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  1. Re:SSDD on The Ineffectiveness of TSA Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    Hey crazy guy, according to most shock horror buy this newspaper or die stories. Most terrorist tend to want to get caught and kill as many people as possible whilst doing so and then dying, excluding the plotters and schemers of course. Then again the plotters and schemers never go near airports et al with explosives and firearms, so are you saying the scanners have a psychic dissuasive role reaching out across hundreds of kilometres to where to plotters, schemers and bomb makers are hiding.

    How many crazy arse for profit schemes that seem to catch next to nobody can you idiots claim works because no one carried out those crimes. Hint if you catch nobody then you really are irradiating people for nothing and soon you'll be doubling the dose, thanks to this little expose.

  2. Re:Switch away from .com? on US Asserts Super-Jurisdiction Over Dot-Com, Dot-Net, and Dot-Org Domains · · Score: 2

    Just to irritate you. Edit hosts file under c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc and add the following

    127.0.0.1 .mil
    127.0.0.1 .gov
    127.0.0.1 .edu

    Now all your base are belong to 'us' ;D.

  3. Re:Hey wait a sec on LulzSec Leader Sabu Unmasked, Arrested and Caught Collaborating · · Score: 1

    According to the law they were working for the government. It has been stated as fact that the leader, the head conspirator, the person in charge of the group, the person who recruited people selected and initiated the attacks was a government agent (1. A person who acts on behalf of another, in particular).

    So this could prove to become a real problem for US let's all get promotions Law abandonment (could hardly call this action upholding the law). A lot of countries will have to throw this out as blatant entrapment.

    So Hector Xavier Monsegur, 28, conspired with US authorities to fabricate charges in order to minimise his punishment for the crimes he committed. He did this via entrapping others to participate in crimes that he at the behest of the US government initiated. Only a severely censored trail of evidence (hiding as much of the government conspiracy, instigation and peer coercion), will be submitted anything evidence that damages the case will have been excluded or destroyed.

    So can someone arrested say, but I knew that Hector Xavier Monsegur as leader of the group was acting on behalf of US authorities and as such my activities as directed by Hector Xavier Monsegur were legal activities on behalf of the US government. If the leader of the group was not instigating the conspiracy and crimes, would the particular crimes have occurred.

    It seems like US agents, have yet again gone rogue in their desperation to get promotion building convictions. In their hair brained plotting and scheming, they created the conspiracy and lead the crimes.

  4. Re:I approve on Cell Phone Jamming Devices Enjoy an Increase In Popularity · · Score: 1

    In this case I would have to call it a draw but, if 'I' am not using a phone at that time and that one sided conversation was loud, devoid of any meaning and a particular annoying vocal tone, hmm, then go jammer.

  5. Re:Switch away from .com? on US Asserts Super-Jurisdiction Over Dot-Com, Dot-Net, and Dot-Org Domains · · Score: 1

    Technically they are only entries on a database housed in the US. Should 'I' choose to point 'MY' computer at another DNS server, then the 'US' owns nothing and certainly does not own where my browser goes. Everyone knows why US corporations hate using the .us because 'US' has been business shorthand for 'unsuitable' or 'unsatisfactory', so stamping their company as such has a bit of a marketing sting.

    Now when it comes to .gov .mil and .edu. I have to tell you that, '.us', is starting to seem all too appropriate ;D.

  6. Re:Switch away from .com? on US Asserts Super-Jurisdiction Over Dot-Com, Dot-Net, and Dot-Org Domains · · Score: 1

    Originally the US domain was .us, but bush and crew in a burst of egoitistic insanity usurped the international domain .gov and .mil, so they in their delusions could be the world government and the world military. The reality is the .us is the US domain and .com .org etc are international.

    Now if US courts want to play with the US domain register that is housed in the US they can do so and I can even forsee them blocking .com.'country jurisdiction' because they would be database entries on US servers.

    Nett results DNS servers will go global and US courts will find how little real power there is on control what happens on one databases on one server.

  7. Re:Simplest is goodest. on Ask Slashdot: Using Company Laptop For Personal Use · · Score: 1

    No, you carry around your personal laptop. You just carry a usb drive with company data to plug into your personal laptop. So leave the company laptop at work and carry around a thumb drive hooked onto your keyring for out of hours or away from office work.

  8. Re:It is a huge problem. on UK Plans Private Police Force · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's called pyramid contracting http://labor.net.au/news/1113193724_8739.html. What happens quite simply is company A puts in the lowest bid knowing full well they will never pay out one cent in liabilities, they do this by subcontracting to company B. Company B then arranges all the labour contracts through subsidiary company C. Company C now contracts out upon an individual basis to each and every company that represents each individual employee who must take full liability for all the actions of the individual employees company.

