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Comment Re:Unlike my house keys, sir? (Score 1) 354

by Kazoo the Clown (#48006467) Attached to: FBI Chief: Apple, Google Phone Encryption Perilous
You missed my point. The FBI doesn't CARE about door locks because they're easy to beat. They could very well behave differently about them if they were actually secure. Encryption is only an issue for the FBI if it works, backdoored encryption they're fine with. Since your door locks essentially have a back door, you'll not see them complaining about them. Mr. Comey might very well disagree with "strong" locks on houses, but since there isn't a mass movement to move to them like there is to encrypted communications, he has no reason to make an issue of it.

Comment Re:Think of the children (Score 2) 354

by Kazoo the Clown (#48000797) Attached to: FBI Chief: Apple, Google Phone Encryption Perilous
It's probably just theater-- they want you to think Android and iOS are secure so we all don't start buying phones with OSes from companies based outside the US where they can't, nudge-nudge, wink-wink, their way into a back door. Or just get rid of the smart phone entirely... They want you to USE it, and think that it's secure, even when it's not. Otherwise they'd actually have to start working for a living again...

Comment Re:Drones are Evil (Score 1) 42

by Kazoo the Clown (#47997689) Attached to: Facebook To Start Testing Internet-Beaming Drones In 2015
I moved to a quiet small town whose police dept doesn't have air power. That's why it's quiet. Police don't seem to have too much trouble catching the bad guys without it. And you're telling me we're going to have drones buzzing overhead? Some of the good-ol'-boys around here are gonna go skeet shootin', I betcha...

Comment Yep... (Score 1) 224

by Kazoo the Clown (#47994505) Attached to: Where Whistleblowers End Up Working
Terrorism, the universal justification for pretty much every imaginable government abuse. Far better than blaming a conspiracy of an ethnic group like the previous generation fascists chose, terrorism is better because it can apply to anyone, regardless of ethnic makeup. Plus, it never ends, there will no doubt always be terrorists, or at least always someone that can be accused of it. Anyone you don't like can be accused of "helping the terrorists." When in actual fact, blaming terrorists itself helps the terrorists. See? We can all play that game.

Comment Climate has got the 1% attention... (Score 1) 200

Yep, the 1% sees their assets at risk. So it gets news coverage. Try protesting against Citizen's United or the banking abuses, and it would take far more people than 400,000 to get any kind of coverage. As far as I am concerned, SCREW THEM. Let their mansions get washed out to sea. If they can't address the complete corruption of money in politics, I don't give a damn about climate change. Bring it on.

Comment Re:Only cost them 25 percent of customer bills? (Score 3, Insightful) 249

by Kazoo the Clown (#47962867) Attached to: Small Restaurant Out-Maneuvers Yelp In Reviews War

It's worse than that! The company I work for has one negative review on Yelp, but several positive reviews "pending" that they won't publish unless we pay them! And the negative review was over the fact that they didn't yet have a quote from us for custom work for which they hadn't provided us the requested details. Looking at the page now, it does look like they published two of the positive reviews, but there are still a handful held in limbo. How long between the authoring and publishing of the negative review, though? No time at all.

This is enough reason right here to distrust EVERY review on Yelp. So what are the best anti-yelp sites? Has Yelp bought YelpSucks.com yet?

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