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  1. Psycho Pass on Chinese Researchers' 'Terror Cam' Could Scan Crowds, Looking for Stress · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And before long they'll be labeling people as latent criminals and locking them up before they ever even commit a crime.

  2. Re:I hope this surprises no one,.. on Point-of-Sale System Bought On eBay Yields Treasure Trove of Private Data · · Score: 1

    Interestingly enough, SSNs were never supposed to be used for identification/authentication keys. My father still has an old card that still has "Not to be used for identification" printed on it.

  3. Re:What? on Google Acquires Curated Music Service Songza · · Score: 1

    Same, it sounds like it could be pretty neat. Though I wonder what they consider to be a "music expert."

  4. Re:$507.03 on Judge: $324M Settlement In Silicon Valley Tech Worker Case Not Enough · · Score: 2

    Missed a decimal place there buddy, it's $5070.31

  5. I want my games to have all the pixels! on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can understand why 4k televisions may not take off, but 4k monitors will definitely be a big deal. Just look at how AMD and NVIDIA are gearing up their GPUs to support it.

  6. The alternative on New Drug Mimics the Beneficial Effects of Exercise · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or you know, people could just go outside for a walk.

  7. Viscosity on Info Leak Wars To Get Messier · · Score: 2

    wolves are less viscous

    Oh my! If wolves are less viscous, I think that makes them much more terrifying than hyenas. I don't like the idea of fluid(ish) animals sneaking up on me.

  8. Re:Democracy has failed on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 1

    I really like this idea. However, instead of having it be completely random, why not have subject matter experts randomly chosen to create legislature related to their subject. i.e. Teachers drafting education bills, economists drafting bills related to the well being of the economy. There's nothing worse than people making laws about things they don't understand, present congress included.

  9. Edison = Jobs on Larry Ellison Believes Apple Is Doomed · · Score: 5, Informative

    Edison was a dick who took credit for work that his underlings did. Jobs is of the same cut.

  10. Results on Obama on Surveillance: "We Can and Must Be More Transparent" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My confidence in this actually accomplishing anything is zero.

  11. Re:Congress considers Snowdon to be a whistleblowe on Snowden Gave 15,000 Documents to Glenn Greenwald; Obama Cancels Russia Summit · · Score: 1

    I don't think Obama/Biden have kept any of those listed promises. If that's not a giant cockslap to the face of Americans, I don't know what is.

  12. Re:non sequitur on NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website · · Score: 1

    Says the AC...

  13. Re:Don't they have to understand the case? on Bradley Manning and the 'Hacker Madness' Scare Tactic · · Score: 1

    No, we assume that every word in any Bible anyone can read is false because it is complete bollocks..."

    The NT (Gospels in particular) can be seen as a reasonable historical account. There would be no reason for the authors (Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John) to reword things like what Jesus said. Can we reasonably assume that to the best of their memory, that is what he said? Yes we can. Especially since we take other authors words on far less controversial topics that were written hundreds of years afterwards instead of just 30. http://www.reasonablefaith.org/establishing-the-gospels-reliability

  14. ITT: on Monogamy May Have Evolved To Prevent Infanticide · · Score: 1

    People getting real butthurt over nothing.

  15. Re:So What on How Outdated Data Distorts Doctors' Pay · · Score: 1

    Impossible to fix it.

    Americans are too fucking stupid to fix it.

    Pick one

  16. Aliens on Drilling Might Be Getting a Bad Rap For Indonesia's Ongoing "Mud Volcano" · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but all I can see is that Earth has been trying to contact aliens long before we ever have.

  17. Re:Print shops? on Crowdsourced Finnish Copyright Initiative Meets Signature Requirement · · Score: 1

    Simple, add in a clause that if you are selling said works, then it's more than a misdemeanor. This proposed law is really intended to protect the everyday joe from litigation.

  18. Re:If they wanted it on ICANN Approves First Set of New gTLDs · · Score: 2

    If I had mod points, you would have them.

  19. Re:Misleading crap on IQ Test Pegs ConceptNet 4 AI About As Smart As a 4-Year-Old · · Score: 0

    And why do you give a shit?

  20. Penalties on HBO Asks Google To Take Down "Infringing" VLC Media Player · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And this is precisely why there needs to be penalties in place for false DMCA takedown requests.

  21. Re:Bullshit on First Exoplanet To Be Seen In Color Is Blue · · Score: 1

    What? No one ever said this planet might host life. According to TFA it's a gas giant.. And last I heard gas giants don't host life.

  22. Success! on Meet the Stampede Supercomputing Cluster's Administrator (Video) · · Score: 1

    I successfully complete successful things every day

  23. Internet Abuse on Researchers Crack iOS Mobile Hotspot Passwords In Less Than a Minute · · Score: 3, Funny

    abuse of the user's Internet connection

    I abuse my internet on a daily basis.

  24. Re:Damage control on Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One · · Score: 1

    To be fair, that taylor swift "raid" was set up by 4chan, and to the best of my knowledge they did no such thing for the xbone vs ps4 poll.

  25. Feeding the Beast on EA Takes Over Scrabble App, Wipes Player Histories and Switches Dictionary · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem with EA is that they have shitty customer relations/service, and are incredibly greedy. So people get all pissed off and swear they'll never buy another game published by EA ever again. But we forget that EA owns a lot of really great developers that make some kickass games (Anyone excited for the new Battlefront?). So we end up buying the awesome games and just feed the beast a little more.