What the hell are you doing on slashdot?

Reading the articles, baby.

the sort of moralists who read HotAir

Seriously? You are going to attack a message based on who delivered it? Well, my first link was from CNN, is that Ok with you? I then went searching for any report on what happened to them — is it my fault, that the CNN had no attention span enough to follow-up on the story?

You are comparing two very different things.

Point is, the actions are both highly outrageous and unimaginable to anybody — their bosses and critics alike — until both happened...

The sheer amount of activity generated by apps with fake ads was what initially exposed the scam.

This is why the "honest" scammers can't have nice things.

Someone got greedy — a deadly sin.

Watching porn is not dangerous nor illicit activity.

It is highly illicit, if you are using employer-provided equipment to do that — contrary to the employer's wishes.

Easy-peasy

Lemon-squeezy.

Ok, I have $200 burning here to pay you such a device. Can you make it installable outside? Under a roof, but still subject to temperature-changes? No? Ok, I'll set it up inside.

May need more than 10 hours, but doable within a day or so.

Sure. Take a week. But, if it does not work by then, you pay me back $300. Deal?

Wireshark for WiFi Sniffing and logging

Oops... I'm afraid, you didn't quite get it. I don't want to listen peer with their transmitters. I just want to log their appearing. My own side should be as passive as possible — to conceal my own capabilities.

'I am troubled by the allegations that such dangerous and illicit activity went undetected at a federal research facility'

Seriously? After reports of government lawyers watching porn on their office computers, nothing really surprises me about Federal government. Especially given the nincompoop we've twice elected to run it.

Because even among the above mentioned work-place masturbators none got fired.

All open source software. I know exactly what it's doing. [...] Total time investment, about 2 hours.

I'll give you 10 more hours and $100 worth more of budget to add recognition of license-plate numbers, if any, as well as detecting (and logging) Bluetooth and WiFi transmitters as they appear and disappear in the vicinity of the camera.

This would let me track cars entering my driveway and people walking by (those with smartphones in their pockets)... How about it?

The patent holder can and often does prevent others from using that invention

Sure. Which simply means, you have to offer more — money and/or access to your own inventions.

There is no requirement for them to accept

Of course, there is not! How could there be? I'm not obligated to sell my bike to you either. But I may consider doing so, if your offer is sufficiently compelling.

Get rid of patents and you will have quicker and smaller innovations as companies try to stay ahead in their market.

You'll certainly see companies guarding their secrets themselves — and not publishing their discoveries — thus stalling science.

Contrary to popular misconceptions, patents do not prevent you from using somebody else's discovery. You just have to pay the discoverer for the privilege...

Never assume drug companies aren't complete bastards who care only for their own profits.

There! Thank you for restoring my faith in Slashdot.

They've make cures from ground up babies

Certainly! I even know, who the supplier would be.

The title suggested some che-guevarish rant against capitalism in general and profits in particular. Profits made on the backs of people with genetic diseases, no less!

I sure am glad, TFA is not about that at all. And, yes, I exploited my computer to post this.

I use my employer-issued iPhone — in full accordance with the company policies. Thank you very much for asking.

Sourceforge is blocked by chrome and ublock

If anything, that Google's monopoly blocks it is a reason for "everybody sane" to give it a benefit of the doubt.

But, whatever — as long as it is used by actual developers — such as the guy behind UDT — and offers its vast network of mirrors for downloading open source code, I'll keep using them, thank you very much.

Whatever the site does in its attempts to monetize its numerous Winblows users is of no concern to me.