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  1. "the cloud" is just mainframes again on Forrester: NSA Spying Could Cost Cloud $180B, But Probably Won't · · Score: 5, Insightful

    and all the problems of mainframes (like people spying on you) are being "rediscovered". The problems have not changed and no one will ever care about your data as much as you do.

  2. looks like a pay day to me on Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds · · Score: 1

    They should sue the government in civil court for emotional distress.

  3. office 365 is the end of office on With Microsoft Office on Android, Has Linus Torvalds Won? · · Score: 1

    microsoft is trying to force everyone onto it and it will only take one major system failure for people to abandon office. The cloud is just mainframes all over again and the problems have not changed. No one cares about your data as much as you do.

  4. public pressure ended mccarthysm on Most Americans Think Courts Are Failing To Limit Government Surveillance · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Looks like public pressure is going to end overreaching US gov spy programs before a Supreme Court challenge much the same way mccarthysm was ended by public pressure.

  5. Re:good on US Promises Not To Kill Or Torture Snowden · · Score: 2

    At this point, I am more scared of my government than terrorists.

  6. Re:Better plots? on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 1

    IMHO, people can tell when the movie is just going through the motions and is an attempt to just make money. That is what you get when you let marketing run the show.

  7. running schools like prisons? on Texas School District Drops Embattled RFID Student IDs; Opts For Cameras · · Score: 1

    Most of the stories I hear about schools is another prison like policy being implemented. Why not just drop the pretense and combine prisons and schools and be done with it.

  8. when public opinion changes this will end on TSA Orders Searches of Valet Parked Car At Airport · · Score: 2

    Just like mccarthyism dying, it took people a while to wake up that hunting communists would eventually mean them too. Hopefully, with the nsa spying story we have turned the corner and can start to dismantle the tsa.

  9. Re:Reward the artist on Radiohead's Thom Yorke Pulls Albums From Spotify In Protest of Low Royalties · · Score: 1

    collusion is not the market price.

  10. napolitano did a terrible job at our expense on DHS Chief Janet Napolitano Resigns · · Score: 1

    At least the good news is that the US will finally be rid of her. After she left Arizona they ripped out the traffic revenue cameras on the highways. Hopefully, this means that the tsa and other overreaching programs can be dismantled.

  11. you need to trust your Employees on Ask Slashdot: Preventing Snowden-Style Security Breaches? · · Score: 1

    If you hire smart people they will always be able to get the data they want. A surveillance state does more harm than good.

  12. Re:Surprised? Shouldn't be! on D.C. Awards Obamacare IT Work To Offshore Outsourcer · · Score: 1

    companies are trying to reduce their labor costs and have enough money to lobby the government. They don't care about the citizens of any of these countries, it is a means to an end.

  13. want obamacare to fail? this would be the way on D.C. Awards Obamacare IT Work To Offshore Outsourcer · · Score: 1

    spagetti code that does not work is what they just purchased.

  14. you don't have to like larry flint on One Year Since Assange Took Refuge in Ecuadorian Embassy · · Score: 1

    but if larry flint has is rights violated then your next. People don't even care about the message of Wikileaks and how their lives could be better if the US government was reigned in and spent all that money pursing power on US Citizens.

  15. Re:no one needs liquidity in milliseconds on Have We Hit Peak HFT? · · Score: 1

    any you are not adding any value to the economy just leeching off of it. Your making my case for me.

  16. no one needs liquidity in milliseconds on Have We Hit Peak HFT? · · Score: 1

    HFT needs to be stopped, it adds no value

  17. Re:Once again... on Supreme Court Decides Your Silence May Be Used Against You · · Score: 1

    I can sum this up for you. Anything you say to the police is evidence most likely against you.

  18. Re:Rights for the innocent on Supreme Court Decides Your Silence May Be Used Against You · · Score: 1

    all well and good unless someone corrupt is trying to make their numbers look good at the end of the month and they need a warm body to convict.

  19. proof that the nsa PRISM program is not effective and needs to be ended.

  20. Re:Sue them whenever they fail to censor anything on ISPs To Censor Porn By Default In the UK By 2014 · · Score: 1

    you don't understand how this works at all. You don't cut off your leg to save being able to walk. Once it is gone, it is gone and no amount of complaining will bring it back.

  21. waste of money, build it yourself cheap on Dell's Haswell-Powered Alienware X51 R2 SFF, a PC Gamer's Console Alternative · · Score: 2

    Your paying double the price for a PC that you could build yourself that is less cost than a console. Add in Steam Sales and PC Gaming is the cheapest option right now and is not a walled garden.

  22. Re:3D-Printed Revolver? on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    gun control distracts from the real problem, people. But whatever. Give your money to politicians, that is all that discussion is good for and why the jump at the chance to bring it up. It is a political cash cow.

  23. Re:3D-Printed Revolver? on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    no, he is making a valid point. Mental health program budgets have been slashed and many of the people that have gone on to spree kill were identified or asked for help, but the system was not capable of helping them.

  24. Re:3D-Printed Revolver? on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    gun control is a way for politicians on both sides to make a lot of money and it distracts from actual efforts to make people safer. Notice that mental health programs have received no additional attention even though the last half dozen of these attacks were committed by mentally disturbed people.

  25. Re:But was it illegal? on Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds · · Score: 1

    segregation use to be legal.