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  1. Snowden was already making more money on Snowden Shortlisted For Europe's Top Human Rights Award · · Score: 0

    and could be hauling in a whole lot more.

  2. Exercising control over movements of the pelvis on Saudi Cleric Pummeled On Twitter For Claiming Driving Damages Women's Ovaries · · Score: 1

    has a well-established link to reproductive outcomes.

  3. Re:We saw none, therefore we did not drive them aw on Underwater Sonar Linked To Whale Deaths · · Score: 2

    Thanks from a fellow moron for the #*&@ing tip!

  4. Re:We saw none, therefore we did not drive them aw on Underwater Sonar Linked To Whale Deaths · · Score: 1

    Thanks. In trade, I offer a grizzly bear that has never bitten a human.

  5. Re:Cognitive Errors, Courtesy Exxon on Underwater Sonar Linked To Whale Deaths · · Score: 3, Informative

    From the article: "The culprit was named as a high-power 12 kilohertz multibeam echosounder system, or MBES, operated by an ExxonMobil vessel on May 29 about 65 kilometers offshore from the first known stranding......The sounds would have been 'clearly audible over many hundreds of square kilometers of melon headed whale deep water habitat areas.'"

  6. We saw none, therefore we did not drive them away. on Underwater Sonar Linked To Whale Deaths · · Score: 2

    Exxon-Mobil's argument that saw no whales only fortifies the suspicion that they were driving the whales away.

  7. Re:MShafted on Microsoft: We Offer Up User Data To Law Enforcement 2 Percent of the Time · · Score: 1

    whose account is this? no, that's nobody. how about this? nope. this? nope too. what about this? yeah, that's the one. send everything. In 75% of cases, only non-content data was supplied.

  8. Re:Some things never change on Declassified NSA Docs Shed Light On Cold War (And Modern) Operations · · Score: 2

    In 1953, a CIA relay point in Nicosia, Cyprus, delayed by 24 hours orders from the White House that Kermit Roosevelt was to immediately halt his operation in Teheran to overthrow the democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh. The cable arrived only after the coup was an irreversible fact.

    In the mid-sixties, Armen Myer, U.S. Ambassador to Teheran, instructed the CIA Commo officer to stop cc'ing Langley on all correspondence with Washington. So Commo bcc'd Langley, and made sure the Company had a good lead to upstage the State Department.

    But when President Obama spoke with the newly elected Prime Minister of Iran Friday about the prospect of peaceable relations, Prime Minister Rouhani was still in New York, so it was a domestic call, and surely safe from the usual skullduggery and sabotage, right?

  9. Re:Execution not ideas. Get it in writing. on Cricket Reactor Inventor Says $1mil Prize Winners Stole His Work · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the article: "The university, after reviewing both Dzamba’s work and the McGill team’s presentation, has filed a provisional patent application declaring Dzamba as the sole inventor, says Mark Weber, a commercialization officer at McGill’s Office of Sponsored Research. Members of the Hult team did not meet the criteria for co-inventor, he said, which includes both having the idea and having the ability to execute it. Dzamba had been working on the idea as part of his doctoral research before the Hult competition began: “[Dzamba] had the idea, and he knows how to do it,” Weber says."

  10. Re:Wow, on Undiscovered Country of HFT: FPGA JIT Ethernet Packet Assembly · · Score: 1

    True, the deranged promoters of Immaculate Capitalism are all libertarian (believers) or Republican (phony evangelists), but the Democrats who are elected to give us Responsible Market Mechanisms don't have to do anything to get re-elected, so they don't.

    High-speed trading, however, is symptomatic of market mechanisms doing right: arbitraging prices toward a consensus on the thinnest margins with vanishing opportunity.

    The unearned money is made by operators disguised as hedge-funds (i.e., virtually all hedge-funds) who hide information from the public markets.

    It has gone on so long now that the underlying pools of capital cultivated by hedge funds are private and inaccessible to people who earn a living and to our still-vacationing enforcement agencies.

  11. Re:So when is Tony Hayward of BP going to jail? on U.S. Gov't Still Fighting the Man Behind Buckyballs; Guess Who's Winning? · · Score: 1

    BP has been sick since the days when it was the Ango-Iranian Oil Company.

  12. Re:I suspect he's right. on Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Private Business Will Not Open the Space Frontier · · Score: 1

    Adding:

    The Wright brothers received tens of thousands for research annually from the United States military for their flying-machine research.

    Werner von Braun was a rocketry promoter who got the German government and then the conquering American government to pay for his projects, compromising his ambitions in order to shoot the moon.

    Not to mention how the railroads were built with immense grants of land.

