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  1. Eunuchs on Game of Thrones: Bush's Head Gets a Makeover · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is either some kind of "clever" ploy to make already existing box sets scarce or a way to push people to pirate the unedited versions.

    Or HBO really just has no balls and can't stand up for themselves. Probably that.

  2. Re:The Future Is Now on Could Cops Use Google As Pre-Cogs? · · Score: 1

    That's because it was a honeypot.

  3. The Future Is Now on Could Cops Use Google As Pre-Cogs? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People who use "encryption", care about "security" and things like "transparency" are already under suspicion of committing terrorist acts.

    If you have a brain you're suspicious.

    http://truth-out.org/news/item/9618-newly-released-fbi-domestic-terrorism-training

  4. Coaching on Startup Skips IE Support, Claims $100,000 Savings · · Score: 1

    I'm glad at least the company is claiming to "coach" their customers to use modern web browsers.

    It's extremely irritating when companies fail to educate their clients and just take whatever money grab they can even when it's to support a project for IE6/7/8.

  5. Worse? on Forbes Names Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Worst CEO · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Really? Even worse than RIM?

  6. Re:Well If They Want To Watch... on US Air Force Can 'Accidentally' Spy On American Citizens For 90 Days · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't say it was "curiosity".

  7. Well If They Want To Watch... on US Air Force Can 'Accidentally' Spy On American Citizens For 90 Days · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess I need to start having (gay) sex on my deck again.

  8. Um on Jars of Irradiated Russian Animals Find a New Purpose · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can't they just use frequent flyers?

  9. Re:Not Creative on South Korea Plans Hashtag-Inspired Skyscraper · · Score: 1

    Because I'd like to have a city which inspires and innovates, not one made of toothpicks that bores and tires.

  10. Not Creative on South Korea Plans Hashtag-Inspired Skyscraper · · Score: 2

    "Originally the designers wanted to build just two incredibly tall towers, but height restrictions forced them to get creative."

    So originally it was boring as hell. It's sad that "designers" have to be forced to be creative.

  11. Which? on Rand Paul Has a Quick Fix For TSA: Pull the Plug · · Score: 1

    How am I supposed to know which one of the two buckets I fall into when I start agreeing with Republicans?

    This two party system is so confusing sometimes.

  12. Re:For Shame on FBI Caught On Camera Returning Seized Server · · Score: 1

    Oh wow you need to have a 4 year degree in the respective program (law aside) you're applying to.

    Impressive!

  13. For Shame on FBI Caught On Camera Returning Seized Server · · Score: 1

    The white guy in the tie looks pretty cute...too bad he works for the FBI.

    Then again I do like em cute and dumb.

  14. Re:Confused. on Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It · · Score: 1

    I appreciate the clarification :) sadly I can't mod it up.

    Was worried you were going to say that, it looks like all sorts of fucked up is coming our way.

  15. Re:Confused. on Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It · · Score: 1

    I guess I was attempting to ask if they can blanket copyright the logic in an API so that you can't create an API similar to another API based on a high level description (although I'm probably getting patents confused here).

    So from your nice explanation the implementation/logic is what is being copyrighted and not the purpose or "idea" behind the API itself.

  16. Confused. on Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It · · Score: 1

    What exactly is implied by a "copyrightable API"?

    Does this mean that we can copyright an API in a broad generic manner? i.e. a "web service that returns a JSON object of apps in an app store".

    Or is the specific manner in which the API fetches the information the part that is copyrightable?

  17. Boiling Frog on UK ISPs Ordered To Block Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    It's going to be interesting to see how people react to the slowly encroaching restriction on what we can/cannot access online.

    With the Middle East & Co. the cut-off was drastic, whereas I think in the West we're facing the Boiling Frog syndrome.

    People in this thread are asking if the governments' are slow/inefficient, but really I think the general populace is even slower.

  18. Re:Less Impact on New Study Suggests Wind Farms Can Cause Climate Change · · Score: 1

    The only complaints that have any merit are the (mostly perceived) detriment to property value.

    We've had them for years powering Bowling Green, OH and if anything they've been an attraction. http://www.bgohio.org/departments/utilities-department/wind-turbines

    Do you have any scholarly references to subsonic vibrations causing health issues with wind turbines? I'd be interested in reading those because it sounds like psycho-FUD tbh.

  19. Less Impact on New Study Suggests Wind Farms Can Cause Climate Change · · Score: 1

    This option doesn't emit carcinogens into our environment leading to health issues down the road.

    It may cause climatological changes in the local area, but call me crazy for thinking I'd rather adapt to weather pattern changes than have my body try to adapt to carcinogens from current energy producing means.

  20. Re:Not New on FBI Seizes Server Providing Anonymous Remailer Service · · Score: 1

    Hence the quotations around '"down"'.

  21. Clearly Words Are Working on Berners-Lee: You've Got Our Data, Show Restraint · · Score: 1

    I think the time for "telling" (really "suggesting") ended years ago. And more and more it's looking like the time for acting has passed us by.

  22. Not New on FBI Seizes Server Providing Anonymous Remailer Service · · Score: 2

    Whenever they take servers "down" it's like a ogre killing a spider with a tree trunk. They smash the table, furniture, and destroy the house along with the poor spider.

  23. Really? BB? on UT Dallas Professor Captures the Mobile Interactions of 175 Texas Teens · · Score: 2

    This study should have really been looking at the psychological impact of teens being forced to use BB devices and how they will end up being scarred for life from the ridicule and bullying for not using an iPhone or Android smartphone.

    That large funding must really have helped a lot to bribe those teens to use a BlackBerry in the first place...

  24. Re:I don't understand... on Dutch Pirate Party Dragging BREIN To Court · · Score: 5, Funny

    If pointers are the hardest thing to learn in C++ for CS students just think how hard it is for brainless morons.

  25. Re:It's Me Not You on Reddit Subpoenaed In Wrongful Death Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    I was a gay youth (and probably at 26 many still consider me such). While my "demographics" suicide attempts are higher, attempts are only that: attempts. Really I don't know how people fail to commit suicide; it's not that hard. Attempts are asking for attention, because they want help.

    Whether or not you find suicide (not attempts) agreeable or not is besides the point.

    Everyone's life is their own and they should live it how they want; that includes ending that life when and how they want.