Not by much, if at all.

    Yeah, because racial discrimination is so much the same thing as not being allowed to be a glasshole in someone's business.

  17. Re:Not a Glass fan but on No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service — and No Google Glass, Either · · Score: 1

    I don't even own a cell phone, much less Google Glass, but I can see a time when I'd use such an interface (it just isn't good enough yet for me to care). I wouldn't have a problem with a policy that says "please don't wear your head-mounted display in here", but I think it's sort of stupid to have such a rule and not also say "please leave your cell phone turned off and put away" as well. Anything you can do with a Google Glass you can do with a cell phone, you can certainly take videos without it being obvious.

    See my post right above you where the two owners already addressed that.

  18. Re:Surprising number of Verge comments anti-tech on No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service — and No Google Glass, Either · · Score: 1

    Sure you can be a whiny douchenozzle all you want. The rest of the Internet will simply laugh at you.

  19. Re:Surprising number of Verge comments anti-tech on No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service — and No Google Glass, Either · · Score: 1

    See my response to AC regarding restaurants as public spaces. Another corollary might be restaurants being unable to discriminate based on race.

    Except that wearing a Google Glass does not make you a member of a protected class. On the other hand, being a member of a minority group does under existing civil rights amendments and federal/state statutes. Your "corollary" is just as much fallacious as that which you responded to.

  20. Re:Surprising number of Verge comments anti-tech on No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service — and No Google Glass, Either · · Score: 1

    I disagree, they are public spaces.

    And they can still kick you out. Glassholes are not a protected class.

  21. Re:Surprising number of Verge comments anti-tech on No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service — and No Google Glass, Either · · Score: 1

    My right to use Google Glass (if I had such,) or a mobile phone, or a GoPro camera, or whatever may come is not an infringement of your right to be free of recording (for you have none outside your home,) nor is it terribly bright of you to denigrate them or their new toys when you'll likely enjoy something similar once they become openly sold and include some absolutely desirable software that happens to depend on the camera.

    Sure, and the restaurant has the right to kick your douchenozzle ass out for being a glasshole.

  22. Re:Amazing on No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service — and No Google Glass, Either · · Score: 1

    So you don't mind me installing cameras in your house and streaming it on the Internet, right? To object to it is you being a luddite, right?

  23. Re:Not a Glass fan but on No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service — and No Google Glass, Either · · Score: 1

    http://www.tweaktown.com/news/34196/google-glass-owner-asked-to-take-his-glass-off-at-seattle-diner/index.html

    Meinert says "it's all about privacy" and his business partner, Jason Lajeunesse, told Forbes "It's one thing to take out a camera and capture a moment, people see you doing it, they have a chance to step out if the want to. With Glass people don't have a chance to do that. We want our customers to feel comfortable, not like they're being watched."

  24. Re:just leave on No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service — and No Google Glass, Either · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes actually many people here do.

  25. Re:just leave on No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service — and No Google Glass, Either · · Score: 1

    Why would this douchenozzle come back with a hidden camera? The whole point is to have people staring at him.