Comment I prefer cash because (Score 1) 441
I do not like to have all of my transactions tracked, analyzed, scrutinized, questioned, etc... Also, electric transactions do not work in the vast majority of the world, money does.
Comment I am more than a little disspapointed that /. (Score 1) 1352
is being used for meaningless political grandstanding and flame bating. All the mass media "news" networks ceased pushing "news" long time ago, and they are just businesses pandering to their particular demographic selling their BRAND, continuing to fool people that there is a difference between political parties and claiming that their political party has "morals". THEY ARE ALL SELLING YOU STUFF - books, lectures, commercials, and other tangible and intangible merchandise! What happened to News for Nerds and Stuff that Matters?
Comment Obligatory Family Guy (Score 1) 196
Why are we not funding this?!?!?
Comment and they call Assange a criminal?!?!? (Score 5, Insightful) 299
As law abiding citizens we get sexually assaulted by the TSA, and have our privacy constantly violated by every 3 letter government parasite, and when we complain we are told that its all in the name of "Greater Good" and the ole Family Guy "Everything changed on 911..... EVERYTHING!!!", but when guy like Assange basically does what American news agencies do for ratings suddenly even the most staunch conservatives call for his head ignoring our own constitution and the international laws. Boooooooogles teh mind!
Comment Is it because DSLR technology is actually (Score 1) 446
capable of stealing peoples souls?
Comment The Problem With the Top500 Supercomputer List?!?! (Score 1) 175
Still cant play Crysis!!! Literally...
Comment TSA has a new mascot (Score 3, Funny) 1135
its the PEDOBEAR!
Comment Will Netflix Destroy the Internet? (Score 2, Insightful) 577
No.
Comment This one time at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam (Score 1) 642
Customs guy asked if he can get into my pockets and pad my inseam after I didn't want to get scanned, I told him to knock himself out and feel free to give me a hand-job while he was down there. He was WAAAAAAAY more uncomfortable than I was. Don't underestimate the human element, turn the tables on the tools of tyranny and get into their heads.
Comment I like how people maintain the delusion... (Score 1) 685
that corporations lean to the left or to the right based on some moral principles. Corporations butter whoever is in charge and whoever reciprocates them the most, that's all. The rest of this "younger, hipper, educated in better schools, etc" is anecdotal. Corporations support whoever lets them get away with "patriotic" activities like tax-evasion (hello Google, Facebook, Micro$oft, etc), in this case its the present administration.
Comment So it turns out that Mass Creation (Score 1) 184
Is all about Compactification!
Comment So is it a SSD drive or a Flash drive? (Score 1) 348
Because on Apple's website they keep saying flash storage...
Comment Thats African American Silicon! (Score -1, Troll) 56
You insensitive clods!
Assange Denied Swedish Residence On Confidential Reasons 260
MotorMachineMercenar writes "The Local reports that Julian Assange has been denied a residence permit in Sweden. The WikiLeaks spokesman and Australian citizen applied for residency in August, apparently to gain the freedom of speech protection offered by Swedish laws. When asked about the reasons for the denial, a Swedish official responsible replied, '...secrecy prevails in reference to the grounds for such a decision,' essentially meaning the reasons are confidential. Assange has been recently under investigation for sexual molestation charges, which were withdrawn and then re-instated. WikiLeaks is expected to release up to 400,000 confidential US military documents in the near future, which would be the largest such leak in US history."
Comment Yeah we need a second Earth to export the STUPID! (Score 2, Interesting) 738
Never mind that we constantly continue to find new resources, never mind that our technology continues to change and improve, nah its DOOM the freaking SKY is FALLING, mass extinction, whitey guilt, global colding, lack of DIVERSITY, we need one more planet. I agree with that last part - we need one more planet, because the amounts of STUPID, self righteous, pseudo intellectual, whiny douchebags who believe in wealth redistribution and entitlement has reached the limit. We need a second planet to export the STUPID.
