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  1. Re:Context on Encrypted Email Provider Lavabit Shuts Down, Blames US Gov't · · Score: 1

    Hmm, since there aren't as far as I know, lots of people trying to get into Russia to live, whether from Asia, Africa or whatever, I'm not sure how your outlandish theory could be tested.

  2. Re:Applause on Encrypted Email Provider Lavabit Shuts Down, Blames US Gov't · · Score: 1

    And maybe reality is an illusion and we're all living in the Matrix. Actually, I don't think your possibility is worth mentioning.

  3. Re:Applause on Encrypted Email Provider Lavabit Shuts Down, Blames US Gov't · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "So far their targets really are terrorists and other nasty criminals"

    Sure. If you consider a whilsteblower like Snowden to be a nasty criminal, after Obama said previously that whistleblower's would be protected.

  4. So what? on Utah Set To Exempt NSA Datacenter From Power Tax, After All · · Score: 2

    So what if they didn't know about it? I have to pay taxes all the time that are introduced and that I hitherto didn't know about, and might have made lots of different investment decisions had I known they were going to happen. But I've got to live with it. Boo hoo to the NSA cry babies.

  5. So, hmmm on Thailand Government Declares Bitcoin Illegal · · Score: 1

    So for a Thai, storing 33 characters of information on your computer is illegal? That's real tough to enforce. How long before a Thai tattoos a bitcoin on their arm to prove a point?

  6. Re:Still 32GB barrier on Love and Hate For Java 8 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm sequencing alien DNA you insensitive clod.

  7. Re:The old adage comes back and back on Love and Hate For Java 8 · · Score: 1

    The differences between Scheme and Lisp are really mere details, in the larger scheme of things. Dynamic scoping is (probably) a bad idea, but it doesn't change the basic nature of the beast. The similarities between Lisp and Scheme are WAY more than paren notation.

    People who whine about the paren notation don't seem to have grasped just how powerful the idea is. Yes sure, it can be hard to read for newbies, but the payoff is real.

  8. The old adage comes back and back on Love and Hate For Java 8 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The old adage is always applicable: Those that do not use LISP are condemned to reinvent it. Badly.

  9. Re:Dialog on New Zealand Government About To Legalize Spying On NZ Citizens · · Score: 1

    How has the US helped establish order since helping to win WWII ?

  10. Bread and circus on New Zealand Government About To Legalize Spying On NZ Citizens · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The real bread and circus is not the royal baby, it is the war.. the "war on terror". George Orwell was a genius in predicting that a perpetual war would be the excuse to bring in the police state. Even 10 years ago, I thought Orwell's idea of the perpetual war was a bit fantastic. Now it is so on the money, it is scarily prescient.

  11. Re:Congrats, Unknown Lamer... on Google Launches Cloud Printer Service For Windows · · Score: 0

    Google and/or Microsoft will put code in the driver to divert a copy to the NSA.

  12. Re:Better plots? on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 2, Insightful

    James Bond is an interesting case study. Just when you think they wouldn't get worse... they get worse. People thought Roger Moore wasn't much good compared to Sean Connery, but he was fantastic compared to what came later.

  13. Re:Can we discuss the fourth amendment now? on NSA Admits Searching "3 Hops" From Suspects · · Score: 1

    I think by the time they've trawled 3 links they'll decide at least someone there is a tiny bit suspicious too, and start the 3 link count all over again. By that time they will be up to 6 links, and Kevin Bacon's ass is grass.

  14. Re:Old news? on Colliding, Exploding Stars May Have Created All the Gold On Earth · · Score: 1

    At the risk of asking a stupid question, I understand why anything heavier than iron can't yield energy for a star, but I can't see why heavier elements can't be produced in the extreme conditions inside a star, even if it isn't net energy producing.

  15. Re:smell the glove on Aussie Telco Telstra Agreed To Spy For America · · Score: 1

    The 51st state, mate.

  16. Romania? on Mastermind of 9/11 Attacks Designs a Secret Vacuum Cleaner · · Score: 1

    The CIA has secret prisons in Romania??? WTF?

  17. Re:In related news... on Sent To Jail Because of a Software Bug · · Score: 1

    Hmm, yes surely there is some kind of an audit log. Every penny could surely be traced to where it went. A very strange story is this.

  18. Re:Going nowhere on UK Government Surveillance Faces Legal Challenge.. In Secret Court · · Score: 1

    Err, there is a bit more to the constitutional rights in England than that. I know that they aren't written down clearly (or at all), but courts have ruled that there are some unwritten constitutional rights under common law.

  19. Re:the revolution on UK Government Surveillance Faces Legal Challenge.. In Secret Court · · Score: 1

    Nah, society would collapse. Much easier to just have a rolling reset through progressive taxes. This something the US hasn't learnt yet, with its regressive taxes.

  20. Re:Star Chamber on UK Government Surveillance Faces Legal Challenge.. In Secret Court · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No need to reopen it. This IS the star chamber.

  21. Re:Probability fail on Ask Slashdot: Permanent Preservation of Human Knowledge? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but I think we've got a while before the sun in in danger of going nova.

  22. Re:Already Been Invented: Fired Ceramic Tablets on Ask Slashdot: Permanent Preservation of Human Knowledge? · · Score: 0

    Interesting? Yes. Useful? Naw.

  23. Re:This one gives an idea: on Ask Slashdot: Permanent Preservation of Human Knowledge? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, but the water acts as a distributor of spills, then it gets in the food chain.

  24. Hmm, maybe they should... on MasterCard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hmm, maybe they should rename their services. "Remote internet ISP services" or "SSL internet connection", or some other obfuscated name. They can't ban everything associated with the internet.

  25. Re:Why not promote motherboard manufacturers on FreeBSD Team Begins Work On Booting On UEFI-Enabled Systems · · Score: 1

    I'm not convinced. I don't want any random spyware / malware / virus to be able to install a bootable image into my computer. I want the ability to install an OS type image to be restricted at the hardware level for security. This is what secure boot does. It's a good thing.