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  1. Re:Nothing new on How an Obscure Acronym Helped Link AT&T To NSA Spying · · Score: 1

    What bothers me is there may be 1000 agents who will use it "the right way", whatever that means, and I am sure they all feel they are pure of heart, worthy to lift Thor's hammer, but there are no technological barriers to the occasional G. Gordon Liddy type using it to listen in on political opposition on the behalf of some bigwig.

    There is a reason general warrants are banned -- to stop those in power from rooting around until they find something to nail their opponents with. This amounts to that.

  2. Re:Nice on 'Drinkable Book' Pages Clean Dirty Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    > may contain deadly arsenic

    I assume you mean the same well water that catches on fire and smells of Fred Flintstone's ass, because it sure isn't city water.

    Some of you younger punks won't remember when Clinton left office, and on the eve of it, instituted expensive new regulations on arsenic in drinking water, thinking Bush would thus be forced to reverse it because it was needless and hideously expensive, taking a big political hit. Guess again. Meme deployed, "Arsenic bad, Mmmmm'kay?" So what was safe is now ridiculously oversafe.

  3. Re:Reasons why I don't like the Internet of Things on The Promise of 5G · · Score: 1

    Roy Scheider, police chief in Jaws, to Roy Scheider, NSA chief in 2010 Odyssey 2: "We're gonna need a bigger multibillion dollar spy computer center."

  4. Re:it's wrong on Georgia Aquarium Battles Federal Government Over Belugas · · Score: 1

    keeping Belugas in captivity is wrong, wrong, wrong.

    The Georgia Acquarium was wrong from the moment they started this effort.

    Fair enough, but that isn't the law. You can't abuse regulatory process for ulterior motives.

    Though it is done all the time.

  5. Re:approval on Georgia Aquarium Battles Federal Government Over Belugas · · Score: 1

    He's of the Lois Griffin Theory of Fox News.

    "Everything Fox News says is a lie. Even true things, once said on Fox News, become lies."

  6. Silver and mold on 'Drinkable Book' Pages Clean Dirty Drinking Water · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Silver-impregnated bandage pads work wonders on wounds. I don't know why they aren't more readily available

  7. Re:To be fair on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 2

    Saddam had GPS jammers, 6 to be precise, over Bagdhad. "Oh noes! He has GPS jammers!"

    These were the first thing to go as whenever they were turned on, special bombs that rode their signal in were dropped. Literally like the first night.

  8. Re:Profiting on the Backs of Others on Oracle: Google Has "Destroyed" the Market For Java · · Score: 2

    I don't get it -- isn't Android programming primarily Java, with things like C relegated to support library status?

    Sounds stronger than ever.

  9. Re:Typical corporate move on Nintendo Fires Employee For Speaking About Job On a Podcast · · Score: 1

    It's more than just blabbing about the company to media, maybe in ways that aren't corporate public-facing direction or whatever the current buzzwords are.

    Big companies don't even want you to talk because you may get pumped for information that may help a competitor, or lawsuit, or someone looking to scoop a big product.

    "Is Soandso going to CES next week?" "No, Jim Someone is!" "Oh, really?"

    Now they have names for the next round.

  10. Re:This doesn't seem unusual. on Nintendo Fires Employee For Speaking About Job On a Podcast · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You also are under no obligation to fund or assist your detractors. The corporation, or more accurately, the owners of it, reserve to themselves the right to speak for their company and product. They hire advertising and legal departments to groom these statements and speakers in some cases.

    You, an employee, do not have a right to go out and speak on behalf of the company if they don't want you to. It isn't your company.

    Presumably he was aware of this. If not, it's an exercise left to lawyers. And any SJW movement of nerds to refuse to buy Nintendo stuff unless they hire him back.

    Put your speech where your mouth is!!!!!!!!

  11. Re:It's Not About Porn on The UK's War On Porn: Turning ISPs Into Parents · · Score: 2

    It's pee. It's been tested in a lab.

  12. Re:Simple, no malice from Lenovo on Lenovo Installed Software On Laptops That Persisted After Complete Wipes · · Score: 5, Funny

    You must be newer. He was making a sarcasm.

  13. Sounds like a plan on Samsung Researchers Propose 4,600 Micro-Satellite Space Network · · Score: 1

    "I recommend a full planetary frontal assault with 4,600 assault laser micro-satellites!"