    So no training trigger happy thugs are given free licence to go 'individually' bankrupt without affecting the profit of the head company in the slightest.

    Now that can even be further manipulated into the corporations advantage. The worst, the most egregious and violent individuals will be reserved for revenge attacks upon the enemies of the corporation (whether direct or temporarily paid to be), they will be let loose upon those enemies to kill, main and brutalise. For which they will be convicted but there are plenty more where they came from and it won't cost the corporation one cent.

    Guess who ends up paying, c'mon guess who foots the bill when those individual labour companies go bankrupt on the very first civil suit, your guessed it, the people who let the contracts. Privatisation of profits equals socialisation of losses.

  9. Re:what could go wrong? on Anonymous Supporters Tricked Into Installing Trojan · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but, my machine was compromised, end of story. Once it has been established the machine was compromised the owner of the machine is now guilty of nothing done by that machine.

    The fact that the machine is compromised breaks the 'guilty beyond reasonable doubt'. All the evidence on that machine is now questionable. In fact the only evidence on the machine that is valid is the existence of a Trojan, the perfect 'ALIBI'.

    So in this case, some amateur online activists will have been saved by their own lack of expertise. As for those banks who might have been defrauded (the bank not the customer) will have to return the money.

  10. Re:Of course he's responsible for it. on How Steve Jobs Patent-Trolled Bill Gates · · Score: 1

    Apple vs M$, hmmmm, the 'Fertiliser Wars'. 'Fertiliser War One' Apple won. 'Fertiliser War TWO' M$ won. 'Fertiliser War Three' Apple Won, 'Fertiliser War Four' likely pyrrhic victory for Apple. Bullshit will only carry you so far and eventually inevitably it collapses.

    Apple is spoilt brat gear and M$ is for old fogies. Both inevitably fail.

  11. Re:Another reason on Eric Schmidt: UN Treaty a 'Disaster' For the Internet · · Score: 1

    The underlying reality is the talk about the UN controlling the internet is just about using the UN as a venue for establishing treaties governing the internet thus allowing every country to still communicate via the internet whilst controlling their own internal version of it.

    Rich gits who already own chunks of it are going to bitch like mad because they know that 'ownership' will be broken up and they will have to buy it again in every nation. Countries will simply establish there own DNS and get people to ISP's to point their customers at them. Google is bound to complain after all IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/ could become worthless, rather than being a data mining source.

    Great examples would be .mil and .gov .edu pointing to local addresses in each country, rather than idiots trying to pretend they are the global government and the global military (rather than .gov.us and .mil.us and .edu.us). That little bit of egoistic stupidity will likely end up forcing every .com and .net to rebuy and rent those addresses around the globe.

  12. Re:so you think they should free bradley manning? on Wikileaks and Anonymous Join Forces Against US Intelligence Community · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You obviously have no understanding of the law at all. Obeying an order is no excuse, ever. The individual is always bound to obeying the law, it is always their decision what should be kept secret and what should be exposed.

    Only a gutless coward sells out their honour and integrity, with pathetic excuse of they told me too.

    Your lie is a lie, it is always the individuals honour, duty, and legal responsibility to decide what is the appropriate response and what is not.

    If the material released contained evidence of crimes that were not being prosecuted then he adhered to the law. In fact all those others who failed to submit that evidence to the authorities by what ever means necessary should be charged with being accessories after the fact for all the crimes contained within the material they kept secret.

    Your view of the law, you must obey you superiors regardless, is the law of the Nazis, is the law of Stalin and Mao, it is not the law of any democracy and publicly stipulated at the Nuremberg trials http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials.

  13. Re:Greenpeace. on China May Restrict Genetically Engineered Rice · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Monsanto's bias is towards profits, including profits that are high enough to pay criminal penalties and still have plenty left over. Greenpeace has a bias to protecting the environment and taking a very 'conservative' approach to putting the environment and us at risk.

    So they are apples and organes biased not equally biases. To be equally biased it would have to be two corporations, pushing genetically modified crops with limited and unverified, as well as pumping toxic agricultural chemicals into the food chain, both claiming there junk is safe while the others guys is toxic and should be banned.

  14. Re:Because more laws on The Internet Blueprint Wants You To Crowdsource Digital Laws · · Score: 1

    Feeling threatened http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKvhKI6Kxew. There is in fact a test for psychopathy that can not be cheated.

  15. Re:Because more laws on The Internet Blueprint Wants You To Crowdsource Digital Laws · · Score: 1

    Need a testing model, check out every modern globally accepted university in the world. I suppose from your perspective those university folk are geniuses, from mine they are just regular folk, that seem to manage testing quite well.

    For each dummy seeking to cheat, there will be a smarter person seeking to out compete them. The least we can do is get rid of thinking from the gut, smooth talking jackasses.

