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  1. Re:Free speech under attack. on Colocation Provider PRQ Raided; Wikileaks and Many Torrent Sites Offline · · Score: 1

    Why do you think they had to put that in the bill of rights? Controlling speech is how people are controlled by those who want to take advantage of them.
    Modern governments tell us what not to say. Churches and church-controlled governments take it a step further telling people WHAT to say.

  2. Arggghhh! on BSA Claims Half of PC Users Are Pirates · · Score: 1

    Half of the internet can't figure out how to download a file. Why does it surprise me?

  3. Re:Two issues... on Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over 'Blasphemous' Images · · Score: 2

    I'm sorry but I fail to see how depicting an image of a dude is the same as advocating the extermination of a people or copyright violations.
    I think a better comparison would be the depiction of nudity in public in the US. Ashcroft even covered up lady justice because of her filthy boobs.

    We have the same idol hang-ups as the Pakistanis and they're driven by retarded right wing extremist assholes. The constitution is intended to protect us from them, but it even fails to work in the US.

  4. Austerity measures on UK Government Staff Caught Snooping On Citizen Data · · Score: 1

    Just picture that the austerity measures taken by different European governments means that they will have completely dissatisfied government employees who will still have access to the same data that they had before.

    The creative ways in which they use that power is a problem that will only get bigger.

    For example, in Romania they have a system in which government employees feed information about pre-communist owners of buildings to their business partners so that they can buy the building rights from people who no longer live in Romania and who have no interest of going back but who still want to make a little bit of easy money. As a result most historic buildings and even parts of hospitals are being snatched up from under people who lived/worked there for the past 25-50 years and the scam artists are moving in.

  5. You get what you pay for on Ask Slashdot: Is Outsourcing Development a Good Idea? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Monkey work" looks exactly as if monkeys have worked on it.
    If you want a high quality product, the world is pretty flat as far as cost.

  6. Re:Could have been worse... on 'G20 Geek' Byron Sonne Cleared of Explosives Charges · · Score: 1

    Are any combatants lawful? What the fuck does that even mean?

  7. Re:Congestion nightmare without hacking it? on London Hacked Its Own Traffic Lights To Make Sure It Got the Olympics · · Score: 1

    Funny to read that British people think of food in risk terms. As Americans, we just know that British food is boring and would choose the Somali food over it.
    True story, when the mad cow disease come rolling in here, the sales of beef increased.

  8. iPod nano on Subdermal Magnets Allow You To Wear an IPod Like a Watch · · Score: 1

    That is an iPod nano, not an iPod touch. Still pretty cool though.

  9. Congestion nightmare without hacking it? on London Hacked Its Own Traffic Lights To Make Sure It Got the Olympics · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It was really difficult to find which cars they allowed through in Vanity Fair for those who don't feel like reading the rest of the article about the most boring subjects on the planet: olympic sports, and London

    "Near the end of the application process, an I.O.C. evaluation committee was permitted to visit London. Bid-committee officials knew that London’s transportation system was a weak spot on the city’s application. “Our nightmare was it would take forever to get to the venues,” Mills recalled. A bid-committee team planned the routes that I.O.C. members would travel around the city, and G.P.S. transmitters were planted in all of the I.O.C. members’ vehicles so they could be tracked. From the London Traffic Control Center, near Victoria Station, where hundreds of monitors display live feeds from London’s comprehensive CCTV surveillance system, each vehicle was followed, from camera to camera, “and when they came up to traffic lights,” Mills said, “we turned them green.”

  10. Re:Don't worry about the mobile carriers on Facebook Is Killing Text Messaging · · Score: 1

    Data plan markups are getting ridiculous though. All providers except for Spring have data caps on the iPhone. So yeah, AT&T has a history of shitty business practices which require SMS-type markups.

    ie the AT&T phone which people paid many times over with lease fees, monopoly break-up. Small things.

  11. Lobachevsky on German Science Minister Faces Plagiarism Scandal · · Score: 1

    He probably studied under Lobachevsky.

    Tom Lehrer - Lobachevsky

  12. Suspicion extreme on German Authorities Find Al Qaeda Plans Disguised In Porn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Importing porn to Germany from Pakistan is about the most suspicious thing anyone can do.

  13. Amazon Killer? on Amazon To Pay Texas Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this is just an attack by the Texas legislature on Amazon, who they are upset with for beating all local prices which are taxed a billion times over. (building tax, transportation tax, gas tax, sales tax, retails people salary tax, etc....)

  14. Re:Companies do this all the time on NY Times: Microsoft Tried To Unload Bing On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Maybe the women you are testing. My wife and I quite enjoy diving with sharks.

  15. Re:LSD and extasy on Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store · · Score: 1

    I never trust any studies on drugs as they are generally biased. I prefer to experiment myself and make up my own mind.

  16. Re:Robert Bales is a fall boy on Army Reviews Controversial Drug After Afghan Massacre · · Score: 2

    You're giving the Army too much credit. It's a fuckup caused by ignorance.

  17. This drug is some killer shit. on Army Reviews Controversial Drug After Afghan Massacre · · Score: 0

    It's like the LSD they've been warning us about. What doses is the insanity available in?

    It's so silly how they keep blaming drugs when the problem is due to mental disorders caused by shell shock, religion, and all sorts of other traumatic experiences we put people into for "Freedom".

  18. Etihad has great food on Science Reveals Why Airplane Food Tastes So Bad · · Score: 1

    Great food in economy and they even give you metal butter knives so they might actually cook it because they're not a bunch of wusses.

  19. Bad news for the dinosaurs on Possible Supernova In Nearby Spiral Galaxy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since it occurred 40 million years ago, it must have killed off the dinosaurs.

  20. Persecution on Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students · · Score: 1

    Even if it was pornographic, which it really isn't, the constitution protects all speech.

    This is another form of persecution brought to you by those who are sustained through "anti-persecution" politics.

    The bible is definitely more pornographic and more violent than Ender's game.

  21. Re:Put them to work on Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students · · Score: 1

    They knew very well that it is impossible for people to pay back those high-interest loans. Bankers gave them anyway because they knew that their friends in government would bail them out eventually. Short-term they paid themselves outrageously high bonuses that they didn't need to show long-term viability for.

    So yes, it's a form of organized stealing.

    Outrage wasn't a problem and it was minimal. The French showed what proper outrage at such a system should look like.

  22. Gravity defiant? on Neutrinos Travel No Faster Than Light, Says ICARUS · · Score: 1

    Since neutrino's are not affected by gravity, they could still redefine what a straight line is.
    On long distances they could still prove to be faster as they don't curve around gravity fields.
    The sun eclipse experiment done with neutrinos emitted by distant stars instead of photons would be interesting.

  23. Deficit on NSA Building US's Biggest Spy Center · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I thought we were bankrupt. Don't we have better things to spend (or save) our money on?

  24. Re:Great! on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As if this security is really to prevent terrorists and not to make a bunch of cowardly sheep feel better about flying.

  25. Not crossing the border! on George "geohot" Hotz Arrested In Texas For Posession of Marijuana · · Score: 5, Informative

    These checkpoints are not for those who cross the border. They are unconstitutional search and seizure checkpoints within the US. The pretense is that they are close to borders.

    If the borders are so well protected, why do they need these checkpoints? There is no warrant.