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  1. Re: Positive spin on NSA Director Says Agency Shares Most, But Not All, Bugs It Finds · · Score: 2

    But even better, do you have any reason to think this is not going on?

    Do you have any reason to believe that the government is not secretly controlled by the Pod People? They say they're not, but that's exactly what Pod People would say.

    I base my opinions on facts and evidence. You base your opinions on how well they fit into your existing worldview.

    And none of those links have anything to do with your original statement.

  2. Re: Positive spin on NSA Director Says Agency Shares Most, But Not All, Bugs It Finds · · Score: 2

    They lie about everything and it's impossible to prove anything.

    The root post says that the NSA had vulnerabilities put into iOS and Windows. That's very provable.

  3. Re:Positive spin on NSA Director Says Agency Shares Most, But Not All, Bugs It Finds · · Score: 1

    Chemicals shells from the 80s have been found several times. It was pretty clear that he had chemical weapons in the 80s because he used them against the Kurds and Iranian soldiers.

    There has been zero evidence that Iraq was involved in any banned weapons programs after the mid 90s- which is what George W. Bush told us.

  4. Re:Positive spin on NSA Director Says Agency Shares Most, But Not All, Bugs It Finds · · Score: 1

    Same conversation. You're using the same ridiculous "logic" that George W. Bush did. It has some fancy latin fallacy name that I'm not going to look up.

  5. Re:Positive spin on NSA Director Says Agency Shares Most, But Not All, Bugs It Finds · · Score: 1

    And Saddam Hussein definitely has a chemical weapons program because he says he doesn't.

  6. Re:Positive spin on NSA Director Says Agency Shares Most, But Not All, Bugs It Finds · · Score: 2

    You made the claim. You back it up. That's how basic logic works.

    I realize that's a foreign concept of Slashdot these days.

  7. Re:Positive spin on NSA Director Says Agency Shares Most, But Not All, Bugs It Finds · · Score: 1

    That page doesn't mention anything about commercial OSes.

  8. Re:Positive spin on NSA Director Says Agency Shares Most, But Not All, Bugs It Finds · · Score: 0

    Do you have a citation for that?

  9. Re:Fail on the FTC on Court Order: Butterfly Labs Bitcoins To Be Sold · · Score: 1

    Word got around a couple years ago. They told everyone to fuck off and kept their deposits.

  10. Re:That was a near miss on Court Order: Butterfly Labs Bitcoins To Be Sold · · Score: 2

    Of course there are reasons why BFL is getting in trouble here.

    My question is when did you place your order with them? I'm not part of that scene, but I know there have been serious questions about BFL for a very long time. My friend got kicked out of CES in January 2013 for causing a scene at their booth, basically accusing them of being scammers.

  11. Re:I thought rare earths were not that rare on Interviews: Ask CMI Director Alex King About Rare Earth Mineral Supplies · · Score: 1

    I can't read that WSJ.com article. I have a few questions that might be answered in there.

    Can the Chinese government still restrict exports? Or is there a guarantee that the US will get back the results of any ore sent over?

    And is this temporary while a new processing facility is built in the US, or permanent?

  12. Re:That was a near miss on Court Order: Butterfly Labs Bitcoins To Be Sold · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You're joking, right?

  13. Re:I thought rare earths were not that rare on Interviews: Ask CMI Director Alex King About Rare Earth Mineral Supplies · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Mountain Pass mine in California produced a majority of the world's rare earth supply in the 80s. After getting undercut in price by China and a bunch of EPA violations, it was shut down in 2002. In 2008, after China threatened to limit their exports, a new company purchased the mine and got some government support as there are strategic issues involved.

    I don't know if they're actually producing anything yet. If not, they're close. When you drive from LA to Las Vegas, you pass this mine. I've seen a bunch of cars there for a few years.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Pass_rare_earth_mine

  14. Don't play their game on Ken Ham's Ark Torpedoed With Charges of Religious Discrimination · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bill Nye seems like a good dude. But participating in that "debate" was just stupid. It gives the appearance that there are two credible sides to the issue. The only option is to ignore these people. When they decide to join us in the modern era, we will welcome them.

    This particular dispute is stupid. The theme park will just remove the offending wording and resubmit it. There's no point to enforcing those restrictions during hiring. After being hired, the employee has to say to the guests what the owners want them to say or get fired. The difference between a Born Again evangelical and an atheist who spouts the beliefs of a Born Again evangelical is a philosophical one.

  15. Re:what the ... on Can Ello Legally Promise To Remain Ad-Free? · · Score: 1

    Ello does not discuss user signup numbers. Even the most optimistic estimates are nowhere in the ballpark of Facebook.

  16. Re:CDC does disease control, NIH does research on Ebola Does Not Require an "Ebola Czar," Nor Calling Up the National Guard · · Score: 1

    all three are relevant research studies. gay marriage is legal in most of America, obesity is a known problem (it's Health), primates are our nearest analogs, and the latter choice might not be your cup of tea, but you'd be surprised what people do.

    More relevant than ebola?

    Considering that obesity kills many thousands of times more American than Ebola...yes.

  17. Re:What does require those things? on Ebola Does Not Require an "Ebola Czar," Nor Calling Up the National Guard · · Score: -1, Troll

    When did this turn into the Fox News comments section?

    When most of the smart people left years ago. This site is a retarded ghost of its former self.

  18. Re:Politics on Ebola Does Not Require an "Ebola Czar," Nor Calling Up the National Guard · · Score: 1

    If this were about solving disease problems then the President would give the CDC more funding if they needed it.

    Did they change the Constitution last week and give the President the power to budget government money? Why wasn't I told about this?

  19. Re:SlashDot Is Watching You on Kickstarter Cancels Anonabox Funding Campaign · · Score: 2

    This isn't what the Internet was designed to be, its not the outpost of freedom we wanted. I am trully disappointed.

    The internet was designed to be a way for DARPA contractors to share data without having to mail giant tape spools to each other. "We" didn't get involved until a couple decades later.

  20. Re:Really? on Kickstarter Cancels Anonabox Funding Campaign · · Score: 2

    I believe that among this target market there is a belief that any off-the-shelf hardware is going to have NSA back doors in it.

    And you can certainly hand make one unit for less than $7500. But setting up mass production of any consumer electronics product, even one based on stock boards, requires one or two orders of magnitude more money than that.

  21. Really? on Kickstarter Cancels Anonabox Funding Campaign · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The guys who said they could create custom hardware for 7,500 bucks were full of shit? I am shocked.

  22. Re:Top to bottom on An Air Traffic Control System For Drones · · Score: 1

    having to file a flight path befor the flight and waiting for the government official to give you the green light.

    FTsummary- "The system will use what it knows about other drone flights, weather forecasts, and physical obstacles such as radio masts to give the go-ahead."

    Where did you get that a "government official" would be involved?

  23. Re:Wonder How Much? on Michigan About To Ban Tesla Sales · · Score: 1

    What's the biggest campaign donation you think one of those "fat checks" represents?

  24. Re:Telsa's lobbiest crashes on Michigan About To Ban Tesla Sales · · Score: 1

    You should actually read Citizens United. That's not at all what it says.

  25. Re:Telsa's lobbiest crashes on Michigan About To Ban Tesla Sales · · Score: 1

    That decision had absolutely nothing to do with campaign donations or lobbying. Maybe you should read it.