  16. Re:Because more laws on The Internet Blueprint Wants You To Crowdsource Digital Laws · · Score: 3

    OMG, let's ban doctors, pilots, dentists plus every other profession requiring testing. It's done already, cheats are caught and when required you can bet better qualified and skilled people who gain competitive advantage will drive honest testing.

    One of the dumbest thing I have ever seen your comment is tops "At least not until we can trust everyone not to cheat" cheats all over the place, that is why people go to so much trouble to catch them, we can fully trust the most incompetent to cheat the most.

    The mind boggles that you think no testing is better than testing.

  17. Re:Because more laws on The Internet Blueprint Wants You To Crowdsource Digital Laws · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Perhaps you have never heard of psychopathy testing which can not be cheated on. It measures emotional response and control with in the brain, so no, zero, zilch corporate shills (the ones left would be terrible liars hence honest politicians).

  18. Re:what a difference! on Remastered Star Trek: the Next Generation Blu-ray a Huge Leap Forward · · Score: 1

    Well if they hadn't been such greedy shit heads the DVD version could have looked a whole lot better. Reason it looked so bad, quick dirty cheap transfer, the suckers will buy it anyhow. Congratulations for the high resolution one, nah, more like a big FU for the crappy DVD one.

  19. Re:Substantial improvements? on Remastered Star Trek: the Next Generation Blu-ray a Huge Leap Forward · · Score: 1

    That's always going to be the way with buying TV science fiction TV series. Star Trek, not really that good but, there's not much else out there to buy instead, so you buy it anyhow as background to play when your actually interacting with the computer.

    Now you could point out the few better science fiction series better than Star Trek, catch is already own them, so meh, fill out the library anyhow. As for rebuying the same content, for a higher resolution not necessarily better content (poor facial expressions, excess makeup, sets, SFX, bad plastic surgery, who can forget troy turning into an amphibian, now don't tell the writers weren't taking the piss out of her trout pout).

  20. Re:For the love of God... on Schmidt: Google Once Considered Issuing Currency · · Score: 2

    In this case private money, or a system of internal credit is all about tax evasion and lock in. Goggle would have gained the opportunity to trade in services tax free, buying in for example user content with goggle currency and then on-selling that content for goggle currency not taxable cash. It then treats purchases of google currency not as a purchase but as a deposit. It would then seek to block the sale of google currency for cash to drive lock in to the google currency system. For end users it allows them to trade google currency for services tax free. Once trade in the currency reached at certain level, laws would change and the shit would hit the fan in back taxes.

  21. Re:Because more laws on The Internet Blueprint Wants You To Crowdsource Digital Laws · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about this for a law. All persons seeking election to public office should be independently tested and the test results audited and presented to the public. tests to check knowledge, intelligence, health and psychological fitness (also to include checks for psychopathy and narcissism).

    In many instance people have to undergo the tests for employment including government employment, why shouldn't politicians be subject to these tests prior to running for office.

  22. Re:No comparison whatsoever on Spanish Company Tests 'Right To Be Forgotten' Against Google · · Score: 1

    Then why complain about people knowing people died there. Obviously people are staying away because people died there, that's why the complaint and that's why the complaint is B$, given a choice with knowledge obviously most people are staying away.

  23. Re:No comparison whatsoever on Spanish Company Tests 'Right To Be Forgotten' Against Google · · Score: 2

    Actually I think it's pretty sick to continue to use a camp ground where 217 people died. Normally these places get turned into public parks in memoriam to the lives lost there.

    Many people would demand the right to know the history and would refuse to stay there based upon it.

    For many people, likely the majority, it would be like setting camp up in a graveyard. Personally I think the camp ground owners lack any sense of taste or reasonably moral behaviour. Greed seems to have won out over any form of reasonable behaviour.

  24. Re:Burning Fossil Fuel Is Bad on Cars Emit More Black Carbon Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    Hey, cave dude, everything always changes try to keep up http://grist.org/list/ev-battery-breakthrough-to-halve-cost-triple-range/. Get over fossil fueler, eventually you won't be given a choice, you selfishness will just be banned.

  25. Re:This is Australia calling. on Australia's Telstra Requires Fibre Customers To Use Copper Telephone · · Score: 1

    This from a company that as a government enterprise prior to being privatised was to be all fibre by '2005', the difference between need and greed. Telstra foresee the need in the early nineties once privatised the greed of keeping the copper network going for as long as possible, regardless of faults and, regardless of run-down maintenance.

    An interesting lesson in the failure of privatisation, how much would everyone have saved if Telstra had not been sold and went fibre on it's own sound in Australia's best interest judgement ($35.9 Billion to build NBN plus $11 billion to buy back a dying copper and cable TV network and not completed until 2021). So privatisation cost $46 billion plus 16 years loss of advanced broadband services and the savings it would have generated for every other business.