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Comment Misleading Summary (Score 5, Insightful) 101

The summary is completely misleading.

According to TFA, thermal-lie detection, the dog clone, the bluetooth passenger tracking and the behavioral detection officers are in no way linked to IATA's vision of the checkpoint of the future. They are just independent developments in transport security but nonetheless irrelevant to IATA.

For everybody's reference IATA is owned and funded by private airline companies. They are not government funded in any way IATA's website

Ubuntu

Submission + - Ubuntu 11.10 released! (ubuntu.com)

mutherhacker writes: Canonical just released Ubuntu 11.10 (codenamed "Oneiric Ocelot"). This release includes an improved software center, a re-designed dash, improved application switching and much more. Now if only they could get copy-paste to work...

Comment Re:Battlefield (Score 1) 5

LoL. It's amazing to what length people will go to rationalize the evil actions of their government. You can call it what you want, but in the end it's just cold blooded murder.

Why are you defending your government anyway? Are you a patriot? If you ARE patriot then you should be holding your government to the highest moral standards, not defending it's mischief.

*sigh*

Government

Submission + - US assassinates it own citizens with no due proces (boingboing.net) 5

mutherhacker writes: Science fiction novelist and technology activist Cory Doctorow blogs about the recent U.S. government assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen, without any due process (no chance to face his accusations in a court of law), a clear violation of the 5th amendment. To top it all, U.S. citizens cheered the assassination of their fellow citizen. First Bin Laden, now al-Awlaki, next? CmdrTaco is my guess.More details.

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