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  1. If the DMV keeps license plate data protected on Drone Registration Is FAA's Way of Getting You To Read Their "EULA" (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    If the DMV keeps license plate data protected

    Do they? In my state it is considered a matter of public record and you can get the info on a license plate for a very small fee (I forget if it is $1 or $5).

  2. Re:Government doing what government knows best... on Database of 191 Million US Voters Exposed On Internet (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Looking at your list of "accomplishments" it is very hard to determine if you are being serious or sarcastic. I certainly could argue against a lot of them.

  3. Re:News Flash! on Database of 191 Million US Voters Exposed On Internet (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sure, just the Republicans. Because Clinton is so honorable and would never do anything wrong or criminal.

  4. Re:News Flash! on Database of 191 Million US Voters Exposed On Internet (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Even worse, TFA admits that one of the reasons for compiling the public information was to supply it to the biggest criminals in the country, the political parties. When will this horror end? And why aren't the politicians doing anything about it? ....Oh, never mind.

  5. Re:Err, no - Government does NOT have the right. on Justice Department Shuts Down Huge Asset Forfeiture Program · · Score: 1

    Of course it is wrong. It was obvious that it was wrong and unconstitutional. The government did it anyway.

    Now TFA says "...Department of Justice has announced that it's suspending a controversial asset forfeiture program..". And some people are stupid enough to believe that means that the local Leos will just stop doing it.

  6. To be fair skinned on Forrest Mimms On Modern Air Travel With a Bag Full of Electronics · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm willing to bet he isn't dark skinned. If he were either black or Muslim then he would have instead gotten an invite to the White house. Different standards for crackers though.

  7. Expectations on Did Google and the Hour of Code Get "Left" and "Right" Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like some people are setting much higher expectations from Lucasfilm, Code.org, and Google that I have. Actually getting things right is too demanding of a standard.

  8. Easy resolution on Kim Dotcom Loses Extradition Case (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 2

    He should just admit that he is a Muslim, then rather than being forced to come to this country he will not be able to come to this country.

  9. The only reason that I use Outlook is that I want to be compromised.

  10. Re:Trading on tragedy on Following Data Leak, HIV Dating App's Developers Threaten Infection (csoonline.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Not exactly. Lepers and cancer victims don't nave an agenda to spread their infection to the straight community in a perceived belief that such an action will increase the funding for their sickness. Here is another example of the HIV community expressing their intentions to spread their virus to others. Sure, it slipped out in a fit of anger, but that fit of anger did reveal a basic mindset.

  11. Re:While we're at it on 'Do Not Track' Bill Aims To Let Consumers Reject Online Tracking (consumerist.com) · · Score: 2

    You seem to want to say that we just can't know what evil doors are tracking us. But I would gladly support a bill that simply says when I visit your website don't connect to Facebook and a dozen other "social media" sites at the same time, particularly is there is no indication that I'm a member of Facebook or any of the other social media sites. Not only does this invade my privacy but it wastes my bandwidth, drives up my data usage and slows my connection. And personally I'll never join any of these sites so they have no right to know my browsing history. While we might not know who is going to blow up skyscrapers or steal our identity (although I believe all of the wacko conspiracy theories about 9/11), we can easily see all of the traffic connections made to other sites when we visit a website. Just outlawing those simple direct connections to other sites would make the web a lot safer and securer as well as faster and more private, and it is not wishful thinking that could not really be done.

  12. Re:Quotas on Google Hosts Special Demo Day For Female Entrepreneurs (thenewstack.io) · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's because they have smaller brains and are not as smart and need a special edge, just like here where they need their own special Female Entrepreneurs events, since they can't compete with men evenly. At least that is the message that Google seems to be sending.

  13. Re:String Theorists Are Not Physicists on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 0

    This is actually quite true, not sure why someone modded you "flaimbait".

    This is Slashdot. People here are modded as flaimbait or troll whenever they say something that someone else doesn't agree with.

  14. Re:Trust the philosopher on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    This reminds me... some time ago (around the turn of the century) I saw a PhD graduate in Philosophy on the local news. He was in a dead end job making minimum wage and managed to get air time with a local reporter to complain about this, his huge student loan debts for a very expensive private school, and the complete lack of jobs for one with a PhD in Philosophy. He didn't really explain if somehow there had been a high demand for Philosophers when he started his studies that suddenly vanished or if he had never considered what he was going to do after he graduated, but I rather expected the problem was that he hadn't thought the whole thing out. One thing that I was sure of is that he wasn't being very philosophical about it.

  15. Re:Trust the philosopher on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    Really? My thought was that if we are going to listen to the philosopher on this we might as well ask the theologian as well.

