Comment Wait, what? (Score 4, Insightful) 513
Do they really have nothing more pressing to deal with than legislating common courtesy?
Comment Galactic Spying (Score 1) 43
I see the NSA is not content with spying on Earthlings...
Comment Declared by Syria... (Score 1) 97
21 of the 23 sites declared by Syria
And how many sites do they have that they didn't declare?
Comment Re:Halifax too! (Score 1) 161
Does it tell you how long it will take to get out of the cone of snooping?
Comment Be careful when you hire... (Score 1) 76
Did the same people design this tank that couldn't handle the English-to-Metric conversion problem at NASA?
Comment Re:Predicting a future headline: (Score 1) 126
A more realistic future headline will involve the Darwin Award.
Comment Very Bad (Score 1) 242
I seem to recall the M5 using wireless charging over distance with disastrous results...
Comment Of course they did (Score 1) 47
Ancient Egyptians had help from aliens when they built the Pyramids... Its only natural they would make jewelry from space rocks. Duh!
Comment Re:Why is this on Slashdot? (Score 1) 784
Or in a Monty Python sketch... "Its symbolic of his struggle against reality"
Comment Re:Wrong question... (Score 1) 183
what is considered "good" in humor is usually subjective.
Comment Wrong question... (Score 1) 183
Of course there can be open source music. The proper question is, of course, can there be good open source music?
Comment Wait, what? (Score 3, Funny) 115
You mean that Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction was fiction? Shocking. Does that mean we really did land on the Moon?
NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times Per Year, Audit Finds 312
NettiWelho writes "The Washington Post reports: The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents. Most of the infractions involve unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets in the United States, both of which are restricted by law and executive order. They range from significant violations of law to typographical errors that resulted in unintended interception of U.S. e-mails and telephone calls."
Comment Third-party Hardware (Score 1) 180
The only drawback is that you need this aftermarket hardware to plug it into the cradle.
Comment Headstart (Score 1) 173
They want to get out in front of any standards so they can design in any API that the NSA needs. Those things are notoriously hard to get right after the fact.
