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  1. Stopping the bad press. on Police Encrypt Radios To Tune Out Public · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This has nothing to do with safety, this is to mute the press. The press follows the scanner conversations to report on all accidents and incidents. With police hiding records and conversations due to lawsuits, we dont need more "hidden" police communications, we them open to keep them honest.

    Its bad enough the PR for police is on TV, almost 1/2 of the line up are some cop based shows, perfect cops fighting evil criminals.

    In reality, we have a growing movement in the US to keep police honest due to the mega lawsuits in almost every major city. I'm in Seattle, and the police abuse is way out of hand here. The internal coverups, the blue code of silence, the getting ride of whistle blowers, the incompetent police are costing this state with awards and settlements in the millions. Its also sad that the state budget hides these lawsuits. The most open lawsuit loses, department of transportation, they list every payout in our budget. We need that detail for police.

  2. Re:Won't make too much difference on BART Disables Cell Service To Disrupt Protests · · Score: 1

    Following that line, shutting down roads is ok, its "Their roads" after all.

  3. BBS software on Company Claims Ownership of Digital Messaging · · Score: 1

    I could swear this feature existed in old BBS forums. You subscribe to a thread, and it notifies you of updates via system email.

  4. Google+ on Google+ Runs Out of Disk Space, Swamps Users With Notifications · · Score: -1, Troll

    My favorite introduction to Google plus was it scanning my gmails, then asking me if I want to add my ex-wife. WTF?! is wrong with you Google?!

    Lets not even get into the lack of public groups/circles, what a fiasco. I'm not going to add 500+ people individually to make a group.

    This is almost on par of Google Wave, waited weeks to get in, and nobody was on to make it useful. Google killed it off by a horrible launch. This time its a horrible lunch and major flaws. I like Google, but too many people are giving undo fan praise and not real evaluation of the product.

  5. Because on Supreme Court To Weigh In On Warrantless GPS Tracking · · Score: 1

    Getting a warrant is too damn hard!

    Yeah, not going to buy that excuse, not with the number of no-knock search warrants issued every day with no probable cause. Its pretty bad the people we want to protect our rights are fighting to remove them. What's next, my Doctor giving me a prescription for dorritos and beer?!

  6. Interesting. on Skype Execs Purged On Eve of MS Takeover · · Score: 1

    Companies have been burning the worker for years, we have so many exec's who rob a company blind, sell it off, while all the employees are screwed.
    This time its the VC's to the execs, but the execs have excellent lawyers, but is it illegal? Sounds like it is.

    Guess when wall street killed the middle class, the next logical victim is the execs.

    Maybe the execs should unionize. ;)

    *Amusing sidenote, firefox doesn't have unionize in its spell check.

  7. Wood gas would have been cheaper. on Kentucky Man Builds Bourbon Powered Car · · Score: 1

    Wood would be cheaper, but not as efficient. Also has a proven track record.

    http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-cars.html

  8. Binary drivers on Is Samsung Blocking Updates To Froyo? · · Score: 1

    If we had binary drivers as mandatory requirement for android, then we wouldn't be having these problems.

  9. Re:Crazy.... on Free IPv4 Pool Now Down To Seven /8s · · Score: 1

    So many mobile devices using real IP's, (aka most are not phones).. Its crazy.

    I was rather amused back in the day you could ping an ankle bracelet on home prisoners...

  10. More lists? on Internet Blacklist Back In Congress · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's all we need, is more lists for the government to maintain. They do a bang up job already with no-fly.

  11. Re:This was always my biggest problem with Linux on The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders · · Score: 1

    The Not-Me posts are amusingly standard in any topic of performance issues on linux. Thus this patch shows visually in the videos what people have been talking about and ridiculed for posting about slow performance issues. Performance issues are real, but the whole circle jerk posts that there are no performance issues on linux, are yet again, proven wrong.

  12. Taxes on Careful What You Post, the FBI Has More of These · · Score: 1

    This is why I get annoyed at the liberals who think we need to pay more taxes. The layoff of police officers show how personal freedoms are up when police forces are downsized.

    Of course, prime tv seems to be police PR gone crazy, seems like 60-70% of new shows are cop or legal shows.

    Crazy.

