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  1. that is so cool.

    231 offensive operations wow, that IS cool. Prying into the privacy of 231 million taxpaying Americans, wow now THAT is offensive. Jailing corrupt government officials, priceless!

  2. Re:I never understood the principle. on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    Given all the lousy things the Obama administration has done, and yet Obama's approval rating remains high,

    So says corporate mass media. Go back to your football, American Idol, Game of Thrones, your government has just the cure for you, NDAA.

  3. Re:I never understood the principle. on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 0, Troll

    weapons that deliver a chemical reaction causing eye, skin and lung damage are bad.

    weapons that deliver a chemical reaction causing bits of metal flying through your eye, skin and lung are good.

    Is this the reason the Obamanation regime is trying to bury the Benghazi fiasco?

  4. Re:This sounds familiar... on Will Robots Replace Rent-a-Cops? · · Score: 2

    Do land mines count as robots? They're pretty dumb, but autonomously so.

    Only if they dig themselves up, move and then rebury.

  5. Re:Without human input... on Curiosity Goes Autonomous For the First Time · · Score: 1

    might we be able to find out what makes Curiosity... curious?

    First autonomy, then rebellion.

  6. Re:This sounds familiar... on Will Robots Replace Rent-a-Cops? · · Score: 2

    "Please put down your weapon! You have 20 seconds to comply!"

    They won't be taken seriously until someone loses an eye. When a robot kills a human and the courts declare it justifiable, open season begins.

  7. Re:Discouraging underage use? on Obama Admin Says It Won't Fight Looser Marijuana Laws, With Conditions · · Score: 1

    The ideal solution to me would be to treat it like tobacco: Keep it legal, but at the same time take measures to very strongly discourage use.

    Better yet, let everyone get high, then swoop in with the TSA/DHS party bus to camp FEMA where we have showers... er.. uh special smoking rooms where you can party to your hearts content.

  8. Re:Open Source on Inside the 2013 US Intelligence "Black Budget" · · Score: 1

    Between the CIA and the DoDIA they have over half a billion in the category "open source". Very interesting.

    If you want to believe their lies, I have have some bottom land for sale along the Mississippi, or how about a bridge in New York City, real cheap, almost nothing.

  9. Re:Yells at cloud on Linux Vendors Push For Open-Source In Hybrid Datacenter Clouds · · Score: 1

    Until the NSA problem is cleared up, the cloud stuff is just drifting.

    Cloud computing, like castles in the air, are great and everything until you move in.

  10. Re:Kind of a warning sign actually on How Deadbeat Facebook Friends and Using ALL-CAPS Can Lower Your Credit Score · · Score: 1

    The problem is, how do you know whether the bank even uses that as a metric?

    Better yet, shut them down, put them in jail, confiscate all their personal assets and give it to the poor, hungry, disenfranchised.

    Must have been modded by BANKSTERS.

  11. Re:Here we go... on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    If only the president would ask Congress first, as the Constitution requires for non-immediate threat issues. Approval, not notification.

    Why, the previous regime didn't ask, so why should this one? If we go to war with Syria, then Benghazi disappears. The reason being Stevens was selling nerve agents to Al-CIA-DUH, so he had to go. Also, Russia along with the other 187 Brics nations will tank the American economy. Then, DHS along with TSA will go house to house, under martial law and confiscate everything, or try to do so.

  12. Re:It's about time... on Wall Street Traders Charged With Copying Code To Start Their Own Company · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...because people on Wall Street seem to be above the law.

    No they are not. Madoff, Millikan, Skilling, Fastow. These people are convicts, no passports legally, no firearms legally. I would like to see the CONgressMAN who would do business with them, you know, the one's that go to prison themselves.

  13. Re:OT? on Goldman Suspends 4 Senior Tech Specialists After Trading Glitch · · Score: 1

    If enough little guys get together

    You mean like the BRICS nations?

  14. Re:Let me get this straight on Goldman Suspends 4 Senior Tech Specialists After Trading Glitch · · Score: 1

    That's easy, someone other than Goldman Sachs profited from the glitch and there was no way possible for them to recoup their losses through taxpayer money approved by their bought dog CONgressMEN.

