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  1. Simple Solution on AT&T Locks Apple SIM Cards On New iPads · · Score: 1

    Break up ATT and Verizon.

  2. What did you expect? on Verizon Injects Unique IDs Into HTTP Traffic · · Score: 1

    Everyone was targeting mobile use because that's what the average slob uses, remember Facebook's panic because they couldn't find the right model for mobile?
    How many other methods are in use? Who else is using this method? (ATT?)
    Are agencies like the NSA doing something similar?

  3. And guess which orders get targeted for that loogie.

  4. Re:Scary Stuff on Incapacitating Chemical Agents: Coming Soon To Local Law Enforcement? · · Score: 1

    I recall that, makes sense if they used Naloxone to revive a few, hard to say what would have happened if they hadn't used the gas but the body count was far to high.

    The thing that troubles me is the Western governments acceptance of the use of it.

  5. Scary Stuff on Incapacitating Chemical Agents: Coming Soon To Local Law Enforcement? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    During the raid, all 40 of the attackers were killed, with no casualties among spetznas, but about 130 hostages died due to adverse reactions to the gas (including nine foreigners).[3] All but two of the hostages who died during the siege were killed by the toxic substance pumped into the theater to subdue the militants.[4][5] The use of the gas was widely condemned as heavy-handed, but the American and British governments deemed Russia's actions justifiable.[6] Physicians in Moscow condemned the refusal to disclose the identity of the gas that prevented them from saving more lives. Some reports said the drug naloxone was successfully used to save some hostages.[7]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  6. If you remember only one line on Isaac Asimov: How Do People Get New Ideas? · · Score: 1

    Remember this one:

    people capable of making a connection between item 1 and item 2 which might not ordinarily seem connected.

  7. OK on DHS Investigates 24 Potentially Lethal IoT Medical Devices · · Score: 1

    But don't we have an agency that is competent and less "Ministry of Information Retrievaly" than the DHS?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  8. Does it rape your privacy on Microsoft Introduces Build Cadence Selection With Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    As well as Yosemite does?

  9. This sort of thing, shelter in place, what's happening in the Poconos, the police response to the Boston bombers is to acclimatize the sheep to a police state

  10. LMAO on Facebook To DEA: Stop Using Phony Profiles To Nab Criminals · · Score: 1

    "The DEA's deceptive actions... threaten the integrity of our community,"

    Integrity... that's rich.

  11. iOS and OSX on Barometers In iPhones Mean More Crowdsourcing In Weather Forecasts · · Score: 0

    Now with even less privacy!!!

  12. Laugh on If You're Connected, Apple Collects Your Data · · Score: 0

    Cow goes mooooooooooooo

  13. Re:Huh on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Then it probably won't be American made.

  14. Re:if you think products are consumer driven. on Apple Doesn't Design For Yesterday · · Score: 1

    Yeah they created a hybrid to go around rules, but they still had to convince the public that's what they wanted.

    Now look at us.

    Cow goes mooooo

  15. Re:Laugh on Apple Doesn't Design For Yesterday · · Score: 1

    Dude... you got a Dell...

    I build my own.

  16. Re:Huh on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 1

    A quick Google search shows there are sources, and most likely will be for a long time considering the reliability of the weapon.

    I think this is just someone wanting a mall ninja gun, something black and spiky.

    Besides how much shooting do they do on duty?

  17. Huh on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 1

    If you have "unfailing reliability" why change it? It's a weapon not a computer.

  18. Re:if you think products are consumer driven. on Apple Doesn't Design For Yesterday · · Score: 1

    It does seem like corporations tell consumers what they want, how else do you explain the SUV.

  19. Re:'Backward compatibility' on Apple Doesn't Design For Yesterday · · Score: 1

    Must be a reason for that support, lets see what turns up when people stick picking through Yosemite.

    My guess, they wanted to rape as many cattle as they could.

  20. Laugh on Apple Doesn't Design For Yesterday · · Score: 0

    Apple controls the hardware specs and limits them, they write the code to run on that hardware, and it's still buggy and insecure.
    This article reminds me of the reasons professionals shouldn't bother with Apple, limited hardware choices, virtually no upgrade path, and things do not "just work".

    If you have a ton of money to throw at it every 2 years knock yourself out, I moved Adobe suite and all the pro music software to the PC, which has tons of hardware options, stability I never got with any Apple machine (I've used several) and it's far cheaper.
    I can keep my system intact and add a 4k monitor + new GPU and keep right on going, I keep hoping Linux will get that good and easy but it hasn't yet.
    So I stick with Win7, for me it's the perfect system, stable and fast, easily upgraded.

  21. Re:All warfare is based on deception on Florida Supreme Court: Police Can't Grab Cell Tower Data Without a Warrant · · Score: 2

    See you could have just written the second part, but you needed to throw in the insult.
    So lets look at your premise, you think they (more than one person) are are working for themselves and their own power, which would mean they (more than one person) are coordinating this power grab, and since the outcome is detrimental to our country I think it's safe to say your premise meets this definition.
    conspiracy
    knspirs/
    noun
    noun: conspiracy; plural noun: conspiracies

            a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.
            "a conspiracy to destroy the government"
            synonyms: plot, scheme, plan, machination, ploy, trick, ruse, subterfuge;
            informalracket
            "a conspiracy to manipulate the results"
                    the action of plotting or conspiring.
                    "they were cleared of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice"
                    synonyms: plotting, collusion, intrigue, connivance, machination, collaboration;
                    treason

    I simply asked a question, you sir are the one with the "conspiracy theory".

  22. Re:iMac? on iFixit Tears Apart Apple's Shiny New Retina iMac · · Score: 0

    LOL

  23. iMac? on iFixit Tears Apart Apple's Shiny New Retina iMac · · Score: 2

    With Yosemite on it it's a "deskpad", oh wait it doesn't have a touch screen yet, soon... very soon.

  24. In order to do that the cell phone companies would have to design them that way.

    Which explains things like Apples SSL coding "error".

  25. Re:All warfare is based on deception on Florida Supreme Court: Police Can't Grab Cell Tower Data Without a Warrant · · Score: 2

    Which begs the question "Who do they actually work for?"