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  1. Don't Be Evil on Chrome Extension Caught Hijacking Users' Browsers (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Outsource it.

  2. Re:Drone the Bohemian Grove 2106! on The Spread of Ignorance (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Not interested.

    "It is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine." -- R. M. Nixon

  3. Re:Wow, how stupid ... on Lasers Could Hide Us From Evil Aliens (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    7 billion intelligent meat bags and a few billion big animals

    All they want is the cat food.

  4. The lesson here is form a co-op an run a brothel,

    So then this guy will open a motel and rig the rooms for video. He could name it the Bates Motel .....

  5. Re:Prostitution illegal in the US? on Oklahoma Video Vigilante Uses Drone To Wage War Against Prostitutes and Johns (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Is prostitution illegal in the US or something?

    It's not a federal law. On a state-by-state basis, prostitution is illegal in 49 of 50 states.

  6. He probably masturbates

    With a name like Mr. Bates .....

  7. ... get a room. Don't do this in view of the public (or drones). I'm not a prude and have nothing against prostitution. But this sort of behavior just provides ammunition for the social conservative nut-cases.

  8. Re:hi on Amateur Scientist Builds Thermite Grenade Cannon (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    3. He isn't American.

    This.

    Thanks to regulations, American scientific inquiry by young people is limited to how to mod a vaper to volatilize hash oil.

  9. I wonder ... on Siri Now Responds Appropriately To Sexual Assaults (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    ... WWCD (What Would Clippy Do)?

  10. I'll wait until they support Linux and OSX

  11. I ordered one a while back on Futuristic Suit Lets You Feel What It's Like To Be An Old Man · · Score: 3, Funny

    It took my tailor 60 years to make.

  12. This is why certain people shouldn't read SlashDot

    Read it? I barely parse the subject line before formulating a response.

  13. Still waiting for Microsoft to jump up and yell "April Fools" over the Metro UI.

  14. Try to argue in court against a judge

    No problem. Let's just enter that NSL into evidence and see exactly what it does or does not say we are allowed to do. Eventually, the FBI/NSA/whoever is going to run up against a company with deep enough pockets. And that company will find it worth it's while to screw with them for a while. And maybe even make them look like a bunch of fools in front of a judge.

    Keep in mind that this entire NSL garbage is a maneuver to bypass judicial oversight and the search warrant system. So I imagine there are a lot of judges that are just aching to get these TLAs into court and rake them over the coals.

  15. ... are a price you pay for anonymity. No persistent logins and getting bounced back to the 'Please identify your country/region' page. Too bad. I use private browsing (a far cry from Tor-like anonymity) and I have to go through this all the time. Big deal.

    If the alternative is some temporary identity token which might be abused by 'bots, I'm OK with CAPTCHAs.

  16. So use the systemd halt service.

  17. Re:Just block them on CloudFlare Wants Tor To Change Or Risk CAPTCHA Blockades (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    A Tor use is clearly hiding something illegal.

    Posted by Anonymous Coward.

  18. Re:Apple has a new acquisition target :) on Police Unlikely To Win Wider Access To Smartphones Despite FBI Success In San Bernardino Case (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably not. Rumor has it that it's an Israeli company. And most companies based in foreign nations that are involved in security or intelligence work are not available for purchase by outsiders. Or anyone not inside the good old boys intelligence circle (definitely not Apple).

  19. And they have plenty of reasons to lie.

    Just watch. Every 'no knock' warrant served in So Cal for the next few years will be based on 'intelligence' gathered from Farook's phone.

  20. What is ... on Global Majority Backs a Ban On 'Dark Net,' Poll Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    ... a Global Citizen? And how can we be sure that they are expressing their own beliefs and not voting to please their nations' secret police to stay out of the gulag? I suppose we could trust this survey if it were conducted on a dark net.

  21. Re:I want to create on Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Solution to the gun problem on 33,000 Sign Online Petition Promoting Guns At Republican Convention (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "The State" as in the federal government is prohibited from interference with peoples right to keep and bear arms. It grants nothing. The people already have that right.

  23. Re:OMG Not Hitomi! on Japan's Space Agency Loses Contact With New X-Ray Telescope Satellite "Hitomi" · · Score: 1

    No great loss. The pictures it would have returned were bound to be heavily pixelated anyway.

  24. Five foot six inch gauge on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 5, Funny

    Also used in India. This could be foresight on the part of BARTs designers, as they anticipated accommodating increased ridership by placing passengers on top of the cars. The wider gauge is more stable and less likely to shake them off.

  25. Re:Solution to the gun problem on 33,000 Sign Online Petition Promoting Guns At Republican Convention (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The second amendment doesn't address infringing upon the formation of a militia. That's already addressed in the body of the Constitution. The infringement prohibited is the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

    If by some stretch you think that there should be some grounds to prohibit firearm ownership to certain people, that would also disqualify them from joining the militia. No problem there. But there may also be conditions that prohibit them from joining the militia which have no bearing on their ability to keep firearms. And those conditions might be completely under the control of the state or some political entity. So they could be used as a de facto back door to arming political friends and disarming enemies, for example. By manipulating the militia (and firearm ownership) regulations to suit their whims.

    The idea that membership in a political organization was a prerequisite for a firearms permit goes back to 1930s in Germany.