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  1. Keep in mind, on New York's Financial Regulator Subpoenas Bitcoin Companies · · Score: 1

    a subpoena doesn't mean criminal activity has taken place...

    That's right. It is frequently used to target people for the purpose of harassment. Kind of like 'discovery'. We're not supposed to tolerate this.

  2. Re:Democracy has failed on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 2

    It is not 'defeatist' to encourage people not to waste their time on things that don't work.

  3. Re:Need to diffuse the light a bit... on Illuminating Window-Less Houses With a Plastic Bottle · · Score: 1

    Most hotspots only provides intense light when they catch on fire, and only for a brief time.

  4. Re:Happy President on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 1

    I don't know why. It has been like this for about 150 years now.

  5. Re:Democracy has failed on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No it won't. It will do nothing. The voter has to learn to resist propaganda, and think critically. Check the records, not the campaign speeches. Campaign 'reform' is a bullshit shell game, just like term limits. They will find another way to launder the money.

  6. Re:Happy President on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 1

    How were we supposed to know he was going to pull this crap...?

    History, precedent, whatever you want to call it. Only those with their eyes closed would be surprised by any of this.

  7. Re:fud on IAB Urges People To Stop "Mozilla From Hijacking the Internet" · · Score: 2

    Yeah, this won't be a popular response. But it's true.

    Who cares if it's true? They serve up malware and spyware, and clog the tubes. Fuck them.

  8. Re:fud on IAB Urges People To Stop "Mozilla From Hijacking the Internet" · · Score: 1

    Tip your servers.

    But not too far, or they'll fall over..

  9. Re:How convenient on Losing the War Data For Iraq and Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    Sounds like standard operating procedure. I, for one, hope nobody was surprised. The less said, the better.

  10. Re:Bruce Schneier on Schneier: The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet · · Score: 1

    ...good publicly available cryptography

    No such thing... unless it's a one time pad..

  11. Re:Pathetic on Twinkies: The Breakfast of Champion Programmers Still Hard To Get · · Score: 1

    No, what's pathetic is a society which makes it easier to get a bag of cocaine 365/24/7 than it is to buy a package of Twinkies at the store. It doesn't matter that the cocaine is probably healthier. If you want want to make Twinkies easy to find, the government needs to label them a Schedule 1 substance. Nothing creates a market like prohibition does.

  12. Re:American hi-tech has a significant ethics probl on Inside the Decision To Shut Down Silent Mail · · Score: 2

    To the extent which they control the government, their privacy is well protected, mostly from us.

  13. Re:So you need to get over your alcohol addiction. on The Science of 12-Step Programs · · Score: 1

    When I'm looking for an electrical short, I don't need to check the tire pressure.

  14. Re:American hi-tech has a significant ethics probl on Inside the Decision To Shut Down Silent Mail · · Score: 2

    As always, consumers will vote with their wallets.

    And, as always, they will vote for convenience, privacy, especially somebody else's, be damned...

  15. government project/advertising/marketing on Londoners Tracked By Advertising Firm's Trash Cans · · Score: 1, Insightful

    What's the difference? Can you opt out of any of it? Not having a cell phone or Facebook is grounds for suspicion..

  16. Re:what happens if the chick get pregnant? on One-Way Ticket: Mars One Project Applicants Top 100,000 · · Score: 1

    ...no civil unrest or wars anywhere on the horizon...

    Read Lord of the Flies, and remove all the nice 'tropical paradise' parts for a peek into their future.

  17. Re:Links? on After Lavabit Shut-Down, Dotcom's Mega Promises Secure Mail · · Score: 1

    Drop them on the NSA's cables, and voila!

  18. Re:So you need to get over your alcohol addiction. on The Science of 12-Step Programs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...purely materialistic explanations for every phenomenon.

    In my business, it's called troubleshooting. Find the problem and fix it.

    The only faith required is the belief that you can do it. - Mark 10:52

  19. Re:Its a start on Chaos Computer Club, Others Scoff At German Email Security Move As "Marketing" · · Score: 1

    This gives people a false sense of security...

    That's the idea!

  20. Re:Hammer is coming down on Samsung Infringed On Apple Patents, Says ITC · · Score: 1

    Mountains and rivers aren't very fuzzy either. The most insurmountable borders today are purely political.

  21. Re:Use your own domain and host on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Non-US Based Email Providers? · · Score: 1

    Attempting to go 'off the grid' will automatically place you under suspicion and worth watching.

  22. Re:NEW SURFACE? on Nvidia CEO: We Are Working On Next Generation Surface · · Score: 1

    "We weren't mistaken, and will double down."

    Straight from Obama's NSA playbook..

  23. Rules? Please on Cory Doctorow On Privacy and Oversharing · · Score: 1

    ...anyone who can bribe or impersonate a cop can access them...

    What 'rules' are going to stop that?

  24. There's GMOs in my tweet on There Is a Fly In My Tweet: Tracking Food-Borne Illness the Crowd-Sourced Way · · Score: 1

    Hey! This could catch on.. Since the FDA has been bought, we might have a way of circumventing it.

  25. Re:Makes no difference. on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Non-US Based Email Providers? · · Score: 1

    All your connections are through a single service provider. You claim that it's 'infeasible to compromise enough nodes'... That's because your budget is limited. Theirs is is not.