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

Tell that to Marty the Marmot

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.

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

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

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?

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.

"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"?

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

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.

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.

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

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

Splitter!

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

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?