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  1. rotten on Apple Yanks Privacy App From the App Store · · Score: 3, Informative

    Somebody doesn't like potential victims to watch back. Wonder if this is really a rotten Apple, a big teleco-ISP, or perhaps NSA.

  2. piltdown started in Britian... on Apple Must Publicly Post That Samsung Did Not Copy iPad · · Score: -1

    The Climategate thing isn't finished. The academic-government CAGW bias problem is far more systemic than a few individuals. Since global temps have been stagnant for a decade, and now declining, it will be interesting to see how the shuck and jive goes in another decade.

    Oh, yeah. I forgot, "climate change".

  3. (d)evolution on The Fate of Newspapers: Farm It, Milk It, Or Feed It · · Score: 1

    Been milking us with faux news and editorials for many decades, politicking, and whoring for advertisements like cigarettes and (p)harmaceuticals. We are going to have to evolve new systems and methods of news capture, aggregation, evaluation and packaging.

  4. "protecting important secrets" on The FDA Spied On Its Own Scientists · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The FDA has to protect many important pharma secrets, like payoffs for the bosses and the new drugs that maim and kill. Really. Of course they want to keep an eye on the grunt scientists, one might get disgruntled and spill the beans, again.

  5. ugly american agents... on Rethinking How Congress Pushes Copyright Laws · · Score: 1

    No doubt when these extortion and espionage agents start to disappear or become "accident prone," the US will declare it a casus belli for more foreign adventures. Foreign nationalism and impatience should not be underestimated with this type of invasion.

  6. financial implosion on In Face of Flame Malware, Microsoft Will Revamp Windows Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    I recently received news that my credit card was involved in a sizeable bank hack. The take? over $20,000 in Asia, well over the card's (previous) limit, and the bank says I'm not responsible for anything I didn't charge. Now I can prove my physical location and measely charges on the other side of the world.

    If encryption is a part of this hack or any such security failures, we can't afford any more security theatre and survive financially.

  7. "demand" a CO2 rise ??? on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: 1

    If nukes were cheaper, you'd easily be demonstrated to be wrong.

    It's still possible that standardized, mass produced nukes will fuel a hungry world, but either China and India have to fix their QA/QC or we learn to earn at lower costs. Also we have to come up with bulletproof security plans and a closed fuel cycle (waste cycle).

  8. burdensome burdens on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: 1

    The burden of proof is on the persons making alarmist statement when they have been wrong so many times before, and showing multiple clear signs of fraud. The Piltdown Mann, Hansen, Lonnie and a long list.

  9. Midland, TX ... on Private Space Firm XCOR May Establish HQ In Midland, Texas · · Score: 1, Insightful

    that fount of knowledge, progress and presidents.

  10. disinformation all the time on Feds Plan 'Fog of Disinformation' To Track Information Leaks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The bottom line is that you can't believe *anything* any government official says.

  11. history on Julian Assange Served With Extradition Notice By British Police · · Score: 1

    Once he's in Sweden, history will only remember that Assange was extradited from Sweden, the UK's dirty part mostly forgotten.

  12. unsavory all around on Julian Assange Served With Extradition Notice By British Police · · Score: 1

    Then throw the sob out after the first "rape". Otherwise it sounds like opportunistic sex on both sides with honey traps by two ambitious drama queens.

  13. Except that they did on Wiretap Requests From Federal and State Authorities Fell 14% In 2011 · · Score: 0

    If you think the government will just ignore the law and do whatever it wants anyway
    Hmmm, must not have heard yet about the Obamacare ruling this past week...

  14. irrepressibly irresponsible on China Slowing Nuclear Buildout In Response To Fukushima · · Score: 1

    Given China's long history of lack of quality control and commercial frauds, nuclear power in China could be a double edged sword in their fingers.

