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  1. Fascism Alive and Well on US Court Says No Warrant Needed For Cellphone Location Data (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Benito noted it was the regimentation of corporate and government interests in the effort to "govern" the people. Welcome to American Fascism. I never disclosed my information to a third party willingly.... And I fail to see how my contract for a secure network with an American Public Company (or Private) constitute my divulgence of such information to a third party.

  2. Re:Curious economics of private spaceflight on SpaceX Capsule Returns To Earth With Lab Results · · Score: 1

    Yeah the thing about (the modern American) ardent libertarian is that they are usually utterly, 180 degrees wrong. It's sort of like teaching Ayn Rand in a undergrad philosophy class on ethics or even metaphysics - it has no place to be taken seriously

    Those in power... you mean the people when their representation still had a modicum of integrity?

    Honestly - one non-sequitur leap to another - what is it that you are saying?

  3. Re:how pretty on More Eye Candy Coming To Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    "It is difficult to keep a straight face and state that OSX is stable. Xcode crashes all the time, Qt software crashes all the time, visualization software works much better on Linux."

    I play with the same tools - and I experience no instability like this on OS X. Xeon and Core Ix series hardware.

  4. Re:This doesn't add up on Infected ATMs Give Away Millions of Dollars Without Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Mmmmmmm! Cookies!

  5. Can it teach me kung fu?

  6. Re:It's not just the refund on Amazon Fighting FTC Over In-App Purchases Fine · · Score: 3, Informative

    "People aren't willing to accept responsibility for themselves and their kids" Buillshit. The practice is deceptive and industry is play on the ignorance of the consumer.

  7. It's Intended on Amazon Fighting FTC Over In-App Purchases Fine · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is no doubt in my mind this was part of the ROI model when they were thinking up ways to pilfer your dollars in somewhat covert ways... there is also no doubt they can make this effort much more transparent for the same reason.

  8. Re:Lower cost for H1B ? In your dreams .... on If Immigration Reform Is Dead, So Is Raising the H-1B Cap · · Score: 2

    I have first hand experience with it - and it's clear, as the message came from the top to drive down wages... look for foreign workers. Laws be dammed, particularly in right to work states. It's a sad but real truth to this situation of immigration. Is it everywhere - of course not - but I'd wager mostly everywhere.

  9. Re:R's support lower H1B caps? on If Immigration Reform Is Dead, So Is Raising the H-1B Cap · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly - there are plenty of workers here in America that can fill that void - employers are just reluctant to pay the proper price for it.

  10. Re:Oligarch's Game on Teaching College Is No Longer a Middle Class Job · · Score: 1

    You need to get involved more early on int eh process - and ensure the candidates that are groomed are not the minions you so aptly referred to.

    ...but yeah - I hear you loud and clear on the false choice argument.

  11. Oligarch's Game on Teaching College Is No Longer a Middle Class Job · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Evermore, even our education system in the USA is now a "big" business, just like healthcare - this is despicable. Its a disgrace. It's been going on for decades, albeit at a somewhat chelonian pace; and now it's accelerating. Keep on voting GOP and corporate clown Dems... and this result will continue. Young people- you must get and vote - save your generation. Mine is lost to the oligarchs.

  12. Re:this IS news !! on FTC Lobbies To Be Top Cop For Geolocation · · Score: 1

    Sounds like Orwellian double speak to me... ;-)

  13. Re:Copyright ending on Web Browsing Isn't Copyright Infringement, Rules EU Court of Justice · · Score: 1

    Yes, I am aware.

  14. ...but isn't this really about information control as opposed to a business model initiative? Print has been dying a slow death for the better part of a decade now.

  15. Re:Copyright ending on Web Browsing Isn't Copyright Infringement, Rules EU Court of Justice · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...or of course, just get rid of congress once and for all and elect working class people who know better from the get-go. It comes down to getting the money out of politics. It's time. Cheers!

  16. Just one more reason on Criminals Using Drones To Find Cannabis Farms and Steal Crops · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... to legalize and regulate.

  17. Re:another great example... on How Airports Became Ground Zero In the Battle For Peer-to-Peer Car Rentals · · Score: 1

    Yes! the government's economic arm... but this is different than the corrosive state of affairs we have today, wouldn't you agree? And by extension of government, you are to say they are governing powers? No. emphatically not. But that is indeed what is starting to happen in today's society. A parent / child relationship is not what we have... and in my mind there is no such thing as a "free market" present in the USA. Adam Smith's invisible hand is a myth here... its stroking the ego of the fascists right now fact. Its either regulated, policed, and maintained to operate with our corruption, or its corrupt to the bone. There is no in between save for one scenario: the morality of man gets with it, so as to not needing the policing and regulation. I am not suggest theocracy here - I am suggesting morality as a cultural underpinning. My point being it needs to be a one way relationship - which it is - but in the wrong direction at the moment.

  18. Re:another great example... on How Airports Became Ground Zero In the Battle For Peer-to-Peer Car Rentals · · Score: 1

    "They see the state and the corporation as opposing forces." Benito would be proud.

  19. Introductions... on Classified X-37B Space Plane Breaks Space Longevity Record · · Score: 2

    Negotiating First Contact?

  20. Re:ENLARGE YOUR ANTENNA on MIT's Inflatable Antennae Could Boost Small Satellite Communications · · Score: 1

    Can you put your weed in there?

  21. Re:Other than a few uber nerds on Most Tor Keys May Be Vulnerable To NSA Cracking · · Score: 1

    "...get off your ass and act in that place called 'the real world' and stop voting for assholes who erode our privacy in far more damaging ways."

    Bingo.

    Cookie for BitZ!

  22. Repulsion Engines Online on Physicists Turn Pull Into Push · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Make it so!

  23. Re:What you do is... on The Three Pillars of Nokia Strategy Have All Failed · · Score: 1

    Ummm... who's Nokia? ;-)

  24. Re:Nothing new on The History of Lying With Images · · Score: 2

    Wait until they get a load of the linguistic programming that has transpired...

  25. Re:Not exactly on AMD Reportedly Preparing Massive Layoff · · Score: 1

    If you are going to count tablets and phones - Apple makes their own chips now, no? I just don't se ARM being competitive outside the mobile device space - which IS quite significant, and growing... no?