  16. Give the cops other superpowers too. on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why doesn't Feinstein also add to her bill a clause giving the cops the power to fly and invulnerability? That is just as possible as legislating that cops will have the ability to break encryption.

  17. Our anti-American Presodent on California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Obama sees his job as blaming and apologizing for America. Even just last week while he was in Europe at the climate change talks (and this was before the Isis attack on California) he told the world that America was the only place where these mass killings happen. This in spite of the recent Paris killings. In truth France has lost more people to mass killings just this year than America has lost in the entire Obama Presidency (including the Isis California attack that had not happened yet).

    And, of course, he will continue to try to import Syrian terrorists, in spite of the fact that the female shooter misrepresented her information on her immigration form and managed to get in the country anyway. Screw those who urge caution.

    I'm looking forward to hear him apologize to the American people for once for telling them as recently as last month that they had nothing to fear and should go about their holiday plans as normal, that there were no terrorist threats to worry about. I'm sure that he will, he is not so cowardly as to just sweep that under the rug.

  18. Re:more guns needed on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Filthy idiot hiding behind AC. Learn what a comma is. The court was dead right on this one. Plus, learn what the "militia" was when the document was written, it was every able bodied person (male) in the country. Plus learn what the basic concept of the "Bill of Rights" was and is. It is a set of amendments that limit federal powers and guarantee to the people certain rights. They didn't sneak one amendment in with the other nine that gives the army more power, they added the Bill of Rights to guarantee the rights of the people.

    And again, we have the ability to change our Constitution. But no one wants to admit that they want to take away our constitutional rights, and they don't want to even admit that we have the rights in the first place, so no change to the second amendment is ever seriously offered.

  19. You mean Greedy, not Grieving, don't you? The mother had a crackpot belief that her daughter, who was showing classic signs of depression, was somehow hypersensitive to WiFi. She wouldn't listen to reason and certainly didn't do any tests to prove or disprove her crazy theory of WiFi sensitivity, but instead she gave the child a cell phone that likely emitted it's own WiFi and certainly emitted much much stronger RF signals on very close frequencies to WiFi signals. Wifi is built to be short range and doesn't go through walls well, Cell Phone signals are on similar frequencies but powerful enough to go through walls and cover a range of a mile or more. Now she wants to sue for money base on her ignorance. And there are some assholes who feel sympathy for her and likely would say give the poor grieving woman lots of money. I think she should be arrested and thrown in jail for child endangerment, and I sure would like to see awful things happen to her for abuse of the legal process.

  20. Re:more guns needed on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Well, A Coward who was part of the great unwashed masses, I really don't give a shit what you used to do in India. If you liked it so much there then you can guess what I'll suggest you should have done. Here in this country we have a Constitution, which we are taught is the highest law of the land and it says that our right to keep and bare arms shall not be abridged. We also have mechanisms in the constitution to change it if it needs changed. What we don't need is corrupt politicians or ignorant foreigners advocating that we just ignore our Constitution and abridge citizens rights anyway. If any politician really believed that the time to change the rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment had come, he could admit that we currently have the right to own arms and propose that the Constitution be amended. Then there could be real honest discussion about it and a logical decision could be reached. Anyone who proposes less is suggesting something very criminal.

  21. speaking of war on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The jews were disarmed before they were rounded up during WWII. How did not having a way to protect themselves work out for them?

  22. Re:Another reason to ban rifles on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It means someone didn't like the looks of them. Not that I would like the looks of any gun I was being shot with, but the media has a habit of improperly using terms like automatic-weapon or AK-47 without ever correcting themselves.

  23. Loretta Lynch on DOJ Cracking Down On Profit-Driven Policing, Audit Looks At How Far It's Spread (muckrock.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hard to believe that the D.O.J. is cracking down on Profit-Driven Policing when Obama's new Attorney General has been a huge advocate of "civil forfeiture" where the government takes your money without charging you with any crime or even having any suspicion that you committed any crime. I even saw sign on Interstate 70 this summer when driving through Kansas that there "checkpoints" ahead to check for "drugs" or "cash". Just part of the government's war on citizens.

  24. very lame terrorists on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So the terrorists may have killed a few people, but we have lots of people in this country. And they are much too cowardly (and their god is much too ineffective) for them to take from us any of our beloved political leaders. So in my mind the terrorists have lost again.

  25. Re:more guns needed on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sure ignorant leftist AC. Pay no attention to the fact that in many of the recent mass shootings that shooters went out of their way to go to facilities where guns were explicitly banned, bypassing similar venues where people might have legally been carrying concealed weapons for protection.