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Comment Wrong kind of metric... (Score 4, Interesting) 280

The metric "$ per suspect catched" is pretty much meaningless. If they have 1 suspect for the whole year and do arrest him, the cost per arrest will be their yearly budget - and guess what? The border still needs to be guarded. The important numbers would be the the cost increase/decrease vs drone-less operation and the percent of trespassers missed.

Comment Gender is not the real issue... (Score 1) 286

If you need an overnight relationship it does not really matter, as long as it fits the need. If you look for a long, probably lifelong one, you generally get to know a lot more for the other person, besides the tiny gender issues. And no, you did not come from the simpler time. You just had luck. These gender uncertainities are in no way new.

Comment Re:Instead of fixing his online dating profile, (Score 3, Funny) 286

Arranged marriage: worked for me. But failed for a lot more. So the online dating is not that bad - you can fail on your own.
Well, I had a dishonest advantage: My mother is a perfect offline dating service. She is a teacher in a high school. So she knows A LOT of young people very well and develops closer relations with clever ones.

Submission + - The Pirate Bay Is an FBI Honeypot: a Disconcertingly Plausible Conspiracy Theory

Jason Koebler writes: After months of false starts and constant hype about its prospective return, The Pirate Bay finally came back this weekend. But the response hasn't been purely excitement from would-be pirates. Instead, it's been suspicion: Is the FBI running The Pirate Bay as a means to crack down on piracy?
"There is a natural paranoia that kicks in on such matters, simply based on the logic of a single site lasting this long without being truly shut down," Brian Martin, CEO of Attrition, one of the world’s most famous and longest-lasting hacker and security information websites, told me. "If done correctly, there is little to nothing that would give them away. I have talked to FBI agents hypothesizing about carrying out such replacements on sites."

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