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  1. Re:People change on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders' · · Score: 1

    we can't even ask, although the entry on the job application say the applicant was a janitor at a dept. of corrections facility and the rate of pay was $0.28/hr is kind of a give a way.

  2. Re:oddly enough on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders' · · Score: 1

    I think I lean towards that as well, in the US, any DNA testing done has to be retained in a database at the lab. When law enforcement wants a DNA record, they send out a request for a certain DNA profile to all of the registered labs, and any labs having a positive match make themselves known and a subpoena is sent to them for the records. if your going to put anyone in that position, put everyone there.

  3. Re:Meeting expectations on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders' · · Score: 1

    no just the teacher who is now wanting your child tested for ADD.

  4. Re:Workaround on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders' · · Score: 1

    It should also replace the national ID number, and of course every legal entry into the country would require a DNA registration as well. After that it would be obvious that anyone who caught a retrovirus would be convicted of altering their ID number!

  5. Re:US politics... on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders' · · Score: 0, Troll

    on your b) point, of course you have multiple scientific studies to refer to; care to list a few?

  6. Re:1984 is here and now. on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders' · · Score: 1

    Tin whiskers dude, they can penetrate the skull, direct connection to the brain for the mind control rays!

  7. Re:Ease of war, oppression & unforeseen conseq on America's Robot Army · · Score: 1

    think how Kent State would have been if it was a tele-presence video game.
    a tele-presence robot being pelted by rocks is less likely to use deadly force to defend it's life than a frustrated, exhausted and injured human being.

  8. Re:More tanks on America's Robot Army · · Score: 1

    actually the hellfire AT missile is quite handy at providing remotely painted surgical strikes on vehicles and small groups doing nasty things like plant IED along the road at night.

  9. Re:More tanks on America's Robot Army · · Score: 1

    Insurgents/militants in Iraqi or AQI, They'd be privately paid mercenaries available to the highest bidder

  10. Re:More tanks on America's Robot Army · · Score: 2

    the strategy employed, air strikes and cruise missiles, causes a lot of civilian casualties.
    It does? are you sure I think you are confusing a BGM-109 Tomahawk or a AGM-84H/K Harpoon with a AGM-114 Hellfire. The Hellfire is a semi-active homing anti-tank weapon not a cruise missile that is primarily air-launched from army helicopters or occasionaly fron a MQ-1 Predator.

    If you want to know how they are really used read Michael Yon's Guitar Heroes posting.

  11. Re:Yay! on Scientology Injunction Denied Against "Anonymous" · · Score: 1

    Reading further down thread it's pretty likely that the incident was not caused by a prank, but was likely more of a CoS Operation FreakOut style tactic to send a bomb threat to themselves for publicity value

  12. Re:Whats wrong with america? on Scientology Injunction Denied Against "Anonymous" · · Score: 1

    They can Tax-Exempt Status for Your Organization will get you pointed in the correct direction, I look forward to the latest congregation of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

  13. Re:no point of attack on Scientology Injunction Denied Against "Anonymous" · · Score: 1

    No they'll just spend a lot of effort punching water, just like Microsoft vs. Linux.

  14. Re:Grab Your Masks! on Scientology Injunction Denied Against "Anonymous" · · Score: 1


    Scientology is bad, but there are other religions that have been around a lot longer and are a lot more harmful to society and civilization as a whole.

    True but most religions are making progress at marginalizing the radical fringe elements even if it's three steps forward and two steps back; I don't see where the scilons are even trying to reform themselves. All we want is for them to learn to play nice with others, you basic kindergarten stuff that five year olds do.

  15. Re:Grab Your Masks! on Scientology Injunction Denied Against "Anonymous" · · Score: 1

    That is not a point of view I spent an entire military career defending, it's unfortunate but even in America people sometimes have to assert their right to free speech Anonymously to protect themselves and innocent third parties.

  16. Re:IRL raids on Scientology Injunction Denied Against "Anonymous" · · Score: 1
    > Where there is a law that makes an offense to mock religious belief.

