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  1. Re:This is worse than the current system on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: 1

    They already knew that. That's where the names on the "Do Not Fly" registry come from. Because of that sort of thing, Ted Kennedy had to go through enhanced security procedures whenever he flew.

    As for Schneier, he's missed the point. Forcing the bad guys to go through ever more expensive hoops to get to the simpler path makes the simpler path the harder path for them, and the simpler path for everyone else.

  2. Re:Be polite... on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: -1, Troll

    Do you know yet what it is they are asking you to give up?

    Do you imagine it is more than you gave up to get

    1. into kindergarten
    2. a driver's license
    3. health insurance
    4. a credit card
    5. a passport
    6. divorced

    If you want to fly, pony up your identity. Otherwise, the rest of us do not want you invading our privacy with your underwear bomb.

  3. Re:Multi-Step Approach on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: 1

    ever-expanding police state

    Wait.

    These people are proposing that you give them detailed identifying information, which you've probably given a dozen financial, medical, education, and insurance companies in the past, and in return you no longer have to

    a) take off your shoes, belt, truss, and piercings
    b) empty your pockets into a dog dish
    c) allow someone to x-ray your backpack and see the vibrating cock-ring in the side pocket
    d) walk through a body scanner
    e) present your junk to a wage slave to fondle

    And you consider this to be the "police state" portion of the sophistication of the system?

  4. Re:Multi-Step Approach on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: 1

    I don't doubt you gave up more information than they're asking for to get the credit card you used to pay for the plane ticket.

    And you gave it to a company that has no constitutional mandate to protect your rights while protecting its other customers' general welfare.

  5. Re:I Am Trusted Traveler on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: 1

    Surely. That's where we imported them from.

    Well, there, and Israel.

    Also, I don't know where OP gets off thinking that "presumption of innocence" means he never has to identify himself.

    How did he get his driver's license with that attitude?

  6. Re:I Am Trusted Traveler on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: 1

    That's what she said.

    Then we checked under her burqha and found Mohammad Atta.

    If you wish, you can find a means of transportation that doesn't allow you to kill thousands of people with a pen-knife. Nobody will question you there.

  7. Re:Lovely on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: 1

    Haha. The rich don't fly commercial.

  8. Re:Implying on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: 1

    it was there the day they installed metal detectors. 1960s.

  9. Re:This whole "famboyism" meme is a load of bull on The Science Behind Fanboyism · · Score: 1

    No, it's valid when their favorite thing is not your favorite thing because it's a fetid piece of crap.

  10. I chose to reply to this thread. on The Science Behind Fanboyism · · Score: 1

    Therefore it is good to reply to.

    QED

  11. Re:A de(cade) late and a dollar short on Watch Out Linux, GNU Hurd Coming · · Score: 1

    Overloaded application servers? Sure.

  12. Re:Phew! on New Virus Jumps From Monkeys To Lab Workers · · Score: 1

    Surely. Yawn.

    Call me when a virus jumps from a Mac to a human.

  13. Re:Uh, yeah, i'm going to have to ask you to stay on IT Night Shift Workers: Fat and Undersexed · · Score: 1

    Who said anything about second shift?

    [boo-ya!]

  14. Shenanigans. on After a Decade, Mac Sales Again Top 10% · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Apparently it's because of iPad sales. They're including pads in the "PC" mix.

  15. Re:That's a lot of files on DoD Lost 24k Files In Attack On Contractor · · Score: 1

    It's the Defense Department. They were all on microfiche.

  16. Re:A de(cade) late and a dollar short on Watch Out Linux, GNU Hurd Coming · · Score: 5, Insightful
  17. Re:A de(cade) late and a dollar short on Watch Out Linux, GNU Hurd Coming · · Score: 1

    There's nothing like a thick client when you have to compile a few thousand files.

  18. Summary of Hurd Summary on Watch Out Linux, GNU Hurd Coming · · Score: 2

    It's a Mach microkernel with a bunch of daemons and glibc to emulate the UNIX interface.

  19. Re:What's next?!? on Watch Out Linux, GNU Hurd Coming · · Score: 1

    No, the reverse of that.

  20. Uh, yeah, i'm going to have to ask you to stay on IT Night Shift Workers: Fat and Undersexed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Are you sure they determined the polarity of causality in this?

    Because, really, it's the chubby, antisocial people with the bad self-care issues that tend to agree to take jobs that subject them to isolation and imposition for less money.

  21. Re:Bravo! on Women Arrested For Refusing TSA Search of Children · · Score: 1

    Not if you're a pilot. Or an airline industry. Or a democratically elected government. Or a frequent flyer. Or under a flight path.

  22. Re:Bravo! on Women Arrested For Refusing TSA Search of Children · · Score: 1

    Yes he did. He said it multiple times, and it differed slightly, but that's the earliest format I know of. It predates the Declaration by over a year.

  23. Re:No, it is NOT! on Women Arrested For Refusing TSA Search of Children · · Score: 1

    The aviation industry is self-regulating. The FAA does meta-oversight while the airlines write their own regs. They have plenty of input into how to go about keeping their planes in the air by keeping exploding diapers off them.

  24. Re:Connect routers with a string of bitcoins on Ask Slashdot: Best Connect Scheme For a 2-ISP Household? · · Score: 1

    I knew bitcoins really came from china. It explains the hole in the middle where the string goes.

  25. Re:What router/firewall? on Ask Slashdot: Best Connect Scheme For a 2-ISP Household? · · Score: 1

    He's got two bridges (one DSL and one for his regional WiFi) and some computers. The bridges presumably each have an ethernet port on his side of the box. He doesn't know how to connect the computers to the bridges so the thing just routes. Any dual-wan router will fit in that hole in his system. It's not so complicated that we need to know more.