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  1. Re:More hoops before travelling through USA on Judge: Warrantless Airport Seizure of Laptop 'Cannot Be Justified' · · Score: 1

    Which is why I said leave and don't come back. Take all of your money with you, and don't rely on an income from a United States based source. The IRS can always "require" you to pay taxes, but can't do much to collect if there's nothing of yours for them to grab.

  2. Re:More hoops before travelling through USA on Judge: Warrantless Airport Seizure of Laptop 'Cannot Be Justified' · · Score: -1, Troll

    So why don't you just get the fuck out and never come back? Then you can stop "providing material support to a terrorist organization", and save yourself a little money in the process.

  3. Re:But then... on Philippines Gives Uber Its First Legal Framework To Operate In Asia · · Score: 2

    That's not a bad thing. Cab Mafias are the same worldwide, and are in bad need of technological crushing.

  4. Re:Compliance, huh? on What To Say When the Police Tell You To Stop Filming Them · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You, and everyone who modded up this ignorant comment, could not possibly be more wrong. Police were a LOT more likely to shoot someone in the 50s then they are now. The public was just not aware of this because there was no video evidence. 50s cops were mostly on the take, and it wasn't even referred to as bribery. It was just part of the perks of the job.

    Besides, if the Rosa Parks situation happened today, she would win millions in a wrongful arrest suit.

  5. Re:enforcement on Disney Replaces Longtime IT Staff With H-1B Workers · · Score: 1

    Just because you take your laptop home at night doesn't mean you have to actually use it at home.

    If you do work at home, you bill for those hours, right? If not, you have nobody but yourself to blame for being exploited.

  6. Re:Don't follw the rules don't get paid. on Groupon Refuses To Pay Security Expert Who Found Serious XSS Site Bugs · · Score: 1

    Groupon had no intention of paying at all. If it weren't for that they would have just brought up some other technicality.

    Now security researchers know what they really need to do if they want to make money from Groupon vulnerabilities...

  7. Re:Idiotic on Oklahoma Says It Will Now Use Nitrogen Gas As Its Backup Method of Execution · · Score: 1, Funny

    Use liquid nitrogen and freeze their skull from the inside out, then smash it with a hammer and watch it shatter. Put it on Pay-per-view and make enough money to solve all municipal budget shortages for the foreseeable future.

  8. Re:Is banishment legal? on Gyrocopter Pilot Appears In Court; Judge Bans Him From D.C. · · Score: 1

    Federal judges can do whatever they want. There are no limits to the kinds of orders they can issue, unless overturned by a higher court which this won't be.

  9. Re:Disrespectful on IT Consultant Talks About 'Negotiating for Nerds' (Video) · · Score: 1

    Nope. This is the New Slashdot.

  10. Re:Disrespectful on IT Consultant Talks About 'Negotiating for Nerds' (Video) · · Score: 0

    All they're doing is speaking the language of their user base. Slashbots are pedantic, rude and trollish. There's nothing wrong with an editor that tailors the content accordingly.

  11. Re:Neither CA Senator signed on... on Ten US Senators Seek Investigation Into the Replacement of US Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    "Feinstein has always been a closet Republican"

    Come again?

  12. Re:Your government at work on Islamic State Doxes US Soldiers, Airmen, Calls On Supporters To Kill Them · · Score: 2

    "Then again, killing civilians indiscriminately with drone strikes as "collateral damage" is pretty barbaric as well."

    You are an idiot. The entire purpose of drone strikes is to carry out very targeted killings. If we didn't care about collateral damage and didn't mind indiscriminately killing people, expensive drones would not be necessary. All we'd need is some far cheaper cluster bombs. Maybe some napalm.

  13. Re:Shouldn't they be after Google? on Microsoft Asks US Court To Ban Kyocera's Android Phones · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There was a time when you had to patent a thing, as opposed to an abstract idea. Imagine if someone had been able to patent "using a mechanical device to cool the air". Refrigeration technology would have been held back for decades.

  14. Re:That's trademark on Indian Gov't Wants Worldwide Ban On Rape Documentary, Including Online · · Score: 1

    I think he was speaking figuratively. You took the parent post way too seriously.

  15. Re:Ya Think? on US Air Traffic Control System Is Riddled With Vulnerabilities · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Getting everyone on the ground safely is the pilots' job. Keeping planes in the air safely is ATC's job.

  16. Re:Ya Think? on US Air Traffic Control System Is Riddled With Vulnerabilities · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is this why the entire nation's ATC system limped along at a severely reduced capacity when a single Chicago facility was taken offline for 3 weeks due to a single contractor cutting a few cables?

  17. Re:Inproper influence on Oracle Sues 5 Oregon Officials For 'Improper Influence' · · Score: 1

    That's not just Oracle. That's every IT consultancy. I've never heard of a large outsourced IT project that wasn't overbudget, behind schedule, and ultimately did not do what it was supposed to do. Of course most in-house projects suffer the same fate. And there's positively zero correlation between certificationed personnel and project success.

  18. Re:Inproper influence on Oracle Sues 5 Oregon Officials For 'Improper Influence' · · Score: 1

    Makes sense, considering their CEO does not have an ethical bone in his body.

  19. Re:Embedded systems devs on Also Hackable: Drive-Through Car Washes · · Score: 1

    It's good enough, until someone discovers the obscurity and then its not so obscure anymore (or secure).

  20. Re:Let me be the first... on Only Twice Have Nations Banned a Weapon Before It Was Used; They May Do It Again · · Score: 1

    Those of use who have been coming here for a while understand perfectly well why its redundant. We're sick and tired of hearing the 12+ year old joke over and over.

  21. Re:Embedded systems devs on Also Hackable: Drive-Through Car Washes · · Score: 2

    They haven't yet gotten used to a world where security by obscurity just doesn't work anymore.

  22. Re:What? BMW through the brush wash? on Also Hackable: Drive-Through Car Washes · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be surprised if you aren't joking :) BMW has their own brand of expensive washer fluid, for God's sake.

  23. Re:Yelp is so full of shit sometimes on Company Promises Positive Yelp Reviews For a Price; Yelp Sues · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If someone rips you off that badly, you don't need a Yelp review. You need a lawsuit.

  24. Re:Yelp is so full of shit sometimes on Company Promises Positive Yelp Reviews For a Price; Yelp Sues · · Score: 1

    The ones who have sometimes been found to not be nearly as impartial as they'd like you to believe?

  25. Re:The myth is not its basis on Alcohol's Evaporating Health Benefits · · Score: 1

    That and the entire nation of France. Ever heard of the French Paradox?