  15. rogue states, a tax on breathing on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 2

    In the (d)evolution of each State's history, there is an act that is one too far, when an out-of-control rogue state becomes recognizable. Like Nazi Germany, perhaps for some in Germany it was some public killings of Jews in 1933 or the Fuhrer Oath, for some Europeans it was the Czech Republic in 1938, and 1939 in Poland for anyone with a pulse.

    With literal fascism in America, this event does it for us. Been at it for decades with the foreign wars, taxes, medical and securities industries. My spouse has health requirements that are existential and not FDA approved, approvable in the US for corrupt, bs reasons, so course not coverable, although approved in Europe and Asia. The bogus US conventional medicine difference is $40,000+ per month for those in the US, and a dog's death anyway. Live with "Health Freedom" or die (miserable and broke) is the message we get before any "panels". Good luck fellow Americans, you'll need it, some can't even live there. Live free, or die, has new meaning in America.

  16. religious wars on Army Creates a Directed Lightning Bolt Weapon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    DoD and Homeland Sec wet dream. Might work better in more backwards areas - Wrath of God, "wrong side" and such for govt enemies.

  17. importing US academic liberals on Fastest Growing US Export To China: Education · · Score: 2

    On one hand, the Chinese aren't stupid - they want to get something for their Bernake bucks before their dollars turn to second hand toilet paper.

    It will be interesting to see the generational culture clash, when their kids come home from very liberal arts colleges and universities in the US.

  18. slave labor and hostages... on David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy · · Score: 2

    Lowery confuses the need for compensation with rationalizing some truly evil thuggery.

    Let's say (survivors of) Adolf Hitler, under his Reich orders, wanted a royalty for slave laborers' work on European train tracks seventy years later. Sure they deserved to be paid, but paying Adolf et al only rewards the evil part, we know what happened to the slaves. I would be would be willing to help former slaves, but Adolf not so much. In fact I probably am angry with those that do.

  19. more likely the number, perhaps too numerous to count if one includes automated total voice stream processing and email word checks, violates our sanity and patience. Carl Sagan - biillllions and bilions. Or is it trillions, NSA?

  20. the new nuclear site on Japan Restarts Two of Its 50 Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    Japan now has an excellent, large nucleotidebrownfield, national sacrifice area for nuclear power development. Might as well build a dozen modern plants there like AP2000+. Next time, please build the reactors 10 meters higher and use the coal clinkers to build bigger, higher seawalls. Thank you.

    And hire a 3rd party nuclear regulatory state like US NRC for consulting and oversight.

  21. guard pets on Monsanto May Have To Repay 10 Years of GM Soya Royalties In Brazil · · Score: 1

    I am surprised there are not more fat crocodiles in Brazil full of Monsanto nonGMO long pig.

  22. unexpired only on Monsanto May Have To Repay 10 Years of GM Soya Royalties In Brazil · · Score: 2

    If the GMO soya beans can be shown to be contamination, like a small fraction primarily adjacent to road or property boundaries, perhaps Monsanto should be charged 3% for spoiling exportability to Europe or as "non GMO organic". Monsanto should be required to show that its current license fees relate to unexpired patents.

  23. hazards on Analyzing Climate Change On Carbon Rich Peat Bogs · · Score: 1

    An unproven model (in the engineering sense) itself may still be more dangerous than the putative phenomenon. Yelling "fire" in an unlit theater might be an analogy.

  24. the climate science creationists... on Audacious Visions For Future Spaceflight · · Score: -1, Troll

    are people who promote institutionalized biases of greater than Piltdown Man(nian) proportions in CAGW. "Climate science" has a reek of fraud that if combined with illegitimate governmental force that will lead to a meltdown down, of civil society, not glaciers.

  25. Re:Drone Strikes are "Cowardly Attacks" to the Eas on Drones, Computer Viruses and Blowback · · Score: 1

    We need selective weapons that minimize collateral damage only for high value targets not doable by less disruptive means. Imagine our policy if we paid damages for each noncombatant killed or injured also.