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  1. Re:Should me micro, not X rays on TSA Spending $245 Million On "Second Generation" Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    The scanners should have never reviled naked pictures either even a mac quadra from 1992 is fast enough to identify and remove any reflection that is from flesh in real time leaving the contra ban seemingly floating in the air. That just showed how shady the companies that make these scanners are since they'd sent them out with completely unfinished software that's not even beta level.

  2. Re:Here's a cheaper way on TSA Spending $245 Million On "Second Generation" Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    That actually might work.

  3. Disband the TSA. on TSA Spending $245 Million On "Second Generation" Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    Lets just disband the TSA already and let travelers choose the level of security the wish to have. Seriously you're more likely to die slipping in the shower,on the drive up there,by insect stings or bites, or even falling out of bed then by international terror.

  4. Re:Curious. on Feds Add 9 Felony Charges Against Swartz For JSTOR Hack · · Score: 1

    Modern US copyright law at best can be described as a sick joke created by greed. The 1790 copyright law of 14 years with plus the option for a 14 year renewal for a total of 28 was and still is more then sufficient. For example George Lucas still would have became a multimillionaire even if Starwars became public domain after 28 years. But sadly it was slowly extended by publishing companies and then in 1976 was outright highjacked by Hollywood.

  5. Re:Curious. on Feds Add 9 Felony Charges Against Swartz For JSTOR Hack · · Score: 1

    Most big companies do steal ideas.

  6. Re:Federal prosecutors on Feds Add 9 Felony Charges Against Swartz For JSTOR Hack · · Score: 1

    I think those who have charged Swartz should get the firing squad for commingling the highest level of treason against the American people. What they do is actually worse then what drug dealers and terrorist do.

  7. Re:Federal prosecutors on Feds Add 9 Felony Charges Against Swartz For JSTOR Hack · · Score: 1

    The US justice system if you can call it that has become a shame and an embarrassment. The founding fathers must be spinning in their graves over what the US has become.

  8. Re:Federal prosecutors on Feds Add 9 Felony Charges Against Swartz For JSTOR Hack · · Score: 1

    Agreed this whole case reeks of the worst kind of corruption there is.

  9. Trumped up charges on Feds Add 9 Felony Charges Against Swartz For JSTOR Hack · · Score: 1

    These are trumped up charges as he was accessing something the should be free to all of human kind.

  10. Re:WTF is a 'Feature Phone' on Nokia Spinning Featurephones as Smartphones · · Score: 1

    What's to up front cost in the US the carriers use the data plan with actually cost them next to nothing to implement on top of voice to subsidize the phone. Yes you can get a Lumia for $50,A Galaxy for $100, a Pantec for free or an Iphone for $100 but it's with a two year plan. If you buy the phone outright no plan you end up seeing the true price of the device which is usually $300 to $500 of course if you do this you should not have to buy a tiered data plan as it's cost is to subsidize the phone.

  11. Re:Hardly spin on Nokia Spinning Featurephones as Smartphones · · Score: 1

    A 1GHz cpu is hardly Jurassic it would have been a top of the line phone processor just a few years ago. The iphone 4 only had a 1Ghz cpu. Now the ram is very limited but S40 does not need much memory.

  12. The lines between the two are blurred. on Nokia Spinning Featurephones as Smartphones · · Score: 1

    When you think about it the lines between a feature phone and a smart phone are very blurred. I guess you could make the call that a true smart phone allows native OS apps like the Lumia or N9 and a feature phone only allows java apps.

  13. Re:OH SHIT! on "Severe Abnormalities" Found In Fukushima Butterflies · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same thing.

  14. One Patent Troll down. on SCO Group Files For Chapter 7 · · Score: 1

    That's one less patent troll company in this world a crap more load of them to go.

  15. Re:stupid article is extremely stupid on Could You Hack Into Mars Curiosity Rover? · · Score: 1

    Or hacking UAVs. A hacker could crash the one of the predators US customs uses for border patrol into a building.

  16. Re:This is a great way... on Could You Hack Into Mars Curiosity Rover? · · Score: 1

    Mess up a Billion dollar rover US the government might drop a smart bomb on your location and say oops I guess the bomber got hacked.

  17. Re:Wikipedia has something to say about this threa on Could You Hack Into Mars Curiosity Rover? · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same thing.

  18. Re:a few things... on DOJ Says iPhone Is So Secure They Can't Crack It · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much trouble they'd have with an Android or WP7 device or worse of all one of those linux devices that allow you to encrypt the files system. Still I don't think the FBI would have much trouble they'd likely read the flash chip directly if all else fails and have a super computer go to work on what they find.

  19. Re:Better than... on Monitoring Weapons Bans With Social Media · · Score: 1

    You mean dystopia.

  20. And with this choice Romney has already lost. on Romney Taps Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan As Running Mate · · Score: 1

    If Romney wants to win he really should steer far away from the tea party types like Paul Ryan as they're more a liability then an asset. His best chance to win would be to choose Ron Paul as a running mate. Yes this would piss off a lot of people in the GOP but the old GOP has become hated because of the Bush corruption and change is the only way they can regain what they have lost.

  21. Re:Petition or not...the TSA is never going away on White House Pulls Down TSA Petition · · Score: 1

    The only reason they're not going is because of apathetic people like yourself who are unwilling to do something about it. If everyone boycotted the airlines and wrote them as to why they were just for a week or two they'd pressure congress to allow them to kick out the much hated TSA.

  22. Stupid on Hulu To Require Viewers To Have Cable Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    I think this is very stupid on Hulu's part as many people use them as an alternative to satellite and cable. So why pay for their service if you already have cable?

  23. Re:Not about the difficulty of using Linux on Why Desktop Linux Hasn't Taken Off · · Score: 1

    I had to buy new hardware such as scanners and web cams when I moved to windows 7.

  24. Re:Linux has won in my household. on Why Desktop Linux Hasn't Taken Off · · Score: 1

    True Linux has won the embedded war it's even inside spacecraft and rockets now.

  25. Re:Inertia: the Ernie Ball story on Why Desktop Linux Hasn't Taken Off · · Score: 1

    True it's dumping Microsoft is no where near as difficult as many uninformed people make it out to be. Over the transition is no more difficult then going from Windows 98 to XP or XP to Windows 8. Heck back in the 70 to 90s companies often would transition to completely different platforms and had to hire programmers to make conversion apps. It seems many IT people today have gotten lazy and soft.