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  1. Re:A little behind the times on Police Using Dogs To Sniff Out Computer Memory · · Score: 1

    Interesting, but the link you provided claims no distinction was noted between real and counterfeit disc detection.

  2. Re:you need to be on the jury on Police Using Dogs To Sniff Out Computer Memory · · Score: 2
    Police K-9s are routinely used during roadside automobile stops to establish probable cause in cases where consent to search is not granted.

    It would be an incredible act of good faith to suppose that law enforcement would never use this technique outside of this narrow venue.

    Likening the use of storage devices to repositories of child porn is but a step away from condemning personal computers for the same principle. "You wouldn't mind us searching if you have nothing to hide, right?"

  3. Re:Americans don't care on New Snowden Leak: of 160000 Intercepted Messages, Only 10% From Official Targets · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Look. On the one hand, it will be virtually impossible to make the technology disappear that allows any government unprecedented surveillance powers.

    Based on the historical evidence of the governments of men, it would also be rather reasonable to expect there will exist elements within our governments willing to exploit national security fears to abuse surveillance powers.

    With awareness, ignorance is left off the table as a selection. At least if we are made aware, we then choose to make a difference or play along.

  4. Missed it by that much. on Oklahoma's Earthquakes Linked To Fracking · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apparently, estimates of the distance that the wastewater travels from the SWD were off by nearly an order of magnitude.

  5. Re:We're Sorry on Facebook Fallout, Facts and Frenzy · · Score: 1
    Caught, leaked, fruit of the poisonous tree... the method of delivery becomes a moot point once it's the topic to rage about with the short attention span tribe.

    Linked to suicides.

    Cue the lawsuits.

  6. Re:What does this solve? on Chinese Company '3D-Prints' 10 Buildings In One Day · · Score: 1
    Consider yourself ceremoniously modded as I have previously posted.

    As the Queen of England has no real power, this mod helps not a bit with your Karma.

    Nonetheless, well posted.

  7. Re:What does this solve? on Chinese Company '3D-Prints' 10 Buildings In One Day · · Score: 1

    If I could suck my own dick, I would be done learning and thereby forced to forfeit my geek card,

  8. Re:What does this solve? on Chinese Company '3D-Prints' 10 Buildings In One Day · · Score: 1
    Sit down.

    In all likelihood, all the walls in the room you were formerly standing in are hollow.

  9. Re: Plumbing & electrical ? on Chinese Company '3D-Prints' 10 Buildings In One Day · · Score: 1

    I know nobody reads the article, and the summary probably had too many confusing big words for you.

    It's not so much the intimidating vocabulary as it is the rush of free-wheeling it, knowing you could crash and burn.

    But if you even read the first word of the fucking title, you would have realised this is in China.

    I'm picturing, in the often desolate arena that is my own head, a sandal-wearing rice farmer kicking a government inspector off of The Great Wall. This is China!

  10. Re:Bigger than a tiny house on Chinese Company '3D-Prints' 10 Buildings In One Day · · Score: 1
    There are multiple indoor air quality issues with occupying any new home.

    Formaldehyde and a host of known carcinogens leach from things like new carpet and OSB wallboard.

    Remember the FEMA trailers?

  11. Re: Is it safe? on Chinese Company '3D-Prints' 10 Buildings In One Day · · Score: 1
    Or.

    You could allow rebar to be installed in the traditional way as a skeleton before the pour.

    Bonus round: A few human jobs for those dinosaurs who can't sit around and do nothing.

  12. Re:Is it safe? on Chinese Company '3D-Prints' 10 Buildings In One Day · · Score: 1
    Extrapolate.

    We are going to build quality housing with this technology someday.

    I hope the lab-grown replacement organs manufactured from my own stem cells are perfected by the time I need them... I would love to see this future.

  13. Re:Illogical on Russia Moves From Summer Time To Standard Time · · Score: 1

    George would be proud, sir.

  14. Nice Strategy Attempt on Microsoft Opens 'Transparency Center' For Governments To Review Source Code · · Score: 1

    That is a great PR move, since the US government has recently been as effective as the New Coke campaign at promoting US companies abroad.

  15. Re:And Then Some on FTC Says T-Mobile Made Hundreds of Millions From Bogus SMS Charges · · Score: 1
    Crafty Devils. Nice.

    There's hope for you yet.

  16. Re:And Then Some on FTC Says T-Mobile Made Hundreds of Millions From Bogus SMS Charges · · Score: 1

    On the flip side, it seems so lucrative and low risk I wonder how I could get in on the action.

    I, too, am cursed with the memory of a younger, less risk-aversion, version of myself.

    I largely suspect that is why i simultaneously find interest in, and see right through, these rather thinly guised versions of deceit.

  17. And Then Some on FTC Says T-Mobile Made Hundreds of Millions From Bogus SMS Charges · · Score: 4, Informative
    In my personal and professional experience, providing phones to field employees and teenagers, this sort of chicanery has occurred with AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon.

    I was informed more than once that the companies have to accept third party billing charges. IMHO, what they don't have to do is hide the charges on the back of page four of the bill.

    Read your monthly charge summaries carefully. If you catch a sham billing they will quickly remove it, but they will usually only go back a month or two. It's remarkably easy to miss a bogus four or five dollar monthly charge.

  18. Re:A win for freedom on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 1
    Hmmm.

    Perhaps.

    But at a mere 238 years this coming weekend, we've been around nowhere near long enough to have copyrighted it.

  19. Re:Can an "atheist company" refuse too? on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 1
    I am much more committed to the basic tenet of the separation of church and state.

    Campaign finance for political office is primarily acquired, above board, from corporations. At the very least, lets not kid ourselves about it.

    How about we allow the corporations to tell the politicians what to do only as long as they remain religion-neutral.

  20. Re:Stupid title on Ninety-Nine Percent of the Ocean's Plastic Is Missing · · Score: 1
    Sure.

    But to be fair,

    Target's the only place he could find Archer Farms Lobster and Cheese Bites.

  21. Re:One non-disturbing theory on Ninety-Nine Percent of the Ocean's Plastic Is Missing · · Score: 1

    Aside from that, most sausage skins in the western world are made from plastic, it's been that way for decades.

    Godmanit!

    Don't eat the chicken skin.

    Don't eat the french fried potaters.

    Now the sausage skin falls out of favor, too? Cheese and rice... it's beginning to look like I can either live fifty years like a medieval king, or 80 like a monk.

  22. Re:One non-disturbing theory on Ninety-Nine Percent of the Ocean's Plastic Is Missing · · Score: 1
    We had a few regulars volunteer.

    Unfortunately, to a man, the cellar denizens burst into flames on the beach enroute to collect the water.

  23. A Call to Arms on The Internet's Own Boy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your ass will be in a seat watching a movie. When it's done, get up and do something.

    Yeah.

    Make a documentary or something.

  24. Re:One solution on Facebook's Emotion Experiment: Too Far, Or Social Network Norm? · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Some people have little interest in happiness and a good mood... you see it every day.

    Within and without social media, people, events, results, and happenstance conspire to alter your mood each and every day... something that cannot happen without your tacit permission. Grow a thicker skin and remember that yelling at that jerk in traffic means you've allowed a complete stranger power over your behavior.

    If giving up social media is too big a first step, don't go in with your eyes wide shut: you are the product, not the customer.

  25. Re:Let them drink! on NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks · · Score: 1

    Why Ed Bailey, what an ugly thing to say.