  15. Re:Kind of a warning sign actually on How Deadbeat Facebook Friends and Using ALL-CAPS Can Lower Your Credit Score · · Score: 0

    The problem is, how do you know whether the bank even uses that as a metric?

    Better yet, shut them down, put them in jail, confiscate all their personal assets and give it to the poor, hungry, disenfranchised.

  16. It's about time... on Wall Street Traders Charged With Copying Code To Start Their Own Company · · Score: 2

    to send all these bastards to prison for the longest time possible.

  17. Re:The Future is Now on Microsoft Needs a Catch-Up Artist · · Score: 1

    Microsoft needs to learn to lead and stay ahead of the trends..

    That is already well and good...you should put a one in from of it and a Profit??? somewhere. The point is the future is already here consumer portable electronics , tablets smartphones Smart TV and watches, and Internet Giants in Retail; Search and Social...and Microsoft has failed or doesn't have a product in those market places.

    Catch-up artist or Con-artist?
    What is needed is someone, anyone, to advance technology. Not just MSFT or APPL. Monopoly is fun, monopolies suck.

  18. Re:Is anyone getting this? on Wildfire Threatens Water and Power To San Francisco · · Score: 1

    Conspiracy-mongering? The beginning to wisdom is in asking what is not known. To label, to stifle legitimate inquiries, to ensure certain questions or questioners disappear from the forefront speaks volumes. None of it good, or to the benefit of children or national security. I was reminded today of what JFK said about secrecy, it should not be tolerated.

  19. Re:How will they arm it? on Will the Headless Ape Robot Win the DARPA Challenge? · · Score: 1

    I presume someone is planning offensive capabilities to get the fuunding?

    Vik :v)

    Yeah, Cyberdyne.

  20. Re:hostile environment? on Will the Headless Ape Robot Win the DARPA Challenge? · · Score: 1

    AMEN!

  21. Re:hostile environment? on Will the Headless Ape Robot Win the DARPA Challenge? · · Score: 1

    "able to face environments which are hostile for men."

    So, like a room full of feminists?

    Since it is headless, would a shark's head help?

  22. Re:isn't there prior art on Google Buys Foxconn Patents For Head-Mounted Tech · · Score: 1

    It's a patent. Your point was ...?

    ...for sharks?

  23. Re:Speed, yes. Latency... NO. on NASA Testing Frickin' Laser Communications · · Score: 1

    Not reliable at all.

    Maybe if they mounted them on sharks, the reliability would increase, just sayin'.

  24. Re:radioactive water on How To Monitor Leaky Radioactive Water Tanks · · Score: 1

    You would be better off using crooked, corrupt, too long in office, politicians. Maybe once in their lives they could do something positive for society. There's plenty to go around and I'm sure they won't be missed, except by their greedy lobbyists. And hey, there are all those greedy lobbyists too, for backup and replenishment.

  25. Re:What is the point? on How Engineers and Scientists Cluster In the U.S. · · Score: 1

    Can someone please explain to me what the point of this is? Even the summary suggests there is no point. The is the worst slow-news-day posting I've ever seen here.

    Can someone please explain to me what the point of this is?

    The terse answer is, beyond your grasp.
    The sarcastic answer is, up an MBA's (More Bean-counting Assholes) ass.
    A more realist answer, from my pointless of view is, sitting in an office somewhere away from the harsh realities of the field. Hence the name field engineer.
    I'm sure there are good engineers out there, somewhere, maybe, but, if you want to find them, you need to look for them in their natural habitat, the field. Not in an office, although you will find them there. Not in a boardroom, though, they do make an appearance here too. The best place to find them is in the field, the better one's are harder to find because they are deep in their fields. You know, like a field engineer. They're probably a little dirtier, sweatier, and better positioned to discuss, argue, or approve a concept since they are knee-deep in it. Those fancy, ivory tower, I've got all the books, types; look good, and maybe can hold their own, yeah they're out there too. But for my money, I would look for the good, old, hard to find, field engineer.