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  1. So what? on Michigan Makes It Illegal To Ask For Employees' Facebook Logins · · Score: 1

    Does this mean that if they ask you, you refuse and they then decline your application for any alleged other reason, you have grounds for a lawsuit? Otherwise this is pretty toothless.

  2. Gun owners should be all for it. on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Since they're so proud of their guns. And since guns are mainly intended to secure by deterrence, publicly advertising their presence makes a home that much safer from intruders.

  3. This makes perfect sense. on Drawings of Weapons Led To New Jersey Student's Arrest · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Allow assault rifles to be sold over the counter, but lock up everyone who so much as thinks of drawing one on paper. Your rights to own lethal weapons trumps the right of children not to be shot in the head, but the notebook doodles of frigging sixteen-year-olds are grounds for arrest.

    Fuck the NRA.

  4. Re:so... up to 100 customers then? on Vivos Founder Builds an Underground City Where You Can Ride Out the Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    111, unless the customers from previous years have already bailed.

  5. Re:cancer threat on Possible Habitable Planet Just 12 Light Years Away · · Score: 1

    You can't have it both ways. If we're a cancer, we're incapable of good or evil.

  6. Re:It goes the other way, too on Possible Habitable Planet Just 12 Light Years Away · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If that planet were inhabited by a technological civilization, we should have been detecting their twelve-year-old radio transmissions, faint as they might be.

  7. Re:Identifying the client on Gmail Drops Support for Connecting To Pop3 Servers With Self -Signed Certs · · Score: 1

    If you have an enterprise mail server, your users are employees and bound by company rules. If your security policy forbids employees allowing third parties to access their accounts, then this is already covered. Just tell your IT security folks to have a friendly chat with anyone you catch doing it.

    (And if it doesn't, then it is really more of an insecurity policy, isn't it?)

  8. Re:This is the big difference between the US and t on Swedish Pirate Party Presses Charges Against Banks For WikiLeaks Blockade · · Score: 0

    cool story bro

  9. Re:Treaties on US Refuses To Sign ITU Treaty Over Internet Provisions · · Score: 5, Informative

    I find the US' anti-UN attitude as irritating as you do, but it's not just the US. As the summary mentions there are many other nations in opposition, and the European parliament attacked the ITU as vocally and before the US did. This move was supported and partly spearheaded by MP Amelia Andersdotter of the European Pirate Party. When she's against something concerning the internet, something just might be wrong with it.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Telecommunication_Union#Proposed_Changes_to_the_Treaty_And_Concerns
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/24/european_parliament_votes_against_itu/

  10. Phenomena on Has the Mythical Unicorn of Materials Science Finally Been Found? · · Score: 1

    Phenomenatrices. Things, ye ken well what I mean.

  11. Re:Thank-you Dear Leader on North Korea Launches Long-Range Rocket · · Score: 1

    That sounds healthy.

  12. Re:Correlation does not imply causation on Four Cups of Coffee A Day Cuts Risk of Oral Cancer · · Score: 1

    But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing "look over there!"

  13. Re:statistics on Four Cups of Coffee A Day Cuts Risk of Oral Cancer · · Score: 3, Informative

    If 100 out of 10000 non-coffee-drinkers got cancer (1%) and 51 out of 10000 coffee drinkers got cancer (0.51%) that's a 49% decrease.

  14. Re:where is the random? on High-Frequency Traders Use 50-Year-Old Wireless Tech · · Score: 1

    Hauling cargo is actually of some use to the world.

  15. Re:Stolen to order on F-16 Engines Stolen From Israeli Air Base · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Using the definition of "can lob missiles at each other", most nations in the Middle East are each other's neighbours. The really psychotic kind.

  16. This makes me extremely happy. on Ubuntu 13.04 Will Allow Instant Purchasing, Right From the Dash · · Score: 1

    About my decision to dump it.

  17. Uh-huh. on McAfee Is Doing a Live Broadcast Tonight · · Score: 2

    He's not a murderer and methcook. He's just a victim of circumstance and government conspiracy just like Hans fucking Reiser.

    Who edits this crap?

  18. Re:Well, there is still a way to shut down the CC on Tor Network Used To Command Skynet Botnet · · Score: 2

    Tor's bandwidth and latency are sufficiently abysmal that it acts as a throttle. Overwhelming a number of servers via the Tor network would probably be not much easier than overwhelming the entire Tor network.

  19. Re:This was expected... on Tor Network Used To Command Skynet Botnet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The asshat federal US government sponsored the creation of Tor. Governments who want to crack down on the use of Tor are already doing so openly without resorting to the cloak and dagger tactics you seek to imagine.

    But carry on. The disconnected phrasing of your post hints that observable reality does not significantly influence your thinking.

  20. Great side-effect on Race To Mine Bitcoins Drives Enthusiasts Into the Chip Making Business · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Associating monetary value with computing cycles would eventually incentivize the development of faster and better technology.

    I just hope that whatever these guys come up with will also have applications in the real world.

  21. in before the inevitable lawsuit on Star Wars Fans Plan Full-Size Millennium Falcon Replica · · Score: 1

    come on.

  22. gun meet foot on Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Links To Legal Copies of Their Own Films · · Score: 1

    Ouch.

  23. Re:Subject line ... on The Rise of Feudal Computer Security · · Score: 1

    Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

  24. Re:Advice on Swiss Spy Agency: Counter-Terrorism Secrets Stolen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Showing that the whole "secret Swiss bank account" thing only applies when you're not trying to hide it from the Swiss government. :P

  25. Re:Freedom of choice on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I agree that you shouldn't be obligated to get vaccinated, provided you lock yourself into your house and never touch or breathe on anything in public ever .