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  1. Facebook only cares about numbers, not if they're real people

    Tell that to Marty the Marmot

  2. Suggested searches for "Conservatives are..." on Google Settles Decade-Long Tax Dispute In UK (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    It has been noticed that since this sweetheart deal, typing "Conservatives are" into google doesn't throw up any suggested searches (contrast with those suggested for "Labour are" and "Libdems are"). Correlation is not causation of course, could just be a happy coincidence.

  3. Re:Old news on Google Settles Decade-Long Tax Dispute In UK (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    It was also illuminating that he doesn't know how much he himself is paid.

  4. Re:A weight has been lifted. on Kilogram Conflict Resolved At Last (nature.com) · · Score: 2

    It's ok, they won't be here furlong

  5. Re: Whats wrong with US society on Privately Owned Armored Trucks Raise Eyebrows After Dallas Attack · · Score: 1

    poorest state is wealthier than the UK on a per capita basis

    According to Wikipedia, the poorest state is Mississippi with a per capita GDP of $28,900. Depending on whose figures you use, the UK has a per capita GDP of between $37,000 and $39,000, which would rank the UK somewhere around #32 out of 50 states. Or were you not talking about GDP?

  6. Standards? on Apple CarPlay Rollout Delayed By Some Carmakers · · Score: 2

    Imagine a world where there were multiple standards for cigarette lighter^W^W accessory power connectors, and how different the market for accessories would be. Im surprised that car manufacturers, whose product development cycle is quite lengthy, are willing to accomodate proprietary (and likely fleeting) technologies.

  7. Is "tyrant" now the opposite of "activist"? on UK Computing Student Jailed After Failing To Hand Over Crypto Keys · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Tyrant judge"?! He was applying the law. A bad law in the opinion of many people, sure, but nonetheless crystal clear in its scope and effect. Are you saying the judge should have not applied the law? That he should have ignored the statute and made up his own rules? You're in favor of "activist judges"?

  8. 100 watts?! on USB Reversable Cable Images Emerge · · Score: 1, Interesting

    At 5 volts, 100 Watts is a current of 20 amps. That's a lot of current for such small connections.

  9. Re:Lies, damned lies, and links on Edward Snowden and the Death of Nuance · · Score: 1

    Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is not a part of the judicial system and is not "some judges".

    True. But maybe the article just chose poor links, because federal judge Richard Leon ruled that bulk phone record collection is illegal.

  10. The mangled version is in the original on Snapchat Account Registration CAPTCHA Defeated · · Score: 1

    Note also that the hypnosec didn't "write" this submission - like the vast majority of submitters s/he simply copy& pasted the first two paragraphs from the fine article. In other words, both submitter and slashdot admin either didn't read it, or have terrible reading comprehension skills. Probably both.

  11. Re: Arthur Conan Doyle was Scottish on Sherlock Holmes Finally In the Public Domain In the US · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've heard that the definition of a Scottish gentleman is one who knows how to play the bagpipes, but refrains from doing so.

  12. Re:Chilling on Obama Praises NSA But Promises To Rein It In · · Score: 1

    you want to destroy a representation of the records, but keep them in storage somewhere?

    I was more imagining the records fashioned into a Wicker Man style construction, with Clapper, Alexandar et al as the soft centre. I'd be tempted to do some chanting and dancing around that

  13. Re:Silly walks.. on And Now For Something Completely Different: Monty Python Reunion Planned · · Score: 1

    Splitter!

  14. Kill switch needed on Court: Homeland Security Must Disclose 'Internet Kill Switch' · · Score: 1

    What we really need is a kill switch on the DHS, and the other out-of-control TLAs

  15. Re:not the end of the world on Asian Giant Hornets Kill 42 People In China, Injure Over 1,500 · · Score: 1

    Enjoyed your post. I want to hear more about how the nest "mysteriously exploded and fell from its branch". Was that around the time you learned how much their sting hurts, by any chance?

  16. Re:I hearby pledged my oath and rifle... on Yahoo CEO Says It Would Be Treason To Decline To Cooperate With the NSA · · Score: 2

    The FISC, acting as a Star Chamber as it does, is part of the problem here, so quoting its ruling is begging the question. Secret law is not law.

  17. Not Greenwald on Report: Britain Has a Secret Middle East Web Surveillance Base · · Score: 1

    Regardless of your imaginings about Greenwald, this latest release is nothing to with him or the Guardian, but comes from another newspaper the Independent. Snowden and the Guardian strongly dispute that Snowden's materials are the source of the Independent's story, and claim that the UK government itself must be the source of this particular material.

  18. Not sourced from Snowden materials on Report: Britain Has a Secret Middle East Web Surveillance Base · · Score: 1

    The important story here is not that there's more secret surveillance, it's that the Independent claims that the story is based on materials from Snowden, and he and the Guardian flat-out deny that. The obvious implication is that the UK government itself "leaked" the material to the Independent, to create an appearance of potential danger to people arising from "the Snowden disclosures", a type of release that Snowden and the Guardian have strenuously avoided.

  19. Geography fail on International Climate Panel Cites Near Certainty On Warming · · Score: 2

    EU nations have managed to put up a full service light rail system connecting all your major cities, in an area about as large as the five boroughs of NYC.

    The area of NYC is somewhere between 650 sq.km and 950 sq.km, depending on how you measure. There are 44 European countries larger than 1000 sq.km - NYC is only larger than Andorra, Malta, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Monaco and Vatican City. Even the 44th largest on the list, Luxembourg, is more than two and a half times bigger than NYC.

  20. Re:woosh on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 2

    I think the nearest equivalent would be a D-Notice

  21. Re:Of Course on NSA Still Funded To Spy On US Phone Records · · Score: 1

    Everybody knows what the outcome will be before the vote is taken

    That may be ordinarily true, but the fact that the White House vocalised opposition In an emergency statement on Tuesday, and the NSA director spent four hours lobbying Congress behind closed doors, shows how worried the authorities were about this amendment.

  22. "Inadvertent" on Use Tor, Get Targeted By the NSA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    NSA agents are not allowed to eat cookies. However, they may take items from the cookie jar and place them in their mouths to determine whether they are cookies. Any cookies which are inadvertently swallowed may be retained.

  23. Re:Of Course.. on Snowden Is Lying, Say House Intelligence Committee Leaders · · Score: 1

    What excuse is there really for not putting a torrent up somewhere?

    That he is a patriot whose loyalty is first and foremost is to his country, and not to his "superiors" who have shredded its constitution?

  24. Re:Of course. on Snowden Is Lying, Say House Intelligence Committee Leaders · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Both sides are lying, but the truth isn't in the middle - it's off on a tangent that no one talks about. There have recently been a flurry of scandals from DC, all showing up at a time when Benghazi was starting to be looked at very closely

    You're really trying to claim that the Benghazi "scandal" - where USG allegedly didn't quickly enough label an incident as terrorism - is way more serious an issue than a massive program of covert surveillance? So serious that revealing the NSA's secrets is a useful distraction? There has been plenty of partisan smoke blown over the revelations, but yours is the most ridiculuous I've seen.

    I had a point to all this that I think I've lost

    I think it is the plot, rather than the point, that you have lost. Well, that and your constitutional rights. At least your sig got it right.

  25. "active" pages, not local keylogging on US Mining Data Directly From 9 Silicon Valley Companies · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm pretty sure I'd notice a keylogger on my network sending every keystroke out to elsewhere

    Do you believe that, for example, google search prediction-as-you-type is using a keylogger? It is keylogging, it's just that it's server-side.