As others have pointed out, this hatchet job coming on the heels of the pathetically-accidental discovery of the massive FedGov personnel breach cannot be unrelated. An obvious attempt to divert blame from the stunning incompetence of multiple agencies by laying it at the feet of the evil totem Snowden. But obvious still seems to work on increasingly harried USians with little time left in their days to think critically and ask: who benefits?

Plus before long cell phones will replace your credit card, and when your "credit card" is a no longer a dumb piece of plastic but basically a super computer with tons advanced sensors in your pocket it opens up a whole new world.

"Assuming the attacker didn't get too much of your wife's blood into any of the ports when he took off her fingers."

The reason a more socialized approach works in Nordic countries (and a few other places as well) is sadly this: tribalism. These are societies where there is a good chance everyone is distantly related as going way, way back, everyone was part of the same *tribe*.

When your neighbor is down on his luck, you don't mind him being on the dole as you both probably share the same great ^x grandfather. But if your new neighbor is visually, obviously from 'somewhere else', that's when the tribalist (read:racist) resentments kick in. Because the US is so heterogeneous, those differences are always there to be exploited by the cynical puppets of the (99% white) power structure, to keep all the various tribes at each others' throats, instead of them all realizing and turning on their common enemy.

It still amazes me to see folks still operating (let alone being allowed to sell) drones without any shielding around the prop perimeters. Yes, yes; weight and efficiency, but I don't think the bystander damage would be nearly as great when *when* they fall out of the sky.

Why is this NASA, as opposed to, say, THE FAA, and the FCC as well?

I experience that with my wife. She's got a reasonably nice desktop for doing what she does (nothing important)

other than looking for a better husband.

I've been on Slashdot since the 90s, and I can at least say that it's a somewhat sane place to discuss tech-related and nerd-related topics (other than the typical political/religious commentary nonsense).

But never warm guns, for therein, happiness lies.

"UltraCold! So cold, you can't even taste it! Oh, yeah!!"

The criminals came to the attention of police after repeatedly initiating man-in-the-middle attacks against European companies, using intrusions and social engineering to route corporate payments to their own bank accounts.

Corporate lucre being stolen? Break out the task force! Consumers being hacked? Go fuck yourselves.

As a Californian, I am ashamed to say, she is my senator.

Yeah, but WHY IS THAT STILL TRUE? Does Orange County and San Diego truly control the entire state? I guess so, given that if this state was even half as progressive as they like portray themselves, by now, no one would even remember her.

People do lose opportunities and jobs when they are employed at making things that can be made more cheaply elsewhere, but they gain jobs when they are employed at making things that can be made more cheaply here.

Absolute bullshit. Yes, a few lucky survivors of the tsunami might make it thru your euphemistic 'rising tide', but in the aggregate, there will be (hell, are already) fewer and fewer living wage jobs left (this is intentional, as it will drive wages down, eagerly taken by people nearly driven mad by desperation). What the craven MBA crowd always forget is that well-paid workers are also their customers, FFS.

So to just so lightly breeze over the rotten core of this travesty makes you either a liar or an economist (but I repeat myself).

Self-Driving cars to further enhance continuous surveillance by the Corporate State.

Even if you do let it drive you to the bar or liquor store and back, your health insurance premiums just went up in real time (doubly so if you hit a fast food drive thru).

There's no doubt in my mind that on 9/11, Rove and Cheney danced a joyous jig when they realized the tragedy could be exploited to justify Endless War (TM) and the Surveillance State for both political and (far more importantly) financial gain.

Related: why do so many Americans still hate Edward Snowden? Because he took away their precious fantasy about 'That Shining City on the Hill' being a source and protector of all things good and just.

The day the Stasi come to collect your registered guns,

People with this attitude express it with the fervent hope that it will happen. I suppose mainly, so they can experience going out in a blaze of glorious he-man bullets, Peckinpah-style.

When one walled garden just isn't enough!