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  1. Awww yeah on Can the iPhone Popularize Fingerprint Readers? · · Score: 1

    I've been waiting to break out my foil hat since launch. LET THE DONNING BEGIN!

  2. Re: Not the first commercial application on Keeping Data Secret, Even From Apps That Use It · · Score: 1

    I was more curious about the reference to secret rulings against citizens, which sounds made up.

  3. Re: Not the first commercial application on Keeping Data Secret, Even From Apps That Use It · · Score: 1

    Citations? I don't disbelieve you, I just don't want to hunt down information that's less than correct.

  4. Re: Pointless posturing on New Jersey Congressman Seeks To Bar NSA Backdoors In Encryption · · Score: 1

    I've heard it's got something to do with digital eggs.

  5. Depends on how good the lawyers are.

  6. tl:dr on Is the World's Largest Virus a Genetic Time Capsule? · · Score: 1

    Allow me to summarize:

    Apparently, scientists understand marketing.
    Viruses are not as small as we once thought they were.

    Bonus fun fact: amoebas are dumb.

  7. Re: Google glasses on Google Glass Is the Future — and the Future Has Awful Battery Life · · Score: 1

    Laws regarding filming children (usually more restrictive, sometimes very much so) add to the stickiness of this situation.

  8. Re:Smells? on Iron Man 3 To Debut As a 4DX Film In Japan · · Score: 1

    I "rode" the Alien 4D ride as a kid and nearly crapped myself. Thinking back, I have no idea how my dad refrained from laughing until his head exploded.

    At least I have something to look forward to when I have kids.

  9. Re:To Complicated on CISPA Passes US House, Despite Privacy Shortcomings and Promised Veto · · Score: 1

    That's the point!

    If you make/ influence bills to become long/ complicated/ vague/ dense/ etc, no one reads it (seriously, few of these idiots crack open a page. I would not be surprised to learn that a few are functioning illiterates)-- then politicians rely on lobbyists to " explain" why it should be supported, with the added benefit of manipulation after passing due to convoluted language and unnecessary additions.

    The impression that politicians understand what they're voting on is ( obviously) fatally flawed. If politicians were smart, they wouldn't be politicians.

  10. Re: Boston Marathon bombings likely used pressure on Did Tech Websites Exploit the Boston Marathon Bombing? · · Score: 1

    I didn't want to be scolded in twitter for being heartless, so I haven't expressed my concerns: will someone take this issue up as a reactionary justification for stricter internet regulation (CISPA) a la PATRIOT act? We all know the pudding inside politicians heads is only capable of reaction, be it to money or tragedy. I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but the nuttier of the gun nuts say the recent shootings are a conspiracy-- screw it, I'll say it: YOU'LL HAVE TO PRY THE INTERNET FROM MY COLD DEAD CARPAL TUNNEL SUFFERING HANDS. /crazy