  14. Re:Forced Updates-- What could POSSIBLY go wrong? on Broken Windows 10 Update Causes Reboot Loops For Some Users · · Score: 1

    You roll it out slowly to ever-larger statistically representative pools. Clowns who deviate from happy paths.

  15. Ok on 'Privacy Visor' Can Fool Face-Recognition Cameras · · Score: 1

    "Order your face recognition-stopping privacy visor online! Now with optional custom artwork printed on the front! Have a family photo, or child's artwork custom-printed for just $19.95 additional. Get yours today!"

    Or

    "Ok, here comes unknown #2, 'mustard stain lower left side' ."

  16. Re:Showed too much of his hand on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or pass a law saying that corps are not people, need to act somewhat responsibly and only have rights/privileges specifically granted to them.

    God damn it, this meme just won't die!

    The Supreme Court opinion exicity pointed out this "corporate right" to free speech was not due to corporation-as-person, but derived from the right of people who are the corporation, who take their speech rights with them.

    In short, Congress cannot define a group of people, and require people to give up their right to speech when joining it, to take advantage of that group's provided features.

    As for money itself, 80% of political donation goes to advertising, and that is "the press" in the first amendment -- literally the modern version of a printing press, the means of mass-producing speech for distribution. Kings can and did restrict printing presses to backdoor censor. "The Press" isn't just a guy with a notepad, a more modern addition to the concept of "freedom of the press".

    Money buys mass production of speech. To restrict this is to violate this old notion that the king cannot restrict mass production of speech.

    And the court has also ruled that ensuring equality of quantity of political speech (loosely correlated with equal money) was also "wholely foreign to the First Amendment."

  17. Must do what The People want on Growing Vegetables In Space, NASA Astronauts Tweet Their Lunch · · Score: 1

    "We grew all the cool stuff of farmers -- I ate lettuce, and kale, and wheat grass, pressed with a $8,000,000 space crusher crank, and asparagus, which we placed into bulbs of water and then drank the water."

  18. Re:No compelling evidence? on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 1

    So Coke was ripping you off, cheaping out on cocaine content?

  19. Don't they do this already? on Google, Facebook and Twitter To Block "Hash Lists" of Child Abuse · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised it took this long. Google must have such a hash list already, better yet an MD5 list, built from their human reviewers of their robot webcrawled image search, so they won't show up in customer searches.

    The real question is who keeps a database of pictures to review the list itself. Police? Google? Any normal prosecutor would happily prosecute Google for it just to add a notch to their belt (of asshole behavior).

  20. Re:No compelling evidence? on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 1

    How do I get a poop transplant to deal with obesity and type II? Presumably this will clear my stress hormones too.

  21. Re:No compelling evidence? on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 0

    Coke and Pepsi have been around well over a hundred years.

    Obesity and type ii diabetes have only been a problem for 30. I believe that maps a lot more towards overconsumption of carbs with every damned meal, either in additional calories atop the "paleolithic" style of the first half of the century and earlier, or something in same (maybe too much vitamins as FDA amounts weren't basdd on consuming the equivalent of two loaves a day?)

  22. OH THE HELL OF IT ALL on Chinese Tech Companies Building Factories In India · · Score: 1

    Foxconn's planned factory in Maharashtra "would create employment for at least 50,000 people,

    I think he meant "enslave 50,000 people who voluntarily leave their dirt floor shack and move into an apartment in the city and start getting fat".

    The enemy isn't buiness. It is sweet, tender nature that demands you put food in your mouth

  23. Re:Neo-Luddite scaremongering wins again on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 0

    Until the patent expires. Yes, and you are enslaved to iPhones, which took over your life from land lines. Oh worship Apple, your slavemaster forcing you to buy their product.

    OH THE LIVING HELL OF IT ALL

  24. Re:Gambling but not the way he thinks he is on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 1

    In the US, states set local (state) % admissions all the time. Is this not allowed by your new Federal government in Brussles, DC?

    In the.US this is usually driven by taxpayer outrage since the universities could completely fill up on out of state and foreign students, all paying 2x out of state rate out of their own pocket. Which they would prefer to do financially.

  25. Re:Standard shite on Anti-Piracy Firm Sends Out Wave of Takedown Notices For Using the Word 'Pixels' · · Score: 1

    The real culprit here is Vimeo for being too cheap and short sighted to actually review the DMCAs.

    Why are there not penalties for improper takedown notices? A few, ok. But blanket computer takedowns with no human review -- no engineer designed this process, it must be lazy lawyers.

    Or brilliant ones who know there is no penalty.