    For a secretive cult like Scientology, that sort of thing is a two-edged sword


    we could start with

    No doubt you are familiar with the Revelations section of the Bible where
    various events are predicted. Also mentioned is a brief period of time in
    which an arch-enemy of Christ, referred to as the anti-Christ, will reign and
    his opinions will have sway. All this makes for very fantastic, entertaining
    reading but there is truth in it. This anti-Christ represents the forces of
    Lucifer (literally, the "light bearers" or "light bringer"), Lucifer being a
    mythical representation of the forces of enlightenment, the Galactic
    Confederacy. My mission could be said to fulfill the Biblical promise
    represented by this brief anti-Christ period. During this period there is a
    fleeting opportunity for the whole scenario to be effectively derailed, which
    would make it impossible for the mass Marcabian landing (Second Coming) to take
    place. The Second Coming is designed, among other things, to trigger a rapid
    series of destructive events. ...

    For those of you whose Christian toes I may have stepped on, let me take the
    opportunity to disabuse you of some lovely myths. For instance, the historic
    Jesus was not nearly the sainted figure has been made out to be. In addition
    to being a lover of young boys and men, he was given to uncontrollable bursts of
    temper and hatred that belied the general message of love, understanding and
    other typical Marcab PR. You have only to look at the history his teachings
    inspired to see where it all inevitably leads. It is historic fact and yet man
    still clings to the ideal, so deep and insidious is the biologic implanting.

      L. RON HUBBARD as reported in
    US District Court, Central District of California
    Fishman Case No 91-6426 HLH (Tx)

    that should rile up the Christian Fundamentalists quit a bit
  17. Re:Yay! on Scientology Injunction Denied Against "Anonymous" · · Score: 1

    so if I leave a suitcase with innocent articles in it near a scilon building, call them the next day and play the audio from an famous youtube video that says "we are Anonymous, we do not forgive, we do not forget" would it be my fault they think it's a threatening phone call and assume they have found a bomb?

  18. Re:Ha! on Comcast Kicks Tires On 100-Gig Optical Links · · Score: 1

    They are talking about 100Mbs to the door on 100Gbps lambdas "backbones".

  19. Re:Keypoints.. on Comcast Kicks Tires On 100-Gig Optical Links · · Score: 1

    they also provided internet connectivity to the IETF meeting in Philadelphia and the IETF turned off IPv4.

  20. Re:Localizing means less anonymity on Enhancement To P2P Cuts Network Costs · · Score: 1

    Oh dude that's seriously bad shit, tin whiskers will grow up to a centimeter that means a direct electrical connection to the brain right through you skull! Oh here's the devious part cable modems are seriously limited in upstream connections and bandwidth, through a cable modem even connecting to a peer on the same network is expensive in terms of network capability, on Verizon's FiOS system up and down are about equal in terms of system resources giving them a big advantage over cable and since Verizon is a tier 1 network even out-of network traffic isn't paid for with cash. Comcast and Time-Warner are at a serious disadvantage, look forward to a down and dirty advertising war over this.

  21. Re:Is it just that I'm naive ... on Enhancement To P2P Cuts Network Costs · · Score: 1

    this has nothing to do with net neutrality which is each packet being treated equally irregardless of source or destination in each network segment; internal network traffic should smoke external traffic, but the constraint on external traffic should be at the gateway, once inside internally and externally originated packets are treated the same.

  22. Re:400%? on Enhancement To P2P Cuts Network Costs · · Score: 1

    Silly me I just assumed they did do it.

  23. Re:0.89 hops on Enhancement To P2P Cuts Network Costs · · Score: 1

    In the context of an ISP network, they are probably talking about gateways, so zeros hops would be two computers on the same subnet and not having to pass through an ISP's gateway.

  24. Re:P2P - P4P? on Enhancement To P2P Cuts Network Costs · · Score: 1

    sounds like on of those stories that start out like this "Now this is no bullshit, OK ...."

  25. Re:tragedy of the commons, Oh Hamlet on Enhancement To P2P Cuts Network Costs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is a wet dream come true for verizon, not only can they advertise unlimited broadband FiOS at 40MB/s, they can deliver it without much expensive out-of-network traffic! Comcast is so screwed, blued and tatooed; even with the next generation DOCSIS 3.0 they'll have to add nodes like there is no tomorrow just to tread water!