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  1. Feds: We Need Priority Access [Your] Cloud [Data] on Feds: We Need Priority Access To Cloud Resources · · Score: 1
    > Feds: We Need Priority Access [Your] Cloud [Data]

    Give them an inch,... now they are back for...

  2. Re:All charity ends on A Critical Examination of Bill Gates' Philanthropic Record · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Probably feeding the troll, but here goes... running health (amongst other "social" activities) as a business, how is that working out for ya, USA?.

    Donor nations were shocked last month, when UNICEF disclosed that it has been forced to pay artificially elevated prices for vaccines under an arrangement called the Advance Market Commitment, which was brokered by Gates Foundation-dominated GAVI alliance, to greatly increase drug company profits. Stakeholders also worry that industry reports of particular vaccine's effectiveness might be skewed by marketing goals.

    Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation proves once again that leopards dont change their spots.

  3. Re:American Weapons Found in United States on 64 Drone Bases Located On American Soil · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Drones, Keeping America Safe.... NOT!

  4. Re:Canadian tax payers demand representation for t on Canadian IP Lobby Calls For ACTA, SOPA & Warrantless Search · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well if there was any sort of meaningful political and economic consequence for representing private interests at societies general expense, then this behaviour might stop. But as it is, the same two parties representing slightly different business interests flip in and out of power as they screw up the living standards further, while retired politicians go on to make millions from their time in power. This is not just a Canada/US phenomena, and big mainstream media keeps us all fearful and voting for the same clowns time and again. Sigh.

  5. Re:first step on Dept. of Homeland Security To Build Better Cyber Workforce · · Score: 1

    Video of "Cyber" person Workforce in action... targeting terrorists no less.

  6. FBI recruits,plans,funds& thwarts OWN terror p on FBI Quietly Forms Secretive Net-Surveillance Unit · · Score: 2

    Your examples are comically ironic considering you are trying to justify FBI actions, given that the weight of evidence is in: "Time and again, the FBI concocts a Terrorist attack, infiltrates Muslim communities in order to find recruits, persuades them to perpetrate the attack, supplies them with the money, weapons and know-how they need to carry it out — only to heroically jump in at the last moment, arrest the would-be perpetrators whom the FBI converted, and save a grateful nation from the plot manufactured by the FBI."

    http://www.salon.com/2011/09/29/fbi_terror/singleton/

  7. Re:A small ray of hope on Federal Court Rejects NDAA's Indefinite Detention, Issues Injunction · · Score: 1

    That's because what they do is knowingly support terrorism, which is completely different.

    It would be even funnier... if it was not true. Better to laugh than cry I guess:

    A bipartisan band of former Washington officials and politicians... have been paid large sums of money to speak at [terrorist group] MeK events and meet with its leaders

    The MeK has engaged in an aggressive legal and lobbying campaign in Washington over the past two years to win its removal from the State Department’s [foreign Terrorist organization] list. . . .

  8. Robots dont complain... on DreamHammer Wants To Corner the Drone OS Market · · Score: 3, Funny

    Robots don't complain, require psychiatric counselling or go running to the press when you order them to kill whole wedding parties children and all, funerals, villages, or anything that moves really...

  9. Re:And, of course on Americans Happy To Pay More For Clean Energy, But Only a Little More · · Score: 1, Troll

    People are only willing to pay a little more for clean energy because the full environmental cost of polluting energy has not been realized or seen by the majority, yet. Ask those in expanding tornado zones, or in newly created flood zones what they would pay for clean energy and Ill wager you will get very different results...

  10. At last... on Australian Greens Demand Public Access To Cloak and Dagger Anti-Piracy Meetings · · Score: 4, Insightful

    An Aussie political party with some cojones.

  11. Re:So there you have it on Why Did It Take So Long To Invent the Wheel? · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who expected this to be about some company which tried to patent the wheel?

    If only they had invented patents/lawers and all that legislate "innovation and progress" jazz. Just think of the monopolistic royalties that could have been reaped upon mankind, owning rights to the wheel! Dangerous circumventing devices like horses would have been made illegal shortly after invention - smelly unpredictable beasts anyway. Best of all they could have established a fitting punishment for thieving dirty pirates back when and eye for a eye was politically correct thing to do. Piriator/gladiator arenas might have been invested millennia before the Romans came along.