  13. Re:Slacker on Copyright License Fees Drive Pandora Out of Canada · · Score: 1

    I switched from Pandora to Slacker, I need caching with no coverage. Slacker for Android is awesome, caches on wifi. I cant do that with Pandora.

  14. Computers Black box on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 1

    This is just an excuse so police can have full time access to your cars computers. Baby steps to full control of your cars.

  15. Re:This just in on Julian Assange Faces Rape Investigation In Sweden — Updated · · Score: 1

    Here in the real world, a nearby city, the state arrested forty-three adults on 29,726 charges of child sex abuse. After all the smoke cleared, and it was found out to be a box hoax. The state had to pay millions of dollars in the end for the mistakes.

    Sane government people started that shitstorm called the Wenatchee sex ring, which was all fake.

    This isn't an isolated occurrence on fake sex charges.

  16. Re:Hypocrisy on Wikipedia To Unlock Frequently Vandalized Pages · · Score: 1

    The editor cliques in wikipedia are pretty bad. Wikipedia can have every detail of a cartoon character but try to create an article on something non-mainstream or of a smaller focus group and it gets killed quickly by the "not popular" enough rule...

    Really ticks me off, is only current news is allowed. You add a famous event earlier than the 80's and the editors think it never happened, and it gets removed.

    Its like the only historical articles allowed are from history books. Last I checked a lot more things happened than the shooting of Lincoln. /sigh

    doubleplusungood.

  17. Re:How come... on Anti-Speed Camera Activist Buys Police Department's Web Domain · · Score: 1

    I really hate that people parrot that the "Right to Movement" isn't a right. Just because the USA now claims its a privilege doesn't mean its morally correct, just means that current US Law interprets as thus.

    It was a right for people to travel by horse, but now that the car is standard, its now a privilege. Makes no damn sense. You cant walk anywhere, roads and highways block interstate travel.

    I just wish people examined the rights and laws and how they were used against the people. Take a look at the Mann Act still in effect today, and its all about morals not safety.

    So many bad laws weaken the rights of the people...

  18. You mean Operation Mexican Sombrero? on BP Says "Top Kill" Operation Has Failed · · Score: 1

    You mean Operation Mexican Sombrero?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHmhxpQEGPo

  19. Re:So? on Earthlink Announces It Must Honor Comcast Cap · · Score: 1

    I nearly went over with Steams Christmas sale!

  20. Re:His Master's Voice on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 1

    Exactly, so many possibilities, they could be biological based, and just be spreading like a weed from a space seed that spreads around the earth quickly and deadly....

  21. Re:Not in Washington on Seattle Hacker Catches Cops Who Hid Arrest Tapes · · Score: 1

    Laws doesn't mean shit on the street.

    Laws come into effect when you're in court, if you make it to court, alive.

  22. Re:Haha. on Will Adobe Sue Apple Over Flash? · · Score: 1

    More like if the PC manufacturer banned all microsoft products from being installed on the platform for no technical reason.

    Kinda like if Microsoft banned valve products from running on windows, but allowed EA and Ubisoft. Its restraint of trade, and illegal, or least is sounds like it to my armchair lawyer wikipedia.

  23. Re:See, this is what happens on Activision Countersues Modern Warfare 2 Execs · · Score: 1

    No way, everyone knows the CEO makes the company, thats why they are paid millions or even billions! ;)

  24. Re:Context? on Wikileaks Releases Video of Journalist Killings · · Score: 1

    It is now, enough press, it hit the BBC then MNBC Then the others. Reuters is pushing it pretty hard, due to them wanting this video for awhile and was denied its FOIA to get the video.

    Killing journalists and hiding was a major fuck up for the military, and I expect some token guy to fall on the sword.

    I've seen the video, people with ak47's could be classified as security protection, they didnt know who these people are, made no attempt to classify these people. And standing in the middle isnt entrenched or ready to ambush.

    Also, I bet much worse stuff happens we never get to see. And we wont know until years after the war.

  25. Re:It's actually worse than that on Twins' DNA Foils Police · · Score: 1

    Exactly, courts can bar evidence and approve your defense. With that, its hard to see how anyone gets a fair trial.

    Oh wait, they dont. The federal government does this on all marijuana cases. You can be legal under state, so your permit to grow pot isnt allowed in court, your plea of innocent, isnt allowed in court.

    Thats why people plea bargain, you cant defend yourself, might as well take the offer they give you, or face 25+ years to life.