  13. Re:Useless academic is useless. on Scottish Academic: Mining the Moon For Helium 3 Is Evil · · Score: 1

    National averages of consumption are no longer good predictors because national economies are not an informative way to project how the world economy is developing.

    Worldwide, alternative energy schemes will always meet lunar-brained obstacles as long as the the political power of the fossil-energy industry secures the dominance of the oxygen-hydrocarbon reaction.

    Until that global political problem is solved, every energy alternative will be successfully trolled to exhaustion, and we will continue to see oil companies advertize how they are all over the search for alternatives.

  14. Re: Government vs terrorists on Lord Blair Calls for Laws To Stop 'Principled' Leaking of State Secrets · · Score: 1

    The problem with that sort of argument is that it cannot be distinguished from an extortionate demand from an untruthful government.

  15. Re:America! Fuck yeah! on San Francisco Fire Chief Bans Helmet-Mounted Cameras For Firefighters · · Score: 1

    That is not what the sentence says, but if you are misconstruing the antecedent to "its" to point out that America is a breakaway element of European imperialism, the point is valid and your grammatical stretch does no harm.

  16. Re:America! Fuck yeah! on San Francisco Fire Chief Bans Helmet-Mounted Cameras For Firefighters · · Score: 0

    So I gather you Europeans find manacles of empire a bit, oh, humbling. Well, cheer up. These aren't manacles. India had manacles. Rhodesia. Egypt. Australia. Viet Nam. America today is a dog protecting Europe from its own violent adventures in Imperialism. Perhaps you were taught that disdain for the servants and thugs who do your dirty work is a sign of high breeding? Sorry, it's all ugly, and no one gets to claim nobility.

  17. Re:funny ebcidic story on Medical Costs Bankrupt Patients; It's the Computer's Fault · · Score: 1

    No, what you did cost the client billions and probably resulted in the firm being taken over. You delayed by at least three years the formation of doubts about the fairness and necessity of the bills and about the mission-metastasis. If you had walked in, ordered the whole firm to reinstall 1-2-3 three versions retrograde "because that was the time anything made sense to me," then had taken the sales force out for a reassuring beverage and spent the whole time talking about this new site monster.com, the crisis would have hit when there was still time to do something. Instead, all of management was falsely convinced that if there were a cheaper, faster fix, their systems-integrator would have found it. Yeah, they were that good. I wouldn't brag about this calamity any more.

  18. Re:citation needed on Half of Tor Sites Compromised, Including TORMail · · Score: 1

    But why did the denials stop? Either 1) The executive stopped overreaching or 2) the courts stopped denying.

  19. Re:citation needed on Half of Tor Sites Compromised, Including TORMail · · Score: 1

    Agreed. That absolute number is such a perfect constant (though the earliest years have been disguised through amalgamation) that it cannot represent any credible measure of any deliberation. Likewise, the rate of approval. What's interesting is the small outbreak of denials as Rheinquist's appointees start to resist, an outbreak that expires as Roberts' replacements take over. Disclaimer: We here are practicing what used to be called Kremlinology.

  20. Re:Ah what does it matter... on Math Advance Suggest RSA Encryption Could Fall Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Is your money the paramount issue? Then let the NSA protect it for you. Just stay out of their way, and they'll let you keep it.

  21. Re:citation needed on Half of Tor Sites Compromised, Including TORMail · · Score: 1

    The same track record in what regard? Was there open-ended harvesting of communications metadata in 1979?

  22. Re:citation needed on Half of Tor Sites Compromised, Including TORMail · · Score: 1

    ... and because the all the judges on that court are selected by one person, the Chief Justice of the United States, an ideologue who empathizes with executives.

  23. Weapons cannot create security. on Rise of the Warrior Cop: How America's Police Forces Became Militarized · · Score: 1

    So at the very least, be sure the threat is real. Where the threat is concocted, the police and militarily are instruments of an attack.

  24. He did not make any threat, not even in jest. on Teenage League of Legends Player Jailed For Months For Facebook Joke · · Score: 3, Informative

    He wasn't making a threat in jest. He was making a joking interpretation of the word "insane", which had been wrongly applied to him. The point was to underscore the absurdity of the insult. And underscore it he did, with a bright highlighter across the entire state of Texas and the sadistic government operations that go under the banner of "law enforcement" there.

  25. Spectrum is inverse of antenna power. on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Future of Old Copper Pair Technology? · · Score: 1

    You have explained why those frequency bands were given over to telecommunications. The maximum effective antenna is small for higher frequencies, and the smaller the antenna, the less energy it gathers from the signal. Longer wavelengths are warehoused and grandfathered or preserved as parkland to protect the delicate sensitivities of nearby radio and television transmitters.