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  1. So, all of you on UK Plans Private Police Force · · Score: 1

    Brits that love to berate your colonial brothers for our loss of rights will continue to be even less endowed. Your CCTV system is much more extensive than ours already, yet you continually say otherwise.

  2. Dear Varun, on Startup Wants To Peek Through Your Home's Wired Cameras · · Score: 0
    Kindly go fuck yourself.

    Me

  3. Put it in context on Followup: Ultraviolet Vision After Cataract Surgery · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that many here have deuteronamoly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuteranomaly#Anomalous_trichromacy (often ignorantly referred to as red-green color blindness) or other color vision deficiencies. What many don't realize, even some of those who have it, is that we are better at detecting people or objects that have been camouflaged due to a better ability to spot shapes, shades and movement. Is it better? Mostly not, from my personal experience. But it can come in handy in some very special situations.

  4. Yahoo is a spam trap anyway on Yahoo Blocked Emails About Wall Street Protests · · Score: 1

    Does anyone use it for anything else?

  5. Even if you're innocent on Thermal Imaging Lie Detector In Development · · Score: 1

    You should refuse to give statements to police and prosecutors. Your words will be twisted in order to convict you. They are much more interested in winning a case than finding the truth.

  6. Corruption on UK Government Breaks Open Source Promises · · Score: 1

    FOSS developers don't pay kickbacks. It's as simple as that.

  7. Prosecute all the leakers on WikiLeaks Publishes Cable Archive In Full · · Score: 1

    Nobody forces you to get a security clearance and the process of getting one is intense. You don't get one by accident. Believe me, as a former holder of a TS/SCI clearance, the rules and the consequences of breaking them are crystal clear from the get go. BTW, an SCI (aka codeword) clearance gives you access to raw data that could indicate the source of the information. Leaking that is considered particularly heinous within the intelligence community, as it can endanger human and other sources.

    So, you chose to jump through all the hoops to get your clearance, you agreed to keep national secrets, then you changed your mind somewhere along the line. Now you are blabbing and deserve to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Life without the possibility of parole sounds good. Say hi to Bubba for me.

    If you went in with the intention of spying, I have even less sympathy.

  8. Looting criminals on UK Police Arrest 12 Over Facebook Use Inciting Riots · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That is who slashdot chooses to defend? Probably not if it was Taco's stuff they were stealing but okay if it was someone else's.

  9. Great Idea on Apple Sued Over OS X Quick Boot · · Score: 1

    Form a shell company with little to no assets and use them to fight the morons with little to no patent claim.

  10. La la la morons on New "Last Dinosaur" Find Backs Asteroid Extinction · · Score: 1

    Like any catastrophic event, a chain of events leads up to a final point of failure. The straw that broke the camel's back, as it were (at most). Almost never does one factor result in the collapse of an entire system.

  11. Bingo! on Women Arrested For Refusing TSA Search of Children · · Score: 1

    A jump seat at the front and rear of every plane occupied by a uniformed marshal with a clearly visible assault rifle would stop pretty much all of this nonsense.

  12. Fuck PayPal on PayPal Predicts the End of the Wallet By 2015 · · Score: 1

    and the eBay they rode in on. I wouldn't do business with either of those cock suckers.

  13. Stop fucking buying from them on Graphing Internet Interaction To Spot Spammers · · Score: 1

    Is it really that big of a mystery?

  14. If this is a joke, on Feds To Remotely Uninstall Bot From Some PCs · · Score: 1

    it's not funny. If it isn't a joke it is insanely stupid.

  15. If you're lucky, on AT&T's Metered Billing Off By Up To 4,700% · · Score: 1

    maybe you'll get this like I did from http://www.myusage.att.com/

    "AT&T is not able to capture usage data on all of its customers. Customers whose usage is not available for viewing should not be concerned about their usage patterns for billing purposes. To learn more about how to manage your usage, please visit www.att.com/internet-usage"

    It could be outdated equipment in the CO here in Key West or my old Bell South modem (ANT).

  16. I call bullshit on Texas Bill Outlaws Discrimination Against Creationists In Academia · · Score: 1

    Catholicism is the most anti-science of all the supposedly Christian sects. Just check their record of oppression dating back to Galileo and beyond.

  17. Windows users on Ex-NSA Analyst To Be Global Security Head At Apple · · Score: 3, Insightful

    pay a crapload and Linux users pay nothing. Sounds like the tax is already in place. Maybe the money is just going to the wrong people.

  18. Can I contribute on WikiLeaks Gives $15k To Bradley Manning Defense · · Score: 1, Troll

    to the prosecution? As a former holder of a TS/SCI clearance who took my oath of secrecy seriously I would like to see this guy get nailed to the wall.

  19. I don't have a problem with this on Pentagon Makes Good On Plan To Destroy Critical Book · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was in the USAF ~30 years ago working for the USAFSS, later ESC. We were tasked by NSA and in fact my last posting was at Ft. Meade (NSA HQ) after several years in the far east. My TS/SCI clearance gave me access not only to Top Secret information, but the source of that information as well. You don't get drafted into this kind of work. It is something you have to work hard for and vetting for a clearance is extremely rigorous. The agreements that you sign entail many restrictions and if you don't want to be bound by them, don't sign them. If you have some kind of moral or ethical problem with that, stay out of the business. I have no sympathy for anyone who gives away national secrets. Prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.

  20. So it's okay... on Feds Won't File Charges In School Laptop-Spy Case · · Score: 1

    to covertly take pictures of teenagers in their bedrooms, but not okay to openly record abusive police actions in public.

    Something is seriously wrong.

  21. Pinball on The Great Operating System Games · · Score: 1

    It came with Windows 2000. The physics were very realistic and the sounds were spot on.

  22. How about ethics and ecology? on Louisiana, Intelligent Design, and Science Classes · · Score: 1

    Maybe they could hire some BP executives and scientists to help them out with those subjects.

  23. Old News on EFF Says Forget Cookies, Your Browser Has Fingerprints · · Score: 1, Informative

    This was covered in January.

  24. Sieze and license on The Short Arm of the Law · · Score: 1

    The government owns the patents and gets license fees as recompense.

  25. Still blocked on AT&T Blocks Part of 4chan · · Score: 1

    As of Monday at 7am here in Key West, it is still blocked. Not that I care, but it is unavailable.