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Comment Re:Ban donations (Score 1) 247

Add to that a clause that you can only fund politicians within your own state.
So you can fund any locally based politician and a presidential campaign within your own state, but presidential campaign funds cannot be used in other states.

Might cut the senator for Hollywood being voted in by Utah.

Comment Re:And one time at band camp. (Score 1) 347

Snowden handed everything to Greenwald and friends. They are now controlling the leaks and have stated they have an agenda to leak certain material as and when it is in their best interests. Not the best interests of the public to know about this stuff, but their best interests to cause the most embarrassment and disruption. If they cared about the public knowing then they would release everything all at once so we'd know, like the Wikileaks document drops.

eg. The information about intercepting of the EU leaders phones leaked shortly before high level meetings between the leaders.
The information about intercepting of Brazilian leaders phones shortly before a major arms deal was signed with Boeing, changing the decision of the Brazilians who went with Gripen instead.

Comment Re:Scumbags, the lot of them. (Score 1) 178

Apart from apps which could do things like "If I can't ping the phone/data network for x minutes, wipe the phone" which would be activated in a Faraday cage. You might have problems if you're often in remote locations without a signal, but most places these days have at least one mobile network coverage.

Comment Remote communities already do this (Score 1) 737

Any remote/island community is already living in this sort of situation.

They're generally self-sufficient for food. They're able to make most spare parts as it takes weeks/months to get something from "civilisation". But probably most important is everyone knows who has which skills and more than one person in the community has those skills.

Comment Similarly planned JIMO was canned in 2005 (Score 1) 100

This was originally canned by Bush in 2005 due pushing all the budget into manned missions with Constellation, which was then canned by Obama pushing stuff back to robotic science missions.

JIMO was to be a development testbed of a lot of interesting technologies - hence the crazy price tag, but you needed something with a long lasting power supply (nuclear fission reactor) to enable it to stay out that far without relying on solar panels, plus it would investigate the other icy moons on flybys while it navigated to Europa. Also the vehicle would be assembled in orbit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...

Comment Re:Microsoft access his hotmail account? (Score 1) 197

Microsoft own the server/service and the users agree to the Terms and Conditions of use.
These include the right to rummage through the emails, delete stuff at will and terminate the account, all without notice.
This with Microsoft complaining about Google using gmail information for targeting ads.

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