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  1. Re:No shit, this is the JOB of the NSA on WikiLeaks: NSA Recording All Telephone Calls In Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    The rights of the Constitution only apply to US citizens. It is US law, it's not natural law.

  2. No shit, this is the JOB of the NSA on WikiLeaks: NSA Recording All Telephone Calls In Afghanistan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This part of the Snowden leaks is the part I have a problem with. This is EXACTLY what the NSA is supposed to be doing. Making this part public record does do damage to the US and is part of being a traitor. I have zero problems with Snowden leaking information about the NSA spying on Americans, not because it effects me, but because it's a violation of the Constitution and the NSA does NOT have that authority, regardless of what laws Congress passes. If the SCOTUS wasn't such pussies they would have taken this on years ago and stopped it, but instead they are 100% complicit in this as well. If Snowden has a problem with these actions from the NSA, why did he take a job there in the first place?

  3. Re:What does this mean? on Air Force Prepares to Dismantle HAARP · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.nrl.navy.mil/resear... http://www.nrl.navy.mil/search... http://www.nrl.navy.mil/media/... HAARP was used for all kinds of testing related to the ionosphere. Looks like the Navy's initial interest was trying to use the ionosphere to send messages to submarines.

  4. Price and DRM on Sony Warns Demand For Blu-Ray Diminishing Faster Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Hollywood still hasn't figured out the two main reasons people don't stock pile movies at home, price and DRM. Netflix and Amazon make it so much easier to watch movies because of this. If new movies cost $5 a piece on Blu-Ray, I'd have a massive collection of BR's instead of 20.

  5. Re:link on Facebook Data Miner Will Shock You · · Score: 4, Informative

    digitalshadow.com It's interesting to see what it says. I was suprised more by how much it got wrong, than by what it got right.

  6. Re:This happened to my wife on IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt · · Score: 1

    It was on NPR this morning.

  7. Re:Over 18 on IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt · · Score: 1

    Gestapo? WTF man, The IRS is officially suspending this as of today.

  8. Re:Flight recorder on How Satellite Company Inmarsat Tracked Down MH370 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You are making a PRESUMPTION that the transponders were turned off by hand. There is still the possibility of a fire or some other case. This is why recovery of the FDR's is so important. The pilots may not have been on the radio, but the FDR's record everything they say. The conversations between flight crew is crucial, along with all the airplane data.

  9. Re:Figure out where he is located on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 2

    Zimmerman is latino not white. Fail.

  10. Re:Didn't Samsung cancel Apple's contract? on TSMC Preparing To Manufacturer A6X Chip As Apple Looks to Ditch Samsung · · Score: 1

    Samsung cancelled Apple's LCD contract. I had the wrong contract.

  11. Didn't Samsung cancel Apple's contract? on TSMC Preparing To Manufacturer A6X Chip As Apple Looks to Ditch Samsung · · Score: 1

    I thought it was Samsung that pulled this contract.

  12. List of where they are? on Obama Administration Closing Recently Opened Datacenters · · Score: 1

    Where is the list of these datacenters? One is in my town and I want to know more about it.

  13. Re:Oohh.. on Supreme Court: AT&T Can Force Arbitration · · Score: 1

    Judicial Activism simply means "I don't agree with the courts ruling" It's a BS term. The SC make rulings on how they feel a law is supposed to be interpreted, that is their job.

  14. Re:Job Change on Promotion Or Job Change: Which Is the Best Way To Advance In IT? · · Score: 2

    Everyone is replaceable. If you think you're not, you have an ego problem.

  15. As an network administrator on Ask Slashdot: Do I Give IT a Login On Our Dept. Server? · · Score: 1

    If you want something to run on the corporate network, and ESPECIALLY if you want a firewall hole opened up, you sure as hell better be giving me access to your server. And I better be able to have full admin rights, even if I'm not going to do anything to it. This is an ABSOLUTE requirement, there is no exceptions here. You would be lucky to get permission to even plug a network cable into this since you didn't go to the IT department about this before you ever started. IT is for the IT people for a damn good reason. Things you haven't taken into account, security (ok, I'll give it that you have thought about this some), HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxly, several other legal liabilities that fall back upon the IT dept if something gets hacked on that box. All of these have to be taken into account.

  16. Anonymous? on Patent Troll Going After Alzheimer's Researchers · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a good target for anonymous to me.

  17. WHat HORRIBLE place to store photos on Ask Slashdot: Facebook Archiving? · · Score: 1

    Why would you ever consider that a repository for your photos? It's a place to share them, but that sure as hell is not where you want to store them for keep sake. When you upload photos to FB they are down rez'd. The image quality of them is lost. That reason alone is why you should NEVER consider it a long term store for your records. Read the fine print, it's explained.

  18. Re:RELAY ALL OUTGOING TO YOUR ISP... on Ask Slashdot: Is There a War Against Small Mail Servers? · · Score: 1

    No do not do this. The reverse lookups on the domain name will fail, and they will be blacklisted as a spammer. The CORRECT response is to get the ISP to not block 25.

  19. Are you sure you're on a business class service? on Ask Slashdot: Is There a War Against Small Mail Servers? · · Score: 1

    If you are on a business class service, they should not be blocking smtp traffic. I work at a place that uses business TWC and we send and receive a LARGE volume of email everyday. You need to call their business support and talk to them, it's not the same number as residential.

  20. 3 hours later on MPAA Threatens To Disconnect Google From Internet · · Score: 1

    Google sells direct connections to their nationwide backbone, creating a whole new internet. The old internet withers and dies in a matter of weeks.

  21. Re:Redundant on Motorola Sticks To Guns On Locking Down Android · · Score: 1

    Motorola thumping their chest and trying to say you can't do that with our phones. When you can. It just means when a new phone comes out it takes a little longer. It's probably more sucking up to the PhoCo's than it has anything to do with the endusers. I'm sure Motorola really doesn't even care. After all, including efuse increases complexity of design, increases cost of production, creates more points of failure, ect, ect. There is no real reason for them to want that feature, other than Verizon and the likes saying if you don't include it we won't buy it.

  22. Re:Is that a challenge? on Motorola Sticks To Guns On Locking Down Android · · Score: 1

    The Droid X was locked down this way, and guess what, it's rooted. There's numerous ROM's for it. Just means it will take a couple of months from release before it's running root is all.

  23. It's not illegal on Microsoft Slams Google Over HTML5 Video Decision · · Score: 5, Funny

    when Microsoft does it!!

  24. Re:Should have deleted it from the start on Google Declines To Turn Over Harvested Wi-Fi Data · · Score: 1

    I agree with you, I don't see what the big deal is. If you are broadcasting your wifi unencrypted, then you have no right to bitch if something get recorded.

  25. Re:Great, but... on Tron: Legacy · · Score: 1

    Depends if you saw it real3d or imax. Imax uses tinting.