  12. Re:Great, now the terrorists are controlling natur on What The DHS Is Looking For In Your Posts · · Score: 2
  13. Re:Great, now the terrorists are controlling natur on What The DHS Is Looking For In Your Posts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Are they trying to catch real-world terrorists or Lex Luthor?

    They are trying to catch you, the citizen, organizing to reform the financial elites that have ruined our economy and control our/their politicians.

  14. Stratfor Wikileaks Hack Paybaaack on 25 Alleged Anonymous Hackers Arrested By Interpol · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Payback for recent Anonymous hack of Stratfor. Corrupt global economic hitmen protecting themselves by going after the whistleblowers, yet again?

  15. Re:I still don't get it on US Prosecutors Have a Sealed Indictment On Assange, Say Leaked Files · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Dont let facts, or the law, get in the way of a good revenge hanging.

    it is impossible to invent theories to indict them [Assange/Wikileaks] without simultaneously criminalizing much of investigative journalism

    The emperor reacts violently when without clothes.

  16. Re:Sweden???!!! on Nordic Nations Pitch For US Data Centers · · Score: 1

    Could be true. However there are quite a few other stories out there from other sources that appear to corroborate the same... (.e.g here, translated in English) ...Sweden has a crazy, politically stacked Justice system.

  17. Re:Iceland??? on Nordic Nations Pitch For US Data Centers · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Icelands economy has recovered nicely. So well in fact that it is making Ireland, Portugal, and Greece jealous.

    Quote from last link:

    ICELAND pursued better policies than Ireland or Latvia when the three countries' economies collapsed in 2007 because the Reykjavik government allowed banks to fail, according to a new report by the influential Bruegel think tank." ... "The experience with the collapse of the gigantic Icelandic banking system suggests that letting banks fail when they had a faulty business model can be the right choice," the report notes.

  18. Sweden???!!! on Nordic Nations Pitch For US Data Centers · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'd be more worried about data breaches and server seizures due to their crazy politicians, crazy justice system! and willingness to bend over for all manner of privacy invading measures to satisfy foreign interests. It will be a hot day in Iceland before we move any servers to Sweden. Go Iceland!

  19. Re:First on Anonymous Cowards, Deanonymized · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This just begs a "reanonymize" browser plugin to alter one's writing style...

  20. Re:The mysterious command on Cryptome Hit By Blackhole Exploit Kit · · Score: 0, Troll

    Perhaps, just perhaps, Cryptome is infecting its visitors on purpose. You dont publish "thousands of documents, including many related to national security, law enforcement and military" without breaking a few eggs.

    Now that the common rabbles antivirus software has caught up, they are in the process of "cleaning up" the code so it wont happen again for a bit... watch this space.

  21. Re:Fear on The Hi-Tech Security at the Super Bowl · · Score: 1

    In all fairness it was not Ronald Reagan writing the script... he was just following the director. Directors of the same cut still running the show nowdays too...

  22. Re:You're quoting Dana Milbanks (sic)??? on Mitt Romney, Robotics, and the Uncanny Valley · · Score: 1

    Well... that, and a small army of bot accounts to vote your story up the firehose...

  23. That wont stop an arrest warrent going out... on Swedish Supreme Court Refuses Appeal In Pirate Bay Case · · Score: 2

    Caught in the web that is drawing other threats to the status quo into the Swedish "justice" system.

  24. Re:Terrorists putting their plots on FB? on FBI Building App To Scrape Social Media · · Score: 1

    Give this AC a mod point!

  25. Re:"Clean" coverage of casualties is relatively ne on The New Transparency of War and Lethality of Hatred · · Score: 2

    "Everyone" may have the tools to broadcast details, but if the mainstream media do not bring it to attention of the masses and takedown notices can keep it out of the online limelight, then only the "fringe" will every hear about it - and so no meaningful political consequences. This latest news about urinating on dead Taliban smells like textbook spin to hide even worse news in its shadow. Control of the news re: war is exactly why the government and pro-goverment media is coming down so hard on the foremost US political prisoner of conscience, Bradley Manning and the rouge publishing site Wikileaks. They are successfully influencing the majority public opinion against the first bit of real solid news to escape the lockdown control of public debate since the Vietnam war. Note: Leaking of sensitive information is obviously NOT why he is being persecuted - more sensitive leaks go without investigation all the time. There is some hope however, with some new professional investigative news channels springing up funded by viewer donations... just need to build their audience - if possible.