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  1. Re:RTFA this time on Can We Avoid Government Surveillance By Leaving The Grid? (counterpunch.org) · · Score: 1

    I did see recently a video in which someone drops a bowling ball on an axe, chopping the ball in half. I think I will manage to survive using that technique with wood.

  2. Re:RCMP are also local police on Local Canadian Police Station Admits To Owning Stingray Surveillance Device (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "Canada does not have an FBI equivalent"

    Everything that the FBI is capable of doing, the RCMP can do just as well. I'd call it equivalent.

    "We like our policy makers separate from enforcement that you very much"

    You think policy makers and enforcement officials don't talk to each other? Cute.

  3. Re:Corporate VPNs too? on Using VPN in UAE Could Cost You $545,000 (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    All suspects are guilty! Otherwise, they would not be suspects, now, would they?

  4. Re:TFA is not terribly clear... on Suspect Required To Unlock iPhone Using Touch ID in Second Federal Case (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    So all you have to do is lead the police to believe they can use your finger print, try all ten fingers, then boom no more data?

  5. I guess it's time on Reddit Deletes Surveillance 'Warrant Canary' In Transparency Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    to go back to Usenet?

  6. Is someone working on It's Getting Harder To Reside Anonymously In a Modern City (citiesofthefuture.eu) · · Score: 1

    on a scramble suit?

  7. How much harder would it be on Inside the Mission To Europa (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    to land a sample extractor and launch it back to Earth?

  8. Re:Detecting weapons is NOT the purpose of TSA... on TSA Screeners Can't Detect Weapons (and They Never Could) (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And then see all those useful and/or convenient items disappear from that area. Boo.

  9. How does an Apple customer verify that the claim is true?

  10. And putting his name on a seat in an Ecuadorian diplomatic flight to Quito.

  11. Where is my mosquito laser? on Boeing Demonstrates Drone-Killing Laser · · Score: 5, Interesting

    mozzies are way more annoying than drones

  12. Sometimes the Internet saves lives on The Downside of Connected Healthcare: Cyberchondria · · Score: 1

    Like that one time a guy peed on his girlfriend's pregnancy test, got a positive result and posted a picture on Reddit.

    Someone pointed out it was a sign of testicular cancer and saved the dude's life.

  13. Re:I can on Study Shows How Humans Can Echolocate · · Score: 1

    He turns it up to 11

  14. I'm not fat on Study: Body Weight Heavily Influenced By Heritable Gut Microbes · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm just big genetic'd

  15. If we can use quantum fluctuations on Mathematical Proof That the Universe Could Come From Nothing · · Score: 1

    Can we posit that the big bang quantumly precipitated the universe out of a uniform solution?

  16. Just curious on Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Crashes · · Score: 1

    Does Spaceshiptwo have ejection seats or do the pilots have to manually open a hatch and jump out?

  17. Science Fiction got it right again on Most Planets In the Universe Are Homeless · · Score: 2

    Space 1999 was so prescient!

  18. Europeans should watch on "Ambulance Drone" Prototype Unveiled In Holland · · Score: 1

    Ken Jeong's AMA video:
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXcsHoQMGqc

  19. Let's not forget on Elon Musk Warns Against Unleashing Artificial Intelligence "Demon" · · Score: 1

    That in the Matrix movies, basically, the AI were trying to preserve the humans, even though some of the latter did not agree.

  20. Re: Good vs Evil on Where Whistleblowers End Up Working · · Score: 1

    Has this kind of situation been documented? Because it would seem to me like a lot of resources for the government to use, out of spite, against just one person, with little benefit in return.

  21. Re:So wear a Guy Fawkes mask on FBI Completes New Face Recognition System · · Score: 1

    Misdemeanors are now felonies!

  22. Re:Rife in the UK on Turning the Tables On "Phone Tech Support" Scammers · · Score: 2

    "Hi, we've detected a virus on your machine etc etc"

    "How do you know?"

    "We have a file about you and your computer."

    "Yea? What's my name?"

    ".....[click]beeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"

  23. The toothpaste on News Aggregator Fark Adds Misogyny Ban · · Score: 1

    has left the building

  24. Re:Underwater cities on DARPA Contemplates Vast Ocean Network · · Score: 1

    The biggest oil platform, Hibernia, can only accomodate 185 people.

  25. If the police activate their emergency light bar on Idiot Leaves Driver's Seat In Self-Driving Infiniti, On the Highway · · Score: 1

    Does the semi-autonomous (or future, 100% autonomous) car pull over?