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  1. Re:He's leaving the sinking boat, trying... on Kim Dotcom Resigns From Mega To Fight Extradition, Run For Office · · Score: 1

    Nothing wrong with that. Only a fool stays with a product that isn't selling and has no hope that it will.

  2. Perhaps not as it appears on FOI Request Reveals UK Houses of Parliament Workers' Passion For Adult Content · · Score: 1

    Due to embedded iframes everywhere you look, i bet a lot of the blocked 'attempts' were due to these, and not the true intent.

  3. How about on How Gen Y Should Talk To Old People At Work · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You treat them as you want to be treated, and don't worry about if they are younger or older.. They are your coworkers, that is all that matters.

  4. Re:Bunch of babies on The Legal Purgatory at the US Border: Detained, Searched, and Interrogated · · Score: 1

    No, you comply with "unreasonable ones" ( in your view, not everyone ) too, or you get tossed in the can., or executed on the spot.

    I expect no different treatment when I visit somewhere else. I will actually research first, and follow their rules as a visitor when i get there as i don't want to spend my vacation time in jail either. Pretty simple actually.

  5. Re:Bunch of babies on The Legal Purgatory at the US Border: Detained, Searched, and Interrogated · · Score: 1

    How about don't visit?

  6. Re:Allies? on US Mounted 231 Offensive Cyber-operations In 2011, Runs Worldwide Botnet · · Score: 1

    Apparently you are the one that lives in a fantasy world, and not myself. But go ahead, the watchers prefer people like you.

  7. Re:If they want you on Lockbox Aims To NSA-Proof the Cloud · · Score: 1

    *rootkit* cough* rootkit*

    They come in while you are away at work and install whatever they want on your hardware.

  8. second life? on Advanced Chatbot Could Help With Social Awkwardness · · Score: 1

    Same idea, but with real people behind the avatar.

  9. Credit Card Purchases on AT&T Maintains Call Database For the DEA Going Back To 1987 · · Score: 1

    Don't forget those are record and available to the government from the beginning of time too...

    What you buy today legally and innocently may get you a call from the FBI 5 years later to ask you a few questions. ( i have personally seen this happen )

    The moral is that *anything* we do with a commercial provider can and will be recorded. Even if is for honest and non invasive reasons today, that doesn't mean it wont be used different ways by other people decades later.

  10. Privacy on AT&T Maintains Call Database For the DEA Going Back To 1987 · · Score: 2

    While i don't believe in the 'if you are innocent you have nothing to hide' concept, most people really don't care of the government knows that the wife told them to grab some milk on the way home.

    The trade off was cheap and instantaneous communication between you and said wife. Most of us are willing to accept that level of intrusion for the convenience.

  11. Bunch of babies on The Legal Purgatory at the US Border: Detained, Searched, and Interrogated · · Score: -1, Troll

    You know up front what the rules are, don't like them, don't visit.

    If you don't know the rules, you should have done your homework and you are a moron, and we don't want you to visit.

  12. If they want you on Lockbox Aims To NSA-Proof the Cloud · · Score: 1

    They will just attach to your PC 'end point' and get their data before you encrypt.

    There is no hiding at this point of the game. Well, really its been that way for a bit now, just most people who knew this were called tin-hatters and paranoid. Its nice to be vindicated, sometimes..

  13. Re:Allies? on US Mounted 231 Offensive Cyber-operations In 2011, Runs Worldwide Botnet · · Score: 0

    With the US Stupidity Services trying to purposefully break everyone's networks and insert back doors that only they, and their contractors, and anyone who wants to pay those contractors knows about.

    Ok, you don't like the USA, we get it. But don't toss stones, as EVERY first world nation is doing this. Where you live is no more 'innocent'.. Glass houses and all that stuff ya know.

  14. But its for the kids on U.S. Gov't Still Fighting the Man Behind Buckyballs; Guess Who's Winning? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just shut up and take it.. Ask for more. How dare you create a product that could be misused if used inappropriately.

    Now, joking aside this is really scary that the government is doing this.

  15. Re:Peh stupid on Dotless Domain Names Prohibited, ICANN Tells Google · · Score: 1

    It makes no sense to the actual users. Its hard enough now to know what is real and what isn't and how to get there. Opening things up like that would just breed confusion for users. "where do i go now?"

  16. Re:.com is still king on Dotless Domain Names Prohibited, ICANN Tells Google · · Score: 1

    Today.

    Who knows how it will be 20 years from now. Especially since the 'rules' are pretty much out the window now of what goes where. ( other than .gov of course )

  17. Smoke screen on Indian Government To Ban Use of US Email Services For Official Communications · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Its not to 'protect the data' it's to get people to use services that they have direct access too.

    Every government does this.

  18. Re:China version on Google Breaks ChromeCast's Ability To Play Local Content · · Score: 1

    I gladly accept some bugs to keep my 'control'.

  19. Targeting OSS projects? on X.Org Foundation Loses 501(c)3 Non-Profit Status · · Score: 1

    Ummmm, they didn't file on time and *should* pay the price ... hardly targeted.

  20. China version on Google Breaks ChromeCast's Ability To Play Local Content · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have never had a Chinese product magically lose features after i bought it. Its pretty sad, and ironic, when you have to go to Communist china to get products that support your freedom..

  21. Re:Well that's that on Google Breaks ChromeCast's Ability To Play Local Content · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but sometimes the government REQUIRES them to do it.

    And don't forget removing content too,....

  22. Re:glo-worm touch on Barnes & Noble Won't Give Up On the Nook · · Score: 1

    Yes, it looked terrible in the store. Was not as sharp as the no-glo version ( which i do have, and love ).

    But to be fair, the paper white looked bad to me as well, side by side, until a guy at work bought one and it didn't seem as bad as the 'demo' and was pretty nice. But its still tied to the amazon store, unlike the nook, which makes it a non-option for me. ( i dont want to have to screw with converting everything.. )

  23. Color e-ink! on Barnes & Noble Won't Give Up On the Nook · · Score: 2

    Hey, if you are listening.. 9.5" color e-ink please..

    Come out with one of them, ill buy 2 more simple touches as a thanks..

  24. Re:Yaay! on Barnes & Noble Won't Give Up On the Nook · · Score: 2

    Well, most of us have 2 eyes...